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ES TED GIRLS ARE GROWING TALLER, | Because They Aro Are Better Fed and Olothed. EFFECTS OF OHEAPNESS. * Bogar The assertion that the fancy of the day flows towards tall girls, about which so many essays have already been written, and that girls = manifestly taller than they think, true ; but it requires limita iadions, Nobody knows much about any general changes in the height or girth of the population, the only data we havé, the measurement of recruits applying for enlistment, being utterly deceptive. 7 are younger and weedier, = hea sap soldiers correspond less and lowe the wages of powerful unskilled men, ~ because the dislike ts long engagements increases—and three years is now a lon ement—and because the poorest pe. pluckiest class is found more and more in overcrowded towns, where brawniness aeons: if at all, rather late in life. We think ourselves, as a matter of observation, that E women have i and Milk Generally do the Business, any scientitic evidence to support that opinion. We are only sure that a certain limited class, the well-to-do section of the middle class, has become decidedly bigger, healthier, ‘and, as regards its younger * women, apparent! y taller than was the case forty years ago. We cannot understand how there can be any doubt upon the sub- ject, and would appeal with the utmost con- fidence to any jury of mothers accustomed to mix in general society. They would say, thereby correcting an omission in the Femlie view, that in seven out of ten ilies they knew, the sons were larger than the fathers, unless the latter were specially big men ; and that the daughters not only were larger than boa mothers, but that they at all events see ler . Nor is there anything ig monn in the statement. The first of bulk and stature is probably por we do not mean superior race, for the Negroes of many districts are bigger than are the English, and the ‘‘ barbarians ’ were all bigger than the Roman soldiers who enslaved them—but race, and the continu- ance alike of pedigree and conditions of life usually involved in that word; but the second cause is diet in infanc and the third, training in childhood aad cadly outh. Much milk, for example, makes good bones ; and soldiers caught young visibly —- out under their food and drill.) In both these latter conditions, the change within the last generation—we are speaking ony of the--well-to-do--has been very great indeed. The world has grown unconsciously much wiser as to the management of chil- dren. Nothing improves physique like good milk—that, and not porridge, is the cause of the tall Highlanders, Irishmen and Sikhs—and the little children of our da are nourished on cream-and-water, or mil procured from the great dairies, which is as good as milk can be, and as different from the milk of thirty years ago as bran is different from old beef-tea. The very cows are of a different breed, not to mention the improvement in their food and lodging. Then a prejudice of an extra- ordinarily injurious character—we write these sentences on first-class medical evi- dence—has silently, no one knows why, entirely disappeared. Nothing nourishes like good sugar, possessing“As it does just the requisite heat-giving quality; but the mothers of 1830-50 dreaded sugar. They had an idea that it sicken bies, who always crave for it like horses for salt ; that it spoilt the teeth of growing children; and that it swelled the tongues of children a little more advanced in years—the last a fancy on the effect of sucking taffy. They therefore withheld sugar, thus janving the children half nourished, an nently sensitive toa climate which for seven mon in ear is always chilly, Nowadays, eve body among the culti- vated knows that sugar is beneficial, and the children are left to their instincts, with the result that they make flesh, and are almost always warm. en e matrons of 1 50 had a fixed idea, incurable by the men, who never quite gave intoit, that children, if left alone, would invariably over-eat themselves, a theory true of about 5 per cent. The nur- series were die like prisons, with the result—all nurses exaggerating the popular ideas—that the children who lon orf were never fed enough, and the children who disliked much food—a pecutiarit of many ood constitutions—were gor; to indigestion. And finally, children are kept warm encugh. The horrible old idea of those two decades, that children should be ‘‘hardened” by exposure, away ; the nurseries, besides being properly ven- tilated, are ie warm, and the whole princi le of children’s clothing has been radically, and we hope finally, modified in the sense that the ‘‘ body,” as distinguished from the limbs, is thoroughly and warmly c The result is, that the child with a tendency to w does w, and that a greatly covieed percentage of boys run towards 5 feet 11 inches, and of girls to- wards 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 9 inches, than has ever been the case before. More- over, as the boys and girls grow naturally, they keep their good looks, and, except for & year or two of life, it has become a positive rarity to see ‘‘ gawky” lads and as great s rarity as to see the latter with "the — elbows which forty were at once the most dreaded an frequent ofthe minor deformities. improvement always, mind, in a siviothy limited class which hardly considers the cost of food, is manifest at every turn, and is reported not only by every artist, but every caricaturist in the country. The undersized lads and skinny girls have dis- appeared from pictures of the middle class, even when drawn with distinctly hostile intent.— London Spectator. The Island of Malta is the most densely populated spot on earth. In some parte of Berlin there are special public houses for women. Mn order to _ you obligations you must even though Me don't thick seach hime ed ago the. i 4 CHAPTER FOR_WIVES. — Ttimely Information About Masculize Apparel—How te Fix up Husbands. Soft fabrics with slightly h fake, says Harper's Bazar, are worn evening. usiness suits are of cord lamb’s wool or of vicena cloth, or else of lighter plaids and checks. The princi colors are blue and black dark brown. The coat is a single-breas' sack fastened by three or four buttons, with vest to match. Frock-coats are made very long, extrem- ists wearing them to reach below the knee. They are of black rough cheviots with silk- faced lapels, and a cord finish on the edges instead of braid. The vest is of ‘the material of the coat, and the striped trousers are of dark grayish-blue. This 1s the suit for day weddings—alike for groom, ers and guests—and for any entertainment in the afternoon. Evening suits are of undressed worsteds and cheviots of fine quality and purest jet black. For -coats the shawl collar and peaked lapels are equally popular. The pe oa onal is faced entirely with silk, but ls are faced only to the button = edges are corded. Besides a low-cut vest of black cheviot, a white silk vest is usually provided with dress coats to be worn at weddings and the theatre. Overcoats for walking an eral wear are single-breasted sacks of beaver cloth made loose, of medium length, with plain seams, double-stitched edges, and waleet collar ; they are lined with oot cloth. Similar overcoats are made of gray an black cheviot. Dress i -coats for evening have the Inverness cape, and are e black cheviot, faced to the edge with silk. Shirt fronts remain "gia layers of linen in shield shape, fastened by two small studs —those for the day made fof gold, evening. Standing collars are worn of g height and self-rolled or to meet, as is most becoming. Cuffs are square-cornered, with the edges meeting when fastened by linked —— uttons. Dark scarfs are again in favor, They are in the familiar Ascot, four-in-hand and puffed shapes, with also the small square English bow. The new fancy is for rich dark, red scarfs, especially for wearing with brown suite. Grayish-blue, stone-color and heliotrope are also fashionable for neck wear. Silk underwear is woven not only in ivory-white or flesh-color, but also in pearl, rose, salmon, blue and heliotrope. lack silk socks very slightly embroid- ered are worn with evening dress. Finely |; striped Balbriggans for day use are in stone colors, tan or wi rowns, and soft fine cashmere socks are of natural gray and ecru shades. Buttoned gaiters of calf-skin for street pointed or broad toes, the style being agaifi for rather broad shoes. igh-but- toned shoes are also worn in the evening ; they have galoches of patent leather with id tops. Walking gloves are of reddish or yellow- ish tan shad«~, and are worn in English fashion of heavy qualities that were — used ouly for driving. They have very slight acttching on the back, and are fastened by two buttons, rown of new silk hata is even more bell- shaped than that worn last season, and is of two different heights, that for elderly men measuring six sal three-fourth inches, while that for young men is a quarter of an inch less. A Great Explosion! In these days of gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, and the like, tremendous ex- losions are no rarity, but the test ex- plosion of modern times is, without doubt, that of the “old school” idea “that Con- have been sacrificed to this mistaken notion. Modern research has established the fact that Consumption is a scrofulous disease of the lungs, and that there is one remedy which will positively eradicate it from the system—Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- covery. Of course, there were in the olden times many who would have _Pronounce m but there are, fortunately, few to-day w do not acknowledge that the ‘‘ Golden Medi. cal Discovery” is the one sovereign remedy for all scrofulous diseases, and Consump- tion is one of them. A Sure Sign. - New York Weekly: Mother—I'd jast like to know who pe young man is you have engaged yourself to. Danghter—Ob, he comes of splendid family Does his family object to the match ?” “ Y-e “ Then I guess he’s all right.” She Would Ee, Colorado Sun : ag Jack, I’mafraid I'll make you a sorry wi He—I’ve no doubt. hay one who marries me will be sorry. A Good Neighborhood. Foley—Have you nice neigh- Epoch ; bors ? Patterson—Elegant. Why, they spend the fall and winter in Florida and the spring and summer in Newport. Many women suffer in silence from the troubles pe to a hee rather than consult a sician. Williams’ Bink Pills ills and ‘ey vail Sl nelonges feel life a burden. The most chivalrous or, tion of mod- ern times is the Mariahilf Matrimonial ir If one breaks this vow = woman he pays a fine of $2,000, which the club devotes to giving some impecunious betrothed couple a start in life. Lord Randolph Churchill will return from reed African tour about the middle of Decem- r. To remove obstinate stoppers from glass | ¢, bottles, st & piece of woolen cloth into boiling water and wrap it tightly around the neck 7 ‘the bottle. =| a Taw minutes the stopper can be removed. The strike of printers which has been carried on for some time in Stettin has | collapsed, ving the strikers in sore straits. of of the Ontario os Club = year, and with pearl or white enameled studs fot lfinch won the Governor-General’s = at wear have low heels, and either medium | Glee sumption is incurable. Thousands of lives} q >] any case of Catarrh |_LATE—-SPORTING NOTES. — Electioneer, the dead hero of Palo Alto stock farm, will live in the history of the tarf after many of the famous horses of to- day are forgotten. He was sire of Sunol, who holds the world’s record of 2.08} ; Palo Alto, holder of the world’s stallion =— ¢. the world’s yearli 96 sons and daughters in the 30 list, 33 of which have entered the list this year. Twenty-two have records of 2.20 or better, and of the four trotters which ve beaten 2.10 Electioneer was sire of two. CANADIAN HORSES. Canadian horses by thoroughbred sires continue to do remarkably well in the New York market, and I donbt if the average made by the lot recently sold there by Mr. W. D. Grand was ever sept meet fa the prices of any other sale Mj half-breed horses ever sold in Ameri On the opening day of the National Horse Show, which is now the prize for the best tandem of ag eee and that : four-year-old gelding, Guelgh, by Orange Boy, a stallion imported some years ago by Mr. John Hendrie, of Hamilton. Forty-one horses were shown in the last named class. THE HENDRIE STABLES. Ten horses, of which three were sold before the close of the season, carried the Popular brown and yellow jacket of Mr. Vm. Hendrie, of Hamilton, the President their winnings amounted to over $7,000. The 2-year-old Cottonade and the 3 -year-old Versatile were the gol Lala’ and bothidid well in good co y, Cottonade getting a place in 14 of her 22 2 tho Bull- Quebec, and Wild Thorn and Gladiator per- formed between the flags. Altogether, al- though there was no $5,000 Iroquois Stake winner among the lot as a couple of years ago, the record is quite creditable. The stable ought to be ood Dneanal stronger next ear, as some ear-olds are coming y on. Strathspey’s Peyote are good lookers and real smart youngsters, but they are only three in number. past season is : The record for the F J Zs 2 3 -: Name, & g & g 3 & “<7 eR HR FS 5 5 3 1 1 $395 6 2 «.. 1 I 100 3. 24 4 4 3 2,082 . 3 ri 1 ) er 300 3°42 1 2 1 523 - 3 BG 4 3 4. = =61,105 . 3 oo = = _—_ ~_ & 5 7 2 2,335 2 7 1 1 1 360 tals Saperive owe © OB. oe cow 2 160 Total.....-.... 19 20 11 $7,360 There is a new _ in England, a Thibet | vay see 8 dog, aa ‘aii the biggest of The feiveselitan A Athletic Club of New Orleans has matched Andy Bowen and Austin Gibbons to fight for a $2,500 purse Dec, 22nd. The trotting dog Doc, from Brighton, Ont., is credited with covering a mile at hursday. e was | paeetanadl for $7, and his boy-owner, Willie Ketchum, has now in bank, the dog's earnings, $70,000. **T don’t like the breath of that stove !” exclaimed little Ethel one day when the gas was escaping from the sitting-room stove. Coal-gas is like the ‘‘perfumes of Indis,” compared with the breath of a person afflicted with catarrh, but among many other symptoms the sense of smell is often eadened, so the sufferer is unconscious of the offensiveness of his presence. Why any one will endure such a painful, dangerous and offensive disease, when Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy—costing only 50 centa— will cure the most stubborn case, is one of the many mysteries. The - ae are so confident of the success o' Catarrh ; | Remedy. that op A to forfeit $500 for they cannot cure. It would be suicide for their remedy, for them to make this offer, unless they understood its exact powers. Buy bar soap by the you wish to be truly economical. the bars on edge, one above another, with as much open space as ible between them. They will then dry out and last almost twice as long. Chinese streets are not often more than eight feet wide. “August rower E For two years I suffered ternbly with stomach trouble, and was foi: all that time under treatment by a physician. He finally, after trying | to everything, said stomach was about worn out, and that I would have to cease eating solid food for a time at least. I wasso weak that I could not work. Finally on the recom- mendation of a friend who had used your preparations with beneficial re- sults, I procured a bottle of August Flower, and com- menced using it. It seemed to do at once. I gained in strength and flesh rier my ap- petite became good, and I suffered no bad effects ee what I ate. I feel now like a neW man, and con- sider that August Flower has en- tirely cured me of Dyspepsia in its worst form. JAMES E. DEDERICK, Saugerties, New York. W. B. Utsey, St. George’s, S. C., writes: I have used your August ee if A worn-out ;,| Stomach. British soldiers when marching take eighty-eight steps a minute. Rube oa re. LatSdaaati aie eof inca bee and it completely cared. * THIRTY “YEARS. Johnston, N. B., March 11, 1889. **T was troubled for thirty years with = pains in my side, which increased and F became very bad. I used ST. JACOBS OIL “ALL RIGHT! ST. JACOBS OIL DID IT." I give it adl praise,” MRS. WM. RYDER. e B79 TARRING AND FEATHERING. Slew it Feels te Undergo That Humiliating ‘eanaed ery unp| t one, but ew imagine how terribly painful and danger- ous itis, says a writer to the St. Louis lobe-Democrat. In WyomingI once saw & man who had tarred and feathered, and, although he fully deserved the dis- cipline I could not help pitying him. ened tar is very hard to remove from the skin, and when feathers. are added it orms a kind of cement that sticks closer than a brother. As soon as the tar sets the victim’s suffering It contracts as it cools, and every one of the little hairs on the "body is pulled, causing the most exquisite agony. The iration is en- tirely stopped, and unless the tar is re- moved death is certain toensue. But the removal is no easy and requires several days. The tar cannot be softened by the application of heat and must be peeled off bit by bit, sweet oil being used to make the process less painful. The irritation to the skin is very great, as the hairs cannot be disengaged but must be pulled out or cut off. No man can be cleaned of tar in a single day, as the operation would be too excrucia- ting for endurance, and unlees this is done he has to suffer from a pain like that of 100,000 pin pricks. Numbers of men have died under the torture, and none who have gone through it regard tarring and feather- ing as anything buta most fearful infliction. * Fou Col. David Wylie, Brockville, St, Vey, 1888, ‘* I had asevere attack of rheumatism, and could not stand on my feet. The pain was ex- cruciating. I was blistered and verge’ in in true orthodox style, but all to no pu was advi to try St. Jacobs Oil wich Idid. I had my ankles well rubbed and then wrapped with flannel] saturated with the remedy. In the morning I could walk without pain.” No Bettcr Of Than He. Judy : Visitor {to inhabitant—of very small village)—But surely you must find it very du ere, never getting any news- papers. How do you know what is going on in London, for instance? Inhabitant— Eh, mon ! but dinna yet ken that th’ folk in Lunnon are just as ignorant o’ what’s gaun on wi’ us? Grewing Old Cracefally. “What a lovely old lady,” I heard a man remark, at the opera, lately. ‘‘She’s quite as beautiful as any girl in the house. Such color and complexion is rarely seen in a woman t forty.” the woman of whom he spoke was lovely. Her face was clear and smooth, her cheeks, fresh and rosy, her eyes bright with perfect health and the enjoyment of life. She had passed the critical *‘ change of life” without falling into ‘‘ the sere and yellow leaf,” as most American women do. ow had she succeeded in doing this? Simply by using Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pres- cription ata time when nature stood in need of some assistance. She had taken it at the right time. In doing this she was wise. ¥ iser than most women who “‘ trust tolack ” in getting through the critical and safely. This standard remedy is just what is aaeded atsuch atime. It is, from girlhood to old age, woman’s best friend. In all diseases peculiar to the sex, it accomplishes what no other remedy does —sa cure. Take it, woman, when life's autumn begins, and ‘ jt old gracefully.” Your money back if it don’t help you. The St. Clair Tunnel. The St. Clair tunnel will be opened for passenger business on December 7. This was decided yesterday at a meeting of Grand Trunk officials held = the Queen’s Hotel, Toronto. Mr. Willia - gar, = eral passenger agent, presiding. ose resent were: Su sala teendants James tephenson, C. Stiff, Attwater, = taf 4 Davis, general ger t an my sepers paroger soe senger agentG.T.R. In consequence of the new arrapgement there will be a great sav- ing ofme, which will necessitate the ee per 2 @ new time tables and instructions to employees. It was decided to proceed at once with the preparation that all may be in readiness for the new order of things. | Across the Continent. . Vm. Renwick, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., Vic- ria, B.C., writes: I have used Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil in cases of indi- gent patients with the most gratifying Jesults. It does not upset the stomach, is easily assimilated and undoubted power in rebuilding weakened constitutions, where the ordinary form of administering Cod Liver Oi) is not — For the fyture, whenever I have occas ba cribe any preparation of Cod ‘Liver il, I will give Miller’s Emulsion the preference, being perfectly satisfied with its therapeutic efficacy. In big bottles, 50c. and $1 at all drug stores. The Mistake They Made. Rochester Herald : The chrysanthemum show in Buffalo did not pay expenses. The florists of that city madea mistake. They should have opened a beer garden. Eas to use, pleasant and agreeable is the verdict of all who have used Nasal Balm, and better still, there.is no case of cold in the head or catarrh that it will not cure. 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