Middletown transcript., 1897-04-03

1 Nm ~ P~/INVG tP LuO day "
her death, som,
thirty years after, there had been liter
ally no twenty-four hours without 6
line. The memorable morning wher
little Mary cut her first tooth, wher
Charles donned trousers, the excite
ment of the first school days; later, the
debuts into society, the entering of col
lege, the graduation, the wedding, the
first grandchild, were all faithfully and
concisely recorded. And now that she
has passed over into the great silence,
what an inestimable value this family
record has for both the present and
coming generations.
And it would seem to be of special
Importance in America, where the
young so constantly break. away from
the old homestead and strike out for
themselves, and where whole families
often make complete transfer from
East to West. Without some such
record it needs only three or four gen.
erations to lose complete trace of the
family pedigree. Some of us hardly
know that we had great-grandfather
and are equally ignorant of our grand
mothers maiden name; and to know
something of ones ancestry is OF ab-
sorbing interest from both the histori-
cal and scientific points of view. We
can at least aid coming generations in
picking up the threads of family
history, though it must be confessed it
is chiefly for the interest and benefit of
ones own generation that we recon-
mend the family diary.
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DIsTRUsT THE LOOKING GLASS.
"Every girl who is dissatisfied with
herself should remember that she is
better looking than the most kind of
looking glasses bid her believe" says
writer in 'sTable Talk" "a mirror, it
is contended, cannot fatter a face that
is in its natural state, that is, not
made up.' Even the very best plate
glass has pale green tinge, which re-
fleets color trifle less clear than the
original;hair also has always more
glossy sheen than the glass shows. If it
is wavy, the glass never shows the best
of the waves, and if it is straight the
glass accentuates the straightness.
More important and still better to
be remembered and carefully treasu red
no one ever looks at the face so closely
or so critically as the owner of it looks
at the reflection in the glass. Blemishes
that are grief to non-conceited girl
may pass quite unnoticed by her friends.
The two or three gray hairs that ap-
pear unfairly soon on the head of a girl |
who overworks her brain simply have |
The effect of high lights in a picture |
and pass for extra gloss. The figure |
that looks heavy when seen only as far
rs the waist in a glass may be abso-
lutely in graceful proportion when seen
with the rest of the figure.
LIKENESS OF MARRIED FOLKS.
Some curious investigations have re-
Gently been undertaken by photo
graphic society Of Geneva. The pur-
)oses was to show that the longer
married couple lived together-we ap-
,rehend harmoniously-the more and
more marked became the resemblance
which the persons bore to each other.
photographs of seventy-eight couples
we're taken, as well as an equal num-
yer of adult brothers and sisters. On
areful inspection it was found that
he married couples were more like
ach other than the brothers and sis-
ers of the same blood. Apparently,
therefore,, there seems to be stronger
orce available for the production of
family likeness" even than that of
ereditary transmission. In accepting
be statement of the society in ques- I
ion as true as to fact, it is not difficult {
q certain measure, to account for
be phenomenon referred to. Human
eings, for example, have quite fac 8
lty for copying each other in their {
'ays, movementsand tomperaments.