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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
The BctrOtlal DAVIS.

The proper observance of the period of
engagement is an important matter for
those who would make life something
really worth the living, because upon its
spirit much of the future happiness or
unhappiness of the betrothed pair will de-
pend. Writing upon the subject recent
ly, careful observer says: Zone of the
most bllssful periods of a girls life are
the days of her betrothal. When the
momentous question has been asked and
the engagement ring is upon her finger,
it should be to each as the beginning of
new life. 1t is not right to wait until
marriage follows before trying to learn
all that is possible about each other.
Many young people of both sexes consid-
er the time of betrothal as one in which
all sorts Of mannerisms are to be shown
off; they become Eighty and put on airs
and graces, and assume dictatorial at
titude that is not at all becoming to
young people who expect to become one
and row their own canoe. Each should
strive earnestly to study the others likes
and dislikes, and in a reasonable meas
ure to conform to peculiarities each NAV
possess. 1t should ever be borne in mind
that it is in very bad taste for either
one Of an engaged couple to assume an
air of possession of the other in public
places. While we try to point out the
way for young people, we do not lay the
blame altogether upon either one. If
anything, it may be more often the girl
who becomes tantalizingly uncomfortable
during betrothal, but young men also ex-
hibit a share of this weakness.-Good
Housekeeping.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
The Answering of Letters.

Time was when men and women took
letter writing. very seriously, and sat
down to the desk as if to an important
task, The scrawls of the modern girl:
her hasty dashing off of an epistle to
catch post; her dozen notes scrubbed in
with sprawling Wax, and dismissed Twill viii
sigh of relief, would have filled a young
woman Of Jane Austin's day with un.
felgned horror. Apart from the stiltcd
style, affected by persons who had the
courtlinesS of their period and it's leisure,
without the Unborn grace of the racon-
tenr who is of no period, but belongs to
all time, the epistolary remains Of the
last century and of still earlier centuries.
possess an interest which we shall vainly
seek i'll the annals of our own day when
We come. to search for them in letters.
Cowper,. Nine: dc Sevigne, Mary Milford,
the ladies' of the Hare family, Mrs.
Browning; i'll ii yesterday just past, and
others, whose. memoirs form part of our
Literary wealth, are good examples of the
perfect letter.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Stun Virtues Are Naked.

Jealousy, envy and meanness wear no
fine clothes and masquerade under no
smooth speeches in the slums, says ia
cob a. Riis in the Atlantic. Often
enough it is the very nakedness of the
virtues also that makes us stumble in
our Judgment. l am thinking of the
difficult case" that confronted some
philanthropic friends OF mine in a rear
tenement on Twelfth street, in the per-
son of an aged widow, quite 20 should
think, who worked uncomplainingly for
a sweater all day and far into the night,
,pinching and saving and stinting herself,
with black bread and chiccory coffee as
her only fare, in order that she might
carry her pitiful earnings to her big, lazy
lout Of son in Brooklyn. He never
worked. My friends difficulty was
very real one, for absolutely every at
tempt to relieve her was wrecked upon
her mother heart. It all went over the
river. Yet one would not have had her
different.
Sometimes it is only the unfamiliar set
ting that shocks. When an east side
midnight burglar, discovered and pursued,
killed tenant who blocked his way Of
escape, q few weeks ago, his girl" gave
him up to the police. But it was not be-
cause he had taken human life.
He was good to me, :" she explained to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Large Families Of MOSQUITOES.

Mosquitoes believe in the good old fash
ion of large families. Well they may;
they don't have to raise them. There is
no walking the floors nights with the
youngest, or sitting up to mend stock
ings; no worrying about the second sum-
mer-you know if you bring them
through the second summer ali right
there is no scheming to put Tom through
Harvard or Dorothy through Vassar. 1t
is very simple. Mamma lays from TWEEN
ty to forty dozen eggs in some quiet pool
along about o'clock in the morning, and
considers her duty amply done.
The inherited experience Of ages has
taught her that it is best to mass them
together in pointed ellipse slightly con-
cave on the top, the eggs being little end
up J. he air so sticks to the mass that
it ls Impossible to wet it. In sixteen
hours the larvae comes out on the under
side and begin a most active existence.
They are wigglers that used to infest the
rain water barrel at the corner of the
house lin the airly days"
Inc wlggler has two stages of exist
eence; larva and pnpa. For seven days it
to breathe, but when it changes, it has
hard work to get down to the bottom.
Two days later, it's clothes begin to feel
tight. anil when oil the back buttons
hurst off. it crawls out using it's old
frock as kind of boat, while it gets its
wings Strengthened out. This is q very
ticklish job, and many young life has
been lost by drowning at the very begin
ming of promising career. The fact
that 50 many eggs are laid would indi-
cate, II nothing else did, sthat many mis-
chances await the mosquito at ali stages
OF ~ existence, -Ainsleeg MAGAZINE,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
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thing up to date. So, when found /
was to take the fourth Miss b. in to din
ner IA decidedly pretty girl, by the wayl,
! naturally began to talk about tho
things that interested her sisters. =
~ suppose You play golf began, y
II simply detest golf,' was the mex
other attempt. -
can understand horse lover find
ing the game rather dull continued.
tentatively. Riding is certainly more
"'Oh. l never ride she replied, with u
shndder. i am in deadly fear of horses.
and the only place | feel happy is in
mammals victoria, where l cannot sou
them '' 'e'
at this I was rather nonplussed, hnt
still persevered. '"t
Your mother has been good enough to
ask me to visit you this summer. Yonr
place must be delightfully."- situoted fnr
sailing and bathing. You are Doubtless
aii great water nymphs.'
MY sisters have their boats,' said
my fair companion, which believe they
san IN their bathing dresses. As Vol
say, they are regular water nymphs. hut
l never go Oh the water, as / connot
SWIM. l do not care for outdoor hath.
ing 0' '"'n-
Then you must be artistic ax-
claimed, becoming really curious or nor
maps you write stories and are literary
in your tastes.
Neither the one nor the other sbo
replied, calmly. L neither write nor
paint "o'
1T was really becoming interesting
mis- was certainly not Il conyentionai
maiden, and l became quite eacer to
know her tastes. "
do tell me what you really like I
said, coaXingly. You must have some
decided likings. l am quite curious to
know what they are ~
simply adore plain sewing was the
most unexpected rejoinder L like moth
ing better than to sit down and hem and
stitch. My sisters belong to all sorts Of
charity organizations, and take articles
home by the dozens, which they never
make, and which they are only too clad
TO turn over to me. Besides that, / do
all the plain sewing of the house
Il looked at her with amazement. sDo
you really belong to the end of the con-
tury!' | said, or are you a maiden horn
a hundred years too late You ought to
be weaving tapestry in a donion fdwer
while your knight serenadeS you below
with his guitar The girl laughed and
looked very pretty and pleased.
81 thought I was so commentaries ,
she exclaimed, and you make it ali s0nnI
so nice. So you do not think 1t SO dread
full to be only a home, body after alp
II assured her land quite truthfullv>
that did not."-New York Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Refinement in Eating.

There is refinement in eating daintily,
and philosophy in choosing food that is
sklilfully prepared and arranged in such
artistic sequence as may best maintain
the body's health and it's powers of
work. A discriminating palate was not
bestowed upon us for nothing, nor were
all the varied savors of food bestowed
to be neg lected. But the man or woman
who! thinks dinner the event of the day is
neither lovable nor admirable, says the
Philadelphia Inquirer
Half the dull heaviness of spirit that
weighs down the world may be attributed
to indigestion, and half the indigestion
is caused by over-eating. The other half
may be attributed to bad cooking or a
foolish mixture of viands, as in the truly
terrible meal known as high tea" when
the beverage converts the meat into
something resembling leather.
Indigestion is the parent of ill-temper
and dependency, such very disagreeable
children that it is small wonder that the
world abounds with patent cures for
their detested source
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Good Advice for Girls.

Don't get discouraged because your an
cestors missed 1.-The Mayflower,' and
came over in less pretentious tub, says
the Rev. George S. Anderson. Be more
concerned about brains than birth.
Don't wait for dead mems shoes" or
for fortunes smiles or ''for something to
turn up," like the immortal Micawber;
but roll up your sleeves and get down to
work.
Don't make pleasure the chief end, or
aim in life. Remember that 'all recrea-
ton is recreation-" recreation for harder
toll If the creator had intended you
to live butterfly he would have fur
nished you with wings.
Don't trife with the souls deepest,
hottest passion-love-or, in plain Anglo
Saxon-don't firt. Why build fire in
magazine? or play on the crater of a
Vesuvius?
Don't marry for money, position or
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His New Brother,

His New Brother.
Yes. I've got a little brother,
Never asked for him from mother,
But he's here!
But / spOse they went and bought him.
For last week the doctor brought him.
Amt it queer?
When l heard the news from Molly,
Why, thought ut first twas jolly;
Cause you see
just imagined l could get him,
And our dear mamma would let him
Play with me.
But when once had looked at him
cried out; Ion, dear! Is that him?
Just that lnite!'
They said: Yes. you may kiss him.
Well, I'm sure Id never miss him.
He's fright.
He's SO SMALL it's just amazing,
And you'd think that he was blazing,
He's so red;
And his nose is like a berry,
And he's bald as Uncle Jerry
On his head.
He's no kind of good whatever,
And he cries as if he'd never,
Never stop:
Won't sit up-you can't arrange him.
Oh, why doesn't father change him
At the shop?
Now we've got to dress and feed him,
And we really didn't need him.
Little frog!
And I cannot think why father
Should have brought him when I'd rather
Have a dog!
London Daily Mail.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
For the Cooks Note Book.

Whiting and lime juice cleans ivory
knife-handles.
The busy housewife should get an
hours sleep in the afternoon.
Apply arnica to a bruise if the skin is
unbroken.
If broken, wash the bruise and apply
vaseline.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Glycerine and lemon juice in equal pro-
portions whiten the hands.
A hot bath taken at night affords re-
freshing sleep.
When you want to cut whalebone
warm it by the fire.
An egg beaten up in milk is good
"pick- me-up.'
SCOT covered with salt is easily brushed
up.
Where grease is split on wood cold wa
ter should follow.
Lemons slowed separately in dry sand
keep fresh.-Philadelphia Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04

Recently Alfred Gwynne Wander
bilt left New York on his tour of the
world. With this young member of the
Vanderbilt family, fresh. from Yale uni
versity, are three friends-Ernest Iselin,
William p. Burden and Douglas Coch-
rane. They began their journey in pri-
vate car, No. 493, built several years ago
by the Wagner company for Cornelius
Vanderbilt: In contains every convent
ence of house, with the added beauty
Of an observation-room. 1t has kitchen,
dining-room, statcrooms, a smoking-roonl,
dressing-room and is vestibulcd. Gossip
has never separated the names of Al
fred Vanderbilt and Miss Elsie French
since it first coupled them 1t is said
that photograph of Miss French will
accompany Mr.. Vanderbilt in his world
circling. Miss French is ii daughter Of
Mrs. Francis Ormond French. Like her
only sister, Elizabeth, who married Her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Sick Room Manners.

Sick people don't like to be stared at,
They are morbidly sensitive. 10 look
surprised at the change sickness has
wrought is annoying, and, worse than
that. it is disheartening, and makes in
valids imagine their case to be worse
than it is. Therefore, don't stare at
sick person, and don't stand at the back
of the bed to make him turn his eyes
round to see you.
Always sit by the bedside, for the pa
tlcnt feels more at rest than if you stand
up and talk before him. And don't whis-
per; don't talk in low voice; don't fol-
low the doctor or a caller out into the
next room. The invalid will be absolute
ly certain that you are discussing him.
Don't wear garments that rustic or are
made of rough clothing to come into con-
tact with hands made tender by sickness,
and don't wear creaking boots or thick
soled boots.-Woman's Life
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
A Ring with a History.

A ring with history has Just been
handed oyer to the Numismatic museum
Of Paris by a Polish gentleman, who pur-
chased it for Il small sum recently in
Warsaw. Shortly after he formed the
acquaintance of the lady who was at
terWard Marquise de Pompadour, Louis
XIV. presented her with an intaglio ring
representing his own apotheosis. 1t was
pronounced at that time to be a marvel
GUS work Of art, equaling anything of the
sort produced in ancient Greece or Rome
Round the edge was an elaborate inscrip-
ton. One day Nine de Pompadour, to
her distress, lost this precious ring, which
has now reappeared after nearly $50
years peregrination. If rings could speak
this one doubtless could tell curious
tale.-LondOn Chronicle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
No Vacation ut All.

To be under obligations at any time to
anybody is most unpleasant, but it's par
ticularly disagreeable side is most in evil
dence during this season, when the wom-
an who has Il friend in the country de-
cides to visit, rather than board, during
the brief spell, called jocularly va
cation, says the Philadelphia Times. She
feels. perhaps, that she Is saving money
by thus living with friends, instead of at
a hotel or boarding-house, and III order
to show her appreciation she just under
goes fortunes that politeness prevents her
from mentioning.
For instance. when she is absolutely
dead tired and would, il she could, lie
down III loose gown, regardless of how
her hair looks or her words sound, she
must sit up in stiff pique gown and be
conversational, trotting out to view the
improvements In suburban architecture,
manifesting an interest in the neighbour
hood gossip, including new babies and
the possible income of new residents, in
fact, making martyr of herself Just
because she realizes that she is saving
30, vi or 81 per week, but by no means
getting that real rest that she actually
needs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
prODtr Diet for Hot Nay.

1T is a mistake said a physician,
during the recent period Of extreme heat,
ito eat too little in hot weather, just as
it is a mistake to eat too much and the
wrong things. Extreme hot weather is
nourishment is needed to sustain the sys-
TEN. This nourishment should be of a
simple and easily -digested kind. For my
self, find that milk and vichy taken at
regular intervals of two hours, slipped
rather than gulped down in Il single
draught, gets me through best OH very
hot day from breakfast to 6 o'clock
dinner. They l take care to have fair
ly hearty meal.'-New York Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Kaiser Crowding His British keia-

Aalser CfOWuinS MS brltlsn fSela-
lives.
The Duke of Connaught has finally de-
cided not to give up his prospects in
Great Britain for the sake of his revis-
ionary right to the duchy of Saxe-Co.
burg-Gotha. He has accordingly re-
nounced the succession to the duchy for
himself and his heirs, and it passes to
the young Duke of Albany, who, with
his mother, will reside in Coburg and he
educated as Il German prince. He is
only Is, and for the present the right to
the regency is settled on the Prince of
Hohenlohe Langenburg, who is the En-
peror Williams candidate for the throne.
The Coburgers seem content, but the mo-
tive of the whole transaction is not yet
clearly explained, and there is a suspicion
abroad that the Emperor William de-
sires to GUST the English Cohurgs, aud
secure a duke who shall have no connec-
ton with that detestably Liberal coun-
try. If he succeeds, relatives of our
Queen and her husband will have lost
three thrones, Hanover, Brunswick and
Saxe-Coburg. in less than generation.
1t must not be forgotten. however, that
although Prince Alfred, the reigning
duke. Is in very bad health, he may live
many years.-Spectator, - s-.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04

bert Francis Eaton, colonel in the
Grenadier guards. Miss French is beau
ty and an heiress. The story of an en-
gagencnt between the pair has been de-
MED by the French family. The young
couple have been thrown together at
Newport. where their parents were near
neighbOrs. The touring party will 90
from Montreal across the continent to
Vancouver. where the young men will
take a steamship to Japan. There is talk
of a hunting expedition and Il long stay
in Abyssina. The gun lockers of car No.
1913 are filled with the best products of
the gunsmith. In spite Of the private car
comforts with which the expedition will
start, it is the intention Of the party to
rough it in Africa. The young men will
visit some of the toughest and darkest
countries Of the globe. but they will find
friends in the governors of these coun-
tries, as their fathers have smoothed the
way
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04

the captain when she told where to find
him, 'but since he robbed the church
had no use for him."
He had stolen. it seems, the commun-
ion service in a Staten Island church.
The thoughtless laughed. But in her ig-
norant way she was only trying to apply
the standards of morality as they had
been taught her. Stunted, bemuddled, as
they We're, think should prefer to take
my chances with her rather than with
the woman of wealth and luxury who,
some years ago, gave a Christmas party
to her lapdog, as on the whole the sound
est Of the two, and by far the most
hopeful.
Plenty of Sleep Necessary.
The first essential for enduring hot
spells is to get plenty of sleep. There is
eminent medical authority for the state
ment that heat prostrations are due much
more to the exhaustion incident to INSULT
Gent sleep on successive hot nights than
to the actual intensity of the daily heat.
Anything that deprives us of our sleep
ought to be stunned during the heated
season,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04

home-or II you belong to the gcntler
sex, for a Mrs" for your tombstone
or with your eye upon the doorway of
divorce: Let cupid, not mammon, weld
the links: and remember that for the
door of divorce Heaven has forged but
one kew
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
Plenty of Sleep Necessary.
Two Churches a Day.

For several years the Church Exten-
sion society of the Methodist Episcopal
church has furnished aid for the erection
Of two churches day, - ..S w..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
An Unusual Type of Womnnkiud. 4

II have discovered a veritable rara
avis" remarked a man, lalghingly, the
other day. II was asked not long agD
to dine with the Van Rensselaer, Browns,
There are four daughters in the family,
three Of when I know-all essentially
sisls q The period who Pay golf ride,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-17
insulting Our volunteer soId,,r,

The editorial genius who described Yer
mont as a region covered by "four feet of
snow on the level six months in the year."
is running loose agar in the Springfield
Republican office. He attributes the con-
sumption of 3,0O0,0 900 more gallons of beer
in 1898 than in 1897 to the war and says:
"Over 200, 900 young men were taken from
civil occupations and away from the re-
straints Of home surr' lndings, and placed
apart in camps, whe . the summer was
passed in idleness dissolute recrea-
tions."
He then takes up ne more noticeable
increase of S7,0OO,0OC n the government
revenue tax on whs and spirits. and
says the war was res nsible for most of
it, "snce the idlenes md demoralization
of army and camp ife not only made
drinkers Of men who uad been abstainers
at home, but heavily increased the drink
ing among men who o,herwise would have
been moderate drinkeis"
The brewing and aistilling companies
did an immense busin IS At Chickamauga
and other military camp but the bad rec
ord of increase belong to the country at
large and not TO our soldiers. The in
crease in the army was In round numbers
200, 600 men, large art of whom served
only few months. i'Ie 3 0O0,0O0 barrels
of beer, distributed among 100000 men
would give each man IL barrels, counting
in moderate drinkers nd total abstainers.
The increase in distilled spirits would give
each soldier many galionS of this kind Of
intoXcants, in addition TO his 10 barrels of
beer. 1t is hardly Necessary to prolong the
argument to show the iAlsity OF the Repub-
lican's claims
The insult Is renewed when the Repub-
lican says our volunteers passed the sum
mer sin idleness and dissolute recrea-
tions." We will wager one Of the Repub.
leans favorite big red apples that the
writer Of the editorial in question never
spent a day in one Of the Southern mill
tary camps. To mos; of our soldier boys
the summer was one Of work, trying expe.
riences and hardships.
The increase in the consumption of beer
and whiskey is a deplorable fact, but to
throw responsibility for II upon our volun.
teer soldiers is not only argument from a
false premise, but is aRpably slander on
the first POO, 900 ment5ho Stepped forward
when the country called for those who
would sacrifice their own interests, give W
comforts and luxuries, face privation, and
| If need be, death.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-17

The executive committee of the associa-
tion of American agricultural colleges have
appointed April ii, the anniversary of
Senator Morrilrs birth, as day to be OBJ
served with appropriate exercises by all
the agricultural and mechanical colleges of
the country organized and established un-
der the so-called Morrill, act of 1862. Mr..
Morrilrs first bill to grant public lands for
agricultural, scientific and industrial col
leges was vetoed by President Buchanan.
1t was introduced again by Mr.. Morrill,
and it became law through his manage
ment. Under this act AZ colleges were es-
tablished, and they now have over 500
professors and over 5000 students.