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Show Borne Circle. J JUDGE NOT. Judpe not; the workings of his brain And of his heart thou canst not see; What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, In God s pure liRht may only be A scar, brought from some well-won field. Where thou wouldst only faint and yield. The look, the air, that frets thy sight May be a token that below The soul has closed in deadly fight With some infernal, fiery for. Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace. And cast thee shuddering on thy face! The fall thou darest to despise May be the angel's slackened hand. Has suffered it, that he may rise And take a firmer, surer stand; Or, trusting less to earthly things. May henceforth learn to use his wings. And judge none lost, but wait and see, With hopeful pity, not disdain; The depth of the abyss may be The measure of the height of pain. And love and glory that may raise This soul to God in after days! Adelaide Ann Proctor. BOYS AND SWEETS. Schoolmaster's Research Into a Boy's Capacity Tot Pood. An English schoolmaster has just completed an exhaustive research into the subject of a boy's capacity for food. In summing up the case he is frank to admit that while he found a superabundance super-abundance of capacity there was actually actu-ally little or no limit. Perhaps, after rich cako, both fruit and plain, the first in favor, accord;ng to the schoolmaster, is condensed milk. This is often eaten without a spoon by simply making two small holes iii the top of the can and placing 1112 lips against them. Then after this come chocolates of all flescriptlon.i; plain chocolate, chocolate cream, chocolate choco-late candy, chocolate cake. "It may be thought I am exaggerating," exaggerat-ing," says he, "when I say that 1 have seen a boy aged 10 years eat in a singie afternoon enough food to sati-ify an adult party of twelve persons. I have myself known a little, frail boy to eat a portion of a rich cake, a third of a one-pound can of condensed nils, four ounces of mixed chocolates, a handful of assorted sweets, two oranges, one apple, four gingerbread cakes, a dozen Brazil nuts and two larje pieces ot peppermint candy. "Did it make him ill? Did he lie down and groan and await the coming com-ing of the medical man with the stomach stom-ach pump? Not he; he just had one or two faint symptoms of uneasiness which he quickly dispelled by a few well drawn gapes, much after the manner man-ner of a sleepy baby. Then he walked about for a time, and presently accepted ac-cepted an invitation to join me in a game of ball." The schoolmaster's observations have led to the very natural deduction that a boy's condition is in many ways different dif-ferent from that of the trained strong man. The latter could not eat the things that a boy could, because his fitness is mainly muscular, while the boy's is, in addition to being muscular, organic. The man may have a sluggish liver or faulty kidneys, and still be a strong man, but the boy who runs and romps and turns somersaults, and shouts and laughs, and twists and turns, and shouts hasn't a single blemish. blem-ish. College For Lady Gardeners. In England the adoption of gardening garden-ing as a profession by women has for several years found a good deal of favor, mainly owing to the facilities for instruction afforded by the School of Gardening for Women founded at Reading by the Countess of Warwick, and at the Horticultural college at Swanley. Two ladies Miss Barker and Miss Morison holding the diploma of the Swanley college, have now decided de-cided to break ground in Scotland, and the first school of the kind in that country will shortly be opened at In-versek, In-versek, near Musselburgh. Scotland has always been famous for its male gardeners; we doubt not that in the future it will be equally famous for Its women gardeners. A Cook's Character. This is the character which Goethe gave his cook when she left his service. ser-vice. It runs thus: "Charlotte Hoyer has been two years in my. service. She is a tolerable cook," and is occasionally occasion-ally obedient, polite and thoughtful. But the unevenness of her disposition has lately made her insupportable. It is her habit to behave and cook as she likes; she is obstinate, inipertient, vulgar, vul-gar, and lays herself out to exasperate her employers in every way. Quarrelsome Quarrel-some and self-willed, she makes the life of her fellow-servants a burden to them. Besides other faults of the same nature, she has that of listening at keyholes." The Tent Doctor. The latest sensation in New York fs that of the "Tent Doctor," who has gone on there from Boston, where his novel treatment of consumption Is said to have awakened great interst. The treatment consists in putting the pa.-tient pa.-tient in a tent, wrapping clothing lightly about the bed, but exposing the head to the outdoor atmosphere and keeping it there. In this way he keeps the patient confined to "bed" with an abundance of fresh air, and supplies him with all the nourishing food that medical science recommends, building up tissues and putting the lungs to their full capacity. In addition to this the mysterious "Tent Doctor" has a new serum, which, he says, revives vitality, enabling him to throw off the effect of the preying of the bacilli upon his tissues. "Water the Rational Remedy. ' Dr. Kellog, writing in "Good Health," urges the value of water as a ra tional remedy for disease. "Every case," he says, "in -which an organ has ceased operations is a . case of faint. Here is a stomach' that has fainted away at the advent of an enormous dinner; the poor stomach has a fit of indigestion. What Is one to do? Swallow pepsin, the digestive principle from a pig's stomach? That will not cure the stomach. But a hot application over the stomach, followed by a cold application and massage, ar-fords ar-fords immediate relief. The stomach is energized by the cold application, and sets to work. So t is with every bodily organ. If one knows .where to apply the water, hot or cold, as the case may be, he can wake up any organ of the bdy. . .'. The TJncatchable De Wet. French children have found a new toy; and many will be the peals of laughter which will i3sue from the youngsters who are presented with the ingenious novelty which has been called the "Uncatchable Dewet." This is a cheap toy, which can be purchased for less than a franc, for it is intended in-tended to appeal to all classes. Lord Kitchener and the Boer raider are seen facing each other in a sort of lidless box. Both figures are made to move by the pressure of the finger, but no matter what antics they cut, the Boer always contrives to bob out of the commander-in-chief's way. That is just where the "delight." which the toy is guaranteed to afford, comes in. About the Eyebrows. Romantic women usually have a very well-defined arch in the center of the eyebrow, while a sense of humor hu-mor is indicated in the arch nearer the nose. Long, drooping eyebrows, lying wide apart, Indicate an amiable disposition. Where the eyebrows are lighter in color than the hair, the indications are lack of vitality and great sensi-tivenesss. sensi-tivenesss. ' Faintlv defined eyebrows, placed high above the nose, are signs of indolence in-dolence and weakness. Very black eyebrows give the face an intense and searching expression; when natural they accompany a passionate pas-sionate temperament. Very light evebrows rarely are seen on strongly intellectual faces, although al-though the color of the eyebrows is not accepted singly as denoting lack of intelligence; the fori gives the key to the faculties and their direction. Red eyebrows denote great fervor and ambition; brown a medium between be-tween the red and black. The ideal eyebrow accepted by the Greeks as a perfect, feminine eyebrow eye-brow is long, nearly straight, arch-less arch-less and delicately penciled. But, like the rosebud mouth ,it does not indicate the highest order of intelligence, ana the arch is expressive always of greater great-er sensibility and greater strength or character. |