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lists The principal monthly magazines
were also available for those Of the work.
house residents who cared to read At
tached to each workhouse Is a library and
reading room. where inmates may obtain
books
Carriages were hired by the Poplar work
house In order to send men who had found
jobs TO their places OF business. Broughams
were supplied for this purpose by a con-
tractor who testified that he had siled the
poorhouse master for $3.50 for the hire of
carriages ION his own" This had nothing
to do with the item of sending laborers to
work. The men. It was alleged could have
easily gone to their work by bus at an ex-
pense OF about five cents for the return
journey. instead of being sent to London
Bridge station en- route to Lingieid, III
hired broughams- In investigating the car
rage bill an attempt was made to bring to
ligh- the fact that the former master Of the
workhouse used these convyeyances for
taking some of his LADY friends out for
airings and to various London theaters and
of the subject was looked upon. however.
in the light of side issue, 1t was passed
over by the government representative.
Attention was also concentrated on the
lavish expenditure made by the guardians,
who In all their purchases favored local
contractors. 1t was brought to light In this
connection that during the last year prices
OF certain implements used in the work
house have increased in a mysterious way.
altogether disproportionate to the price
paid for the same articles In the previous
year. For instance. in 1893 copper pans
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Hints to Nervous Women.
ErOm Harper's Bear

from Harpcrs Bazar
There are many things a neurasthen;c
woman can do which Will mitigate tho
severity OF her symptoms and perhaps IL
the disease is slight, she may recover with
out the Intervention of her physician In
the first place. the original trouble worry
or anxiety which was responsible for her
nervous breakdown must be done away
with. or. If this is impossible, she must
school herself not TO care, or else remove
where her mind will not be harassed
Peace of mind will do more to restore
shattered nerves than almost anything
else. The next thing is to make the bodily
health as good as II can be made under the
existing circumstances and surroundings
Sleep and rest are absolutely essential 10
recovery, and the sufferer should do ali she
can TO secure both. Narcotics TO produce
sleep, are not to be thought Of They do
not cure anything, and their continual rse
ouiilize the mind. Danish by force or will
than with Some one else whose restlessness
or deep breathing, 10 say nothing OF snor-
ing. might wen Danish sleep from the eyes
of even Morpheus himself. Sometimes a
warm foot bath before bed. or eating a
slice of bread and butter, or drinking a
glass of milk will bring sleep TO the tired
eyes. II, however, these means are made
quafe IL Is better 70 consult a physician
Normal sleep and plenty OF it must be se--
secured before recovery becomes possible
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RED DOG.
A Mighty Hunter in India and Mr..
Kipling's Jungle Book.

From the Saratoga Review.
The red dog never reaches the size of
wolf though it exceeds that OF a jackal. Its
shape is uncouth the body narrow and low
In the forequarters, with loose limbs ending
in large awkward paws, the head and brush
carried low. The head. remarkable for the
large blunt furry ears, Is intermediate be-
tween the domestic dog and fox, without the
honest look Of the one or the quick-witted
sharpness of the other. Against these dis
advantages the bright chestnut hue OF the
wild dogs coat, shading into black at the
end of the brush, does not avail for hand
someness.
over most of India 1t is to be found, on
mountains and in plains, In forest, where
forest grows and about the bare slopes
where the hills have not vegetation. East
of India very similar beast ranges even
to Java, and another, paIer and shaggfer,
haunts Siberia and Saghalien, so that over
most of Asia one form other Is to be
reckoned with. Naturally the Indian spe-
cies is the best known. yet 1t is not known
at all intimately, for though SO widely
spread 1t is not common animal and the
field naturalists of India have little to say
of it. But it Is clear that the red dog is
a very different animal from the wolf and
far superior to any other eastern canine.
Most of the wild relatives of our dogs are
cowardly beasts. feeding on earrion and
small animals and only attacking large
ones when hard pushed by hunger Such
is the VOLTS way OF life while the tackal
skulks round villages and sometimes enters
large towns in search of scraps making
night hideous with his howls, even In CAL
ctitta. But the red dog is a true hunter,
the deadiiest foe to the game animals that
is known In the east He is not very swift
less SO than the jackal--nor is he adroit or
graceful In his actions but he follows the
scent mostly in silence, with a deadly per-
sistence. and however long the trail may be
the pack runs into their victim without fall
In the end. They do not go in large num-
bers-a dozen would be big pack-but
what they want In force is replaced by
their courage and cunning strategy in at
tack.
Their ordinary prey is the powerful sam
bur deer and the beautiful spotted axis,
corresponding to our red deer and fallow
deer, the various antelopes OF the plains
and wild goats of the hills. All of these
they harry in turn for a few days, then
the terrified beasts forsake that section of
the jungle and the red pack must range
far afield again, not to return Till long after,
when the terror of their raid has subsidized
in the locality. Their methods of attack
are terrible in the extreme;. some of their
devices. indeed. can hardly be mentioned
here Suffice 1t to say that their ordinary
plan. whenever possible. Is to diseml5owel
the victim.
Deer are not the only prey on which
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ing the class from which these paupers
come.
All these vast expenditures have to come
from the pockets Of the very poor In the
form of poor rate taxation'-a certain sum
levied each year every householder IN
London In poor sections OF the metropolis,
such as West Ham and Poplar, where only
the lowest orders of the working classes
dwell poor rates fall most heavily. What
has aroused the indignation of all sections
of the community more than anything else
Is the fact that the people inhabiting the
warehouses; have been better housed and
more sunptuously fed than the people who
have been supporting them.
The facts revealed in the Poplar inquiry
have been OF a truly astonishing character
For instance. the average poor person in
the Poplar district who pays about 81
week for rent and lives in four-roomed
cottage, never tastes butter, even of infe-
rior quality. but has to put up with marga-
rine or a substitute for it called drip
ping" COMPOSED of the cold gravy OF
cheap meat. bought at about i've or ten
cents a pound. In the Poplar workhouse,
however. inmates were supplied with the
best butter costing thirty-two cents per
pound Very good butter is bought any
where in London for twenty-four cents per
pounds When 1t ie considered that 37,7o4
pounds of the 'best butter" costing s1O-
SS52S per wear. were used in the Poplar
workhouse. the item y significant.
On a line with the butter was the tea
supplied to this particular workhouse. 1t
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In the Sick Room.
philadelnnia Innnirer

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Keep bottles as far as possible out of
sight.
Never leave medicine. drink or food I'M
covered in the sick room.
Have the bed foot or two from the
wall
Plenty of ventilation. but no air directly
blowing on the patient.
Everything fresh and clean, with the pur-
est of soap and plenty of warm water
Each individual disease requires a pecu-
liar diet of its own.
Tobacco should never be used In the sick
room.
Use kindness but firmness toward the pa
tient.
To assuage thirst and cure feverishness
apple tea Is notable sick drink 1t is
made by slicing raw apples into jug, fill
ing up the jug with boiling water, as in
tea making, then sweetening to taste.
When cold this apple tea will be found
pleasantly tart and refreshing.
Nowadays doctors forbid equity patients
to eat any kind of sweet food, but recon-
mend them to eat at least dozen walnut.
day. There is no doubt that walnuts are
most useful In equity subjects or in cases
of chronic rheumatism. Swelling goes down
and pain decreases.
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was of a far better quality than that fur
nshed to the house of commons and used
by members Of parliament. The house OF
commons has been said to be the finest club
in Europe, and yet it was surpassed In
many respects by the Poplar workhouse.
House OF commons tea came to only thirty
six cents per pound, while that contracted
for in large quantities to be supplied to the
Poplar poorhouse was ffty-six cents per
pound-almost double. And nearly 1900
pounds Of cake were also consumed at the
Poplar poorhouse last year.
Another of the rather bizarre items con-
sisted of gilt-edged notebooks for Poplar
guardians. These diaries were bought at
the rate of $40 for eighty books or fifty
cents apiece. 1t came out in evidence that
had been deliberately rejected, though the
books offered at the lower figure were OF
just as good quality the "gilt-edged"
ones.
Damask table napkins, and art serge for
draping statuary." were some of the items
criticised by the government inspector,
while the writing paper supplied to the Pop
lar poorhouse was required to be best ar
tistic parchment. double thick, cream
wove."
The tobacco bill for the Poplar poorhouse
figured out at $3.50 for the year. This
gave each inmate an allowance of ounce
a week OF course. the tobacco was like
the other things used in Poplar, only of the
best quality. Certain of the inmates of this
home of pauper luxury preferred snuff to
tobacco. To meet their requirements the
guardians expended $3.50 per year. which
gave each old lady in the workhouse more
than an ounce of snuff per week.
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DlflNG RoO1 OF Mf5J HAN PoOR-hOU5G.

who could afford it"-that Is, whose self
respect did not prevent-got some sort of
government relief during last year. Be-
sides the ordinary support given to thou
sands Of people within the workhouse
proper. there were large funds spent on
what is known IN London as Outdoor re-
lief" which consists in supplying food, coal
and other necessities to the poor. These
supplies are paid for by government taxa
ton, levied in the local districts.
VIII Crooks the famous labor member of
parliament who is chairman of the Poplar
board Of guardians. explains the situation
by stating that the industrial condition of
the times REQUIRED that large sums should
be spent on laborers out of work. His ex-
plantations. however fail to cover the EVIL
dent cases of wasteful expenditure which
have taken place in connection with the
Poplar and other poorhouses. Verify, Lon
don has become within the past ten years
a pauper's paradise. and with such luxuries
and accommodations as have been supplied
to the inmates of British poorhouses no one
can be blamed in these days for laying
down his arms in the battle of life.
w. B. NORTHROP.
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certain warehouses IN the poorest neighbor-
hoods. London is daily growing more and
more astonished.
For instance It was found that In the
Poplar workhouse beer and other stimu-
lants, such as expensive brandy have been
supplied to inmates who were not on the
sick list. The vino cellar Of this work.
house has been dubbed by the inmates
themselves the horn of plenty 1t was
here that members of the board of
guArdians-the directors of the poorhouse--
were wont to assemble and resale them
selves at the public expense. According to
government regulations stimulants are sup
posed to be given only to persons in the
workhouse who may be Ill and who have
the doctors orders for these delioacies. In
stead OF waiting for the doctors orders,
many inmates received a daily allowance OF
brandy. while guardians, both male and
female. attended regularly the horn OF
plenty" for the purpose Of absorbing a GER
tain amount of moist goods paid for by
the public. According to official figures, the
money spent on beer for paupers in London
each year is 5000 while the tobacco and
snuff bills run into an almost equal amount.
n
Not only Poplar and West Ham, but
many other sections of London show re-
markable examples of pauper luxuries. Last
year there was erected at Hammersmith
pauper palace costing 1890 600. This build
ihk, which is OF the most modern design.
would compare favorably with many first
cias- hoteis on both sides of the, Atlantic.
The ground on which the building stands
was acquire dat 5000 an acre, having cost
sIa 800. making the total sum paid more
than a million and a quarter dollars. The
furniture of this really magnificent place
cost s3s.735. As the institution was built
to contain only 75S paupers, the sum ex-
pended on each man averaged for shelter
I alone 81 800. which. according to onclal
fg,,res is tust ten times the capital per
head which is spent by builders in shelter
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Pleasure as a Business.
he London Observer.

From the London Observer.
Society takes It's pleasures seriously
enough. as we in England are al wont TO.
In the east end of London there is far
more genuine enjoyment. hilarity. spirits
and spirit-than In Hyde Park on Sunday
evening, at Ascot or at Henley Fashion is
not the world which amuses itself. II hmuses
others far more And as for the deeper
side of the question. we'll we are no worse
than other ueoples Look at Ascot lon the
gold cup day. 1t is a sight unique in all
the world--such frocks, such beauty such
wealth. such propriety. Would England be
the better for the absence of it? DO ask
Pretty Polly, that strange. sleek, fast
mare herself symbolic Of the race WHO race
with her.
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accepting the lowest tenders for supplies,
the manager of the Poplar, West Ham and
other homes of the destitute seem to have
paid the highest prices possible and sup
piled only the best of everything 10 the
tramps and wastrels who patronize these
poor mans paradises.
Americans familiar with the works OF
Charles Dickens generally imagine the Eng
Ish poorhouse as one Of those grinding in
stitutions which the poor would almost
rather starve than enter. In reality there
Is keen competition for admission to some
of the poorhouses of London, and the al
refuse well-paying jobs rather than lose
their opportunity of experiencing the rest
and good cheer afforded them by certain of
the London castles Of Incidence.
X u
One OF the poorest quarters of the me-
tropolis is West Ham. and here the cry OF
the unemployed has been loudest. Yet 1t
was in the West Ham poorhouse that dur
Ing last year 4.63S fine fowls" costing over
a dollar each. were supplied to the inmates
who in their own homes would never taste
chicken from one years end TO another.
When the government inspector recently
discovered this fact he surcharged the West
Ham poor guardians" with one shilling or
twenty-five cents. OF the cost of each fowl
on the ground that not more than seventy
I'VE cents at the outside should have been
paid, with the result that these worthless
Will have 70 20 Into their own pockets to
the extent OF 81 100 1t waste this poor
house also that "giit-edged notepaper of
the finest quality was supplied, and even
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Cigarette.
From the London Chronicle

From the London Ebronicle
Cigarette smoking, which the expert wit
nesses before the House Of Lords commit
tee have been denouncing as terribly bad
for boys, rs a very modern vice. or accom-
plishment. in this country. even for adults
The word Cigarette itself does not seem
to occur ~ Es.glish until well on in the
nineteenth ceaffsy. Lady Bell, who COM
plains that s.suffra gettes ought to mean "a
little suffrage can have no fault to find
with "cigarette1 which means, of course
Just what 1t appears to mean, little cigar.
The genealogical origin of cigar itself
however is euriously obscure. Webster
says that it was the name of a kind of
Cuban tobacco. but the most fascinating
conjecture is that Il really means cicada,
the cigar being: supposed TO resemble that
insect In shape
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these terrible creatures adventure: the big
gest horns known of the gaur (Bos gaurus)
came from one said to have been killed by
wild dogs, of the Burmese race in this case;
and yet the gaur, the largest of all wild
oxen. is too much for the ordinary tiger:
and the tiger often falls with the bear, the
most gallant of all wild animals. but the
fellow-carnivoreS even are not safe. The
black bear Of the Himalayas. although the
fiercest of Indian bears, has been seen IN
his last struggle with the pack, with torn
coat and flesh in strips, fighting ganley
still
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American Lawmakers.
. the Philadelphia Ledger.


The British empire has sixty-five iegis-
htive bodies. In 1903 they passed about
1,90o acts and ordinances. The state legis-
latures OF the United States in that year
enacted more than 14,oo0 laws and reso-
buttons. of which more than 5.4oo were gen.
sral and the remainder were local or pri-
yate. In America II is not always the most
populous state that needs, or seems to
need. the most legislation. In 1903 North
Carolina led with 20 enactments.
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One of the most interesting revelations in
connection with the Poplar inquiry came to
light when the farm colony run in connec-
ton with the workhouse was considered.
This colony had been started for the pur-
pose of supplying profitable" work to the
surplus unemployed who could not get into
the workhouse proper. On a farm of sev
enty acres. which had previously been
worked by six men. there were drafted 142
paupers, under the management of seven
teen officials. According to testimony sup
piled by the local police In the neighborhood
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Copyright in the United States and Great Britain
hy Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserved)
LONDON. July &c. 1906
I~ PLENDID paupegs' is a term
@$A that has acquired a new sig
nificanee in this country of late.
~ Heretofore II has been used to
describe certain financiers. who,
though nominally bankrupt. still manage
20 reside in sumptuous mansions, maintain
country seats and keep motor cars. AT
present. however. the designation OF splen-
did paupers' applies most directly to the
inmates Of various London poor houses
which. as an official investigation has Just
proved. are run on a sale of magnificence
which would not disgrace the new Ritz Ho-
tel. the Carlton or any other OF the swsgger
hosteries OF which the metropolis is justly
proud.
As matter OF fact. were the genuine no.
tells conducted on the scale of expenditure
and waste that has characterized many
London warehouses they would have gone
into bankruptcy long ago, for, instead OF
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were purchased at s1.25 per dozen, whereas
in 1895 the same pans were bought by the
guardians at s. per dozen; carving knives
at $3.50 per dozen in 1895 were In 1896
bought at $3.50 per dozen, while coffee pots
were bought at s15 per dozen. enough the
lowest tenders of contractors outside Of
Poplar were only $3.50 per dozen for the
same quality of coffee pot. The lowest ten
der for carving Knives was 81. so per dozen,
but the guardians favored bid for SO per
dozen.
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Of the colony all these men had high
old Time and few OF them failed to be
convicted Of misdemeanors- On Saturday
afternoons 1t was usual for these farm
coIonists'' to visit the nearest saloons. Many
of them were supplied with railway fares
and forty-eight bours' leave for the pdr-
pose of looking for work 1t was pointed
out that they could scarcely find work on
Saturday after pm. and that as the prin-
cipal part of their leave included Sunday
the main object of the time allowance was
TO AFFORD them a chance OF going home to
their wives and families at public expense
These farm colonists we're supplied with
1890 pounds Of best poultry, supplemented
by good English OK beef. freshly killed =
good English "wether mutton, freshly
killed" and other delicacies Gorgonzola,
Stiston and Cheddar cheese, best Lea 81
Perrin sauce. best crackers, finest roasted
mocha coffee and the best ham also found
their way to the poorhouse guests.
That the superhuman efforts on the part
of the poorhouse authorities to make their
inmates happy were fully appreciated by
the pauper population OF Poplar is demon
strated by some interesting statistics re-
lating to the increase OF so-1alled poverty
of the "gilt-edged'' variety-since 1885.
Here is the table of expenditure. produced
by one of the authorities who helped to
bring about the investigation:
1ss5-Amount spent on Poplar poor. SIT .5o5
fee6-Amount spent on Poplar poor. 261. 11n
19O5-Anount spent Poplar poor. 513. 675
1906-Amount spent on Poplar poor. 5SorOo
1t thus appears that every one in Poplar
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One Of the most remarkable Items mem
toned on the inspectors charge sheet was
that of $500 per annum for newspapers. All
London dailies. most of the expensive
weekly publications. such as Sketch, Taller
and other society" 1ournals-not excepting
the Court Circular-were on the workhouse
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MODERN GIRL SCORNS
ART OF FEMININITY

justified by facts It Is harder for the
average woman to lose sight of the sex
question than for camel to pass through
a needles eye. She may have the most
exalted ideas In the world as to the pre-
eminence OF the platonic over all other va
rieties of love; she may regard the male
part OF the community-collectively a
man and a brother. But all the same she
will inevitably feel aggrieved II the lndi-
vidual portion of II represented by her
''comrade' fail TO convey a neat compli-
nfent-judiciously, of CONSIGNMENT the be-
comingness of her costume and her own
general superiority TO all other women In
the world. Fancy man complimenting
his chum on the color of his eyes, or the
bewitching arrangement OF his hair, or the
exquisite taste displayed in his choice OF
a necktie! The skies would fall and the
floods break loose in the cataclysm that
would inevitably follow.
There are, of course, feminine excep-
tons 20 whom these observations cannot
be applied; but, curiously enough, the ex-
ceptions are not the most popular candi-
dates for comradeship The natural per-
verseness of man makes him steer con-
sstently clear of the woman who In any
degree resembles himself. The short-haired,
blue-stockinged sisterhood are his partic-
ular aversion. The woman with the log
ical brain. who can knock his pet argu-
ments into a cooked hat-and does 1.-THE
politely but firmly declines to admit to his
friendship. The mannish woman, whose
skirts alone serve TO distinguish her from
the noble sex she strives to emulate, In
variably prompts him to make Decline
for the nearest corner. He dfslikes the
woman who smokes he despises the woman
who drinks and he abominates the woman
who swears- He may do each and every
one of these things himself, but he doesn't
IN irts feminine friends. The truth is that
he never sees how Objectionable they are
until some would-be comrade OF the other
sex makes the fact apparent.