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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3499, 21 March 1905, Page 4

TO itOBERT BURNS. Sweet singer, that 1 IVo tho maial O’ ony, sin’ wi’ hast! I smacket tairu lies owor the teste O’ liinnied sang, I hrij thro, Ik.i: Ucwwl gbaist lu Ll-.v. of. lang! For, wed 1 lan, oat) camio phrase, Nor courtly airs, nor hiirdly ways. Could gar rnc freer blame or praise, Or proffer hand Whero “Baulin Bobbie" and his lays Thcgithcr stand. And sao these limuely lines I send, Wi’ jinglin words at ilka end, In echo of tho gangs that wend Fraoibeo to mo Like aim-.i. r b.vks wi’ many a bend O’ wn;.; V-; . :m. ' t ; mh BI.V-. Chine-;. v th. - 'vm. Tho email; v.-u Ok::.: v-'y ‘.'dm : ly make their own shoos o: bi-.s of rkh embroidered in gold mil colors. 'Trev* dainty work they make of it, too, fishix--maker simply .soling thy.-;; bits of embroidery. In curio shops tho globe trotter may sometimes pick up a secondhand shoe. The tiny feet must bo often and carefully washed and disinfected. Many of them are perpetually swollen and inflamed. There tiro women whoso business it is to go from house to house bathing, bandaging and treating these maimed members. A woman of rank has sometimes one amah whose special duty it h to care for her tiny but troublesome feet. Chinese women who possess small feci are, while proud of them in a way, very shy and unwilling to exhibit them to foreigners. I had great difficulty in coaxing a Chinese woman of rank to give mo a glimpse of her wee foot. Tho four smaller toes are pressed under the solo, and tho whole weight falls really upon the great tele in walking. The anklo is very large and distorted, but the leg is thin and wasted from inadequate exercise, Tho tout ensemble from a western point of view is far from beautiful if not absolutely repulsive.— Slumming a Door. To slam a door may be an evidence of bad temper or bad manners, but it is also a popular superstition that slam-, ming a door is wicked. This belief is undoubtedly duo to a supposition entertained by many nations that tbo souls of tho departed hover about the place where they departed from their bodies. The Indians of this country frequently howled and boat the air with brushwood in order to drive away the spirit of the pris oner they had just killed. The negroes of the Congo abstain from sweeping out their huts for a year after a death has occurred for fear that tho dust may interfere with tho spirit of the departed. It :.s in northern Europe that the superstition concerning the slamming of a door arose, the fear being entertained that some spirit might bo caught in the slamming. - Do Musset’s Childhood. Nervous irritability and a desire to distinguish himself were plainly visible In Alfred do Musset at the age of 3 years. Once he got a pair of new red shoes, and he went into raptures about them. He was so impatient to show himself in his new shoes that he could scarcely wait to be dressed. While hU mother was dressing his hair he was trembling with impatience, and at last he exclaimed in an angry tone, “Make haste, mamma, or else my new shoes will get old!” Tho precocious boy was pampered and spoiled and allowed to become a despot In the houso.Old Custom Handed Down. How many can tell the origin of the habit of closing the eyes in prayer? Far back in the past the sun was the universal object of worship. As it rose above the horizon the devotee thanked it for its return to bless tho world. As it set In the west he implored its early return. His face was always toward tho sun in prayer, and his eyes were closed to prevent blindness. Tho habit has passed down from father to son for thousands of years. Though the object of worship has been changed, the custom survives. —Progressive Thinker. Horsepower and Speed. Horsepower does not always mean speed, for the City of Rome—very little smaller than the Teutonic—is of 11,800 horsepower, against the Teutonic’s 13,000, while the Paris, which is only 500 feet long, as against the Great Eastern’s 680 feet, is of over 20,000 horsepower. Snch comparisons show the wonderful development in late years of ship and engine building' Precarious Indeed. Tourist (at Niagara)—A coroner must have a pretty good thing of it around here. Coroner —Well, it’s rather precarious. You know our incomedepends upon the floating population. One of the hottest regions of the earth’s surface is in the immediate vicinity of tho Dead sea. Experts in the science of hydrography declare that the sea loses not less than a million tons of water a day through evaporation. The muscles of the forehead and scalp should bo regularly exercised several times a day. It is said that the individual hairs of the scalp can be stimulated by rubbing the nape of tho neck with a coarsely woven glove. Even if we have only a dinner of herbs to offer to our guest, if it be served in the spirit of true hospitality it will be better than a stalled ox where pride and envy are, and with them the spirit of contention. It is stated that the dhily supply of milk for tho New York market amounts to about 19,000 cans of milk, over 170 cans of condensed milk and upward of 400 cans’of cream. It is an old story that the slow modes of travel of, say, 70 years since gave perhaps only too favorable opportunities for studying the natural features of a countrv. Zfymbwhin’s TOvif■ tablets PRHYBNT KIWHUf«>