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The herald., 1896-02-08
CARE OF THE BABY.
Everybody Has Different Bit of Advice
For the Young Mother.


For the Young Mother.
have been talking with young moth
er about her baby, writes a woman. She
tells me there is nothing in the world
about which every ono is willing to give
SO much free information and advice as
upon this subject of new baby Ono
woman who comes in to call upon her
looks the baby over and says "You pin it
too tight" Then she unpins its surcingle
and things, and the next woman who
comes in says: 'Oh, you must pin it's
clothes tighter You'll mako it pot bel
lied" Then she pins it up again.
Another woman says, "You don't feed
it enough" the next woman says, "You
feed the child too much" Another wom-
an recommends saffron tea and somebody
else catnip. Another woman says, "You
bathe it too oftcn,' another, "You don't
bathe it often enough" and another tells
story about the ricketts,. One woman
says, Never rock your child" and anoth-
er says, "Its clothes are too long,
Everybody examines its fannels, and
most persons think she dresses it too warm
and others warn her against Group. She
keeps poison antidoto list ON the wall
and sleeps with Il thermometer on the head
of the bed and Group medicine under her
pillow and carries camphor gum in her
pocket. She is in q flutter from morning
till night and from night till morning,
and is so apprehensive that when that
baby looks crosswise she is plunged into
anxiety and despair.
Then, when her husband comes homo
and she suggests new plan of action for
that baby and confesses that Mrs. Wiscacre
conf1ded the principle to her, he grows
fierce and assures her that he offered that
same idea weeks ago, but she refused to
follow it, Then he calls his female advis-
ers "old hens, and about that time any
young mothers cup Of sorrow is pretty
full.
There is such lot of cruel realism
mixed up with the ideal in life.-Phila-
delphia Press.
The herald., 1896-02-08
Suggested an Idea to the Con-
stitution Man
BEES STOPPED THE CAVALRY
Which Suggests the Availability of Some
Other Animals
A Thousand or Two Carefully Trained Dogs
Would Stampede the Best Cavalry
Briga1e Ever Organized

''There was matter that l forgot and
which l meant to suggest to our war de-
partfnont before l returned to Georgia" i"
The speaker was Evan Howell of Atlanta
publisher of The Constitution.
1.-The idea was suggested to me, he said
to a writer for the Washington Star, "by
the trick of smart Yankee which I ex-
perienced during the war. Some of our
men surprised bunch of Yankee raiders
one day. Tho raiders saw us coming a
half mile away. They were in tho front
yard of a big plantation house at tho
time, and the moment they noted us
streaming round a bend in the pike they
leaped for their horses One of them, the
tricky Yank I mentioned, stopped and
picked up a bee gum, one of q dozen
standing in the yard, and swung it up tc
his shoaldcr. Then he climbed into the
saddle Every jump of his horse jolted a
handful of indignant bees out of the hive,
and it looked as if they never budgcd but
stood right still in the air wondering what
had happened. And when we got up to
them the bees seemed to lay their troubles
to MS and pitched into us like rabid dogs
Net one of our cavalry ever got farther
than the first bee. Tho whole outfit came
streaming back and lit into us and our
bOLsSsi dHN iiitstC ~ ~ INV W. iihu W ltiTu
and 1y. That's what they did; just sim
ply stung us plumb out of the country,
and the Yanks got away.
"Now, wasn't thinking of suggesting
bees as an adjunct to our military, but re-
nembering my bee experience that day in
north Georgia was wondering why we
couldn't avail ourselves of the aid of ami
mails more than We do in battle. Ny
eidea was to organize dog regiment, say,
of thousand dogs. I'd get good big stag
hounds and cross them with the shepherd
dog to get intelligence. I'd take 1, 900 Of
these and put 100 men with them, giving
each man charge of ten dogs. I'd train
them to know the enemy by dummies
fixed up in the hostile uniform. 1t could
be done, this last part, in week. And
I'd take this dog regiment into battle with
me. They he easy to feed and easy to han
die. I'd guarantee to whip anything but
infantry with my dog regiments. Cavalry
wouldn't last moment with EN-. They'd
stampede the best cavalry brigade that
ever heard a bugle. OF course these 100
men would have to be mounted With the
men in the saddle and their half stag
hound half shepherd dog cohorts they'd
sweep battlefield and stir up an encmy's !
line like nest Of hornets. AS for artil- |
lory, these dogs would overrun battery
like torrent"
The herald., 1896-02-08
WRITER'S CRAMP.
1t Is Not Restricted to Writers, but At.
tacks Artists and Musicians Also.

lacks ArtIStS ana MuSlClituS SAisos
OF interest to every literary worker is
Kenyon Vests long article on Writers
Cramp, Its Recognition and Prevention
In recent number of The Writer. Writ
er's cralnp, in one of its gravest forms,
he says, sis spasmodio action Of the
muscles of the hand or forearm which have
been concerned in the oct of writing, SO
that If tho writer attempts TO hold the pen
and use 1t in tho same way to which he
has always accustomed himself, the fingers
refuse to obey tho command of the will,
and writing is rendered impossible. The
term is not the best one which could be
chosen. First, because oven in the adj
vanccd stages of the paralytic forms of the
disease there is never symptom of cramp
or spasm, and, second because it is not
restricted to writers, but takes in those
muscular and nervous disorders and dis
turbances of movement which a1llict nu-
sicians, artists and others" His paper is,
however, devoted entirely to the appear
ance of the affliction in writers. No two
cases Of writer's cramp are precisely
alike" ho continues, "either in their sub
jective effects or in their visible manifesta-
tons
Tho first part of the article is devoted to
tit ilISu lJiOIllS UliitIcllu VI
the disease; tho second, to its prevention,
alleviation and cure. physicians pre-
scribe perfect rest, +" which is, of course, in
most cases out of the question, and there
fore Mr. West describes the different do
vices by which writer's cramp can bc pre-
vcHted. Tho penholder must bo held in
different ways-bctwcen the thumb and
the first finger, between the first and mid
dlo fingers, between the middle and fourth
fingers, etc. Holders should never be
smooth and of various sizes. Cork holders
are preferable, ard changes can be made
by tying two of them together, etc. Wom-
en- should take care not to wear tight
sleeves while writing, the arm should bo
kept warm, the height and slant of writ
ing desk or table should be observed-in
short, hundred trifies 60 to make up the
ounce of prevention that is better than the
pound of cure. Interesting, also, are tho
descriptions with illustrations of the diff
ferent instruments invontcd for tho use of
those who suffer from the disease.-Critic.
The herald., 1896-02-08
A Queer Race.

Many queer incidents are to be met
with at tho public institutions in this
city, says the Philadelphia Record. Tho
one that has attracted the most attention
from a scientific standpoint for some time
past was race for life or death between n
wee black atom of humanity and white
ono just as small. At one of the foun-
ding hospitals up town the other day a
colored male child and white male child,
exactly tho same ago and weighing the
same to the fraction of an ounce, were re-
ceived at the same time. They were both
suffering from the same ailment which
appeared to be rather lack of strength than
disease. The pulse and temperature were
the same, and they were placed in the in
cubators at the same time. Here was a
capital chance to make test of the sta
nina in the two races, and the doctors en-
terod into the affair as heartily as if the
little ones were their own. 1t was q close
call for either ono at first, but finally the
pickaninny seemed togrow stronger. Then
the white baby forged ahead, but finally
gavo way to the colored one. The white
youngster never seemed to give up heart.
Ho even looked hopeful, while the black
one appeared to view continuation Of the
contest as useless. One day the colored
baby gave up tho struggle and died, but
the white youngstor took turn for the
better and now looks as if he would live
out mans Biblical allotment Of years.
The herald., 1896-02-08
Beard Growth of a Lifetime,

If you are proud Of fresh shave and
smooth face, you visit the barber at least
twice week or probably every other day
Suppose you commenced this practice at
the age of II and continued it up to the
age Of 20, have you any idea of the total
length of the beard that would be removed
in that timer If your beard grows as rap.
idly as that of the average man, you must
have about one-flfth of an inch removed
each week, or 10 2-5 inches each year Be-
tween the ages of II and 70,years SO years
must intervene and each of these SO years
gives almost a foot of beard growth, or a
total of $50 inches, exclusive of fraction, or,
to be more exactly exact, II feet and Z
inches of beard
The above is all figured on the assump.
ton that the flaments of the beard main.
tain their average growth of one-flfth OF
an inch during the period mentioned,
which, of course, is out of the question.
There is all the difference in the world
in beard growth. Some men will raise a
''stubble field" onefourth of an inch in
length, whilc another will hardly raise
enough to roughen his face. Then,
again, we do not wish to be understood as
saying that man would grow half
hundred feet of beard in lifetime pro-
vided he never shaved. On the contrary,
the average man would not grow moro
than 2H feet. On reaching a length of Is
to 20 inches the beard invariably becomes
brittle or slits and after this the growth is
very slow or ceases entirely.-St Louis
Republic,
The herald., 1896-02-08
A Much Puzzled Husband.

There is one married man living who
was badly frightened the other night. He
sent note to his wife about 9 O'Clock to
say that he would not be home until late.
The messenger boy whom he delivered the
note to tho wife happened to mention that
he had gone to the wrong house and had
been very wrathfully treated by man for
disturbing him. The wife read the note,
which was on a scrap Of paper. She
thought minute. Then she said to the
messenger boy:
"Ill give you shilling if you will take
the note back to my husband and tell him
that story without saying that you came
here at ALL"
The boy pocketed the money and went
back to tho husband with the note.
"Well, why do you bring this back?" he
asked.
because they wouldn't take it. A man
came to the door and told me if I ddn t
go away he would break my neck for me- -
The husband did not stay out late that
evening On the contrary, he got home as
fast as the underground train could take
him. He looked suspiciously at his wife
and said:
81 sent note, but the boy must have
taken it to the wrong house"
~ suppose So" said the wife innocently.
II haven't got it,
The man was dying to find out If any
body had called, but lie was afraid to ask.
-Poarson's Weekly.
The herald., 1896-02-08
Even q Tramp of Yalue.

I Twas searching for building in the
heart of the city. The wind was blowing
gale, and great clouds of dust swept up
into my face. My veil had come loose, and
I expected each moment to see my hat roll
off into the tangfe of horse cars and dray
wagons around tho corner. Not police.
man in sight, nor a drug stose, and
didn't know tho number Of the building.
Its name indicated prominence-that was
all had to direct me. l stopped several
ladies and inquired of every street vendel
in the neighborhood. No one knew. A
carriage stood waiting in front of q prom.
inent retail store. The driver looked as ii
he might be ablo to speak the English Ian.
guage, which some Of the numerous people
/ had asked were not, and repeated my
query to him. He had never heard of the
place. AS turned and gave last despair.
ing look for a policeman a man stepped
from a corner and spoke to me. He was
tho most deplorable specimen of the much
despised city tramp it has ever been my
lot to meet, and inyoluntarily I shrank
back. He said simply, "It's that tall,
dark building there at the end of the
street" With grateful word Of thanks
l hurried on. wondering if he had expected
or would have been offended if had offer
ed him o quarter.
And 1 realized the dependence of this
human race on even its lewliest represent
ative.-New York Herald.
The herald., 1896-02-08
ON A MODERN CRUISER.
The Old Time Sailor objects to the New
Tangled Notions.

The Old Time Sailor Objects to the New
Tangled Notions.
Curiousiy enough, the old shellbacks in
the navy arc down on the Soldiers home
They don't want "snug harbor." They
insist upon staying upon a cruising man.
of-war, and when they die they want to
be buried at sea. But the officers SAY that
these old sea dogs are very troublesome on
a modern cruiser, where everything is diff
ferent from what they were accustomed to
when they learned .their trade. They OBJ
ject to the new tangled equipment and the
improvements and conyeniences that have
been introduced on modern vessels. They
object to sitting down 1t a table and eat
ing their meals off china plates, with
knives and forks, like civilized people, in
stead of taking their rations in little wood
en- tubs and squatting down on. their
launches in the SHELTER Of the Ice gunwale
while they cut up their ''salt horse" with
jackknife. They object to scrubbing the
decks with Il new tangled rubber arrange
ment instead Of the old holystone, and re-
fuse to obey electric signals because they
have been accustomed to hear the officers
yell at them from the bridge Of the quarter
deck.
Nowadays the galleys on board Of mcn-
of-war are capable of cooking fresh bread
for the sailors every day, which is "a serious
grievance to the old fashioned Jackie,
who prefers hard tack to raised biscuits and
rolls. A large supply of fresh meats is
now carried in the parent refrigerators on
board all the ships and served to the sail
ors, alternating with salt beef and pork,
at least once day This is emphatically
objected to by the veterans as an effemi-
nate departure from the rations they re-
ceived when they were apprenticcd in his
toric times.
The sailors Of vessel that was recently
in Montevideo and Buenos Ayres were
served with tenderloin steaks for several
weeks because fresh meat was found to be
cheaper than salt pork down in that great
cattle country, but after about week a
committee from the forecastle waited upon
the captain and said they desired to make
complaint about their grub. He was much
surprised at the suggestion, because he
supposed they were being unusually well
fed, and remarked that they were receiving
the same supplies that We're furnished
himself and the officers il tho wardroom.
They admitted that this might be true,
and :dded that it was exactly what thoy
were Kicking about. The boys didn't
like tenderloin steaks; they wanted
something they could chaw On. ''-Chicago
Record.
The herald., 1896-02-08
Flowers and Their Stems.

Every now and then florists and other
authorities rise up and declare that it is
no longor ''good FORM to keep flowers in
clear glass through which their stems
show. That is very much like saying that
it is no longer "good form" to have long
eyelashes or rosy checks. The stem of q
graceful flower is one Of it's greatest beau.
ties. Seen through bit Of clear crystal
with tiny globules Of water incrusting it,
it is almost as much Of an ornament as tho
blossom which it supports. Until nature
begins to produce ugly stems nothing will
be more appropriate for holding flowcra
than well shaped glass vases. Occasionally
bit of colored glass is permissible. There
is delicate green variety and faint
amethyst kind, both Of which add to tho
beauty of the stems they reveal.
The herald., 1896-02-08
lnaugurated In Honor of Matth-
ew Arnold
AFTER ABORIGINAL MODELS
Grows to Be a Feature OF Bar Eiarbor
Life
A Midsummer Nights Dream to Which Nature
Lends Herself In All draciousncss.
Hrs. Harrlson's Description

Turning from Lenox ana Its environs TO
the far northeasterlyc: end of our Atlantic
coast line, I'VE find Jon the rocky shores of
Mount Desert new and elaborate examples
of the rural festival. Long years ago. be-
fore that rare and charming isle had been
formally adopted as the chosen resort of
summer pilgrims from all parts of the
continent, athletic contests, foot races and
canoe races among the Passamaquoddy
Indians were known to Bar Harbor. By
the descendants of those Indians was
aroused. the interest in canoeing shown by
visitors of recent times which resulted in
the formation Of the Canoe club now
numbering hundreds of members.
The first public parade of the club was
arrange in honor of an expected visit from
Matthew Arnold,s who in discussing his
anticipated expedition to that Eden Of the
Sca, had expressed hope that he might
there find some spectacle possessing the
true local color which he had failed to dis
cover elsewhere in America. Marshaled in
line, with bows toward the south, upon a
fortunately CLASSY stretch of Frenchman's
bay, near the westerly point of Bar island,
gathered number of flower wreathed ca
noes to perform series of, maneuvers as
dexterous in execution as ingenious in the
planning. x
The canoe parade, repeated the following
year, was followed in another season by an
illuminated fcte. To this midsummer
night 8 dream nature lent herself in all
graciousness. The sun had set upon sea
of opnl. AS the moon rose and tho tide
flooded the bar, people living along tho
shore on each side of the Eden road sat in
their verandas to wait for the coming Of
the boats, in an atmosphere as soft and
caressing as that Of June night in Ven
ice. From the starting place at the chief
landing Of the village, out of darkness
streaked with columns of light from the
electric arcs above tho town and from the
lamps eof a hotilla of yachts and other
boats at anchor in the harbor, came silent
ly stealing a. long train of mysterious black
craft tossing leashes of fire bubbles into
the air or wreathed from stem to stern
with multicolored lanterns. Their destina-
tion was q dwelling situated upon the
shore at some distance up the bay, where
tho performers in these mysteries Of the
expedition were expected ultimately to
congregate at supper. For an hour tho
meanderings of the fire laden boats gave
delight to many watchers ashore. At last,
answering the signal of dance music from
the house, the cortege fell again into line
and proceeded to disembark upon a float
ing wharf lighted by bengal fires and
strung with colored lanterns. The boats,
deserted by their crews, were then strung
together by boatmcn and towed back to
the starting point, tho revelers electing to
return by the ighways.-Mrs. Burton
Harrison in Century.
The herald., 1896-02-08

pid'') from happier days, her first hus-
bands gift, with rubies, diamonds and a.
great pearl. Her first husbands minia-
ture, in an enamel case was still with her,
and gold and pearl martin also in the
old Inventories. A jewel In the form of a
tortoise may be the rubbed tortue, the gift
of David Rizzio. Several trinkets the
queen bequeathed to Bastian Pagez, who
was married on the night of Darnley's
Staying. There arc altogether about. so
pieces of jewelry and objects. of jewelers.
art but of diamonds only two or three, and
these small. Such were the jetsam of so
many wrec ks-wrc,,ks of happiness, pow
er, even Of good name and famo, sorrows
wherein all was lost save courage and
faith.-Andrew Lang in Good Words.
The herald., 1896-02-08
English Shoes.

Tho remark that Americans, whilo in
England, often send home to buy shoes,
because the English shoes are of such poor
quality, called out from one American
present this story:
An American in England, who had
bought pair of shoes of fashionable
dealer carried them back soon with pro-
test.
Look here" he said, GIVE had these
shoes only two weeks, and they are COM
pletely out of shape and the leather is
giving way in two places"
The Englishman looked ut the shoes an
instant.
Dear me! Dear mep' he said. "You've
been walking in these shoes"
Walking in them? What else should
do with them?"
"Thats it, sir Our shoes are made
only for carriage people, sir!'
And the dealer loftily bowed the Amer
ican out Of the shop. Youth Companion.
The herald., 1896-02-08
Tact In Talking.

Don't fro lot of small talk at a shy or
silent man and don't pronounce him STU
pid if ho fails to return corresponding in
antics. Ordinarily when man is silent it
is because you have not put him to talk
ing about the right thing, and if he seems
stupid it is because you have not interest
ed him. Girls make the mistake of think
ing the essential thing is that they them
solves should seem to bo "having an ele-
CANT time" and that is why they main
tain an unceasing flow Of chatter. But
the real credit comes to making the escort
have good time. Tho girl who can sit
absolutely quiet and keep man talking
is the clever girl, and if the man is stupid
she is doubly clever. Exchange.
The herald., 1896-02-08
Some of Queen Mary's Jewels.

When Elizabeth had her hearts desire
when Mary's head had fallen ON the block
"a catalogue of her goods was made ut
Fotheringay on Feb. 20, 1867. We find
ga little tablet Of gold enamoled, contain
Ing the picture of the king of Scots" Sir
George Clerk Of Penicuik possesses SINH
lar gold case, enamoled with very small
miniatures Of Mary and of her son, James
vi. Miniatures of the French king and
queen Mary had in blue enameled book
Of gold "a little bird of gold, enameled
green" is probably the parrot which we
pleot In an early inventory. There is an
HDnmeled hoy (co-,c.;-s,os col'~1 "o C--
The herald., 1896-02-08
Tho Mississippi.

The Mississippi had over dozen native
names, different designations being given
at different points in it's course. The AL
gonquins called it the Meche Sebe other
tribes termed it Chucagua, Mico Tuna
lasen, Tapala Ri and other names. Tho
Algonquin name was finally adopted by
the whites for tho whole river. The mean
ing is "father of waters, - or ''the whole
river" Twenty-seven different spellings
are noted in the writings Of the early cx-
plorers
The herald., 1896-02-08
GUSTEVE OORE.
The Greatest Attraction That London Pos
sessed For the French Artist.


WANTED Jerrold to induce Dore to visit
the Black country and make some studies
of the great night scenes, the lights Of the
nineteenth century beacon fires, and at one
time hoped to have made proposal for
him to contribute few special pages to
the first provincial illustrated paper, but
other engagomentS< drew him from Eng
land, though obtained for The Illustrated
Midland News one or two sketches from
his pencil. Crossing the Channel was
the best of them, far more finished in de-
tail than any other. 1t was a scene Of that
kind of helpless physical misery from
which even Nelson himself occasionally
suffered at sea. Dore drew from both OBJ
servation and feeling. The vessel is roll
ing, the sea choppipg, you realize this on
first glance at the picture, and there arc
evidences Of distress that are grim rather
than humorous. Nevertheless Dore fire.
quently came to England. How often
other illustrious Frenchmen would visit
us, but for that silver streak of the poet,
that dirty water of tho realist!
One of Dore's favorite haunts was the
Geological gardens. He was as fond of
strolling from one cage to another ard
watching the animals as Landseer was.
don't suppose these two habitues of the
gardens ever met. Landseer immortalized
his studies at the ZOO in his models of the
king Of bests that adorn Trafalgar square
Friends Of Dore used to say that on arriv-
ing in London he would take cab and
rush off to tho ZOO before he went to his
hotel. Exaggeration is useful in empha-
sizing fact. Dore frequently went to the
menagerie in Regents park before he
called on his human friends. There is q
powerful touch of satire in one of his Lon
don pictures of the monkey house, with
the visitors to the gardens seen from tho
interior of the cage.-Joseph Hatton in
Idler