Investigations Carried on in England Tend to Ch,.. Environment Counts Most. Attention is dir ■ ted by the Medical Record to the i i ling and decided ly surprising 1 ■ , . f an investiga tion recently made in England with the purpose of ... r ining the phys ical and mental ii cts on children of alcoholism in parmta. It has hitherto been held as i : ut.ibiy true and “of common kno\ ' ' r at these ef fects are many mi . I n:. at the (inu i i ; a fair start in life, ud is, if not sure, at least very !;' , to l> > u weakling in both mind mid body An examina tion by car : ul .death t of 2,000 chil dren in Mi.,. . t r and Edinburgh where, if anywher , t)i<‘ consequences of alcoholism ci ul 11; found—discred its this old asm . t tion. The parent;- (f half these children were sober peep >, and of half either the father or mother or both habitu ally drank to excess. The conclu sions reached wem: That the death rate among the children of alcoholic parents was slightly greater than among the others, the difference being most notable when the mother was in temperate; that the children of the sober were a little heavier; that the health of the two classes was about the same; that parental alcoholism is not the cause of mental defect in off spring, and affects intelligence very slightly, if at all, and that, for some ine ;plicab!e reason, the eyesight of the alcoholics was somewhat the bd ter. Nothing was decided as to the exist ence of a predisposition toward drunk enness in tli children of drunkards, but it was shown, the Investigators think, that what little superiority was found in the children of the sober was due not to the abstinence of the par ents from intoxicants, but to the bet ter care and training which their chil dren naturally received. In other words, in tin's case, as in so many, if not all others, it is early environment rather than heredity that counts, and there is no more of a prenatal doom for l^ie drunkard’s child than for that of the consumptive. The temperance advocates will not welcome these conclusions, and they can say, fairly enough, that the inves tigation was not broad enough to be decisive. They may even question the wisdom of publishing such statements, even if true. The truth, however, is never dangerous, while falsehood and inaccuracy always are. Experience has shown that the restraints of the old belief are ineffectual, and any lightening of the dark cloud of hope less heredity, exploited by Zola and Ibsen, is certainly to be desired as tending to strengthen the sense of personal responsibility and to inspire ambition and effort. DRINKING HABITS OF WOMEN Perturbed Physical Conditions Given as Main Causes—Its Results Are Dreadful. Inebriety from a fondness for alco hol for its own r ke—vicious indul gence—is far less frequent in women than in men. and it is well that it is so. Drunkenness is had enough in a man. hut in a woman it is even more pitiable, and, if it bo possible, more far-reaching and more dreadful in its result; With women it would, we think, 1 ' safe to say that the origin of the ' ink habit lies in perturbed physical conditions—in fact, that it is a disease, and not a mere moral obli quity, as many would have us believe. The consequences of alcoholism in wo men are not so quickly evident as in men. In the earlier stages of in ebriety in those cases in which there is power of volition, a peculiar shrink ing from publicity protects some wo men against the symptoms noted among men at a like period. Two causes may be given for the lapse of women into inebriety. First is the nervous condition due to lack of nu trition and the wear and worry of do mestic life and the demands of so ciety—an exhaustion for which relief is I i 1 I Ig . ■ ..I "'''I 1 ' rid of alcohol: secondly, (ha pain and unrest Incident to dlsordc or thei sex. for which solace is so-?’'’ in the nnci hetic and paralyzing • **s of alcohol. In the first place, F oman who flics to drink must be lira or unmindful of the fact that i ' king Invo’v ■ a great risk of er -Mag a morbid condition that often find- ex pression in constant inebriety in the second case, the so-called solace, with startling and sorrowful frequency, end in confirmed alcoholism.—Health Culture. The Lafccring Man’s Curse. The great curse of the laboring man Is intemperance. It has brought more desolation to the wag > earners than strikes, or war, or sickness, or death. It is a more unrelenting tyrant than the grasping monopolist. It has caused little children to be hungry, and cold, to grow up among evil associates, to be reared without the knowledge of God. It lias broken up more homes and wrecked more lives ihan any other cause on the face of the earth.—Car dinal Gibbons. IO ij 't : ll J I U. b Rerrcins cf f.lr.i Tacked in Tex a' ' King's C'licc i Oxford—Surgeon to Place Parts Together, Fn a small box packed safety away in a room at King's college, Oxford, are the remains of a prehistoric man. Every bone and portion is marked and catalogued in order, and within the next few days a well-known London surgeon Is to undertake the delicate operation of piecing the figure togeth er, This prehistoric -man was one of the discoveries made by the little band of explorers who have .lust re turned from Egypt after five months’ tour on behalf of the fund. Accord ing lo experts, the discovery dates from a period earlier than 6000 or 7000 n. C. The explorers and native workmen were digging at Abydos. Epper Egypt, about nine miles from the Nile, when they found an oval “crouch’.' grave in the sand. It was p figure on its left side, doubled up. with the knees to the chin. It proved to be the skeleton of a man in a fine stp.te cf preservation. Abydos is i cully a huge cemetery. Experts aver it has been used as a burying place -rv, , , urface |«! now of sand. When this is scraped away . ...j . u, i,.. j oi tat- ttomsnj are revealed; underneath lie th>> burial: of the eighteenth dynasty, 1806 or 2000 years 15. O., and further down arc the barb., places of the pre historic period. At the present day the Arabs use the spot as a cemetery. HEARD DURING THE WAR Password Given Out to Sentinels Un dergoes Change Owing to Sol dier's Blunder. The following anecdote was told bv Col. John A. Hiker of Philadelphia, n veteran of the Civil war, at the National: “In the army of the Cumberland one of the officers whose duty it was to furnish (lie guards with a pass word for tiie night gave the word 'Potomac.' A German, on guard, not understanding distinctly the difference between-'b’s' and 'p's,' understood it to be ‘Potomac,’ and this, on being transferred to another, was corrupted to ‘Buttermilk.’ Soon afterward the officer who had given the word wished to return through (he lines, and, ap proaching a sentinel, was ordered to halt, and the word was demanded lie gave ‘Potomac.’ “ ‘Nicht right. You don't pass mit me.' “ ‘But this Is the word, and I will pass.’ “ ‘No; you stan’,' at the same ime placing a bayonet at his breast in a manner that told Mr. Officer that ‘Potomac’ didn’t pass in Missouri. “‘What is the word, then?' “ ‘ “Buttermilk.” ’ "Well, then, “Buttermilk.”’ “‘Hat is right Now you pass mit yourself all about your pizness.’ ” Keeps Fam'iv Prisoners. An almost incredible story comes from Naples to the effe.-t that a wine merchant named Rea, who appears to he out of his mind, has been keeping his wife and eleven children shut up for the last five years in twelve differ ent. rooms In a country house near Naples. He seems to have watched over his prisoners with the utmost vigilance, feeling them with small portions of maize, potatoes, eggs, and sometimes of fowl. He recently al lowed two of the eldest sons to take short walks in fee neighborhood of the house. Although under close su pervision, they managed to make their plight known to some neighbors, who in their turn informed the police, with the result that the father was at once rrc ithd. The release of the prison ers afforded a very touching spectacle, the meeting between the mother and her sons after five years' separation being most affecting. Burlesque Wedding Guests. Poulbot, a Paris caricaturist, having determined upon so commonplace a step as getting married, decided that he would be married in no common place way. He asked all his friends to the wedding, but there was a sine qua non condition attached to the in vestigation. You had to go with a “made-up head," or you would not be admitted. Preferably you were re quested to make tip as a country cousin at a village wedding. Some guests arrived ns ancient peasants, others as village idiots. There were several bluff squires and rural elderly gentlemen with means, a number of retired officers and ex > 'it uncles from the south, besides i'ct < military gentlemen from the hottest s‘at ions of Algeria. The only i < rsens who wore tin it natural physio ups weie the con] I ’ most ctmcerne They had drawn (lie line at. making up them selves as q burlesque bt id<‘ and a comic b A groom. Mere Matter of Sneed. The Reading Railway's lawyer was cross-examining a negro woman who had sworn that she saw a train t a milk wagon whose bandaged driver had just testified. No. she had not heard the engine blow any whistle whatsoever. "llow near were you to the train?" the lawyer asked iter sharply. She didn't know exactly. It might have been so far and it might have been a little further. "But how far?” the lawyer per sisted. "A mile or a square or what? How long would it have taken you to walk the distandb?" “Still," the witness replied, haughti ly, "dat would depend entirely on my speed." SERVING CF FkUITJ MEUC* ' AF.C ~ETTER SFRVEC WA.,,;, S,Y SOUTHERNERS. Rtclpc: ' >r f J Orcu. r.: Sweit Wino ’I’d “m, II Amount of Flu: LI. ?urr IHecI—How to . r«p«io Currants. Fruits are so < 1 up and so good now tli. : oust or8 should provide them In oi f< - ai.o .. r ft r - meal. M are at their 1 so ih.it it l 1 most a latter ol course i ha" • liver’ every day for one meal o.’ < 'cr Soutlvcrnei declare that people of the north slid watermelons by too much chilling; that, like strawberries, they need the warmth of the sun In them; but the weight, of opinion slili seems to be on the side of the ice box. One of the most popular ways ui serving watermelon is to split It In two lengths, then with a large spoon and a rotary "twist of the wrist" scoop out the luscious pink flesh in cone shaped pieces. Arrange on a bed of green leaves or cracked ice and you . ,ii let ui - fi r , as well ..s a delight to the palate. Cui in tills way, which gives no waste, one good-sized melon will serve 15 or 20 persons, according to the size of the melon and the appetite of the diners At a recent luncheon the first course! was chilled melon, which had been prepared in this wise: All (he center of the melon was scooped out, reject ing the seeds. This was broken with a silver fork Into small pieces, then put into a freezer with the addition of half a pound of powdered sugar and the juice of a lemon. The ii /.cr was packed in salt and ice and turned slowly for 15 minutes until a mush like consistency was obtained. This melon frappe was served in glasses with a teaspoonful of sherry added to each glass. No summer breakfast is complete without fruit. While most people pro ler it served au naturel, others with English predilections take more kind ly to jam or some of the many stewed or steamed fruits. Others find a salad ot fruit dressed with a few spoonfuls of sherry and sugar one of the best appetizers at the beginning of the meal, w hile .still others, loth to give up their cereals, take a combination of fruit and cereal. In serving fruits au naturel arrange them to please the eye as well as the palate. Nothing is prettier than leaves for decoration. No prettier fruit for breakfast can be found than currants, red and white, on the stem. Put a border of the leaves about a pretty china or glass dish, and pile the fruit on them. Hcrvi with powdered sugar. Oranges for breakfast are easiest served cut in halves. They are d« licious made in a compote with rice. Take the pulp out as whole as possi ble and drop into a rich boiling sirup, leaving it in just long enough to heat it through. Make a nest of rice, put the orange and pulp in it and serve with whipped cream. Fruit salads are not nearly so well known as they should be. The dress ing of a lruit salad for the gourmet is usually of sweet wine, with just a suspicion of fine liqueurs, but for ordi nary use other combinations are pref erable. Sweetened whipped cream, lemon juice, fruit juice, French dress ing or mayonnaise are all used wiili fruit. Stuffed Tomato Salad. Chop fine one cupful of cooked ham and season with salt, pepper, celery seed and chopped onion. Add half a cupful of bread crumbs and mix to a smooth paste with French dressing Stuff tomato shell and serve on let tuce with mayonnaise. Watercress: salad is also good to look at and "gooder” to eat. Use the tender leaves of the cress. Let th°m stand in cold water to make tin ' crisp and then wipe dry. Sprinkle over them a teaspoonful of parsley and olives chopped fine. Add a few slices of sour apples and pour over it the French dressing which is made of one table spoonful of vinegar, three tablespoon fuls of oil, one-half teaspoonful of salt and one-quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper. The two latter ingredients should mixed in slowly. To garuish watercress a hard-boiled egg chopped fine and scattered over it is an im provement. Cccoanut Cream. Soak one-half box of gelatine in one cupful of milk until soft., then set in hot water until dissolved Add om cupful of granulated sugar, stir unM! dissolved and strain. When cold and quite thick add one tea: poonful of va nilla, two cupfuls of freshly greed cccoanut and one pint o: c -am whip pod to a solid froth. Stir and mix gently until very thick, then turn intr wetted molds and set aside until thor oughly chilled and firm. The above proportions are sufficient tor two good sized molds. Asparagus. Begin at top, break into two-inch pieces until you reach the tough part of the stalk. Tills you peel thinly and break. Cook in boiling salted water; it will all be equally tender Season with butter, pepper, and cream or thickened milk. Swiss Cheese Sandwiches. Cut rye bread very thin and spread lightly with soft butter. Between th< slices lay thin slices of Swiss cheese spread with lightly seasoned mus tard. F urs—Large and Warm 1 his Season A NKVV AND IT TO DATE SI lOWlNO of Neck Pieces, Muffs and Coats have arrived this week. The styles are much larger than last year, making 1 urs more desirable for comfort. Although prices are higher than one year ago, we are able to ‘■ell you manv very beautiful pieces at low cost. You will readily under stand that as pieces are larger, the cost of manufacture is of necessity more. Matched Si ts of Neck Pit cos and Muff remain a leading feature? of the prevailing vogue. Scarls range from si. 50 to $20; Muffs from 75c to $20. Coats are longer; conse quently warmer and higher priced. We are showing Electric Seal Coats up to $75; Poney Coats up to #55; Brown Coney Coats up to S30. I he Last Word on Coats and Suits Is that Lvl’ord lias the only showing of better class goods to be found in balls City. If you wish a garment at a moderate price we have the fullest assortment in Rich ardson County, if you wish a garment that is absolutely the latest in style, made of fabrics that can be guaranteed to be strictly All Wool and made in the best possible manner, we are headquarters. New Suits have come in this week that are quite up to any we have had and we are now able to assure you of a perfect lit, new cloths, new models. New Skirts—Voiles, Panamas, Serges After long delay some of the nattiest styles of the year are in. These come from the center of Fashion, New York. You may be confident that they are the proper Below are Lines on Which We are Strong Large and Small Rugs, Linoleums, Oil Cloths, Children s Coats, Press Goods, Silks, Sweaters, Silk Petticoats, Silk and Cotton, Underwear, Kid and Fabric Gloves, Corsets, Nc. HARE’S EAR MUSTARD WEED Noxious Plant Is Quite General in Western Portions of Country— Spreading Rapidly. The hare’s i ar mustard Is most hap pily named, as the leaves—as will In seen by the ilU: M inn are very sim i I a r iti shape to the ears of a hnre. This resortil lance is not mly given recognition in the name "hare's-ear mustard.” but also In corne of the other common tm- < ■< r ' to the plant, b:., tot ; n' e, e of the “black sheep" of r lamii.i i bears a con siderabh i >mblari- in leafage to ward its t 'niable • a in, the rah bage plant. > 1 <* le nt of the voir g plant being r by i a pearance and of much the :le color as the !< vr s of a young t bb g >. This is a weed quite general throughout the West, and spreading rapidly. It bears a creamy-white flower about the end of June and rip ens its seeds in August and Septem ber. Tbt> plant developes quite a si iff, wiry slem when ripe, and during its growing period it takes up consider able room, crowding out other plants and making a heavy drain upon the moisture content of the soil. FLOWERS IN A WINDOW BOX If No Provision Hag Yet Been Made, Do Not Forego Pleasure Before It Seems Too Late. If there are some windows about the house where vou would like to fm. home pianis growing, ana no pie visions have been made lor boxes for thorn, don't forego the pleasure be cause It seems to he late in the sea son. Use Coleus Instead of flowering plants. A row of the yellow variety about the outside of the box, with scarlet in the center will make your window brilliant with color, and as these plants are of rapid growth you will not. have to wait long for result They will often be found more satis factory than flowering plants, because their richly-colored foliage will take the plnce of flowers, and It will be In i v tire at nil times; while few Mow mi plants will afford a constant show of co'or. The gray Centaurc and the orang yellow Pyrothrum ("Uolden FVuthor") can be used with the scarlet and ye'low varieties of Co leus, with fine effect. Hig the hist of the rally potatoes and sow rye where they grew. A solution of borax will kill cab bage worms without Injuring tlm call bage. Store early-dug potatoes In n cool, dark place. They will keep until Christmas. Frequent watering of the teams during harvest is good Insurance against sunstroke. Clean up the weeds and rubbish outside the houses and there will be less insects inside. The grasshopper and the dry year harvest the crop without cost for twine and threshing. If you have some line tomato vines on which the fruit is being sun-scolded fix tin in up a little shade. A good mulch ot manure now ■'! he of great assistance to newly p’art td rhubarb and asparagus. Every possible acre should he sum mer fallowed or early fall plowed and harrowed at the same time. Fall plowing helps to destroy the grasshopper broods that otherwise would do