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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-01-01
Women Who Wear wen.

It's astonishing how great change .
iew years OF married life often make In
the appearance and disposition of many
women. Tho freshness. the charm. tho
brilliance vanish like the bloom from n
peach which is rudely handled. Inc
matron is only q dim shndow, faint echo
of the charming maiden. There are two
,,aIoat IS,s,, s,,,','ss,.
20" youhb Molien a, 'ia.. ~
the shocR 10 the system throuBh the
motherhood. Many neglect to deal with
tIa nnnleasant neivIc drains and weak
s..o,oa t,,SI,h a. IT,, 900 ,,,It,,
hesseS Wnlch 700 oIten come Win Win mar
rlage and motherhood, not understanding
that this aecrat drain ig rObbinR the cheek
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No hurrY.

The American traveller who enc
deavors to hasten the comfortably
gated orient against its wish soon
comes to iiAlt. That was the ex-
perience of GA Woman Alone In
the Heart of Japan"
"Make the rickman hurry. ] have
a date and can't wait here all days
,hc said to the "boss rickman" ati
the station. He blazed like a fiery
dragon.
"yell, you get SO mad, you no can
wait for dis, you go find nodder rick4
shaw" he said.
She answered very meekly:
"Dear friend, you do not know
me- / am not the least bit mad.
This is only gentle American hus-
tie. If you want me to be real mada
/ will show you the difference"
"Ven, you vas almos' mad," he in-
sisted. "You seem JUS like mad
when you say: No can wait. Mus9
have rickshaw quick. Hurry upi"
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Servants, LIvERIEs.
Had Their origin During the Reign Of
King PePin of France.


King PePin Of France.
So far as the present writer is
aware, the earliest mention of Civ
cries" made in history was during
the reign of King Pepin of France,
who honrished about the year 750
A. ID.
Al form of amusement to which
King Pepin was partial was what
were termed cours plenieres. These
were assemblies at which, upon the
kings invitation, all the lords and
courtiers of France were expected
to be present. They were held
twice in each year -at Christmas
and Easter -and generally lasted
for about week at eachN time.
Sometimes these gatherings took
place at the kings palace, some
times in the neighborhood of one
of the larger French cities and
sometimes in some rural district.
While the festival lasted the king
took all his meals in public, bishops
and dukes alone being privileged to
sit at the royal table. A second ta-
BILE was provided for abrots, counts
and other leading men, md at both
tables there was shown more pro-
fusion than delicacy, both in the
quality of the meats and drinks and
the manner in which they were serv-
ed. Flutes, hautboys and other mu-
sical instruments were played be-
fore the bearers of each course as
it was removed from the tables.
When dessert was served twenty
heralds, each holding aloft a jewel
ed goblet, shouted thrice, "Largesse,
largesse from the most potent OF
kingsp AS they shouted they scat
tered among the crowds handfuls of
gold and silver coins. Then the
trumpets were blown, while the bet
ter class spectators shouted and the
meaner sort scrambled and often
fought vigorously for the money
scattered by the heralds.
Charles VII. of France put a final
stop to the cours plenieres, alleging
that the expense attendant upon his
wars with England made it impossi-
BILE for him to continue them. One
of the severest causes of expense, ii
was explained, arose from the fact
that, beginning with King Pepin's
time, etiquette and custom alike de-
manded that the king should upon
these occasions give an entire suit
of new and gorgeous clothing not
only to his own servants and re-
tainers, but also to those of tho
queen and all the princes of the
blood royal. These garments were
said to be livres- that is, deliver
ed" at the kings expense and
from this word the English word
'1ivery" was derived, as was the Gus
tom Of providing servants with civ
cry" from the above mentioned
practice of certain of the French
kings. London Standard.
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LEARN WHAT TO EAT.
study Your Ncsds and Select Your
Food With Diserotion.

Study Your Noedo and Soleoe Your
Food With oiseretion.
In our ignorance of what the va
rious tissues of the body require for
doing their work we crowd the sys-
TEN with a great mass of unneces-
sary food, only an infinitesimal part
of which can possibly be of use In
strengthening us for our occupa-
ton.
There are about dozen different
kinds of tissue cells in the body,
each one requiring special food,
and those which are especially ac-
tive in our line of work require a
much larger amount of food partic-
ularly adapted to their use than the
other tissues, which are almost
wholly inactive in our vocation.
Thousands of men are forcing
their brains to do work by stimu-
lants which only exhaust and do
not nourish, and then they wonder
that they have nervous breakdown
or paresis. Other hot7aildsl ~
their ignorance ofscientific teeding,
force their brains to do work every
bit of which is abnormal, because
they do not have sufficient nourish-
ment
An active brain worker requires a
great deal of albuminous foods,
foods which contain phosphorus
like fish, oysters and other kinds of
shellfish and eggs. Meat is distinct
ly muscle food. 1t is suitable only
for those who do physical work.
The locomotive engineer studies
fuels. He does not throw all sorts
of combustible things into his fire
box just because they are combusti-
bic. He finds out the best kind of
fuel for his engine, that which will
give him the greatest possible
amount of combustion with the
least waste. He makes profession
of his business and studies the re-
quirements of his engine. But most
people seem to think that they can
run the 4nost complicated machinery
in the ygfld-the great human en-
gine-without any special study.
The result is that we use all sorts
of fuel without reference to the
particular work we are doing. -
Success Magazine.
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NO.. .2l
IA FRENCH WEDDING.
The Way a Marriage In the Country
Districts ls Conducted.

y
Districts ls Conducted.
Sometimes country wedding
passed, and that was always q pret-
ty sight, A marriage is always en-
important affair in France In every
class of life. There are long dis
sussions with all the members of
the two families. The cure the
notary, the patron (if the young
man is workmanl, are all consult
ed, and there are as many negotia-
tions and agreements in the most
humble families as in the grand
monde of the Faubourg st. Ger
main. Almost all French parents
give dot of some kind to their chill
dren, and whatever the sum is, ei-
ther 500 francs or 1000 francs, it is
always scrupulously paid over to the
notary.
The wedding day is q long one.
After the religious ceremony IN the
church all the wedding party
members of the two families and .
certain number of friends adjourn
to the hotel of the little town for o
breakfastg which is long and most
abundant. Then comes the crown
ing glory of the daya country
walk along the dusty highroad to
some wood or meadow, where they
aan spend the whole afternoon.
1t is pretty to see the little pro-
eession trudging along, the bride in
all her wedding garments, white
dress, white shoes, wreath and wells
the groom in dress coat, top hat,
white cravat and waistcoat, with o
white ribbon bow on his sleeve.
Almost all the girls and young wo-
men are dressed in white or light
oolors; the mothers and grandmoth-
ers (the whole family turns out) in
black, with flowers In their bon-
nets.
There is usually fiddler walking
sounds on his old cracked instru-
mcnt, and the younger members of
the party take an occasional gallop
along the road. They are generally
very gay. There is much laughing
and from time to time burst of
song. lit is always mystery to me
how the bride keeps her dress and
petticoat so clean, but she does
with that extraordinary knack all
Frenchwomen seem to have of hold,
ing up their skirts.
They passed often under the wall
of the chateau, for favorite rest
;ng place was in our woods. AT the
,ntrance of the alice verte, where ia
videns out little, the moss makes
beautiful soft carpet, and the big
rees give perfect shade. We heard
ounds of merriment one day when
30 were passing, and we stopped to-
look on from behind the bushesA
whore we couldn't be seen.- Mmes
Waddington in Scribner's.
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MYSTERY OF The TIDES.
queer Reasons That Wsre Assigned
For Their Ebb and Flow.

For Their Ebb and Flow.
The tides, those mysterious pulsa-
tions of the sea, have been the
theme of curious speculation ever
since man began to ask the reason
of what he saw around him. Many
sagcs and clever brains in the ages
of the past tried to explain away
the periodical ebb and flow of the
ocean, and many plausible if err
,roneous ideas were seized upon and
used to solve the problem, and some
of the curious notions of these old
world philosophers are worthy of I'M
terest.
Aristotle, who tried to find log
.ical reason for everything in ma
ture, thought that tides were caused
by the sun, which moves and whis-
ties the winds about SO that they
fall with great violence on the At
lantic, the only great ocean known
TO the Greeks. which thus swells
and causes the tide. Plato account
ed for them as being caused by an
animal living in a cavern, which, by
means of huge orifice, created the
ebb and flow. The ancient Arabs
believed that tides we're caused by
the moon heating the waters and
causing them to swell, while others
averred that they were caused by
the alternate decomposition of the
sea by the air and of the air by the
sea, thus causing an ebb and flow.
A writer as late as the thirteenth
century coolly remarks that tides
are caused by the efforts of the
earth to breathe.
Sanity ST. Jerome explained the
mystery by means of caves, and
Bede stated thdt the ebb and flow
were caused by an enormous ser
pent, who swallows and vomits the
water. Another old sage thought
that they we're caused by the melt
ing of the ice at the poles. In Rus
sia, dweHers by the seashore popu-
larly believe that the tides are gov
erned by the water kings daughter.
The Shetlanders used to believe
that periodical tides were caused by
monster living in the sea, or, to
quote from an Old Shetland worthy,
ga monstrous sea serpent that took
six hours to draw in his breath and
about six to let it out again" The
Chinese believe that supernatural
beings, weird and wonderful, cause
the tides, while the Malays aver that
they are caused by the movements
| of a huge crab. Some of these old
thinkers have been very near the
solution of the problem, while some
of their crude notions are only fan
tastic.- Scottish Nights.
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Hournlnanen Eor Pulpita.

The twenty minute sermon is a
purely modern invention, as is
proved by the number of pulpit
hourglasses that are still to be found
in many old churches. In the reg
lister of st. GATHERINGS, Aldgate, the
following entry, dated 1864, occurs:
"Paid for an hourglass that hanged
by the pulpit, where the preacher
doth make sermon, that he may
know how the hour passeth away,
shilling"
A modern pulpit glass, probably
the only one of its kind, is to be
found in the Chapel Royal, Savoy.
It is an eighteen minute glass and
was placed in the chapel on its res
toration in 1867.-W Westminster Ga
zette.
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A ooyser clook.

One of the most curious CLOCKS in
the world is said to be that which
tells the time to the inhabitants OF
IA little American backwoods town.
The machinery, which is nothing
but a face, hands and lever, 10 conl
nected with geyser which shoota
out an immense column of hot wa
ter every thirty-eight seconds. This
spouting never varies to the tenth
of second. Every time the water
spouts up it strikes the lever and
moves the hands forward thirty
eight seconds. - American Home
Monthly.
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Falr warnIao.

Henry had been so continuous1y
and persistently naughty that, says
the New York World, his aunt whq
had charge of him IN his mothes
absence, did not know what 70 d
with him. In despair abe said weak
ly:
put you In one Of gEandpse
coops"
efWeII,1 said Henry sturdy
fore you put me in ! want
you that I Mill nat laE
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orv Rot In Men.

The first strong external revela-
ton of the dry rot in men is a tend
ency to lurk and lounge, to be at
street corners without ineligible
reason, to be going anywhere when
met, to be about many places rath-
er than at any, to do nothing tangi-
BILE, but to have an intention of per-
forming variety of intangible du-
ties tomorrow or the day after.
When the manifestation of the dis
ease is observed the observer will
usually connect it with vague inn
preston once formed OF received
that the patient was living little
too hard. He will scarcely have
had leisure to turn it over in his
mind and form the terrible suspi-
cion "dry rot" when he will notice
change for the worse in the pa
TENTS appearance-a certain slow
enliness and deterioration which
is not poverty nor dirt nor intoxi-
cation nor i'll health, but simply
"dry rot >Ra=Roks Times.
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euperstftton In L.:e,l4ta.

Tie grossest super. t.t.on exists
in Calcutta. Not long ago an In
dian gentleman residing in Jaun
Bazaar street had live goat flung
down from his two storied house in
accordance with the directions of a
so called magician, who was called
IN to cast ont devil with which a
son was supposed to be possessed.
The poor brute was first fed with a
few bamboo leaves over which the
wizard rnumbled some mantras, and
it was then pushed over the terrace.
The animal was killed, and it's flesh
YES diatribnted TO tho poor.
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A SPELLING LESSON.
With Wise ChiId's Comment About
the EnaIish Language.

With Wise ChiId's Comment About
the English Language.
The following illustration of a
childs spelling lesson and her apt
conclusion in regard to the orthog-
raphy of the English Language is
taken from a New York publication:
"Spcll toes" said the mother,
who was teaching her little dauSh-
ter, seven years old, to spell.
"T-o-z-e," answered the child.
"No, dear, that's not right.
Toes spc.S toes"
"But it sounds like t-o-7-c."
81 know it, but you cannot go by
the sound"
Then in order to enforce the
proposition the mother called upon
her daughter to spell froze.
"F-r-o-e-s." said the child.
"No. You're wrong again. This
time we do use the u and spell the
word f-r-o-Z-e."
"IIuhw exclaimed the child.
"Now spell rosc," said the moth
er.
The child hesitnttd Finally she
SaluJ i uOu I huOM mIiSllASA w Coy
r-o-z-e or r-o-e-s."
"Spell it rose" said the moth
er, "though there is another word
pronounced just like it that's spell
ed r-o-e-s. That word is the name
of the spawn of fishes"
The child looked perplexed.
Gust one word more" said the
mother. "Tell mo how you spell
blows"
"Wcll," said the little girl, who
had had quite enough nonsense, as
she viewed it, from her mother and
had suddenly made up her mind to
pay back in kind, 81 spell it three
ways. l spell it b-l-o-s-e for break
fast, b-l-o-e-s for dinner and
b-l-o-z-e for supper"
81 spell it blows" said the
mother.
The child was silent for minute
as if wrapped in thought. Then,
looking up, she solemnly remarked,
81 think, mamma, that the English
language was made for persons very,
very well educated"
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Good For FIles.

"Give me, sir" said man, enter
ing druggists shop, "ten pounds
of your patent fly poison"
"Ten pounds ?" said the salesman
rather suspiciously. "That is rath-
er large order, isn't it?'
Yes, / know it is" said the man,
"but, you see, liked that half
pound i bought here yesterday ex-
tremely we'll. / gave it to a fly, and
he seemed to relish it at first, but
toward evening it made him quite
ill. propose to keep up the treat
ment for week, for / think that
in the end may manage to kill
him. ."-London Scraps.
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The Written Koran.

Mohammedans never use printed
Korans because in doubt as to the
entered into the compo-
sition of the printing ink. They
are afraid of being defiled by taking
into their hands copy of the sa-
cred book that may have been pro
duced with the ink in which pig's
fat instead of linseed oil has formed
one of the component parts, They
therefore confine themselves tt
reading hand written reproductions
of the prophets work, which are
naturally very expensive.
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charned % te Him.

The proprietor of the celebrated
mountain inn was showing the new
guest the beautiful surroundings.
"Ah, these cliffsP said the pro-
prietor rapturously. "In an cleo
trical storm they are awe inspiring.
The next time storm rises see that
you are standing on the porch of
the inn. Why, sir, the air is always
heavily charged"
81 don't doubt it," laughed the
new guest, winking at another late
arrival, "and if don't happen to
be standing on the porch can feel
assured that it will be heavily charg-
ed anyway-on my bill. Chicago
News.
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strateaY.

Patrick Brannigan had contract
ed to dig well in the sandy part
of the town, and he had dug down
some forty feet when on coming to
work one morning he found that the
last twelve feet of his we'll had caved
in and would have to be dug ont
again. He sat down by the well to
wait for his helpers when happy
thought struck him. He arose, took
off his coat, hung it up in plain
sight, hid his tools and walked
away. A few minutes later his help
ers came and, finding Pats coat and
seeing that his tools were gone,
came to the conclusion that their
boss was buried under the fallen
sand and, with the help of all the
neighbors, Immediately set to work
to dig him out. Not till all the
fallen dirt was taken out did the
men in the least suspect that they
had been hoaxed into doing just
what the boss was trying to dodge.
-Harper's Weekly.
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Redeemed Hlmself.

Sir Charles Napier had an effec.
tive method of dealing with cow
ards. On one occasion flying sol
der was stopped by his fellows, who
were about to shoot him when the
general intervened.
"Giye the man another chance
he ordered. "Place him in the
front rank, and il he turns again
let him be shot"
The man eagerly embraced this
chance of life, overcame his fears
and fought brayely for the rest OF
the day.
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"An Awfu, Thine."

A certain man whose wife had re-
Gently got angry and gone away to
live with her mother was met by a
friend, who in apparent sympathy
accosted him thus:
"Man, jamie, this is an awfu'
thing that has befa'en you. It's a
great peety that your wife has game
am left you"
"'Deed, man, quote Jamie,
She'll dae waur than that yet"
"What waur can she dae than
that2" anxiously inquired his friend.
"She'll come back again." replied
Jamie ruefully.-Pearson's Weekly.
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Followed His Example.

A New Yorker who does his bit
of "globe trotting" tells of two old
entries that he saw in the visitors
book of fashionable resort on the
Rhine.
A few years ago one of the Paris
members of the Rothschild family
had registered as follows: "R. de
Paris"
It SO chanced that the next vis-
itor to inscrikr his name in the
book was Baron Oppenheim, the
banker of Cologne, and he wrote
his name beneath Rothschild's in
this wise: go. de Cologne"
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The oamo Of cheso.

The game of chess is of unknown
origin. 1t can be traced back some
1000 years or so to India. Brom
India it advanced to Persia, from
which country it passed on to the
Arabians. The SPaniardS got tho
game from the Arabs and passed 10
on to France, Germany and Eng
land. 1t is absolutely futile to et !.
tempt to determine the origin Of
the game.-New York American n
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Close and eautious.

There was a Scottish dominic be-
fore whom one morning a certain
lad made an exceptionally brilliant
recitation. The dominic was very
much pleased. So pleased was he in
fact that he put his hand in his
pocket and gave the boy half
penny.
An hour or SO later another lad
distinguished himself. He, too, re-
cited in an admirable manner. The
dominic patted his arm and ex-
claimed, his eyes shining with de-
light:
"Boy, if 1 had that ha'penny back
I'd gle it to ye." Dundee Adver-
tiser.
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Irish viceroys are stripped or
their sovereign attributes as soon as
they reach English waters, which
gives point to the following story
told of one viceroy and lady with
whom he was acquainted. They
both found themselves on board the
Holyhead packet. During the voy-
age from ireland the lady treated
the viceroy with ceremonious re.
spect. So soon, however, as the
packet entered Holyhead harbor she
said to him, Nov, Bobby, you're No
longer yiceroy, so take my bag and
make yourself useful " London
Truth. -,
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Iho EthIea of rrndo.

The Bird Dealer-It'0 q bloomins
shine, Jim, swindlin' q pore, ard
workin' cove like this.
His Friend-Wly, wot's wrongP
The Bird Dealer-W Why, ,ere I
slayed all day Sunday a-paintin' up
3 sparrer into a red 'eaded Belgian
ranary, am I'm blowed If the feIler
as bought it amt given me q bed
arf crown.-Londcn Sketch. II
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Valiant Indeed.

During an invasion panic which
spread through England when some
French colonels addressed their en-
peror, Napoleon Ill, in very fiery
terms a certain Yorkshire colonel
of volunteers distinguished himself
by the following utterance at 10.
cal banquet, Gentlemen, ON behalf
of my comrades can assure you
that il Napoleon's colonels should
land at Spurn the First East York
rifles will not be the last to fee" a
declaration that remained as joke
against the regiment for mans
YEAR,.