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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Give the Children a Chance

There is a world of good advice, for
those localities where it is applicable, in
the following declaration by a contem-
porary: Few mothers realize the risk
OF over-caution and over-attention to
their children, after they are old enough
to play and romp about. A child is hap
per with few and simple playthings
than with multitude of complicated
toys. There is no such good fun or good
training as making ones. self useful in
doing little things like work, and it is
cruelty to deprive the child Of this pleas
nre and stimulus. Let the brain and
body be trained through hand, foot and
eye. Give the boys carpenters bench;
encourage the girls to do homework
Where. possible, let both boy and girl
have little garden patch, if only a few
feet square, and the care of few plants
a woman in her home, a man in his
garden; this seems to be a fundamental
type from which we cannot entirely de-
part without risk to body and mind.
Cheerfulness, sincerity, industry, perse-
verance and unselfshness may be ac-
CURED by practice and constant repeti-
ton, as much as the art of correct speak
ing or of playing the piano, and are far
more necessary to health. Good House
keeping.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
A CURE FOR HEADACHE.
Walking Backward Suggested for an Ag-
gravating Ailment.

Walking Backward Suggested for an Ag-
gravating Ailment.
''An excellent and never failing cure
for nervous headache" said an apostle
of physical culture, sis the simple act of
walking backward. Just try it some
time if you have any doubt about it. I
have vet to meet the person who didn' t
acknowledge it's efficacy after trial.
Nobody has as yet discovered or formu-
lated reason why such process should
bring such certain relief. Physicians say
that it is probably because the reflex ac-
ton of the body brings about a reflex
action of the brain and thus drives away
the pain that when induced by nervous
ness is the result of too much going for
ward Don't you know how at such
times you have the feeling that every
thing in your head is being pushed for
ward? AS soon as you begin to walk
backward, however, there comes a feel
ing of everything being reversed and this
is followed by relief. The relief is al
ways certain and generally speedy. Ten
minutes is the longest [ have ever found
necessary. An entry or long, narrow
room makes the best place for such a
promenade. You should walk very slow
ly, letting the ball Of the foot touch the
floor first and then the heel--just the
way, in fact. that one should in theory
walk forward, but which in practice is
so rarely DONE" We can suppose the
exercise has something to do with the
relief and also the metal preoccupation
that such q novel method of walking
necessarily demands. = chronological
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
The Significance of Leaves.

The purpose and condition of the life
of the tree are revealed i'll no small meas
ure by it's leaves.
The needle of the pine enables the tree
to withstand hurricane on a mountain
top vet it's slender figure is perfectly
adapted to the task of gathering light
and air for the trees life.
Not less plainly does the diversity of
character in q leaf reveal the diversity
of tree life itself. No two leaves are eX-
actly alike: no two trees are exactly
alike There are specific as well as gen
eric differences which are strongly
marked. One tree leads rugged, wild,
and struggling life; another an easy, lux
urious life The rough and fuzzy leaf of
the slippery elm. the silky leaf of the
beech. the shiny leaf of the gray birch,
these are all widely different; but there
are also distinct differences between the
leaves Of the several kinds of birches,
elms and naples.
Still, there are puzzling similarities,
and one is often compelled to study mi
mute details in order to make sure of a
particular species. The cataloa leaf is
mentioned as that having the simplest
form. Il is without divisions, and has
an entire and unbroken edge. The mag
nolia leaf, which is oval, might as well
have been taken as the type; and there
are others equally simple. The most
complex form of leaf is eXemplifed in
that of the horse-chestDnt.
A very interesting exercise may be had
in tracing the differences in the shapes
of the leaves of trees of the same family,
as of the oaks. whore we have the
rounded lobed red oak leaf, and the obo-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Kitchen Arrangements.

The great. point of good management
in the kitchen is to clear things away
as you go on, and to be one day ahead
in ordering necessities. For instance,
take the everyday want of tea and SUI
gar. At starting, order in two packets
of each, and as one packet is cleared.
order in another, SO you will always be
prepared for an emergency, and the serv-
ant will not be called away from her
regular work to run to the grocer's."
The kitchen, managed by some cooks, is
everlastingly in muddle, because things,
after they have been used, are left here,
there and everywhere, instead of being
washed and put away in their proper
places. The mistress of house should
insist upon order in the kitchen, and
also that her cook should get ahead with
vegetables-at least, in preparing them
with regard to potatoes, tried to get
them pared early in the day, and don't
leave the Smelling of peas, when in sea-
son, until the last moment. a dinner is
often spoiled through the vegetables be-
ing insufficiently cooked. 1t is the fash
ion in some houses to put kitchen
clock on at least ten minutes, a plan
that is worth following where the cook
has a tendency to be late. 1t is wonder
full what lot of trouble will be saved
by little forethought and method in the
kitchen; and how time is economized if
every vessel is in its right place. Some
times one sees the sink laden with dirty
pudding basins, milk jugs, knives and
forks and other things besides. Cooks
will leave stale pieces of bread about,
and choppers and boards with fragments
Of meat still clinging to them. This is
all very untidy and very unnecessary.
One great secret of success in cooking is
to have everything clean and fresh; an
other is. Never put off till the last any
thing that can be done beforehand
thirdly. keep wary eye upon the clock.
Madame.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Smoke Too Freely.

Lord Kames told the story Of a singu-
lar claim preferred to his acquaintance
When one of the justiciary judges, his
lordship, returning from the north cir
cult to Perth, one night slept at Dun
keld. Next morning, walking. toward
the ferry. but fearing he had missed his
way. he asked a man whom he met to
guide him. '"That I will, with all my
heart, my lord. Doesn't your lordship
mind me? Ny names John
had the honor to be before your lordshil
for stealing sheep" ooh, John-1 re-
member you well. And how is your
wife? She had the honor to be before
me, too, for receiving the sheep. know,
ing them to be stolen AT your lord
ship's service. We were very lucky
we got off for want of evidence, and
am still going on in the butcher trade
s'Then." said Lord Kames. I'VE may
have the honor of meeting again,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
NAPOLEON ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
But for Promptness of an Attic ndant He
Would Have SuccumDed.


Would Have Succumbed.
Since 1903 he had worn about his neck
as kind of amulet a little bag said to
contain a deadly poison, one of the salts
of prussic acid. That night, when the
terrors of a shaken reason overpoWered
him, it is believed that he swallowed the
drug Instead of oblivion came agony,
and his valet, rushing to his masters
claimed to catch the words: ''Marmont
has struck me the fatal blow! Unhappy
man. / loved him! Berthiers desertion
has broken my heart! My old friends,
my comrades in arms!' Ivan, the Elm
peror's body physician. was summoned
and administered an antidote; the spasm
was allayed, and after q short sleep rea-
SON resumed her seat. 1t is related in the
memoirs of Caulaincourt, and probably
with sort of HomeriC truth, that when
the reputed writer was admitted in the
early morning Napoleon's IVAN and
sunken eyes seemed struggling to recall
the objects round about: a universe OF
torture was revealed in the vaguely DESC
late look Napoleon is reported as say
ing: 1T is not the loss of the throne
that makes existence unendurable; my
military career suffices for the glory of
a single man. Do You know what is
more difficult to bear than the reyerses
of fortune? It is the baseness. the hor-
rble ingratitude of men. Before such
acts of cowardice, before the shameless
ness of their egotism, | have turned
away my head in disgust and taken my
life in horror. What [ have suffered
for twenty days no one can understand.
-CpDtlIry
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.



At morn hen dimpled hands we kissed,
And heard her laughter gay;
At eve she passed the sunset mist
Into the deeper day.
Her baby toys. unheeded lie,
The little shoes she wore,
And empty crib, unrocked, hard by
She'll need them never more.
Wee Margarine, so fond, so sweet,
So beautiful, SO bright!
Gone home to rest on Gods dear breast
Good night, sweetheart, good night!
At morn all life was full of light,
Its laughter on each brow;
But oh! we're sad and lone tonight
Our hearts are empty row.
Her face will haunt the coming years,
And by our hearthstone bide,
But love that gathers up our tears
Will lead us to her side.
Wee Marguerite, so fond, so sweet.
So beautiful, so bright!
Gone home to rest on Gods dear breast
Good night, sweetheart good night!
William 0aughton.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Had a Right to it.

The Washington Star tells of a caller
who an attorney in that city had the
other day: He was an uncouth looking
Montgomery county. Maryland. Judge
he said, I reckon I'll .hev ter buy a few
words O adTice' Well what is it,
"Thar's stokeeper up my way, an
I've he'd a good many dcalin's with him,
dred times when he weighed things I
bought Well. you ought to have
stopped him. You can't collect damages
for that interrupted the attorney. Il
don't want no damages Well, what do
you want? 'Yo' see. we got in fout
vestiddy and / bit off that thumb, an
| went ter know if. as many times as
bought it. don't own it, SO that he Lain'u
git damages fer my bitin' it off,"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Birthdays in Germany.

Everyone has birthday here. "What
shall we do tomorrow asks one of the
children. And if you carelessly, inno-
Gently inquire, "Why, what's up tomor-
row?' smile of supreme contempt and
pity announces the fact that if it isn't a
first, second Or third "Feiertage," or holi-
day, why, then, it must be a birthday,
or a first. second or third "Feiertage."
Here again the stock of small coin comes
into play. For, after you have sent the
washerwoman's children their supply of
Easter eggs, then Frau H. reminds you
that the porter's children should have
their share, and that it is the thing
on the aforesaid "Feiertage" and birth
days to give the servant mark. And
the children of the family throw out all
sorts of hints as to how the former
boarder, Miss Brown. had given them a
beautiful hare, last Easter, chuck full of
chocolate eggs. The birthday party here
is not thing of the past. nor is it given
only for the children. Young and DID,
rich and poor, have birthday parties
with birthday cakes. candies and flowers
in very sweet oldfashioned sort of
way. Yes, the Germans are sentimental
if you like, but it is very beautiful for all
that, and the laugh is hearty and the
tears are real. Their poetry is all woven
in with the practical everyday life like
the meat markets which can be seen in
every street. where long strings of saul
sages are intermingled with blooming
hyacinth and lilies of the valley.--Berlin
Correspondent Rochester Post-EXp-ess.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

wouldn't offer our servants. And, speak
ing of servants, one considers the French
help cheap; perhaps so, in the actual
amount of money you give them per an
mum, but one must not forget that IL
takes two of them to do the work OF
one in our country and that means two
mouths to feed and two persons to house:
House rents in Paris are big in good
localities. Five thousand dollars a year
is paid for an ordinary-sized fiat along
the Avenue Du Bots de Boulogne and
that does not include light or heat and
very seldom water.
AS for hotel life ask the average
American tourist what it cost him to
stay at the best hotels. places like the
Grand, the Metropole, the Chatham, the
Continental, and see what he says.
One thinks shopping i'll Paris a series
of bargains, but it is not so by any
means at the best places-in fact, Worth,
Felix, Paquin, Doucet, all charge more
than similar houses in America. 1t may
be granted their styles are better, but
only because American women accept
them without hesitation.
1t is all nonsense, this cheap cry, which
is argued in favor of European living.
Yes, one can live cheaply on this side,
but not in the frst-class style one is &C
customed to live at home. After a While
Americans will awaken to the real truth
in the matter and will set about to make
things at home so attractive and COM
Portable that our people, like the French,
will be content to stay at home and
spend their money in their own cities
and shops. We will have our own con-
servatoires, and, what is more. recog-
nize them so that our boys and girls
will not be forced to live in attics in
foreign city in order to obtain European
reclame, now the easiest road to Ameri-
can success.-Grace Corneau in Paris
Letter to Tribune.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
No JOY in Latin Quarter Life.

There has always been Il great deal
written and said about the advantages
of living in the Latin quarter. Person
ally. | would just as soon live on South
Clark street. as one could get quite as
much noise, bad air and be quite as I'M
comfortable as in this famous district
of Paris-and it would be also quite as
cheap as it is here if one wished to
climb rickety flights of stairs, live in
inner rooms and do without every colaa-
fort. from light and water to carpets.
That is just what cheap life in the Paris
Latin quarter means-and as for all this
nonsense about the cheap table dhote
restaylrants-well, try it once is all one
need say. There is not a cafeterion or
rush-and-tu lunch counter In Chi
cago that does not serve a better meal
and for less money. AS for any of this
cbeap Partisan life [ have failed TO find
it: that is, cheap. granting one wants
TO live as one does at home.
Take the average French pension.
One would not be caught in a similar
establishment in America. 1t sounds
cbaan to say one can live in them for {
and S frapcs Il day, but what does that
include? Not even candle, Datn. or
q fire. and it means toillng up four or
FIVE flights of steps into small, badly
furnished room looking cut on some
court. 80,
breakfast. coffee and dry bread or rolls
TO start on the days work. Luncheon,
generally served at y o'clock. just in
fine 70 interrupt everything, consists of
series CT five courses. generally dis
eruised in sauces, which completely hide
tha identity of what You are eating.
Robbit is in this way often ralmed off
For chicken and turnips for potatoes,
and there is SO much seasoning in the
snair any attempt to find out what you
are eating. Dinner is usually served at
: o'clock and is the best meal of the
day. though not much at that The vim
ordipaire is poor stuff at best, and if you
Want even ordinarily good Bordeaux you
Such is the much-praised cheap Paris
life which one soa may yo find
have gone to call on American wom-
ON IN Paris who live well at home and
bava found them in places | was actual
" afraid to enter and in rooms that we
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Hard ON the Queen.

The Prince of Wales is not ayerse to
having a little fun over his august moth
er's propensity for giving away India
shawis. At the recent Henley regatta
he had his attention drawn to an elderly
lady who. the princes friend said. bore
a striking resemblance to the Queen,
and might be her majesty incognito. AS
the prince leveled his field glass on her.
she rose. and, taking the shawl on which
she had been sitting, threw it around the
shoulders of the young girl who was
with her. ct is undoubtedly the
Queen" the prince replied, quietly: "she
has betrayed herself. She has just pre-
sented one of her India shawls.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
The Interruption


Who is that knocking at the door,
My own. who is 1t knocks tonight2
n this Wild storm, dear heartewhy should
y one come? 'nouiu
) 9u hear! You hear! All, love, wrap close
y your arms! ~ e
Love, kiss me. kiss me- kiss,
Turn toward my soul the splendor of vonr
own! ~ 9oul
My eyes are yearning for the light of vonrs
Like frightened wanderers yearning for the
dawn. ~ 'e
Love, hear the knocking. Hold me close,
oh, will the door give Way-be battered in .
Who dare knock so at this sweet House Of
Love? "
Dear. closer, closer yet. The lights are
going OUT
Your llps-have they grown cold, Your
eyes
Why. even they cannot dispe this dark,
SO cold and dark-the rain sweeps at our
house
The wind tears at our roof-and if it goes
We shall nave nothing 'twixt us and the
Black
The knocking STILL Hark. Hark
The door gives way. The winds of God are
in the house.
The dark! oh. love, love- love,
Silence! The door is down.
Ella W. peattie, in Harper's Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

sent this, but I would like to caution
young men against cherishing matri-
m designs upon any woman who is
nkely to resent it. If what you want is
wife, and not merely housekeeper,
you must keep your eye we'll open for
warm bundle of femininity that will
be to you in a personal way what the
hre on the hearth is to you in a physical
way-a fund of tropical comfort that
VIII keep the stiffness out of your think
ing, the frost out of your feeling, and
the general machinery of your life in
condition of pleasurable activity.-Rev.
Journal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
To Obtain Greater Power.

Women can obtain greater. physical
strength and power so soon as they de-
termine to do so, and adopt a different
mode of living. There is absolutely moth
ing in the woman's organization that for
bids it, and we are are finding out more
and more daily. Many young women
are too lazy to grow strong. They can
not walk a dozen blocks, or do anything
that calls for the slightest physical
strength. Why? Because there is any
inherent quality in the woman's body
forbidding it? Not at all. Because they
never have done it! There is no other
reason on earth.
The women who are growing stronger
mentally and physically can smile at the
DIRECTORS who tell them they cannot do
this or that, and answer by doing what
they are accused of being incapable c {
doing. But the more timid and younge :
ones, who vet hesitate to venture into
new fields of activity in the face of oppo-
sition and ridicule, need the assistance
of professional opinion, and the encour-
agement of those who have gone before.
Exchange
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

vate, evergreen leaf of the live oak, with
numerous transitional and derivatiye
shapes. In the naples, too, the typical
three-lobed, deeply indented leaf branches
out into a great diversity of forms, all
easily referable. however, to the primi-
tive one, the peculiarities of which are
dependent upon the depth, the number,
and the minuteness of the notchings.-
Appleton's Popular Science.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
Like a Woman.

The young woman was dying, and the
attendant leaned over the bed Have
you any friend to whom you wish to
send any message?" she asked. The
patient nodded. Eyes, have dear
friend who She paused and shook
her head. what shall write to herr"
asked the attendant. The patient shook
her head again. Nothing" she an
swered 81 had forgotten for the mo-
ment that she owes me a letter. Lon
don Figaro.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
MADE A MISTAKE.
A Louisiana Young Woman Loses He1
Hat in a Peculiar Manner.

LOu1s1dHH 1UUHe VUHHHH H1Uscs 1Hc1
Hat in Peculiar Manner.
A popular young lady of Haugaton,
La, went over to Shreveport the other
day and purchased the newest thing out
in the way of hats, stunning bit of felt
and ribbon with good-sized bird
perched jauntily on one side. One day
the young lady lost her chapeau in the
following singular manner: She was go
ing to visit friend who lives ct the
lower end of the village, on the, other
side of the old Point road, when she no.
ticed big hawk lowering and darling
about her hat. Not giving the matter
any serious consideration, however, the
young lady pursued her walk, when sud
denly the hawk made a dive, fixed his
talons in the bird and her hat and be
fore she realized the situation flew away
with it, hat and all, into the woods.
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Tho younr Man and Marriage.

Marriage to certain degree q toa;nS
man is to look upon from !; u.lll' ,nneh
capital She makes him, to be. by =, q
kind of grace, great deal more than an ne =;
is by nature. She contributes the ne q ranr
mes iee safs rs we'll as productive ETH
eaeD Sa She u introduces, for instance
cnt Of sentiment which intellect ras aeq work
in order to be able TO 90 las in or
d ns' te ah he e1t q Re and
without caring to assert that that n fhan I I
naturally heartless any .h more wo man is
should wish to assume e ,, .nn, in it's way
b !: nstu as preeoas as is
and woman. so long as she IS nl.a, nan
by the passion Of wanting il the ts DC eonnnbai
viii be that an, ae~ M;l IN nf particular art con
f fr;h"t TO- t ' centa stock its sfe-
tional element. Some women may