The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, July 12, 1888, Image 3
Tlltf bAILY HERALD: f'LATTSUOUTH, NEBRASKA, TIIUuoDa i, JUl 7 ) ! r WOMAN AND HOME. PHYSICAL MENT AND MENTAL OF COYS AND DEVELOP GIRLS. l30tn tUx Odd ami r.hl filarrlnj to Irath ftr 1a At tli rictilc Tlclnff Iiwultrd In DlftfpilM "Good Society." Orrrratinx. At the lxjttom of everything lies health 1 'ithout this, every other gift is more or left useless. Though -ou miss all else for your chililreii, w-iiro this if iossible. Make sure they acquire no health destroj-ing habits. Do not have a y tiol to bin mother's apron t ring's. It abundant ilay and out-of-door Bport oren.t strength and animal spirits. Hoys and girls will need all of both they can pet l.efore they have done. Encourage them t obtain quickness, s-lf confideiK-e andgraco for Instance, by sparring, skating, horso hack riding, dancing, etc. Tliey will here after stand in good stead. Indeed, this health und culture of the body are no moro helpful, and, indeed, indisjieiisable, on tho economic than on the evolutional bide. 15y all means, make them, if you can, your boys esiecially, fearless and self reliant, lleinem lier that true courage is one of the richest possessions. As has Ixt-n said, it is promotive of health ind happiness, and essential to, and by tho (Jr.. ks and Romans was used synony mously v.jjh, virtue. A timid man may lio afraid to -.rt right, may not dare to do his duty when opposed by dangers and dillicul tios. Of this virtue everybody is ambitious, and none more so than tho cowardj us proved ly his vainglorious affectation of it. Thus, the fool affects wisdom, the knave honesty, the niggard liberality and the poltroon bravery. As t what can lo done in childhood to ward the higher development: In the first place, if your son or daughter is gifted with mind or tastes inherently predestined to Ihj cultivated, you could not prevent that con summation is you tried. Some men who, in later lifo, bovine distinguished exinont3 of the higher deirtments, in youth never show tho slightest indication of their future emi nence. Chancellor Kent, for instance, fa mous ns he liecame in his maturity, up to 21 hail never really taxed his mind, anil had lived the lift mainly of a healthy human ani mal. If your chihl le one of this sort, he will give you but littlo trouble, but will just eat, play, grow, Ixvoino strong, live in his littlo body, ami it will bo all tho better for him hereafter that ho did not develop his taste. You may, indeed, watch your boy and girl, however commonplace they arc, and indulge your heart in the hojio that in tho future they will turn out Feubodys and CJvorgu Eliot -i. Others as Mozart are pre cocious, and show from tho very start an ticipating evidences of their later growth. Tbe.se are the difficult cases. If you sus-ix-ot that your boy or girl jiossesses somo strongly pronounced talent or bent, by all means d not coddle it. Neither is it neces sary brutally to stamp it out. There have lieeu in children inclinations that, while not f tho imperious and supreme type that can not le arrested, might have been productive of much pleasure and profit to their owners and a wide circle, and yet early died out through rough treatment and neglect. As time goes on, and the indications jersi.st, and friends and exjerts confirm your thought, you ma' feel assured. All tho more becauso of sus cieil talent, make health and .strength tho first consideration. You are much more likely, however, to see in your child remark able cleverness which have no existence, than not to see those which do exist. Here, it is well to say, that too many urents seek to tuj.e prodigies of their little ones. Scarcely are they able to lisp when attempts are made to teach them to read, recite verses anil .iitborwi.se anticipate the natural ripening of V.". intellect. '. lin if thev urn unusuallv nrecoeious. of being restrained, as they should . 4 rTL-'? more '(teli a systematic f' A C t-': s instituted, and thus form of instrue- the intellect is 'prematurely develoiwd, but aliwt always at the expense ot tno puysieai cohmhuuou. ii in early life the mind is overtasked, the de velopment of the physical organization is retarded. The vital forces during tho first years of child life are especially required by tho svstem at large to maintain its necessary development. If, therefore, they are too prodigally exjionded on the intellect, or un equally diverted to tho brain, it must bo at the cost of other functions aud organs. Under such circumstances, the growth U generally retarded, the muscular system but imperfectly developed, and tho Itody con tinues sparo and devoid of its fair propor tions. Tho complexion will, moreover, be pale and sickly, the circulation and digestion feeble, and nervous affections or other infir mities of tho flesh aro likely to supervene, overburdening existence and shoi leiiir. g its term. The future of children, therefore, m a very great measure, deiends upon the management which they receive during tho first few years of life, and this truth should lo deeply impressed upon the minds of all parents. Especially should they appreciate the dangers of interfering with intellectual development. The immature brain of child hood is such an exceedingly delicate organ that grievous consequences often, in Jat"f life, result from efforts to quickeu the under standing. In the natural order of things the powers of the mind aro disclosed grad ually and in harmony with the advancement of other functions of tho system. Cut to return to our subject. Unexcep tional children who are destined, too, to prove unexceptional awaits, constitute tho great majority. It is much safer to encourago in tellectual tendencies in them than iu children who are pronouncedly intellectual. Peculi arly their property, however in addition to those among the qualities wo have already al luded to, which should obviously bo secured for them are tho moral graces which most adorn childhood and are duo to all. These, in later life, we find to bo our dearest treas ures and highest incentives. Thow lessons of right and truth and uprightness which a mother's heart wisdom best knows how to write upon her children's souk ranks first here. Nothing can outweigh them," nothing can fully replace them. They sow tho seed of the highest future character. As air and exercise make healthy bodies, they constitute the health of tho spirit. Next comes the education in love, kindness and courtesy tc those about us, conferred by the sarao pre emptions, which makes life now and in memory afterward rich, and creates natures capable of later expansion ofjo5"s. Integrity and a loving heart are the brightest jewel you can give any child. Boston Herald. Savins the Odd and Ends. "What sort of insane folly is it that pos sesses some of us at timsr, and makes us .:ve all our odds and ends of every description under the delusion that the' will "come Landy" some time? They never do ''come handy," but we cling to them with great tenacity instead of having the good scuso to bestow them on the ah man as bis rightful prerogatives. My wife and I have well developed economi cal tendencies, and we p.ide ourselves on never wasting a tiling that may "be useful' or "come handy" at any time in the dim future. i have read of men of wealth who traced tho beginning of the! riches back to the time when they carefully saved pieces of twine, never cutting it from a bundle, but carefully untying it and laying it away for future use, until they must have had a bar rel or two of old twino lying around some place. Once I read of a millionaire who set his fellow men on example of thrift by get ting out of his carriuge and picking up a rusty nail ho saw by the roadside, and I em ulated his example until I had about forty pounds of old, rusty, bent and broken nails lying around; and about once in six months 1 used a pound or two of them in trying to find one that I could drive into a board with out liending or breaking. At last I sold the lot for old iron and got ten cents for them. Then I began to reform, aud tho other day I began reforming my wife. I was cleaning out tho accumulation of years iu a closet in the basement and piling most of its contents up for the ash man when my wifecamo down stairs. "There aro somo things in that closet I want saved," she said; "they'll come handy some time." But I resolved to le firm. "You don't want this?" I said, holding up an old tea kettle without any spout and with six big holes in the bottom of it. "Well, it might come handy for something some day." I tossed it into the ash barrel and held up a pair of very old boots, discarded four years ago, and now green with mold. "No uso in saving these, is there?" I asked. "Well, I don't know. A little piece of leather often comes haudy in a house for a hinge or something." I called to mind a pair of leather hinges I once made, and tho boots followed tho tea kettle. "What do you want this rusty old hoop skirt forr "Oh, a piece of hoopskirt wire often comes in useful in a house." "It hasn't lM-en asked for in this house since before tho war," I said. "Here's an old hat of mine that's leen lying around nino years. Better throw it away, hadn't If" "Well, ierhnp8 so. I'vo often thought of giving it to some poor man, but I forget it every time a tramp comes round. I gave it to one tramp and he wdiit off and left it on the front gute post," "Showed his good sense," I said. "Do you want all these old broken dishes?" "Yes; I'll have them all mended someday. I've intended having it done for five years." When her back was turned they went into tho ash barrel. "No use in Raving these old bottles, eh?" "Well, a Injttle's a handy thing to have around. Better save them." "My dear," I said, "hero aro at least seventy-five old bottles, and to my certain know led go we don't use ono a year, and I think wo can trust our great-great-great- grcat grandchildren to get their own bottles, so here they go." In the same daring, reckles? way I threw away three old bustles, old bonnets, breeches, lamps, skillets, hair combings, shoes, saw dust, tm pans, old papers, pop corn, wormy walnuts, soap grease, broken lamps, spoutless toasts, l-ottomless coffee pots, cracked kettles and ten thousand other things that had for yean? and years wafted their turn to "couio handy," but which never would or could "come handy" in this world or in the world to come. Zenas Dane in Detroit Free Press. Starving to Death for Love. Ouida says that a woman has the heart of a dog, meaning by that, I supposo, that the more fcho is lieaten the more she loves the hand that beats her, But it is not true. Tho strongest love of the strongest of us can be ,'jent and brokeu like a lily by indifference or .leglect. The man who holds his heart proud tnd high, too often takes the love of a woman for granted. Having once won it, he feels too sure that he can keep it without any trouble, at least without any extra trouble. "I've cot her now," he says to himself. "She belongs to me as much as my horse does; will see that she is well fed, well stabled, well croonied and well shod, and what more could a reasonable woman desire," and he picks up the littlo moto he laid at her feet before ho "got her," and which ho was pleased to call his heart, and holding it up proud and high ho turns tho key and leaves her. But soule women are not reasonable, they don t pre tend to bo reasonable, and sometimes when tho man who has "got her" is joising his heart high up in the cool regions of self com nlaceucy and waiting for tho unreasonable woman to climb for it, she simply doesn't do it. Sometimes she just quietly begins to pack tho ice around her own heart until it freezes even stiffer and colder than his; and sonic times she beats her hot, impetuous, slighted heart against tho bars of her prison until she finds her way out to sunshine and to freedom. But. alas that I must confess it, she more often starves to Lath from lore hunger within her prison walls. Men may laugh of it, but there are such ileathS; and women die there daily and aro bhrouded and coflined and buried without tho world's ever knowing that there is even so much as a faint bruise ou their tender, loving, pafjent hearts. It is the men who hold their hearts "proud and high," who kill women in this noiseless, stealthy way. It is a strange fact that cold, reticent, un demonstrative men who hold their hearts proud and high, and who weigh out in homce opathic doses the words of affection they eive to a woman lest they should give her tho hundredth part of a' grain too many, have often the power to awaken tho passion ate adoration of the most intense and lovm est women of us all. Shethi ills with bliss at the lightest touch of his hand and turns pale with emotion at the very sound of his voice or his step. When ho smiles on her she goes right up to heaven, and when ho frowns she drops down to earth witu a sickenmg.tliud. She would climb the highest peak with bare and bleeding feet just for one soft look from his hard, cold eyes. She would wade ankle deep through the burning sands of a desert Lo win one word of love from his cold, dumb lips. She would throw herself between him and death and gladly die on his cold bosom for tho sake of oue warm and tender kiss; and sjie would lay her prettiest tea gown on tho altar of self saerifico as a burnt offering if he would only call her "darling" just one time. But even the most intense, constant and lovingest woman of us all cannot go on climbing high mountains, wading through hot sands and sacrificing her best tea gowns forever. She is human, and she will faint and die on the way, leaving her broken heart as a warning to others who stake all en love and. lose; or she will get tired of striving for the love that is held out of her reach, and will comfort herself with some tenderer heart that loves her and 19 pot too proud to tell her so. Pearl Rivers in New Orleans Picayune. A riace to Study Womanhood. It is rather a criditto a young woman that she can heartily and unaffectedly enjoy and help others to enjoy a good perchance old fashioned picnic It will redound to the Ufa happiness of a young man to take a day off and attend such a picnic, if only to study womanhood from a picnic standpoint. If, from such a point of observation, his facul ties are rightly employed, he may detect qualities in the young women of his circla that, until the advent of an all day picnic, have remained latent, unsuspected. If the (air object of his silent watchfulness reveals new charms, if she lays aside her "company manners' and becomes an unaffected girl for the day; If she looks after the little folks and finds keen joy in the added pleasure she con fers upon them in the many ways that wo manly woman is mistress of; if she cares less for trying hard to win attention than to bo- stow it, upon women older and less attrac tive than herself; if she does these things then is she a woman to "tie to," a girl that, as a wife, will be a capital prize in the lot tery of matrimony. Per contra, if the umbrageous canopy of the picnic grove casts its latticed shadow ujxm a damsel who regards the affair as only serving as a lackground to a picture in which she is the self apjointod centrul figure of the foreground; if she is a creature of many needs ami makes these known in an imortunato manner; if she invests a green worm with a horror that uisets the peace of mind of all about her; if she permits a va grant spider or investigating ant to destroy uer good humor for hours and to engender the wish on the part of hi-r acquaintances that she had been prevented from leaving home; if, in short, she conducts herself as if sho was conferring a favor on the entire gathering by coming at all, then does she stand revealed as a young woman that, like dynamite or rough on rats, it is well to leave alone. Pittsburg Bulletin. Not Exactly What We Secnu Do many of us strive to make ourselves seen in our littlo worlds.' Do wo not rather hido under all manner of disguises, do we not try to seem better, kinder, more inno cent, purer, wiser, wittier than wo are? Do wo snow to everybody the testiness of our temper? Do wo go alout admitting freely that we told an untruth this morning; that we have been guilty of listening to what was not intended for our ears; that we ate a gluttonous meal; that we hurt the feelings of all our family by our malicious speech; that we slandered an acquaintance; that wo took more than our share of the day's pleasures, tho best chair, the first reading of the daily paper; that we snubbed our dependents, and w ere rude to our superiors and were alto gether unlovely? No: we carry the blandest expressions that we know how to wear, on tho side toward the world, portraying the best disposition that we know how to counterfeit; we turn up our eyes in horror at the person who does tell untruths; we speak with scorn and old saws -f ieopl! who do listen to what was not meant for them to hear; wo wish aloud that wo had moro apjietite, for we eat no more than tho girl in the fable, with her grain of rice; we despise gossip and slander; we rise from the comfortable chair when mamma conies in if there is any one present to see us do it; we air the paper for grandma without so muel as glancing at it; we sjieak with a voice o;' silver to our inferiors; so fur as our uneon scious power of imposture goes we appear tc be altogether too sweet and good for human nature's daily food. It is, in fact, our aim to seem so much better than we are that it amounts to seeming what we are not, to an actual disguise, and if one who thinks he knows us well should ever chance to meet our soul wandering in the No Man's Laud of the other life, ho will certainly not have the least idea that he has ever met that soul be fore. Harjer's Bazar. Attracting the Wrong Element. I know somo women who are always being insulted. I don't wonder at it. They go abroad exjKH'ting annoyance, slight or in civility. They aro in tho bristle continually, and the first thought in their minds, on being surrounded by men, is, '"Don't any of you miserable creatures dare to touch me." Now, I believe that those who carry that mental makeup about with them will attract the element of incivility. They get what they expect. If a iei-son goes out in the world with his or her lists doubled up, and is en the war path all tho time, whether there be any thing to war with or not, he or sho is much moro likely to have trouble than tho peace ful. You can so go out, with your mental fists doubled up when your physical ones are not; but the influence on others is one which courts trouble, and is likely to get it. They tqld jne in California that the man who al ways carries a pistol is much more likely to get into a fight than he who does not. I think the reason for that is that merely having a deadly weapon about one inclines to tho combative spirit, and as that gets hold of tho pistol bearer it arouses the same spiri in others. Then there are other women who must flirt anywhere aud everywhere, if not with one man with another; no matter the quality, so long as it is a man. Their nu'nds aro perma nently made up to flirt. They don't know this. They are quite unconscious that this is their mental condition. Thev would not be lieve you if ypu told them so, and they would be honest in their belief. They are very liable to get into scrapes. They like, in this way, to play with a little fire, which some times becomes too hot for them. B(it they kindle, it themselves. And a woman with this sort of mind attracts to her the very ele ment which may give her trouble, though she may not lift an eyelid or raiso a finger. Trent ioo Mulford in New' York Star. What Aro They Proud Of? A chronic grumbler caught the Ilambler's ear recently, and this Js what e had to say "An aristocracy in a republic is a pestilent anomaly, and yet that is precisely what is growing up. A self made man Mho has worked for his wealth with unflagging indus try and keen intelligence, retains his democ racy, but not so his wife and daughters, who have done nothing but cultivate expensive tastes. They elevate their noses at less pre tentious neighborhoods and lament that their parent has no dignity whatever. They manage to tolerate hint because ho keeps their lily white hands from the necessity of toil, but they make him feel his immeasur able inferiority when any social question turns up. What aro they proud of? They are proud of doing nothing and of being no earthly use to anybody or even to themselves. Usefulness of any kind is horridly vulgar, Thev call themselves 'good society,' and what with holding their heads very high and keeping everybody except their own particr ular set at a distance, they have managed to persuade a great many that the' really aro superior in some mysterious lasuion to otner citizens," For a Itad RreatU A woman with every charm of an ancient or modern Venus ceases to bo beautiful if, when sho speaks, her breath is hot and fever ish, or worse still, absolutely tainted. Nat urally she does not know this, and it is only proper that somebody belonging to her should tell her. If it comes from her teeth it is something very quickly remedied. If it comes from her digestion then it is her doc tor's business to get her in good order, but very often in this country of invalid women it comes from the use or very strong meai cines. Dr, Wilson advises for this tho use of lemons, claimiuir that they are the most nun fviu" of all fruits, and the aromatic odor irrxhiced bv lemons rubbed on the teeth (nim) or bos lasts longer than any other. For a feverish breath that results from the stomach a few drops of lime water used as a gargle, or better still, a half teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a litt'e water will have the desired effect. "Bab" in Philadel phia Timco. TIIE NORTH WOODS GUIDES WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO FOR THE TOURISTS THEY LOOK AFTER. Iloyliood of the Future Guide Outfit and Accomplishments of an Adirondack Guide location of Campn Cooking aud Camp Work Floating; for Deer. According to their stories, the guides are usually sons of farmers or lumbermen, and are reared on tho borders of the biff woods. They begin to fish for trout in tho nearest brook about as soon as they can walk, and beforo they aro able to hold a gun offhand they have been provided with an old musket which has been bored out and thus made a shotgun. Very often the guido kills his first doer before he is in his teens, and lnstunces of boys of tender years hilling a bear are scarcely uncommon. Such boys roam the woods with no more danger of getting lost or turned around than a city boy would find in walking from City Hall to the Battery in New York city. But traveling through the woods without jetting lost is one of the least of the accom plishments of an Adirondack guide. More than that, the guide must be a capitalist. lie carries with him a thirteen foot canoe and an assortment of fishing tackle in a pack basket that seemed large enough to stock a country store. Although the club has no end of bonts and scows on Bisby lake, the guides must furnish their own boats for uso on Moose river and Canachagala lake. W bile the sportsman always fishes with his own tackle, the guide must have an abundant supply of lines and hooks, too, ine'tidh'? ret rr lines for taking lue. big oues that will not rise to a fly, and the reason for this will ap pear further on. KITS FOR THE CA1TP. Besides these, the guide must own at least one good kit of cooking utensils. The Bisby guides generally own from two to five kits each, aud each kit is kept hidden in the woods at such points on Moose river and the lakes as tho sportsman Is likely to visit when hunting and fishing. This saves tho labor of carrying a kit from one placo to another, a matter of no small importance. At these points, too, tho guides erect camps, in which party may loJgo over night in comfort. rain or shine. The camp is simply a log hut roofed with spruce hark, and frequently without doors or windows. But there is a trooti nreplace, and generally a supply of dry jwfcj. Since a good canoe delivered on the river is worth $30 and a camp kit f 5, the guido who is well supplied with these and with fishing tackle, dogs and rifles is a capi talist to the amount of $100 at least. Disaster, however, may sometimes over take tho camp kits and camps located in favorable places on the river and lakes. Food is frequently left with tho kit, and if a boar comes along ho is sure to smell it Even when no food is there he will smell tho kit, and, having no fear under such circum stances, goes in and stirs up the camp in a way that is exasperating. Fi-equently the guido and the sportsman return to camp after a long day spent in wading the river to find tho tinware scattered aud the food eaten and destroyed by a bear. lhe amount of luggage which tho city sportsman requires when going to rough it at the club house in tho Adirondacks some times makes the guides groan in secret, but never openly. There are baskets of wine, cases of leer and demijohns of liquor, be sides boxes of canned goods and trunks of elutl.iug, not to mention silk umbrellas and hat boxes, all of which find place in, "many backwoods outfits. If the sportJTmn be an expert with tho fly, as most of them aro, the guide Cuds occupation in oaijrig for the fish taken; if not, the guido must needs cut a pole, tie on a lino and hook and bait up with a worm. It would never do for the sports man to go back without a supply of fish to prove his prowess to his f rieuds. At tho camp the guide does the cooking and camp work generally. To hold his patrons he must not only be a good cook, but he must learn the tasto of each sportsman and satisfy it, whatever it may bo. To satisfy that taste not inf requently requires an infraction of the game laws, "but," as one guide says, "w. must calculate on having fish for bi-eakfasi, law or no la w, not to mention venison steaks, before Aug. Ja." It can safely be said that twe ueer are slaughtered out of season at the behest of city sportsmen to one killed by crusting by native? for food, and tho deer killed by tho sportsmen can never be more than a quarter consumed before they spoil. THE SWIiTlOXa DEER, When the guide finds the sportsman cannot shoot a deer on the runaway or in the river, he moves to. some lake. WTien the deer is run into the lake it is likely to swim across. Here is the opportunity of the unskilled sportsman, The guide can row a boat faster than the deer can swim. So the sportsman is shortly moored, so to speak, alongside the fleeing deer. He can hit it now with a club, but ho uses a rifle instead, taking care that the muzzle is not close enough to burn the deer's hair. Burned hair would interfere with a tale of a long range shot. There is ono drawback to killing a swimming deer. The carcass will sink if the killing bo done in August or September. To prevent such a catastrophe the guide grasps tie deer firmly by the tail before the" sportsman shoots it. It s an important part of a guide's education to be able to grasp a swimming deer firmly by the tail. Floating for deer will frequently supply the sportsman with venison if he be some what skilled. The sportsman sits down on a seat in the bow of a canoe. Club men fre quently have cane seats made, because cane is more comfortable than spruee. The guid, with a bottle of fly and musquito dope, siti in the stern. At intervals the dope is applied to both the sportsman and the guide to keep off the flies and musquitoes. Between the ap plications the guide paddles the canoe with a paper thin paddle to those low lying swampy chores of the lake where pond lilies and bull frogs flourish. In the extreme bow of the boat is a lantern that has a reflector like that of a locomotive headlight. By means of this liht,.tho sportsman, if lucky, may see the form of a deer standing in the water, where It nas come to feed ou tue pond lilies, it is generally a doe, although the sportsman is usually positive, before he shoots, that he can Bee.the horns. The deer sees the light ai nothing else. It hears nothing, and alt hough it can smell the men it is so "durnf ounded by 'the light that it stands and stares until the l)oat?gets within a rod or two cf it. Thei the sportsman shoots tlis deer with a shot- aun. As the season lasts from the middle of May to the middle of November, with a slack time touring the latter part of J uly and the first of August, the'guide may work over 150 days and take in ovrs $500, besides portable prop erty, while his expenses would bo very small, practically nothing. New York Bun. Getting There by Hard Work. Chicago Lawyer (to v Itness) Are yon sure that you are telling ihe truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Chicago Witness (wiping his face) Great heavens, sir, can you ask me such a question! Don't you see these great beads of perspira tion? New York Sun. 1- The Plattsmouth Herald Is on joying aBoomin both its DASLIT AND WEEKLY EDITIONS. Tke Tear 1888 Will lie one during which the puhjects of national interest and importance will he strongly agitated find the election of a President will take place. Ihe people of Cass Count v who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would keep apace with the times should Vitli KITIIEU THE Daily or Weekly Herald Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak of our Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, it 0 NEBRASKA. c: f