WORKED LIKE A CHARM.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 376, 23 July 1903, Page 6

WORKED LIKE A CHARM.

ttn<r Ol* Backf'lor Uncle Gl-re* . Mm— Aarlee That Brings T on Troablc. - 1 After she bad-, been married six months, says the.Detroit Free Press, •fee went to hex old bachelor uncle, who belieres that a matrimonial alliance is a Voluntary acceptance of slavery. ''Suffering from the conjugal yoke, hey?" he repHed-to her presentation of afflictions. "Nov nncletfrom the conjugal far she -would not humor his prejudices. "Same thing," with a hardening voice, "bat I requite details, before. firing sdrics." "Well, he la a practical joker of th* wont sort. He delights to slip salt into my tea, wake me out of a so'ific* sleep By playing burelar; send aheh.vsaous letters threatening to barn the house downrtdHne that hcrhes failed and that the poor house stares us jr. the face; swears that 1 -She house *is haunted; anything to "scare me and fire him a laugh." "Of course. Marriage makes a brute •f a man and a fool of a woman. But don't you be a soft little silly. Go right' back at him with his own weapons. Mix glue with his sharing soap. Dust the inside of his underclothing with red pepper. Put sandpaper in his shoes. Change his best hat for one two sizes larger. Pretend to fall in lore with some other felk>w. Keep him in hot water day and night. I guess that will hold him." She", acted on this advice. The hus-, band thrashed the uncle. " "the wife holds that he did just right, and* now thereTs a prospect thaf&er will lire* happily erer after. NIGHT BATDTG MAKES PAT. Paratelaaa Am Wow Adrlalaff B«4*lm« Luncheon* for Knitaef- ' atc« People. ""« -' * It was formerly thought that food taken at bedtime created indigestion and*bad dreams. While undoubtedly rich and hearty food is inappropriate at tfie time chosen for repose, a light, nourishing repast at night often conduces to sound sleep by drawing the blood away'from the brain. Physicians are now adrising a bedtime' lunch for weak, nerroua and emaciated people. . The long hours of sleep consume about one-third of our existence. • Although the demand made upon the system is. naturally much.less than during the waking hours, there is a wasting away of tissues consequent upon the suspension of nutriment for many hours. The body feeds upon for food taken at dinner is digest* «, at bedtime. Oftenone is restless and wakeful at night because the stomach isehipty. Say* a weß-known physician: "Man Is the only creature I know of who* does not deem .t proper to sleep on a good meal. The.infant instinctively cries to be fed at nirhf, showing > that food is necessary during that time as well as through the day,, and that left too long without it causes it discomfort, which it makes knownoy crying." If you crare it; eat a light, easily digested? hmen st bedtime. And the long hours of sleep Will work out for yon a problem in addition, instead of subtraction, of adipose' tisane. ' -

|f>*» ?!?Ilronm *o* lf»w Tork. Cirri Hr rferV proprietor of Belletue loffg& .Vtrport, "It. 1., said of ari estab:i»hmei!t at 7 West Tbirty-siXtb-street, ha* options on three large sites just east, of Fifth avenue, one on ThirtyeijyKib and the others on Thirty-ninth anU Fortieth streets, and another site on.the corner of Madison avenue and Thirty-fourth street, New York city. It Js his intention to- add. one more to the fashionable dining places and ballrooms of New York. Jpl the plans are made for this new house of entertainment, and the final selection of a site will be made within the nix; f -v. days. Whitney Warren is (o he tli- :• rehired, and the building is "!o be «:f ten stories. There will be a ballroom at the top of* the house, with a curved glass roof. Tbjen there is to be just below this a dining hall, built to accommodate not more than 250 persons. In addition there will be six large dining-rooms for private parties.! -