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THE GREATEST PHILOLOGIST.
Mu » Mailer's Worldwide Famo and How
It Was Achieved.
Undoubtedly the greatest oriental scholar
living today and among the greatest who
ever lived is Dr. Max Muller, who at TO
years of age still busies himself with the
work to which he has devoted his long and
laborious life, opening to the world the
treasure bouse of ancient Brahmanical lit
erature, translating from the ancient San
scrit, the oidest of the sacred books of India,
and preparing for publication those vo
luminous lectures, essays and histories
which, though profoundly learned, he
knows how to make so delightful. He still
nominally holds the chair of comparative
philology of Oxford university, though lie
resigned its actual duties in 1875, and In»*
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PROFESSOR MAX MÜLLER.
since then devoted himself with renewed
vigor to ransacking dusty eastern libraries
that were formerly unpenetrable and de
ciphering outlandish ancient manuscripts
and inscriptions that were formerly un
known.
The value of Professor Muller's life work
cannot be even approximately estimate!
by the ordinary man, and the enormous
amount of labor it has involved is beyond
calculation—almost beyond belief. Almost
everybody knows something about him,
but very few know much. He has grown
so great that men have lost sight of his be
ginnings, and when, as quite frequently
happens, the press announces that some
new decoration or degree bas been conferred
upon him, or that he has been elected a fel
low of some additional learned society, a
knowledge of his past is always apparently
taken for granted, though there are not
many who can pretend to have it.
It was recently said of Professor Muller
that if he should pin upon his coat ali the
decorations and medals he has received he
would stagger beneath their weight. This
seems like estimating honors by avoirdu
pois, but how can it be avoided? Merely to
attach the initials of his degrees and dig
nities as suffixes to his name in the English
fashion would fill 40 or 50 lines of anoidi*
nary newspaper with a confusing mass of
capital letters and send readers hunting
through the back of the dictionary, where
they would not find half of the abbrevia
tions.
Friedrich Max Muller is the professor'*
full name. Muller, by the way, should fo*
Mueller, though it would puzzie American
readers now to spell it so. He was born at
Dessau, Germany, Dec. 6,18523. His father
was a famous poet, his grandfather an emi
nent diplomat and his great grandfather
the founder of an educational system. Max
just escaped being a musical prodigy m
childhood and took his degree at Leipsic in
1843, after which he applied himself to com
parative philology, mastering Sanscrit.
Hebrew, Arabic and Persian. He contin
ued his studies at Berlin and Paris, and iu
1647 went to England to bring out his fa
mous editio princeps of the "Rig-Veda,*'
some parts of which arc supposed to ante
date the Christian era 2,400 years.
Though he knew no English when he
went to England, in three years' time he
was professor of modern languages at Ox
ford and subsequently sublibrarian of the
Bodleian. In 18C8 the chair of comparative
philology was founded for him, and he soot
made it one of the most important in the
university. He married an English woman
and has continued to reside at Oxford, oc
cupying the charming residence in Norharu
Hardens that was built for Professur God
win Smith and occupied by him until
left England for Canada.
Bad Weather for Visitor*.
The weather m Florida during the
pant wiuter na» oeen remarkably bad,
»ml very discouraging to uatives and
Visitors. Tu« »se who went there in
learch of sunny skies and balmy air
found little of either, and one newspa
per pleads. "'Do not allow this excep
tional winter to deter yun from coming
again, never within the memory of liv
ing man lias there tieen a winter like
this." There ha» been some delightful
weather, but it has been mighty scarce.
WOMAN AND HOME.
CHANGES OF FIFTY YEARS IN THF
TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.
Helpmeets Indeed—Women in Libraries.
Woman's Prerogatives—Covering Old
Blankets—Coffee as a Deodorizer—Im
portance of Sanitation.
The whole treatment of children has
changed, and the idea of severity toward
th.m, especially while they are little, has
become, even with people of harsh charac
ter, utterly abhorrent. "Whipping," which
even in the "forties" was the regular and
proper method of discipline, is considered
an almost diabolical cruelty; "sending to
bed," which was really a method of in
flicting solitary confinement, is entirely
disused; and "standing in the corner" is
condemned as inflicting "humiliation."
There is, in truth, in a majority of com
fortable households, no way left of punish
ing a child beyond a reproving look, a lec
ture Which must not be too protracted,
and in extreme cases a deprivation of
some promised and greatly desired indul
gence.
Children's health, too, is looked after
with even more care than that of "grown
ups," sometimes, indeed, with a sedulous
ness which degenerates into coddling; edu
cation is postponed by at least two years,
lest it should press too severely upon un
formed minds; and a perfect science has
grown up among us of devising ways for
preventing the little things from suu'ering
from ennui, or from the restlessness with
which bright children are tormented—
sometimes with this odd result, that the
little men and women grow blase, and
betray the "unamusableness" of which the
Countess du Barry complained in Louis
XV.
The little children are "podded" in affec
tum until the air of ordinary life hardly
blows on them, and are in certain classes,
especially those classes which can afford to
live the happy double life in town and
country, the happiest of all created beings.
They are liberated for all the earlier years
of their lives from care, have ceased alto
gether to fear their parents, for whom they
invent pet names usually tinged with a
comic irreverence, and have nearly lost—
not quite, for even good nurses are on that
point a little unmanageable—those gro
tesquely terrible superstitions about po
licemen, sweeps and bogie men generally,
which forty or fifty years ago terrorized
half the nurseries in the country. They
have grown, in their pride of security,
skeptical of all those things, and have been
known to treat even supernatural menaces
with a calm "I don't believe you; God
isn't half so bad as that."—London Spec
tator.
Helpmeets Indeed.
The wives of members of the sacred and
medical professions have a different career
from those of their sisters who marry the
man, and not his vocation. These women
arc expected to do much that is not exacted
from any other women, and the wife, es
pecially of the clergyman, lives always in
"that fierce light which beats upon a
throne;" for she and her family are claimed
as the property of the congregation as thor
oughly as ever sovereign became the pos
session of a nation. The "mistress of the
manse" needs to be a woman of rare char
acter and strong health to fulfill all that
is expected of her, and it would be well
were she also endowed with that serenity
of temperament which is the best armor of
defense, and which forbids the use of offen
sive weapons.
The physician's wife has also unusual
claims upon her time, though in a lesser de
gree, and the imperative telephone and the
charity patients often absorb her precious
moments, while in addition she has the
wifely anxiety of seeing her poor tired hus
band awakened from his belated slumbers
to go on nocturnal errands.
Maud Muller sighed for the silken gown
and other luxuries which would be hers as
the bride of the judge. She did not look
forward to the high vocation of sharing his
legal duties, nor does any lawyer's fiancee
dream of playing the part of Portia and
assuming to be learned in the law. The
editor's wife seldom uses her pen for the
public, and officers of the navy or army
expect only the military virtue of prompt
ness to be practiced in their households.
But doctors of divinity and medicine alike,
when they marry, feel that they are de
frauded if the chosen young women fail in
any of the requirements imposed by their
married dignities.—Harper's Bazar.
Women and Library Work.
Three hundred and eighty women are
employed in twenty-four prominent libra
ries, receiving from $340 to $1,500, an aver
age salary of $570. The average is greatly
reduced by the large number required to
do mechanical work in comparison with
the few needed for supervisory and inde
pendent work. Thirteen women of recog
nized ability, trained as apprentices in
large libraries or in the school of experi
ence, receive from $550 to $2,000, an average
salary of $1,150.
The thirty-seven women trained in the
Library school, once of Columbia college,
but now attached to the state library at
Albany, which was opened in 1887, receive
from $600 to $1,300, an average salary of
$900. The thirteen highest salaries paid to
Library school women average $1,090.
Seven women as librarians of state libra
ries receive from $625 to $1,200, an average
salary of $1,000. The twenty-four men
filling similar positions receive an average
salary of $1,450.
A woman occupying a subordinate posi
tion in a library, where faithfulness, ac
curacy and a fair knowledge of books are
the only essentials, can expect from §300 to
$500. A good cataloguer or a librarian
with average ability and training can ex
pect to receive from $6U0 to $900. A woman
with good ability and fitness, with a lib
eral education and special training, can
expect $1,000 at the head of a library or of
a department in a large library, with a
possible increase to $1,500 or $2,000. Wom
en rarely receive the same pay as men for
the same work.—New York Sun.
Woman 's Prerogative.
John Stuart Mill, though he admits a
woman's right to do whatever the law of
her being prompts her to do, so long as she
remains unmarried« jtssuincs that when
she marries she has chosen her career, and
any other pursuit must be abandoned. The
Jovf; of oni. 1 man for one woman, and of one
woman for c»ie man, is not the only pass.ou
of love iu the human soul. The love oi
art. science, literature or of any pursuit or
calling may become a noble passion de
«.tiding gratification jus well as the pas
sion of human love. That individual '.un
never attain his full and complete develop
ment who is compelled to strangle and kill
one-half of his nature. The complete in
dividual must develop in all directions.
Hitherto women have Iwen more or le>i<
cramped and restrained in all directions
bat one. Hitherto love and mnrriage have
been an inspiration and a forward in;
pet us to men only. To women they have
been not only a retardation, but a retroga
tion. This is violating all intellectual nnd
spiritual laws, which ought to be impera
tive and paramount. The intellectual and
spiritual laws are as much natural laws
as the laws of physical nature. Among
all natural laws there must be a divine
harmony. There can be no discord in theii
relations to one another and to the uni
verse. To discover thisvharmony and to
live in full accord with it is the secret ol
the salvation of the human race.—Blanch
Fearing in Chicago Woman's Newa
Covering Old Blankets.
A lmost all old housekeepers have a store
€»f blankets which, having been in use for
many years, have become thin and yellow
from washing. They would make most
useful summer coverings but for their
ugly color. Now a very little expense will
make them decidedly pretty and an addi- J
tion to one's comfort on cool nights, not to
be too much commended. Get enough
cheese cloth, pale blue or pink, to cover
the blanket on both sides, some blue or
pink zephyr wool to buttonhole the edges,
and tie the cover through the blanket, in
terlining from side to side, and you liavo
all you need except a big darning needle.
Run the widths of cheese cloth together
till they form two pieces a little larger
than the blanket, turn in the edges and
buttonhole the three thicknesses together
all around the square with stitches half an
inch apart. Next thread the darning
needle with the zephyr doubled, and put it
through from one side to the other and
back again, tying the wool in a light knot
and leaving short fluffy ends to form a
tiny tassel at equal distances in squares all
over the cover.
They are prettily made of contrasting
colors, pink one side and blue the other,
and also of dark red cheese cloth tied with
black wool. The most inexperienced per
son can make them.—Maria Pendleton
Kennedy in Homemakcr.
Coffee as a Deodorizer.
One of the simplest disinfectants of a
sickroom is ground coffee burned on a
shovel so as to fill the atmosphere of the
room with its pungent, aromatic odor. If
two red hot coals are placed on a fire
shovel and a teaspoonful of ground coffee
is sprinkled over them at a time, using
three teaspoonfuls in all, it will fill the
room with its .aroma, and is said to have
the hygienic effect of preventing the spread
of various epidemic diseases. The odor is
very agreable and soothing to a sick per
son, where other disinfectants prove dis
agreeable. Physicians who doubt the power
of coffee as a disinfectant frequently rec
ommend it as ^ deodorizer, and it is cer
tainly one of the very best and most agree-,
able. Most of the expensive disinfectants
sold in the shops have no special power as
such, but are simply deodorizers, the two
being frequently confounded. It is best,
however, to obtain from a physician in
cases of dangerous epidemics something
that will certainly destroy the germs of
the disease, as well as deodorize the room.
—New York Tribune.
The Way to Boil Eggs.
One woman (and her household ways are
the wonder and envy of her friends) saya
that the right way to boil eggs is not to
boil them at all.
First put the eggs into a wire basket
with a tall wire handle, that saves the
time and vexation of fishing them out with
a spoon when cooked. Then set the nest
of eggs in a kettle or other vessel, with
cold water enough to cover the eggs—not
hot water or warm water, but cold water.
Set the vessel over a brisk fire. Do not let
the water boil, only just "come to a boil,"
and at that particular time—not before,
not later—the eggs will be cooked as they
should be.
Remove the basket of eggs by the tall
handle. Spread a napkin over a deep
dish, lay in the eggs and fold the four cor
ners of the napkins over them and serve.
If these directions are followed exactly
the eggs when broken will roll into the
cups like balls of soft jelly, nothing adher
ing to the shell; the entire egg thoroughly
cooked and delicate and tender through
and through.
Air In the Children's Bedrooms.
The ventilation of a bedchamber cannot
be too carefully attended to, and, as says
Horace Mann, "seeing the atmosphere is
forty miles deep ull around the globe, it in
a useless piece of economy to breathe it
more than once." Yet nine mothers out ol
ten will carefully close all the windows for
fear of colds and night air, and leave two
_ _
or three children asleep in a stifling atmos
phere and see no connection l>etween the
colds and throat troubles they have and
the vitiated air she compels them to
breathe night after night, l^et the morn
ing air and sunshine into the bedroom as
soon as possible after the occupants have
risen, and if there is no sunshine and it is
not raining, let in the air. Do not make
up beds too soon after they are vacated.
You may get your house tidied sooner, but
it is neither cleanly nor healthy to snugly
pack up bedclothing until the exhalations
of the sleepers' bodies have been removed
by exposure to the air.—Exchange.
Importance of Sanitation.
It is of the utmost importance that the
public should have some general knowl
edge of proper house sanitation, and i
would urge upon the householder to secure
it by every means in his power. I do not
mean that every man should be his own
plumber, but that he should acquire a
sufficient knowledge of this subject, so
that he could examine for himself the,
plumbing of his house or bis apartment
and say, "I am confident of being able to
protect my family frojja the. dangers.that
surround them. 1 have inspected my
plumbing and the fixtures that connect
with it; I have seen to it that all the traps
under tho.se fixtures are properly .set, and
that which is the most important of all,
that those traps shall always and at all
times maintain and hold their water seals,
making it impossible for the deadly sewer
§is to enter our rooms."—Humanity and
ealth.
Mrs. Gladstone to Mothers.
Trouble should be taken by every moth
er to make herself acquainted with the
laws and principles governing the human
body. She should learn the vigilant watch
fulness without which she will never suc
ceed in understanding the tender organiza
tion of her child; thus constitutions will
be strengthened and lives saved. Instead
of walking in uncertain paths in the dark,
now overcoddling, now overbracing, prac
ticing experiments haphazard on the deli
cate little frame, the mother will be guided
alight, for the laws of nature will be taken
tut her guide. And so beautiful and so
full of interest are these laws that surely,
even if their study involves some sacrifice
ol' vir /.e, it will become a pleasure as it be
comes a duty, and there will be ample
2cnipen.Hal .ion.—Mrs. William E. Gladstone
in Ladies' Home Journal.
A Pretty Dinner Custom.
A very pretty custom in Dresden might
well be introduced here. At a swell dinner
there when the sweets came on an empty
cornucopia was pia^u oy cacti woman's
plate. The writer asked the purpose of the
cornucopias, and was told that they were
J intended to enable the ladies to take iroine
thing home in for the children. There it is
quite the custom to remember the little
ones in this way. The inquiry, "What did
you bring me?" is familiar to every mother
on returning from a dinner or wedding,
and the little favor, the piece of candy
slipped quietly into the pocket or a piece of
wedding cake, is doubly sweet to the little
ones, whose only vision of the festivities
has been its mother's departure and re
turn. It is a pretty custom, this Dresden
one, and one that should find favor in the
eyes of American mothers. Briug in the
cornucopia!—New York Recorder.
Italian Cream Caramels.
Boil ten pounds of sugar with one pound
of glucose to 233 degs.; then pour out on
the marble and when fairly cool add two
and a half pounds of chocolate (melted),
then turn to a cream; then warm one and a
quarter pounds of good butter in a pan and
add the chocolate cream and two vanilla
beans; then warm all till it can be poured
out on paper laid on the marble with iron
rods around; let the mass remain thus over
night, or till thoroughly cool, and cut in
squares If it is desirable to have these
a little softer, cook only to 2S0 or 231 degs.
Italian creams, or "Genesees," as they are
called, are sold in New York and Philadel
phia at eighty cents per pound.—Supply
World.
A Scholar of Forty.
A parlor pupil that an up town school
teacher has is a woman of forty, the moth
er of three children. She comes on certain
evenings of every week to study the com
j mon English branches. In her interview
seeking the lessons she said:
My children are at the public schools,
J and I find myself powerless to give them
the assistance which they need to keep up
with their grades. Everything is taught
differently nowadays than in my school
limes. I reach the same results, but by a
process they do not understand, and I must
be taught their way to be of any help to
them.—Her Point of View in New York
Times.
1 them, but this was considered too sweep
ing. The bang was then adopted, and it
Origin of Bangs.
The bang is one of the latest innovations
among women and girls. It had its origin
in the reformatory for girls on Blackwell's
island. New York. The inmates were in
the habit of getting away, and it was diffi
cult to recognize them after changing their
apparel. It was first suggested to crop
i
was a perfect mark. For some reason or
other the style struck the popular fancy,
and in the course of a few years after its
adoption as a mark in the reformatory be
came one of the fads of fashion.—Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette.
Women in the Harvard Observatory.
For twenty years the Harvard observa
tory has always employed some women on
its staff of computers, but since the endow
ing of the Draper memorial (founded by
Mrs. Henry Draper, of New York, in honor
of her husband), a corps of women bas
been engaged on work moro in the nature
of original research,
The examination of the photographs,
plates, as well as all measurements and
the preparation of the great catalogue, are
in the hands of Mrs. Nina Fleming and
her eight women assistants.
Care in Choosing Playmates.
Should not we mothers be carcful in
choosing playmates for our little ones?
Smaller children are apt to make them
babyish, while older ones perhaps teach
them things we do not care to have thera
know. It is best I think to keep their
j friends under our own supervision, and to
' watch them unseen for a little while.
and we can soon judge whether or not
they are suitable playmates for our chil
dren.—Cor. Babyhood.
| ^iss Sprah ±iot,Kl
P nze offered by the '
managers of the World
Miss Emily Healey, of Washington, has
Invented a process for gilding china, and
experts say that this particular way of ap
plying gold to porcelain is an entirely new
art.
Miss Sarah D. Botker, who won the
woman's hoard ot
managers of the World's fair, is a Norwe
gian by birth and lives in Milwaukee.
Never sweep dust and dirt from one room
lo another, nor from upstairs to the lower
i part of the house. Always take it up at
each room.
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In selecting a parasol for the b*iby car
a riage, do not get a white one, as that does
** soften the light sufficiently for baby«
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j Black hatpins, round and pes*
polished and unpolished, ar? pro
( f or the different stages of mourning.
J ong Way Off.
"Let me see," said Brown to Jones, "isn't.,*
this Jones that we were just talking about
a relative of yours?"
"A distaut relative," said Jones.
"Very distant?"
"I should think so. He's the oldest of
13 children, and I'm the youngest,*'—
Youth's Companion.
The signs, "Barber Shop," "Shaving Par
lors," "Tonsorial Studio," have all gone
out of date with a Pittsburg hairdresser,,
who displays a fine new shingle bearing thei
proud inscription, "Theophilus Browne,'
Capillaire. ' '
Two persons playing dominos 10 hours a*
flay and making four movesa minute could
continue 118,000,000 years without exhaust
ing all the combinations of the game, the
total of which is 248,528,211,840. '
Some one who has figured on the worlt
done at Pompeii since June, 1872, says tha
it will take until 1947 to unearth the en iJ
ruins with 85 men working every day
New York has 3,498 policemen, a
make an average of 90,000 arrests ea
About one-fifth of the wholb number
Gotham's criminals are women.
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Many mtisculnr men succumb to fa tigues borne
with e»ise bv persons fitr their interiors in phys
ical strength. Muscle does not imply vigor, in
lact, it is n«»tdifficut of p'oof that at» letes do
not live as long nor enj >y as eoO'1 heult h as the
average individual who is vigorous—that is to
8*y, whose digestion and sleev »re unimpaired,
whose nerves are tranquil, a d who has no or
ganic tendenc ' to < isease. These requisites of
vigor aie conferred upo't those inherently weak,
no loss than up>n those d^bM'ated throng"
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B banobrtu's P ills are safe and sure.
B 'ddy Boy— Mamma, Bridget cal'ed me "the
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