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The Commoner July 11,190a 9 X (ill 1 S I ) t that cannot be thoroughly masticated. "Bacon, properly cooked, Is a valua ble food, as it Is a good appetizer and causes both the saliva and the gastric juice to flow, but it should bo cooked to a crisp. "The practically universal consump tion of meat by civilized races is of 'jzioro recent origin than Is commonly supposed. Even in Great Britain, the bulwark of beef eating, it is said that the slaughter of bullocks for the sup ply of public markets was unknown so late as 1763. The last twenty or thirty years have seen a great increase In the consumption of meats, but it Is interesting to note that the English men who repelled the Armada and the 'Americans who met the., English at Lexington and Bunker Hill were not enormous consumers of meat." New .York Trioune. t -4 I ItwU-l I Olorles of Womanhood. 'A woman's power avails most when It is asserted least Strenuousness, or perhaps strenuosity I am not quite surewhich is the better form of the in sistent noun is a quality which has long existed in people and things; but the high honor and the important role which are claimed for it today are somewhat recent, and before the claim is granted it would be well for us to have a little clearer idea of what quality means. Is it simply another name for earn estness, vigor, energy? Surely, then, it is a good thing and much to be de sired in boys and girls, in men and women,. .It is not. the, highest, quality. Thoughtfulness is higher. Sincerity is higher. Charity is the highest of all. But these noble traits are enhanced in value when they are filled with cour age and lived out with steady force. The strenuous life is the life that sounds like a trumpet. It is dominant, K assertive, militant. There is a tone of defiance and strife in it. It Is next door to a strident life. If this is what it means, it is not a natural nor a de sirable life for girls. I take it for granted that a man and anJIHjH itey a woman are of the same worth and not of the same kind. A woman's spe cial and inestimable value in tho world lies just in the qualities which make her womanhood. And these are things which strenuosity must disturb, if not destroy. 1 1 A serene and gentle dignity, a tran quil wisdom to counsel and restrain; a fine delicacy of feeling, quick to re joice, tender to suffer, yet patient to endure; a subtle sense of tho values of small, unpurchasable things; a power of great confidence and of self-sacriflco almost limitless where love speaks the word and duty shows the task; an In stinct of protection and a joyful pride in mothering the weak; a brave loyal ty to the rights of the heart against "the freezing reason's colder part;" a noble hunger and thirst for har mony; an impregnable strength of per sonal reserve; and an exhaustless gen erosity of personal surrender these fare the native glories of womanhood. These are the things that life, if true and well-ordered, should deepen, un fold, brighten and harmonize in the perfection of a woman's character. Henry Van Dyke, in Harper's Bazar. Have Your Own Pressure Waterworks. 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Can you afford to lot this grand offer go by? Bond in youcnamo at once, and if you will, kindly add a few namoa of your fanner neighbors, for free aamplo coplos, and you wUl greatly obUgoDARNOM'S MIDLAND FARMEfl.W. M. Barnum, editor, Cornor 2d and Chestnut St., St. Louis, Mo. y Advertising rates; 2 cents a word, cash with order. The Vast Importance of Sleep. Mischievous are those stories tol'l ahout the ability of great men to do without sleep. The foolish young man reads that Napoleon slept only three or four hours at night and he cuts down his hours of sleep. xHe might better open a vein and lose a quart of blood- than lose the sleep which is life itself. Most of the stories told about great men doing without sleep are more lies. Some of them aro true. For In stance, it Is undoubtedly true that Na poleonan inconceivably foolish, reckless man in matters affecting his physical welfare did deprive himself of sleep In his early years. But he paid for it dearly. In his last battles his power of resistance was so slight that he actually went to sleep during the fighting. Chronic drowsiness weak ened his brain, weakened his force of character. The foundation of his final ruin was laid in Russia, when lack of sleep and unwise living generally had taken away his mental elasticity and deprived him of the power to form and carry out resolutions. It is mainly the young man who needs the lecture on sleep, for the ex perience of years soon proves to every human being the folly of cheating na ture by adding a few hours of drowsy consciousness to tho day. You begin life with a certain amount of vitality, a certain initial vital ve locity, which carries you through life and makes possible certain accom plishments. When you deprive your self of sleep you squander this original capital. Just as surely as tho young spendthrift ruins himself financially when he throws away his money, Just so surely you bring irreparable loss upon yourself when you go without sleep. Tho foodwhich you eat Is digested and transformed into new tissue, Into blood, nerve, muscles and brain while you are sleeping. Look at the men who ongago in tho atrocious six-day walks and bicycle races. Thoy eat enormously, absorb ing in ono day five times as much as tho ordinary man can possibly swal low. But the end of their task finds them extremely emaciated. Lack of sleep hag mado it impossible for them to transform tho food into new tissue. Any man or woman who has suffered from Jnsomnia will confirm this state ment, that lack of sleep decreases weight and diminishes vitality more quickly than anything else. Remember this when you brag fool ishly about going without sleep: A man can go forty days without solid food. He can live seven days, or eyen longer, without food or water. Ho cannot live seven days without sleep. Tho Chinese, ingenious in tor ments, discovered no worse death than killing their victims by depriving them of sleep. Of course, every young man can go without sleep for a wholo night oc casionally and go on with his work. He can do this because, from his fath er and mother, he has inherited a cer tain amount of vitality, which, if he knows no better, ho can squander stupidly, just as ho can squander, if he will, what money is left to him. But no man can deprive himself of sleep, or sleep irregularly, without suffering permanently, without dimin ishing his chances of success in the world. Many a woman among those called "fashionablo" looks at tho healthy child of a gardener, and wonders that her child is so different. Tho reason is simple. Tho gardener's wife did not cheat. her child by giving to balls and late hours tho vitality needed by her babies. Tho woman who loses sleep will make a failure of her children. Tho man who loses sleep will make a failure of his life, or at least dimin ish greatly his chances of success. Homely Wrinkles. Try putting a little salt in the water in which matting is washed. If the stove Is greasy put a little soapsuds in with the blacking. Remember to wash the hands and clean the finger nails before cooking. Sweep the screen wire occasionally. The dust and lint which gather on it prevent tho free passage of air. If potatoes are mealy remove them from tho kettle when boiled With a long-handled skimmer instead of a fork. Peas fresh from the garden cook in about half the time they would need if kept a day longer, and are twice as sweet Try taking a nap each day, if only for a few minutes. It will mako you feel more cheerful, hopeful and cap able, i l After a dry, dusty spell of weather, how glad the trees must be to stand up to the rain and hold out their leaves to feel it splashing on them. To keep the cellar cool and dry, close the windows and blinds to exclude tho sun and heat. Ventilate only at night and the cooler portions of the day. The grown-up daughter should not spend all summer at the beach, whilo her, mother swelters over tho gtovo at homo and has no timo for a vacation. For ants: Soak a spongo in molasses and water; squcczo out; placo upon a saucer whero ants aro troublesome;; scald occasionally and sweeten again; that's all, sure y During tho hot, dry weather of sum mer wet tho roots of sw.eet pea vincfl liborally, being careful not to wet tho vines. If you wish vines to bloom freely do not allow any seed to form, Farm Journal. OrveiH Grinder' IsKtcmt AccomBanlit, A new development In, tho organ grinder's art has appeared in London, and only a law prohibiting masquerad ing in tho streots probably protects Now York from an invasion of the same enterprise, says tho New York Tribune. A boy dressed as a pretty, girl, with big poke bonnet and much beflounced -skirts, accompanies tho street musician and dances to all the new music hall melodies. Tho .per formance gives no end of delight to. the youngsters and multiplies tho pennies that fall Into tho coffer o .tho musi cian, a&!Wig Motor For Chlaeae. -'1-r 'A great deal of surprise and no little amusement has been caused among the Hongkong Chinese community by, tho spectacle of a well dressed China man careering along tho Fraya on a' motor cycle, says tho Hongkong Press. The machine had seats for two behind, and these wero occupied by two Chi nese ladies. Tho Chinese aro not prone to western Innovations, yet tho uso by, them of the cycle is increasing in the colony. WHEN LIFE'S AT STAKE The most timid man will take any chance of escape. The slender rope dropped down the precipice, the slip pery log over the abyss, anything that offers a chance of life, is eagerly snatch ed at. 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Mv wife had taken Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and it had helped her so much he Insisted on raj I s CSfrjSKt if iteiF w a ing his 'Golden Medical Discovery 'wsl ues ana am nc inds, thanks to Dft did. I have taken four bottle well man. welzhiner ife count Pierce's Golden Medfcal Discovery." The sole motive for substitution is to permit the dealer to. make the little-more profit paid by the sale of less meritorious medicines. He gains; you lose I