The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Countess De La War;, who d.
vorced her noble husbaAd the other
day because of his scandalous life. is
one of the prettiest women in London
society. She is a daughter of the
enormously rich Lord BrasseS, a baron
and famous expert in naval and
shipping affairs. She accompanied her
parents on a "trip around the world
on Lord Brassey's yacht Sunbeam,
about which cruise his lordship wrote
very entertaining book. y
According to statistics just issued
Washington had the highest death rate
among the larger cities of the United
States during 1901. Charleston, S. C.
stands at the head of the list with a
death rate of 2911 per 1000; New Or
leans next, 21.44; Washington, 21.14;
Baltimore, 1925; New York, 20; Boston,
1870; San Francisco, 1884; Cincinnati,
1888; Philadelphia, 1927; st. Louis,
1857; Chicago, 1888. Iowa was the
most healthfuI state with a. mortality
record of 80 per 1000, and among the
territories Arizona was first, with a
rate of 49, Louisiana had the largest
percentage, of deaths, 20.65. The health
lest town in the United States was
Ellsworth, Wis, where with popu-
lation of 1900, there were only two
deaths, one of those being from small
pox.
In 1897, the Kansan stopped talking
about wanting to sell out that he
might GO back East; in 1898, he was
better contented; in 1885, he raised the
price on his real estate and built a
porch and bay window; in 1900, other
improvements followed and he con-
graduated himself on his foresight in
having remained while so many left
the state,~ says the Atlantic. The
smoke of the mandatory is appearing
in many towns where 1t had been I'M
known. 1t is not a sign of the coming
of immense establishments to rival
those of the New England, but of
smaller concerns supplying the needs
of the community, growing as the
state grows. This sort will be perna-
nent, but it will not make this a manu-
featuring state, for such is not Kan
sas' destiny. 1t is a state for mixed
farming and grazing, for cattle
horses, and COWS and soy beans, wind
mills and hay.
There is no other place in the world
where such various nationalities and
such widely different races can be
found in so small an area, as Honolulu,
true that on the mainland
such races are to be found.
but not all in one spot. Few people
realize how many different nationali-
ties are to be found in our schools, and
that few schools are confined to one
nationality. The statistics of school
children give US Hawaiians, Part-Ha-
waiians, American, British. German,
Portuguese, Scandinavian, japanese,
Chinese, Porto Ricans and scattering,
which are classed as other foreigners"
The tabulation of teachers gives Ha-
waiian, Part Hawaiian, American,
British, German, French, Belgium,
Scandinavian, Portuguese, japanese,
Chinese and others. The Japanese and
Chinese teachers are not employed in
the public schools of the territory, but
are engaged in private schools. The
main body of the teachers in the pub
lie schools are American, Hawaiian,
Part-Hawaiian and British
Pure violet essence is said to be
especially suitable to nercous people,
but it must be obtained from the flow
ers themselves, not from the chemical
limitations, says the Pictorial Maya
zine. Chemically derived perfumes are
irritant, poisonous even to persons of
especially sensitive constitution. True
flower scents are obtained in three
ways-first by spreading fresh bios
SONS upon glass thickly smeared with
pure grease, letting them stand in the
sun and as they wilt replacing them
until the grease is as fragrant as the
flowers; second, by repeatedly infus-
ing fresh petals In oil, and, third, by
infusing them in ether, which is then
distilled to a dry solid. AS this solid
sells for about $500 an ounce, it is easy
- d.
though far away the best, is not COM
monty used. But the scented grease
and the essences made by sleeping it
in pure spirit are never cheap. After
all the scent possible has been ex-
tracted from the grease 1t is still fra
grant enough to make the very finest
perfumed soap. All the citrine scents,
bergamot, nerol, orange flower water,
are refreshing and in degree stimu-
lating If properly prepared. To make
lasting perfume some animal base is
essential-musk, civet or ambergris.
The new mandate that has gone
forth is to the effect that neighbor-
ing districts must consolidate in order
to build a good central school build
ing, with several rooms and several
teachers, and a consequent oppor-
tunity for grading the scholars, says
decreed that the children must be
brought to this central school on a
cooperative plan, in suitable convey
ances for protection from cold and
wet and fatigue. Further, it is in
the air that the new consolidated coun-
try school must adapt it's methods of
instruction to the real conditions of
life. 1t must be a social and intellec-
tual center for .grown-up people as
well as for the children of the region.
1t must have an ample piece of ground,
and this must be kept in the most per-
feet order, as one of the primary in
terests and duties of the school. Ma
ture-study must enter largely into
school life and work, and a positive
taste for rural pursuits and for the
elements of the natural sciences must
be inculcated. The school grounds
must furnish object lessons in the
planting and maintenance of trees and
flowers, and, in so far as possible, may
well be utilized to teach practical gar
dening. A certain amount of manual
training for both girls and boys should
enter into the work of the school. and
every neighborhood should strive to
surpass all others in its zeal to secure
good teachers by offering proper in
ducements.
On our up-to-date farm we set out