Gleanings.

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1 August 1895, Page 7

Gleanings.

A grandfather, well known in the House of Lords, was amicably chatting with his granddaughter who was seated upon his knee. 44 What makes your hair so white, grandpa ? ” the little maiden asked. “ I am so very old, my dear, 1 was in the ark,” said his lordship, with a reckless disregard for truth. “Oh!” said her ladyship, regarding her distinguished relative with fresh interest, “ Are you Noah ? ” “ No, lam not Noah.” “ Are you Shem, then ? " 44 No, 1 am not Shem. ’ “Are you Ham?” “No, 1 am not Ham.’ “ Then you must be Japhet, ’ insisted the little maiden, at the end of her historical tether, and growing somewhat impatient with the difficulty that surrounded her relative’s identification. “ No, 1 am not Japhet, ’ answered grandpa, enjoying the joke. “ Then grandpa,” said the littly maiden firmly and decisively, “ you are a beast ” l'he Hon. Fred. Douglas, the noted freedman and statesman, who passed away suddenly on February 20, spent his last afternoon at the Women’s Council in Washington. His last interview was with Miss Willard and Lady Henry Somerset.

There are few facts more fully established than this, that the repeated employment of small doses of alcohol is one of the most common causes of weakened and impaired digestion.—Rev H. S. Paterson, M.D.

The true character of the alcohols is that they are agreeable temporary shrouds. The savage, with the mansions of his soul unfurnished, buries his restless energy under their shadow. The civilised man, overburdened with mental labour or engrossing care seeks the same shade: but it is a shade after all in which, in exact proportion as he seeks it, the seeker retires from perfect natural life. 1 0 resort to force for alcohol is, to my mind, equivalent to the act of searching for the sun in subterranean gloom until all is night.—Sir B. W. Richardson.

In an article on “ Woman as a Reformer,” Dr. Kesley says: Woman is all things but a soldier ; but when her equality is sufficiently extended there will be no more soldiers wanted.

I he idea that it is dangerous (except in the heat of summer) to sit in a room with the window open is a wiJespread and most erroneous one; it is a thousand times more dangerous for half a dozen persons sitting in a room to be inhaling the foul air that is breathed from each body. If people accustomed themselves to living with their window always open, summer and winter, day and night, we should hear a good deal less of consumption.