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HER CORSETS KILLED HER, LEONIEHIBCIER OVERCOME WHILE DANCING AND SOON DIES. ke Were Ihr >rw KU4 rlaj. A r.n. "r. Benltelle ikwl .r rrvvlac Ik* fill. r i i;ki baring for gwaoly'i eke A I. rknlral Dl.r...!.. .1 Ik, r*fe-m*mt.tmf I. ikr Irr.ir.i rhr.iral E\rrlls* Weeswa i .. I ..I.TX. Paris hu recently h* . a remarkable ob- ject lesson 10 the evil* of tight lacing. Two dead women, both young and bath beauti- ful, but in * different way, contributed to the lesson, and by their respective anato- miesone a* an example of a non-corset- wearing woman, the other at a terrible example of the woman who, by using the fashionable it-ays, tempts nature to do her wont afforded a text for a Pari* phyiiciao at a lecture at which DO men were admit- The woman who wore no corsets wai a barmaid, and the other woman, the who had .lied from tight lacing, was a society girl. By iome meant or other thia realutie physician Dr. Hennqae/.. of the Rue de i Opera had eecured their skeletons for exhibition. The doctor had been telling hi* hearers, who numbered teverai hundred, of the celebrated beauties of ancient Greece and Rome, who wore no roneU and whoee figures have been immortalized by i.-ulp. tore as the higbeet type of female loveli- English girl with a want of fifteen inehee. [ not the oorrect. though it i. the usual ei and she decided that the moet bring ken ! plaaation. down to eighteen. Maiiemouelle bad worn corset* almoet from infancy. "Sow, being twenty-three yean old, ahe had to think of marriage, and, to make a rich catch, it wa* deemed necessary that he ihould mil more 'improve ' her figure. The corset- maker decided that it oould be done by the ' compreeaor slays, the eide bone* of which are warranted not to breilr. The compreeaor, I believe, i* a inter to the ' small want comet,' which i* warranted to bold any young woman'* waist in a morderou* fifteen- inch graep " Leoaie looked divine when ike entered the ballroom, incased in ' the compreeeor. ' All eye* were upon her. The alope of her neck, her sylphltka waist were admired by all. Bat at the eame time, her friend* noticed that *he wa* indisposed : *he com- plained of cold hand* ani feet. The danoer* who had the honor of whirling mademoiaelle around, ob*erred that their partner wa* SHORT or BSJATH pint Toe flnt principle of ballroom hygiene, therefore, .. to dance with a looee conet, or no oonet at all. It u a^o important to Keep the mouth sna- whea dancing. At the slightest lymptocn of weakness or Dumbnea* the dancer should re'.ire. LONDON CLOCKS. ' *' w.evl Kxekanir Is aelel as ke ike mm In (ke WeeleX In then* later yean some very wonderful clocks have been constructed, bat the use- fol rather than the curious have been the guiding principle in their construction. London boaei* of two very wonderful clock*. The one is on the Royal Exchange, and is snid to be the best public clock in the world. Ths pendulum, which is com- pensated, weighs nearly four hundred weight. It has what ia known as a remon- toir escapement, ita pallets are jeweled and danced with less spirit then usual. Alter an boor or so Leoaie told her mother I with lar s e sapphire* and it has a chime that she would have to stop round dances, fift^n bells, which cost a* the quick motion made her feel duty " It was during a few waltz steps, fol Then, drawing a curtain, he di*cloeed the sksletou of the barmaid, who, he laid, had been a* beautiful and had had a* per- fect a form a* any of the great beautie* of antiquity. The barmaid, had died at a f uingette, or drinking place in the (uburb* t requested by the lower rlssnss Fashion halt*) before it* door* and ita inmate* and habitne* make i point of being primitive ia attire and manners. ' Th* deceased barmaid," said the phy- sician, " wa* an extremely healthy specimen of humanity. Too bad that one of her admirer* shot her in THE ru.sir or JBALOCSY ! But what I deal re you to know and to consider i* that she never wore a conet in her life, and like many people of her class, affected suspenden, man-like, thus making her shoulder* carry the weight of her skirts. I learned] thi* by personal inquiry among her female relative* and friend*. whom I visited after making the airopey oo the body. The very perfectnee* of her nature, its graceful and classical outlines. prompted me to thi* departure from ordin- ary cuitom*." Three-fourth* of the attendant* at the lector* looked disgusted. A barmaid and a perfect beauty : It could not be ! If. *tep*. lowing a quadrille, that the catastrophe occurred. The young lady, without a breath of warning fell heavily upon her partner'* arm, who wa* ecarcely able to support her. " 'She ha* fainted water, air !" Thee* cries arose on all sides. yir.ck, remove her to the conservatory " There the door as opened to admit the fre*h night air. The pttieot was laid flat on her back, her head lower than her limb*. Everything was don* to make her comfortable. Bat while a deadly pallor had over- spread her faos, her mother, becoming alarmed, tore open Leoaie' s drees in front, while some friends looeed the string* and hooks of her skirt*. of Another famou* modern clock adorns the Palace of Westminster. The dial* are J feet in diameter, the largest in the world, with a minute hand. The great wheel is J7 inches in diameter : the pendulum is 13 feet long and weighs *W pounds, while the es- seems to have spent much money on watches Edward VI. had at hi* Palace ot Westminster "oooe,larum or watch 'of iron, the case iron gilt,' with two piam mem of lead." Elisabeth wa* fond oi watchas,of which the had a large collection. She had " a clocke of gild, garnished with THL IS FHE SKELETON Or A WUMA* DE- FOKUEP *T Tli-HT-LA' 1 > . " A minute latsr a physician took charge of th* case and ordered the stays unhooked. But the compressor was a good slayer. All attempts to get a finger under I he steel and satin cuirass proved unavailable. So the doctor called for his instrument cans, 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'* body, the diaphragm roe* perceptibly and th* breath was expelled with A LrTTUt i KT, or at least a souud that was interpreted a* an exclamauon ot nlief. "Whether the witnesses to this tragedy were correct or incorrect in their *urnnsss THI SXII.rH> S Of A WOMAX WHO \IMR WORE OOMRS. Henriqoez went on : " As I aid, the dead woman's form wae a* perfect a* thai of the Greek i:ulptor's immortal model. The various organs in her chest were all in their proper place* and the healthful performance of their function* was not impaired in the lea*t by want of room. Poor Victoire, she would have been ibe mother of healthy children, such as our country needs, and would havs lived to a ripe old age but for that ecouadrel'* bullet "Bat I *se from your faces that I wai right when Isurnuaed that a Phryne. even if she b* sanctified and of correct morals, would not be appreciated nowadays, sxcept perhaps, by the patrons of a gamgelte. 80 I beg to draw your attention to the skeleton of a lady of fashion *uch as you are, mesiUmes a woman devoted to the requirements of polite society and subee'- vient to the standards of art set up by tailors and milliners of high degree. " Another curtain was drawn aside and the upper part of a female sksleton rolled for- ward on a nickel plated frame. Mil.. Lrooie Mercier." s-ud the doctor, by way o' introduction. "She wa* the belle of Boulogne-Mr- Mer two seasons ago, twenty three yean of age and of excellent family. She became the leader of society and naturally rlevoted most of her time to liiisniisiin and milliner*. Coming from healthy stock, this girl loaned somewhat to embonpoiDt, and as her physicians failed to arrest the course ot nature, THK I'OBStT ARTIST was commissioned to do so with the tailor to aseist. "i calcuUte that this young lady's waist measured twenty-three to twenty-five inehee. It was not tne breadth she would hav< hail if hrr mother and giandmother had not been tho victims of the conet habit _ victims to the extent of deforming, from a medical standpoint, the shapa ot their breast bone*. Now 1 venture to say that * young woman of comsly face, having a waut of twenty-three to twenty-live mchee and a well-rounded figure, u * beautiful object to look upon. In classic times girls so favored were the delight of artists aau the Greek masters Immortalised their enchaut ing forms. Indeed, even you, mesdames and madsmoiselles, admin them in the Lonvre. poised on block of granite er narb.'e. Bat M1U. Leonis had read ot an any rale it was th* last manifestation of departing life. The physician taw at once that his orti :es would avail nothing the 'compressor ' had done its work. " Dr. Henrique/, entered upon a technical discussion of th* case. Leonie Mercier, he had died of heart failure, induced by compression of the breathing organ*. The heart had failed to send up th* proper supply ef blood to her brain and that soiled it. The autopsy proved that the lung* ef the unfortunate young woman had been thrust upward, whereby the motions of the diaphragm had been obstructed. The liver, stomach and vascular glands wen crowded out of shape and much further to tne rear than their functions called for. Other internal organ* wen pressed out ol position in a downward direction, all ol which had a tendency to prevent the normal and equitable circulation of the blood. "The compressor stays worn by this lady diminished the area occupied by some ol the most important vital organ* by five to eight inches." continued the physician squeezing them together, rendering them immobile and compelling great etructura change* not only in th* position bat also in the shape of her organs of respiration, irculatioo and digestion. "II Mile. Mercier had not died as she did, and as any woman trying to squ ty rive inches of hsr flesh *nd bone into eighteen er thereabouts may do any moment. sh* would aunty have become i victim of VARIOl'S CHRONIC DISEASES." For hundred* of women, the doctor de Hand, dancing i* the greatest phyaice exertion they undergo. The ordinary ballroom drees, or under drees, with it* tight corsets, impain the heart's a In lit to send blood into the arteries The hear i* th* pumping nation of th* huj-an body In it* naturil state it should keep up such a preetun within the arterial section as will suffice for the maintenance of the circulation and the organic function* o the body depending on <t. Kxceesive ac- tion of the heart is, in nervous and suscep tible women, often induced by moderate exertion ; it may even occur while its possessor is at perfect rest. It ha* been demonstrated that the heart, during await.- contracts twice as often AS in a condition ot comparative repose : that is, sends twice the quantity of blood to the lungs. A medical authority has reckoned tha the extra pumping imuoeed upon the heur by thi* exertion in an evening'* danomi amounts to lifting one nratn high 14,491 kilogram* of blood : thai is, a wei nearly thirty-two thousand pounds, astonishing figurss easily explain why so many society girls ballroom. A superhea have aTld fainted in th* atmosphere i Household. Lmle Things That Count. A geod-bv Mas U a little ni-e- With your hand en the door to go. Hut it take, the venom out of the NIB* Ma ihouKhtloM word ora -ru<rl fliau Thai you made an hour ago. lult in IU%) , mootnx the furrow* plowed br cs -n <n th<> forehead f on once railed i rear* that have flown awajr. care, fair. A ki<w o( greeting uiweet and rare After tbi- toll of day And u -mi - The linen i In tiie i TU a little thing to ear "Yon are kind. I love you. m v dear" each night. But it Mod- a thrill through your heart. I flnd. For lov i* tender, love Ukline!. An we climb lite rufJ beignt. Ve xtarveeacb other for love'* * take, but we do sot give : r -oem, ,0 eay -ome until to blea> THI*" do j elh 'ove-rud>tgl> Island lee*. Till 'tis bitter and hart to lire. A Winter Nlg-ht at Home- When does the person of domestic tastes enjoy home more than oo a stormy winter eight' Yi.u roach the dearest place on earth after dark, with the cheerful light shining out upon the fast falling snow, and at once are compensated for sll the liscum- fort* you have undergone. Let it storm now as furiously ss it will, you do not with the butter and sunv, and add a cap- ful of sour cream, mixed with a unptul of molasses ; before putting die moi seise and cream together add to the cream two tea- spoonfuls of soda dissolved in s little warm water. Measure four cupfufs of floor, and nix with it a leaspoouful ot salt and a tablespo nful of ysllow ginger. Add this to the batter. lo all the mixing as quickly anil lightly .1 pnsdiile. Bake thirty min- utes wit/ a moderate neat. LOVE AND SUICIDE. Pref. L-Hbr.. > Tkal Weesesi rlslrr* mrnrtt S>riesvrr Tkae. Masi In Italy, accord "ig to Lombroeo's figure* gleaned from the official record*, the num- ber of suicides that were committed for "auase of all kinds among both sexen in that kingdom during tiie last four yean reached a total of :;,OH.',, o( which only 39 were of females, against 'J.oia of male*. In France a record of i'.,!MI cases of self slaughter, collected by him from equally reliable sources, makes man the victim l'J,9ff2 and woman only |,9. 1 W times. The great preponderance here shown of su.ctdes among males is ascrioed in part to woman s instinctive repugnance to violence snd per aonal disfigurement in part to the leu caie except a* you think of thuee wuo are ' har^esing and responsible rtde played by exposed to the weather, and the poor wretches "home" is nothing but a memory. Here you are again, safe andsound, with pleasant face* and voices to greet you : every one u glad to see you : even the cat as he lazily cape wheel, which i* driven by the musical box spring, weigh* about one-half ounce It ha* seen the end of two great bell*. With the application of the spring to the lock it became apparent that the timepiece could be made portable. Watches were but title known, if known at all. before the rises up behind the stovs and hump* his sixteenth century. Francis i. stave the i back, seem, to wish you to understand , wneo tne suicide! impulse is EciuSve^vSj.' of m^ing'cJck? an'd \ !^TT - *" *T* ** nly *** \ * *-' *~* "">"' "-M- -*. - watches within that city. Henry VIII. especially of I her in the struggle for ezisteuce, and in whom the word p*rt to her mode of life, which is infinitely less tinctured with self-indulgence and vice than that of man. At only one stafee of life doe* the suicide rate among women equal that of males. This period is be- tween the age of fifteen and that of twenty. j when the suictdsl impulse is accentuated Lorabrooo contends, by th* acute and all- scene complete. You kiss the wife the "ch i kens," eat your supper with an appetite that only a mile's walk through deepening drift* can develop, and an ready for a half hour with the children. Then ^j controlling passion oi love with its reverses, ' which female adolescents then experience During all the rest of life, fro.n childhood to the grave. She had " a clock* of gtld. garnished with ,. cnad nn snugly tuck*.! up in bed, you lyem >odes, rubyea, emeralds and penes. . . 'on. armlet orT.k.U of goid. E over ++~*mS~*ir f *3A gold airly garnished with rubyea, and .!> mondes, having on the closing the air of a lock*," was a gift to her in 1671-73 by th* Sari of Leicester, master of the horse. Mnrv of Scotland bad her watches. In hose days then was great variety in the nape ot the watch. A favorite shape was that ef a skull, another was that of a coran. >escripiions eiist of several of Mary's watches. Then was on* coffin -shaped in a crystal case. Then wa* another in which ,tgut supplied the place ot the interior chain in the modern watch. One very marvelous piece of workmanship in the orm of a skull is the property of th* Dick or family. It sn* originally th* prop- erty of Mary Queen of Scots, and wa* he- qaeathed to Mary Setonn. her maid of honor, February 7, 1587. On the fonhead of th* skull %n the symbols of deaili, the scythe and the hour-gins*. At th* back of h* skull i* Time, and at th* lop of the Mad an th* gardens of Eden and the cruci hi ion. The watch is opened by nvera- ing th* skull. Inside an the holy family, angels and shepherds with their flock-. The works form the brains. The dial-plats is the palate. Another *ull-ehs pod watch which belonged to Mary wa* the gift of lor husband, r'rancis II. Arnold ot the strand presented George III.. in ITtU.a watch of his own manufacture set in a ring. Later, in 1770. he presented the King with a imail repeating watch,aleo set in a ring, the cylinder of which was made of an oriental ruby. The Cxar of Russia, whsn h* heard of these mites of watch**, otferwl Arnold 100U guinea* if h* would mnke one for him, but the artist not consent. RAINY LAKE COLO- lerallen* steins BaoMlv Take* In A < h.i Wish Mr. *T*a. Camokell Mame Ills Being Brcrteel. Some later news in regard to the Rainy Lake gold country has been received from Mr. Wm. Campbell, a well-known explorer, who wa* in Toronto a short time ago. Hs says that numerous locations an being taken up tn the Seine River valley and in the Atik-Okan region, about 50 miles from Rainy Lake. North of Shoal Lake is situated a granite belt some two miles wide by four nines long, in which some very rich gold-bearing veins of quartz have been dis covered. Surveyors are busily employed surveying mining locations. Three stamp mills of five stamp power each an 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 tbsn is talk of several others to be built this season. To the north of Wild Potato Lake, a widening of the Seine River, many good locations have been taken up, an. there an said to be some rich indications ef gold, north of when the prospectors are now at work. Mr. Oampbell said that the statement made in several ot the papen that seven prospecton had been frozen to death wa* not true. The weather b'as been cold, but the fall of snow exceptionally light for that country, so enabling explorers to work with greater freedom and success than in former year*. In regard to himself, he s*id mat- ten were booming. He had recently sol.i one locatiou to the Northern Pacific Rail way for <VO,000 and expected to dispose of two olhen to the same company in a short time. Officials in the Crown Lands Department say that from ten to twenty applications an being filed every day for properties m that vicinity. Did the Best She Could. Mother What ii that you an drawing Little Daughter - That's a picture o Adsm and Kve, an' the apple tree, an' th serpent. But you have^given Kv-> a hoop skirt, an< dressed Adam ia knee breeches. Well, they was ths oldest fashions could think of. THE MAI.E RATE OF I'll I! is much higner than tne female, aid stoad- ily increase* with advancing yuan. This ascendency undergoes bui an insignificant remission during all th* disturbance* and dangen of the temele climacteric decade, from the tony -fifiii to the fifty-fifth year of kge. The foregoing statistic* einioiung th* from general ceoess among men, *vc occurring among w*tnen,ar* introduced by Lombroao to empnaau* the equally great preponderance of female over male suicides when oommitud for love. While the male suicide* from misonllateouo -muses of every kind quadruple or quintuple in Dumber the female, those wnivh are motived by love alone are four or five times greater in the fe- male than in me male sex. In Italy, hssayi, 75 per cent, of th* suicide* among women during the last four yean wen tor love, and only 'Si per jenu for the earn* meu. In France for the figure* showed US per cent, of >ove suictdee among tho former and only 7 per coat, among the latter. Mme. de >taei had not- ed a similar disparity in the two esxse loejg i before Lombroeo. and had given a partial It is almost the only means explanation of it by laying that whereas in expressing their aspira- I men love is usually only an incident, no beautiful Th*y have I <ul* c episode in their busy careen. 1 on the other hand, in women it i* th* supnme -vent, often the entire history of their live*. That "men die, but not for love," hail not escaped the notice of an earlier and infinitely higher authority: i lirisrre <ie Hoismont ("be Suicide," ' edition, IMS) offend a* an apology for that male characteristic that in men tho roots ol friendship strike deeper than thane of lov*, and h* Asksd for inatances in history when women bav* ended life by suicide for olhen of their own esx, a* did Volumniua, Pstroneu* and Antonius for their male friends. Leaving the field of statistics. Prof. Lombrueu traverses a wide range of time and space in bis industrious search for examples ef - <II r.lWI.IiTED HEATH surrender yourself to the unalloyed pleasure of a winter evening at horns. Tb* time passes only too iwiftly. You give a little time to your paper perhaps, after which yon lace down your Whuuer and, while the wife repair* s nnt in Billy's coat, read aloud from "Snow Bound," oceaaien- ally laying down the book to make a comment or to aek a question relating to the family history ef the day. At length the clock on the mantelpiece strikes tea;, and you are reminded by that, a* well as by the drowsy feeling that (teals over you, that it is time to retire. Oh, the luxury of that thought ' then is not the slightest reason, as far ae yo.i know, why you sboald not have a perfect night's rest. House Furnishing- People an a good deal inclined to run to sbuwinses in their uome furnishing, and whore then is money and leisure, to ever- elaborateness, that most have of lion toward the nacbed only a half-way stage of culture. and they make an uninitructed attempt at lisplay. Display iuelf i* a false motive. A chair is made to sit in. not to look au ret comfort lint, and then make it look a* well as it can, and sttli bs in keeping with the house and che rest of tae room. It is always worth while to make or buy that which is substantial and lasting. It s for this rsaeon, also, niai one mould buy hat which u good in form, because grace ul shape* an always gratifying regardlees jf the cnange* in fa*hion. How often does one look at a piece of furniture and mourn .he quantity of good wood in it and the loan spent in fashioning it into an object so ugly. Receipts. Urakam Loaves. To eacn pint of luke- warm wetting, composed of equal portion* of water and sweet milk, add a table spoonful of sugar, half a tablespooaful of salt, and a small cake of compressed yeast, dissolved in about two tablespoonful* of th* wetting. Then stir in with a spoon a heaping quart of graham flour, or as much more a* may be found neeeeeary to form a dough suifi-nently still to be taken from the mixing bowl in a .nass. Tuin this dough on a moulding board well sprinkled with while flour, and knead, adding white dour until the dough c sales to stick to ths tingen or moulding board. Put in a well greased earthen bowl, brush lightly with melted butter or drippings, covsr with bread towel an i blanket, and sec it to rife at a temperature of 7"> degrees, and let it stand three hours. At the end of that lime form gently into loaves, put into graaeed pan*, brush, cover, and set it to rise ae before. In an hour froiu the time it is formed into loavee it will be ready to bake. Stuffed Beefslake. Tske a thick and ten- der slice of rump of about two pounds weight. Mak two gills of stuffing of bread crumbs, pepper, salt, an. I powdered cloves, or sweet marjoram, as you please. Koll the dressing up in the steak, wind a piece of twine around it, taking can to necure the ends. Have nady a saucepan, with a slice or two of pork fried crisp. Take out ihe pork and lay in the steak, brown it thoroughly on every side. Add two gill* of the stock, or of water in which meat has been boiled : sprinkle in a little salt, cover close, and ilew slowly an hour and a half. Add more water after awhile, if it becomes too dry. Some persons like the addition of chopped onion. Then should, however, be only a very 1-ttie : half a small one is enough. When nearly done add half a gill of catsup. When you take up the meat unwind the string carefully so as not to unroll it. Lay it on a hot dish, thicken the gravy, if not alnady thick enough, and pour over the roll. Cut the meat in slices through ths roll. ( < ingerbread. Work a cupful of butter until creamy, then mix witn u a cupful of brown sugar. Separate the whites and yolk* of tour egg*, snd bear both until hghi, frothing th* white*. Stir th* for love. He calls up from th* slumber of history the Non dolet of the wife of Pact us. the fatal swallowing oi live coals by Portia in order to shorten the supposed period ef separation from her dead husband, Brutus, and the suicides of the married mates of, Poliorostee, Scauru* and Labso, all tor lovs. He has learned in a recent book (Twain, 1394 '. calls-1 "Suicide Among the Savage Peoples," that to the untutored ah engines of North America self-murder was almost unknown, the only suieidee to be found in any tribe (Dekotahs) being temalea, who occasionally committed the act under th* despair and desperaUssi of disappointed love. He relates that in New Xealand a daughter of the conqueror Hoogi, upon learning that her husband had been slain in battle, killed with her own haodn sixteen prisoners *nd . iian put an end to her life by suicide. Lombroeo reviews thestrnnwe mode of self-destruction practised by the widow* of Hindostan and Malabar, whu cast themselves upon the burning syres of their deceased husbands. These suicides, h* contends, proceed from love rather than m nligtou* fanaticism, although the teachings of Brahmmism powerful favor the pracuo* of suttesism, as well as all other kinds of self-immolation. Two English orticen once essayed to deter a widow from this Wrbarous usace l>y asking her rirst to try the horrible effect of exposing one of her tingen to fin. With a smile of disdain the young woman plunge*! her whole haml into ignit*d oil, stoically watched the mem- ber burn, and, just before casting herself nto the flames, ani ' You may argue you please, but I know that I belong to no one out my dead husband not even t , myself. Him only did 1 ever low, and after him I can love no man else. " A Fad Follower. Burglar Bill Wat's become o' Slickfing. er's sister ? Snerky .Sam Servin' time tor followin' k fashiouable fad. Wot fad ? Kleptomaniei * Two Views. Little Son A boy broke through the ice to-day, and was pullsd oat by his dog. Mother That shows how dangerous thin ice is. Little Son I thought i; shewed safe a boy with a dog in.