New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-26
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a Chicago oculist thinks he has discovered a
cure for drunkenness in properly fitted glasses"
In paper read not long since before the National
Opticians convention this eye-doctor reported as
result of careful investigation, that "inebrlates
generally suffer from certain deviations in the ac-
commodation and convergencs OF the eyes" In
many cases glasses which remedied these de-
rangements OF sight had also the effect of dimin-
ishlng the patients appetite for liquor" Eye
popular Of ailments second only to appendicitis in
point Of fashion. One scientist has declared that
the etSp philosophy Il he had worn glasses. and
an4thsr attributes the works Of various celebrated
from which he has discovered they sufferers.
s in the Application Of and 70 Se
nomena to vicious habits like intemperanos.
~ Buenos Ayres OF one sort and another. One of
them ia woman's exchange.
A large department store In Boston has made 4,
custom for the past FIVE years to give its
employees share In the profits accrung from the
sales between December l and Christmas Day
One-haif OF per cent OF the amount OF the sales
MA b en p those two dates by each employee
ana the bundle girls errand bows, shippers book
the ceunter nevertheless receive a share according
10 their position and term or service Last year
some or the clerks made $50 and $40 IN this way
Every year the Consumers League ands Il neces-
sary to tell the Christmas shopper how not to
, shop. Ats recommendations are SO simple and so
sensible that Il q pity they should be linn
tied In any way to Christmas shopping Don't
shop after O'clock says The league. Don't shop
mas shopping until the week before ChristmSs
RDon,t give your address caroessly to saiespeOple
Consumers League label.
Tho rumor that fashionable set In London has
started kind Of school Of conversation sets the
"Lady's Pictorial" Of into sorrething like snaar,
OF fear lest the rising generation of English women
shall turn into chatterboxes ike American girls
'OT late years" II says the American girl whose
chatter 10 incessant, has been held up as an ex-
ample In this respect to her English sister and
constantly hears this or that girl described as
one who IS always bright and cheerful and al
ways has something to say Still, 1t is very doubt
box and If conversation IS gotng to be taught
1 H arr ART we shall doubtless have reason TO wish
not run on quite so huently and have smart an
or course. there are times when we want poope
to talk and when lively and inconseauentIal chat
with feelings Of nsgivnF that one thinks ay Of # "a
conversatonaiists when epsrams may hang slna on
every lip. when shall all be prepared at mo-
fund Of funny stories and an evertiowlns stream
OF breezy nothinsness shall be possessed by every
titled English woman Lady Marjorie Erskine
has recently entered a in a chtdren's hos
pital in London. She is to be known simply as
Of Sutherland became nurse In a large London
hospita! some time ago, but finding the profession
too hard, was reluctantly Obliged to reiinQuish IT,
Nursing Is of the callngs whose social status
is steadily rising. To be "a lady is regarded as
essential in applicant TO one OF the high grade
American training schools to have the requisite
youth and physical strength
Owing to Queen Alexandras fondness for can
aries. London society is taking up this little bird
and making fashionable pet OF it. People who
have studied canares affirm that they arc by no
means the silly, irresponsible they seem
put have minds OF their own and sometimes even
characters. Alexandra is having a magnificent new
aVary at Windsor built with every luxury the
heart Of bird ask
No woman not professional musician has ever
played so important part in musical history as
Frau Cosima Wagner. the daughter OF Liszt and the
wife Of Wagner. says Gustav Kobbe. in an ar
tcle In 1.-THE Deneator." Yet she is not must
clan Cosima was the favorite daughter OF her
famous father, and at twenty was described by
wagner as "Liszt's wonderful image, but OF SUI
perlor intellect" List refers her affectonately
In mis- letters "Cosette' and Cosmetic" and
speaks OF her as "a rare and beautiful nature OF
great ana spontaneous charm" After she had been
married 10 Wagner couple of years ne wrote TO
frlend; Cosma is still my terrible daughter as
USED 10 call her. an extraordinary woman and of
lne nlghest merit, far above vulgar Judgment, and
,worthy or the admtrng sentiments which she has
INSPIRED IN all who have known her. She Is de-
Voteu TO wagner with all-abSorbng enthusiasm
IKE Senta to the Flying Dutchman-and she will
loIoWs her with keen perception"