1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



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Good Rules For Liiving^. 



Much of late has been written abont 

 the various kinds of food which partic- 

 ularly nourish or supply the waste of 

 the brain. Ttiat the labors of the brain 

 are exhausting to the animal economy 

 is very true, but the experience of the 

 studious has proved that it is not so 

 much the intensity of the study as the 

 length of time spent on it and neglect 

 of relaxation that produce the exhaus- 

 tion. German students generally study 

 more hours than we do here, yet break- 

 downs very rarely occur among them, 

 the reason of this is they take better 

 care of the body for the sake of the mind 

 — of the house because of the tenant 

 that occupies it. 



The real fact is that the majority cf 

 us rust out rather than wear out. That 

 the brain is affected both by the qual- 

 ity and quantity of the food and drink 

 like other parts of the body — perhaps 

 more in proportion to the amount of 

 blood it cor'^aius — no physiologist will 

 deny. But that there are certain kinds 

 of food — saj fish and milk, as some 

 have maintained — which are specially 

 adapted to repair the exhausted brain 

 has never been actually demonstrated. 

 The best way to preserve the brain is 

 above all not to unduly tax it, to eat 

 temperately of such food as has been 

 found by erperience to agree with the 

 stomach, tc avoid late suppers and 

 night work and to sleep as much as na- 

 ture requires. — New York Ledger. 



Quaker Honesty. 



In the "Chronicles of a Kentucky 

 Settlement" is given an instance of in- 

 tegrity which deserves to be made his- 

 torical. It is related of three brothers 

 who were importing merchants in North 

 Carolina before the war of the Revolu- 

 tion. They were Quakers, as were many 

 of the early colonists of that state. The 

 story, if true, goes to show that in this 

 country private honor is too often su- 

 perior to the public conscience. 



During the war North Carolina, and, 

 we believe, others of the colonies, passed 

 an ordinance requiring citizens owing 

 money to subjects of Great Britain to 

 pay the amount into the treasury of the 

 state, which thereby a.ssumad the posi- 

 tion of debtor to the foreign creditor. 



Harcourt Bros, owed at the time a 



large amount for goods imported, and 

 this amount they paid as soon as possi- 

 ble to the state treasurer. After the 

 termination of the war and the signing 

 of the treaty of peace, the English 

 creditors, unable to recover the amount 

 due them from the state, which had 

 been hopelessly bankrupted by the long 

 and severe struggle for independence, 

 demanded payment from the original 

 debtors, as they were allowed to do by 

 the terms of the treaty of peace. 



The Harcourts, who were honorable 

 merchants, paid again in full, although 

 in so doing they were, in their old age, 

 left comparatively poor. 



Services of the West to Education. 



The susceptibility of Americans to 

 new ideas is a notable element in the 

 prosperity of the country. The people 

 are willing to try anything that is new. 

 This is specially true of the west, where 

 the enterprising inhabitants are always 

 seeking short cuts to wealth and to 

 knowledge. This adventurous spirit of- 

 ten leads to superficiality, but it has 

 also been very fruitful of new methods 

 of school education. The kindergarten 

 idea was taken up and developed in the 

 west. There manual training was first 

 tried on a large scale with satisfactory 

 results. And it was teachers in the west 

 who first brought about the introduc- 

 tion of "literature" in the lower grades 

 as the best means of interesting unde- 

 veloped minds. In fact, they demon- 

 strated the truth that it is better for 

 the child to feed upon ideas, upon 

 thought, upon real stories, and the lives 

 of real people, and the stimulating sen- 

 timents of all the ages, than upon the 

 inane sentences and jejune and success- 

 ful effort to be childish of the reading 

 books. — Charles Dudley Warner in Har- 

 per's Mag azine. 



For a Sty In the Eye. 



When you feel that pricking pain 

 and see the fatal little spot of red on 

 the eyelid which surely foretells the 

 coming of a sty, put into a small bag a 

 teaspoonful of black tea, on which pour 

 enough boiling water to moisten. As 

 soon as cool enough put it on the eye 

 and let it remain until morning. The 

 Bty will in all probability be gone. If 

 not, one more application will be cer- 

 tain to remove it. — Good Housekeeping. 



