Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-15

side the church door. make remarks and
stare at the women who pass, as Is their
| custom. Any member known to escort a.
young woman to church like man and
sit with her like gentleman will be
promptly expelled from membership"
Miss Perceval. Of the Manor house. EaI-
ing, England. has just entered upon her
of the twelve children Of Mr.. Spencer Per-
ceyal, the prime minister and chancellor
os the exchequer, who was assassinated in
the lobby of the house of commons by Il
disappointed Russian merchant named Bel
lingham. She retains a vivid recollection OF
the tragic circumstances OF her fathers
DEATH as well as of a visit which she paid
with her mother and nine of her brothers
and sisters to George III. and his queen at
Windsor castle.
New York Press: An American lady
whose daughter Is the wife of one Of the
gland visited Broadway shop the other
day to purchase a therometer. The obeis-
ant clerk asked If there was any particular
sWf srt bv nun aon az
care whether ii IL Fahrenheit or planti-
grade: whichever you think is the most re-
nearly as bad that other Mrs. Malaprop
who said she would take either Fahrenheit
or centipede, so long as the mercury would
not corrode.
Diamonds lose their brightness directly
they are in the least dirty, and n ring
the setting especially when 1t is kept on
when the hand is washed
A good way of cleaning diamonds Is to
use little ammonia, warm water and soap.
Put the article into this. and then either
sponge or brush very gently. IL q brush
be used. 1t should be very soft one A
hard brush might push the stones out. or,
at any rate. loosen them.
After carefully washing the stones until
every particle of dirt and dust has been
removed they should be rinsed in cold
lDN- tF,At1
then dipped into slightly heated lockwood
sawdust to dry them, afterwards brushing
the sawdust OFF. 1t is the best plan to
clear table to do it on. and as each ar
ticle Is finished place 1t In the sawdust,
so that 1t may be drying whilst you are
washing the other ornaments.
No part of the human countenance en-
cages our attention so frequently as the
eyes. When face to face in conversation
We do not look at the lips-although. as a
rule. the attention is very quickly taken
by the movement-but at the eyes of the
person with whom we are speaking, So
many deaf people of watching the mouth
always strikes us as peculiar. In fact. one
usually feels that tn there s, is ,s sense of in,
with mind by means of conversation IL
there is not continual Interchange Of
g!ances making kind of running COM
mentary on the words spoken. The same
may be said of ordinary greetings when
two people shake hands; unless there Is at
the same moment a meeting of friendly
looks the ceremony loses much of its mean
ing.
Now why is there this continual meeting
of eyes accompanying ali kinds of human
intercourse? Partly. no doubt. IL is attri-
butable to certain habits OF comparatively
recent date The eye, "the window OF tho
SOUL" Is more truthful exponent OF the
inward thoughts than the tongue and see
ing that speech is very frequently used
not to tell the thoughts. but to conceal
them, we look to the eye for confirmation
or the reverse Of what our ears are TAX
ing Unpopular Science Monthly.