Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-17
Where Beauties Are Bred.
Ladies Home journal.

I
| them growing up with callsthenics. health
| lifts and a massage use to do their exercise
| for them.
| You all remember the painful story of a
girl in a city home, surrounded by every
care, who was strangled in the cords OF
her health pull one evening, little more
than a year ago. Scarcely more pitifuI
was her fate than that of the girls brought
up to depend on such substitutes for work
and exercise if they live A sick. anemic
woman, unused, unable to care for herself
and all others, is. the most pitiable, repug-
nant object on earth. You seldom find a
lasting beauty who has not had semi
Greek education of outdoor life and exer-
ciec behind it.
Take the beautiful Cummings, who ran
wild in their Irish country home till their
calculating mamma had raked and scraped
enough to take them to Dublin and thence
to London. The Cummings were unlicens-
ed hoydens, but their races over the hills
gave them matchless compilations. Later
still Mrs. Langtry took her beauty course,
rovin G the Jersey lanes with her brothers
In sea air, living On peaches and caurse
bread, with as little lessons as sufficed to
fit her for London drawing rooms
Hannah Was Left.
They arrived at one Of the entrances to
Central parh by a street-car, says the New
York Sun, and the policeman looked them
over and said to himself:
''They are man and wife and are in from
the rural districts to see the sights. Lands q!
but wouldn't [ like to get out among the
hogs and calves and sheep. Just give a
year of my life for two days in a sugar
BUSH
SIS she the Central park?' queried the
man as the couple came up.
Yes, sir.
Anything to pay p
''Oh, no; go right in.
They've got animals in here, havel
they?"
Eyes"
Lions, tigers, panthers, elephants?"
yes"
But have they got a shark?''
No; not a live one"
| ''Sure?'
| 81 know they haven't"
There, Hannah, what did [ tell you?'
said the man as he turned to his wife 90
said all along that they didn t have no live
sharks, but you was bound they had"
well, I'll have to give in, but m aw
fully sorry" she sighed.
''You see, y explained the husband to the
officer, ''Hannah's old father was sailor
He fell overheard one day and got bit in
two by a shark. She was only 10 years ole
then, but she's had shark on her mint
ever since, and she won't die till she sees
one. I've showed her whales and ALI
gators, and kangaroos and spotted hyenas
! but she hahn t got no interest. She won
even give Demonstration two gooc
looks
"Yes, | want to see a shark" she adj
died.
"Wall, you can't do it, cause there
none here, and you needn't be putchy will
me, either Sharks is skeerce and come
high, and they don't have 'em. Well g
down and see the balloons and the giraff
and the hippo what do you call it, ant
that'll have to do it, and if you do any cry
ing it II be the last time I'll ever tro,
around with you
Magnitude of the Stellar Creation.
The starry heavens present field to GU
vision of such beauty, grandeuar, and i'm
mensity, that the human mind is lost il
wonder at beholding them and asks i,
vain, under old theories, for consisten
explanation of their physical structure.
1t is constantly reiterated by astrono
mers that stars are composed of heated
luminous matter; consequently uninhab
liable. That the fixed stars, with our SUI
the nearest, are fire balls, or melting fur
naces, ever ready to devour nebule, ant
everything else around them that is tang
ible, in order to supply light and hea
for the cold and dark universe of space
This old theory cannot longer be ration
ally sustained, and must give place to tn,
new y discovered law of Action, i. e., com
bustion
More than six thousand stars meet tn
gaze of the naked eye in its survey of on
night. Astronomers say that the fabulou
number of 100000 all aglow, can b
seen with powerful telescope. When W.
consider that the nearest of these is 200,
900 times as far from US as the sun, ant
that it would take from three and half t.
twenty -one years for the light which reach
es us to cease, if they were extenguished
we cannot grasp and hold the vast concep
ton in our minds. Yet it is supposed tina
each of these is a central sun with its owl
colony. of planets circling round it, which
in size are vastly superior to those of on
! own solar system and are travelling through
space with such speed that 1t is impossible
for us to comprehend it. The star Sirius i
said to be moving ffty-four miles second
or 1874 400 miles per hour; flaming mass
lead;ng its brood of planets through illim
liable spacet.-Stephen M. Allen, A. NJ il
April Arena.