The tenth moon of Saturn has been
named Thoipis. This is already-the
name of the small planet No. 21.
Th capacity of heated air to absorb
niOAlni'O Js mnrie lisp of ns ft niMiis of
cooling men working in deep niinek,
says the Army and Navy Journal,
fhey are allowed to drink all the ice
vSKter thov ripslre ami iWn or.
posed to a current of hot arir. The re-
suit is a rapid evaporation which pro
' duces the sensation of coolness.
In a recent bulletin of the Trinidad
Botanical Department is an account of
the method of preparing "clayed' co
coa. The cocoa beans, after being fer
mented and dried, are collected in
heaps, upon which men are set to
dance, while others replace the beans
as they scatter. Meantime, the heaps
are dusted over with powdered clay,
Il the beans and acts as a polish, so
that finally the beans assume the ap
pearance and color of polished ma
hogany. P.lowing wells, sometimes known as
breathing wells, are now being investi
gated by the United States Geological
Survey. The best known examples of
this typo of well are found throughout
Nebrasku. The force of the air cur
rent in one of the Louisiana-wells is
sufficient to keen a man's hat suspend
ed above it. The cause of such a phe
nomena is mainly duo to changes in at
mospheric pressure. ,
Robert "Whitehead was the first in
ventor to devise a torpedo which would
propel itself through the water. It is
asserted no doubt truthfully that he
refjplped suggestions from an Austrian
wwjSiry officer, Lupuis, and it is not
unlikely that he derived from an Amer
ican, Rear-Admiral -Howell, the idea
of employing the gyroscope for auto
matic steering. Still, in a broad sense,
Whitehead was a pioneer, and the im
provements which he made upon his
original mouei developed wuat is now
the most efficient weapon of its kind.
It has been adopted by ihe leading
navies of ihe world.
AN ARAB HOME
A Picture of the Life of One or the Fai
Eastern Men
At last we were to be admitted to
the home life of an Arab. Doffing
our slippers, we were ushered through
the low, dark doorway into a little
court with a room on either side. The
Wife was seated on the ground ia a
most picturesque costume of dark col
ors, without a veil, preparing the even
ing meal. Hanging on the mud walls
.were various pans and cooking uten
sils, some of which were bronze, oth
ers terra-cotta. On the floor was a
brass mortar and. pestle used for pul
verizing the coffee. Over the fire was
a large earthenware dish in which a
flat cake was being cooked. Both hus
band and wife were so grateful to the
great, magician who had cured their
son tii at all conventionalities were dis
earda and we all sat cnfamille and
enjoyed couscous, dates figs, native
bread and delicious coffee. After din
ner the whole party indulged in cigar
ettes and more coffee. The wife was
really pretty and had more expression
than most of the women of the desert,
especially when she gazed at her son
and heir with a mother love enno
bling her dark but handsome features.
Had it been a daughter, all would
have been different, for they are an un
welcome increase iu the family, ne
glected and ill-treated until they are
sold in marriage, a condition still
worse unless they bear male children.
The woman is ihe beast of burden, the
drudge, and the general utility slave
as well as the banker for the lordly
hufjtoul, who would not be degraded
"by such a thing as labor. From
"Shrines of the Desert," by D. L. Kl
mendori', in Seribner's. ,
Touch on EueIUH Fathers.
Dr. I. L. Taylor, the Brooklyn clergy
man whose sermons are now trans
'initted to invalid and deaf parishion
ers by telephone, has an apt way of
bringing out a point with an anecdote.
Ata men's meeting he said recently:
"Fathers ought to consider their chil
dren ,and look out for them more than
tlKAf'-do. 1
"lii London recently a boy entered a
butcher's and said:
" 'Gimme a pound o' steak rump or
round-and let it be good and tough.' .
"The butcher was amused. lie
laughed. , .
-What do you want it tough for?
he asked.
1 .fiiu.e n lie
; 'ft ner eats it all up himself; but if
h's tough, us children get a wuact at
it.'" J .
The Explanation. -
The photographer was delighted.
"Seldom," he said, "have I had so
ood a sitter. The expression is exaet
y rih the command of the facial
muscles perfect.' You are, perhaps, an
actor?"
"No."
"An automobilist?"
"kba that explains it. You have
learr-i to submit to arrest and a large
tine rv time you go out. and still
to return home looking as if you had
'enjoyed yourself. "-Philadelphia Bui
'letin.
t Tnljaeco Field.
The experiments that are being made
in the Madras Presidency with the cur
ing if tobacco, grown there, are of a
mM encouraging nature, and there i?
no reason why Indian-grown tobacco,
if it gets fair piny, should not cut out
American in the English market Cal
cutta Englishman
THE SLOTHFUL LIFE
i
The Large Percentage of People Who 1.1 t
i Sedentary Lite. '
. In every city or town, be it humble
or great, there is a large percentage of
dwellers who, from the necessities im
posed by their occupations, lead se
dentary lives. In particular, the large
cities abound in sedentrry occupations.
Each has its thousands of brain work
ersin the aggregate of all great cit
ies, such workers number millions.
Day in and day out the sedentary
worker's chief exercise consists in
walking a short distance to a street
ear, riding to and from their offices,
all devoid of any physical exertion
worthy of the name. "When at work
the field of vision of a sedentary man
is limited by the inner walls of his of
fice, his field of physical activity is
limited to his chair. Such habits of
life result in weak, flabby muscles, a
loss of physical stamina, with in time
a disinclination for physical exercise,
whether light or arduous.
In a limited way there are some ex
ceptions to the general inaction of of
lice workers. Some engage in -games
which impose physical competition
more or less, as bowling, billiards, etc.
From them they derive some exercise,
inadaquate, yet far better than none at
.all. Some take up gymnastics, lot,
relatively to the whole, those who take
up systematic physical exercise are
'few. And those who, being office
workers, take systematic exercise, are
generallyf in the early years of their
business life. As a rule, when a seden
tary worker approaches middle age, he
gradually avoids all physical activi
ties separable from the mere journey
ing;? to and fro between home and, of
fice chair. In many instances, obesity
sets in. with its consequent heaviness,
clumsiness, thicknets of wind, and in
ertia. The organs of the body lose
their vigor, and there is a general low
ering of vigor and vitality.
Under such conditions, the mere tak
ing of a vacation once a year, though
beneficial, is far from meeting the re
quirements of the case. Indeed, the
sedentary worker, long habitated to
bodily inaction, is not in physical condi
tion even to enjoy n vacation if it con
templates any of the active sports of
land and water. Nevertheless, he
takes his vacation without any prelim
inary physical preparation, and en
ters into the sport of hunting and
fishing with boyhood prdor. Many bod
ily discomforts forthwith ensue. If he
engages ia quail shooting, his feet, be
ing weak from lack of exercise, are
strained and sore; being tender they
are woll blistered. His arms are so
muscle weary that they feel as if they
would drop off from their own weight,
the whole body is sore and over fa
tigued. If he rides horseback, many
unused muscles are brought into ac
tion, to their consequent straining and
soreness. If the sedentary onr fishes,
there is the same bodily sufferings
from weak feet, weak hands, weak
limbs, with the added inefficiency of
bodily clumsiness, heaviness of move
ment, and incapacity of action. All
this discomfort and incapacity could
be avoided by taking every day regu
lar exercise which would comprehend
the physical culture of the whole body.
Much time is not required. Ten min
utes of exercise morning and night
will accomplish wonders. The whole
muscular system thereby is kept in
tone, the vital organs are vigorous
and perform their functions health
fully, and the sedentary worker then
seeks the physical activities of life
Instead of avoiding them.
Before going on an outing which
contemplates active bodily powers, two
or three weeks of physical preparation,
in the form Of walks to and from the
office, and more exercise each day
with gymnastic appliances will add
immeasurably to the comforts of an
outing, to the capacity and enjoyment
of him who engages in it, besides the
general every-day benefits of a strong
mind in a strong body. Forest and
Stream.
The Height of Witci.
It is usual in other places than nov
els to hear of waves running moun
tains high, but in reality the moun
tains of the sea are by no means
steep, and only appear so when two
systems of waves meet, as in a choppy
sea, and add their amplitudes. For ex
ample, as is shown in a series of wave
measurements lately undertaken by
the French Government, the highest
normal waves encountered in the
Southern Pacific are not more than
fifty-three feet high from crest to base
of trough. These are in a sense the
waves of greatest known amplitude.
The distance between their crests is
1000 feet. Waves of the North Atlan
tic are normally 528 feet from crest to
crest and twenty-six feet high. Lon
don Post.
British Society Leader' I'ets.
Nearly every society leader in Great
Britain has her own pets among the
animal kingdom, generally dogs,
though some go in for. odd treasures.
The young duchess of Marlborough
takes to snakes and pelicans, the
marchioness of Anglesey carries mar
mosets with her wherever she goes, the
eountess of Warwick has a white ele
phant in her castle, Mrs. Arthur Cado
gan boasts of a tame python and Lady
Constance Richardson owns a boa con
strictor. At to Talkers.
All men cling to the superstition that
the female tongue is rarely silent; yet,
as a matter of fact. If it were possible
to arrive at the truth by means of some
kind of measuring machine it is very
much more than likely that it would
be found that men do very much more
talking in the course of twenty-four
hours than the so-called talkative sex.
London Lady's Pictorial.
The soil of Siberia at the close of (the
summer is found still frozen for fifty
six inches beneath the surface.
For (he
Younger
Children....
LIMITATIONS.
An Owl and a Squirrel,
A Snake and a Bee.
Once met at the Tadpole's house,
To point out his failings
And sympathy bring
For the sorrows his wants would arouse.
Said the Owl: "I can't see
How you manage to be
So cheerful, with nil that you lack;
Why you wriggle all day,
In one place never stay,
And you cannot look oxer your hack."
And the Squirrel declared:
'"When I see how you've fared,
I'm as sorry as sorry can be.
You are wet all the time
In this damp, chilly clime,
And, moreover, you can't climb a tree."
Then the Snake came apace
With a grin on his face.
And he spoke with a fake, fawning vo!c::
"You're so short, don't you sec
You'd be longer, like me,
I've, no doubt, if you had but your
choice."
When the Bee's turn had come,
He began with a hum:
"Excuse me but you are so fnnny!
Your wings haven't grown
You can't fly. you must own,
And you do not know how to make
honey"
But the Tadpole replied
(And I've heard that he sighed
As he wriggled about iu his bog):
"There is much I can't do
But then, none of you
Can ever become a green frog."
Lillie A.Spaulding.in Boston Transcript.
THE CROW A FINE BIRD.
In a recent volume on "Ways in Na
ture" John Burroughs pleads for the
much-abused crow. He observes par
ticularly a kind of fair play they ob
serve among themselves while feeding:
"In fact, the crow is a courtly, fine
mannered bird. Birds of prey will
rend one another over their food; even
buzzards will make some show of
mauling one another with their wings;
but I have yet to see anything of the
kind with that gentle freebooter, the
crow. Yet suspicion is his dominant
trait. Anything that looks like design
puts him on his guard. The simplest
device in a cornfield usually suffices to
keep him away. He suspects a trap.
His wit is not deep, but it is quick and
ever on the alert."
Mr. Burroughs observes, too, the
cheerful nature of the crow, and ven
tures to say "that no one has ever yet
heard the crow utter a complaining or
a disconsolate note."
AN AMUSING TRICK.
Cut out a section of an apple ita in
dicated in the illustration at Nos. J
and 2. Then pare the skin from the
section, leaving a little thickness of
the fruit and a bit of the stem adher
ing to it. as indicated at No. I!.
Now cut through the adhering fruit,
near the top, to the skin (No. 4), and
then, holding the strip in the right
hand, between the thumb and the first
finger, just below the cut, pinch it ever
so slightly. This will cause the ton
of the strip to move backward and for
ward, and if you hold a little piece of
bread or a lump of sugar in the other
hand, near the apple-skin, as shown
at No. f, the effect will be that of a
bird pecking at food. Philadelphia
Record.
TRICK WITH FIGURES.
No little trick of figures that we
know of will give more fun to a com
pany than this:
Ask Tommy Jones, for instance, to
set down the year in which he was
born; then have hira add four to it,
and then his age at his next birthday,
if that birthday comes before the next
following January 1: if it comes after
that let lnni add his age at his last
birthday.
Now let him multiply the result thus
obtained by 1000, and from the product
subtract 694,423. Finally let him sub
stitute in this result letters of the al
phabet for the figures, and he will
have his name as most persons know
if. In' substituting the letters A is 3.
B is 2, C is 3, D is 4, E is 5, etc.
The rule here given applies to the
year 1903; if the test Is made in 190!
the sum 095.423 should be deducted,
instead of 694.423.
Try this with your own age and see
how it works.
JUST KEPT ON READING.
"Schliemann's prescription" is a
quick method of acquiring at least a
reading knowledge of other tongues,
and it is less fully appreciated than it
skould be in the very places where It
could be of greatest use. There are all
over the country homes where one or
two of the family have had at some
time or other a pleasant and broaden
ing and refreshing acquaintance with
German or French, or perhaps even
Italian or Spanish. The difficulty has
been to "keep up" that acquaintance,
and a chance to bring a fresh, lively,
outside Interest into the home life is
lost
(2. '10 ' '
HOW THE THICK IS DOXE. ,
Dr. S. iiliemann's method, according
to The Well. spring, was simply this:
He was too busy unearthing the nine
buried cities of old Troy town to have
much tune left for hard work with:
grammars and dictionaries. So he did
without Ihem largely, lie learned by
reading, and by reading rapidly as one
reads in English, depending upon
habit and familiarity with the words
to make their meanings clear to liim.
He is to-day almost as famous for the
many foreign languages he was able
to read as be is for his archaeological
discoveries.
The "five-minute dose.-" of this "pre
scription" amount to this: Take five
minutes a day for reading, say. Ger
man, .lust read it. Don't think you
are uusr-holarly because you haven't
time to "look up" some new words.
Words have a way of teachings word?.
Reading a little each day will keep in
(raining your word-memory and will
fasten u;w words in your mind. Get
your eyes and your ear?, too, accus
tomed to the once unfamiliar phrases
and words. Let the wits sharpen
themselves on guessing at the mean
ing hers and there. , Don't be discour
aged; the vital point is to have faith in
this prescription. It has been tried,
and it works.
All at once, where you could only
read a few sentences in your five min
utes, you will find yourself reading a
page, two pages, ihree. The ssnse of
whole phrases will seem to jump out at
you without need of clumsy transla
tions into English. And the cheap edi
tions of foreign books are so easy to
get and so fascinating once they are
bought!
For many tired, overburdened or
shut-In- people just such an outside in
spiration as this is of extraordinary
value. It is not necessary to stop with
Iho languages begun at school far
from it. Both Italian and Spanish are
easily learned by one's self, so far as
reading goes, and they are the prettiest
of pastimes for one who has even a
slight knowledge of Latin or French.
FAMOUS BOYS.
A woman fell off the dock in Italy.
She was fat and frightened. No one
of the crowd of men dared to jump in
after her; but a boy struck the water
almost as soon as she, and managed to
keep her up until stronger arms, got
hold of her. Everybody said the boy
was very daring, very kind, very quick,
but also very reckless, for he might
have been drowned. The boy was
Garibaldi, and if you will read his life
you will find these were just his. traits
all through that he was so alert thai
nobody could tell when he would mak
an attack with his red-shirted soldiers;
so indiscreet sometimes as to make his
fellow patriots wish he was in Guinea,
but also .so brave and magnanimous
that all the'world, except tyrants, loved
to hear and talk about him.
A boy used to crush the flowers tc
get their color, and painted the white
side of his father's cottage in Tyrol
with all sorts of pictures, which tho
mountaineer gazed at as wonderful.
He was the great artist, Titian.
An old painter watched a little fel
low who amused himself making draw
ings of his pot and brushes, easel and
stool, and said: "That boy will beat
me some day." So he did, for he was
Michael Angelo.
A German boy was reading a blood-and-thunder
novel. Right in the midst
of it he said to himself: "Now, this
will never do. I get too much excited
over it; I can't study so well after it.
So here goes:" and he flung the book
out into the river. He was Fichte, the
great German philosopher.-Our Dumb
Animals.
rO M-POM-P ULL-AWAY.
They are all girls of about ten or
twelve in this game, says the Boston
Herald. But sometimes you played it
with boys, if you weren't iu a school
where the play yards were separate.
And it was a lovely game to play at re
cess. There were two goals in this partic
ular game the sehoolhouse wall and
the fence about thirty-five feet apart,
just a good run.
The girl who was "it" stood half
way between, and the rest any num
ber could play, but usually there were
about eight-started out by getting in a
row along the wall. But it wasn't
long until they were distributed every
where between and at the two goals.
You see the girl who is "it" dares
you to run by holding out her hands
and coaxing "Pom-pom-pull-away! Any
way to get away."
Then you have to "get down" to the
other goal as fast as you can, dodging
and daring and taking every possible
advantage of the groups of girls al
ways standing around at recess, and
very convenient to sneak through and
hide behind.
If "it" grabs you, and you "pull
away" and make your goal, well and
good. But if she hangs on, you have
to stay and help her catch the rest.
As soon as all are caught, whoever
was caught first has to be "it," and
you do it all over again.
It is a lot of fun, and some gins are
so slow they Lave to stay "it" all
through recess. But generally every
body gets eaoght several times.
Weird HutcoTtte Hnniur,
The Russian high admiral was Texed.
"Why," he asked of the naval secre
tary, "have you drawn on the sinking
fund for these battleship expenses?"
"Well." answered the official, evas
ively, "F did it for divers reasons."
But the explanation didn't go down
with the admiral, and the functionary
was soaked. Cleveland Leader.
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Discard drus, as you know from experi
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Machines Swallow Nickels.
Since the Nevada legislature legal
ized slot machines there have not
been enough nickels in circulation,
outside of the slot machine bazars, to
buy 5 cents' worth of gum for a six-year-old
school girl. A keg contain
ing ? 1.500 in nickels was recently re
ceived hot from the factory by a Rene
bank.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE
And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73' Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Store?.
This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 181!, com
ing from a rood old Quaker family.
For some 'ears she taug-ht school, and
became known as a woman of an alert
and investigating1 -vdnd, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa
thetic nature.
In 1843 she married Isaac F'inkham.
ft builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life waa marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and a
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs,- nature's own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the eurative prop
erties of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; so, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex
pressly designed to cure the various
ills and weaknesses of the body, and'
it was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina
tion of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu
liar to the female sex, and LydiaE. Pink
ham's friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freety, with
out money and without price, as a
labor of love.
But In 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
f business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen
nial year dawned it found their prop
erty swept avay. Some other sou roe
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sor.s and the daughter.
Ith their mother, mbined forces te
BOY'S TERRIBLE ECZEMA
AFoulU ami Ejes Covered With Crvatf-w
iraiidn I'inned I)own Mirac
ulous Cnre by Cuticnra. J'.
"When my little boy was sin months
old he had eczema. The sores extended
so quickly over the whole body that we at
once called in the doctor. We then went,
to another doctor, but he could not help
him, and in our despair we went to
third one. Matters became so bad thttt
he had regular holes in his cheeks, large
enough to put a linger into. The food
had to be given with a spoon, for him
mouth was covered with crustn aa thick
as a linger, and whenever he opened the
mouth they began to bleed and suppurate,
as did also his eyes. Hands, arms, chest
and back, in short, the whole body, was
covered over and over. We had no re.t
by diiy or night. Whenever he was
in his bed we had to pin his hands down,
othervise he would scratch his face, and
make an open sore. 1 think his face must
liavfc itched most frarfuily.
"We tinslly thought nothing could help,
and 1 had made up my mind to send my
wife with Jie c'-ild to Europe, hop;ng that
the ?ca air might Otire him, otherwise h
wa to be put under -;ood medkal cart
there. Hut. Lord be blessed, matters taawr
different, and we soon saw a miracle. A
iiiend of ours spoke about Cutieura. W?
made a trial with Cutieura Soap, Oint
ment and Resolvent, and within ten du5
or two weeks we noticed a decided ' in
provemem. Just as quickly as the airk
nei-ri hud appeared it also began to dis4
pear, i.nd within ten weeks the child tea
absolutely well, and his skin was sniootJ
and white as never before. F. Hohrath,
President of the C. L! llohrath Compmv
Manufacturers of tsiik Ribbons, 4 to 3T
Rink Alley, South Bethlehem, Pa. Juxin
5, 1903."
Senator Clark's Mansion.
The wonderful mansion built ty
Senator Clark of Montana, in Fift?j
avenue, New York, is nearing comple
tion. The total cost will be about
$5,000,000. It is not so large as one
or two others in the neighborhood,
but Is by far the most costly of ativ
of them.
A hot eollinij never made a warm
lueetin;;-. So. 2-'05.
OF LYD1A E. PINKHAAI
restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, anS.:
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots anci
herbs were steeped on the stove,
gradually filling a gross of bottle.
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had givetl
it away freely. They hired a jofe
printer to run off some pamphlet
setting forth the merits of the medi
cine, now tailed Lydia E. Pinkhum's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons 'ill
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties cl
the medicine were, to a great extent.
self-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the dt.
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
ily had saved enough money to com
mence new spaper advertising and f roiii
that time the growth and success ci
the enterprise were assured, until to
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege
table Compound have become house
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia E. Pirjtham herself did net
live to see the great success of thi
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she uould have done it
herself. During her long and eventful expe
rience she was ever methodical in Jier
work and she was always careful to pre
serve a record of every case that oame to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands received
careful study, .and the details, includ
ing symptoms, treatment and resxtltK
were recorded for future reference, audio-day
these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the worlJ
over, and represent a vast collabora
tion of information regarding the:
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter-in-law, the present Mrs
Pinkham. She was care fully instruct tl
in nil her hard-won knowledge, acJ
for years she assisted her in her rait
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell tht
direction of the work when its origina
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued it, and
nothing in the work 'shows when tb.
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her
pen, aud the present Mrs. Pinkham.
now the mother of a. large family, took
it up. With woman assistants, some a
capable a herself, the present Mr.
Pinkham continues this great work, and
probably from the office of no other
person have so many women been ad
vised how to regain'health. Sick tvo
men. this advice is "Yours for Health
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound ; made
from simple roots and herbs; the one
great medicine for women's ailment;-,
aud the fitting monument to the noV.e
woman wkose name it bears.