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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
HOW 10 SLEEP souNDLY.

Put Pillows Under the Feet instead OF
Under the Head-An Important Discov-
cry Mado by u German Seicrtist-Woni-
en- Like tho Professors schcIno and Say
IL Works Very Well.
A most important discovery has re-
Gently been made by a German profess
sor that win materially improve the
physical and mental strength OF all
who follow its lesson, If the discovery
is really genuine, as the professor
claims it TO be.
Superstition or legend or the custom
of years has had an influence upon us
while we slept that has been almost as
great as the like influences while we
are awake. 1t has been vaguely UNI
derstood that If we sleep with our head
to the north it is much better than
pointing in any other direction can
possibly be, while lying upon our left
side is certain Indication we are free
from heart disease, and lying upon
our back is quite as certain sign that
we are intending to snore.
Added to these, the idea has pos
sessed us that our head must be higher
than our feet, entirely overlooking tho
fact that the typical American, ever
healthy, vigorous and good looking, is
invariably represented in foreign pa
pers as sitting in a very low chair
with his feet on the convenient man
telpiece some yards, apparently, above
him.
But Prof. Fischer has changed all
that. He has demonstrated by Il series
of painstaling and careful expert
ments that we should sleep with the
feet slightly elevated, or the head
trife lower than the feet, as he puts 1t,
and this condition he advises bringing
about by placing pillows under the feet
and none under the head.
The advantages claimed by Prof.
Fischer resulting from this manner of
living are that the intellectual repose
is much more profound than obtained
by the present prevailing method; also
that amelioration of the nervous syS-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
Sews On Buttons for n Living,

Among odd ways of making q living,
new one is followed by man who
says he does fairly well. He goes from
Office to Office all over the city and does
nothing but sew on buttons for men
of all kinds, bachelors and boys and
married men, too. It's a nickel but
ton, and he generally furnishes the
button, though in most cases he says
the men have the buttons with them.
AS he enters an office his usual saluta.
ton is: Buttons, buttons, any buttons
off, and on either coat, vest or trousers
every man is pretty sure to find but
ton off or nearly ready to come off.
The genius carries his pockets full Of
buttons of every kind and class, and he
seldom fails to match. His waxed
threads, needles and scissors are ready
at hand, and a man need not miss five
minutes from his duties to be nicely
repaired as far as buttons are con.
cerned. The shrewd button sewer is
not very communicative, but it's bad
day when he fails to sew on twenty
buttons. In one office, at least, where
six or eight are employed, he was seen
to gather forty cents in half hour.
And a girl paid him ten cents of that
amount II he would stitch two loose
buttons on her jacket and ms ke them
6rm."-Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
A DETERMINED MAN.
He Was Highly Indignant About Editorial
statistics.

ne was Iighly Indignant About Editorial
Statistics,
A determined looking man came
striding into the editorial-room. He
held bit of paper between the thumb
and first finger of his right hand al
am looking for the man who takes
care of the statistics, he said sternly.
The figure manipulation was ut his
desk, and the determined-loo man
was escorted thither by the Office boy.
The man took long look at the bit OF
paper he held in his hand and then
asked: what is the population of the
city of Buffalo,
The statistician told him that ii was
something in the neighborhood of $685..
600
"Huh" grunted the visitor, expires.
sively Then he took another look at
the bit of paper and asked: Are the
officers of the Buffalo Street Railway
Co. reliable men?"
THAT is their reputation" answered
the man at the desk.
''lf they put out figures them figures
is likely to be all straight and right?"
Certainly"
This seemed to be the determined.
looking mans cue. lie danced around
the room for awhile, uttering strange
sounds, and then he shouted: "You
fellows that makes figures is all pas
sci of fools"
"How SOP" asked the statistician,
mildly.
"How SOP" Why, because you are
You say the population of Buffalo is a
measly $4,000. | kin prove that the
population of Buffalo is way up in the
millions. You folks is always talkin'
about boomin' the town an all that,
an when you git chanst you jist lay
right down like a lot of chickens with
the pip an let fggers what some other
man made go for right with you"
What dc. you mcan?"
81 mean that have here in my hand
the report of the street railway. 1t
says they carried 40, 1851 people last
year, an | want to know If that there
don't prove that the population of Buff
falo is 40, ,5l1? That what it does,
and you chumps sit aroun and say it's
only 1926, 900"
"But, my dear sir" started the
statistician, you are laboring un.
der -"
81 amt laborin' under nothin' of the
sort" broke in the dctermined-loollin
man. 81 got the figgers here an kin
prove what | say"
"But," began tn. statistician again.
The notwithstanding man would
not let him continue, Don't but
me-" he shouted. Its as plain as the
nose on your face. If the folks
wasn't here the street railway couldn't
carry them, could it? That's the pop
ulation of this town, and don't you
of them villages is in it. Three hum
dred and twenty-five thousand! You
make me tired. Forty millions is the
correct fgger, an you want to get u
move on an let the people know about
it. We are Twin in the metropolis of
the world. l got the figgers to show
for it an I'm the only one that's onto
it. Tell the people about it, an, when
it comes time, | hain't got no objec-
tions to their buildin' a monument
for Inc for maxim the great news
known"
And while the statistician was catch.
ing his breath the determined-locking
man borrowed few old papers and
disappeared,-Buffalo Express.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
Pretty Drape for an Easel.

One and half yards lemon-colored
silk; balls turquoise blue crochet
silk; 1875 brass rings; I'll all the rings
with double crochet, closely and FIRM
ly, then with needle and silk crossbar
the center of each ring When all the
brass rings are filed form into wheels,
seven rings to wheel, one in the CEN
ter and six surrounding. Basic on the
China silk, hemstitched on opposite
ends and both sides Use the rawlings
to hemstitch with When the wheels
have been neatly hemmed on the silk
at one end, with pair of scissors cut
out all the silk running upon the point
Just as the wheels run. This will give
the wheel part an openwork look Tie
on every ring at bottom heavy tassel
of the crochet silk.-Ida Burhhardt, in
Ohio Farmer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
Female Clerks In Drug stores.

Why don't more druggists employ
one woman clerk at least? One meets
women behind the counter of most
tradcsmen, but they arc seldom seen
here, where they would often be most
peculiarly welcome. This has nothing
to do with their studying and qualify
Ing themselves as chemists, and with
their doing up doctors prescriptions.
It only means their waiting on the
many women who go into drugstore,
and hardly care to inform the waiting
man of their illnesses and their needed
remedies. If women ever want to be
tended by their own sex it is in drug
store.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
QUEER PLANTS USED AS FOOD.
Littlo-known Vegetables and Edible In
sects Found In Prairie So ctions.


sects Found In Prairie So ctions.
At the department of agriculture In
Washington. hidden away in an obscure
corner, is an odd sort of exhibit OF
queer foods eaten by out of-the-way
people. There is u loaf of bread made
from the roasted leaves of plant al
lied to the century plant. Another
kind of bread is flom dough- of juni-
per berries. These are rclished by
some tribes of Indians, while others
manufacture cakes out of different
kinds of bulbs. The prairie Indians
relish n dish of wild turnips, which
civilized people would not be likely
to enjoy at all. In the great American
desert the 'screw BEANS" which
grow on mesquite bushes, are utilized
for food, Soap berries furnish an
agreeable diet for some savages in this
country, while in California the cop
per-colored aborigines do not disdain
the seeds of salt grass. Also in Cali.
fornia the Digger Indians collect pine
nuts, which are the seeds of certain
species of pine-sometimes called pin
ions"-by kindling fires against the
trees, thus causing the nuts to fall out
of the cones. At the same time
sweet gum cXudes from the bark, serv-
ing the purpose of sugar. The seeds
gourds are consumed in the shape OF
mush by the Indians of Arizona.
In addition to all these things, the
exhibit referred to includes jar OF
pulverized criclIets, which are eaten in
that form by the Indians of Oregon.
They are roasted, as are likewise grass
hoppers and even slugs These delica-
cies are cooked in pit, being arranged
in alternate layers with hot stones.
After being thus prepared, they
are dried and ground to powder They
are mixed with pounded acorns or Der.
ries. the flour made in this way being
kneaded into cakes and dried in the
sun. The Assiniboines used kind OF
seed to stop bleeding at the nose.
Among other curious things used for
food are acorns, sunflower-seeds, grape
seeds, flowers of cat tails, moss from
the spruce fir-tree and the blossoms of
wild clover. The exhibit embraces a
number of models representing grape
seeds enormously enlarged. 1t is ac-
tually possible to tell the species of a
grape by the shape of the seed. There
is a jar of red willow bark, which In
dams mix with tobacco for the sake of
economy. This, however, is only one
of thousand plants that are utilized
in similar fashion. Washington Star
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
WOMAN AND HOME.
LucKLEss BABIES.
A Strange Phase of Life In New York and
Other Largo cities.

A Strange Phase of Life In New York and
other Largo cities.
II used to be thought that mothers
tenderness was something no power
could efface, but when one examines
the condition of the suffering INDECENT,
and especially of those who owe it in
some degree to themselves that they
are in want, one is led to modify such
opinion. Almost all of the mothers
among these people who come under
condemnation, however, are they that
have degraded themselves by the use
of intoxicants. The mother has to be-
come lower than beast before she
can abuse her baby. But when the
records of societies for the aid of chill
dren show that children in arms have
been whipped with thongs and straps,
have been thrown as missiles from one
Infatuated parent to another, have
been scared with hot irons by mad and
drunken fathers and mothers, have
even met with worse cruelty, too
shocking for recital in our sensitive
ears, one sees how possible 1t Is for
man and woman to fall into condi-
ton even lower than that of the
brutes.
That mother can desert her new
born baby, leaving it to the mercy of
the race, or even do so knowing that
speedy death is the best thing that can
10, 80 oil ox Inn
when a child is found creeping in the
garbage of tenement house yard, it
seems as if the child had been in the
mothers arms long enough for love to
have grown so that such dcsertion
would be impossible. 1t is quite as diff
fcult to understand the condition of q
mother who Graves strong drink to such
an extent that she sells wardrobe and
bedclothes and furniture to buy it
while her children starve, or splits
chair and table for lsindling-wood
rather than spend for that the money
that goes for drink; or even that Of the
more kindly-disposcd woman who dulls
cold and hunger for her children by
giving them the poison too. The cat
loves her kittens better than that; she
does not cast them off till they can dc
for themselves; the wild bear of the
woods who dies for her cubs at need is
the noblcr animal.
1t should move the heart Of every
mother who has been kept from temp
tGtion herself, and whose rosy darling'
are shielded by warm tenderness, tC
think of these wretched little beings
who would be too amazed, if brough
into such happiness as theirs, to know
what 1t meant. 1t should seem b
these fortunate mothers that it is no
enough to do their duty within thei
own four walls; that part of thci
duty lies beyond, where these littl
creatures are to be found in thei
squalor and distress; and that asid
from the obligation to the neighbo
thus involved is the further obligation
to their own children of preventing, a
far as may be, such ruin.-Ilarper'
| Bazaar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
The English Peerage.

Few Of the members of the British
house of lords can claim descent or
even distant relationship with the
barons of King Johns time, who ex.
torted from him the Magma Charta. OF
the 53S temporal peers, no less than $50
have been created since the beginning
of the present century, and 1876 during
the last century, leaving only sixty
two whose titles were conferred prior
to the year 100, OF the entire num-
Der only five can go back as far
as the thirteenth century. -Philadel-
phia Press,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
PlTH AND POINT.

Has Burns given up smolSingP' II
can't tell" "Why not?" Hes dead."-
Inter-0cean.
The fool and the drum never speak
without declaring their emptiness
Rams Horn.
-Barbarous. -Brine-"Jones got in
to scrape last night" Fresh-"S
that so? How?" Brinc-"S Stopped in a
barber shop, Detroit Free Press.
"A telephone girl receives calls, but
she doesn't pay them. This part of the
business is attended by those hiring
the instrument Philadelphia Times.
-Brace-"T wish you would let me
have five dollars for week" Bagley
Certainly, old man; take the five
dollars you owe me and keep it for an
other week. IN. Y. Herald.
There are several young men in
the car" remarked Mrs. Holdstrap,
with some feeling, but they can hard.
ly be classed amongst the rising gen.
Grafton. boston Transcript.
-Palette-"Have you seen Dauber's
new picture? He calls it THE Happy
Planter After the War;" Sincere
"Ah, represents man in the act of
burying his wife's mother, suppose. I"
-Pick-Me-Up.
In the Tunnel. Simon Weatherby
ION his first trip away from Spunk-
vile, to fellow passenger) - Say,
mister, rs never in kentry whar
night come on ez sudden ez it do hyur. {"
-liarper's Weekly.
Ambitious Young PERSONAL---VERY.,
do you think is the first step that one
should take in order to become poet?"
Experienced Editor (thoughtfully)-
"Well, should say, take out a life-in.
surance policy. "-Somerville Journal.
Its all very well for the minister
80 preach from the text: Remember
Lots Wife" said an overworxed, dis.
couraged matron, "but wish he would
now give us an encouraging sermon
upon the wifes lot. "-Yonlers States
man.
NO." sobbed the pretty girl, liar
old and never speak now And it is
all through the Vaccinations of that
deceitful Sallie Slimmins." "Why,
what did she do?" "She persuaded us
to join the same church choir. Wash
ington Star.
Omnibus stops; smiling young lady
enters; every seat full; an old gentle
man rises at the other end: "Oh, don't
rise!" says the lovely girl; 81 can just
as we'll stand" "You can do just as
you please about that, MISS" says the
old man; but am going to get out"
WHATS the matter with you?" said
one street vender to another. What
makes you keep walking around and
around yer wagon that way?' "Greata
scheme; greata scheme. Policeman say
must keep movin'. l walka all de
time Policeman no can arrest. Greata
scheme. Washington Star
Miss Limited-"Oh, conductor! !
am nearly seasick! Do your cars al.
ways sway and jounce and swing
around like this?" Conductor-"Well,
this is pretty crooked road, but you
won't mind it when you get used to
it." Miss Limited (faintly)-."You
mean when | get onto its curves. ~
Brooklyn Life.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
OUR BOYS.

When our boys wore hnicl,orhoolrers
And We girls woro pinafores,
iremembcr how VIC fancled
theyd unlocked oil wisdoms stores.
'non, 100 they had met and conquered
hait Tho big boys In their crowd
"nere were boys so bravo and Brilliant
Wo had rea05n to DO proud
Anu VIC gave t1om the devotion,
Bllnd, abundant without end,
winch small girl gives her brother,
And-her brothers "big boy" friend.
Later when they went to college,
And returned In uniform,
we all thought that naught so splendid
Fer was seen in human form.
When they told their college stories,
When they sang their college glees,
where, We thought, was ever music,
Where were voices like to these9
But we did not say SO freely,
AS In childish days of yore;
Yet think perhaps the ladies
Sought our good opinion more.
An, those happy days arc overt
We, young men and women grown
Yet We hold with faith unfalling
There is no crowd like our own
Time has brought us separation,
But, when spirits loving arc,
Hearts are very near together,
Be our bodies near or far.
AS OF old. VIC stu share fully
In their sorrows or their Joys,
And this prayer Is often offered:
1.-The All'Father bless our boysl"
-Woman's journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
Health and Beauty.

Health, its understanding and pres
ervation, is fad just now. Lectures
on the subject in any of its branches
are eagerly patronized by society lead
ers. Probably this is because beauty
of face and form were never mere con-
sidered than at present, and our wom-
en- are beginning to find that there is
no real beauty without sound health;
this is one ostensible reason for the
craze. Another is that women do
more, achieve more than ever before,
and consequently they care more to
hear how they may keep themselves
in proper condition for work. A we'll
trained mind is not the first thought,
although it is an important one; it is
the well-trained mind in well-trained
bOdV
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03

Duties of the Sergeant-at-Arms dn tho
House of Representatives.

Duties of the Sergeant-at-Arms dn tho
House of Representatives.
"The sergeant-at-arms will please
see that order is restored;" or, "the
sergeant-at. arms will see that the gen.
tlemen take their seats" are familiar
sentences to everyone who attends the
sessions of the house of representa-
tives.
1t would take man with gray hair
to remember when q sergeant-at-arms
has actually had to take derelict con-
congressman by the coat collar and
shove him down into his pivot chair or
to slap his hand over his mouth to keep
him from talking, yet from time imme-
mortal that august official of the gov
ernment has been called on almost
daily to perform the act, especially
when an exciting question is occupy
ing the attention of the house. Now,
Ike Hill, as an occupant of the chair of
peacemalSer of the house of representa-
tives, makes q model officer. He is the
best-natured man In the world and will
go to the end of the earth to accommo-
date friend. But he can look alarm
ingly stern, as many members we'll
know. When the speaker gives the
signal for action, Ike gets up and fixes
his eagle eye on the member violating
rules. He advances with deliberate
tread in the direction of the derelict.
The stcrnness on his face increases as
he sees no restoration of order. He
gets nearer and nearer to the offender,
who then takes his seat and looks like
the bad boy of school when trying to
look innocent after getting caught in
some mischief by his teacher. That's
the way it happens every time. In the
interest of variety it is to be hoped
that some day the member will refuse
to "shut up" and that Ike, in the loyal
performance of his duties, will have to
"put him up."-Washington News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
A Drawing-Room Hammock.

A tassaled hammock hung diagonal
ly across a small drawing-room is af-
fected by some who strive under
uniqueness rather than elegance.
Piled with bright sofa cushions it lends
Il decided air of oriental luxury. The
cozy appearance is further heightened
in one apartment by a collection of
musical instruments in one corner of
the room and a single shelf of books
running about the four walls as a
heading to the dado-Chicago TNb'
unn
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
THE BORROWING HABIT.


BAD Iractlce.
He that goes a-borrowing," said
wise old DR.. Franklin a hundred years
or more ago, "goes a-sorrowing," and
the eminent, old-fashioned sage's
words are true even to this day. 1t is
such "a little thing, cup of -four, and
one would hardly miss it; but the
principle of getting something for
nothing in the name of neighborliness
is the same as if it were a loaf of bread,
and if a loaf of bread, why not next
barrel of flour? The unintended i'm
position soon begins to be felt by the
lender and then comes a sense of the
meanness of it all, and we begin to
make remarks to ourselves about our
borrowing neighbors.
The lender is very much at fault. 1t
is not pleasant, perhaps, when Mrs.
Smith sends over to borrow flatiron,
to send back word that you haven't
self. But to be known to be not
cheerful lender will save you both
'loan and friends" There is a certain
suggestion of whole-souled, generous
hospitality in being always ready to
share with a neighbor that is crafty
ing to the pride of some persons and
that makes them feel the smallness of
refusing any request; but that is mis-
guided Judgment, for to make borrow
ing easy is to encourage shiftlessness
onI +hat &c hoI nc 10 hoprou,
If | am earnest in denounoing this
evil it is because | have so often wit.
messed its unhappy effects in the
estrangemcnt of friends who presently
come to differences that end in Quar-.
rels. 1t would seem to be the plain
dictate of common sense toprovide one
self with what may be necessary or to
go without. Ones resources NAV al.
most always be able to provide for any
emergency withoutrec to neigh.
boris larder. Better, indeed is dinner
of herbs where love is than a stalled OK
and hatred Herewith.
There are two other forms of bor-
rowing that might be limited at as
equally unwisc. Borrowed plumage is
never becoming, is always ignoble. 1t
involves mean and unworthy prctcn-
sion that, in its way, is as dishonest as
pilfering, to use a harsh synonym for
borrowing, and borrowing trouble is
one of the commonest of small faults
which neither "blesses him that gives
nor him that takes" 1t is not somuch
a vice as a weakness, perhaps, but ii
curdles the milk of human kindness
Harriet f. Robinson, in Chautauquan.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-03
HELPFUL CHARITY.
Not Always the Kind Dispensed Through
Public Organizations.

Public Organizations.
During this almost universal fnan-
cial and business depression the OPP
portunity to assist the worthy poor
presents itself on every hand. There
is, however, class Of people who
habitually depend upon the rich for
their living when perfectly able to
labor for their bread and the I'M
fortunate part of it is that we are not
able TO discriminate between the
classes when the necessity of imme-
diate action is necessary. There are
worthy people who suffer in silence
rather than make their wants known,
in fact, who never complain. To be
really charitable in the true sense of
the word it is absolutely necessary to
discriminate, Great evil is per-
petrated by giving to the lazy
and indolent. The mere fact
of giving so much money
away to this or that organization is
not true charity. True charity is the
careful provision for the wants of the
suffering, and good way to dispense
it is by your own hand; but is that is
not convenient, by the hand of or
ganized charity. Years ago people
dreaded going to hospitals; now the
very highest in wealth and social
position patronize these institu-
tons, for the aggregation of expert
ence and the possession of every
surgical appliance makes cure almost
certain. For the same reason organized
charity gets just the right comforts
and necessities to fit the case, has
everything on hand, and does not com
NIT the folly of the kind-hearted
though thoughtless man who sent a
turkey to starving family when they
had no fire to cook it.-Detroit Free
| Press.