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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Woman's Prerogatiye.

John Stuart Mil, though he admits a
woman's right to do whatever the law of
her being prompts her to do. so long as she
remains unmarried. assumes that when
she marries she has chosen her career, and
any other pursuit must be abandoned. The
love Of one man for one woman, and Of one
woman for one man. l. not the only passion
OF love IN the human soul. The love of
art. science, literature or of any pursuit or
calling may become a noble passion de-
handing qualification as well as the pas
sion of human love That individual can
never attain his full and complete develop
ment who is compelled 10 stranEle ard kin
one-hali OF his nature. The complete in
dividual must develop in all directions
Hitherto women have been more or less
cramped and restrained in all directions
but one. Hitherto love and marriage have
been an inspiration and forward i'm
'>etus &c men only. To women they have
been NOT only reUardation. but retroca
ton This Is violating all intellectual and
spiritual laws. which ought TO be irapers,.
tive and paramount The intellectual and
spiritual laws are as mach natural laws
a. the laws Of physical nature. Among
al natural laws there must * divine
harmony. There can he no di>cord in theil
relations 10 one another and 10 the uni
verse. To discover this harmony and &c
live in f1glI accord with il j. the secret OF
the salvation OF the human race.-Blanch
Fearing IN Chicago Woman's News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
WOMAN AND HOME.
CHANGES OF FIFTY YEARS IN THE
TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.

Heipmeets Indeed-women in Libraries.
woman's Prerogatives-Coverin Old
BIankets-Cofee as a Deodorizer-Im-
portance of Sanitation.
The whole treatment of children has
changed, and the idea of severity toward
them, especially while they are little, has
become, even with people of harsh charac-
ter, utterly abhorrent. Whipping, which
even in the ''forties" was the regular and
proper method of discipline, is considered
an almost diabolical cruelty; sending to
bed" which was really u method Of in
flicting solitary confinement, is entirely
disused: and standing in the corner" is
condemned as infiicting Humiliation"
There is, in truth, i'll a majority of COM
Portable households, no way left of punish
ing a child beyond reproving look, lee
ture which must not be too protracted,
and in extreme cases a deprivation of
some promised and greatly desired indul-
gence.
Children's health, too, is looked after
with even more care than that of grown
ups" sometimes, indeed, with sedulOus-
ness which degenerates into coddling; edu-
cation is postponed by at least Two years,
lest it should press too severely upon I'M
formed minds; and a perfect science has
grown up among us of devising ways for
preventing the little things from suffering
from ennui, or from the restlessness with
which bright children are tormented-
sometimes with this odd result, that the
little men and women grow blase, and
betray the ''unamusa bleness" of which the
Countess du Barry complained in Louis
XIV.
The little children are 'podded" in affec-
ton until the air of ordinary life hardly
blows on them, and are in certain classes,
especially those classes which can afford to
live the happy double life in town and
country, the happiest Of all created beings.
They are liberated for all the earlier years
of their lives from care, have ceased alto
gether to fear their parents, for whom they
invent pet names usually tinged with a
comic irreverence, and have nearly lost
not quite, for even good nurses are on that
point little manageable-those gro
tesquely terrible superstitiOns about po-
hcemen, sweeps and boyle men generally,
which forty or fifty years ago terrorized
half the nurseries in the country. They
have grown, in their pride of security,
skeptical of all those things and have been
known to treat even supernatural menaces
with a calm 81 don't believe you; God
isn't half so bad as that. "-London Spec
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w.sEND FOR CATALOGUE.
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Tho Artists, Smiling Model.


An Indianapolis artist who has won
prestige in eastern art circles tells the fol-
lowing incident which occurred in New
York studio of much celebrity: A large
class of women and girls were skerching
from seminude model, a young Italian,
who was posed with his head thrown back,
his arms Enthusiastically wreathed over his
head, and his legs extended in some sort of
wild Bacchanalian caper. The Indianapolis
woman was sketching the models shoulder
when she observed that he was smiling at
her in a very familiar manner. Somewhat
disconnected to discover that she had ap-
parently made conquest OF this guileless
child of Italia, she began to sketch his
knee, as more remote from the artillery of
his sentimental glances. In remote cor
ner of the room giggling arose. and she per-
ceived that the smiles of the f1irtatious
model were taking effect upon some lively
girls among the students. They subsidized
shortly, but the young Italian still con-
tined firing off smiling glances in every
direction.
At about the center of the class was
German girl, serious to the core, absorbed
in her work and fierce in manner as fe-
male Bismarck. Every stroke she planted
vi lCI ceiSt1 W Dis OcSiSis dAQ dllnOSG GULF
bative. Suddenly she came under the bat
terry of the Italians smiles, and without an
instant's hesitation her voice rang out like
clarion:
"You schtop dat schmiling. We don't
want you to schmile."
The figure of the model relaxed instanta-
neously, and he stood straight as an arrow
before the class, the impersonation of Of
Il.
appalling silence he remarked in the Sc
verest tones:
Ladies, am here before you zimply as
re model of re Dancing Fawn.' Re smile
goes wiz re pose. "-Indianapolis Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03

or DIanKeus which, having been in use fol
many years, have become thin and yellow
from washing. They would make most
useful summer coverings but for then
ugly color. Now very little expense viii
make them decidedly pretty and an add
ton to ones comfort on cool nights, not TO
be too much commended. Get enough
cheese cloth, pale blue or pink, to cove1
the blanket on both sides, some blue OF
pink zephyr wool to buttonhole the edges,
and tie the cover through the blanket, in
terlining from side to side, and you have
all you need except big darning needle.
Run the widths of cheese cloth together
till they form two pieces little larger
than the blanket, turn in the edges and
buttonhole the three thicknesses together
all around the square with stitches half an
inch apart Next thread the darning-
needle with the zephyr doubled, and put it
through from one side to the other and
back again, tying the wool in light knot
and leaving short fluffy ends to form a
tiny tassel at equal distances in squares all
over the cover.
They are prettily made of contrasting
colors, pink one side and blue the other.
and also of dark red cheese cloth tied with
black wool. The most inexperienced per
son can make them.-Maria Pendleton
Kennedy in Homemaker.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Air in the Children,s Bedrooms.

The ventilation Of bedchamber cannot
be too carefully attended to, and, as says
Horace Mann. seeing the atmosphere is
forty miles deep all around the globe, it is
a useless piece of economy to breathe it
more than once" Yet nine mothers out OF
ten will carefully close all the windows fol
fear of colds and night air, and leave two
or three children asleep in sitting atmos
phere and see no connection between the
colds and throat troubles they have and
the Initiated air she compels them Il
breathe night after night. Let the morn
ing air and sunshine into the bedroom az
soon as possible after the occupants have
risen, and if there is no sunshine and it is
not raining, let in the air. Do not make
up beds too soon after they are vacated
You may get your house tidied sooner, but
it is neither clearly nor healthy to snugly
pack up bedclothing until the exhalations
of the sleepers' bodies have been removed
by exposure to the air.-Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
portance of Sanitation.

1t is of the utmost Importance that the
public should have some general knowl-
edge of proper house sanitation, and
would urge upon the householder to secure
it by every means in his power. do not
mean that every man should be his own
plumber, but that he should acquire a
sufficient knowledge of this subject, so
that he could examine for himself the
plumbing of his house or his apartment
and say, Il am confident of being able to
protect my family from the dangers that
surround them. l have inspected my
plumbing and the fixtures that connect
with it; have seen to it that all the traps
under those fixtures are properly set and
that which is the most important of all,
that those traps shall always and at all
times maintain and hold their water seals,
making it impossible for the deadly sewer
gas TO enter our rooms Humanity and
Health
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
A Pretty Dinner Custom.

A very pretty custom in Dresden might
well be introduced here. At a swell dinner
there when the sweets came on an empty
cornucopia was placed by each woman's
plate. The writer asked the purpose of the
cornucopiaS, aud was told that they were
intended TO enable the ladies to take some
thing home in for the children. There it &
quite the custom TO remember the little
ones in this way. The inquiry, What did
You bring me:' Is familiar to every mother
on returning from d dinner or wedding.
and the little favor. the piece Of candy
slipped quietly into the pocket OF a piece Of
wedding cake, i douhiy sweet 10 the little
ones. whose only vision of the festivities
has been its mothers departure and X
turn 1t is n pretty custom, this Dresden
one, and one that should flpd favor in the
eyes OF American moJhers. Bring n the
coTnucopia.-New York Recorder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Viii Eagle gle
THE FIRST TUBULAR BOILER.
sc Was Patented by Stevens and Is Now
in the National Museum.

1t Was Patented by stevens and Is Now
in the National Museum.
There is no place in this country where
one can get so good an idea of all kinds OF
boats as can be obtained in the National
museum. Here one sees boats of bark,
boats made out of the skins of animals, with
bone and bamboo ribs; dugouts, smooth
bottom, cfinker built, fat, sharp and per-
fecsly round boats that resemble a tub.
The highly decorated fat bottomed Mis-
sissippi steamboat can be seen full OF
fancy gingerbread work, with saloons and
staterooms piled above each other, looking
like a floating house and suggestive of,
Life on the Mississippi" as Mark Twain
and others saw it.
In strong contrast to the arklike MissiS-
sfppian are the full rugged and polished
ocean ships, the yachts and beautiful mod
els of warships and others. These claim
the attention of thousands of visitors; but
there is more real interest shown IN a small
corner where bust of Robert Fulton looks
down upon things which taxed the inven-
tive genius of men who inaugurated the
reign of steam. Here, with a coat of black
paint upon it to check the tooth of time,
which has gnawed it almost through, is a
DDilcT. lulo Juliet " dS pttbCIbC1
by John Stevens in the United States in
1888 and in England in 1905.
In his English patent specification Mr.
Stevens-beginning with, Whereas, His
most gracious majesty, King George the
Third, by his letters patent bearing date at
" estminster the thirty-irst day of May,
in the forty-fifth year of his reign'-says,
farther on, I'm the boiler am about to de-
scribe | apprehend the improvement is car
ried to the utmost extent of which the
principle is capable"
In describing, he continues: Suppose a
plate of brass of one foot square, in which
a number of holes are perforated, into each
of which holes is fixed one end of a copper
tube of about an inch diameter and two
feet long, and the other end of this tube
inserted in like manner into a similar piece
of brass, the tubes, to insure their tight
ness, to be cast in the plates. These plates
ale to be inclosed at each end of the pipes
by strong cap of cast iron or brass, SO as
to leave a space Of an inch or two between
the plates or ends Of the pipes and the cast
iron cap at each end; the caps at each end
are to be fastened by screw bolts passing
through them into the plates. The neces-
sary supply of water is to be injected by
means OIL forcing pump lnCc Jne cap at
one end, and through a tube inserted into
the cap at the other end the steam is to
be conveyed to the cylinder of the steam
engine; the whole is then to be encircled
by brickwork or masonry in the usual
manner, horizontally or perpendicularly."
The first patents in America were to
Reade, Fitch, Rumsey and Stevens, in Au-
gust, l791 Reade's was for a portable fur
mace tubular boiler Fitch's was for driving
a vessel by taking water in at the bow and
forcing it ont at the stern. The principle
of Rnmsey's and Stevens patents was
much the same as Fitch s.-Mechanical
NeUa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
A Scholar of Forty.

A parlor pupil that an up town school
teacher has is a woman OF forty, the moth
er of three children She comes on certain
evenings OF every week to study the COM
mon English branches. In her interview
seeking the lessons she said:
My children are at the public schools
and find myself powerless to give them
the assistance which they need to keep up
with their grades Everything is taught
differently nowadays than in my school
times. l reach the same results, but by a
process they do not understand, and l must
be taught their way to be OF any help to
them.-Her Point of View in New York
Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Spurious Works of Art Began Early.

That there We're sham pictures of Apelles
and Protogenes, spurious marbles of phid-
las OF Lysippus, and false gems of Pyrgo-
tcles in old Greek times is more than prob
ahlo. 1t is certain, indeed. that an infinite
number of copies and limitations of the
works of these immortals, on which, never
theleSs, their names were shamelesSly
painted or craven, as the case might be,
abounded in antiquity, and are now often
enough unearthed. Every evidence goes
TO show, in short, that art frauds were as
rife and universal in the classic ages of
Greece and Rome as ia our own.-Nine-
tenth Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Women in the Harvard Observatory.
Ter raor. Tho HorvorI

For twenty years the Harvard observa-
tory has always employed some women on
its staff of computers, but since the endow-
ing of the Draper memorial BOUNDED by
Mrs. Henry Draper, of New York, in honor
of her husband), corps Of women has
been engaged on work more in the nature
of original research.
The examination of the photographs,
plates, as well as all measurements and
the preparation of the great catalogue, are
in the hands of Mrs. Nina Fleming and
her eight women assistants.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Concert and parlnr SINGING.

On the concert stage everything is sub
81 rvient to the quality of the sound If it
is necessary TO say gut boy for goodby
in order 10 get pure tone. the public
singer will do 1t without winking. \ con-
cert singer will make faces of astonishing
u illness and take attitudes that are in
comprehensive. and her achievement viii
carry both Off without remonstrance. But
an amateur taking her note with a facial
G-tmace and standing on tiptoe TO reach a
note practically inaccessible is not n singer,
hut an object of painful curiosity.-New
York Evening Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Coffee as a DeodoriZer.

One of the simplest disinfectants Of
sickroom is ground coffee burned On a
shovel so as to fill the atmosphere of the
room with its pungent, aromatic odor. Ii
two red hot Goals are placed on fire
shovel and teaspoonful of ground coffee
is sprinkled over them at a time, using
three teaspoonfuls in all, it will fill the
room with it's aroma, and is said to have
the hygienic effect of preventing the spread
of various epidemic diseases. The odor is
very agreeable and soothing to a sick per
son, where other disinfectants prove dis
agreeable. Physicians who doubt the power
of coffee as disinfectant frequently rec
ommend it as deodorizer, and it is GER
tainly one Of the very best and most agree
able. Most of the expensive disinfectants
sold in the shops have no special power a.
such, but are simply deodorizers. the two
being frequently COMPOUNDED. 1t is best
however, to obtain from a physician in
cases of dangerous epidemics something
that will certainly destroy the germs OF
the disease, as well as deodorize the room
New York Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
ORIGIN of Bangs.

The bang is one OF the latest innovations
among women and girls. 1t had its origin
in the reformatory for girls on Blackwell's
island, New York The inmates were in
the habit of getting away, and it was diff
cult to recognize them after changing their
apparel. 1t was first suggested to crop
them, but this was considered too sweep
ing. The bang was then adopted, and it
was perfect mark. For some reason or
other the style struck the popular fancy,
and in the course of a few years after its
adoption as mark in the reformatory be-
came one of the fads of fashion.-Pitts-
burg Commercial Gazette.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
The Rattiesnake as a National Emblem

The RaJtiesnaEe as n national I'm Dlems
After the rattlesnake had been adopted
as an emblem and had appeared on the
flags of several of the colonies, Benjamin
Franklin defended the device on the
Crou Rds that the rattlesnake is found only
in America; that all serpents' emblems
were considered by the ancients to be SYM
bos of wisdom; that his bright, lidless
eyes signify vigilance; that he never at
tacks without first giving fair warning of
his presence; that his raetles, while dis
tinct. are SO firmly joined that they cannot
be separated without being ruined forever,
and that as he grows older the rattles in
crease in number, as it was to be hoped
Che colonies would.
Indeed, this idea was made use of in a
flag device which represented rattlesnake
with nine joints, each joint lettered with
red silk. The head was marked IN. Z. +"
(New England; the remaining sections
IN. T." IN. j. >" pa" md, ;" Eva"
"N. 6, IS. c." and Ca" This curious
standard was discarded for the one made
by Mrs. Ross in Philadelphia in 177z, flag
similar to the United States flag of today,
only with fewer stars.-St. Louis Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
When the Ewes Stick.

Inflammation Of the coniunctivs or mem
brane, which shields the front Of the eye
ball from the air and takes the rub Of the
eyelids, is indicated By the glued state Of
the eyes IN the morning, and more espe-
cially by their bloOdshot condition. the YES
sells being bright red in color and winding
about in great irregularity. with no dis
cernible order or pIan--Hall's Journal o.
Health
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Care in Choosing Playmates.

Should not we mothers be careful in
choosing playmates for our little ones?
Smaller children are apt to make them
babyish, while older ones perhaps teach
them things we do not care to have them
know. 1t is best l think to keep their
friends under our own supervision, and to
watch them unseen for a little while,
and we can soon judge whether or not
they are suitable playmates for our chill
dren.-Cor. Babyhood.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Resting Her Ewes.

was driving to succession of "At
Homes" with lady noted for her beau.
tiful bright eyes; large, prominent and
flashing, they outshine her big diamond
eardrops. ] notice that directly we re-en-
tered the carriage to go from one reception
to another she almost closed her eyelids; all
the sparkle vanished: her brilliance stood
at ease "-London Illustrated News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
Newer Lose Your Temper"

To recent interviewer Nine Patti,
while gently disclaiming possession Of the
secret Of eternal youth, explained, 81 keep
my temper and stick to regular hour, Z"
adding Tin words which cynics might pre-
tend should be written in letters Of gold in
every lady's boudoirl: Never lose your
temper. No woman can keep young who
often loses her temper. When feel that
my temper is getting the better o. me /
always get up and leave the ROOM"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03

We are often informed that there are
quite few" OF some articles under con
sderation. This peculiar use OF the word
quite was exempiified by the young WON
an who was strolling with her lover. He
remarked that there was quite moon. To
which she happily responded, very quite. A"
Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03

Boil ten pounds OF sugar with one pound
of glucose to IS degs-. then pour ont OF
the marble ami when fairly COO. add two
and "a half pounds OF chocolate giue-lts4i1
then turn 10 a cream; then warm one aid a
quarter pounds OF good butter 10 . Tlal4 ard
add the chocolate cream and two vanilla
beans; then warm ali till it can he poured
ont on paper laid on the marble with iron
rods around; let the mass remain thus over
night or TIL thoroughly cool. aad CT, II
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03

Nine Patti has ''sold her voice." that is,
for a consideration she has promised to
permit her throat to be examined after he1
death to see if the construction of it in any
way accounts for her marvellous gift of
song. The probability is that the secret
lies more in the brain than in the vocal
mechanism.-YankeeB Blade.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
The Sunshine of Home.

Don't shut up your house, lest the sun
should fade your carpets and your hearts,
lest merry laugh should shake down
some of the musty old cobwebs there! If
you want to ruin your sons, let them think
that all rnirth and social enjoyment must
be left on the threshold without when
they come home at night-Home Gems.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
The Trees of Paris

Paris contains more trees than any city
IN the world, which is the reason why ia
streets and avenues are so beautiful
These trees are principally O; three kinds
the chestnut AID acAeias. s1eh "a line
the Champs Elys~es- and the lime tires.
which grow In such abundance IN the Bo.s
de BouloEre and On certain # the cutter
bouleT arda-Ss- York Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
A pretty wedding gift is the combinati

A pretty wedding gift is the combination
set of the long glove, handkerchief and
nightdress cases, together with the toilet
cushion, all made TO match in design and
treatment. They are made of white silk
and embroidered in orange blossoms. A
frill of pinked silk and lace edges them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03

"Why, Sam Tompkins, " said Mrs. T.. II
saw you kiss that common looking. horrid
chambermaidr'
Now don't get angry, my dear 1t was
a mistake / thought she was you You
are as alike as two peas. New York
Epoch.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-03
The fact that women in East India are

The fact that women in East India are
making public speeches is a striking evil
dence of the rapid strides of progress In
the Indian national congress the women
are recognized, and the consensus of
thought from the standpoint of both sexes
is considered potent.