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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
The Physical Woman.

Perhaps there is no more positive
evidence of the change of sentiment in
popular opinion than the place given to
physical culture in the education of
women. Nor is this branch of educa-
ton limited to the student. 1t has
aroused, within short time, the enthu-
siasm of women with gray heads, who
seek by wise training under professional
teachers to regain the lost muscular
force that ministers to the vitality. A
few years ago it was an evidence of
plebeian blood to enjoy food or physical
motion; to be languid was TO meet the
ideal of physical perfection for women.
Now woman at all in touch with the
knowledge of the times is ashamed of
physical weakness and recognizes it as
transgression of the laws of health.
A bright man, commenting on the
change of standards in the social inter-
course among young people, said:
Look at the difference! When l was
a young man, and wished to show at
tention to young lady, bought her
flowers or candy, and called in the even
ing, when we talked sentiment or SEN
timentality, as the mood of the moment
decided. A few read books, but the
favorite books among young ladies in
my day were so intensely feminine
that there was little in common between
the men and women in discussing them.
See my boy and girl! Listen to theml
She can criticise his serving in tennis;
beats him frequently. If he wants
to show his preference for a young
lady, he either urges her to be-
come member of his tennis or bowl
ing club, or never rests till he is
a member of hers. They look for
ward to a Saturday iaunt along the
road for five or ten miles from week to
week. She understands good scoring
in baseball game. In fact, boys and
girls enter into each others lives far
more than formerly. If she joins his
tennis club, he joins her reading club.
They both use foils, and she proves no
mean opponent. The people who adj
people are those who know nothing of
the present healthy interchange of men
tai and physical culture. l think both
sexes gain" 1t is said by one of the
hotel proprietors of fashionable resort
that there are young men enough for
game of tennis in the afternoon, but
not enough to complete dancing set
in the evening. Yet at far more re-
cent date than limits the memory of the
oldest inhabitant this was not the con-
dition of life at a watering-place, when
talk filled an afternoon and dancing an
evening. More and more does the idea
that strong body is necessity for
strong mind take hold of the popular
opinion. A woman cannot take her
share of the worlds work or pleasure
with an enfeebled body; she endeavors
always, if wise, to strike balance that
leaves a reserve of physical force at
her command; she accepts no theory of
how to preserve her vital force for the
longest period, but by study and train
ing learns to know herself-to know
the whole woman, not the third of her
nature. The woman of wisdom to-day
realizes that to know herself she must
know how to preserve the shell that so
largely controls the spirit that animates
it.-Christidn Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18

other thing that does that-the not
knowing, except by fidgety experiment,
what is harmony and the intangible
grace of relation. Take upon yourself
gradually, for the sake of getting them
in hand in like manner, if for no other
need, all the cares that belong to your
own small territory at home. Have
your little wash-cloths and your sponges
for bits of cleaning; your furniture
brush and your leather duster, and your
light little broom and your whisk and
pan; your bottle of sweet oil and spirits
of turpentine and piece of flannel to
preserve the polish or restore the gloss
where dark wood grows dim or gets
spotted. Find out, by following your
surely-growing sense of thoroughness
and niceness, the best and readiest
ways of keeping all fresh about you.
Invent your own processes; they will
come to you. When you make yourself
wholly mistress of what you can learn
and do in your own apartments, so that
it is easier and more natural for you to
do it than let it alone, then you have
learned to keep a whole house so far as
its clearly ordering is concerned.-St.
Nicholas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
A Novel Refrigerator.

A young friend of mine, who has for
several years each summer gone with
his father on camping trip on the
south shore of Lake Superior, tells me
of a novel eXpedient they often en-
ployed for preserving their venison in
warm weather. In that country some
of the streams are fanked by long rows
of sand-hills, whose composition is so
loose that they shift about continually
under a wind of any force. In the
winter-time the high winds often blow
the sand over the great snow banks
which lie upon the north side of the
sand dunes, covering up the snow to a
depth of several feet. The snow is
thus kept unmelted, and even in the
middle of summer one can dig down
through the sand to it and find the best
imaginable sort of natural refrig-
orator. In this way, said my young
friend, they buried their deer and trout,
and found them entirely fresh so long
as they cared to leave them. This is
certainly a new instance of natures
bountifulness with the SPORTSMAN
Forest and Stream.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Three Kinds OF LeprOsy.

1t may be stated that there exist
three forms of leprosy. The one ia
miliar to our minds, from the stories in
the Bible of Naaman, Gehazi, Miriam
and UZziah still exists, but it is COM
paratively rare. The whole body turns
to a disagreeable white color and has
scaly texture, but the disease does not
seem to affect the general health or the
power of getting livelihood. The
anesthetic form is far worse. Map
like, yellowish patches appear on the
body, the extremities become insensible
to pain and gradually disappear till
only stumps remain, the whole body
grows weak and decays, and the mind
often becomes lethargic. The master
of leper asylum in India told me that
one day he smelt cooking, and, as the
lepers were forbidden to cook, he went
to see what was happening. A leper
had felt cold, and had stuck his foot
into the fire and burnt it off. On
another occasion he heard cry in the
night, and, on going to investigate, he
found that foot had just dropped off.
One man was partly eaten by rats when
he was asleep. Pain is, after all,
sign of health, and its absence is to be
dreaded. Father Damien found out
that he was leper by one day scalding
his foot, and making the terrible dis
covery that it gave him no pain. The
tubercular variety of leprosy is even
more dreadful, and l must be excused
from describing its later developments.
Suffice it to say that the body is mass
of discolored swellings and abnormal
developments, that the aspect of it be-
comes more bestial than human, and
that it gradually decomposes. In an
aesthetic and tubercular leprosy the
sufferer happily becomes liable to
chronic dysentery or diarrhea, which
has the blessed power of killing the
sufferer. Still, have found many who
had been lepers for nearly thirty years.
Now it may be confidently affirmed that,
if the government does its duty, India
will be freed from leprosy as surely
as Norway and Hawaii are being
freed from it by their laws of segrega-
ton, and as surely as our own smiling
England, with its former two hundred
fifty leper hospitals, has been delivered
! from this living death.-EdWdrd Cliff
| ford in F'Ortnightly ReUieD.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Tomatoes.

While fresh tomatoes are still to be
had, let the housewife try some of the
ways of cooking them that make
stuffed or baked tomato thing to be
remembered. Select firm, ripe toma.
toes that are smooth and of good size.
From the top or stem part cut thin
slice, and remove most of the seeds,
being careful not to break the sides.
Prepare a dressing of bread crumbs,
salt, Cayenne pepper, chopped onion
and clarified butter, in the proportion
of two cups of crumbs, teaspoonful
of salt, a dash of red pepper, two tea
spoonfuls of onions chopped very fine,
and two tablespoonfuls of melted but
ter; fill the tomatoes full of the dress
ing, and bake in a pudding-dish twenty
five minutes; they should be served on
a hot dish; nutmeg, mari or pars-
ley may be used instead of onion to
season the stufiing, and the quantity
given will fill one dozen tomatoes.
Another choice way of serving them as
a dinner dish is to prepare in the same
way as for stuling, and to fill with a
forcemeat made from cold boiled ham
and mushrooms, chopped fine, bread
crumbs, parsley, salt, red pepper and
melted butter. For filling dozen to-
matoes, use one cup of ham, two dozen
mushrooms, five tablespoonfuls of stale
bread crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of
chopped parsley, an even teaspoonful
of salt, one-quarter of a saltspoon of
Cayenne, and two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter. Bake in a hot oven
twenty-five minutes, basting twice with
melted butter. In Carolina an appetiz.
ing stufling is made from a pint of
boiled rice mixed with a quart of veal
or beef broth, salt and one-half a green
pepper chopped fine. The ingredients
are cooked for fifteen minutes, when
two tablespoonfuls of melted butter are
added. After it has simmered for ten
minutes longer, the stuffing is put into
the tomatoes, and the slice removed is
placed on top. They are to be basted
twice while baking, with sweet oil OF
melted butter, They are most easily
dished by using cake-turner to trans
fer them from the pan to the platter
ETchdnqe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
BeacOnSileld and the Primrose.

A writer in the Spectator says that
Lord Beacons6eld's fondness for the
primrose originated when he was living
in Highbury, London. Here he was
much attached to a young lady residing
in the same locality, who was the daugh-
ter of gentleman of good property.
AT ball given at this gentleman's
house, the young lady in question wore
a wreath of primroses. a discussion
arose between Mr.. Disrael and another
gentleman as to whether the primroses
were real or not. A bet of pair of
gloves was was made, and on the young
lady being consulted, and the prim-
rose being examined, the bet was won
by Mr.. Disrael. The primroses were
real primroses, and the young lady gave
two or three of them to the future
prime minister, which he put in his
button-hole and kept, and used to show
long afterward. Some have thought
that because the queen sent wreath
of primroses to Lord Beaconsfield's
funeral, the flower became his badge in
that way. This is mere invention.
The queen did not know at the time that
the primrose was Lord Beaconsfield's
favorite flower, and she did not, conse-
quently, send wreath of primroses to
his funeral at all. Others have enter
tanned the opinion that the noble lord
appreciated the flower because he says
in one of his novels that the primrose
makes an excellent salad. This is in
correct again, and the true history of
the way the primrose became the noble
lords favorite flower is recorded above.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
mistellanp.
Alec YeatOn's Son.

The following poem was written by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, to commemorate
IN event which occurred at Gloucester,
Mass. in August, 1870;
The wind It walled. the wind II moaned,
And the white-caps 6ecked the sea;
AN would to God" the skipper groaned,
"Ihad not my boy with mel"
Snug in the stern sheets, little John
Laughed as the scud swept by
But the skipper's sunburnt cheek grew wan
AS he watched the wicked sky.
Would he were at his mothers sidel"
And the skpper's eyes were dim.
GOOD God in heaven, II III betide
What would become of him?
For me-my muscles are as steel
For me, let hap what may,
might make shift upon the keel
Until the break O. day.
"But he, he is so weak and small
SO young-scarce learned to stand
Outlying Father Of us all,
trust him in thy hand
For thou who markest from on high
sparrow's fall-each one,
Surely, o Lord, thou'lt have an eye
On Alec Yeaton's sonl"
Then helm hard port, right straight he sailed
Toward the headland light;
The wind it moaned, the wind 1t walled,
And black, black fell the night
Then burst a storm to make quail,
Though housed from winds and waves.
Those who could tell about that gale
Must rise from watery graves
Sudden It came, as sudden went
Ere half the night was sped
The winds were hushed, the winds were spent,
And the stars shone overhead.
Now, as the morning mist grew thin,
The folk on Gloucester shore
Saw little figure floating in,
Secure, on a broken oar.
Up rose the cry: "A wreck a wreck
Pull, mates, and waste no BREATH"
They knew h, though twas but a speck
Upon the edge of death.
Long did they marvel in the town
At God, his strange decree,
That let the stalwart skipper drown,
And the little child go free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Hints to H0usekeepers.

MAKE all kitchen aprons of seer
sucker, and so avoid quite an item in
the weekly ironing, as it requires none.
If work dresses are made of the same
goods, they need ironing only when
lined.
To make tomato jam: Seven pounds
of peeled tomatoes, ripe, three pounds
of sugar, one pound of raisins chopped
fine, one-half pint of vinegar; spices to
to taste; boil gently until thick. A
trihe of cayenne may be added.
No matter how large the spot of oil,
any carpet or wooden stuff can be
cleaned by applying buckwheat plenti-
fully and faithfully, brushing it into a
dustpan after short time, and putting
on fresh until the oil has all disappeared.
To make a fruit sauce that is nice for
many puddings, reduce one cupful of
berries to a pulp by pressing them
through fine sieve; add to them one
cupful of sugar beaten to a cream with
one cupful of butter; add the fruit
juice, and lastly the beaten white of an
egg. This sauce should be served as
soon as it is made.
EVERY mother knows how difficult it
is to clean the baby's finger-nails. By
folding some tissue paper into sharp
point, and when using it calling the at
tention of the baby to something else,
this simple task can be easily per-
formed. The paper is so soft that it
does not hurt the tender flesh, yet it is
sufficiently firm to remove every par
ticle of dirt.
A FISH napkin, for boiled fish, may
be made out of fine linen. 1t should
be forty inches long by twenty-three
wide, with piece ten inches long by
seven wide cut out of each corner,
which leaves the right-sized flaps to turn
over on the four sides. The flaps may
be embroidered with some sea design
in wash silk, or simply an initial
done in heavy lover and over" en-
broidery to match the remainder of the
napery.
PEELING potatoes, apples and other
vegetables and fruits will discolor the
hands. BoraX water is excellent to re-
move stains, and heal scratches and
chafes. Put crude borax into large
bottle, and fill with water. When dis.
solved add more to the water until al
last the water can absorb no more, anC
particles can be seen at the bottom
To the water in which the hands are to
be washed, pour from this bottle enough
to make it very soft. 1t is cleansing
and healthful, and by its use the hands
will be kept in good condition.
A CORRESPONDENT says : ITO pacl
eggs, take one pint of lime and on,
pint of salt. On these pour one wooder
pail of water. Let this stand twenty
four hours, then pour off the clear wa
ter and pack the eggs in the clear brine
Pack few eggs and then add little o
the brine, but never fill the stone ja
with eggs and then fill up afterwards
BE sure there is plenty Of brine to full,
cover the eggs, as it will evaporate
little. Cover by dipping piece of pa
per in white of egg and put over tn,
jar. The eggs will keep the year round
| think this recipe will pack about tel
DOZEN"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Learn to be HOusekeepers.

Begin with your own possessions,
girls. Reform your upper bureau
drawer; relieve your closet-pegs of their
accumulation of garments out of use
month or two ago. Institute a clear
and careful order in the midst of which
you can daily move, and learn to keep
it so that it will be part of your toilet
to dress your room and its arrange
ments while you dress yourself, leav-
ing the draperies you take off as lightly
and artistically hung, or as delicately
folded and placed, as the skirts you loop
carefully to wear, or the ribbon and
lace that you put with soft neatness
about your throat. Cherish your in
stincts of taste and fitness in every lit
tie thing you have about you. This
will not make you "fussy," it is the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18

THEIR BUSINESS BoOMNG.-Prob-
ably no one thing has caused such a
general revival of trade at many
drug-stores as their giving away to their
customers of so many free trial bottles
of DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. Their trade is simply enor-
nous in this very valuable article,
from the fact that it always cures and
never disappoints. Coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis, Group and all throat
and lung diseases quickly cured. You
can test it before buying by getting a
trial bottle free; large size, 81. Every
bottle warranted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Among the wbitest Things on Earth

Are teeth, beautilied and preserved by
SOZODONT; and the rose is scarce
sweeter than the breath which becomes
aromatic through its influence. 1t is
the very pearl of dentifrices and the
surest preventive of dental decay in
existence. 1t remedies with certainty
canker and every species of corrosive
blemish upon the teeth, and counter
acts the hurtful influence upon them of
acidity of the stomach. The formula
of its preparation includes only botanic
ingredients and it contains only the
purest and most salutary of these.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18

This estimate is very far below the
actual truth. Yet, even upon this
basis, we are confronted with the
startling result that 81 900 persons now
possess three-ffths of the whole ma
tional wealth, real and personal, ac-
cording to the highest estimate $780,
100000, 00O which any one has yet
ventured to make of the aggregate
amount. Nor is this conclusion at all
improbable. Thomas G. Sherman, in
the Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18

dark brown hair which as yet shows no
gray. In general look his face re-
sembles the ideal Beethoven of the
sculptors. He is well read and his very
wide travels have given him much
knowledge of men and things. His
manner is simple and genial and he has
the true modesty of genius.-MuSicol
Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Gbe 8uusebuIo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. Il. H. HosK1Ns Newport, VI, or d.
rectly to THE wATcHHAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18

GOD is a shower to the heart burned
up with grief; God is a sun to the face
deluged with tears.-JoSeph Rour.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18

PIMPLEs, bols and other humors are liable
to appear when the blood gets heated. To
cure them, take Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Worlds Disuensary Medical Association,
863 Main ST., BUFFALO, N. Y.

r LIBERATION NOTICE.-This is to certify
IL that have this day given my son, John II. Mar.
tin, his time during the remainder of his minority
that shall claim none of his wages pay any
debts of his contracting after this date.
HIRAM MARTIN.
Witness: NATHAN II. HILL.
Warren, VT, August 80, 1859.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
w. A. BARNES & co.
Vermont Mutual.

The annual meeting of the members of the Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Company will DO held
at their Office the 18th day of October, A. d. 1889
at two o'clock for the choice of Directors and
the transaction of any other business thought proper
when met. BY order of the Directors.
JAMES T. SABIN, Secretary.
Montpelier, September 4, 1889
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-05
Present Incumbents Will Be
Removed Slowly or Not
at All.
So Applicants May as Well
Possess Their Souls With
Patience.
A Number Of Appointments
in the Department
OF Justice.
Maj. Armes to Be Courtmar-
tailed for Striking
Gov. Beaver.

WASHINGTON, April 4.-There are
some fine positions to be given out in
the department of justice. among them
a number of assistant attorneys and
special attorneys, who represent the
United States in suits in the supreme
court and in the court of claims. The
emolumentS of these offices vary from
$500 to $4,000 a year. Applicants for
these places have been pressing Attor-
Dey General Miller pretty hard lately;
put ne has told them that ne has de-
c!ded not to make any changes until the
close of the present term of the courts.
which will be in May. The present in
cumbents, he says, are familiar with the
cases now before the courts. and could
do better service at present for the gov
eminent than new men. The prospects
for asplrants for consular places, it is
said. at the state department are
not hattering. All the con-
sular service is under the di-
rect charge of the new assist
ant Secretary of State Wharton. and
until he arrives nothing whatever will
be done about it. When he is ready he
Will go all through the list of consuls,
looking up their records, see by whom
they were appointed, how long and how
well they have served, and decide who
shall be retained and what vacancies
shall be made. As to the political faith
OF the incumbents and the effect it will
have upon their standing. only this is
said: That where an ex-confederate
soldier, Democrat, is found occupying
place from which an eX-union soldier
has been dismissed to make room for
him, the eX-cOnfederate Democrat will
have to make room for Republican.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-05
A DECIDED NUISANCE.

The busy merchants of West Seventh
street, from Jackson to Wabasha, have
an apparently righteous cause of griev-
ance against the manner of prosecuting
work on the Seventh street cable line.
For four blocks the dirt from the eXca-
walton for the cable conduit has been
piled upon the sidewalk in great noun
taips, and not only is the street roadway
absolutely impossible, but the sidewalk
has been covered to such degree that
Professionalism is not only greatly i'm
peded, but in places almost entirely
prohibited. This is not only an incon-
venience to the merchants of that busy
thorOughfare, but in cases, is an abSO-
Lutte hardship. These merchants would
throw no obstacle in the way of this
Improvement, but it is not clear that it
is necessary to the work to throw these
great mounds of dirt and pyramids of
paving blocks directly upon the side
walks. Much of the dirt and most of
the blocks cannot be again used, when
the cable conduit is in place. They
must, eventually, be carted away and
disposed of, and the merchants strenu-
ouSly object to the useless blocading of
the sidewalk at the present time. Ev-
cry one understands that the roadway
is, of necessity, closed during the oper-
alton of construction, but no one, gladly
as they may second the improvement,
can understand why the sidewalks
should thus be practically closed against
travel, The nuisance should promptly
be abated.