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tettw &ttotl 9 diliHtt(am ttol V H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. BATES or TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One r ry. on year, -One ropy ,slx months On copx, three months, 2.00 1.00. .60 June Sweetness. OranJma sits by the window, And looks with pensive eyes ; The birds are trilling softly, There's a new moou in the skies. Red rosea bloom in the garden. The vines creep over the wall, And a girl lears over the gateway, Like a lily, fair and tall. And the girl is listening softly To the man who is standing there ; Grandma can see the blushes That color her cheek so fair. She can guess the words ho is saying, Tor her eyes the lashes hide, And she wonders if he be worthy The womanly feet to guide. The twilight softly deepens Tin' srnrs come out iu tho sky- -A night-bird, swooping darkly, Oivca out complaining cry." The roHcs, heavy with hwcehiea, Sway idly horo and there, The night is full of fragrancu Like Eden rich and rare. The man goes on with his story, While grandma listens and waits ; And now ho hears through tho darkness The click of the garden gate. Two forms come up the pathway, Loitering, side by side, And the roses are red with blushes As lie whispers, 'My bonny bride !" The stars shine on together, The moon goes down in the west, Tho winds are sighing softly, The birds sleep in their nest. And grandma murmurs a blessing. Lifting her tear-dimmod eyes, While the two hearts beat together I'nder the summer skies. Water!i Magaiine, Grace Hazelton's Mother-in-Law. BY PHOEBUS. Grace Hazelton was a happy woman ; she had been married but a few months to the man she loved ; but perfect bliss is impossible in this world, and she was in a very thoughtful mood ; for had not all her friends warned her against a mother-in-law? And her husband had just informed her that he would like his mother to share their home. "It is true," he continued, "that she has all that she requires in a worldly fense ; but she resides in a distant city among strangers ; she is advanced in years, and I think she should be with her children. You are very young, dear Grace, and are motherless ; and if you were to know my mother, I am sure you would love her." But these very words hardened the young wife's heart ; she was resolved not to lovo her mother in-law, and was sure that she was a meddlesome old woman, who thought no girl good enough for her son Harry. And with woman like inconsistency was sure that the few faults her husband possessed he inher ited from his mother. The door opened, and Mrs. Candid entered. She greeted Grace by ex claiming, "Moping already, and only been mar ried a few months ! Have you had your first quarrel, or did Harry forget to kiss you good-bye?" Mrs. Hazelton laughingly assured her friend that none of these misfortunes had occurred, and she was anticipating the arrival of a guest. "Do tell me who it is !" cried her gashing friend. "Is it Harry's brother, or one of his bachelor friends ?" "Oh, no !" was the reply. "It is his mother." "Horrora !" was the emphatic rejoin der. "You are going to live with your mother-in-law I I would never endure such an infliction. I am older than you, so take my advice ; do not give your consent to have her a permanent inmate of your house. But I have many more visits to pay." And she left Grace Hazelton in no very enviable frame of mind. Day after day she pondered on that dreaded arrival until she- became quite low-spirited; and one morning she awoke and found herself so weak that she was obliged to keep her bed and consult the family physician, who de clared that she was suffering from nervous prostration, and inquired if she tad any trouble on her mind. She answered, "None." Her husband en deavored to cheer her by telling herthat his mother was a good nurse, and that under her care his little wife would soon be quite well. Innocent man ! he little suspected that the only cause of her malady was the dreaded mother-in-law. Grace was not so ill as to require the "are of a professional nurse, and she was nre that among her numerous friends she would receive all the attention that was necessary. She had been alone many hours when she heard a tap on the door, and her most intimate friend, Mrs. Gushington, entered. "My poor dear!" she exclaimed in loving tones. 'Are you sick ?" The question was certainly unneces Bar7 as Grace's pale face spoke more eloquently than words. "I was going to upend the afternoon ith you, but T am so sensitive that I cannot see any one suffering, and the atmosphere of a sick-room always affects toe unfavorably ; so good-bye, my dear. 1 hope that you will soon be better." A few more hours passed, and the in ahd longed for a friendly voice to cheer VOL. III. i. ; ner. At last Mrs. Lemon entered the room. Her countenance corresponded with her name. The sound of her voice was Rharp and bitter as she exclaimed nmi ... xms win never do I You must not give way. I am sure that your sickness is all imaginary. My son John's wife was always sickly, and when I came to live with them I told her to go around and work it off. "When your mother-in law comes I am sure that she will give you the same advice, for we both come from the good old-fashioned stock. But you look tired, so I will go." uur young friend endeavored to for get her troubles in slumber, but thoughts of her mother-in-law banished sleep. Harry Hazleton returned home and found his wife weeping like a child. "Ob, Harry," she cried, "I am so glad you have come ! I am so lonely, and I feel so ill !' "Why, what is the matter, little woman?" he asked in cheering tones. "Did all your friends deseit vou?" "One or two called," she answered. "but they appeared in a hurry, and onlv stayed a few minutes. It has been such a long day, and I feel as if I were alone in the world. I have no mother, no kindred. I thought that I had friends, but now that I require their attention I discover that I have only acquaintances." "My child," replied her husband, "it is only the way of the world. Selfish ness is the nature of mankind. Get well, be able to entertain visitors, and vour guest' visits will not be so hurried.'' The next morning the young wife awoke ill in mind as well as body. The long hours dragged along ; no friends came to cheer the invalid, only polite messages of inquiry respecting her health. She felt desolate and forsaken. Suddenly a faintness crept over her; her eyes closed and she became uncon scious. When she recovered she saw a sad, gentle face bending over hor. This lovely old lady could not be a mother- in-law. She then heard the "Has the poor child no friend, that I find her so alone when she requires a woman's care ?" "Mother," was the reply in her husband's voice, "are you not old enough to know that the world is selfish ?" Then she realized that the dreaded mother-in-law had arrived. Tresentlv she heard her husband say, quietly, "I will now leave you, and I am sure you will bo able to take better care of Grace than I can, for I do not under stand her sudden illness." "My son," was the reply, "you should cheer your sick wife, not sadden her by unkind speeches." The door closed, and they were alone. The old lady embraced her daughter-in- law, and said in gentle tones, "My child, do not fret over those foolish words of Harry's ; men are not so sensitive as we are, and he did not intend to be unkind. Now tell me what has so prostrated you V You not only are ill, but you are enduring mental anxiety. I do not think my boy can treat you harshly, for I always taught him that it was unmanly to be unkind to a woman. Confide in me, my child, and tell me the cause of your unhappi- ness." The young wife's reply was to throw her arms around the speaker's neck and to sob out these words, "Do not speak so kindly, for I must make a confession that may change your affection to dislike." "Grace," was the reply, "I will spare you the humiliation of any explanation by uttering one word ; that word is mother-in-law. You dreaded my anival, for you always regarded a mother-in-law in the light of a social monster. And now we will change the subject, for you are too weak to talk. I have made you some jelly and you must en deavor to eat it ; then try and rest, and I will soon return." A few hours later, and Mrs. Hazelton entered the room. She gently ap proached the bed, and glanced at the young wife's pale cheek ; .she looked but a child as she slept. She moved uneasily and softly murmured , "Mother !" She was dreaming of the dead. A tear fell upon her upturned face. She awoke, and for a moment imagined that her mother had come from heaven to watch over her child ; but it was her mother-in-law who bent over her and shed the tear of sympathy, and it was on her mother-in-law's breast that she sobbed out her childish grief. "Now, my dear," cried the old lady, "you must not become morbid; try and get up ; I will dress yon. I have laid the table in the sitting-room, so we will surprise Harry when he comes home with company to dinner.'' When the husband returned he was surprised at the wonderful recovery of his wife. "Why, mother," he exclaimed, "you must be a witch!" But the daughter-in-law answered : "No, she is an angel. With noble forbearance she refused to hear the con fession of my ignorant prejudice against her, but I must acknowledge my fault. Harry, my illness was caused by grief at the idea of receiving your dear mother." "My child," replied Mrs. Hazelton u u PITTSBOltO', "do not reproach yourself. When-1 was I your age I almost hated my husband's mother, and in after years we had many a laugh over our first meeting ; and learned to love my mother-in-law with true affection, for she was a noble woman." Five years passed away. Grace Haz eiton Unew both joy and sorrow. She was a mother death claimed her babe she stood by its tiny coffin bowed down by grief. It was the mother-in- law who shared her sorrow, and taught her resignation to the will of God. Now other little ones enliven her fireside, and it is the mother-in-law who shares her joy. Waverly Magazine. The Skidinore Butter. The affable and gentlemanly proprie tor of one of our leading hotels had just finished his first forty winks after retir ing the other night, when he wa3 con scious of a slight noise under the bed. "Come out of that or 111 blow you full of Sutro tunnels !" he shouted, as he sat up in bed and cocked his re volver. "Hold hard! I'm coming!" said the concealed party, scrambling from under the bed. It was too dark to see clearly, but the hotelkeeper could perceive a shadowy form arise and lean affably over the footboard. "What the blanknation are you doing there?" roared the incensed steak stretcher. "Now, keep cool take it easy don't get excited," said the intruder, blandly. "It's all your fault." "What the blazes do you mean ?" "Why, I've been trying my name is Sliggs, agent for Slushington & Slazy, Philadelphia I've been trying to see you for two weeks. Wanted to show you a patented article of the greatest value to your business." "Don't want to see any agents but what the devil do you mean by "I was just going to explain," inter rupted the cheeky customer. "I deter mined to see you at any risk, so I just hid under the bed. You see, I wanted to get at you when you had nothing to bother you. Plenty of time to talk, you uuderstand." "Well, of all the gall!" "I won't detain you a minute," has tily continued the agent. "I am trying to introduce a patented article of butter, and " "We've arranged for all the oleomar garine wo want," growled the hash server. "But this is another article entirely. It is a composition of semi-liquid rub ber, colored and manipulated so as to exactly resemble the best clover-fed butter. By its use the boarder of the period can be brought so as not to eat any butter at all." "Don't believe it," said the dyspepsia aggravator, incredulously. "But it's a fact all the same," went on the agent, sitting on the footboard and lighting a cigarette. "You see, the guest puts his knife into the butter, and proceeds to butter his bread. That is he thinks he does, but the rubber merely yields to the pressure of the knife. Instead of the portion being re moved it really slides back to the orig inal roll as he withdraws his knife. The boarder imagines he has spread the bread, however, and eats it content edly. You know how much imagina tion has to do with these things, any way." "Big money saved if the thing really worked," mused the landlord. "But it does work," persisted Mr. Sliggs; "there are twenty-six restau rants and four large hotels using it in Chicago Big success, too. Doesn't give the bread that peculiar ahem ! peculiar wheel-greasy flavor of regular hotel butter. Besides, there are no hairs and things. If it wasn't so dark I'd show you a sample that has been in use over eight months. All you have to do is to freshen it up with a little water and a wooden die once a month, and there you are." "I'll think over it," said the great American "extra" charger, thought fully. "Do so, and Til see you in the morn ing," and after tucking the covers around the landlord's feet and bidding him a cheery good-night, the butter agent unlocked the door and slid out. Instead of inspecting the new boon to tavern keepers the next morning, however, the hotel man put in time writing an advertisement for the papers to the effect that if the sneak thief who stole four seal rings, a set of diamond studs, six scarf pins, pair sleeve but tons, gold watch and 52 in coin from a room in the hotel, would return the jewelry, he could keep the money and no questions asked. San Francisco Post. If husbands are out late of nights about this time, their wives will, of course, understand that they have been taking observations of the comet through a glass. New York editors are learned dis cussing jim-jams. Boston Post. And they know what they're talking about, too. CHATHAM CO., N. C, Fashion 'otes. Turquoises are the favorste jewels. Velasquezed is the last new color. "Bilboa" is a charming blue-grey neutral tint. Marguerite blue and Faust red are new tints. Nymphe emire is a shade of delicate flesh color. Chessboard or damier patterns are almost a fureur. An exquisite shape or coral pink is called "disparn." it is so soft and pule. Nearly every corsage, fichu, and bon net has its spray or cluster of flowers. Valois jraises of lace are very elegant with full-eress midsummer toilets. Florentine grenadine, beaded in stripes, is used for deep collars and shoulder capes. Pretty breakfast caps are composed of a tiny square of mull edged with a deep lace ruffle. Canton crepes in Egyptian patterns are very handsome for the mild-summer full dress toilets. Certain combinations of yellow and green are said to resemble an omelet with lettuce. Gilt and steel stripes, star and rain bow stripes are all to be seen on bonnet ribbons and scarfs. White Leghorn hats, covered with rows of pearl-beaded Spanish lace, and trimmed with four or five short ostrich tips and a cluster of jacquenminot roses to brighten the whole, are exceedingly stylish for summer wear. A few of these hats just imported have a ruffle of pear-beaded Spanish lace drooping from the edge of the hat. Camel's hair or Indian shawls seem o compose many of the most dlegant and costly outside wraps ; while satin, plain, embossed and brocaded vies with plain Indian cashmere for others. The latter material- is shiired oau oq; punoas a so as to form a deep, round yoke, and looks quit9 pleasant, with the addition of fifty yards or so of lace p'aited around the neck, sleeves and bottom. Parasols are more elaborately trimmed than ever, especially in the lining3, and are carried so tnat the lining may be seen as a background for the face and hat. Fans of feathers embroidered in silk, of cretonne, with figures outlined with tinsel thread and of several rows of lace, are larger than those used last sea son, lliose of point lace and hand somely painted are about the same as before. No fashion introduced for year3 has had a greater success than the recent one of dressy independent jackets and bodices. They are found so exceedingly useful, so convenient in wearing out half-worn skirts, or giving a touch of elegance to what would be otherwise a plain, dull toilet, that they are likely to hold the fiekl against newcomers for some time. Old gold and red brocades in small figures look exceedingly well with dark or light skirts. Ruby satin or velvet quite lights up a white muslin skirt, and a brocade of any color into which gold is introduced looks rich and effective. Spanish lace scarfs and shawls are ar ranged for open air occasions at water ing places in the genuine Spanish style, with the high comb, usually of shell or jet. Keal amber back and side low combs are effectively arranged with black lace. An overdress of black Span ish lace or brocade grenadine, with amber-colored satin brocade or moire skirt, and amber combs, necklace of amber beads and bracelets of the same with yellow flowers, is a most stylish dinner dress for a brunette. A Cannon to Shoot Ten Miles. The making of the patterns for the Lyman-Haskell accelerating or multi charge gun, at the Scott foundry of the Beading (Pa ) Iron Works, was begun. The gun will be twenty-five feet long and have a bore six feet in diameter. Along the bore four pockets will be located, in each of which a charge of powder will be placed, with the view of accelerating the speed of the ball after it leaves the chamber of the gun and during its progress through the bore. Experts who have seen the drawings and have given the subject of the manufac ture of heavy ordnance a study have ex pressed the opinion that the gun will throw a ball a distance of ten to twelve miles, whereas five miles is a good range for the best cannon. The charge of powder will be 130 pounds and the weight of shot 150 pounds. It is calcu lated that a shot from the gun will pen etrate through two feet of solid wrought iron. Rising in Life. Those persons who have attained t o eminence in any vocation of life have followed a uniform course, that of earnest work and unwearied application. None are truly happy but those that are busy ; for the only real happiness lies in useful work of some kind, either of the hand or the head, so long as over exertion of either is avoided. It should be the aim of every one to be employed. If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world. JULY 21, 1881. AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION OF US. What Ball Ran Rasaell Thinks of the United states Now. WTiile the welfare and prosperity of tnis republic do not, in any manner. depend upon what our English cousins think of ns, yet we never object at all to hearing them express their opinions, and we can take them for what they are worth. Dr. William H. Kussell, the English correspondent (better known in this country as "Bull Bun" Russell from his remarkable departure from the scene and description of that battle.) having finished his tour of the United States with the Duke of Sutherland and his party, has now given expression to his views upon some of the things he has seen, and they are not uninterest ing reading. He pats Americans on the back a trifle, or rather, gives them back-handed compliment by saying that they have improved greatly. "Their traditional inquisitiveness," he says, "either never existed or it has disap peared, and 1 have seen no evidence of the self-assertive manner that was once attribute d to Americans. No one shows an impertinent curiosity as to your business, who you are or whence you come. I find no offensive self-assertion among the American people now, what ever may have been the case years ago." While Amaricans may feel more or less complimented by these views, yet we fear Dr. Russell has not had an oppor tunity to interview Mr. Conkling or he might wish to take back some of his words about the disappearance of the Stlf-assertive feature in the American character. In addition to this Dr. Russell said : "Where you can't raise wheat you raise gold, and where vou can't raise gold you raise lead, and where you can't raise lead you raise silver. It's something everywhere a country of wonderful resources. Of course, border life was expected to be a. little strange and rude ; and when people asked where Sutherland was, or crowded to see the Duke, it was all accepted as a part of the play. But when you come, as you will by-and-by, in the great West, to separate the vice and the crime from tho industry and steadiness and to settle into a crystalline, social body, it will be a great country, with a great future before it. It did seem a little unusual, however, that every spot in the West the party visited should possess some legend of how some person was shot. But these things, I suppose, are inseparable elements of life on the border, and as the civiliza tion of the East pushes westward, further and further, they will disappear." Dr. Russell does not tell us anything striking that we did not know before, but he seems to have learned a lesson from Dickens, and to have resolved not to say anything about this great land of ours and is inhabitants, which in after years he would be compelled to ask our pardon for. He Had Thorn All Down Fine. The other morning a young man of affable manners presented himself at tho box office of a variety show atPeta luma and requested a press pass. "You don't claim to be a journalist, do you ?" asked the manager, glancing suspiciously at the good clothes and innocent expression of the applicant. "Yes, I do, though; I'm on the Flea town Snapper." "Hum! what is your department?" growled the manager. "I was a news paper man myself once." "I do the 'Answers to Correspond ents,' " asserted the yon th. "Do, eh? Lemme see ! What was the fastest mile ever skated backward for money in the United States ?" "That question is always signed "Nim rod,"said the young man, promptly, "and the answer is : 'Died in Brazil, 1UG.'" "Correct," said the manager. "When was Cieopatra hung?" "Trim with deep rushing, and bake before a quick fire." "Did Oliver Cromwell have a blue wart on his chin ?" "B takes the trick, of course." "Was Queen Elizabeth bandy-legged, or only bandied in one leg? And how do you take inkstains out of marble 7 "Inquire at any hardware store. Pata gonia was discovered by Benjamin Franklin in 1293." "That settles it," said the manager, promptly shelling out a private-box check. "I see you've got 'em all by heart. Pass right in !" San Francisco Post. Alexander Dumas Rise3 at six o'clock, and immediately proceeds to warm a plate of soup, which has been prepared for him the night before. He swallows the soup, and with this refreshment devotes his hours to composition till noon, when he break fasts. He seldom reads French litera ture, knowing the gayest part of it by heart. He has a very slight acquaint ance with English books or in any other language except French. While Mr. Abby, of Umatilla county, Oregon, was driving a flock of 1,110 sheep over the Blua Mountain?, they stamped and leaped over a precipice, by which 950 were killed outright. Ay NO. 45. About Bells. Nobody knows when and where bells first came into use. The old Egyptians were summoned to the feast of Osiris oy tne sound of a bell, much as our good people are called to church on a Sunday morning. When Aaron went into the holy place, his coming and going was signalled to the people by the tinkling of the row of gofden bells which he wore upon his ephod. There is another picture of David playing, with a hammer in each hand, upon five bells, suspended before him ; but it is hardly to be presumed that the paint ing was taken from life. Tho early Christian missionaries in Ireland were accustomed to carry a bell with them, in order to summon the inhabitants to worship that which belonged to St. Gall being still preserved in Switzer land, while St. Patrick's is exhibited to this day in Belfast. Church-bells were introduced into England in the Sixth century, where they have continued to make much noisj ever since. Nearly a thousand yeara ago names were given to bells, and the "Old Tom'? of Oxford is historical. The Americans have their "Liberty Bell," which, after having, in 1776, pro claimed to the land that the United States were free and independent, now rests, cracked and voiceless, in the Hall of Independence in Philadelphia. In one of the towers of old Moscow there were not less than thirty-seven one of which was so large that it re quhed twenty-four men to pull the clapper, the bell itself being immova ble. A traveler says : "The large bell near the cathedral is only used upon important occasions ; and when it sounds, a deep hollow murmur vibrates all over Moscow, like the fullest tones of a vast organ, or the rolling of dis tant thunder. It is forty feet nine inches in circumference, and weighs more than fifty-seven tons." What is known as "the great bell of Moscow," the largest ever made, still stands where it was originally cast. It has been consecrated as a chapel, and a door opened where a piece of the bell was broken out by throwing water upon it when heated by fire. The size of the room is twenty-two feet in diameter. and more than twenty-ono feet in height. The Chinese are also well off for bells. There are seven in the city of Pekin, each of which weighs one hundred and twenty thousand pounds. In former times the hand bells that stood upon the table, often made of silver, and beautifully chased, answered all the purposes of the household. The hang ing of bells in private houses, and the door-bell, are of comparatively modern date. The knocker was in use a3 long ago as the time of Alexander Pope, as appears from the lines "Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued.. I said ; Tie up the knocker, eay I'm sick, I'm dead." On the doors of some houses may still be seen the marks of what was called "the rasp," a piece of iron pl aced perpendicularly and fastened at both ends, with the inner side roughly ser rated or notched, and two or three heavy rings attached, which were rat tled up and down by one who wished admittance. This must have been a little worse than a knocker. The curfew-bell was rung all over Europe at eight o'clock in the evening as the signal for covering up the fire, as the word curfew cover fire indi cates. In Roman Catholic countries the passing bell is a summons to offer a prayer for a liberated spirit. It is in the depths of the country, when tht notes of the village bell come floating over the sweet fields and ming ling with the soft music of the trees and the ripple of the brook, that the sound is most melodious. The thunder of the great cathedral peal is grand ; the elab orate chimes of Antwerp and Bruges are beautiful, but the music of the solitary village bell, 'Tailing at intervals upon the ear in cadence sweet," fills the soul with a calmer devotion. The toll of the fog-bell, as it comes palpitating out of the darkness, when nothing can be seen beyond the deck of the ship, may be cheering to the pilot who relies upon its tones to guide .him through the gloom, but it is anything but enlivening to others. There is o ne bell whose sound is not to be resisted. It may come at any hour when we are most absorbed in work, or partaking of our frugal meal, or resting from our foils, or chatting pleasantly with our friends. Anybody can give utterance to that sound. By our own act we have furnished facilities for the intrusion of that sound, and put temptation in others' way. Need we say that it is the door-bell. Ease is the last thing in the world for a Christian to long for. But it is quite right for him to wish and pray that he may be easy in his sphere, and do its duties easilv. Not rest from toil, but peace in toil, should be our craving : not less work to do, but more strength for its doing. Ease is the paradise of a shirk, not a soldier, in the Christian warfare. ADVERTISING. One square, one Insertion, One square, two insertions, One square, one-month, - fl.00 - 1.30 - - 3.50 For larger advertisements liberal contracts w? Jl made ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Hungarians would rather go hun gry than touch American hams, bason or lard. The importation of all hog products is now prohibited. The libel suit brought by Governor Bishop, of Ohio, against the Cincinnati Gazette has ended in a verdict for $500 damages. Ho is a very ordinary man who never finds fault with himself, and a very ex traordinary one who never has reason to do so. Matches carried into a nest by birds at the corner of the roof of a cottage in Shropshire, England, became ignited, and the buildiag was destroyed. A man has invented a chair that can be adjusted to eight hundred different positions. It is designed for a boy to sit in when he goes to church. Blind musicians from the Perkins In stitution, at South Boston, have kept in tune for five years past all the pianos 130 in nuniDer in use in the public schools of Boston. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, the noted litigant, is petite in stature, attractive in appearance, and possesses a fnll suit of yellow hair which is all her own. Her age is about But let that pass. The Baldwinsville (Ga ) Gazette ad vertises the opening of a drugstore next to an undertaker's shop in that village, and says that "tho two institutions will be conducted in conjunction one with the other. It i3 claimed that the excursion steamers in Massachusetts harbors and on the little strip of New Hampshire coast last year carried more than 11,000,- 000 passengers without accident to any one of them. Most of the United States senators draw their salaries once a month, but some draw small amounts almost daily. Ona senator Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island drawn his salary at the end of every year through his banker. Naturalized American citizens who go abroad should not fail to obtain pass ports ; without such certificate of their identity and citizenship they cannot legi timately claim the protection of tho United States legations in foreign coun tries. The State Department crivc3 cj notice that much trouble and annoyance may be avoided by this simple pre caution. How to Live in Sunvncr. Clothing must be considered, for it has much to do with our elasticity of movement. It is as yet a point of dis pute whether cotton stuffs are the best wear, many approving of light woolens. For women nothing is sweeter in sum mer than a linen dres3 ; it is a pity we do not patronize linen more for adults ; for children, cottons ; for workingmen, worsteds. The heavy suits of men are weighing them down in summer, and clothes of serge are far preferable to those of thick woolen cloth. Very thin silk is a cool wear. The heavily-laden skirts of women impede the free action of movement much, and should be sim plified as much as possible for tummcr So also the headgear. Infants, if at all delicate, should not ba allowed to go with bare feet ; it often produces diarrhoea, and they should al ways wear a flannel band around the stomach. Another important matter is the changing of night and day linen among the poorer classes. It is terrible to think that a workingman should lie down in the shirt in which he has per spired all day at his hot work. Let men accustom themselves to good washes every evening before they sit down to their meals, and to changes at night that they may take up a dry shirt when going to their hard day's work. Frequent changes of linen is abso lutely necessary anyhow, a night and day change. This change alone would help to stay mortality among children, if accompanied with other healthy meas ures, such as sponging the body with a little salt and water. Where tenements are very close wet sheets placed against walls will aid to revivify the air and ab sorb bad vapor in rooms. All children's hair should be cut short ; boys' hair may be cropped and girls' hair so arranged by nets or plaits that air passes freely round the neck. Light head coverings are essential in summer, for the head must be kept cool. The most serviceable dress is that which allows air to pass freely around your limbs and stops neither the evaporation of the body nor the circulation of the refreshing atmosphere. In summer you must breathe freely and lightly; you cannot do so with your stomach full of undigested food, your blood full of over heating alcohol, your lungs fall of viti ated air, your smell disgusted with nau seous scents, your system unable to carry out the natural process of diges tion. All the sanitary arrangements in the world will do no good if we t at and drink in such a fashion tlsat we are con stantly putting on fuel where it is not needed, and stuffing up our bodily draught, as wo would that of a heating appliance. Our ignorance and our bad habits spoil the summer, that delightful season of the year nothing else.
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