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VOLUME 6, NUMBER 5
certainly not harm, if it does not help,
and that 13 more than con be said of
many of the recommended medicines
now on the market. Remember that
Naaman, in order to become clean of
a dreadful disease, was simply told
to bathe himself a certain number of
times in a neighboring stream, and on
doing so, he was. healed. Don't bo
afraid of the simple remedies.
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Be Not Wearied
If comes mi hour as comes to all
Wlion courage Is abutcd,
And efforts made for others pnli,
As unappreciated;
Then call to mind that in the vale
The vlolot uncloses
As freely as against the pale
Tho gorgeous queen of roses
A song you sing, and nono appears
To care you thus aro throated?
A cactus waits a hundred yoars
And blooms porhaps unnotcdj
13 ut spread
It wakes
Your song
where,
And quicken
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upon the drifting air
to life nuothoi
may reach you know
not
some far brother.
Edwin h. Sabin.
Can and Gown
Answering S. J. At nearly all of
tho collego functions, and especially
during commencement festivities, tho
acadomlc cap and gown aro in con
stant evidence. Matriculation at the
collego- entitles tho student to wear a
gown and "mortar-board" of black
woolen material, usually serge. When
ho' wins his bachelor's degreo, ho may
attach a hood three feet long to his
gown, made of tho same woolen stuff,
and lined with the colors of his Alma
Mater (meaning a fostering mother;
tho collego where ono is educated.)
When tho bachelor attains the mas
ter's degree, or the doctorate, ho is
entitled to tho silken gown and hood,
tho latter four feet long. Tho doc
torate entitles him also to wear a
panol, outlined with his collego col
ors, beneath his hood, and to exchange
tho black tassol on his mortar board
for one of gold. Tho sleeves change
with tho value of the degree. The
open, pointed sleeve of tho bachelor's
gown is closed for tho master, and tho
doctor woars a round one, trimmed
with bars of velvet. Tho doctor's de
gree being tho highest in tho gift of
a university, his attire is the most
distinguished in appearance. He may,
if he choose, adorn his gown with
volvet facings, blaclc or of tho color
that indicates the special faculty
which recommended him for the de
gree. White stands for the school of
arts and letters; blue, for philosophy;
scarlet, for theology; purple for law;
yellow, for science, and green, for
medicine.
Understanding these distinctions,
tho visitor at a college function,
watching tho long procession of no
tables going to their places upon the
platform, can recognize at a glance
tho degree attained by each, the fac
ulty that recommended him for it, and
tho university that conferred It. Some
times, however, a man officially con
nected with a college courteously dis
plays Its colors in his hood, Instead
of those of his own Alma Mater.
merely as a witticism, yet there is con
siderable food for thought In It. The
fact that househelp is so very scarce,
and that the most perfected piece of
household machinery will not "work"
without tho aid of head and hands,
makes it impossible for the home-maker
to do much, if anything, to shorten
her working hours, and for her, the
"same old grind" like tho poet's brook,
"goes on forever." There is a never
ondlngness about housework that is
particularly discouraging, and, at tho
same time, extremely wearing on the
nervous systom of tho woman rand, in
addition to this, she is usually shut in
with the work from morning until
night, with little, if any, time for rec
reation, and with no companionship
save such as her children may give to
her. The children are like little
leeches, forever crying "Give! Give!"
and tho continual demands upon her
for oversight, thought, service and en
tertainment, draw heavily upon the
vitality already severely overtaxed. At
every clutch upon her garments by
the little lingers, she feels that "vir
tue has gone out of her," and when
the hour for the home-coming of her
husband arrives, she is sorely in need
of the strength and comfort his pres
ence should bring to her.
If husbands would only realize this,
and take upon themselves the little
tasks that would so lighten the wife's
load without fatiguing them, without
(as loo many of them do) grumbling
that they "work hard enough to be
allowed to rest "when they get home,
without being nagged at the minute
thoy step inside the door," it would
be a blessed thing. Why will not hus
bands see how much their kindly sym
pathy will do toward setting matters
to rights in the homo for the happi
ness of which they are just as respon
sible as is the wife and mother, whose
loving services they accept as a mere
matter of course, and as one of their
inalienable rights, for which no thanks
aro due
must first be master of himself."
Many people, nowadays, believe,
with the Hindoo, that this earth is a
school, and each re-Incarnation is but
a class, higher or lower, as tne indi
vidual pupil needs, and that we pass
from one to another of these 'class"
lives until the lessons are all finished,
when we graduate into a higher sphere
so much nearer the end of the jour
ney tho absorption of the Ego, or
spiritual self into tho Infinite being
the ultimate aim. This is practically
what theosophy teaches. Thcosophy
is not spiritualism.
Deafness
"Re-incarnation"
Social Chat
"We road that the club women of
Chicago have turned their attention
toward the amelioration of the con
dition of tho wife who labors fourteen
hours a day, and some ono suggests
that, as the majority of tho men work
but eight hours a day, they '.'get off"
In time to go homo and help the gndo
wife got the supper and do the chores.
Of course the suggestion is meant
AN OLnANDWKLLTttircn UKMKDT
Mur. Winsi.ow'b Soothing svum for chlldrMi
tcothliiR nhonlrt alvrnya bo usort for chlUlron nhtle
U'othliiK. It Bottoms tho gums, allays all pain, cures
i wind collo nml Is tlio host remedy for dlarrhren
Twouty-tlvocoutsa bottlo.
Answering J. L. The Hindoo be
lieves in re-incarnation or re-embodiment;
he believes a certain amount of
cosmic matter after having traveled
all the lowev kingdoms, mineral, veg
etable and animal, at last arrives,
through long experience, at a state of
progression and development where
it becomes a man; this man must
stay on earth until It lias outgrown the
earth meaning that man must ac
quire, here on this plane, all the ex
periences and developments of which
jus uarcniy nature Is capable. Until
theso lessons are learned, until the
soul has reached such purity and be
come so refined and spiritualized as
not to retain the least affinity for
earth and its belongings, it must re
turn again and again to nnrHi ,i
go through the ordeal of reincarnation,
or rebirth Into lmmnn f, rm,i '
birth takes place repeatedly, as overy
;,, "-, w t-mjiuusiuy iearneu, un
til the soul's liberation or deliverance
becomes an accomplished fact; for
mans destiny, as the Hindoo philoso
pher believes, Is to develop from the
animal upward to God. This belief
does not hold the transmifrmn p
souls from the animate to the inan
imate or from the human to the ani-
I: !? al7ays, imward. Progressive.
Hie Hindoo teaches this lesson: "Un-
i circumstances keep an even
Sh2a ,ThMaws of Km must bo
satisfied; suffering is a purifying fire
that leads up to the Father. Do not
lGLS"ff5llg (e?r,ess' or happiness
In answer to several readers, regard
ing the treatment for deafness, I sub
mitted their query to a skillful physi
cian, and this is in part his answer:
In treating a cast of deafness, the
conditions leading up to the trouble
must be taken into consideration, as
the causes that produce or' continue
the trouble are numerous. There is
'but one or two known remedies that
will relieve a thickening of the ear
drums. Regarding the remedies men
tioned by your correspondent, I have
little faith in any beneficial action fol
lowing their administration, and 1
never advise their use. One
remedy that can be relied on to as
sist in the restoration of the thick
ened eardrum, is an oil made from the
blossoms of the common field mullein.
Gather the blossoms when in full
bloom, pack them as gathered into a
wide-mouth .bottle, or fruit jar; when
full, seal, airtight and set the jar
in the sun for a month, at the end
of which time you will have about
three ounces of a sun-distilled extract
from the blossoms. Strain this out
carefully through several thicknesses
of muslin, and add to the oil one
fourth of its bulk of alcohol to pre
vent souring. This is to be put into
the ears, a few drops two or three
times a day. I have known this rem
edy to do wonders, especially in deaf
ness of ' old age. The most useful
medicine to use in connection with
this mullein oil is Pulsatilla (made
from tho Turkish pasque flower; but
it must be made from the green plant,
and show av green tinge). Of this,
put a teaspoonful into a four-ounce
bottle and fill with water, taking a
teaspoonful of the mixture five or
six times a day. This will cause ab
sorption of whatever thickening there
may be, and will cure a large percent
age of catarrhal dearness; which is,
in the majority of cases, the cause of
tuo iiuuKenmg or the drums. It
should be remembered that such a
cure can not bo compassed in a short
time, but must bo taken for months
to insure results.
xuero is out one place known to
me where this mullein oil, made as I
have directed, can be had, although
many dealers carry It in stock of
which no two samples are in any way
alike, the most of it being sweet or
dinary oil digested with the dry leaves
of the plant, and entirely worthless
for the purpose named. It is in no
&e"f Patent medicine, and can be
made by any one, and, if not in too
great a hurry for it, wait until next
fall, gather the blossoms and make a
vvs iui juurauu. Tills nil la nin
remedy for children wi. i-
bed; put ten or fifteen iirnna w
glass of water mui tru,a rt
onnnnfnl .1 b h .-. o vj uvscl"
oiiuuuiui uuses ol tne mixture
times a day." E. R. w
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use of this remnnv mi m,
unu naste it.
Pimples
There are pimples and pimples.
Frequently, simple bathing in warm
water, followed by a thorough rinsing
in cold water, will have a good effect,
and the eruption will soon disappear.
Others are very difficult to cure. In
some cases, one should be careful as
to diet, avoiding stimulants of all
kinds, as well as hot coffee, tea, choco
late and milk; ripe iruits, vegetables
and cereals, with whole wheat bread
forming the main diet. The face may
be bathed daily with a lotion composed
of two ounces of glycerine and one
dram of salts of tartar. If this does
not effect a cure, try lemon juice and
glycerine for a wash, adding an ounce
of pure glycerine to the juice of one
fresh lemon, strained. Take regular
daily exercise and baths of the whole
body; a foot bath, with a tablespoon
ful of washing soda to a pail of water,
as hot as it can be borne, will help.
One-fourth to one-half teaspoonful of
pure cream tartar is good for the
blood and clears the complexion.
Taken several times daily.
For the Toilet
An excellent hair tonic is made as'
follows: Bay rum, one pint;, tincture
cantharides, one dram; castor oil,-one
ounce; resorcin, one arachm. Mix this
well, and every other night rub it well
into the roots of the nair. This will
cost about 60 cents.
Once a month is often enough, usu
ally, to shampoo the hair for cleanli
ness. Use an egg beaten .in a pint
of water, using no soap, and rinsing
well, drying with soft, old towels.
There is nothing so harmless, inex
pensive and effective for darkening
the hair as to steep one ounce of
good black tea in a pint of boiling
water, letting stand until cold; strain,
and add (to keep it from souring) two
and a half ounces of Jamaica rum.
Apply daily to the roots of the hair.
Or, steep a large tablespoonful of
common garden sage in a teacupful
of hdiling water, until the water is
very dark; let cool, strain and add
an ounce of alcohol (to keep it sweet)
and apply to the scalp daily.
For rough hands, put into a bottle
any quantity of quince seed and pour
in enough whisky to cover them; as
it thickens with the mucilage of the
seeds, pour in more whisky, until it
is of the right consistency thin
enough to pour. After washing the
hands, pour a little in the palms and
rub the hands as in washing until
dry. It is better than glycerine, dry
ing readily and leaving a fine odor.
The seeds can bo had of the druggist.
For a tonic for the hair, use bay
rum, one quart, scant half cupful of
table salt, 20 grains of quinine and
an ounce of tincture of nnntlinvioq.
Rub this mixture well into the scalp
three times a week.
For falling hair, three drams of aro
matic vinegar, one ounce acetic acid,
one ounce tincture of cantharides, two
ounces of lavender, and six ounces
of rose water. Shake well, and rub
well into the roots of the hair three
times a week, massaging the scalp
every clay.
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