often and broken-hearted, and the mortality is not strange. Thirteen thousand are sometimes brought in one year, who, but for this blessed charity, would largely have been put out of the way. In Russia infanticide and abor tion are said to be almost unkown, while the percentage of illegitimate children in St. Petersburg falls below many cities of its size. HOW EDUCATED. After the children have remained in the asylum for four weeks they are usually sent to the home of the nurse in some country village. Here they remain till they are six years old, half dying the first year. The rest come back to be educated, this alone costing about $1,000,000, annually. More than 500 teachers are employed, 700 nurses, and others to the number of 6,000. About 25,000 foundlings are constantly enrolled. The girls in the schools, in their plaid dresses and white handkerchiefs folded about their necks, look very attractive. Many prepare themselves for governesses, some for medical work in the asylum, or the large lying-in hospital adjoining, while the boys become mechanics, or enter the army and navy. Those who show special ability are fitted for the professions. The property devoted to this work in Russia is estimated at five hundred millions of dollars. In France, each arrondissement has a foundling asylum established by the government; a wise provision, as one-fourth the children born in Paris are illegitimate. In many districts, turning boxes are used, in which the infant may be deposited without the mother being branded by exposure. The Romanists are wiser than we, in that they ask no questions, and thus many lives are saved for the church. Madrid and Rome (near St. Peter's) each has an asylum, to which about 4,000 infants are brought yearly. Formerly in Rome foundlings were, treated as slaves, sold, and often mutilated to win sympathy. They were exposed in the public markets, and ornaments sometimes placed upon them to induce persons to take them. The Egyptians punished infanticide by tying the dead body of the child for three days and nights to the neck of the parent. Russia has found out a better way. I used often to go to the London Asylum Church, where a crowd gathered every Sabbath to hear the singing of 500 children, the sweetest music in that vast city. I do not know a prettier sight there than these, otherwise homeless children, at the Sunday dinner, all singing grace together, the music led by a small orchestra of orphan boys. [These sketches have appeared in Harper's Bazar, Congregationalist, Advance and Sunday School Times.] From Dr. Dio Lewis's admirable book, "In a Nutshell," of which 22,000 have been sold: "Of the five pounds which a man eats and drinks in a day, it is thought that not less than two pounds leave the body through the skin, and of these two pounds a considerable part escapes during the night. All parts of the bed--mattress, blankets, as well as sheets,— -soon become foul, and need purification. If, now, the bed covering is frequently washed, and the bed is left to air with open windows during the day, it will add to the sweetness of your sleep, and the general tone of your health. Dr. Lewis's rule for eating: "On sitting down at the table take on your plate all that you are to eat, and when that is finished, stop." To fat folks he says: “Rise early, exercise much in the open air, bathe frequently, rub the skin very hard, and eat plain, coarse food." To lean folks: "Masticate you food thoroughly, live much in the open air, shun tea, and retire early, and don't hurry up in the morning, because sleep fattens.' "Tea and coffee injure the brain of the student. The human brain no more needs the stimulus or narcotic of tea and coffee than does the brain of a deer or race horse. You need considerable water in the system to run the machine. This may be taken on rising and on going to bed." "Tobacco excites the base of the brain and lowers the moral tone. Let a beautiful girl of sixteen chew or smoke tobacco five years, and can you believe that then her spirit, her moral level, will be what they are now? To say nothing of her lips, tongue and breath, do you believe she would be as sweet in soul as she is now? And can you give me any good reason why her brother should escape demoralization? Gentlemen, I advise you to quit. Stop at once. The first day is not very hard, but the second day is pretty tough. The third morning brings the tug. Now go and take an old-fashioned sweat. You are then perfectly comfortable for one day. The next day you will be in trouble again. Take another sweat; take three or four, and you will go off under easy sail and have no further trouble from your enemy." "To keep the skin in good condition two things are needed; cleanliness and proper dress. The cleanliness is best secured by simply moistening the skin with soap suds on rising in the morning, and wiping off the suds with rough towels, while the dress next the skin, every day in the year, should be wool flannel, frequently changed. Having put on a pair of English bath-mittens, dip them in cold water, then between them rub the soap; pass the mittens rapidly over the whole person; then with rough towels rub yourself hard, in sixty seconds. For more than thirty years I have taken such a bath almost every morning. This makes a smooth, clear skin." 「:་ ། GOOD MANNERS. A well-bred man will not affront me; and no other can.-CowPER. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.-LORD CHESTERFIELD. EDITED BY CHARLES E. BOLTON. PUBLISHED BY THE CLEVELAND EDUCATIONAL BUREAU. CLEVELAND, OHIO. 1884. Copyright, 1884, by Charles E. Bolton. SEVENTH ENTERTAINMENT. MUSICAL PRELUDE, from 6:40 to 7:15. C. BILLSON, Director. BY THE EDUCATIONAL BUREAU ORCHESTRA. PROGRAMME. 1. Swedish Wedding March... Soderman. 2. Overture-Comic Medley... Ripley. RED, WHITE AND BLUE, O Columbia! the gem of the ocean, 3. Polka-Jolly Trumpeters.. Parlow. 4 Waltz-Cagliostro........ .J. Strauss. BY THE AUDIENCE. The Union, the Union forever, But they to their colors prove true! When borne by the red, white and blue. Three cheers for the red, white and blue. CHORUS When borne by the red, white and blue, When borne by the red, white and blue, Thy banners make tyranny tremble, When borne by the red, white and blue. SPECIAL NOTICES.-Eighth Entertainment, Saturday Evening, January 19th, by Mr. C. E. BOLTON. SUBJECT: Over the Alps to Rome." Seventy-five Illustrations. MISS JULIET CORSON, of the "New York School of Cookery," will give a course of five lectures to the members of the Educational Bureau as follows: Monday, Jan. 14th, "Marketing and Soup Making.' Tuesday, Jan. 15th, "Good Bread and Simple Pastry." Wednesday, Jan. 16th, "Fish, Fowls and Sauces." Thursday, Jan. 17th, "Meats and Vegetables." Friday, Jan. 18th, "Food Chemistry and Table Etiquette." Lectures from 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock on afternoons of dates named. Admission without Bureau Course Ticket, Fifteen Cents, or Fifty Cents for the Course of Five Lectures, THE busy have no time for tears.—Byron. THERE is a woman at the beginning of all great things.-Lamartine. IT'S EASY finding reasons why other folks should be patient.---George Eliot. THE LAST word is the most dangerous of infernal machines.-Douglas Jerrold. OPPORTUNITY, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.-Lord Stanley. LEARN to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.-Spurgeon. THE GREAT man loves the conversation or book that convicts him, not that which soothes and flatters him.-Emerson. "I HAVE nothing to pay you with but my heart," said a poor young lady to a lawyer. "Hand it to the clerk, please. I wish no fee." "YOU HAD better ask for manners than money," said a finely dressed man to a beggar boy. "I asked for what I thought you had the most of," was the reply. "GOODS at half price," said the sign. "How much is that tea-pot ?" asked an old lady. “Fifty cents, mum," was the response. "Guess I'll take it," she said, throwing down a quarter. The sign was taken in. "YOU ARE the most handsome lady I ever saw," said a gentleman to one of the fair. "I wish I could say as much for you," replied the lady. "You could, madam, if you paid as little regard to the truth as I have." "Do you know, Bridget, that if you wash your face every day in hot, soapy water, it will make you very beautiful?" said a lady to a servant whose face was always dirty. "Sure, it's a wonder ye niver tried it, marm," was the answer. IT IS said of Sir Isaac Newton's nephew, who was a clergyman, that he always refused a marriage fee, saying, in a tone of pleasantry: “Go your way, my children, I have done you mischief enough already, without taking your money." |