The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-19
HERE AND THERE.

Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. whose home is
in Charlotte. N. c.. is now in Saratoga.
Mrs. Davis. the only sister OF John
Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, is still
living at st. Johns, Mich. She Was the
youngest OF a family OF sixteen children.
Sarah Bernhardt's idea OF holiday Is
Ito go TO bed i'm quiet room, stay there
during the day reading and doing, dine
I'm slippers and dressing gown I'm the ev-
ening, and as soon as convenient there
after go back to- bed"
Princess Mele Barese, of Naples, is the
founder of the Society for the Protection
of Animals I'm that city. The organization
has checked much OF the cruelty to ami
mails which shocked American visitors to
Italy in former years.
Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, signified
TO the members of the Grand Army Ma
tional Encampment committee their in
tention TO be present at the encampment
in August Mrs. Grant will pass the sum-
mer at Richfield Springs with Mrs. Sar-
tcris and the Misses Sartoris.
David b. Henderson, speaker OF the
house. and Mrs. Henderson are In the
Adirondacks. Later they will leave for
Paris TO visit the exposition.
HOW TO TAKE A COOL BATH.
1.-THE popular shower bath is a fallacy,
so far as helping one TO keep cool is con-
cerned. for five minutes after you are dry
your skin is I'm a glow. The thing to do is
to fill your bathtup up with cold water.
get into IL and lie perfectly still for sew
eral minutes. To begin with three or four
minutes will be as long as you will want
to stay; later you will find yourself re-
naming for eight or ten minutes.
when you are thoroughly chilled
~ n.
is time TO get out. Now comes the inn
portant part. Most people think they must
scrub themselves furiously dry with a
crash towel. That is all wrong. IL simply
sets up action OF the pores and there you
are perspiring again. The proper way is
to press off the drops that adhere and do
the rest by tanning yourself with towel.
Then get into your clothes in leisureiy
manner and you will find that for three
or four hours thereafter you will he cool
and comfortable. though all creation
around you is melting its collar.
Take a bath like this just before
breakfast, and If you possibly can, an
other in the middle OF the afternoon when
the temperature is highest. and you will
find the miseries OF city life In the heated
spell so mtigated that you will forget
all about them. i first tried this two years
ago, when that terrific hot spell hit the
city early in August, and, though I3lad to
be In the city throughout the heat, got
through IL we'll and almost comfortably.
But IL must be remembered that this
treatment isn't for invalids or people with
weak lutys or hearts. / don't want TO be
responsible for deaths by heart disease
and pneumonia. The safe thing to do is to
ask your family physician whether you
are hardy enough to stand such a course
before you begin
DEFINITIONS OF HOME.
The only spot on earth where the faults
and failings OF fallen humanity are hid
den under the mantle OF charity.
An abode I'm which the inmate. the
superior being called man." can pay
back at night. with so per cent. interest,
every annoyance that has met him dur
ing the day.
The place where the great are some
times small and the small are often great.