The Press., 1891-07-02
pying from ten to twenty minutes each

pying from ten to twenty minutes each day."
 Necessarily the daily drills are con- ducted by the regular teachers who have received sufficient instruction to lead the work in their schools. In the future, as the work advances, it is hoped that regu- lar classes for the instruction of teachers will be taught Since December 8 class has been held in the Normal school in which pupils are given such instruction as will aid them as teachers in carrying on this work intelligently and successful ly.-Uaaioa Signal.
 How the heart is stirred with unutter- able pity as one turns the pages of Editor Flowers description of "Society's Exiles" in the June. Arena; the ten fash-light photographs giving still darker shading to the sombre pen-picture he draws of Boston's poor-the deserving poor, whom neither drink nor vice has brought to such sore straits, but who are battling with life at heavy odds, and striving on starvation pay to keep the wretched un- a few dirty rags on their thin bodies, and morsels of coarse food in their hungry stomachs. Think of a baby two and half years old taught to overcast the seams of the pantaloons which the moth- CT is compelled to make at 12 cents a pair! This child is now four years old, and can overcast the seams of three or four pairs a day. One woman was seen finishing off an enormous pair of custom made trousers for which the generous I'D firm informed their "white slave" they would pay an ertra cent, on account of the size. Thirteen cents," exclaims MT. Flower, in righteous in righteous indigna- tion, "for fine custom-made pants, manu- factured for wealthy firm, which re- peatedly asserts that it's clothing is not made in tenement houses!" But look for yourself, my readers, through MT. Flowers watchful eyes at these North End slums, and learn hoO the "other half'' in Boston exists. s.-Aunt Serena.
 Over two hundred woman have come forward with the required capital-$5OO to develop recently established scheme in England. It is the first of the "ladies' salad and fruit gardens" which Miss Grace Hartman, the founder, proposes to duplicate as fast as possible. Miss Hartman divides her work into four de- partments: 1J Breaking up the pasture land, CD establishment of cooperative dwellings, (3) giving occupation to wo- men as market-gardeners and (4) selling direct to the customers without the aid of @ middleman. As the scheme implies, it is cooperative association intended to afford women an opportunity to earn their own living in active outdoor occu- patton, healthy and agreeable.
 5-Asa- s-.ss ssE -------------- s rs,sa zta |s.z At the close of the American Medical Association in Washington, D. O., May 8, an association was organized for the promotion of temperance, to be known as the American Medical Temperance Asso- citation. Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, was elected president, and Dr. Brothers, of Hartford, Conn.,, secretary. The ob- jects of this new society are to advance the practice of total abstinence in and through the medical profession and to in stitute investigation as to the use of alco- hol in health and disease.
 A glass of milk heated hot, to which 8 very tiny pinch of salt has been added. This is particularly good at times when the throat or chest is tired. And the ef- feet of hot milk slipped as hot as it can be borne, upon the tired system, has all the good, and none of the evil effects of alco- holic stimulus. Its action upon the sys- tenn is immediate and revivifying.
 Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt will return to America in time to attend the national temperance convention which meets at Saratoga July 15. Mrs. Leavitt has or ganized, during her round-the-world tour, eighty-six w.. 0. T. U's, twenty -four mems temperance societies, chiefly in Ja- pan, India and Madagascar, and twenty three branches of the White Cross; she has held over 1,60O meetings, has travel ed 100, 900 miles, and has had the services of 229 interpreters in forty-seven lan- guages. Verify, a phenomenal mission