Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-17
THE FLEETING SHOW.


Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
MADAME LIE PLoNGEoN
Madame Alice LIE Plongeon, who is to
give a course of illustrated lectures in Bos-
ton under the auspices of the NewEngland
Woman's Press association, was London
girl, leading a very quiet and uneventful
life at her home near Regents park, but
deeply interested in history and with an
intense desire to travel While studying
the ancient marbles of Nineveh in the
British Museum she met Dr. LIE Plongeon,
the arch@ologist and explorer. Kindred
the school girl into enjoyable companion
ship, their marriage soon followed, and
they came to America, where Mime. Le
Plongeon began the study of Spanish in
preparation for their proposed researches
in Yucatan, whittier they went in 1878,
spending there ten years of adventure and
continuous labor.
The LIE Plongeous have done for Central
America and Yucatan what other ex-
plorers have done for Egypt and Greece
in the way of discoveries of ancient cities
and the restoration of ancient monuments
and ruins. Their researches were con-
tinuation of archaeological studies begun by
DR.. LIE Plougeon in Peru. He found the
peninsula rich in antiquities, field 80
vast and neglected that there was room for
an army of workers. Nowhere did the
Spanish conquerors of America meet with
such determined resistance as in Yucatan,
where dwelt the Mayas, most civilized
and heroic of all the old Amer
lean nations. In their ruined cities
were found beautiful sculptures, fresco
paintings, statues and monuments which
the LIE Plongeons rescued from oblivion
Before the inscriptions could be deciphered
they were obliged to learn the native
language Maya very ancient form
of speech, almost identical with the Egyp-
tain in form and syntax and jealously
guarded by the few surviving people of
the nation. Manuscripts written in this
language were found and many pieces of
art which they were obliged to carefully
re-bury as it was not possible to convey
them to a place of safety. They took
photographs of these antiquities and made
measures and moulds, so that it is said
they would be able to accurately construct
Maya temple or palace in this most
beautiful of the styles of ancient American
architecture.
Nine. LIE Plongeon shared her husbands s
travels, explorations and dangers; she has
endured much hardship and escaped many
perils, having lived for months together on
the territory of hostile Indians, and is the
only woman who has lived in the deserted
old cities that are hidden in the forests.
Since their return from Yucatan both have
published books of their travels and dis
coveries, the doctor treating his subjects
entirely from a scientific standpoint, and
his wife presenting them in more popular
style as in "Here and There in Yucatan "
The lady is said to have a charming per-
sonality, clear and musical voice and is
an interesting and eloquent speaker.
VISIBLE LAUGHTER.
Who has seen ripple of laughter, not
the play of facial muscles, more or less
becoming, which accompanies the same,
but the laughter-wave itself, fixed and
perpetuateds
The story goes that at the great glass
works of St. Gobian a royal visitor once
wished to silver a mirror with her own
hands and as she did SO her light laughter
disturbed the process, and across the sur
face of the mirror faint hair-line showed
the ripple mark left by the wave of sound.
It was the Empress Eugenie, then beau.
tiful, admired, beloved, who thus traced
the impress of her light-hearted laughter
upon the glass, and visitors to the works
may still see the little mirror with it's deli
cate suggestion of her past happiness and
her present sorrow.
A NEW OCCUPATION.
The Importance of physical training fol
women has become so evident during the
past two years that there are hundred
per cent. more pupils than teachers, sayl
a writer in the Home Journal, while of al
the work that young women can take uI
none is more agreeable or more beneficial
to bodily health. Unlike most other oc
cupation, it constantly benefits the physi
cal and mental health of the worker, wht
grows stronger day by day, as well as hap
pier and more contented.
About two years of seven months worl
in each is required to fit the student O.
physical culture for teaching, at coast Of
, two hundred dollars per year, ant
the teacher who is good disciplinariaI
and who shows by her own physiqu,
| that gymnasium work will do what sh
claims for it, will find a good position
waiting for her acceptance. A New Eng
land manufacturer of gymnasium supplies
who recently took business trip through
the south, was urged to supply seven lad.
teachers for such positions, the salaries of
fered ranging from five hundred to sever
hundred and fifty dollars, with four month
vacation in the year.
Teachers are being employed in insan
asylums, where remarkable results hav
followed course of gymnastics used as
means of cure for mildly affected patients
and in all cities classes in gymnastics ar
easily formed whenever properly certife,
teacher makes her appearance.
This is the age of specialists and the am
bilious girl who wishes to provide hersel
with employment at once agreeable and re
numerative. will do we'll to thorough
study physical culture, which it is to b
hoped will not prove to be a passin
"fact," but will soon be established as
regular and required course in the educa
tion of all young people.
LESSON FROM FLOWER.
The wind flower of South America b.
longsto the cactus family and is a shru
about three feet high, the stems of whic
in calm weather appeared to be covere
with wart-like excresences, but when tt
wind blows these brown Jumps unclose an
become large and beautiful cream-whi
flowers, an emblem of those reserved, Sc
bors an Indifferent and forbidding exterit
yet when beaten about by the wind of mi
fortune unfold themselves grandly, di
, playing characteristics undreamed of b
fore-their real natures-brave, patien
sympathetic and sweet.
, "An who live know life is q conflict;
/ may also be victory" and blessed a
they who meet the buffetings of adversi
as the wind flower meets the assaults
the blast, proving themselves courageou
t heroic, indomitable and triumphing ev
: in the hour of seeming defeat.
q SUGGESTED.
k One thing absolutely needed in eve
i city, and unfortunately rarely found
: any, is restaurant conducted on hygisr
n principles, where may be obtained tho
r articles of food only which are wholeso,
Q and nutritious, simply and palatat
\ cooked.
= Hundreds of business men and WON
in the large cities depend upon the eati
q houses for from one to three meals r
q day, and how few of them can procure t
4 food their physical condition requires, a
= are obliged to accept that which oftentin
+ is positively injurious.
3 Good beef and mutton, nutritious sou
and broths, fresh vegetables, all sorts
cereals, of which we have many careful
lie prepared varieties, with brown or emit
,s wheat bread, delicate puddings and
N freshing fruits, would certainly furnish
! table where the dyspeptic man of busine