The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-20

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 "The Colonel paced backward and l forward, with his hands behind ms
 back, reading the newspaper" These are ludicrous, but blunders al
 most as bad have been made by we'll known novelists. For the one last | mentioned Anthony Trollope furnished a counterpart when he wrote of man
 walking down the street whistling with a cigar in his mouth" Some of his friends having called his attention to the sentence MT Trollope Sefused to consider 1t an impossiblllty and in- sisted that a man could smoke and whistle at the same time. Neverthe- less, when he tried to perform this feat he failed ignominiously. Joseph Hatton, in ''Under the Great Seal' deviated from the rules of syntax when he wrote David had been allot- ted a corner of the room" What he meant was that corner of the room had been allotted to David, which is quite another thing.
 In one of Benson's stories a young man is asked what he has been hunt ing:
 oh, hares-lots of them said Reg gie, with his mouth full of bread and cheese whose natural healthy appetite had never been disturbed by love-"
 It would not have been difficult to construct this sentence so that there would have been no doubt as to whether 1t was Reggie" or the bread and cheese that had never been disturbed by love-" Needless to say that our common sense informs us upon that point,-the sentence as 1t stands is ob- scure and ridiculous
 But as bad a slip as has been seen of late is one in the current number of ''The Bookman." "The Bookman," of all things! a journal purely literary and thoroughly enjoyable. At the be- ginning of a notice of Anna Katharine Greens new story, 1.-The Doctor, His Wife, and The Clock" the reviewer says: "There Is one thing about these stories which begin with a mysterious murder to be grateful for-they plunge into their business at once with an end of the century speed"
 Stories founded upon mysterious mur- ders are many, but a mysterious mur~ der to be grateful for is something new and surprising. One cannot help won- dering whether the murderer was grate- ful for an opportunity to commit the crime, or the victim grateful to be re- leased from the burden of life or the author for . motive for the story. One can hardly conclude that 1t is the reader who should be grateful, since, as has been said, stories that begin with such mysteries are very common. It is real ly very confusing. And 1t would have been so easy to write. There is one thing to be grateful for in these stories which begin with a mysterious murder, etc.
 Oh, Syntax! how art thou wounded in the house of thy friends
 SANITARY.
 A very useful suggestion was that made in a paper on "The Restriction of Communicable Disease" read before the Social science convention by pr. Bran nan of New York He advocated the l use of Japanese paper handkerchiefs by | patients as they were | cheap, light and soft to handle, and, | as they could be burned as l soon as the user was through with them. | Buying them by the thousand the cost | Is about one cent for four handkerchiefs, | a trifing sum compared with the price | of linen or cotton.
 As handkerchiefs used by persons | suffering with consumption or catarrhal | difficulties should never be washed with | the rest of the household linen, and as | 1t is troublesome to wash them sepa- rately, and disagreeable and sometimes unsafe to cleanse them in any way, | why should not paper handkerchiefs | be substituted in these or in all cases lf illness? They should be clear white, soft and pliant. They seem to be we'll | adapted to the use of invallds, and their destruction by fire safely dis poses of those discarded.
 THE HONEYMOON ALBUM.
 The expectant brides are hereby ad- yised that their preparations for the journey are not complete un- ess they include among their posses Iions a, honeymoon album" These Ire usually made of a number of double l 'heets of heavy linen paper, cut any de- tired size, usually wider than they are ong. The binding is a matter for the ,rides taste to decide. It may be of ough cardboard, white linen, white hamois or vellum, painted or em- ,roidered with such flowers as she is to year at the wedding. But the satin of he wedding dress, or the material of he going-away gown, drawn smoothly yer Bristol board forms the most ap- 'ropriate and suggestive binding. The ouble leaves are tied and sewed in, r the book may be regularly bound y the bookbinder. Into this album go II those souvenirs of the wedding ourney that brides collect and cherish Ienus, small unmounted photographs ressed flowers and all those trifes hat seem so worthless and that mean o much. make up the contents of the album, a book that may be through life, and, possibly, anded down to succeeding genera Ions as an interesting relic of grand married away back in the ighteen hundred and nineties."
 HILARY.