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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
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What right have the men Of q family to
criticise or refuse to recognize the rights Of
other members of the family, even II they
do happen to be womeni You may not be
lieve it, but the world is full of just such
men. They cannot understand nor have
any consideration or sympathy for the fact
that the daughter OF sister should want TO
do something for herself in place Of living
the routine of life that they plan and mark
out for her. They think If there is any
money to be earned or to be had in the
family it should be the individual right Of
the men-that the women are trespassing
when they have desire to balance the scale
of their own ability with coin instead of the
privilege of mending socks and things.
What man is there that would allow an
other man-be he father or brother-to say
you must do this and that with your time
and life?
What intelligent man is there who will
feel competent to judge of the ability of an
other man without having given the abil-
ity q triAll And why, then, should we con-
denim without test the capabilities OF
some one who happens to he his sister OF
the sister of some one elsel Women arc
numbered among the thousands who 90
through life feeling that great injustict
is being done to them simply because broth
ers and husbands do not understand that
they can have ambitions and yearnilgs
equally commendable with their own. A
woman feels that an injustice is done hel
not because an interest in the thing itself IL
not given, but because those most interest,"
ed in her personally have no sympathy ol
appreciation of what she as an individual
most desires to do.-Exchange.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Restaurants at the worlds Fair.

There never were SO many restaurants as
there are going to be at the Worlds fair.
Along the promenades around most of the
buildings you will see tables and tables
and tablessome waited on by Americans,
Others. by F'renchmen, others by Germans,
Others by Cinnamon and Japanese and Ital
ians Some very queer and pretty build
ings are restaurants such as they have in
Ceylon, Japan, China, Algiers, Morocco,
Switzerland, Holland, Paris, India and
Turkey. You will see people eat with
sticks, with their fingers and with knives
and no forks. But the drinking will be
even more wonderful
Uttered everywhere out of doors are pref
ty little stands and booths and cagelike
houses called "kiosks." Hundreds of these
are for the sale of water at cent glass;
Others are tea drinkers resorts, kept by
oriental people; Others are chocolate booths
attended by pretty young girls; others are
coffee stands; at others you can drink CO.
ooanut milk from Cuba, or lime juice or
sugar and water, as the French do. And
scattered among all these often beautiful
little buildings are others, literally by the
hundred, for the sale Of chewing gum, pea
nuts, candy and mounds of sweet flowers.
Julian Ralph in Harper's Young People
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
The Mem Who succeed Do Not Drink.

If you have not already become accus.
toned to drink, and if you are careful in
the selection of your friends and asso-
ciates, the temptation to drink will be
slight. You will see saloon on the cor
ner, but no one will compel you to enter.
Men enter saloons because they desire
to drink. You may be occasionally in
vited to drink, but in any case the
. quiet statement that you do not drink
will be accepted as final. The young
men who arc urged to drink and ridi.
. culed because they do not drink Gn the
temperance stories) have put themselves
in bad company.
1t goes without saying that drink and
success do not go together. A drunken
gambler may possibly win high stakes
hut in order to succeed in Legitimate
business one must have clear brain
The day merchants, financiers and kings
of commerce are at least temperate in
drink. Most OF them are total abstain
ers.
You cannot make worse mistake thar
to say. Il will drink or let it alone, JUS
as please. Almost always men start
ing in this way finally choose to drink
No fact is better established than tha
alcohol weakens the will. Let the stuff
alone if you want to succeed.
But need not prolong the sermon Oh
this subject. All your books and tn
columns of your local papers TEEN will
warnings against drink. Voice.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
EYsrcise and Beauty.

Every.woman, despite her rather pugna-
cious assertion that beauty is but skin
deep, would give her best gown and her
silver mounted lorgnettes to boot if she
could only find out some satisfactory recipe
for obtaining the despised quality. To this
end she studies beauty books, consults
beauty doctors and makes the fortune of
complexion specialists who are wise enough
to profit through woman's well known
weakness.
AS almost every recipe has exercise as one
of its principal ingredients, the blind
searcher after the beautiful concludes that
if little exercise is good great deal will
be better, and straightway goes and acts on
that principle After she has tramped miles
every day, has become familiar with the
use of dumbbells and Indian clubs and has
become sufficiently proficient in rowing and
bowling to challenge her brother she is as
tonished to find that instead of becoming
more beautiful she is growing positively
ugly, with preponderance of knees, elbows
and knuckle joints. Her violent athletics
have had tendency to coarsen her bones
and give undue prominence to her muscles.
In word, she has overdone it, and the re
suit is the reverse of lovely.
Exercise in moderation is what brings
about the gradual perfection of ones pro
portions. The system of inhalation and
exhalation will be more beneficial in pro
ducing beautiful chest and throat than
the comforting with all the dumbbells Of
Indian clubs that ever existed. Undue ex.
ercise is more likely to result disastrously
than Observation-Disclosures Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Prevsensfioonn Z sion of rois;ysniineA ;s;iiiiI

Every now and then coroner"s in
quest has to be held on the body of some
unfortunate individual who has swal-
lowed the contents of bottle which
were intended for external use only.
Such mishaps are impossible in Ger
many, where the law requires the drug
gist to put up all medicines and drugs in
round bottles, and all lotions for exter.
nal use in ribbed or hexagonal bottles.
Hence any one can tell for certainty,
even in the dark and even if he cannot
read word, whether the bottle he takes
contains medicine or something to be
applied externally only. Some druggists
in this and other countries adopt some
such classification, but the absence Of
any enactment making 1t obligatory
takes away from the device or precau.
ton almost its entire merit. If legis.
latures were to establish the rule no in.
convenience would be caused any one,
and the liability of fatal mistakes would
be greatly reduced.-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

Itis strange that in the midst of plenty
there should be any scarcity felt here,
and there is really no need for it, for the
land is unlimited, only waiting to be
scratched to yield an abundant harvest.
The curse of this fair land is the unwill-
ngness of the people to leave the big
towns and go up into the bush and COM
pei by work nature to bring forth her
bountiful increase.
Town life is the attraction here, and
the people will have pleasure if they die.
When prosperity prevails, people live as
If its sun would never set. All seem to
be aping the class above them. At one
of Lady Hopetouns receptions there pre-
sented themselves 1,700 people. Many
ladies met their cooks there. Melbourne
J Cor. London News.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23

The special danger of the sunset hour in
malarial regions may be owing to the fol
lowing conditions:
The microbes or spores concentrate at a
level little above the ground, exactly as
one may observe dust of carriages in the
road in thick horizontal layer settle on a
warm, moist evening; then there is no lift
ing by ascending air currents, but sort of
beating down to low level, and their CO.
herence is caused by the disposition Of va
por on the dust particles as the air cools.
Thus over dried marsh there would be
great condensation of microbes or spores,
which could nolonger disperse They would
gather about the height of a mans head
Just as we see ground fog in still, moist
air after warm day in autumn. The or
ganisms were given Off while the surface oi
the ground was warm, and they accumulate
o little above it as radiation carries off the
heat and cools the lowest stratum of air.
About sunset the earth is still warm and
exhales moisture into the air above it, and
with the earth vapor organisms are largely
given off. The human body is that time
most susceptible to their action, because
the rapid cooling of the skin drives thu
blood to the inner surface of the throat
and those congested inner surfaces favol
the incubation 10y germs drawn in will
the breath. Later in the night the organ
isms have largely sunk by their owl
weight and that of deposited dew, and
moreover, the cooled body is not SO mucl
| open to the attack of germs remaining il
| the air,-Chicago News-Record
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
"DoVe'S Whist.

A 'dove" whist class is one of the winters
occupations for 16 young women of this
city. They meet once week from IL to .,
and a simple luncheon breaks the absorb
ing games promptly at 1 o'clock. By 3
o'clock they have separated, leaving time
for any afternoon engagement 1--WE are
tired" said one Of the members, "of being
politely snubbed by men when game of
whist is suggested. You know how they
will refer to ladies' whist, and we propose
to become thoroughly posted in the game.
We have the best authorities and play the
most modern and approved game. A little
box stands on every one of the four tables,
into which a penny is dropped for every
word uttered during the playing of u
hand, and the offense of asking what is
trump can only be condoned by the pay
ment of dime.
"These are our only regulations. After
Easter we expect to give a whist party,
each member inviting one man, who must
be good whist player tob be eligible, to test
the skill we expect to have acquired by
that time"-Her Point of View in New
York Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Wonring Moilrninr.

Despite all protests to the contrary,
mourning will be worn as long as the world
lasts, for it is the only outward evidence OF
grief one is permitted to made, as well as
being shield from the untimely gayety
for such garb, could not be expected to
know that his mirth grated on the feelings
of chance acquaintance.
Mourning is the most expensive apparel,
yet the poorest families, though unable to
afford it, stint themselves in other ways in
order to show to the world the respect they
had for the dead and the sorrow they expe-
rience in their loss. The etiquette OF
mourning is entirely apart from any senti-
ment in the matter, for ones own feelings
rather than Il social circle should govern
the length of time the sable robes should
be worn. Widows wear deep mourning,
consisting of wooden stuffs and Grape, for
two years. Children wear the same for
parents one year, and then tighten it with
trimmings of silk. Complimentary mourn
ing is black silk without Grape. Second
mourning, which follows the allotted pc
riod of deep mourning, is of course grays,
black and white, all white and heliotrope
In France mourning is governed abso-
lutely by the nearness Of the relative, but
in America, with the depth Of hue optional
with ourselves, things sometimes become
complicated through the assumption of the
very deepest mourning for distant relatives
or connections by law, leaving no deeper
expression when APPARENT, ahusband or wife
or child dies.
For one year no formal visiting is done
nor is there any gayety in the house
Friends should call on bereaved family
within month. not expecting, of course, tc
see them. Notes expressive of sympathy
are most grateful to those afflicted, as they
call for no recognition, yet tell of kindly
thought. t.--Philadelph Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Electric Cats In Philadelphia,

The trolley line along Bainbridge and
Catharine streets is responsible for new
race of cats, which is being reared in the
neighborhood through which the electric
line passes They are large, fat and frisky
and can only be compared to other cats as u
full grown Newfoundland dog can be COM
pared to waddling pup.
This great physical vigor and wonderful
development is due to course Of electric
treatment to (which they subject themselves.
Every night when the travel along those
streets has subsided the cats can be seen
coming out for their treatment. There is
just enough electricity in the rails to answer
their purpose, and first they lick the rails
fondly. Then they roll on the rails and wal
low in the electrical fluid and act in every
Ir;,2y as Il they were under the influence of a
cAtnip dissipation. After few minutes OF
this they get up and dance around like pul-
pets on string. These exhibitions are OF
nightly occurrence, and the windows of the
thoroughfares are crowded with eager spec
tators.-Exchange
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Paper, Pens and Ink,

Paper, as we learn from recent discov-
cries, was in use in Egypt as far back as
2S00 B. c., and not merely, as old Pliny
thought, from the time of Alexander the
Great The ancients, it appears, knew
more about pens and inks than they
usually have credit for. The Greeks
made silver and other metallic pens, and
Latin manuscripts show great variety
of inks-red, purple, green, blue, silver
and gold. The great Floreffe Bible in
the British museum shows the skill of
the penman in the Twelfth century in
the use of this mode of decoration, and
in somewhat later times it was 10 un-
usual thing for scribes to annotate their
texts in colored inks-red, green, VIC
let, blue-using each color for distinct
class of notes, historical, biographical,
geographical, etc. Scientific works are
often made exceedingly attractive by
colored diagrams, chronologies by archi-
tectural arcades and ornamental paneIs.
Academy.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
A Wornan's Wells.

"There is nothing" said an authority
lately, mo small belonging of the toilet
that is, upon which the fashionable woman
spends more thought than upon her wells
She has them for every costume and every
occasion, almost for every mood. They
come for every complexion, and there is @
distinct code of selection for them. SharT
faced women must wear round meshed wells
and, oppositely, the plump women with
the moon shaped countenances must elon
gate them with veil Of oblong mesh. The
swell milliners are more exclusive about
their wells than about their bonnets, and
their preferred customers are treated to spe
cial caprices in these airy nothings that ART
carefully kept from the crowd
''As to the prices, they are neither airy
nor trifing. A fashionable woman has 6
small fortune tied up in her veil sachets
and the careless girl who stuffs her vel
into ball and pokes it in her coat pocket
often tucks away the better part of S. bill
that, too, if it is only plain little fact
scarf. There are plenty of elaborate veil'
that take considerably more than one S. bill
to get."-Her Point Of View in New Yorl
Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
RULES FOR HEALTH.
Avoid Alcoholic Drinks, For to the Total
Abstainer Belongs the Future.

Avoid Alcoholic Drinks, For to the Total
Abstainer Belongs the Future.
Every one who desires to secure and
to strengthen healthy brain must first
not only labor physically, but mentally;
must really labor, and that daily, and
not too little. Four hours of work day
for healthy being is altogether too lit
tie. Let any one spend his time in en-
joyment and idleness, and enjoyment
soon ceases to be enjoyment. He will
accumulate artificial wants in ever in
creasing numbers until they burden his
life. He will become more and more
dependent and morose. His mental hori-
zon will grow narrower continually and
more rigid. The plastic brain of youth
that is, its docility and adaptability-
will become less and less active and ca
pable of comprehending and celebrating
new thoughts.
On the other hand, mental labor pre-
serves the Elasticity of the brain to a
much more advanced age. Idlers, there
fore, in spite of the best brain capacity,
become prematurely old mentally, mar
row hearted, limited in horizon and not
seldom absolutely stupid. We often OBJ
serve moderately gifted students becom-
ing, by means of work, men of power,
and highly gifted young men, by means
Of idleness, gradually grow useless, pee
wish, and now and then narrow minded
philistines.
Second-One must not overwork. The
workday must not be prolonged into
night. One ought not to continue to la
Dor with an exhausted, harassed mind.
Third-Itis is necessary to take sufficient
nourishment, but one must not overeat
must partake of farinaceous food, the
fats and albumen in proper proportions,
Fourth-Eght hours of sleep are 8
necessity, and, above all, one must moi
retire too late. There must be no ex'
cesses of any kind.
Fifth--All alcoholic drinks as well as
all artificial producers Of sleep and nerve
stimulants must be absolutely avoided
as matter of principle. Resolutely and
bravely turn the back upon all places Of
tippling and seek the society of tota
abstainers, for to them belongs the fu
ture.
Those people who wholly abstain from
alcohol and the other things mentioned
are more capable of work, healthier
happier and live longer. Poverty and so
cial enslavement are also the daughters
of alcohol and the mothers of nervous
ness and of brain stupefaction. Profess
or Forel in Union Signal.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
4 Curions Kind of Snake.

An inveterate enemy of the snakes is
their congener, the iguana, or great tree
lizard, of which Mr.. Hudson tells q
comical story related to him by
Guacho friend, who was riding care
lessly along, letting one end of his lasso
trail behind:
"He noticed large iguana lying ap-
parently asleep in the sun, and though
he rode by it very closely it did not stir;
but no sooner had he passed it than it
raised its head and fixed its attention on
the forty feet of lasso trailing slowly by.
Suddenly it dashed after the rope and
dealt it succession of violent blows
with its tail. When the whole of the
lasso, several yards of which had been
pounded in vain, had been dragged by,
the lizard, with uplifted head, continued
gazing after it with the greatest as
tonishment. Never had such a wonder
full snake crossed its path beforeF-
Edinburgh Review.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
A New id;. In Ap.rtm.n. Houses.

With practically all the necessities and
Injuries Of life within an elevator ride Of
cne's parlor, the structure planned by
Architect Willis G. Hale will be town
under n single roof. Mr.. Hale's completed
plan shows great house Of 1000 rooms
Whether the edifice will be 10 or "A stories
high depends upon which site Is finally Sc
lected.
The entire first floor of the building viii
be given up to stores and offices, all OF
which will open upon a rotunda, or arcade,
which will be thoroughfare or general
meeting place. ALI manner of public con-
veniences, such as a large and well APP
pointed cafe, spacious reading rooms, con-
sultation booths and parlors, will be pro-
vided. Besides there will be telephone and
telegraph Office, newsstand, a stenographer,
stock ticker, bulletin boards and writing
desks at convenient points. In the basement
a rathskeller will be fitted up, along with n
complete Turkish bath, gymnasium, swim
ming pool, barber shop, bowling alley and
shuffieboard outfit, the remaining space be
ing given up to the engines, boilers, dy-
namos, coal bins and storerooms.
The second floor will be given up entirely
to billiard hall, large assembly room for
meetings, banquets and other entertain
ments, public and private parlors and sim
gle rooms.
All the floors above the second, except
the topmost, will be divided into suites of
from two to seven rooms, which will rent
for sums ranging from $50 to $50 per month
Some of these suites will include kitchen
and bath, others will have bath, but no
kitchen, while still others will have kitcll
en- without bath, the idea being that those
who desire it can do their own cooking and
those without baths can patronize the pub
lie baths in the building On the top floor
the main dining room, kitchen and laundry
will be located, all being reached by the
four elevators opening upon the rotunda.
Heat and light will be furnished those who
desire it, but &s extras. % that the tenart
can regulate his expenses to s1ia himself III
this as well as other particulars
The stores on the first floor will be rented
only to merchants who will agree to SUP
ply such goods as the tenants would W
likely to require, and no two stores will be
rented to persons in the same line of bust
ness.-Philadelphia Record.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-23
Ferns for the House.

This class of plants is little used in the
window garden, but there are some va
rieties of several species that may be so
grown quite satisfactorily. In the matter
of propagation it is usually best to allow
the florist to attend to that, as the modes
differ according to the species. A pleas
ing addition to winter window garden
is hanging basket filled with ferns,
whose graceful habit of growth with
their long, pendulous fronds are seen to
much better advantage than in any other
way. Country Gentleman say that some
of the fast growing lycopodiums (selagi-
nellas) are useful to use between the
ferns, as they will cover the soil and
hang over the sides. These are delicate
plants of creeping or erect habit, finely
cut foliage, which delight in. warm,
moist, partly shaded situations, thus be.
ing just the class of plants to use in con.
nection with ferns.
OF the latter for this purpose the
maidenhair section furnish Adiantum
pedatum, A. cuneatum and A. formo'
sum. Asplenium belangeri, with its ele.
CANT featherlike fronds, and longissi
mum, Davallia dissecta and pallida, and
the sword fern (Nephrolepsis exaltata
are also valuable. For either climbing
or dropping fern the climbing fern
Nygodium scandens) from Japan, where
it often atGains height of fifty feet, if
unequaled in beauty. Treated like other
ferns, it is of easy culture, forms hand
some specimen, either climbing or droop
ing, the foliage being finely cut and at
| tractive.