Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-07

WHAT NOT TO DO. Don't uss hyperbole. Don't be an egotist. Don't interrupt. Don't jump at conclusions. Don't use slapg. Don't gos sip. Don't be curious. Don't be ungram matical. Don't use stipging sarcasm. Don't talk thoughtlessly."
 The Western Christian Advocate la com menting upon this says: eve hope the professor will now take the young gentle men aside and deliver to them the same lecture-and rub 1t in."
 Evidently, these maxtms might be rubbed into most people with excellent re. suits One more might be added. Don't use stale, spent words and expressions of which every one Is weary who is at all
 sensitive ss to refinement of speech. Hard | ly to be classed as "slane" are certain phrases, usually imported, readily adopted | even in good "society" and speedily dis l carded by the best of society as their in-
 elegance sss becomes apparent rent: S But they ness, if they ever had any, has died out, and their continual iteration be- l comes wearisome and even nausesting. It argues mental poverty and @ limited vocs-
 bulary when one cannot speak or write
 without using over and over the same old spent and lifeless expressions. DoN'T-UsE WORN OUT PHRASES
 Do-9et new words into your vocabul-
 aries, and choose them as you would
 choose picture, book or friend, for
 their beauty, and helpfulness and real
 worth.
 THE GINGERBREAD BAROMETER. | Ginger snaps and ginger cookies, ai
 every one knows, are very sensitive te
 changes of the weather. In dry weather
 they are hard, and either brittle or tough
 but on damp or rainy day they lose al
 their stiffness, growing limp and fsbby
 Thus ginger snap, unprotected from ct mospherie influences, becomes all excel lent barometer, fortelling weather chaDge with more accuracy than "Old Probahili , | ties" himself.
 A clever Frenchman, who has origins ideas on many subjects, annually provide himself with 8 gingerbread barometer selecting figure euch as-may bs fount
 about Christmas time in the German bak
 shops in this country, when odd. .lookip,
 plants, all profusely decorated witl ? | blotches of pink and white icing, are sup posed to offer irresistible temptations t D youthful purchasers.
 f The Frenchman buys gingerbread ma |, in military attire, takes 1t home and su.
 ponds it from a nall by bit of string. l. Every morning before going out he. ask 8 his valet, "What does the general say
 and the man consults his novel baromete ;, by pressing 1t with his thumb Sometimes he replies, "Ths general g quite soft. He advises you to go prepare
 for vet weather" Or sgain, ''the geners
 Is very stiff this morning. He says 70 l. can wear your now hat with perfect safety. n The generals advice Is always followed and thus far, says his owner, he has neve proved unworthy of the confidence place D in his weather prognostications. }, Why invest in barometer, or even COT Ii suit the Weather Record and Forecast when . gingerbread man, from the yer
 be able at 8 pinch to inform you as
 the probabilities of storm or sunshin 'I This item is offered in the interest ( d science and of the pleasure loving who al e already planning all manner of out-dot ,f recreation for the coming spring and sun mer.
 st SLIGHTLY CONFUSED. In some Welsh towna, as travellers te '- us, the town crier is employed to make 6
 sorts of announcements = to adverti F. things lost or stolen, to warn the publ ia sgainst inposters. and the like. Som l. times these proclamstions are somewh h. involved in their construction as, for i '. stance, the following:
 e "Beware, beware of man with one ey 'o talking like preacher and wooden l st given to begging and stealing!" L. "Mislsid on Sunday lastI the gold Til n med Vicar's spectscles, of best glasp, talk
 from his eyes in going to the poor box, sa put down somewhere when goiug to t
 font to fetch the water for the christe .. ingl"
 THE RUSSIAN WAY. 70 It is even now time to put away the vi ne tsr fuIs. If we wish to forestall ssthe mt a- malevolent moth" in his destructive ( ~ eigns upon them.
 " Those who contemplate caring for tn ,e' own furs through the summer will do v to remember that turpentine is a poweyl