The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-03
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LIARS CLUBS exist in London and several
provincial cities. The initiation fee is shill-
ings. half OF which is RENTED should new
member be able TO outlie any member present
The tallest stories told st each weekly meet
ing, and tbs best exaggerator carries Off the
honors OF the evening. But il . man is known
to lie outside the precincts of the club rooms he
is liable to expulsion
No COUNTRY in the world has been visited Of
late years with such severe and widespread
Affections as the empire Of Russia. Within the
past two years il has suffered from q terrible
famine which has swept off millions of its in
habtants and impoverished still greater num-
berS- This was followed by the cholera. which
reaped an awful harvest in a population re-
duced by hunger and privation, and which Is
still raging in some sections of the empire.
Now comes story of famine in the province Of
Iula, where $4,000 people are reported TO be
dependent upon charity.
AN ENGLIsHMAN, who has now learned two or
three things about America ia general and New
York in particular admits that he did a yery
amusing and British thing when he first crossed
New YORK ferry. 1t seems that the ferryboats
are famed abroad for their size and steadiness.
and this particular Briton had been assured that
he would never know he was stloat when on
one of these boats by means OF any motion per-
ceptble in the cabin Remembering all this.
the Englishman seated himself in one of the
ferry houses on first coming to the city and pa
tiently waited until the usual American rush
for the wharf should proclaim his arrival at the
opposite shore No rush occurred however
and after several boats bad come and gone the
Briton made the hurnilistin9 discovery that
he had been thinking better Of an American in
stitution than it deserved.
TIE Nile. probably. is the most wonderful
river in the world. says a writer in HdYper's
Young People. 1t has made Egypt possible by
turning an arid wilderness into the richest land
in the world. Il has provided at the same time
an admirable commercial highway, and made
easy the transportation OF building materials
The ancient Egyptians were thus enabled to
utilize the granite Of Assuan for the splendid
structures OF hundred-gated Thebes and Of
Memphis, and even for those of Tanis, on the
Mediterranean coast. At time when the
people OF tho British Isles were CLAD in the
skins of wild blasts, and offered human
sacrifices upon the stone affairs of the Dfuids,
Egypt was tho center of rich and refined civil
izaton. Most of this development of Egypt
was due to the Nile, which not only watere 1
and fertilzed the soil annually, but was and is
one OF the greatest and best natural highways
in the world. From the beginning of winter to
the end of spring-that is. while the Nile is
navigsole-the north wind blows steadily up
stream with sufficient force TO drive sailing
boats against the current at a fair pace; while,
on the other hand, the current Is strong enough
to carry boat without sails down against the
wind, except when it blows gale. That is why
ancient Egypt did not need steam power nor
electric motors for the Immense commerce that
covered the Nile, nor for the barges carrying
building material for hundreds of miles.
In THIS stirring age of ours, says DR.. W. A.
Hammond in the North American Revier, men
and women. too-are so much intellectually
worked, or SO emotionally disturbed that their
brains have more to do than they can &C.
complish, and yet preserve their normal bal
snce. Mental work. whether IL DO simply per e
ceptional. intellectual, emotional or volitional
requires that inc -ea sed amount Of blood sha Il
flow to the brain; hence. during mental exer-
ton of any kind the cerebral vessels become
distended owing to the increased volume Of
blood they contain aud they remain in this con
dition as long as the exertion is continued If
it is too intense or il il be persevered in for too
| long period without there being alterations
of rest, the vessels lose their contractibiity and
remain in q permanently enlarged state
| They are, therefore. not able to contract SO as
| to produce sleep. 4 state OF cerebral conges-
| ton is established, aud wakefulness is the re-.
suit; such persons 60 70 bed, perhaps feeling
| as il they would sleep, but no sooner do their
| heads touch their pillows than their minds be-
come Unfortunately active and they lie awake
hour after hour recalling the events of the day
| or else indulging In the most preposterous
| thoughts. The blood vessels will not empty
| themselves simply because they have lost the
| power to do so. They are like the india rub
Der bands that we put around big packages and
leave undisturbed for long time. We try t.
use them again and we find that the elasticity
watch they once possessed has gone.
STILL further proof that the Chinese woman
is not labor burdened slave We find in the
custom Of foot-binding. says a writer in
ffurperS buzUT. ibis n6aCncnleh ATTEMPT to
improve on Gods best work of creation is said
by one tradition TO have begun with Pan Fei a
concubine OF the Chi dynasty. sol A. D., and by
another to have begun with Vas Niang a beau
southern Tang dynasty, ore A. D., whose feet
were 'cramped in the semblance of a new
moon" Tradition also says that il originated
with beautiful princess who hat club feet
and by resorting to this method completely
concealed her deformity. Still another tradi-
ton says it was resorted to by crusty husband
TO keep his wife from going a-gadding," and
as il worked so we'll. It was escorted to bv
Others. until, becoming a fashion, IL was
adopted by all. Wherever the custom NAV
have originated 1t is but little worse than the
and adds as little in beauty to the person
on whom it is praoticed. The best evidences
attributes IL to Vas NiRug. Tho evils OF
foot binding-as, indeed, the evils Of anything
that interferes with she natural Developments OF
what God pronounced good-cOuld not perhaps
be exaggerated, but the pain connected with IL
mi ht be- and perhaps has been. There is pain
great pain, when the feet are first bound: but
II we Judge from what We zee about US every
day, namely, little girls at play, and little beg
gar girls running after us on the street beggpg
for a cssh--for the beggsrs bind their feet-we
are compelled TO say that II looks as IL the pain
connected with 1t is not severe. 1t is perhaps
somewhat similar TO that connected with the
Strengthening of the club foot; and asithe band
ages are not taken or at night there Is perhaps
not much more pain suffered from it during
whole lifetime than that suffered by our ladies
who wear tight shoes. While we would not ex-
a sgerate the pains OF foot binding it is only
Just to say that nothing be said it its favor
Il no doubt adds to the woman's besuty in the
eyes of the Chinese. for it lie all but universal
custom, but IL takes away all her grace Of
movement and much of her usefulness She is
compelled to walk on her heels, her knees being
entirely stiff. IL impairs her usefulness es
peciany among the country people, for she
helps to plant and harvest the grain; but as a
mother, which is her principal business il mat
tiers but little whether she can walk or not In.
deed, wealthy ladies usually have woman on
each side Of them to support them; though this
is the result of fashion as much as of weak ness
POWDER.