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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
A HOME FOR THE DYING.
Where the Desolate Old May End Thei
Days In Peace.


Days In Peace.
1t was q woman whose tender heart
first suggested the sweet charity = IS
tablishing a home III the dying, a
woman whose persol hty is hidden
under the veil of sister of charity
But the idea suggested by her was
executed by kind and magnanimous
women, and both London and Dublin
have such places, where the weary
wanderer nearing the end of life's
highroad may go and be cared for to
the last.
These homes are called "Hospices for
the Dying" and the pretty name i'm
plies resting place in the high Alps,
where travel weary folk NAV rest a
little before winding down their way
into the valleys where the shadows
dwell.
Within these houses of death from
two hundred to three hundred beds
have been provided for the occupants,
and the rooms are strangely bright and
light. The men are on the lower floor
of the hospital, the women upstairs
Each ward has its sitting room, and a
pagoda is provided for the men in the
garden, where they may go to smoke
Books and newspapers are strewn
about, novels lying by the side of BIZ
bles and preparation for death prayers.
In some of the beds there are patients
who are dying fast; some have already
passed into state of Inconsistencies
and the bed curtains are closely drawn.
The wards are open without pay to all
who have no place where they might
end life's struggle in peace and com
fort. There are also single rooms for
paying patients, delightful little hooks,
daintily appointed and sweetly com
Portable.
The mortuary chapel is pure sane
tuary of white marble, with roses
scenting the air and mingling with the
fragrance of the wax candles that are
lighted beside the marble slabs on
which the listless sleepers await bur
ial. What greater charity is there
than to provide a home for the dying
poor? A shelter away from the noisy
and noisome tenement, where the
weary foot-sore laborer, the tired,
broken woman may catch last glimpse
of life's sweetness under the rainbow
of promise that ere long tears shall be
no more.-N. Y. Advertiser.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
THE MANAGEMENT OF TIME.
How One Can Make the Most of His DAYS
and Hours


One would not become a martinez on
the management of time. To get
twenty-six hours of work out of the
twenty-four can never with advantage
be made the sole aim of living.
IL would make life a miserable tread
mill 70 live il entirely by clock-worlx,
with q duty for every minute. and with
every minute exacting relentlessly the
duty appointed, with no pauses of
leisure for cogitation or moments of
deliberate selection for present. needs,
with no pleasant dawdling TO recuper-
ate tired nerves. no seasons of quies-
cence in which we may behold that all
is very good and be glad we are alive.
We would not be without all these
They are as essential to the growth of
the soul as is the work which sancti-
fies and makes them possible. One is
the complement Of the other.
Yet certain amount of manage
ment of time is not only wise, but com
pulsory, IL one would accomplish much
in these days of complex living and
multitudinous social claims. If we
would not see our days frittered away
in succession of profitless employ
ments and aimless pleasure-seeking
we must make some definite decision
as to what we can do and what we can
not. Many employments and enjoy
ments are in the world; we can not
have them all at once, but must exer-
else patience.
Ii is best to make careful choice of
the occupations and diversions which
we can allow ourselves, and decide up
on some regular amount of time for
each. We do not place enough value
on a prudent management and orde rly
disposition of our time. 1t is really the
only way we get the most out of our
time, and the best out of life as well.
As TO cast-iron rules, which pin one
down to moments. and allow no breath
ing spells in passing from one pursuit
to another, they may be good for some
minds and temperaments, but they are
death to the best work of others. The
same holds with regard to keeping an
exact account of money. The disci-
pline is healthy for some minds; it is
deadening to others. II the right in
tention with regard to money is there,
the desire to eXpend every cent care
fully, it is not always necessary to put
down in black and white how every
cent is expended
So we may adopt a general plan with
our time, deciding about how much we
would do, and about how much time
we shall need to do il in. To adhere
carefully tn this plan, leaving ourselves
some liberty of action according to cir
cumstances, would seem to bring the
best results to the conscientious mind
-Harper's Bazaar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
HE WAITED ON THE OUTSIDE.
How the Tired. Patient Man Had His
Feelings Upset.

Feelings Upset.
In front of State street drv-goods
store one day recently. well-dressed
man patiently stood waiting for his
wife, who was only to be gone two
minutes Outside the store hung vari-
Gus articles, useful and oth,rwise-to a
casual observer they looked, most of
them, very otherwise. Theu red-faced
woman flew up from the basement and
grabbing the patient, tired man by the
arm said: II want that wan up there
the man in the basemiut seq ye'd get
it fer me, fer there amt no more down
there" and she pointed to shovel of
the small mon variety hanging near
the second-story window marked "six
cents"
Madam, / do not climb up to that
window excepting every other day; this
is the day do not climb. If you want
it very much you might climb up and
get it yourself
She turned a wrathful pair Of red
eyes upon him and said; "I'll be afther
reporting yez fer yer impotence" and
she departed into the beloved base
ment again in state of great excite
ment.
As she was leaving another customer,
overhearing the woman. thought the
stranger an emplove of the store. and
said: Say, mister, where do you keep
your pants?"
II keep EN- on my suspenders. Where
do you keep yours?" he snapped, and
glowered so on he man that he also de-
parted in haste.
Then the tired, waiting man. no long
er patient, turned and stood on the
outer edge of the sidewalk, at re-
spectful distance from the crowd.
When his wife came out Ire said:
Hereafter, madam, when | am imbe-
ellie enough to consent to GO shopping
with you | wait in the next block if
you have errands in this store. Chi
cago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
HE HAD ENOUGH.
The Captain Administered Discipline just
Suited to the Offe0se.

The Captain Administered Discipline just
Suited to the Offe0se.
Varied and characteristic were the
methods of discipline of Capt F., the
master of one of the most successful
whale-shiBs that ever sailed from
New England port An old sailor says
that when he vas what might be
termed "a greeny" he shipped with
Capt F. for a voyage to the Arctic
ocean After some months of cruising,
the salt grub" ran short, and the
crew were forced to eat the chickens
and roosters which were aboard the
ship The narrator says:
] didn't object to this kind of food,
but there was grumbling among the
men when we were served, day after
day, with fowl ] heard all the talk,
and was simple enough to think it
smart to crow Justify whenever the
steward was carrying in fowl to the
captains table. So delighted was |
with my efforts that / grew bold, and
one day / coclle-doodle-dooed just as
close to the captain as | dared. Then
/ got out of the way. After mess some
body came and told me that the cap
tain wanted to see me aft
We'll, joe" said the captain. Il hear
you are quite GROWER"
was embarrassed, but as the cap
tain looked pleasant, l didn't know any
thing better to do than to smile and
say nothing.
Il should like to hear what you can
do. Get up there" said the captain,
pointing to spar.
did not obey at once The captain
picked up ropes end that seemed to be
handy and | climbed up on the spar.
Now crow said the captain.
i couldn't make sound, but the
captain took a step nearer, and
crowed.
Keep it up till I give You the word
toquit."
began and crowed for ten minutes;
then got out of wind, my throat was
dry, and l paused.
II didn't tell you to stop" said the
captain.
Il can't do it any longer" said L
''Crov!' Numbered the captain.
And, then. with the captains eye
fixed on me. kept up my cockle-doodle-
dooing for another ten minutes.
"That'll do Get down"
got down.
Have you had growing enough?'
Eyes, sir. "
$50 have l. Go forward"
went forward and you may be sure
did no more growing that voyage
Youths Companion
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
USES OF PERFUMES.


In the early days of the world, when
man, with his usual unselfishness, was
prone to make burnt offering of his
brother, aromatic woods were smoked
to counterfeit the unpleasant odor of
burning flesh. Such was the origin of
perfumes, and their lavish use to-day
is too frequently suggestive of it. The
more of the primeval savage there
turks in man the more powerful the
contents of his scent bottle and the
more liberal his patronage of those
barber shops which torture the nos
trils by their generous use of bay rum
and cheap cologne. Why men. or wom-
en- either, should want to make walk
ing aniseed bags of themselves
is mystery explained only by the un-
pleasant fact that the same class of
people have hydrophobic dislike to
water in any form. There is no aroma
so exquisite as that of the clean, whole
some human body and pure breath
To disguise it by even the most delicate
of Partisan extracts is to cast slight
upon gift of nature 1t is encourage
ing to note, however, that the taste for
perfumes, as for art, is constantly
growing more refined and cultivated n
this country, and the more delicate and
subtle scents only are used for the bath
and linen sachet.
The man who dips his mustache in
white rose, sprinkles his handkerchief
with violets or dampens his hair with
the dread JOCKEY club, is extinct in good
society. Still, there is vast room for
improving the choice of the general
public in the matter of these won
drous compounds of the chemists skill,
which carry no possible suggestion of
the fragrance of the blossoms they are
named and labeled after. Who, at a
popular entertainment. has not been
half suffocated by the fumes of the
deadly patchouli, the impossible scent
of the new mown hay, and that favor
lite of the London flower girls, the
penetrating musk? And who has not
been nauseated at some of our best
theaters by cad of some sort, whose
presence permeated the atmosphere
with mixture of old rye and Frangi-
PAM? What, by the way, would be
botanist could he know of the base use
to which his name has been put?
Perhaps nothing has done more to
corrupt the delicate sense of smell than
the rage for pot-pourri, which sprang
up few years ago and ran amuck
through the country, as did the pea
cocks eyes and dragon candlesticks.
until the mere sight of a covered jar on
the mantelpiece made anyone who had
not cold in his head fairly shudder.
Happily, the most delicious of all per-
fumes can never be patented or photo
graphed, though they linger on the
brain for years. Not even the sunny
curls or the tinted miniature can recall
life's happisst moments like the cher
ished odor of ones favorite flower.
What can compare in voluptuous sweet
ness with the fresh rose she gave your
NV
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
EVERY MEAL a FEAST.
1t May Re Made Such bv Careful Atten
ton to LAYING the Table.

1t May BE Made Such bv Careful Atten-
tion to Laying the Table.
The house where the setting of the
table is left to the unslxilled wait
ers or the more unskilled child are not
the houses where every meal is a feast
and the chance ''dropper-in" feels him
self guest of honor. We're it always
remembered that the laying of the Ia
BILE has as much to do with the success
of home dinner as the broiling of the
steak there would be more care ex-
pended on this branch of domestic art.
A table cloth that is crumpled or
stained, ever so slightly, should not be
used for the simplest family meal any
more than for the gayest company din
ner. A little care ON the part of the
person who cleans off the table, in the
matter of folding the cloth in the same
creases in which il has been ironed,
will help to preserve its freshness.
The prompt removal of small spot
by immediate sponging and pressing
will also tend to lower the laundry
bill. The cloth should always be laid
perfectly straight, and it should never
be put on without the undercovering
ished ~ the last degree of brilliancy
for every meal. Even if plated ware is
used there is no excuse for dingy or
brassy spoons and forks. 1t can al
ways be replated at small expense.
A centerpiece is much in vogue, and
on this should stand the floral decora-
tions. For daily use there is nothing
better than a green plant potted in
low dish. Lypopodium is a feathery
green stuff which may be planted in
big. round pots, not higher than two
inches Simple flowers are always in
good taste, and when gardens and
fields cease to produce them in alum
dance the artistic housewife can achieve
very pretty results with red berries
from the autumn woods and small
branches of evergreen. Plants that
flourish indoor, geraniums. heliotrope
and the like, win generally furnish a
few blossoms, or at any rate some fra
grant green leaves for the table.
Candles are a dainty adjunct to the
dinner table, even for simple family
dinner. And NOWADAYS, when crimped
paper comes in all delicate shades and
at very reasonable prices. there is no
reason why candles should not shine
upon the family board as well as upon
more elaborate feasts.
The napkins should be fresh and
smoothly folded. They should never
be rolled into The grotesque shapes
dear to cheap boarding-houses.
The bonbon, olive or almond dishes
should be placed not far from the cen
ter of the table, on either side. At
small dinner two pepper-shakers, salt
cellars and mustard-pots are plenty.
The oil and vinegar eruets should al
ways be kept full. The salt in .sie cell
lars should be powder and not Jumps.
and should be evenly arranged. No
part of the table appointments should
ever suggest that it is the left over
of a previous meal. That is the real
secret of successfully-laid table.-N
Y. World.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
Firms AND RUSSIANS.
Lutheran Churches and No Saloons
the Unaffected FinIsnder.

Lutheran Churches and No Saloons for
the Unaffected FinIsnder.
The stations at which the steamer
halts consist of only q few wooden
houses, but the passengers who come
and go are well clothed and prosperous
looking, and often quite smartly clad.
Their politeness is admirable, and as
they part one peasant bows to another
with courtly grace. In this respect,
however, they are not superior 10 that
patient and good soul, the Russian
moujicll, whose simple and unaffected
politeness leaves nothing to be desired.
The same can not be said for his sobri-
ETY.. Here the Finlander stands
world apart The latter goes TO his
p ain, unadorned Lutheran church on
sundays in his best black coat, and out
wardly, at any rate, keeps his religion
for the Sabbath.
The Russian is forever bowling and
crossing himself before gilded pictures
of Our Lady and the saints, and is con-
tinually passing in and out of the ever
recurring Byzantine churches, the cup
olas of which rise from the vast plain
of his native land like mushrooms from
a marsh Whether this ne religion or
superstition / leave TO wiser heads to
decide; but it is beyond doubt the
greatest centripetal and concentric
force in Russia. The Russian again is
often in the liquor shop but the Finn
generally has no liquor shop to which
to go.
Within twelve hours after leaving
Lahtis the handsome wooden houses Of
Jvvaslxula and its two very tOlerab Die
stone churches crown a gentle emf
nence at the head of Lake Paianne.
One gentleman alone in this little town
speaks English; no one speaks Russian
The only hnguist, the captain of the
steamer, hospitable and kindly. ar
ranges for bed and board in a house of
spotless cleanliness, the linen OF which
would have done credit to Partisan
laundress. The beds at first sight are
rather puzzle. They are all of the
same size, shape, height and never
more than three feet long. Luckily at
nightfall, or rather at bed time flor
just now there is no night, they dis
cover capacity for being extended TO
double their original length.
The table at breakfast is spread with
anchovies. butter, bread, cheese,
bologna sausage, slices of cold beef.
radishes in and out of milk, collops of
salmon, and bottles of schnapps and
yodki This, with one hot dish to fol-
low, forms the usual breakfast, and
with the additions of soup and pud
ding, the ordinary dinner of Finland
The hotel has a telephone. -National
Keview
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
CARRYING a BUNDLE.
Girls. Don't Ask a Man to do 1t 10 Yo
Value His Friendship.

Girls. Don't Ask a Man to do 1t 10 You
Value His Friendship.
did you ever get a man to carry
valise or shawl strap or few bundles
for you?'' continued the girl in the new
jacket Its sure to be fatal to the
mans friendship for You. or if he's
relative he'll take it out in saying mean
things about you tn all your other
relatives for years afterward. ] got
ms cousin Harry to carry one of those
telescopes (which ar> simply big
square satchelsl for me the other day.
had come in from suburb and met
Harry just as l came out on the sta
ton.
HELLO. jess; how are your he in
quired sweetly. Then. seeing my big
valise. he exclaimed: Here. this will
never do. little girl Let me carry this
big telescope for you. It's no trouble
at all, and I'll only be too glad to do
it.
80 we started across Madison street,
Harry carrying the valise- II was
very heavy. He wouldn't hear a word
of protest. 81 just thought I'd let him
carry il till he discovered its weight.
tie looked very handsome-my big
cousin II was a very warm day. but
he had on new suit of heavy winter
clothes-very heavy. indeed. huge
yellow chrysanthemum adorned his
buttonhoie. As he trudged along he
got hotter and hotter. Little beads of
perspiration stood out on his manly
brow. The big. clumsy telescope. with
its square. sharp edges, was very awk-
ward TO carry. When Harry trans
ferred il Ia his left hand his coat would
rise up. carrying the lapel and its
ACKNOWLEDGMENT with IL, and the ragged
petals of the flower would tangle
themselves up in his mustache and
tickle his nose. He pulled like steam
engine. He changed the vslise from
one Ia nd to the other every -four yards
CT ground that he covered The street
was crowded with people Every little
while somebody would bump into Harry
and nearly knock him down
Finally Harry could stand it no
longer tie dropped the satchel and
hunted up a man to carry il for him for
fifty cents Since then my handsome
cousin has been cold and formal in his
treatment of me. and do Dot dare 70
mention a valise in his presence Chi
cago Record
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
A CO8RA'S NEST.
The Capture of Deadly Hamsdrysd's
Thirty-Two EGGS.


Rather more than year ago the
fact was mentioned in a Bombay paper
that a gentleman connected with the
Goa railway had shot a hamadryad on
its nest. This awkward mouthful of
a word is coming to be Familiarity
known as the name of the gaint cobra,
more common in Burma than in India,
which grows TO a length of fourteen
feet, is as fierce as it is strong, and
has the reputation of feeding prin-
cipallv on other snakes Little, in
deed. is known about the incubation
we might almost have said the alleged
iscubation-of snakes, and rare
", if ever, has a competent
observer had the good chance
to come upon serpent in the
very act of sitting, hen-like, on its eggs
Only the bare fact was published at the
time, and a fuller account can not fail
to be interesting.
The gentleman was Mr.. Massey, known
in his district as an ardent and sue
cessful shikari; and he was told by
coolie, in the matter-of-course sort OF
way usual with these fatalist philoso
IL
passable, as a cobra had erected gadi,
or throne, for itself there, and warned
off irrruders. Here was a golden OPP
portunity to settle the veXed question
of the aggressiveness of venomous
snakes viii cobra rush to the at
tack if il can get easily away? Euro
peans commonly say No: but natives
universally cite instances to the con
trary, some of them painfully fabu.
lOus. but others only wanting corrob-
Grafton to be believed. Now here in Brit
ish India, or at least in Portuguese In.
dia, was a giant of the tribe, known tc
all the villagers to have taken mp its
station by the roadside and to be ready
to glide down and rush like lightning
at man or beast who approached. Mr.
Massey followed the coolie TO the spot
and was shown the monster coiled uI
on the top of a huge pile of dry leaves.
Without more ado he shot it, and turn.
ing over the leaves. found at the bot.
rom thirty-twoe eggs rather smaller than
a hens, and covered each with tough
skin in place of shell. These were
sent to the secretary of the Bombay
Natural History society; but wanting
the heat generated by the close mas:
of decaying leaves, they did not hatch.
Sometimes more than one young one
escapes from a snakes egg; but atthe
lowest computation Mr.. Massey is to be
congratulated on Kidding his district Of
thirty-three deadly snakes Madras
Pioneer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-04
LARGE DOWERIES.
American Heiresses WHO Came Into Large
Fortunes.

American Heiresses WHO Came Into Large
Fortunes.
A persevering calculator has been
making an estimate of the good Ameri-
can dollars that have been converted
into English pounds by the numerous
= teri tional marriages. The Craven
Bradley Martin alliance added goo, 600
TO the English dowry fund. and some
more financial matrimonial facts are:
Miss Anita Theresa Murphy, married
Sir Charles Wolseley, 100000 Miss
Elizabeth Livingston, married William
Observation-Disclosures. VI. p, in 1866,
$500. 900. Lady Arthur Butler. who
was Miss Ellen Stager. of Chi
cago. 1900, 900. Miss Minnie Stevens,
daugbte- of Mrs. Paran Stevens, who
married Capt Arthur Puget. nearly
$500, GOO Miss Edith Fish. who mar
ried Sir stafford Northcote. a good
sized dowry Lady Vernon took $780,
600 to England. Mrs. Hamersley, mar
ried To the late duke of Marlborough,
81, 400, 900. Miss Cecilia Riggs, who
married Henry Howard. elO0. 600. Lady
Harcourt. daughter of j. L. Motley.
the historian. brought her husband
$50. 900. Besides these, Miss Jennie
Jerome. who married Lord Randolph
Churchill. in 1874: Miss Consuela Yzna-
ga del Vale, who married Niscount
Vaudeville. afterwari duke of Man
chester. and her sister, Miss Natica
Yznaga del Vale. who married Lord
Lister Kaye. had good-sized dowries. p"
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