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Show A SHIN-SAVING SCHEME. Th Original Flaa DUcovcsml by a Wub-log-ton Womaa. Tho man wno says that women have not originality not only Rpcaks 'untruth, 'un-truth, but deceives himself says the, Washington Post Every ono lias had occasion to go through a room In the dark on more or less frequent nightly occasions, when locking tbo hack door bad been forgotten or tho pitcher of l.-o-watcr omitted from thonlghtly preparations prepara-tions for slumber, and every ono knows how oach Individual plcco of furniture in each dark room traversed, Including tho piano's sharp corners and tho rocking-chair's twin projections, Is collided . with. And all those hard knocks arc ' sustained by tho stretch of bono from tho kneo to tho anklo that is commonly called tbo "shin." and Is particular!) scnsltlvo bocauso It has no layer ol musclo. merely a coat of sen sit I vi nkin to protoct it When open doors are run against tho noso suffers Now. there is a young Mrs D . whoso bluo-cvcd baby It a j car anil n half old. nnd not infrequently docs Mrs D- have to get up of a night, go down-stairs to tbo refrigerator, and get milk for baby Sho docs not say how often or bow seriously sho was hurt before, be-fore, her genius suggested tbo brilliant plan which she now has for avoiding tbeso potty nocturnal Injuries, but sbo really is proud of her plan for getting unscathed through a room in tho dark, and has imparted it to her ladynclgli bora. It is too clover an ldra to bo lost. and its great merit Is in its simplicity Tbo scbemo is merely to walk back w.ird. In tbo dark ono canscoas ivoll golnj backward as forward, of course.. Tin lower limbs arc. when going backward well protected from slight raps by tin tnoroorless llboral pad of mtisi'.unt the calf, and boels are less scnsltlvo than the toes. And If ono Is to run Into d door tbo blow can bo hotter borno on ' tho back of tho bead than on tho face Mrs. I). Isagonlns. |