The age-herald., 1901-02-11
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

"Consumptives as a rule are cheerfMS set of fellow beings" said man who like Lochinvar wisely came out of the west.
 'The fact that they have fatal malady does not seem to depress them In the least.
 At western resort. where good many of
 them go for their health, one of their fads is temperature party"
 "A what?' asked listener, fearing he had not exactly understood him "A tenn perature party" said the first speaker
 This is a rather gruesome spectacle to @ looker-on, but the participants seem to en- joy it. As a rule consumpt1yes have more or less fever at all times, and this is the excuse for the temperature party. They sit around the piazza each one with Q fever thermometer in his mouth and at a given moment some one calls time, and the thermometers are then examined. Each one announces his score, to speak, and the one who has the highest fever wins the prize. You would be surprised to know with what zest they enter into the game, and how close and exciting some of the contests are. =
 By some unforeseen circumstances I happened to witness the death of one of these unfortunates. He was a physician and while far gone in the disease his death was rather sudden and unexpected. He took severe cold, which caused his death in few hours He was perfectly con- scious up to his last breath. He kept one hand on his pulse the whole time and every now and then he would turn to the physician who was in attendance and say
 It's getting weaker, doctor Finally he noticed that his nails were getting blue and he held up one hand and called the doctors attention to 1t. I reckon that's the end he said. It was the end, for he did not speak another word and died a few seconds afterwards
 when you see a woman in a carriage you can always tell how long she has been accustomed to ride in one by the angle of her back said dry goods merchant who has been In business many years. "I see a good many women who drive up to my store, and although I know most of them and the relauye ages of their carriages, still l could tell merely from observation which of them were born to carriages and which acquired them There is nothing about the former class which attracts the eye. Their backs make an angle of about 30 degrees. They seem to harmonize with the carriage and the eye takes in the whole, both woman and carriage. as one picture. It is like a well-dressed man. You do not notice any one particular thing in his dress. There is general effect produced of quiet elegance and tha hto oJo mate terms with each other
 'As for the women who acquire carriages their backs never seem to get the correct angle. Either they sit bolt upright on the seat, looking stiffly uncomfortable or they lean back too far, apparently trying to ap- pear at ease. Their backs either make no angle at all or one exceeding 45 degrees. The eye always notes these women as be- ing separate and distinct from their car riages. In other words you see both at the same time separately. It Is usually a new carriage and new woman and they have not had time to grow together. It is like a new man with new suit of clothes To have the proper affinity between people and things there must not be too much of the new. One or the other must be old. The new and the old attract like positive and negative electricity. The new woman should always use an old carriage, while the 'old' woman can appear to advantage in a new one.
 q aw an exhibition the other day that somewhat shattered my faith in the germ theory" said a man at cafe. T was go- ing up Twentieth street about o'clock in the evening, when it began to rain. I did not have an umbrella, and thinking the rain would soon hold up, went into To- cent show more to get out of the rain than to see the show. The latter was of the usual kind skirt dancing etc., but what I started to tell you about was an exhibition given by the contortionist After going through the usual twstines and turnlngs of joints wrong side out he announced to the audience that he was a freak. "A freak said he, is any one devoid of one of tho five senses. who is born deaf is & freak, we'll who is born without the sense of smell I am freak because have no sense of pain and to prove it will proceed to stick hatpins through my 1esh.' He then took four or five hatpns be examined. The audience was by 10 means of the kid glove type and half a dozen grimy miners and others handled the pins. The freak then took them and proceeded to stick them through his neck cheeks and arms. I suppose there were million germs on each hatpin, and when it Is considered that this performance is car ried out four or five times day without killing the freak with blood poison as say, it somewhat destroys faith | in the germ theory"
 THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.