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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Young Ladies' and Realism.

The young woman of today should not
be deceived into the notion OF a preferable
realistic development because the novelist
of today gets her TO sit to him as his model
This may be no certain indication that she
is either good art or good nature. Indeed,
she may be quite drifting away from the
ideal that a woman ought to aim at If we
are TO have society that is not always
tending into realistic vulgarity and CON-
monplace. 1t is perfectly true that a wom-
an is her own excuse for being, and in q
way she is doing enough for the world by
simply being a woman. 1t is difficult to
rouse her to any sense of her duty as a
standard of aspiration.
And il is difficult TO explain exactly what
It is that she is to do. Ii she asks if she is
expected to be a model woman, the reply
must be that the world does not much
banker after what is called the model
woman" 1t seems to be more a matter Of
tendency than anything else. Is she sag
ging toward realism or rising toward
idealism? Is she content to be the woman
that some of the novelists, and some of the
painters also, say she is, or would she pre-
fer to approach that ideal which all the
world lowest Ii is a question of standards.
1t is natural that in these days, when
the approved gospel is that it is better to
be dead than not to be real, society shoJn
try to approach nature by the way of the
ENTHUSIASTICALLY ignoble, and even go such
pace of realism as literature finds it diff
cult to keep up with, but it is doubtful il
the young woman will get around to any
desirable state of nature by this route.
We may not be able to explain why ser
vile imitation of nature degrades art and
aegrades woman, but both deteriorate
without an ideal so high that there is no
earthly model for it.
Would you like to marry, perhaps, a
Greek statue? says the justly contemptu-
pus critic.
Not at all, at least not a Roman COPY of
one. but it would be better TO marry wo-
man who would rather be like Greek
statue than like some of these Greek fig
nres, which are lying about on green
b6nks in our spring exhibitions.-Charles
Dudley Warner in Harper's Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

I have small sympathy with any woman
who manifests stolid indifference to her
own dress, and for the sake of being con-
sidered ''brainy" and eccentric" allows
herself to appear in public in slovenly
and unbecoming dress. It is a duty every
woman owes the Lord who made her and
the beautiful world she lives in to make
the most of herself, both physically, men
tally and otherwise. If God had not loved
beauty he would not have sownit so broad
cast and lavished it SO bounteously upon
sunset skies, tulip beds and autumn
leaves. But there are other aims in life
besides the purpose to be beautiful and
well dressed.
The woman who thinks of nothing else is
stupid and tiresome. And if one is too
poor to crafty the liking for pretty clothes
it is infinitely more to ones credit that one
goes unbecomingly gowned and shabby as
to footwear, etc, than if one ran into debt
to keep up appearances or defrauded an
other to make her gains. Do not judge
always by appearances then; it is an I'M
safe thing to do in a world where every
face is colored by circumstance, like the
water in the jar behind the lighted apothe-
cary window.-Chicago Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

Many persons indulge IN sentimental
waddle about neighborly duty 1t is ono
Of the ways by which selfish and indolent
people appeal to the sympathies of the
more thrifty and liberal minded, and COM
mand their services when they have fallen
through their own folly. The good neigh
Dor, in every country parlance, is the one
who st any time is ready 10 abandon his
own household, or at least let them shift
for the time for themselves, in order TO re-
ruperate his neighbors fortune.
Poor Mrs. Smith has allowed her baby 70
pst green apples, therefore thrifty Mrs.
Brown, who has repeatedly warned her Of
the danger, is called mp TO attend TO the
infants collie. Mrs. Smith would not and
could not be of the slightest use 10 Mrs
Brown in any emergency. She will pathet-
ically explain TO you that she never could
do anything in anybody else's house. She
would like to, but she can't" Mrs. Brown
would be considered bad neighbor If she
did not do her best TO help in such an EN-.
Urgency. It matters not whether her owe
children contract sickness from the absence
o. her mOtheriy care She Is one who cat
help In other peoples houses, and it Is he'll
neighborly duty to 90.
Because two persons purchase adjoining
residences, 1t is no reason why they should
have any social claim on each other. Thers
Is a strongly established idea in the eoun
try TO the contrary, bat il is fallacy, and
one that causes generous, busy women Z
great deal of needless annoyance and ofteL
positive work. 1t is an easy matter for a sci
fish woman TO obtain from another, Through
some such pEstext, valuable services. a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
A Writing Pad.

To make a most useful writing con-
trivance, fasten together two pieces OF stiff
skirt facing, each fourteen and half
inches long and eleven inches wide, by
sewing them both TO one strip finch wide
muslin, so that the two leaves will be
joined at the side edges by over half an
inch space of muslin, like the binding OF
book. Cover the outside OF the case with
brown enamel cloth. by taking long
stitches from side TO side, as in covering
school books; then basic the silk over the
inside of the case and turn in all the edges
and corners neatly. Sew in the ends OF "A
slender piece OF brown silk cord at the two
opposite sides OF the center, making the
cord lie in a fiat loop across the middle OF
the inside of the case
Use the sewing machine to stitch the silk
and the enamel cloth together along the
four edges. Make a large pocket, with
three small ones on the outside. as a recep.
tacle for paper and envelopes; let the
pocket be OF stiff dress facing. covered with
brown silk; bliudstitch the pocket securely
on one side of the case, and sew on a loor
of brown ribbon for penholder. Cut
several sheets Of good hlotting paper, lit
tie smaller than the case, and slide then
between the silk cord and the case: thel
fold the leaves over the cord through III,
center, and the cord will hold them il
place.-Lewiston Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
How TO Boil a Ham,

NJ. Morel, the chef of the Marlborough
hotel, is reported as stating that the secret
of Sam Wards method of baking ham
was to wrap it in large sheaf of timothy
grass. Either NJ Morel has been wrongly
reported or Sam Ward humbugged him
as he did many other people. If anybody
advises you to try to bake ham in that
way, tell him to go to grass. In boiling a
ham-not baking !t-a bed of sweet hay
not grass-should be put at the bottom Of
the pot, and the stesming effect will be
somewhat similar to that Of the seaweed at
a Rhode Island clambake.
But Sam Ward, in spite of his reputa-
ton, knew nothing about cooking. He
used to think that ham was improved by
being boiled in brandy. You might as well
adopt Sydney Smiths receipt of scratching
the dome of St. Peter to tickle the dean
and chapter as to attempt to get any favor
of brandy through the thick hide of ham
by boiling it.
Any desired flavor must be applied after
the ham is cooked and skinned. Then the
fat will suck in flavors like sponge. Sam
Ward was raised in California at q time
when dining was an unknown art there,
and all that he pretended to know about
gastronomy was picked up from cook
books or attributed to him by cronies who
were still more ignorant than himself
Stephen Fiske in Texas Siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

There Is one species Of earthTprm "a
Great Britain, known q Gshermsu a. toe
branding" which bas a peculiar means
Of defense thai does not ap7szr 70 b. - al
common in the graup Tas Branding q
very dark brown. with ysllowish haldA
and when lrTitafed it caa sEuda = Ys.sS1z~
ish fufd This worm seems - - aeceps
able enough 70 certain nshsa, cut tue truta
of the pr1gerb. "Oas mans meat Is "a.
ether mans poison - illustrated b. ths
fact that IL T. nOs palstabis - lizards. ]
have been informed that they gifhsr rs iecs
Il with disgust. or. II they 90 tas1e b.. re
rewarded Tor their ipe.zcreliou ~ ssFsts
its q illnsHs.
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parallei-d elsewhere 10 The aHinas k.u<s
G9ra- May brightly oolored animals
particularly among iasecfs-hs7s besa
found % ~ either dlszgrsezbls 81 theit
taste o. positively dangerous - other snf
rnzis whish hasitgaliy led uaen iheif Aka.
Asd Il = noteworthy thai tbsss unpslats
&c creatures have often ths raost marx
e1lT eoutrastsd colers-thas e. black as
yellow. for sKanp.s. tHs Easp e1d "a
kerues. fbs coral suaks a8d tts bsiSderHa
lizard ftas ella rsoustsr-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Pleasant Villages.

The villages of New England are among
the pleasantest in the world, and the chief
secret of their charm is summed up in one
word: Trees. The people who laid them
out, century or two ago had the good
sense to plant q few score of young trees
about the green and along the streets.
Now, look at theml Glorious elms arch the
streets and euvelop the place in shade.
The meanest cottage is pleasant and pic
turesque if it stands beneath a fine old
tree. The poorest village is good to live in
if it nestles under giant trees. Plant trees.
Plant them round the schoolhouse. Plant
them round the church Plant them on
the common. Plant them along the street.
Make all the villages and towns pleasant
with trees.-New York Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
sobriauets of Noted Men.

Salmon P. Chase was commonly called
"Old Greenbacks" during the war, when
he was secretary Of the treasury, because
he established our present system Of ma
tional currency. Daniel W. voorhees,, the
noted United States senator, IL often called
THE Tall Sycamore Of the Wabash, be
cause his tall figure aud long limbs are
strongly characteristic of the tall sycamore
tree, which Is common 10 his home on the
Wabash. James G.. Blaine Is sdmiringly
called The Piumed knight" Colonel
Ingersoll gave him the name in his great
speech Ia the Republican convention Of
1876. Samuel J. Tilden. because Of hi.
talents, was styled The sage Of Gray
stone" William 3. Allison. the noted
United States senator. was ia his school
days called Big Eyed Bill" Among the
noted American authors are John G.. Whit
tier. known a. The Bachelor Poet" John
G. SAKE, sometimes styled The Americas
Hood" because BIS productions resenbls
those Of the great poet, Hood. Walt Whit
man Is known as The Good Gray Poet, "
and the name Is indeed very appropriate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Advice on Airing Hnnse..

Too many houses are built up at the
back for want of space. There are nc
through drafts Front and back opea
and current set goiag-thst's fresh air
As II Is, with the air staguating. curtains
drawn, blinds down, carpets on floors
doors closed and one bit of a window just
open, where are the lungs that can breaths
IN so many cubic inches destitute OF
oXygens Now. in the morning open youi
street door for an hour, aud set something
stirring and send some current into thess
stagngnt air layers that close each othel
up, ana can neither move up nor down.
nor IN nor ogt. Women faint, children
droop, babies die, and al for the want of 3
little fresh air just passing through The
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
rha Hard Fate of the Farmer,s wife.


Every day of her life she goes through
the dreary, monotonous round. AT an
early hour, every morning through the hot
summer, she prepares the same black coffee
and fried pork perhaps hot biscuits), and
before she can clear away the breakfast
things and make the bed she hears the
calves bleating, the milk cow stamping
both impatient to have the mornings bust
ness done with. Then comes the dreary
routine of the forenoon's work, the baking
of bread, the washing and the like, until
the meridian sun warns her that the ever.
lasting midday meal is due and must be
ready at once.
To round up the duties and responsible.
ties of the day her labors are carried far
into the night, and often, very often, they
continue long after those of the male por.
ton of the family have ended. She has
long since ceased to think about her per.
sonal appearance. A tender kiss from her
husband would almost surprise her. Once
she grieved that her little girls were so
barely clad; now she scarcely thinks of it.
That she should have a spare hour every
day to read never enters her head, and the
bare suggestion that on every Sunday she
should ''dress up" and devote herself, dur
ing the rest of the day, to social intercourse
would cause stare of incredulity.
For be it understood that Sunday for the
farmers wife is sort Of clearance day to
adjust the odds and ends of the previous
weeks cares and labors, to be in readiness
for the renewed labors Of the coming
week.-John w. Bookwalter IN Forum.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
THE MARINERS COMPASS.
The Floating Needle of the Chinese
When 1t Was First Used on Shipboard.

The Floating Needle of the Chinese.
When 1t Was First Used on Shipboard.
The credit of the discovery, both of the
polarity of a @azgnetized needle and its
suitability for aSe by mariners at sea,
must, according TO a writer in the North
China Herald Of Shanghai, be given to the
Chinese. 1t is China also that has the
credit of having first noticed that any iron
needle may be polarized by rubbing it with
a magnet. In the Thirteenth century the
Arabs used a floating compass on THEN
dhows. The needle was made to float Oh
the water by attaching IT crosswlse TO
cornstick or splinter Of wood. A magnet
applied to it drew it into north and south
direction. In the Chinese primitive mari.
ner's compass the notation Is that Of the
professors of geomancy, and rests on the
old astrological division OF the horizon into
twelve double hours.
The writer alluded TO suggests how the
discovery came about In China there are
boundleSs tracts of iron stone and among
these no small portion is magnetic. Every
woman needs needle and iron early took
the place of the old stone needles and were
commonly used before the time Of Chin
Shih-huang-that is, more than twenty
one centuries ago. Whenever a needle
happened to be made Of magnetic iron it
might reveal It's quality by falling into a
cup of water, when it happened to be at
tached to a splinter of wood, for example.
IL came in some such way to be known
commonly that certain needles had this
quality. The great producing center fol
magnetic iron is T'szchOu, in southern
Chilli This city was very early called
the City of Mercy. Later the Chinese be-
gan to speak of the city As the City Of the
Magnet. The polarity of the magnetic
needle would become known TO the Chinese
of that city and its neighborhood first.
The earliest author who mentions the
south pointing needle" lived IN the
Fourth century 3. C. There can be no
reasonable doubt that the polarity Of the
needle was known at that time. The dis
oovery OF the fact must have preceded the
invention of any myth embracing it. The
compass used by the professors Of geomsncy
for marking lanscape indication WAS first
made about the Eighth century. Il was
Of hard wood, about foot vide, Ard IL had
in the center a small well IN which mag
netized needle ffoated on water.
In II22 an ambassador to Corea describes
the use Of the floating needle on board ship
while he made the voyage This Is the first
instance, the earliest b. more than a cen
fury, OF the use OF the mariners com pass
on board ship found a. Jet IA any book.
native or foreign. The exlsteBcs OF the
book in which this Is recorded settles the
question Of the first use Of the mariners
compass at sea in favor Of The Cainese-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
An opening for Girls at Home.

Why is it that some of the women in
small villages and towns who are anxious
" inquiring for some way of earning their
living, do not fit themselves for cutting
and making children's clothes? In many
places Sit is almost impossible for busy
mother to find any one who can come into
her home and cut out and fit the little
gowns and sacks for the girls of the family
without her assistance Especially diff
cult is it to find any one who can make a
pair of trousers for the small boy of the
house, giving them the finished look found
in those purchased. OF course many buy
these little garments ready made, but
many thrifty mother has learned that
trousers made out of those discarded by
the head of the household will outwear
two or three cheap pairs purchased new,
and look well to the last, because made Of
better material than is usually put into
boys garments. unless of the most expen-
sive kind.
If one preferred to do this work in her
own home, we are sure a good business
could be built up by devoting ones time
and attention wholly to children's gar
ments.-Housewife.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

round on Its axis, and the person who does
this must keep his face turned to the east
bow to the tree and say: God bless thee,
noble shoot and summer twig" Such a
rod, consecrated by sundry lamentations
and ceremonies, serves for the discovery OF
buried treasures, mineral vsins, water
springs, concealed thieves and nurderers,
remote calamities, cOnfagrah ons, etc.
Held between the finger aud thumb by its
forked ends, the divining rod turns of its
own accord with irresistible force over the
spot where there is metallic ore, water, OF
any of the other objects Of search. Wishing
rods have various names, according 10 the
special use for which they are designed.
There is one called by Germans Schlag
rute, or drubbing rod, which is likewise
hazel Of a years growth, but instead Of
being torn from the tree, it is cut from it
with three cuts on Good Friday morning
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Look Out for the Garbage Pals.

Never neglect to see that the garbage
pals and all vessels for refuse are kept
scrupulously clean. 1t takes only few
moments to throw In solution of lye or
of sal soda and water as soon as they are
emptied. Scrub them around with little
whisk, touching every portion of the vessel
with this disinfeeting solution. Rinse
them with water and set them where the
hot sun will dry and purify them. There
is no more certain source on which the
bacilh of all foul diseases may feed than
uncleansed garbage pals, and yet it is not
an uncommon practice for otherwise neat
housekeepers to neglect to keep them clean.
Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Water as a Pick-nra.un.

Did you ever try water as a pick-me-up
after days outing or shopping, wien you
know you are tired, hot and frotrey, and
that when some one comes home to dinner
for whose praise you care he will find you
looking your homeiiest9 Pour ice cold
water over your wrists, battle them in it
until you begin to feel cool, and then stop
or you may get a chill by lowering the
temperature of the body too much. Wiring
a cloth out of boiling hot water and lie
down forfve minutes, or ten if you can get
it, with the cloth spread over your burn
ing face and tired eyes. You will be sur.
prised to see how the tired lines will fade
out, and how brightly the dull eyes will
shine-New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Odd mr. EFRn.

Suppose person takes an even number
of coins or counters, or anything else in
one hand, and an odd number in the other,
there is a simple method by which to tell
in which hand the even number is.
Ask him to multiply the number in his
right hand by an odd number, and the
number in his left hand by an even; then
let him add the two products together and
tell you if the total sum be odd or even.
If it be even the even number is in the
right hand, and if it be odd the even num-
Der is IN the left hand.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Blows the microbes out of his Cigars.

Did you notice that fellow who just left
the counter heTeE" asked the proprietor of
the cigar stand in down town hotel Office.
"He is dust crank"
"Well, what is dust crank" I asked.
NOW and then we strike smoker who
believes that cigars contain great guam
tity OF minute dust which is swarming
with deadly microbes that are likely to get
into the smokers lungs and cause all
sorts of dire diseases. Such fellows always
cut off the smaller end of the cigar and
blow through the weed from the other end
as if it were tube. "-Cbicago Mail
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
FeIk Lors Abeut az Goa..

English groons like, when they can. %
have buck goat ranging about the stables,
but are ioath 70 acknowledge. TO skeVticzl
inquirers, why they make choice q 80 IN.
savory q pet. They pretend that the horses
ike the smell q the animal, and that = i
wholesome for them; but the real motive y
that the presence Of the buck gOzs--Tbur
nar's steed-protects the horses from bsias
bewffched In SEabia and in the Marx d
Bradenbarg. farmers with large stocks Of
cattle keep a buck goat II their stalls
avowedly for that sane purpose; for Tau
mar Tzs the ceaseless foe and eXterIzin Aioi
Of evil spirits- On the other hand, Eian
the devil has, n great extent. usuTpec
the placs Of Thunar. IL naturally follows
thai the faTorite animal o. tie t94lsa god
= CexS1 found reversing hiz former func
tons and ministering 20 tEs poTs-s q
darkness. The devil sonnet ines appears IL
the fern 81 q ga4ss ana wItShss VINO sTs
high IN his favor take theiT sirings CO rbs
back Of s1ch -ecss.zez insss@d of t-sssriSlus
3 hrOo1as.ic<
A nffc rH~L
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

which was sold recently for $50 contained
the following inscription ia Thackeray',
handwriting.
In the Z. States and in the Queens dorinions
AL people have q right 70 their opinions.
And many don u uch relish The VugIuians.~
PerUss my book. dear r; and II you ind u
A Little 70 your taste. hope yoa'u bud il.
Peter Rsckhaul, EsqTs-. with the best regards
Of the author.
Dear X, however, RETAINED from bind,
ing it, and it remains q ;be original bosrds
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
A Simple Dessert.

A simple dessert, which is a variation of
cake and preserves, is made by taking q
thick loaf of sponge cake-that baked the
day before is all the better-and cutting it
in round pieces with the aid of large
sized biscuit cutter. Slightly hollow out
the center and put in a large teaspoonful
of preserved Strawberries or cherries or
pineapple. Arrange these cake mounds on
a platter and serve with whipped or plain
cream, though whipped cream gives the
dish a much prettier appearance.-New
York Times.