The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Presons who keep close watch on
themselves are Of the opinion that the
hour Of noon is the most critical period
OF life. says the Chicago Chronicle Al
that time the human frame undergoes
serious changes. The stomach has us
patched the morning meal ana SENDS
scouting parties out n search Of another.
The eyes and brain are on the alert and
there is a sort Of all-gOneness pervading
the anatomy that sharpens the faculties
and puts a new edge on the teeth. Il Is
natures dining tine, and everything
about the healthy man or woman Is at
tuned TO the demolition Of enjoyment
Of what Is called good square meal
| Those who pay heed TO the prompting
or nature at this divine hour have their
reward in good appetite, good temper and
excellent digestion. which Is conducive TO
/ all the good that flesh is heir TO. But
those who. following the impertous dc
tates OF fashion, defer the hour OF din
ner until all natural longings are dead,
and have 70 be resurrected by ADVENT
tious aids, lay train Of evils and dis
comforts which sooner or later become
| the plague of their lives. Il is a we'll
| known fact that the noon dinners are
| healthier and stronger. and have better
chances for long life than others.
Clocks are regarded as curiosities by
the Hindoos. and for this reason half
| dozen or more timepieces are often found
| in the apartments Of the wealthy Hin
| docs They are not used as timepieces,
| but simply for ornament since the old
/ fashioned way of telling the hour of the
| day in India. by calculating the number
| OF bamboo lengths the sun has Travelled
/ above the horizon. is entirely satisfactory
! 10 the natives. In the country police sta
| tons in India. where the European di-
/ vision of the hours Is observed, time IS
/ measured by placing in a tub OF water
/ copper pot in which a small hole has
| been bored. 1t is supposed that IL will
| take one hour for the water to leak into
"a n
| the policeman sees that the pot has dis
! appeared he strikes the hour on a bell
! like gong. II he is smoking or doing, the
! copper pot may have disappeared several
/ minutes before he discovers the fact;
| but the hour is when he strikes the gong.
| The Popular Science News has this
| to say of a scientific cat: Those who
| now tolerate mice or ants in or about
| the house certainly must be blind TO the
| fact that a luminous cat, which costs
| very little to secure and nothing to keep,
| has been invented and can be placed in
| any dark corner or nook and effectually
| scares away all such pests. This cat Is
| struck or stamped from sheet metal or
| other like material so as to represent in
| appearance the exact counterpart of its
| animated feline sister. 1t is painted over
| with a luminous paint, so that il shines
| in the dark like a cat of flame. After
! being used for about a week the place
is forever free Of either mice or rats"
The origin of cards. according to the
! celebrated Etteilla, one of the most indie
fatigable researches into the mysteries
| of the ancients, attributes to the primi-
| tive Egyptians the invention or tarots or
| of the book Of Thot, says the Chicago
| News. They were composed of seventy
| eight thin plates of gold, the purest and
| finest known to antiquity, upon which
| were traced hieroglyphs or mysterious
| characters, the explanation of which was
| daily made to each family by it's head as
| embodying revelations of destiny. That
| book was the only relic of Egyptian lore
| which escaped the wrath of the Caliph
| Omar when that Mohammedan Zealot
| caused the burning of the celebrated Ii
| brary at Alexandria. The Alexandrian
| Jews regarded the book a s secondary only
to their mysterious Caballa. The Greeks
| next obtained II and the Arabs regarded
| the original form of the golden plates
| with holy reverence. When the Moors
| founded the kingdom of Granada in Spain,
| they brought with them the vestiges of
| the mystic work which had persisted in
| the east and had been debarred entrance
| into Europe during the continuance of
| that gloomy reign of persecution desig-
mated as the dark ages. From the Moors
Europe received the book of Thot and
that date is the true one to assign the re-
vival and expansion OF cartomancy. At
the close OF the fourteenth century cards
were a popular amusement. With the
Germans they formed an important COM
merce and France soon followed, estab-
Hshing factories for the production of
cards at Lyons, Colmar and Belfort. But
they suppressed the sense of the originals
by replacing the signs with others of their
own invention. The book of Thot was
composed of seventy-eight tarots or en-
blematical leaves, while our modern pack
or cards has been reduced to fifty-two,
but the same ideas are expressed in
slightly altered symbolism. The changes
were made evidently the better to con
form to the then existing condition of
society, to which the general moral rules
of Thot could be as we'll applied as to the
primitive government of Eevpt and II is
| revised Ura bor
them.
Nerves are convenient pack horses on
which we lay the blame of morbid tenn
pers. irritability. and other unfortunate
conditions, without remembering that
nerves are to be kept in order by good
sense and firm VIII, says Harper's Ba-
Ear. Healthy nerves contribute only to
the pleasure and happiness of life. and
never assert themselves except agreea bly
The diseased nerve sends its quivering
lance-thrust of pain to the remotest corn
ers OF our being, and pain is therefore al
ways a danger signal, and must not be
passed by without attention. If there
be aching eyes or ears or teeth. or a
weary sense of weight IN the back makes
the day labor and the night a torture.
| II there is even a sense of discom fort
anywhere, let the nerves have the credit
| OF reporting the trouble, and then LEI
them be soothed and strengthened But TO
accuse these faithful servants whenever
our own lack of self control is the cause
VI our queFulous complaint or our fool
ism fear, is to show ourselves weak and
stupid. We owe ii to our conscIences 10
be candid, and If we SILVER at mouse
or scream at a spider, or tremble and
grow pallid and hystericaI at the ap-
proach of thunderstorm it is not on
our nerves that the fault must be laid
Any woman who chooses to take the
trouble can be serene and quiet-man-
nered, can bear suffering with fortitude
and meet disaster with heroism The
mgher one goes IN the social scale, the
more one finds of calm and gentle bear
ing. whatever befalls the actor in life $
drama Social training stands one in
stead when 1t is an. affair of setting the
teeth and keeping still. or of filling the
air with outcries and clamor. One chron-
ic complainer with nerves forever on edge
can efectually destroy the tranquility OF
the domestic circle. Peace and comfort
fly before the face of the woman who is
always at the mercy of nerves. That
face, too, early loses its freshness and