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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
a plain crook meaning honesty of inten- 
tion, a swan's head coyness, a crutch 
sympathetic, a iiound devotion, and so 
on. The parasol carried plump overhead 
means keep away, as it is necessary to 
look about. Slightly on one side flashes 
the intelligence that the approach must 
be deferred. Thrown over the back con- 
veys the intimation that the coast is 
clear. Carried way forward intiujates 
that discretion must be exercised. Swing- 
ing round in the hand is a danger signal, 
meaning go away as quickly as possible. 
Held close down over the head means 
secresy. There is no significance in color, 
as this, if not a matter of taste, is regu- 
lated by the dress. 
— A lively old lady who died far ad- 
vanced in her eighties, and was proud in 
extreme old age of her beautiful dark 
hair, was accustomed, when a girl, to 
hang up her night-cap every morning 
filled with salt. This was shaken up into 
a japanned dressing box every night on 
retiring, but enough salt remained cling- 
ing to the cambric to secure, as she 
thought, the remarkable preservation of 
her hair. Dr. Holmes has sung or gos- 
siped about the "widening part," which 
is one of the tell-tale tracks of passing 
years; but until lately the prevailing 
fashions of dressing the hair did not 
make any parting to show. Those who 
wear the hair in true classic style, with 
the pure white line from brow to crown, 
may find some use in the following re- 
commendation of the New York Evening 
Post for strengthening the hair and re- 
newing thin spots : " To a quart of warm 
water allow one tablespoonful of salt, and 
just before retiring for the night w^et the 
head thoroughly with this, not along the 
widening seam alone, but the entire head. 
Repeat this operation for one or two 
nights each week until good effects are 
apparent. " It is likely that th e vigorous 
rubbing which this treatment makes 
necessary afterward is of as much use to 
the hair as the saline treatment. 
— "Women," said a successful woman 
jeweller, " can do anything and every- 
thing nowadays. When I first had to 
earn my living I thought myself fortu- 
nate when I secured a place behind a 
milliner's counter. Well, I sold bonnets 
for a year, and the store was closed. 
Then I painted furniture, if you will be- 
lieve it. It wasn't hard to learn, and I 
earned twelve dollars a week instead of 
seven. But I soon quit that for better 
employment, and was hired in a jewelry 
establishment. There I learned the trade, 
and I am as independent as you are."" 
Miss Dora Kinney, of Wild Cat, Ind., is 
the boss shepherdess of the Wabash. A 
few years ago an uncle gave her an or- 
phaned lamb to raise, by hand, whicii 
she did successfully, and becoming so 
much interested in sheep husbandry, she 
procured a mate for the lanib, and she 
now sports a fold of twenty-eight old 
sheep and thirty-three lambs — sixty-one 
in all, all from the first starting pair. 
Miss Kinney attends to her fiocks alto- 
gether herself, both winter and summer, 
and now receives quite a handsome little 
income from the annual sales of wool and 
mutton. New occupations for women 
are yearly springing into being. The 
latest things I've heard of are landscape 
gardening, bird-fanciers, architects, junk- 
dealers, and pawn-brokers. Women do 
all these things now. Indeed, I'm afraid 
a bad time is coming. Women do so 
many kinds of work that the men will all 
become dudes. The fine, idle creatures 
these days certainly are not women. 
BEAUTY. — II. 
Diana of Poictiers, Duchess of Valen- 
tinois, was the reigning beauty at the 
courts of three successive kings of France. 
The historian Brautome says, " I saw this 
noble dame when she was about seventy 
years of age, and she was as chamiing, 
as fresh, and as lovely as any lady of 
thirty. Her beauty, grace and majesty 
were such as she had ever possessed. It 
was said that certain skilled doctors pre- 
pared for her daily a potion of soluble 
gold, and that this, or some valuable 
drug, preserved her beauty." It was not 
soluble gold, or valuable drugs, but a 
daily bath in rain water. 
Mary Stuart and Margaret of Anjou, in 
