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Show THE v4 THE SHEATH OF CUSTOM. HAVE WE REACHED THE VERY the street, to arrange their look into « glass.—Paris Press Good BEST Advice to nats Cor. gna New WESTERN to York Speculators. Speculation is a business that must be studied asa specialty, and though it is popularly believed that any man who has money cal speculate, yet the ordinary Our Proneness to Honor Customs ard man, without special training in the busiPractices Siinply Because Everybody Else ness, is liable to make as great a mistake in this attempt as the man who thinks he Does—How Much Is Reasonable and can act as his own lawyer and who is said How Much Is Merely Arbitrary? ‘to havea fool foraclient.” The common delusion that expert knowledge is Every human being grows up insidea sheath of custom, which enfolds-it as the not required in speculation has wrecked many fortunes and reputations in Wall swathing clothes enfold the infant. The street, and is still very influential in its sacred customs of one’s own early home, pernicious and illusory achievements. how fixed and immutable they appear to the child! It surely thinks that all the Professional advice in Wall street, as in legal afiairs, is worth paying for, and world in all times has proceeded on the same lines which bound its tiny life. It costs far. less in the end than the chief regards a breach of these rules (some of | ‘‘points” that are distributed profusely them, at least) as a wild step in the dark, around the street, thick as autumn leaves leading to unknown dangers The elders ‘a Valiambrosa, and which only allure \he innocent speciuiator to put his money have always said (and, indeed, it seems where he is almost certain to lose it. My only reasonable) that by this time of day advice to speculators who wish to make everything has been so thoroughly worked money in Wall street, therefore, is to igover that the best methods of ordering our life—food, dress, domestic practices, nore the counsel of the barroom ‘‘tippers” social habits—have long ago been deterand ‘‘tipplers,” turn their backs on mined. If so, why these divergences in ‘sucket shops,” and when they want the simplest and most obvious matters? ‘points’ te purchase let them go to those And then one thing after another gives who knev:--fenry Clews in the Cosmopolitan. way. ‘The sacred, world wide customs in which we are bred turn out to be only the practices of a small or narrow caste or METHODS class; or they OF prove LIVING? to Has not our life anywhere be left betravels; or feeble sect; of one age boundaries? been founded on reason and necessity, but only on arbitrary customs? What is more important than food, yet in what human matter are there more arbitrary divergences of tice?’ The Scotch on oatmeal, which prac- Highlander flourishes the English Sheffield iron worker would rather starve than eat; the fat snail which the Roman country gentleman once so prized now crawls unmolested in English or American gardens, rabbits are tabooed in Germany, frogs are unspeakable in England, sauerkraut is detested in France: many races and gangs of people are quite certain they would die think spirits while if deprived of some to others ayain ARE be confined toa very limited locality, and must hind when we set out on our they belong to the tenets of a or they are just the products in history and no other. Are there really no natural of meat; kind a others necessity, both these things Patients THEY in EVER CURED? an Insane Asylum—A Serious Question. Very The more we look into our life and consider the immense variety of habit in every department of it—even under conditions to all appearances exactly similar —the more are we impressed by the absence of any serious necessity in the forms we ourselves are accustomed to. Each race, each class, each section of the population, each unit. even, vaunts its own habits cf life as superior to the rest, as the only true and legitimate forms; and peoples and classes will go to war with each other in their assertion of their pointed out as a whilom madman or mad- woman. A terrible name it is to bear, too, for never can come the day, this side of the grave, when he who has once been into the dark valley is safe against a possible return. He is always a subject of suspicion and knows it, and if to this knowledge is added the belief that he was locked up wrongfully doubly galling. his position is A reporter asked a young doctor who has served his-time in the asylum whether sane people were ever kept there when they ought to be at liberty. been brought to public sense of that word. Take their, splendid fleet of ironclads, for example, and mar- shal it English, in battle array against a French, Russian or German squadron, commanded by a French, an English, a Russian or a German admiral, and the disaster of Lissa will be rehearsed over again. Much of this incapacity for successful military achievement is due to want of training on the part of the officers. In Italy there are many military schools that are well attended; but in them, as in the universities, there is a fatal lack of sever- ity in the examinations, and once the student has léft school he is never afterward seen with a book in his hand. It is for this reason that we find the officers in command of the Red Sea expe- dition committing precisely the rors that their 1849 and 1866. predecessors fell same into erin The Italian officer seems to be concerned about only one thing—the effect that he is producing on the women and on the bystanders in general, and I have seen veterans covered with decora- tions. who never forgot, before going into attention, and some of them are sad enough. I will say this: that if the medical staff of an asylum is satisfied that a patient is thoroughly cured—cured so well that he or she can face the strain of abattle with life—no heartless relatives would be able to keep that patient imprisoned.” ‘But how about inebriate patients?” asked the reporter. ~ ‘Well, they are a sort of exception to the rule,’’ said the doctor. ‘‘Many a man is kept in an asylum who is perfectly sane, who, if he were allowed the liberty of the outside world, would be sure to drink to excess. The insanity of drink is own special belief and practices, but the question that rather presses upon the ingenuous and inquiring mind is whether Such any of us have got hold of much true life in him. | behind asylum at all.—Home Journal. Italians Not Good Soldiers. Italians, the veteran diplomatist goes on to say, may become good diplomatists, sound jurists and successful merchants, but they will never be soldiers in the true woman in ten years. A Iresher, younger ‘‘help” will supply her place when she tumbles out of the ranks from sheer exhaustion. None but stout girls can endure here. The landlord naturally and reasonably wants the strongest girls, ‘for the same reason we want the strongest. horses to draw our loads.—Prentice Mulford in New York Star. Treatment of Whooping little under an ounce) of sulphur every cubic meter may be burnt: equivalent to rather more than ten per cubic foot. The other room is gated in a like manner during the the patient practically living in a man, I think, is .better walls.”—New York World. of a Hotel of the hotel chambermaid that the heaviest and longest labors fall. There is one on my floor who has an average of thirty- five rooms to attend to every day. That means for each room bed making, sweeping. dusting, sheet changing and looking after the toilet requisites. The house keeper has a sharp eye, is eternally vigilant, and not aroom is slighted. Cham- ber work doesn’t look hard, but it’s very wearing. I think the man of average strength would look. tired after he had bent over his fifteenth bed and tucked the sheets in properly. : Every other morning this girl must arise at 4and sweepthe parlors. She can escape from the house and her toils everv other day from. 4in the evening until 7 next morning. The remainder of the time, when not asleep, she is on the move. She is of the breed, and, muscular though not draught over horse 20, her shoulders are bent like a bow from years of stooping over beds while making them up. Shesings at her work, and tells us that she never could get through it if she did not sing. She will bean old. over- Tent MOST RELIABLE Manufacturer IN UTAH. Manufactures all goods ity, as Awnings, in Salt Tents, Wagon to Lake Covers, ad Canvas Goods of every Description. Sheep-herd- rs’ Outfits. Guarantees all work to be irst-class and prices way down at. cost. Wholesale and Retail. Largest possible liscount given to and defects that a writer might overlook in written copy are made plain in the printed sheet. The best plan for a young writer is to spoil a good many sheets of paper before he thinks of having any- thing at all put into print. written something which really good the public, let him interesting make CONFECTIONERY. Baskets, JoHn A. Hamiuron, 213 First Hast St., bet. Second and [Third South Streets. 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The value of Mobin’s treatment of whooping cough by sulphurous acid is receiving strong confirmation from many sources. Dr. Manly, in The Practitioner, expresses the opinion that, if it was carried out in every case, at the end of six months the disease would be unknown. The method used by him is as follows: The patient is in the morning put into clean clothes and removed elsewhere. All his clothes and toys, etc., are brought into the bedroom, and sulphur is burnt upon a few live coals in the middle of the room. The fire is allowed to remain in the room for five hours, and then the windows and doors are thrown open. The child sleeps in the room the same evening. About twenty-five grams (a Plan for a Young Writer. The question recently raised by ex- | patients of an insane asylum, whether A young writer should not expect to be sane people are ever kept there after cure paid for the first articles he writes. He because cruel relatives will not take the is lucky i£, he gets them into print at all. legal measures necessary to get them out, It is useful to him to have them printed, has caused a good deal of talk. Every for an articlcin type has a different look village has its unfortunate, who is from an article in manuscript, and faults are an abomination ‘‘That is a very delicate question,” he | said, ‘‘and very hard to answer. The AND YET, WHY NOT? Every district has its local practices in | dividing line between sanity and insanity is very narrow and very faint sometimes, food, and tie peasants look with the and it is a very delicate’ matter to say greatest suspicion on any new dish, and when a person has crossed it. Somecan rarely beinduced to adopt it. Though times a patient will be jolly and appa. it has been abundantly proved that many rently sane for. months. and then sudof the fungi are excellent eating, such is denly fall back into the depths—perhaps the force of custom that the mushroom into the dangerous stage—of lunacy It alone is ever publicly recognized, while may be laid down as a safe rule that a curiously enough it is said that in some other countries where the claims of other man who has been once insane may become so again. especially if worried and agarics are allowed the mushroom itself . is-not used. Finally.I feel myself (and fretted, and facts like these must entwr into any discussion of i..e question you the gentle reader probably feels the same) have asked. that I would rather die than subsist on ‘‘Now it frequently happens here, as at insects, such is the deep seated disgust all asylums, that a patient reaches the we expcrience toward this class of food. Yet it is notorious that many races of state so close to a cure that it would be hard to say that he was not all right. He respectable people adopt a diet of this begins to fret over his confinement, and if ert, and only lately a book has been pubhe could be taken out and not worried with hshed giving a detail of excellent proventhe cares which invariably accompany a der of the kind we habitually overlook— battle with the world, he would. be far nasty morsels of caterpillars and beetles, better off, perhaps, than under the nag and so forth. : ging iniluence of the bolts and bars, And, indeed, when one comes to think of it, what can it be but prejudice which which he knows inan asylum stand beTo send such a causes one to eat the periwinkle and re- tween him and liberty. man out into the world and compel him to ject the land snail, or to prize the lively fight for himself would becruel. Nine prawn and proscribe the cheerful grasstimes out of ten he would be back again hopper? Why do we sit on chairs instead very soon, and much the worse for havof on the floor, as the Japanese do, or on Now that is the cushions like the Turks? It is custom, ing left the asylum. which has undoubtedly and perhaps it suits with our other cus- class of cases toms. worked WEEKLY. 25 each | The next 47, TAOGART & GHAMBERLAIN 156 E. Srd South St., S. L. City. 1 each Any person may send any number of times for any of above collections. If5 cents ‘in stamps extra is sent, we will send in Juhe next a printed list of the names of all persons who are entitled to gifts. We make this Bberal offer to the readers of the WESTERN WEEKLY, knowing it will not pay us now, but our object is to introduce our stock and build up a trade. Our mailing points are Toronto and Shrub Mount, Ontario; Rochester, N. 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