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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

DR.. T. Mendel he's recently enjoyed oppor-
tunities of studying the results Of an I'M
bridled abuse or coffee. snd his results are
now published. The great industrial center
round Essen includes = very large femals
population While the women OF the work
ing classes in this country are often addicted
10 dosing themselves With tea that had stood
too long. II appears that the woCkmen's wives
ST Essen drink coffee from morning til night.
Some consume over pound of Ceylon coffee
weekly, snd one pound contains over sixty
four grains Of caffeine. In consequence,
nervous, muscular AMI ciTouiRtory disturb
ances are frequent. The nerve symptoms are
characterized by a feeling of general weak
ness, depression Of spirits, and aversion for
labor even In industrious subjects, With head
ache and inscmnis.
A strong dose Of coffee causes the tempo
rary disappearance OF ali these symptoms.
The muscular symptoms consist of dissines
muscular weakness AID trembling Of the
hands even during rest Tbs circulstorY
symptoms are marked by small, rapid,
Irregular pulss and feeble impulse ot the apex
OF The heart PslTGt2tlons aud hsSviRess in
the p7ecordisl regiOn are frequent, The
hands and test feei very cod. and the COM
Ptexion becomes sa-ox. Dysoap,lc symptoms,
cnIety OF the nervous typo, are very COM
mou. Iaese coffee drinkers cannot De cured
by slInpls EGsSezUion trC-n their favo-Ite
drink, with substitution Of milk IS a bsver-
sge. They req 1re res7 from work, open ar
exercise, cold aoiCDoES followed o. friction,
and small doses VI braasy.-B--iitish Medical
Soa-SSl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Art in Ename1ed Jewe1rr.

''Enameled jewelry," said a manufacturer
the other day, lis very much the rage just
now, and we have considerable difficulty in
getting competent workmen to DO the color
ing. You see, the fashion runs to marguerites,
clover leaves, daisies, ETC., and much care and
artistic taste have to be exercised in laying on
the exact shades which, when fred viii
bring out the chosen flowers as nearly as pos
sihle to natures tints. There are very few
enamelers-that is, of course, high art enam-
elers-to ks secured in this city, and, strange
as it may seem-and yet why should it be
anything strange?-one of the best, if not tho
very best, Is a woman. She viii not work
for less than 500 week, and she has no
trouble in finding constant employment at
that figure. She is splendid colorist and is
full of suggestions as to designs. New York
Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Training Of Girls and Rors.

Ruskins ssys-end it is one of his wisest
aphorians-that 8 girl can got be sham
mered into shape" She must be allowed to
grow as a flower or a tree grows while a
boy seems to come up straiShteF for a certain
amount Of hardship and severity. Nor is
this a fanciful distinction. Men and women
are not alike, but complementary. The man,
whose work in tho world is 10 combat and to
subdue, is by blows made stronger and more
firm in his principles, while with the woman
it is quite otherwise, Blows, hammering,
simply crush her. or twist her out of shape, or
harden and drive her inward upon herself
She must be judiciously let alone. Mind,
do not say she must grow up without dis
ciphne or traininS-far from it! But thu
hands must be gentle, tho touch must be wise,
and she must be allowed to develop in her
own way.-Oive Thorne Miller.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
stin<iness FersOniGed.

LateIy lady shopping in one of the large
dry goods stores on Broadway, noticed q
couple also shopping. The man, evidently
the husband Of MS companion, had a very
pompous and coudescenGiug manner. He
joked with the pretty clerks and hurried up
the cash boy. They were buying bonnet,
or rather he was buying the bonnet, She
wore a handsome hat trimmed IN lovely
plumes, and all Of her apparel was handsome,
but he seemed 10 view her as possession
purchased with bis money. he chose the
bonnet, the material, everything. She stood
by timidly listening and approving his
choice, then he paid Tor It aIthOagh she tim
Idly suggested that it shoah be sent home C
D. D. 50 she could try it before settling for
1t. Air. NJ must pay for il hrlssf- Then
they went % the glove department and he
ordered some gloves out. and while the girl
was fitting a par he looked at his watch and
remembered an appointments for which he
was already five minutes late
He seemed very much provoked beca1ss
the girl did not have the gloves fitted Ol his
yife's hand. Finally, after much discussion,
be put the price Of the gloves CQ the counter
and started Of. HIS wife flushed crimson,
ard then looking as If she were making an
unnardonah'H REQUEST said. "Gl, Es-rv. can
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Tasta far TTndRrHaar-

a new method OF testing WOODEN garments
is by putting caustic soda into cup Of water
and dipping the article whose geRuineness is
doubted into the mixture, of course being
careful not TO touch the liquid. The caustio
soda will quickly eat animal ffbers, but has
no effect dpen those Of vegetable origin II
the article Is all wool It VIII be dissolved in
the liquid, leaving nothing but track Of
col1ring matter II the uEatsFial Is cotton, it
comes out unscz.hed- When TIE maternal is
wool supported by q framework Of cotton,
the latter being indIstiHs1ishRhle to the eye
or by ordinary tests, the cazStic soda quickly
divorces tho two, dissoavez the wool and
leaves tho cotton as clan IS If il had been
woven by itsalf II has bean suggested that
people might buy a sat CT underwear made Of
wool and cotton uized, thut whom The sIIltry
days Of spring arrive both of eaIIsic soda
might DO prepared, ina garments dipped
therein, to emerge IN the form of cotton gos-
saner Tor the summer season.-Hall's Journal
of Health.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Elegant Trininc at Dinner.

Another innovation which involves a good
deal Of elegant trIiirg at table has been in.
troduced into fashionable houses IN Paris
during the progress Of that sometimes dreary
part of the dinner called dessert" This
consists in the practice Of placing on thstable
small receptacleS in silver, rather bluntly
called marrnitss, or pots" The marniJes
are carefully covered, and may contain al
mondS, nuts, cakes, or any other tiny kick
shaws of the sort The elegant trifiing comes
in when the guests, briulful of mystery as to
the contents Of their respective receptacles,
60 through process Of exchange and barter,
each discovery being saluted with observa-
tons Of more or less spirited character.
Polite badinage is the rule when a guest has
exchanged his we'll filed marmlte for com
paratively empty one, or received from 8
fair neighbor a pot" reEleto with rare deli
cacies en- troc for his own relatively valueleSs
assortment OF sweetS.-Cor. London Tele-
graph.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
DuvsaEnakiHE IS a Profession.

While the lot of a eressu1aker's apprentice
is not an envi&ble one, there are few trades
for women Ehat offer sUca prizes making
clothes Ior other women. The chief dress
maker Of Bond street establishment will
command salary OF ESQ to 600 a year.
What is more, the supply Is not equal TO the
demand. A good head woman viii always
have a dozen places open 70 srif she leaves
a situation Naturally this encourages an
Independence OF spirit that is often fatal to
long continuance in one place. a chief hands
work is confined to cIRtilRg out, overlooking
the other women and cor ferring with the de-
siguer. The designer Is the rock over which
most OF them split, for If hewants too many
alterations the dreSs1nakar rebels, The hours
Of a chief hand ure not heavy, and no Paris
education is necessary, as many suppose. II
French ideas ere needed a Frenchwoman is
imported. The best houses prefer an English
hand VINO is thoroughly English.-PaU Mall
Gazette
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19

An absent minded auctimeer Is a rare kind
of phenomenon, even in France, and the
worthy knights Of the hammer are undoubt-
edly alert and busineSsLke parsons as class.
An exception, however, must be made IN the
case Of a conlnisSaire priseur well known in
the salesroous Of the Hotel Dru0t, Paris, who
had TO auction" of miscellaneous collection
Of clothing. He placed MS onn Overcoat and
hat by the side of the effects which were to
be sold, and after he had satisfactorily COM
pleted his work he noticed that bis two articles
of personal wear had d,sappeared he sus-
pected thieves, and accordingly communi-
Gated with she commissioners on duty, who
found the hat and overcoas in tho possession
of a worthy dealer, TO whom they had been
offered for few francs by their owner, who,
IN his fit of abstraction, had aInalgamated
them with the lob lot" of general apparel
which had been put up to auction. The
dealer, of course, made no objection TO return
the effects for the cash he had paid for them;
but the adventure of the absent minded
aRctioneer served 10 throw note of geyety
into the usual sombeY and severe atmosphere
of the Salesroom. Telegraph
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Giving Shape to Feet.

Every one, but especially children. should
wear properly fitting shoes, no matter how
common their material They should be
neither too large nor too small, and should
have low, fat heels, that must be promptly
'righted" as soon as they begin 10 wear to one
side. If the toes Of the foot show tendency
to overlap they should be rubbed with the
hands once or twice each day; and if this care
be given when the curying commences it viii,
as a rule, prove sufficient to correct any
irregularities of this nature. If nail is way
ward in its growth, trim it only lightly at the
siling corner, but fully at the opposite cor
ner. If both corners grow too deeply into
the flesh, clip them carefully and lightly, and
then scrape the center of the nail from the
tip to near the root until it is thin and hexi-
BE. This process seldom fails to correct re-
fractory nails-provided, Of course, they arc
not neglected too long.-Chicago Mail.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
The Care of the Hair.

Actresses are the only class of women who
need TO wash their heads. They live in a
powdered atmosphere on the stage, the in
furious effects Of which nothing but soap and
warm water will avert. Ordinarily water is
bad for the head; it chills the scalp and rots
the hair. l have customers who have not
put water on their hair since they were chill
dren. One lady, with a suit Of the most
beautiful black hair can recall, told me she
had not washed her head since her wedding
day, and that was thirteen years ago.
But the hair must be kept clean, for all
that. ] know nothing better than a good
brush, which, If well applied, viii invigorate
and cleanse the head and give gloss to the
lair that nothing else viii secure. l consider
the comb a most deleteriOus instrument IN
less handled correctly.
To begin at the head. as most people do in
bombing. IS to tear out or break the hair.
The proper way is 10 begin at the ends. Get
the tang.es out first, and ascend 10y degrees.
The trcSses smoouhed out should then be d.
vileG into three or four parts and combe1 in
sections. In using a fine tooth comb never
irag il through the length of the hair unless
sou are anxious to become bald.
The dandrulf is not in the hair: it Is IN the
scalp, and jhe scalp only should be'combad or
scraped. By carefully dividing tle hair the
head can be barred and cclbad a little
practice VIII enable mad to glide the comb
out Of the hair, removing much OF the dald-
IuT and dust vita il Y hat remains in the
hair can be brushed of It's difficult for an
individual to cleaa her own head. The duty
should be performed hy-so-ae one.
A very excellent shampoo can be prepared
Ut home that VIII keep the head in 4 healthy
condition Pr. into . toilet boctlo 4 mixture
containing the following ingredients: One
pint OF water. five cents worth II powdered
ras5ile soap, two tabiasVooniRls Of alcohol,
aaf the quantity Of boI-ax and the yolk of
two eggs The egg contains iron, which will
be absorbed; the soap and bo-ax Will cleanse
-ue skin and the alcohol supply suliCiency
IF heat to prevent cold--Intozview in New
York World
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Eopr to Trena e Friend.

Your friend can think Jon the most unself.
ish girl in the world, but he must not show
his own selishness by expecting you to de-
vote your evenings exclusively to him, ig.
noring those who are at home. Let him
come in and be one Of them-theres dear
five minutes when t,e can speak 10 you, when
he can kiss you on the lips that he knows are
only the gates to sweet. purs speech when he
can whisper the lovely nothings that mean
so much to you both. Then, too, don't let
him feed that he rrust give Up all his friends
for you; don't accept valuable presents from
him, and don't aSs1IDe an air of proprietor
ship with him Tan him nothing about your
family affairs, for the secrets of the house
hold do not even belong to chg man you ars
going to marry.-La1ies' Home Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
4 Story fnr Your Men.

There is a moral in the following story; ii
IS true, and It Is spphcEble TO every position
in the commercial, literary or professional
world. IL viii apply to the nlsSE eminent
lawyer and to tho clerk IN 6 corner grocery.
A young St Paul man applied To q well
known merchant in this city for the place of
assistant booAkesper. Re WINS asked what
salary he expected, and replied:
Eighteen dollars week.
1--WE had decided not 10 pay more than if
teen degnurTed the merchant
well, ST. answered the young man,
frankly, 81 need the place but you must re-
member I should work just as hard if you
paid me but s. a week."
IAN right, sir" replied the merchant, with
an approving smile, you are just the kind
of man we wantl Go to work tomorrow at
$40 week. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Conferred Her Affections ON Cats,

After the death of her twin children who
lived but an hour, Mrs. Jane Duncan, of New
York city, developed a mania for cats, Her
husband, journeyman carpenter, bore meek
" and patiently with her weakness for eight
cen years Then he died, hut beyond noti-
seying neighbSr, his wife paid no attention
to the event Friends looked after the flu
neral arrangements, ana subsequently, had the
denented woman taken to an asylum. When
the apartments were cleaned up the other
day for occupancy by a new tsIant, twenty
seven full grown cats and large number Of
kittens were evicted. They seemed TO know
that their friend had gone, for noneo of them
has attempted TO return since receiving no
tce 70 quit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
EtsmA<Ek's Answer.

During the GhAncspor's criSis s group OF
well known German gen&lsmsa Eas together
enjoying Their frubschePPsn ard discussing
the affairs Of their mother country. There
was a strong desire ca the part OK several
present 70 know tho precise truth contain ID
In the fast flying rumcrs Of Bismarcks TO
tirensnt. Bat howl
~Cable TO Bismarck direct, suggested ons
gentleman, bat go at ID automatically. ,
lie was formerly connected with affairs al
the German court.
1t was resolved after discussion to send
the following cablegrazn, supposed to be very
systematically conceived:
ave fear God only aud OthsrwiS nothing
in this world-eIcepdng your retirement"
Eight namssl
The words preceding the dash in the cable
gram were tnoss uttered by Bismarck when
be opened the last reschstaI; those after toe
dash were added by themselves
Slowly the hours passed and patiently they
waited. At lsstl Here is the reply;
Long live the emPe-url BISMARCK"
They we're fooled by tho grand old states
man New York Hsrald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Double Pay and No Lecture.

A well known citizen adopted a novel ex-
pedient the other night to secure peace 1t
was incumbent upon him to attend to some
business down town, and he promised his
wife that he would positively be back at $50
There would be no slip up, no accidents or
mishaps, no Ifs" or "buts"-there could be
10 mistake about 1.-THE would be home at
$50 prompt. His wife looked little doubt
full. will you give me dollar for every
hour you are later than Jhat3" size asked.
''Donel" he exclaimed and forgot all
ebout it.
As he CROPPED his way in at IL o'clock hs
suddenly bethought himself OF his wager. OF
course his wife was~pp. Here, my dear,
I'm two hours and half late; here's IS.
Double pay. Now, don't say word" Tbs
lady saw that she could not honorably refuse
to abide by the contract, but declares now
that she wouldn't have taken SO for thecur-
tain lecture which shs had mapped out and
committed to memory for the occasion.-St
Louis Repuhiic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
She Got Ahead of Him.

Woman, commercially considered, is seal
ing the heights abreast of man That is
what a Pittsburg drummer learned in Cleve-
land, much to his discontinue, and he has
not quit telling and complaining about it
yet. He went into house that handles en-
CINE supplies and fixtures. He was followed
by a petite, rather pretty lady, jauntily
dressed He admired her on sight, and
thought that she must surely be the propri-
etor's daughter.
He forgot business in his extreme consid-
Grafton for the observance OF good manners,
and politely stepped aside to allow her to
address her father before he undertook to get
an order out Of him. He was little aston
ished to see her hand the old gentleman a
card, completely dazed when she began tG
talk steam gauges, the very things he was
selling; had almost a stroke Of apoplexy
when she took an order, and wished he was
dead when she looked at him as she tripped
out with a mischievous smile, which said
plainly that she knew what he was there for,
and she had got in ahead Of him.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
Education Not Opposed to Brotherhood.

Education Not Opposed to Motherhood.
| In America. in "a report given of the fam
| ily conditions of one hundred and thirty
| alunnae who have had children, the e1cep-
tional record of good health among these
| children. and their low death rate, are strong
evidences that the powers Of motherhood
have not suffered from college werk." In ad-
di1ion, the writer mite of testimony may be
offered. In TIE schools which she has attend
ed. the majority of earnest students were in
uniformly coed health; minority were deli
cate before beginning study. The most fire.
ouent examples Of III health were found
among those who made preJense or study
and eagerly pursued social eIcitements. Sub
sequent effect upon the health may be judged
when it is found that twelve years after tbs
graduation one young woman, ranking at
the head Of her class, is the mother of six Wig
orouS children; two others, earnest students,
have each family Of five, and number OF
others have four children.
No correspondence has been heId,with mar
Tied classmates living at distance. These
mentioned are personally known to be mo-
theirs in the fullest sense, and constitute strik-
ing contradictions to the claim that education
has an injurious effect upon woman. But
it may be objected, ''these are exceptionally
healthy women" Undoubtedly, but if the
training has any influence at all, it should
make them fail slightly below the standard
of the preceding generation, whereas, in sew
eral instances, they improved upon the record
Of their mothers, not only in general health,
but in the condition and size Of their families.
Miss Alice B. Tweedy in Popular Science
Monthly
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Educstion and MotherhOod-The- Care OF
the Hair-A stingy 7Ian's wife-She Got
Ahead Of Hmm the Drawing Room,
the Kitchen and Nursery.
ss1danY a young wife, !" said a notherly wo-
man the other day, ''would find the wheels
of her household moving much more smooth
~ if she would spend little less money on
the furnishingo of her drawing room and de-
vote it instead to supplying her kitchen with
labor saving appliances and plenty of uben-
sils Economy in kitchen utensils may easily
be pushed TOO far, and if there is another
place where a woman may be more readily
excused than another for extravaganza it is
gust there.
'To have TO stop in the middle of making
a dessert in order to clean a saucepan or a
kettle in which the soup had been prepared,
because you have not another, is folly when
soup kettles can be had for twenty-five cents
each. 10 have your kitchen knives of such
poor metal that they will not stay sharp, or
to let a good knife remain dull because you
think you cannot afford TO spend ten cents to
have it sharpened, is a real waste of strength
out of all proportion TO the saving. To have
nothing by which you can measure your in
EEcOlSDl5 dCCuIEI6lgg D6CtalSo AZ COSIS LuOLb "
buy set of weights or a graduated glass
measure than TO trust to guess work and an
old tea cup, has spoiled many a good dish
that cost just as much and has brought hu
initiation on many a good cook.
ITO scrape your porridge pot with a spoon
because you viii not buy patent pot scraper
for twelve cents wears out ten spoons to one
pot scraper, and the hired girl invariably
selects your best spoon for that purpose.
Sitting the coal ashes is such dirty business
Bs it is usually performed, and the servant
kicks against it so vigorously, that the most
economical housekeeper soon abaudons it in
despair. A patent ash sitter that allows no
dust to escape and preserves all the half
burned coal viii pay for itself in one winter
and last five. A cheap refrigerator can be
had for one-third the cost of a good one of
the same size, but if you buy it your ice bill
will be twice as large.
There is hardly anything in the kitchen
of which there are not two varieties, the
cheap and the dear, and the resultof the use
of either is generally its exact opposite in
actual cash. But in comfort 70 ones self and
to ones husband and children, q saving of
time, temper, brain worry and back ache,
they repay their cost many times over every
week. New York Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
The Queens Bread.

The queens partiaffty for Viennese and
French bread runs into al s1rts Of shapes
There are long French Ioaves and twists and
rolls, and the Viernese bread IS shaped into
all sorts Of curves and twists. There is ons
roll made like ht1ls maRakin. This is sup-
piled for the edIfcation and amusement Of
the queens Httls grandchildren when they sit
at her majesty's table. Tbe queen is always
supplied with this bread when az Bucking,
ham pa1ace Her baker Is Er. S Petrozy-
walsh, Polish refugee. in whom the prince
consort teok a great interest This fancy
bread Is only supplied for the queens tables
for the rest Of the household the palace baker
bakeS Some OF TIE larger loaves supplied to
the queen cost tcHpence each.-Pan Mall
Gazette