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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
One Perfect Home.

The most perfect home 1 ever saw was a
little house into the sweet incense of whose
fire went no costly things, but the mother
was a creator of home; her relation with
her children was the most beautiful have
ever seen; even a dull and commonplace
man was lifted up and enabled to do good
work for the souls by the atmosphere
which this woman created; every inmate
of her house involuntarily looked into her
face for the keynote of the day, and it al
ways rang clear. From the rosebud or
clover leaf, which, in spite of her hard
housework, she always found time to put
by our plates at breakfast, down to the es-
say or story she had on hand to be read or
discussed in the evening, there was no in
Permission of her influence.
She has always been and always will be
my ideal of mother, wife, home maker
1t Is more than twenty years since | crossed
the threshold. do not know whether she
is living or not. But as l see house after
house in which fathers and mothers and
children are dragging out their lives in a
haphazard alienation of listless routine
and unpleasant collision, l always think
with sigh of that poor little cottage by
the seashore and of the woman who was
''the light thereof" and find in the faces
of many men and children, as plainly writ
ten, and as sad to see as in the newspaper
columns, "Wanted-a home" Ashton
England Reporter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
How They Dressed.

Here is the description of the dress oil
English women in 1915, taken from letter
written by an attache of the Venetian lega-
ton to friend at home:
Their usual vesture is a cloth petticoat
over the shift, lined with gray squirrel or
some other fur; over the petticoat they
wear long gown lined with some choice
fur. The gentlewomen carry the train of
their gowns under the arm, the common
atty pin it behind or before, or at one side.
The sleeves of the gowns set as close as
possible, are long, and uQslashed through
out, the cuffs being lined with some choice
fur. Their headgear is Of various sorts of
velvet, cap fashion, with lappets down be-
hind over their shoulders like two hoods,
and in front they have two others, lined
with some other silk. Their hair is not
seen, so it is not possible to see whether it
be light or oEk.
Others wear on their heads muslins,
which are discended and hang on their
backs, but not far down. Some draw their
hair from under a kerchief, and wear over
their hair cap, for the most part white,
round and seemly. Others, again, wear a
kerchief in folds on the head; but be the
fashion as it may. the hair is never seen.
Their stockings are black and their shoes,
doubly soled, Of various colors When
they meet friends in the street they shake
hands and kiss on the mouth, and go to
some tavern to regale, their relatives not
taking this amiss, as such is the custom.
The women are very beautiful and good
tempered. philadelphia Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Winning Over q Juryman.

1t is related of NJ Lachaud. the most
famous of French criminal lawyers of
the present century, that in pleading a
certain case he perceived that one of the
jurors seemed to be hostile TO him and
his argument In the faces of ali the
other men in the box he saw with his
practiced eyes signs that his oratory or
his shrewdness was having Its effect, but
this man, in spite of all he could do, re-
manned frowning, suspicious, obdurate.
II. Lachaud kept on with his work, and
presently saw that his opportunity had
come.
1t was hot day, and ray of sunlight
had penetrated 4 crevice of the curtain
and was shining upon the top of the head
OF this Jurymsn, who was quite bald.
The lawyer paused in his argument and
addressed himself directly 10 the court
If your honor would please he said,
ito order that the curtain in yonder win
dow be lowered trife am sure that
the sixth Juryman would appreciate it.
This sign of watchful attention won the
obstinate juryman's heart and n. LSch-
aud's case.-San Francisco Argonaut-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
A Time to Be Silent.

"Do you know" said a matron whose
married life extends over a score of years,
that / attribute in a considerable degree
the happiness of our life to custom which
my husband and myself have unfailingly
respected-we never do any talking, hardly
speak to one another, indeed, before break
fast. He was quite confirmed bachelor
when | married him. and he told me soon
afterward that until he had taken his
breakfast coffee he held the most morose
and gloomy views of everything.
II thought at first this was little pecul-
lar, but when my attention was thus called
to it | discovered that l, too, found life
much more agreeable and small burdens
much more bearable after | had broken my
nights fast. Many wives tell me their
most available time to talk over things
is during the dressing hour. l always fee,
like begging them to try some other time
1t is a mental exertion to discuss the ways
and means of this exacting existence of
ours-too great a one. l think, TO be in
dulged in before breakfast. Her Point OF
View in New York Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
American and English Homes.

Mrs. Rider Haggard has been heard to
complain that American women kept their
houses too warm This complaint cannot
he made OF English women. If there is an
uncomfortable SPOT in all Christeudom 1t
Is the average English house in cold wealth
er. The average English house is i'll con-
structed; it is damp and draughty, it is
provided with very few comforts. This
may account for that domestic infelicity
which leopards the family in England
English husbands are VIGOROUSLY bad hus-
bands; they might be much better ii their
homes were comfortable. When a man
shivers he pines for warmth, and he will
ger IT. II be doesn't find il at home he
will find it at resorts.
The home instinct has been pretty nearly
all chilled out of the Euglishman. He is a
famous wanderer; but, mark you, he never
wanders northwardl He heads southwark;
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Mrs. Whitney's Pet Charity.

Mrs. Secretary Whitney is not all bound
up IN style, dress and entertaining, for if
you would follow her coupe on Monday
forenoons as it rattles down Fifth avenue
and wheels around the corner at Twenty
second street you would find, much to
your surprise, no doubt, that she alighted
at free kindergarten school for poor chill
tren. Mrs Whitney pays the salaries Of
several of the teachers here, and furnishes
nearly two-thirds of the material used
She is very much in love with the Froebel
system, and is among the foremost Of
those who are trying to establish kinder
garten training in connection with the
public schools.
"All work done in the primary school
should tell, said Mrs. Whitney All that
is taught should be taught in the best wav.
Children can be filled with a great liking
or else great disgust for school. The
school hour can become the embodiment of
ali that is nauseous aud prosy. OF it can be
made the pleasantest and most ENJOYABLE
part OF the day. The best methods should
be used for children. Books should be
ransacked to find if they contain anything
which will benefit children. A teacher
holds the thread of each separate chiId's
intellectual life New York Recorder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
An Elaborate Doll House.

Miss Alice Brown, of Spring street. is the
happy owner of doll house which awak.
ems the admiring envy of all her little
mates. The house (of two stories and an
elp was planned and built by carpenter
and the furniture was made in Boston
The parlor is fitted with a velvet carpet
and furniture upholstered in blue plush.
Inc guest chamber Is furnished IN pima
satin, and the equipments of the rooms are
complete. to chandeliers on the parlor
walls, napkins on the dining table and the
pots and kettles on the cook stove s
maid IN Bingham presides N the kitchen,
hoy page stands at the door, and the lady
OF the house in full dress waits in the recep-
ton room. Besides the doll house and its
inmates Miss Alice received st the same
time an elegantly dressed doll as tall as
S-years-old live baby "-Springfeld Home
stead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Consider the Stomach,

The evil habit of going too long without
food is one from which many people suffer
In the present hurrying age. Men sit in
their offices, women rush about at their
shopping, and both become so absorbed in
their interests that the period of hunger is
allowed to pass and that of fatigue and de-
preston to set in. The worst of it is that,
once the second stage is reached, the desire
for food is gone; and after many hours
abstinence the man or woman is too ex-
hausted to digest meal.
To avoid this extreme it is only neces
sary to take the most light and rapid re-
past during the hungry stage A glass OF
milk or merely biscuit while hungry
will prevent the after loss of appetite
And yet many prefer to ruin their health
rather than take the trouble to turn into
dairy shop and drink a glass of milk
London Hospital
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
THE ADVANCE IN A CENTURY.

Great Strides in the Education of the Fe-
male Mind Within One Hundred Years.
1t is only a few years since it required
almost as much courage to plead for wom-
en- in college as for women at the ballot
box, and only century since American
women even of the higher class were left
uneducated in any intellectual sense.
Abigail Adams, wife of President John
Adams, writing in 1917, the year before her
Death, says that in her youth female edu-
cation in the best families went no fur
Their than writing and arithmetic; in some
few and rare instances, music and dane
ing"
By far the most explicit historic state
ment on the subject is, however, to be
Historical society Belknap Papers, Part
III. The two main founders of this soci-
etv. which has celebrated its centennial an
niversary, were the Rev. DIR. Belknap and
the Rev. John Eliot Dr. Belknap had
Just printed in The Boston Post Dan. 80,
1852 an expressed wish that 1.-The female
mind might enjoy some of the privileges Of
public education" and his friend Eliot,
writing to him, approves the plan, and
goes on to the following extraordinary adj
missions:
1--WE don't pretend to teach We female
part of ye town anything more than dane
ing, or a little music perhaps land these &C
complishm'ts must necessarily be confined
TO very few, except ye private schools for
writing, which enables them to write a
copy, sign their name, &c, which they
might not be able to do without such
privilege; and with it l will venture to say
that Lady is rarity among us who can
write a page of commonplace sentiment,
the words being well spelt and We style
kept up with purity and elegance. The
fault must certainly he in their education,
and yet men of influence depot listen to
their complaints" (Feb. l, S.S2)
The last sentence is quite important as
it implies that the neglected sex actually
did make complaints at that time, and that
at least one sensible man ascribed their de-
fects to the want of education, not of
brains. But how enormous is the step
taken within the hundred years! The
whole aim, at least in many of our com
munities, is to place women absolutely by
the side of men in educational position.
This has been retarded not altogether by
blind prejudice, but also by certain agree
able old fashioned standards of courtesy
and consideration. L knew a young Vir-
gilman who was quite displeased to find,
on coming to Cambridge, that the young
ladies of the "Annex" had to go through
precisely the same examinations with the
Harvard students. 1t seemed to him, he
said, to be 'discourteous"
But for all that the battle of equal educa-
tional rights may be said to be mainly
gained, and now comes in the more serious
question, not of postgraduate study, but
of post graduate work.-T. W. Higginson
in Harper's Bazaar
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE STRONG POINTS OF THE NEW
ENGLAND GIRLS.

| One Perfect Home-The Girl That Every
body Likes-Mrs. Whitney's Pet Charity.
A Time to Be Silent-Consider the
stomach-An Elaborate Doll House.
Artists who make our pictures and
authors who write our romanceS have
drawn some very charming sketches of the
Puritan maiden in gray gown, cap and
kerchief who fiourished and beautified
her country a good go years ago. She
was very admirable, pretty, coquettish
and long suffering person, no doubt, this
maid of DID, but though the modern New
England girl seems a ridiculously COM
monplace figure beside her now, one won
ders much if a future generation may not
be melted, by recollection of her mani
fold good works and modest virtues, to
overlook her exceeding modernness and
take measures to commemorate her face
and name.
"They are such strong hearted race of
women. such tremendously intelligent and
helpful workers, for the worlds and their
own good" was the criticism made by
clever southern woman, who rarely over
estimates the force and value of the people
she meets She had spent winter in Bos-
tOu anu Cuc COuuGTy tOHuS, duo lou IucO
numberless young girls, a little grave faced
for their years, a trifio nunlike of nature,
perhaps, and lacking much of the healthy
carelessness Of youth.
But in place of the gayety and demon
strativeness OF manner characteristic of
American women the United States over,
she discovered in them the material that
went to fashion the great women whom
the New England states have produced.
They are not all incipient geniuses by any
manner of means, nor will many cause
even a ripple on the surface of other lives;
but they grow out of childhood into very
serious girlhood, and their first impulse is
to learn, their first warnings is for col
lege education and life widened by knowl-
edge.
They are the women who, knowing q
want, found the strength to struggle for
its satisfaction. They overcame all manner
of prejudices, and now the fruits are beau
tiful to behold.
Something in their bitter northern air
fills them with strange energy, and it is
common enough to find the impecunious
or the wealthy graduate of college early
turning her hand and brain to profession
or following an art. Then, if there is no
need for the first or taste for the second
charity gathers them into her great army.
ILLUSTRATED American.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
TrpeA of EsnuInaux.

Three types are observable among the
arctic Esquimaux OF Alaska. The tall
cadaverous natives On Kotzebue sound,
who live on fish, ptarmigans and plArmots
They always have a hungry look and ha-
bitually wear a grin Of fendish glee a.
having circumvented an adverse fate
Then there Is the tall, strongly knit typs
Of the Nooatoks, a gigantic race. Of spIeD
did physique that would be remarkable in
any part Of the world Rugged as the
mountains among which they live, vigor
Gus and courageous, they stop at nothing
but the impossible 20 accomplish desired
end Their food supply is the reindeer.
mountain sheep. ptsrnigans and fish
The third type is the short. stunpy one,
probably that Of the old Esq uinaux before
the admixtRre with southern tribes now
found on the arctic coast Whale. sea-
and deer are their food staples. ".
keily's Letter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
a CoIored Woman Philanthropist.

A curious, keen, sharp little woman is
Miss Maria Douglass, of One Hundred and
Forty-hrst street, the colored philanthro-
plst who for twenty years has earnestly
spent her time elevating her people The
fatigue Of long, tedious ride TO Harlem
soon passed away in her magnetic pres
ence- The home OF Mss Douglass Is rypi-
cal OF her deep and penetrating nature 4
curious old book shelf filed with editions
OF Charles Lamb, Emerson, Milton, Car
lyle and such sases betrayed the bent of
her mind
i feel that have mission II Is that
OF beneiltlug my race said she. Il fully
realize their crsmped aud humble position,
and long 70 lift them out of existing conGi-
tons Education Ii what thav nsAd Tia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Various Uses for Handkerchief.

Hemstitched handkerchiefs can be used
in variety of ways in house decoration.
The linen is fine and the hemstitching &C
curate in nice handkerchief. and several
sizes may be obtained For table center
piece they are especially pretty embroi
dered with the Dresden designs SO much
in vogue now, and which if any one can
draw at all are best arranged by the
worker herself. A small spray of flowers
tied with bow ends, the ribbon in outline
only. is another effective way of working
them. They also make pretty covers for
carriage pillows for babies. They may be
for this purpose sprigged with tiny blue
forget-me-nots, or with flowers all in
white, or with corner designs of flowers
which are connected with ribbons, almost
meeting on the sides All of these are
simple in style and prettily suitable for
babys pillow.-Washington Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
The Girl That Everybody Likes.

You have undoubtedly met disagreeable
girls, who, without doing anything es-
pecially spiteful or mean, have impressed
you as girls to avoid. But have you ever
met the girl that you as well as everybody
else likes? You are unfortunate if you
have not met her.
She is the girl who is not too bright
and good' to be able to find joy and pleas
ure all over the world
She is the girl who appreciates the fact
that she cannot always have the first
choice of everything in the world
She is the girl whoi is not aggressive, and
does not find joy in melting aggressive
people.
She is the girl who never causes pain
with a thoughtless tongue
She is the girl who, whether it is warm
or cold, clear or stormy, finds no fault
with the weather.
She is the girl who, when you invite her
to any place, compliments you by looking
her best.
She is the girl who makes this world a
pleasant place because she is so pleasant
herself
And by the by, when you come to think
of it, isn't she the girl who makes you
feel she likes you, and therefore you like
her?-New York Letter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Don't Re Extreme.

Don't wear the largest hat worn among
your circle, If large hats are worn, nor the
smallest; the largest sleeves. if large
sleeves are worn, nor the tightest, if tight
sleeves are worn. There is no Use in pro-
testing against the long skirt on the street:
the woman who wears that is hopeless. A
wise woman or a tactful woman is never
remarkable for her clothes. She applies
the wisdom of Hagar. and displays neither
poverty nor riches, but has sufficient for
the station in which she is placed main
tanning an honest position to her husband.
home and tradespeople Christian Union.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26

he Is cold: ne has been frozen all his lie;
as soon as he can get away from his damp.
draughty and cherries home he makes his
way where he is assured of the warmth
which his shivering body demands
The American women know, fortunately,
that the surest way to keep their husbands
at home and to attach their children to
home is to make the home comfortable,
bright, cheerful. 1t is the pursuance of
these tactics that has insured to American
women the most loyal husbands and chill
dren, who regard no human sentiment
more tenderly sacred than that which at
taches to home, with its myriad of sweet,
persuasive, holy nfuences.-Eugene Field
in Chicago News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Sitting Bull,s Prophetic Dream.

One Bull. a nephew of the dead chief
tain, related an interesting incident that
happened Just the day before Sitting
Bull was killed He said Sitting Bull
that day climbed to the top Of one OF the
highest neighbo-ing buttes, where ne
fell asleep, and dreamed Of the startling
tragedy that would happen the next day.
He came down and told his people that
their great medicine man would be killed
on the morrow. How true his words
were was atsested By Developments the
next morning Cor. S. Paul Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Don't Tease the Little Ones.

Do not tease the tiny tots. saw group
the other day of boys and girls about a
little 4-year-old darling. They were quiz
zing her just to see the pretty face flush and
the bright eyes fash. When she would
answer yes they would contradict her.
"But l say yes" said Miss Totty II say
no." said the big girl. II say yes" per-
sisted lofty more decidedly. "And say
no." laughed the other, and the little one
was worked up to the verge of tears.
Then the unwise and tardily repentant
sister gathered her in her arms and told
her she was precious darling and should
not be teased. In two or three years those
big boys and girls will be wondering why
Totty cannot be as sweet and lovable as
she used to be.-West Shore
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Naming the Dummy.

1t would be interesting to know the diff
ferent names by which women call the
wire forms on which they drape their
dresses. Betsy Belinda" Hannah
Maria,'' 1.-The Empress Josephine" and
Grace" are few Of those who move in
one certain set. The men of the family are
apt also to be laboriously polite to the one
woman in the house who never talks back.
One dignified man in particular will never
consent to quiet down on those rare occa-
sioas when he has ''skated home from bust
ness" without first apologizing to "Belin-
da'' and receiving from her chaste lips the
kiss OF peace.-Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
What Women Read.

1t will be found almost without excep-
ton that the brightest talker in the wom-
ans world is she who reads the news
paper. Most women read the deaths and
marriages and the society columns and
sensations, but very few really read the
news of the day, the literary articles or the
editorials You have only to talk with a
woman for five minutes to find out whether
she Is skinner" or not.-New Orleans
Picayune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
Money in Giants

A New Yorker is trying to make con-
tracts with all the giants in this country.
and thereby secure his cwn terms from
sideshows and museums. 1t is said that
giants haven't been soscarce in the market
for twenty-five years, and there is talk OF
importing half dozen from foreign coun-
tries-Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-26
George E1iot's housekeeping.

The affairs of George Eliot's household
were so arranged it is said, that she could
give herself uninterruptedly to her work
A housekeeper had entire charge of the
management of the house, and Mrs. Lewes
was carefully guarded from all outside in
terruptlons. She usually went into her
study at O'Clock in the morning, and re-
manned there at work until l. If the wealth
er was fine she rode out in the afternoon, or
walked. In case the weather did not per-
nit her going out she returned again to
her study.-Exchange
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Na]!l1l E5gle
LOOK FORWARD.

Take heart of grace, and look before
Instead of backward on the way;
Wash out the old regretful score,
The Borrowing sins of yesterday.
For what's the world and all its Csys.
But ours to try and try againf
Not ours to falter on its ways,
Not ours to fling aside for pain.
Take heart Of grace then day by day,
Take heart of grace, and sing each morn,
'Today's today, not yesterday,
And all the world is newly born"
Nora Perry in Woman's Journal.