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was commissioned to do so wish the c ' v a to assist. “or “Mlle. Leonie Mercier,” said the doctor, by way of introduction. “She was the belle of Boulogneâ€"aur-Mer two seasons ago, twenty Lhree years of age and of excellent family. She became the leader of society and naturally devoted most, of her time to flressmakers and milliners. Coming from healthy stock, this girl leaned somewhat to emboxipoinb, and as her physicians failed to ntreab the course of nature, “I calculate that this young lady’s waist measured twenty-three to twenty-five inches. It was not the breadth she would have had if her mother and gmndmobher had not been the vicCims of the. comes habit â€"victims to the extent of deforming, from a medical standpoint, the shape of their breasb bones. Another curLM'n WAS dravwn aside and the upper part of a female skeleton rolled for- wargifp a_nickel Placed frame. “ Now I venture to any that. a young woman of comely face, having a waist of twenty-three to twenty-five inches and a. well-rounded figure, is a beautiful object to look upon. In classic times girls so favored were the delight of artists am: the Greek masters immortalized their enchant- ing forms. Indeed, even you, meedames and mademoiselles. admire themâ€"in the Louvre, chaed on a. block of granite or marble. But Mlle. Leonie had read at an "But I see from your faces that I was right when Isurmissd that, a Phryne. even if she be sanctified and of correct: morals, would not; be appreciated nowadays, except perhaps, by the patrons of a guingette. So I beg to draw your attention to the skeleton of a lady of fashion such as you are, mesdsmesâ€"a woman devoted to the requjremenbs of polite society and subser- vient to the standards of are set up by tailors and milliners of high degree.” Henriquez went on : “ As I said, the dead Woman’s form was as perfect as that of the Greek sculptor’s immortal model. ' The various organs in her chest were all in their proper places and the healthful performance of their functions was not impaired in the leash by want of room. Poor Victoire, she would have been the mother of healthy children, such as our country needs, and Would have lived to a ripe old sge bub for that scoundrel’s bullet. 1‘83 SKELETON OF A Three-fourths of the attendants at the lecture looked disgusted. A bArmaid and a perfect beauty ! Ic could not be ! M. But. what I desire you to know and to consider is that. she never were acorset in her life, and like may people of her class, aflected suspenders, man~like, thus making her shoulders carry the weight, of her skiroa. I learned this by personal inquiry among her female relamives and friends, whoml visited after making the autopsy on the body. The very perfectness of her figure, its graceful and classical outlines, prompted me to this departure from ordin- ary cusboms.” “ The deceased barmaid,” paid aicisn. “ was an extremely specimen of humanity. Too bad of her admirers shot her in Then, drawing a. curtain, he disclosed the skeleton of the barmaid, who, he said, had been as beautiful and had had as per- fect a form as any of the great beauties of tnhiquity. The barmaid, had died at a guingetue, or drinking place in the suburbs frequented by the lowar classes. Fashion halts before its doors and its inmates and habisues make a. point of being primitive in attire and manners. The doctor hsd been telling his hearers, who numbered several hundred1 of the celebrated beauties of ancient Greece and Rome. who wore no corsets and whose figures have been immortalized by scalp. tors as the highest. type of female loveli- ness. She Wore the New Kind offileyuâ€"A Purl! Doctor’s sumac Hell-0d or Proving the Evils or This! anlng for Beauty‘s Sakeâ€"A Technical [Mscnoslon of the Cascâ€"Duneing ls ahe firemen Physical Exerll'on Women (inn Undergo. Paris has recently had a remarkable ob- ject lesson 1n the evils of tight lacing. Two dead women, both young and both beauti- ful, but in a. different, way, contributed to the lesson, and by their respective anato- miesâ€"one as an example ofa non-corset,- wearing woman, the other as a terrible example of the woman who, by using the fashionable stays, tempts nature to do her worsFâ€"afl‘orded a text, for a. Paris physlcian u a lecture at. which no men were admit.- bed. The woman‘who wore no corsets was a barmaid, and the other woman, she who had died from tight lacing, was a society girl. By some means or other this realistic physicianâ€"Dr. Henriquez, of the Rue de I’Operaâ€"had secured their skeletons {or ex hibition. HER GURSETS KILLED HER. LEONIE MERCIER OVERCOME WHILE DANCING AND SOON DEES. TEE FRENZY 0F JEALOUSY 1 THE CORSET ARTIST WORE ( WOMAN wno mavgn roxsms. the phy- healthy that one Aâ€" medical authority has reckoned that; the extra pumping imposed upon the heart by this exert-ion in an evening’s dancing amounts to lifting one metre high 14.496 kilograms of blood; that is. 8. weight of nearly thircy~two thousand pounds, These astonishing figures easily explain why so many society girls have fainted in the ballroom. A superheated. atmosphere in Dr. Henriquez entered upon a technical discussion of the case. Leonie Mercier, he ‘ said, had died of heart failure, induced by compression of the breathing organs. The ‘heart had failed to send up the proper supply of blood to her brain and that ended -it. The autopsy proved that the lungs of the unfortunate young woman had been thrust upward, whereby the motions of the diaphragm had been obstructed. The liver, stomach and vascular glands were crowded out of shape and much further to the rear than their functions called for. Other internal organs were pressed out of position ins. downward direction, all of which had a tendency to prevent the normal and equitable circulation of the blood. For hundreds of women. the doctor de- clued, dancing is the greatest physical exertion they undergo. The ordinary ballroom dress, or under dress, with its tight corsets, impairs the heart’s ability to send blood into the arteries, The heart is the pumping station of the human body. In its natural state it should keep up such a pressure within the arterial section as will suffice for the maintenance of the circulation and the organic function of the body depending on it. Excessivs ac- tion of the heart is,in nervous and suecep- tible women, often induced by moderate exertion; it may even occur While its possessor is at perfect rest. It hm been demonstrated that the heart,during u. waltz, contracts twice as often is in» a. condition oi comparative repose ; that is, it sends twice the quantity of blood to the lungs. “If Mlle. Mercier had not died as she did, and as any women trying no squeeze twentyfive inches of her flesh and bone into eighteen or Lhereubouts may do at. my momenthshe would surely have become a victim of “The compressor stays worn by this lady diminished the area occupied by some of the most important vital organs by five to eight inches," continued the physician, “squeezing them together, rendering them immobile and compelling great structural changes not only in the position but also in the shape of her organs of respirstion, circulation and digestion. “If Mlle. Mercier had not died as she did, and as any women trying to squeeze twentyfive inches of her flesh and bone into eighteen or thereubouts may do at any Inoment,she would surely have become a victim of VARIOUS cusoum DISEASES." de- nlnuninnl For hundreds of women, the doctor nlnrnfl, (luncino in tha "route-sh | by four miles long, in which some very rich gold-bearing veins of quartz have been dis- covered. Surveyors sre busily employed surveying mining locations. Three stamp mills of five stamp power each are in the course of erection,one of which is expected to begin operations in a short time. The others will start early in the spring, and there is talk of several others to be built this season. To the north of \Vild Potato Lake, a widening of the Seine River. many good locations have been taken up, and there are said to be some rich indications of gold, north of Where the prospector.» are now at work. "Whether the witnesses to this tragedy were correct or incorrect in their surmiaes â€"a.L any rate it, was the laar. manifestation of departing life. The physician saw at once that. his oflices would. avail nothingâ€" bhe ‘compreasor ’ had done its work." or 3b least a. sound that was interpreted as an exclamation of relief. ,trHrs rs rm: SKELETON or A WOMAN DEâ€"I I FORMED BY TlGHT-LACING. “ A minute later a physician took charge of the case and ordered the stays unhooked. But the compressor was a good slayer. All attempts to get a finger under the steel and satin cuirus proved unavailable. 30 the doctor called for his instrument case, and with a. quick dash of the knife cut open the corset. At that moment a last respiratory motion seemed to vibrate through poor Leonie'a body, the diaphragm rose perceptibly and the breath was expelled with “ ‘She has faintedâ€"water, air l’ These Cries arose on all sides. ‘Quick, remove her to the conservatory 1’ There the door was opened to admit the fresh night air. The patient was laid flat on her back, her head lower than her limbs. Everything was done to make her comfortable. But. as meanwhile a deadly pallet had over- epreed her face. her mother, becoming alarmed, tore open Leonie‘e dress in front, while some friends loosed the strings and books of he: skirts. and danced with less spirit then usual. Alter an hour or so Leonie told her mother that she would have to stop round dances, as th_e quickAmotion made her feel dizzy: _ "It ems during a few waltz steps, fol- lowing a quadrille, that the catastrophe occurred. The young lady, thhouc a. breath of warning fell heavily upon her partner’s arm, who was scarcely able to suppo~rt her. “Now, being twenty-threeyeors old, she had to think of marriage, and, to make a rich catch, it was deemed necessary that she should still more ‘improve ’ her figure. The corset-maker decided that it could be ‘done by the ‘ compressor stays,’ the side- bones of which are warranted not to break. ‘The compressor, I believe. is a sister to the ‘ small waist corset.’ which is warranted to hold any young woman‘s waist in a. murderous fifteen-inch grasp. “ Leonie looked divine when she entered the ballroom, incased in ‘ the compr'essor.’ All eyes were upon her. The slope of her neck, her sylphlike waist were admired by all. But at the same time, her friends noticed that she was indisposed : she com- plained of cold hands and feet. The dancers who had the honor of whirling mademoiselle around, observed that their partner was Englie‘h air! with a waist of fifteen inches, and she decided that, she must’bri‘ng hers down to eighteen. Mademoiselle had worn corsets almost. from infancy. SHORT OF BREATH A LITTLE CRY, Officials in the Crown Lands Department say that from ten to twenty applications are being filed every day for properties in that vxcinity. Motherâ€"-Wlmt is that. you are drawing ? Little Daughterm’l‘lmb’s a. picture of Adam and Eve, an’ the apple tree, an' uhe serpent. Well, they was the oldest imhions I could think of. Mr. Campbell said that, the statement made in several 0: the papers that, seven prospectors had been frozen to death was not; true. The weather has been cold, but the fall of snow exeepuionally light for that. countryfio enabling explorers to work with greater freedom and success than in former years. In regard to himself, he said-mat- ters were booming. He had recently sold one locaLiou to the Northern Pacific Rail- way for $20,000 and expected to dispose of two others no the same company in a. short time. Eur, you hawfigiveu Eve a hoop skirt, and dressed Adam in knee breaches. Marv of Scotland had her watches. In those days there was great variety in the shape of the watch. A favorite shape was that of a skull,another was that of a coffin. Descriptions exist of several of Mary’s ’watches. There was one coffin-shaped in a crystal case. There was another in which catgut supplied.the place oi the interior chain in the modern watch. One very marvelous piece of workmanship in the form of a. skull is the property of the Dick Lauder family. It was originally the prop- erty of Mary Queen of Scots, and was be- queathed to Mary Setoun, her maid of honor, February 7, 1587. On the forehead of the skull are the symbols of death, the scythe and the hour-glass. At the back of the skull is Time, and at the top of the head are the gardens of Eden and the crucifixion. The watch is opened by revers- ing the skull. Inside are the holy family, angels and shepherds with their flocks. The works form the brains. The dial-plate is the palate. Another skull-shaped watch which belonged to Mary was the gift of her husband, Francis II. locations Being Rapidly Taken lipâ€"A Chat With Mr. Wm. Campbellâ€"Stamp Mills Being Erected. Some later news in regard to the Rainy Lake gold country has been received from Mr.Wm. Campbell, a well-known explorer, who was in Toronto :1 short time ago. He says that numerous locations are being taken up in the Seine River valley and in the Atik-Okan region, about 50 mile: from Rainy Lake. North of Shoal Lake is situated a granite belt some two miles wide by four miles long, in which some very rich I With the application of the spring to the J clock it became apparent that the timepiece could be made portable. Watches were but little known, if known at all. before the sixteenth century. Francis 1. gave the master elockmaker of Paris in 1544 the exclusive privilege of making clocks and watches Within that city. Henry VIII. seems to have spent much money on watches. Edward VI. had at his Palace of Westminster “oone larum or watch 'of .iron, the case iron gilt,’ with two plum- ‘mets of lead." Elizabeth was fond of I watches,“ which she had a. large collection. She had “ a. olocke of gold, garnished with dyemondee. rubyee, emeralds and perles.” “ One armlet or shakell of gold, all over lfsirly garnished with rubyes, and dye- Imondes, having on the closing the air of a. clocke,” was a. gift to her in 1571-72 by the Eerl of Leicester, master of the horse. Arnold of the strand presen‘ed George IlI.,in l764,a watch of his own manufacture set in a ring. Later, in 1770, he presented the King with a smml repeating watch,also set in a ring, the cylinder of which was made of an oriental ruby. The Czsr of Russia, when he heard of these mites of Watches, otfered Arnold 1000 guineas if he would make one for him, but the artist would not. consent. One on the Royal Exchange Is Said to be the Rest In the World. In these later years some very Wonderful clocks have been constructed, but, the use- ful rather than the curious have been the guiding principle in their construction. London boasts of two very wonderful clocks. The one is on the Royal Exchange, and is said to be the best public clock in the world.’ The pendulum, which is com- pensated, weighs nearly four hundred weight. It has what is known as a remou- toir escapement, its pallets are jeweled with large sapphires and it. has a chime of fifteen bells, which cost; £500. Another famous modern clock adorns the Palace of Westminster. The dials are 22 feet in diameter, the largest in the world, with a minute hand. The great wheel is 27 inches in diameter; the pendulum is 15 feet long and weighs 680 pounds, while the es- cape wheel, which is driven by the musical box spring, weighs about one-half ounce. It has seen the end of two great bells. not the correct, bhough it is the usual ex- planar/15m. Did the Best She Could. RAINY LAKE GOLD. LONDON CLOCKS. Reeelpes. Graham Loaves. â€"To each pint of luke- warm wetting, composed of equal portions of water and sweet milk, add a table. spoonful of sugar, half a tnblespoonful of salt, and. a small cake of compressed yeast, dissolvedin about two teblespoonfula oi the wetting. Then stir in with a. spoon a. heaping quart of graham flour, or as much moi-o as may be found necessary to form a dough sufficiently still to be taken from the mixing bowl in a mass. Tuin this dough on a moulding board Well sprinkled with white flour, and knead, adding white flour until the dough ceases to stick to the fingers or moulding board. Put in a well- greased earthen bowl, brush lightly with melted butter or drippings, cover with broad towel and blanket, and set it to rise at a temperature of 75 degrees, and let it stand three hours. At the end of that time form gently into loaves, put into greased pans, brush, cover. and set it to rise as before. In an hour from the time it is formed into loaves it willbe ready to bake. Stuffed Beefstake.â€"Tske a thick and ten- der slice of rump of about two pounds weight. Make two gills of stuffing of bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and powdered cloves. or sweet mai'joram. as you please. i lloll the dressing up in the steak, wind n piece of twine around it, taking care to secure the ends. Have ready a. saucepan, With a slice or two of pork fried crisp. Take out the pork and lay in the steak, brown it thoroughly on every side. Add two gills of tho stock, or of water in which meat has been boiled ; sprinkle in a little salt, cover close. and stew slowly an hour and 0. half. Add more water after awhile, if it becomes too dry. Some persons like the addition of chopped onion. There should. however, be only a. very little; half a. small one is enough. \Vhen nearly done add half a gill of cutsup. When you take up the meat unwind the string carefully so as not to unroll it. Lay it on 3 hot dish, thicken the gravy, if not- nlready thick enoughmnd pour over the roll. Cut the meat. in slices through the roll. Gingerbread.â€"Work a cupful of butter until creamy, then mix with it. n cupful of brown sugar. Separate the whites and yolks of four eggs, and beat both until light, ltothing the whites. Stir the egg,- It: is always worth while to make or buy that. which is substantial and lasting. 1: is for this reason, also, that one should buy the; which is good in form, because grace ful shapes are always gratifying regardless of the changes in fashion. How often does one look at a piece of furniture and mourn the quantity of good wood in is and the hours spent in fashioning it into an object; so ugly. ‘House Furnishing. People are a. good deal inclined to run to showxness in their home furnishing, and where there is money and leisure, to over- elaborateness. It is Almost the only means that most have of expressing their aspira- tion toward the beautiful. They have reached only a. half-way stage of culture, and they make an uninstructed attempt at display. Display itself is a. false motive. A chair is made to sit in, not to look at. Get comfort first. and then make it look at well as it can, and still be in keeping with the house and the rest of the room. A Winter Night at Home. When does the person of domestic tastes enjoy home more than on a stormy winter night? You reach the dearest place on earth after dark. with the cheerful light shining out upon the fast falling snow, and at once are compensated for all the discom- forts you have undergone. Let it storm now as furiously as it will, you do not care except as you think of those who are exposed to the weather, and especially of the poor wretches to whom the word “home” is nothing but a memory. Here you are again, safe andsound, with pleasant faces and voices to greet you; every one is glad to see you; even the cat as he lazily rises up behind the stove and bumps his back, seems to wish you to understand that your presence has been the only thing wanting to make the happiness of the scene complete. You kiss the wife and the “chickens,” eat your supper with an appetite that only a mile’s walk through deepening drifts can develop, and are ready for a half hour with the children. Then the children snugly tucked up in bed, you sit down with the women of your love and surrender yourself to the unalloyed pleasure of a winter evening at home. The‘ time passes only too swiftly. You give a little time to your paper perhaps, after which you take down your Whittier and, while the wife repairs 5 rent in Billy's coat, read aloud from “Snow Bound," occasion- ally laying down the book to make a comment or to ask a question relating to the family history of the day. At length the clock on the mantelpiece strikes ten, and you are reminded by Lhat, as well as by the drowsy feeling that steals over you, that it is time to retire. Oh, the luxury of that thought ! there is not the slightest reason, as far as you know, why you should not have a perfect night‘s rest. It seéfii But we A kiss of greeun After the toil 0 And it smooths t A good-by kiss is a lit With your band on But, it; takes Lhe Venol Of a thoughtless wort Tin ’ iis'iuiEtEi-Ifid r a thoughtless word or a cl That you made an hour ago 3 line 1 the lit Little Things That Household. ‘n th a little thiz Hard t‘o livvé‘ weel: and rare fl'own _a.wa :11 night. _ gh your heart, I find love'a caress. o b'less, ugly less and less. Owed by care. mce called fair Count ,0 go 1e suing lfling kind. WOMAN’S SELF-INFLICTED DEATH for love. He calls up from the slumber of history the Non dolet of the wifeof Paetus, the fatal swallowing of live coals by Portia in order to shorten the supposed period of separation from her dead husband, Brutus, and the suicides of the married mates of Poliorcetes, Scaurus and Labeo, all lot love. He has learned in a recent book (Twain, 1894), called “Suicide Among the Savage Peoples," that to the untutored aborigines of North America. self-mud):- was almost unknown, the only suicides to be found in any tribe (Dekotahs) being females, who Occasionally committed the act under the despair and desperation of disappointed love. He relates that in New i Zeeland adnughter oi the conqueror Hongi, upon learning that her husband had been slain in battle. killed with her own hands sixteen prisoners and then putan end to her life by suicide. Lombrosoreviewsthe strange mode of self-destruction practised by the Widows of Hindostau and Malabar, who icsst themselves upon the burning pyres of their deceased husbands. These suicides ‘ he contends, proceed from love rather than from ieli;ioua fanaticism, although the teachings oi Brahminism powerful favor the practice of sutteeism, as well as all other kinds of selfâ€"inundation. Two English miicers once essayed to deter a widow from this barbarous usage by asking her first to try the horrible effect of exposing one of her fingers to fire. With a smile of disdain tne young woman plunged her whole hand into ignited oil.storcally Watched the mem- ber burn, and, just before casting herself into the flames, said: “ You may argue as you please, but I know that I belong to no one but my dead husbandâ€"not even to myself. Him only did I ever love. and after him I can love no man else.” er's sister '! Snecky Samâ€"Servin’ time for followin' a fashionable fad. 75 per cent. of the suicides among women during the last four years were for love,and only 20 per :ent. for the same cause among men. In France for the same period the figures showed 28 per cent. of love suicides among the former and only 7 per cent. among the latter. Mme. de Steel had not- ed a similar disparity in the two sexes long before Lombroso, and had given a partial explanation of it by saying that whereas in men love is usually only an incident, an unimportant episode in their busy careers, on the other hand, in women it is the supreme event, often the entire history of their lives. That “men die, but not for love,” had not escaped the notice of an earlier and infinitely higher authority; and Brierre de Boismont (“Le Suicide," second edition, 1865) offered as an apology for this male characteristic that in men the roots of friendship strike deeper than those of love, and he asked for instances in history Where women have ended life by suicide for others of their own sex, as did Volumnius, Petroneus and Antonius for their inalo friends. Two Views. Little Sonâ€"A boy broke through the ice to-day, and was pulled out, by his dog. Motherâ€"That shows how dangerous thm The foregoing statistics exhibiting the marked predominance of cases of suicide from general causes smong men, over those Occurring among womeu,ue introduced by Lombroso to emphasize the equally gram; preponderance of female over male suicides when committed for love. While the male suicides from miscellaneous causes of every kind quadruple or quintuple in number the female, those Which are motived by love alone are four or five times greater in the fe- male than in the male sex. in Imly,hesays, Leaving the field of statistics, Prof. Lombroao traverses a wide range of time and space in his Industrious search for examples of Little Sonâ€"«l safe a. boy with a THE MALE RATE OF SUICIDES is much higher than the female, and stead- ily increases with advancing years. This ascendency undergoes but an insignificant. remission during all the disturbances and dangers of the female climacteric decade, from the forty-fifth to the fifty-fifth year of age. l'ror'. Immnrnso shows That Women Sac. rlficcs llorseli oftener Than Man. In Italy, according to Lombroso’s figures gleaned from the ofiicisl records, the num- ber of suicides that were committed for causes of all kinds among both sexes in that kingdom during the last four years reached a. total of 3,085, of which only 569 were of females, against 2,516 of males. In France a. record of 25,941 cases of sell- slaughter. collected by him from equally reliable sources, makes men the victim 19,982 and women only 5,959 timw The great preponderance here shown ‘ aicidel among males is ascribed in part Lo woman’- instinctive repugnsnce to violence and per- sonal disfigurementâ€"in part to the lesl part to her mode of life, which is ' less tinctured with self-indulgence 3 than that of men. At only one a life does the suicide late when equal that of males. This peri d is be‘ twaen the age of fifteen and that f twenty, when the suicidal impulse is sécentusted by the great constitutional chsdge. and, as Lombroso contends, by the acqte and all. controlling passion of love with its reverses, which female adolescents then experience. During all the rest of life. from childhood to the grave, ‘ water. Measure four cupfuls of flour, Ind mix with it a teaspoom‘ul of salt and I Lablespoonful of yellow ginger. Add this to the batter, Do all the mixing In quickly and lightly as pouible. Bake thirty min‘ utes with a moderate heat. \Vot fad '3 Kleptomunior 2 with the butter and sugar. and Mk? 3 cup- ful of sour cream, mixed with a enpinl of molasses ; before puttin o molasses and cream toqebher add to 1: cream b'c tea,- spoonfuls of soda dissolved in a little warm A Fad Follower. 21m- BiHâ€"W’nb’s become 0’ Slickfing- LOVE AND SUICIDE. Lhou