The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-08

nerves exposed to greater wear and tear
than In the United States. The combined
effects OF the negro question. unlimited
candy. an addiction to rapid eating. iced
drinks, and business hurry, are too pow
erful for any nerves. not built OF cast
iron 20 withstand: and thus II comes
about that the typical American IL a neu-
f0tfc patient long before he has attained
TO middle age. Fortunately. the disease
Is not left without 2 remedy. and the
prescription for a person afflicted with
house-nerves Is very agreeable one.
There Is no help 10 be got from medicine
or doctors
All that has 10 be DONE Is to pay visits
20 others. TO take long walks In the open
air and sunshine. and to 20 in generally
for gayety and innocent amusements.
The patient Is also recommended TO re-
press every morbid thought as It arises.
or expel IL by thinking of a necessary
duty. This advice is. perhaps. more easily
given than followed. Hundreds of people
would be- only too delighted TO repress
morbid thoughts. but the more they try
to reprcss them, the more morbid do they
become
1t il sad To think that not only adults,
but also imaginative children. suffer from
the .'don,estic" nerve and when such IL
merry children, whose merrifnent. let as
hope will be subdued enough TO spare
the .'house-nerves" OF other people. or
course. there is nothing strikingsy novel
about the advice TO try out-of-door exer-
else for morbid, mental conditions, but
these hints to those about TO go into
mysteries will be- OF use II they help TO
impress on ms the fact that good deal
OF excitability, the irritabiity. ano the
depression which sfiiict 40 many nova
DAYS. are really OF the nature OF us
ease. and should be treated with COM
nonsense remedies instead OF useless re-
proaches.
CANDLEWICK FILTER.
4 very pretty and simple domestic
filter IS described as made 10y simply pass
ing through bent tube OF glass or rub
Der. a number OF strands OF wet cotton
candlewick or soft yarn, sufficient TO MI
il, not 100 closely
one end OF the packed tube being pia''u
I'm a vessel Of the water TO be Inferred anu
the other end left to hang out below the
level OF the vessels bottom, the water
will be slowly siphoned out. by capillary
attraction; and as cotton Is one or the
very best OF fltering materials, arresting
even microbes. the publication or the
water from suspended matter must be
complete, provided that the cotton De
changed very often. according 10 the
quality or the water.
ANY necessary quantity Of cotton can be
kept on hand with slight expense. FINAL
lv nnt a grain of dissolved alum into
each gallon OF water TO be filtered, so
as TO coaguate any dissolved organic
matter. change the cotton daily 10 be
safe. and we cannot see why the result
should not be as near TO perfection as
water can be brought. To Keep IL per
feet. let the uttered water drip INTO
closed vessel, with a light cotton packing
Ia the aperture about the tupe "here
IL enters the receiver.
WHY WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN
MEN.
Nv the Massachusetts State census Of
lSS5 the number OF women living over
eighty wears of age was nearly double
that OF men. The greater exposure Of
men To accidents, to weather agencies, 10
the constant strain of business life. TO
the anxitly of providing for the family
all tend 10 shorter the life OF men. The
deaths by accident among men are more
than threefoid greater than amonS wo-
men. and men commit suicide In about a
threefold ratio as compared with women.
AN EARNEST FACE.
4 New York paper has taken photograph
of twelve women celebrated for rather
advanced IDEAS. and has made com
posite picture OF them TO show what the
new woman type is likely to be. The
twelve women are Mrs. Stanton, Miss
Anthony. Miss willard, Mrs. Granniss,
Lady Somerset. Mrs. Livermore, Mrs.
Besant Nine. Sarah Grand, the Rev