WHAT PASSES FOR BEAUTY.

The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers and toes red and their lips blue. In Persia they paint a black streak around their eyes and ornament their faces with representations of various figures.

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The Japanese women adopt the singular method of gilding their teeth, and those of the Indians paint them red. some parts of India the pearl of the tooth must be dyed black before a woman can be beautiful. The Hottentot women paint the entire body in compartments of red and black. Greenland the women color their faces with blue and yellow, and frequently tattoo their bodies by saturating threads in soot, inserting them beneath the skin and then drawing them through.

In New Holland the women cut themselves with shells, and, keeping the wounds open a long time, form deep scars in the flesh, which they deem highly ornamental. Another singular mutilation is made among them, for when in infancy they take off the little finger of the left hand at the second joint. In ancient Persia an aqualine nose was often thought worthy of the crown, but the Sumatran mother carefully flattens the nose of her daughter.

The modern Persians have a strong aversion to red hair. The Turks, on the contrary, are warm admirers of it. In China, small, round eyes are liked. But the great beauty of a Chinese lady is in her feet.

An African beauty must have small eyes, thick lips, a large flat nose, and a skin beautifully black. In New Guinea the nose is perforated and a large piece of wood or bone inserted. On the northwest coast of Africa an incision more than two inches long is made in the lower lip and then filled with a wooden plug.

American women compress their figures into queer shapes! Well, we all know how it's done!-Jenness Miller's Monthly.

ADORN THE SCHOOL ROOM.

Make your school-room pretty. Somewhere I have read: The influence of the teacher over the scholar is next to the parent. The school-room, in pleasant association, should be next to the home." Our children have come from all sorts of homes and influences. To some beauty and taste are so closely connected as to form a part of their being, while others are strangers to all such save, perhaps, an occasional glimpse of the fairy land. The fine sensibilities should be kept untarnished, the dormant ones awakened to activity. How is this to be done? Have as nearly as possible, the surroundings such that the mind may feed upon. Awaken and cultivate a desire to study the new and beautiful. Fill the room with that which will have a tendency to elevate and refine. Children admire pictures. Let them bring some of their own little ones from home, or each contribute a few pennies, which put with the teacher's mite, will buy a picture or two. Encourage them to bring flowers, shells or pretty stones. A glass jar with two or three minnows will be quite an ornament. Fill the jar half full, or more, with water, put in a handful of pebbles and sand, also a bit of a branch or any swamp grass or weed These will answer for a hiding place for the fish. Don't forget to pour out nearly all the water every day and put in fresh.-Independent.

TEACHING PATRIOTISM.

As public opinion is slow to move, it may well be worth while to have the principles of rational, honest politics taught in our schools and colleges to a greater extent than is at present done. We hear much talk in school conventions of "teaching patriotism." But how is it to be taught? The practice of cheering the flag, of learning the biographies of some of our leading statesmen, or of learning to believe, without knowing why, that our country is the strongest and best on earth, will have little effect toward remedying our present political evils. present political evils. Civil government is something more than the written constitution, the names of the officers, the dates of election, and other such facts as are taught in our text-books on civil government. The civil government that will help our children to get ideas which later will be of practical use in politics is that which shows the principles of party government, the methods of making nominations, of carrying elections, of making appointments to offices, and all the other details of our political life as it in fact is managed, together with the facts of history and political science which show that, however valuable in carrying single elections and advancing local interests, dishonest political scheming may be, in the long run the interests of States, as of individuals, are furthered by honest principles; that great public questions are not settled till they are settled right, because “the power in men that makes for righteousness" is, after all, when men's eyes are opened, the dominant one. From "Money in Practical Politics," in the October Century.

THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC.

Music is a language which, properly understood and correctly expressed, gives voice to those loftier and sweeter emotions of the heart and mind which common languages is powerless to convey. Prose expresses the prose thoughts and ideas of existence; poetry advances a step and translates feelings; pleasures, and passions beyond the province of prose; and music advances yet another step, and becomes the medium for those evanescent, daeam like imaginings which dwells in a region beyond the dense atmosphere which surrounds this workaday world. "In heaven they speak in music;" yet the instructed eye and the sympathetic soul may read these dream glimpses on the printed page, may learn the laws which govern their modes of expression, and, finally, may translate them in sound to other souls. Though music be the language of heaven, its grammar is taught on earth.— "How to Sing Without a Master," in Demorest's Magazine for October.

'The smallest matter thou canst well perform; The smallest ill.

Of naught but little things

A day is filled, all days are filled,

Our life is filled; therefore do not wait
To use thy wisdom and thy power of will,
Till the great things with sound of trumpet come;
On every thing bestow thy ardent zeal,
Thy love, thy faith, thy courage, and thy all."
-From the German.

WOMAN'S EDUCATION AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.

The past scholastic year has greatly changed the attitude of Brown University towards the higher education of women. Sept. 2, 1891, the corporation opened all its examinations to women. June 21, 1892, it opens all its degrees to women. Two days later, on June 23, to women already holding Bach elor's degrees, and to other women of liberal education who may secure special permission, it opened, on the same terms as to men, all those of its course of instructions which are intended for graduate students. This range of instruction is now very broad. Thus, so far as its graduate department is concerned, Brown University now places women on exactly the same footing as men. In respect to instruction, examinations and degrees, the two sexes are treated precisely alike. In the undergraduate department, the University offers to examine all women candidates, and to bestow any of the degrees upon every woman candidate who passess all the examinations required for the degree sought. Furthermore, while not yet formally offering to women ungraduate class-room instruction, it has secured an elegant building near the University grounds, in which women's classes in college studies will be conducted with instruction precisely the same as that given in college, and with members of the Faculty as instructors. Last year thirteen women availed themselves of

A county superintendent, in speaking of his institute, told the writer recently that he always planned for a short recess "between every exercise." He doubtless meant between every two exercises, as "between" does not go well with single things. The mistake is not an uncommon thing.

A teacher recently said, when speaking of the government of his school, "I treat every pupil alike." Alike what? You can not treat one pupil "alike," and "every" indicates that they are taken separately. He meant to say that he treated all pupils alike.

A teacher recently said that he believed that "every pupil should have the same chance." This is a blunder of the same kind as the above. He meant that all pupils should have the same chance. Every" is a distributive adjective, and indicates that the objects to which it refers are to be taken separately.

"Now."-Many teachers use this little word "now" many more times than they need to. They are in the habit of unconsciously beginning every explanation and many of their sentences with it. The writer recently heard an institute worker use it forty-seven times in a single talk. "Now," this detracted much from the value of the exercise - Indiana School Journal.

THE LEGEND OF THE EASTER EGGS.

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There are several legends that explain the custom of coloring eggs for Easter, but perhaps this is one of the prettiest: After the crucifixion of Christ, Joseph of Arimathea took the body and laid it in a tomb hollowed out of a rock. story goes that a beautiful tree bearing blue blossoms grew by this tomb. A bird had built its nest in this tree, and in the nest were four beautiful white eggs.

When the bird saw the hands and feet of our Lord pierced with the nails, she began to sing a sorrowful song. All that night through she sang the same song so full of grief and pain that it seemed that the whole world must pause and listen.

Not long after, when the angel rolled away the stone from the tomb and the Lord arose, the bird sang again. But this time the song was very sweet and joyful. And then the angel blessed the bird, its nest, and the beautiful white eggs within it. And the strange story tells us that ever since that night the eggs of that bird change its color, and instead of being white they are red and yellow and blue, so that people may be reminded of that first Easter day.-School Journal.

THE TRANQUIL SCHOOL

Is none the less an enthusiastic school. In these days of hurry and friction, when the daily words expressing movement are hustle" and "rustle," there is more need than ever before for a serene spirit in the school-room. The outward system helps to avoid confusion, but the general tranquility is due to the spirit of the teacher. In the ideal school-room the work is steady, sunshiny, and serene, without effervescence, or tumult of any sort. The atmosphere is joyous, but not electric. There is always a sense of reserve strength in such a school-room, no tension, no nerve strain. Such a spirit is healthful. Children thrive in such a schoolroom. In such an atmosphere they can learn without unnatural excitement, and cramming is out of the question.Popular Educator.

ANTI-TOBACCO.

Trask, the anti-tobacco apostle of the last generation, sowed a great deal of good seed in his pungent tracts, reaping much ridicule and little encouragement. But his party is growing. We are glad to learn that a movement has been inaugurated in France in opposition to the tobacco habit, which should be followed in this country, and indeed, in all countries where the filthy and senseless habit prevails. In a recent number of the journal of the Society it is shown that a most vigorous and active work is being done by it.-Hall's Journal of Health.

PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY.

The parent whose sole answer to criticism or remonstrance is, "I have a right to do what I like with my own child!" is the only impossible parent. His moral integument is too thick to be pierced with any shaft, however keen. To him we can only say, as Jacques did to Orlando, "God be with you; let's meet as little as we can."-Educational News.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS.

The Columbus interest culminates, as it should, in the October Century, contemporaneously with the celebrations at New York and Chicago, the frontispiece being the newly brought out "Lotto" portrait of Columbus, owned by Mr. J. W. Ellsworth, of Chicago. It is accompanied by an explanatory paper by the critic John C. Van Dyke. In the same number, the Spanish statesman, Castelar, writes of Columbus's homeward voyage after the great discovery; and the architect Van Brunt describes the Fisheries Building, the exquisite Art Building, and the United States Government Building at the World's Fair. In addition to this is an editorial on the Fair, in which it is declared that Chicago, in the housing of the World's Fair, has not only equaled, but has surpassed Paris. The editor adds, "We shall have an exhibition more dignified, beautiful, and truly artistic than any other world has seen."

An article of immediate and almost sensational interest is Prof. Jenks's paper on "Money in Practical Politics," describing the methods, shamefully common, in what are called "practical politics" in this country. He goes into most curious details, and discusses the causes of corruption and proposed remedies. The article is editorially indorsed, with further suggestions as to means of prevention.

The opening paper of the number is a very striking piece of autobiography by Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspondent, who describes in the first of a series of two papers what he saw at the Paris Commune. Accompanying this is a reproduction of Hubert Herkomer's painting of Archibald Forbes, also some original drawings made for this article by the distinguished Paris artist, Vierge; with other illustrations, not the least interesting of which is a group showing types of petroleuses."

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Harry Fenn very curiously illustrates a paper by Charles Howard Shinn on "Picturesque Plant Life of California.”

In the short stories of this number a new writer is introduced, Hayden Carruth, a New York journalist, who tells the story of "Doggett's Last Migration," with pictures by Kemble.

The poet Aldrich has a short story called "For Bravery on the Field of Battle," and Miss Viola Roseboro tells of "The Village Alien." The final installments of several serials are given in this number, including the last of Mr. Stedman's notable papers on Poetry, the present paper being entitled "The Faculty Divine." Also the concluding chapters of Mrs. Foote's "Chosen Valley," Mr. Fuller's "Chatelaine of La Trinite," and Mr. Fox's "Mountain Europa." Mr. Glave, the well-known traveler, in his paper on Alaska, describes his return to the coast.

The very remarkable series of engravings by Mr. Timothy Cole, after the old Italian masters, is concluded in this num. ber of the Century, with an engraving from Correggio. In the same number, in the series on Pictures by American Artists, appears, very appropriately, the "Man with a Violin," by Wyatt Eaton, the original of which is Mr. Cole, the engraver, who adds the accomplishment of a musician to that of an artist in his special field.

In the departments are an editorial on "Liberty, Law, and Order," apropos of recent events, and a discussion of The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army."

Mary E. Wilkins, the story-writer, contributes a curious. prose poem entitled "The Whist Players," and there are poems by Edgar Fawcett, Frank Dempster Sherman, Edith M. Thomas, and others.

This number of the Century rounds out its twenty-second year. With the next number begin several new and interesting magazine "features."

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With a page of "Pretty Luncheons and Dainty Teas," a special paper on "Changes in Fashionable Stationery," by Ada Chester Bond, and an article by Mrs. A. G. Lewis on "Children's Parties, Fetes, and Frolics," the October Ladies' Home Journal opens attractively and well. Marguerite Merington gives a sketch, with portrait, of Margaret Deland, the author of John Ward, Preacher," and Mrs. Mallon writes entertainingly of the personality and home life of “The Duchess," the author of Phyllis" and "Molly Bawn." In the series of Clever Daughters of Clever Men," Aimee Raymond, the talented daughter of the late Henry S. Raymond, the well-known editor, is pictured, and pleasantly written of, as is the wife of Oscar Wilde, in the series of "Unknown Wives of Well-known Men." The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage discourses of his travels "Through Victoria's Domain," Abram S. Isaccs' of "The Jewess in Authorship," and Robert J. Burdette of "October and the Ills That It Is Heir To." The editor talks earnestly of the necessity for thoroughness in the work of men and boys, and Maude Haywood gives much good advice to art students in her de partment, "Art for Art Workers." The fiction of the number includes a short story, "Clad In Doublet and Hose," by May Kelsey Champion, illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens, and the continuation of Julia Magruder's serial story, "A Live Ember." The poems are by Eva A. Madden and Lilian Claxton. An article, illustrated from original photographs, tells of that monument to woman's labor and patience, the Rockwood Pottery at Cincinnati. Women who love dainty fancy work are remembered in a page of "Ideas in Dainty Needlework," by Sara Hadley, and a "Group of Artistic Portieres," by Margaret Sims. Mrs. Mallon's "Dresses for Early Autumn" will be found helpful to all women, as will the illustrated article on "A Baby's Layette." Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Margaret Bottome, Miss Maria Parloa, Miss Scovil, Ruth Ashmore, and Mr. Rexford fill their departments with all that is helpful and original. Altogether, the October Journal is so full of good things that no woman can afford to be without it. Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, for ten cents per number and one dollar per year.

The October number of the Magazine of American History is up to its usual standard of excellence, as will be seen from the table of contents: Portrait of James II; Historic Homes and Landmarks; Columbus in Romance; A Bit of College History; Career of Gen. James Hogan; Some Relics of John Howard, the Philanthropist; A Historian in Color; A Successful Novel of 1836; History of the United States in Paragraphs; besides Minor Topics, Notes, Queries, and Replies.

There is an autumnal flavor about the October number o Good Housekeeping quite in keeping with the lowering tem perature, lengthening evenings, and the ripening year. In addition to Miss Parloa's admirable papers on "Many Meals

for Many Millions" there are continuations of several serials, notably those on "The Expert Waitress," "The Food of the People," "The Household Laundry," and "Little Talks with Little Women." In the way of evening diversions there will be found instruction and illustrations showing some fine patterns of hand-made laces, and the puzzle department-which for the young people is perhaps the most absorbing of all the interesting variety peculiar to the maga zine. Clark W. Bryan & Co., publishers, Springfield, Mass.

One of the most remarkable papers ever published in a periodical is the article by Mr. Gladstone, Prime Minister of England, in the October number of The North American Review. It is entitled "A Vindication of Home Rule: A Reply to the Duke of Argyll," and it sets forth with vehement earnestness and logical clearness the claims of the Irish people to some measure of self-government. Mr. Gladstone takes up in detail the statements made by the Duke of Argyll in his paper in the August number of The North American Review

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'English Elections and Home Rule," the purpose of which article was to prove the identity of the Irish movement with the principle of secession that was encountered in the American Civil War. As foreshadowing the policy of the Prime Minister in the affairs of Ireland, "A Vindication of Home Rule" will attract universal and profound attention. The October number of The Review also contains a symposium of articles under the head of "Safeguards Against Cholera," in which Surgeon-General Walter Wyman; President Charles G. Wilson of the New York Board of Health; Dr. Samuel W. Abbott, Secretary of the Board of Health, Boston; Dr. Cyrus Edson, Sanitary Superintendent of the New York Board of Health, give a comprehensive account of the origin and nature of cholera, of the scientific methods of treatment, and of all that has been done by way of quarantine, prevention, and preparation. The statements of these experts will carry to the country a large measure of reassur.

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Henry Labouchere, M. P., writes on "The Foreign Policy of England," berating the expensive and what he believes to be the unwise policy of attending to the affairs of other nations. M. Naquet has an article on "The French Electoral System," and to it Mr. Theodore Stanton adds some comments. Lady Jeune reviews her critics in a closing article on London Society. Home politics of pressing importance at this time are treated by Senator Vest, of Missouri, in the "The Real Issue;" by the Governor of Oregon in "Paramount Questions of the Campaign;" and by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane, of Albany, on "The Excise Law and the Saloons;" while "The Buffalo Strike" is discussed, with some practical suggestions toward the solution of the difficulties between railroads and their employees, by Theodore Voorhees, General Superintendent of the N. Y. Central & Hudson River R. R. The President of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce discusses "Business in Presidential Years." Prof Samuel Lockwood's article, "The Hygiene of the Atmosphere," is of special interest to sufferers from hay-fever. Chevalier Hermann recounts some curious adventures as a magician in foreign lands. Other articles are "The Ethics Other articles are "The Ethics of Great Strikes," by George Ethelbert Walsh; "Politics and the Weather," by A. Lawrence Lowell; "A Tax on Tales," by M. A. de Wolfe Howe, Jr.; and "Bismarck and the Emperor," by J. H. Sears.

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The October number of Scribner's Magazine begins a group of articles on "The World's Fair at Chicago," with a picturesque description by H. C. Bunner, of "The Making of the White City." A series of illustrations by W. T. Smedley illustrates this striking transformation. Among the most vivid articles in the Historic Moments' Series, is a description in this issue, by Daniel Denison Slade, M.D., of "The First Capital Operation Under the Influence of Ether." Dr. Slade is one of the few survivors of the group of physicians and students who gathered in the Massachusetts General Hospital, on November 7, 1846, to see the first test made of Dr. Morton's great discovery which was to revolutionize surgery. Dr. Slade's recollections are so clear that the details of the historic scene are made perfectly apparent to the reader. Two articles in the number have a very practical educational value. Edmund R. Spearman describes "The School for Street Arabs," known as the D'Alembert School, which is situated near Paris, and has done so much for the solution of the great problem of making something out of the boys whose only home and school have been the city The results achieved are of a kind surpassing other similar experiments, and the whole article, with its illustrations, is a most valuable addition to the series on "The Poor in Great Cities." Another interesting educational article is Walter B. Peet's account of the "Education of the Deaf and Dumb," which adequately explains the curious methods that modern science has devised for educating those whose senses are incomplete. The article is made most entertaining by the record of actual experiences which Mr. Peet has gathered through his long association as teacher with the New York Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. Other interesting articles are W. C. Brownell's second paper on French Art-this one dealing with "Romantic Painting;' Andrew Lang's contribution to the discussion as to the personality of "Homer;" Paul Leicester Ford's account of some curious entries which he has found in an unpublished diary of Thomas Jefferson, which reveal the personal habits of the great statesman in his every-day life; and a fully il lustrated description of "The Launching of Cruisers and Battle-ships," by William J. Baxter, of the United States Navy. The fiction of the number includes another "Story of a Western Town," by Octave Thanet, entitled "Tommy and Thomas," which describes the rise of a Western politician (illustrated by A. B. Frost); Bliss Perry, the author of "The Broughton House," begins an amusing story of life at Mount Desert, entitled "Salem Kittridge, Theologue."

The most significant, and the only full utterance so far by Mr. Blaine in the present national canvass, will be his article entitled "The Presidential Campaign of 1892," in the North American Review for November. He speaks with vigor, making some points that are entirely new in the discussion of the issues, and his article is marked with that vigor and that purity of style for which Mr. Blaine is distinguished.

The American Journal of Politics for October opens with an interesting discussion of "The Basis of Wages," by Rev. J. D. Sands, whose paper is followed by "An Inquiry Concerning our Foreign Relations," by Theo. S. Woolsey. Then follow several other interesting subjects, well presented. making this issue very entertaining. 114 Nassau St., N. Y.