New-York tribune., 1905-01-02

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People often arc heard to wonder how It is the
newspapers mako such mistakes, and nearly every
student Of history has been called on to marvel at
the growth-out OF the air. apparently-ot myths.
writer IN Brooklyn Life tells q little anecdote
which throws some light on both processes. It
seems that at a reception the other night q for
eigner, evidently titled man. attracted considera-
pended from his neck by scarlet ribbon. Being
Thar believed he was, the Grand Duke AIexieff.
in the Far East had come to this country for a
much needed rest says the .'Brooklyn Life
seemed incredulous. but before tho evening was
was present had spread considerably, and was in
formed by one that it mad come to her excellent
authority"
Tho New-England Conservatory Of Music Is said
TO the best collection of Japanese musical in
struEnents IN the country. And there is inter
esting little story attached to the way the con-
servatory came by It. Through DR.. Eben Tourjee.
the founder Of the conservatory, invitation was
extended to DR.. Luther Whiting Mason Boston
musician. TO go to Japan and accomplish IN the
Mikado's capital what he had already done in his
home town-that was, 10 adapt music to the uses
of children and place it in the curriculum Of the
IN three years succeeded in building up in that
daTds This a1y SesGs ago It Ws the
aTSt systematic Sttenpt nsde Sy OSedentaIs tow
anese music. In recognition Of the musicians ser
the conservatory in Boston the original charts
whch were used IN ; teaching E@rOpeaa1 @ music to
splendid collection which later the Mixado pre-
Of missionary EFFORT spent in the Land Of the RS
ing Sun by the old Boston musician is to be seen
songs take root In japanese minds Thanks TO DR..
been whistiine "3edeiia,' and '3Ius Beilg al sum
mer it is said.
Peanuts are not alone good to eat it seems They
make pretty winter window gardens. too. Many
an ingenious schoolmarm has found this out for
herself, when, casting about for something
wherewith TO illustrate 10 her young charges the
ways of nature she placed few raw peanuts in
pot Of moist earth with the result that pretty
running vine soon wound itself about the casing OF
moist makes capital Judgement for the small seeds
banked UP with moss or small stones in a saucer
and sPrined with mustard St F; seed so eyo1geS o. into
these devices are well worth trying. even If there
watching the peanuts and the canary seed and the
mustard seed ''doing things is real whether one Is
six or sixty
st don't see what has come over the people who
attempt to illustrate chndren's stories for grown
ups'' remarked New-York woman recently as
she turned over the pages Of popular magazine
Now, herer'-and she held up q group Of babies
and small CHILDREN at play-"did you ever see such
that with It's pig eyes buttonhole Of mouth and
ftG9us tba IS built expressly for
women's reading you find this same type of child
I wonder why a child should be more engaging for
looking like foolf But II seems 10 DO lle 1as'N
TO make them look that way
"If nervous people would only drink more water
they would not be nervous remarked a trained
nurse the other day. Nearly every physician
1tu recommend a woman who Is suffering from
nervous prostration nervous exhaustion to drink
lots of water between meals. but many women VINO
do not under doctors car care a,S %0uG 81 teel
quart Of water in the course Of the day water
q distinctly soothing effect. when slipped gradually
as one can test for herself am not enough OF !, a
6oe5 this % but water slipped slowly and gradually
has somewhat the same quieuhS erect AS USe'
breathing.
Using the elaborate and expensive ventitating
apparatus OF the ST. Regis Hotel text Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman in The Woman's Jour-
nal" breaches a sermon. urging greater fastdious-
ness in the matter of the air one breathes
I'VE have" she says with advancing oiviiza-
ton grown very particular about personal clean
liness We must bathe. forsooth. not only daily
hut bdaily and tr-daily, dressing and re-dresslng
our well washed bodies IN continual clean clothes
From this height OF superiority we look down
,,tb snorn on the poor brother whose clothes reek
nth many odors and who Is washed mainly by
the natural functions OF the skin. Yet doctors tell
us that the hardwOrking man. who earns his bread
IN a sweat only POLITICALLY confined 20 the brow'
is cleaner than the mueh-soaked milIonaiFe fhere
IS less dirt IN him-it comes out
.Nye are also most particular about cleanliness
IN eur houses-many servants must keep them
swept and garnished for us-and about Cleanliness
a. or- food eating only OF hrst-class materials
aaintiiy prepared But with all this deIcacy OF
SSahtt fbss most greasy savage is seraph clean
oomparsd TO us In the matter OF air lie oreathes
SS1ra ar rich in oxygen We get together IN vast
RerrS. xaSia The air with all manner OF dsa-
ereeable and revolving Lnatter-ancluolns disease
sserms-and then contentedly breathe II ..,
1--WE have cultivated an extreme selslCveness
o. bsst and cold: and II any person with q trained
% oent,on ne OF Teatfye purity In air demands more
Ventilation. the others say surprised; s,,n Zoe. u
~ the needs of ventilation has been gwen there
remains this complete indifference "a % ths qoany
20 ~. air obtained Only In places Wnere oslcate
machinery must be preserved from denlement have
,e learned 70 take elaborate precautions rs 10 the
nature OF tho air admitted ,, $50.
when those Of refined and i%panrlons % Gus easae5 s11
as their wnal when tho habit e formed or pTesth-
ine pure s1r. r@ooenizin& II Rassia4 'S osi''S