TEST FOB A GOOD HUSBAND. 205 



Osteopathy. Osteopathy is a comparatively new branch of the 

 hewing art, first definitely practiced and taught at Kirksville, Missouri. 

 .Placing full reliance on the old and oft-repeated assertion that " The 

 blood is the life," they claim that the continuance of any disease is due 

 to a lack of fresh blood to the parts affected, and that in nearly all 

 cases the lack is due to a constriction of the tendons or muscles or to an 

 improper adjustment of the bones. Bad habits or injury to a muscle 

 or som other accident is always liable to produce a maladjustment of 

 the bones in some part of our complicated structure, and this improper 

 position causes pressure upon some delicate blood vessel, impeding its 

 flow or sending it in some other direction and thereby causing insuffi- 

 cient nourishment at some point which by and by develops into disease. 

 Hence tne first object of the osteopath is to seek by proper massage to 

 replace me right adjustment, relieving the pressure and restoring the 

 full, free dow of the blood. To the extent that this can be accomplished 

 the science of osteopathy is a healing science, but that, strictly speaking, 

 or even as practiced, it is a panacea for all human ills is probably about 

 as nearly correct as the similar claims of other "pathies." 



Test fof a CrOOd Husband. Prof. Goodrich, one of the 

 greatest experts in reading human character, was once asked by a 

 young lady to tell her how she could determine whether a certain 

 young man, who was keeping company with her, would make a kind- 

 hearted husband. She was a little afraid about getting married be- 

 cause it was such a very important step. 



The professor declared that his best advice was, to introduce her 

 young man to some old lady and leave him alone with her for awhile, 

 the longer the better. Then ask the old lady what she thought of 

 him. Also, to introduce the young man, incidentally of course, to a 

 young baby, and *'do not stay around yourself." Get the baby's 

 opinion of the young man from the baby's mother or nurse. If the 

 baby likes him ana pulls his mustache or " crows " to him, it is a sure 

 sign that the young man may be trusted. Babies and very old per- 

 sons are the very best judges of human nature. With either, the 

 young man will be off his guard, unless he thinks that he is being 

 watched, and act out his inner nature. The baby will intuitively feel 

 an unkind presence and promptly turn from it. The old lady whose 

 sight has grown dim depends more upon her inner or intuitive im- 

 pressions, and is rarely mistaken when she does. This, he declared, 

 was his very best advice. 



