Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-03

! evening at the door of her residence. They
| were shown into a room to which the music
of a harpsiChord and a violin was waited to
them. together with the sounds of two voices
united in a tender love song. The violin and
| one voice belonged to jefferson. Both suitors
took the hint conveyed by the situation and
left, never to return on the same mission.
a Turn for Invention.
Jefferson found time while he was minister
to France to take an interest in the i'm
| provement of the harpsichord and to invent
a simple contrivance for the making of time
in music. He had in fact a strong turn to-
ward invention. The familiar revolving
chair is of his contrivance. While presi-
dent he hit upon an idea for a dry dock
which he wanted congress to build in WASH
ington, and exhibited a model of it in the
White House.
jefferson had very positive ideas on the
education proper for young women. Refer
ring to his own daughters, he said: 81
thought it essential to give them a solid
education which might enable them. when
become mothers, to educate their own
daughters, and even to direct the course of
their sons, should their fathers be lost, in
attentive or incapable" That meant a high
standard. He was severe in his condemna-
ton of the trash that in his day went under
the name Of fiction. The 'inordinate pas
sion for it was one of the great obstacles"
to good education. 1t was so much poison"
INJECTING the mind and destroying its tone,
with the 'result of a bloated imagination,
sickly judgment and disgust towards all
the. real business OF life" Miss Edgeworth
and Nine. Genglis he excepted from this
vigorous condemnation. Pope, Dryden,
Thompson and Shakespeare. Moliere, Racine
and the Carneilles were authors who may
be read with pleasure and Improvement
French was indispensable. Dancing, draw
ing and music were Essential" but after
marriage women should follow the French
rule of not dancing. The Importance OF
domestic economy was obvious,
When in his 10th year Jefferson was asked
to describe his manner of life. 81 live sc
much like other people," he replied, "that
| might refer to ordinary life as the history
of my own He gave, however, some
particulars. ANNA food he ate little of
using it not as an "aliment, but as a con-
diment for the vegetables" which formed
his principal diet. A glass and a half OF
wine satisfied him, hut with a friend he
trebled it, but "halvod It's effects by drink
ing the weak wines only" Malt liquor.
and cider were his usual table drinks; ht
took tea or coffee at breakfast. 81 was a
hard sndent,' he adds, until | entered or
the business of life, and at the age Of 76
am again n hard student. This passion fol
reading cut down his sleeping hours some
times to five If the volume in hand vas in
teresting, for, whether he retired to bee
early or late, he rose with the sun" If hi!
author was duh he slept eight hours
Tobacco he never used, nor ardent spirits.
Both hearing and eyesight were good. a
night and with fine print, however, glasses
were necessary. He was too feeble to wall
far, but he could go on horseback withou
fatigue six or eight miles a day and some
times thirty or forty. Jefferson was SO year
old when he died. J. p. FOLEY.