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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
Every one knows that our women are beautiful, 
Lovable, witty, adorable, dutiful. 
So cheerful and sweet, 
So trim and so neat 
That one of their smiles in itself is a treat. 
Oh! how I adore them, the sweet, charming crea¬ 
tures, 
Their Venus-like forms and their heart-killing fea¬ 
tures. 
They're angels, I ween, 
Worth all the ice cream 
That ever was frozen for empress or queen. 
If angels, you’ll query, “ Oh where are their wings?” 
But look at their shoulders, the dear little things. 
If I’m not a lout, 
You’ll soon see them sprout. 
Just see how their shoulders stick up and stick out. 
—[W. S. C., in N. Y. Journal. 
Miss Parloa is lecturing on cooking in 
Detroit, and Miss Kitchin has brought out 
a book on ‘ 1 Parlor Decorations ” at Boston. 
The two accomplished women, says an ex¬ 
change, seem to be out of their sphere.’ 
—New York Commercial Advertiser. 
It Does Make a Difference. — “My 
son,” remarked a father, “ what do you 
pay for those cigars ? ” 
“Twelve dollars a box,” the young man 
replied, ‘ ‘ and they are cheap at that. Try 
one.” 
“No,” said the old man. “I can’t afford 
to smoke such expensive cigars. I am 
compelled to get along on two-for-fivers.” 
“I am sorry, father,” the young hopeful 
responded, with some compassion, “but 
you see you have mother and me to sup¬ 
port.”— Philadelphia Call. 
A correspondent in an agricultural 
paper asks, “What is good for canker 
worms ? ” After considerable experience in 
the matter, we can suggest nothing so 
good as an apple tree. It appears to be 
particularly healthy for the canker worm, 
and we were not aware, until this corres¬ 
pondent suggested it, that the canker 
worms were not entirely satisfied therewith. 
“There,” she said, as she raised a win¬ 
dow in a Pullman car, the other day, ‘ ‘ now 
I can breathe. The air in this car is stifling. 
Why don’t they have better ventilation? If 
I could n’t sit next to an open window I 
believe I should certainly die.” Presently 
a slender female sitting directly back leaned 
over and asked her if she would n’t just as 
lieve close that window now, as the draught 
was more than she could stand. “No, 
madam, I shall not close this window. I 
could not live with it down. I was just 
thinking how delightful it was with it open, 
and now you want it shut, but I shall not 
shut it; so there.” “Then you are a self¬ 
ish thing, and I shall have to change my 
seat.” Just then a gentleman sitting close 
by reached over and said, “Ladies, that 
window being raised makes no difference, 
as the car has double windows, and not a 
breath of air can possibly get through the 
one that is still down.” Then the one that 
raised the window turned to the other, and 
with a crushed look on her face said, 
“ Madam, I beg your pardon, but I think 
two fools have met at last.”— Buffalo 
Times. _ 
MRS. MARY A. LIYERMORE’S TRIP TO 
EUROPE. 
As one of the clearest thinkers on the various so¬ 
cial problems of the day, and as a lecturer of rare 
attractiveness and ability, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore 
has long been widely known both in this country and 
in England. Among women who have taken the 
platform for the discussion of questions particularly 
affecting their sex, Mrs. Livermore is without 
doubt the ablest representative, and the most con¬ 
vincing in her arguments and illustrations. A few 
years ago health became so much impaired that she 
was forced to retire from the lecture field. But the 
interregnum in her work was not of long duration, 
and her wide circle of friends and admirers soon 
welcomed her back again. How, and by what 
means she was restored to health is related in the 
following deeply interesting letter: 
“ Melrose, Mass.. Feb. 1st, 1884. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1109 and 1111 Girard St., 
Philadelphia. VOear Sirs :—I am entirely willing to 
make a statement of the benefit I have received from 
the Compound Oxygen Treatment, and that you 
should make such use of it as you please. 
“Four years ago this Spring, at the end of a very 
severe and exhausting winter’s work, I found my¬ 
self utterly broken dow r n in health. My superb con¬ 
stitution had hitherto carried me triumphantly 
through every task I had imposed on myself, and 
had been equal to every phase of protracted labor 
that had fallen to my lot. But I was now completely 
prostrated, with no power of recuperation. I could 
sleep but two or three hours of the twenty-four, and 
then only in a semi-sitting position, because of a diffi¬ 
culty of breathing—suffered excruciatingly from 
sciatica and neuralgia of the stomach—experienced 
the torment of indigestion, and the train of ills that 
follow, and was harassed by optical illusions which 
were a source of great discomfort, although I knew 
them to be illusions. My mental depression was as 
severe as my physical prostration. I believed the 
hopeless invalidism, which I had most dreaded, had 
come to me, and my chief aim was t o hide myself 
from the friends and acquaintances who were afflict¬ 
ed on my account. 
“My physician recommended atrip to Europe, and 
my husband accompanied me thither. The change 
brought only palliation of my troubles, but no radi¬ 
cal improvement. While in England some Ameri¬ 
can acquaintances told us of the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, and they were enthusiastic in their 
praise of it as the surest remedial agent in cases 
like mine. They emphasized their statements by 
narrations of complete cures which had been 
wrought by it of which they were personally cogni¬ 
zant. 
“My husband immediately ordered from London 
the materials for a Home Treatment of two months. 
I used it for a month, punctiliously obeying the di¬ 
rections sent for its use before I begun to rally. 
Then my return to good health was rapid, and since 
then I have enjoyed almost uninteirupted perfect 
health, and almost youthful vigor. I resumed work 
immediately, and have assiduously followed the most 
laborious vocation ever since, although long past the 
time of life when it is considered safe to toil severely 
and unremittingly. 
“ I have never discontinued the use of the Treat¬ 
ment since I began it. There have been few days in 
the last three and a half years when I have omitted 
it. I understand and accept the rationale of the 
Treatment, and depend upon it for vigor and 
strength, as I do on food. I have recommended it 
to scores of people suffering from nervous prostra¬ 
tion, and chronic ailments—some of whom are re¬ 
joicing in restoration to health, while others, lacking 
persistence in the use of the Compound Oxygen, 
have not been benefited; for patience and persist¬ 
ence in its use are essential, if one would be cured of 
chronic illness, or lifted from a dept.i of physical 
depression. Yours truly. 
“Mary A. Livermore.” 
In another letter to Drs. Starkey & Palen, Mrs. 
Livermore says: “I have always and everywhere 
proclaimed the excellence of the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment, and have persuaded a great many people 
to use it. I could not live without it, unless I aban¬ 
doned all my work, and simply existed, and I would 
rather die than do that." 
Any information in regard to this remarkable 
treatment will be promptly furnished by Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 11C9 and 1111 Girard Street,Philadelphia. 
If you write for their Treatise on Compound Oxygen 
they will mail it to y our address. 
A Handsome Publication. 
Messrs. Cooper & Conard, whose extensive dry 
goods establishment is at Ninth and Market Streets, 
Philadelphia, have just issued their shopping guide 
for the Spring and Summer of 1884. In it, the shop¬ 
per out of town will find almost all the information 
that could be obtained by a visit to the store. Hlus- 
trations of styles of costumes and goods, as well as 
prices for almost every article of importance sold in 
a modern dry-goods house are given, with instruc¬ 
tions as to ordering the goods by mail. The book is 
a handsome one, and creditable in every way to the 
house it represents, and is sent free on application, if 
the Ladies’ Floral Cabinet is mentioned. 
A Somerville young man who has a red- 
haired sweetheart appropriately refers to 
her as his flame.— Journal. 
Boston, Mass.. I 
July 2, 1883. f 
Nine years ago, a 
puny, infant niece of 
mine was taken from the 
arms of its consumptive 
mother to be cared for 
temporarily in my fami¬ 
ly. My wife put it im¬ 
mediately upon a diet of 
Ridge’s Food exclusive- 
1 y. The healthful 
growth of the child was 
very remarkable; and at 
the end of three months, 
when returned to its 
home, it had become 
such a plump, rosy- 
cheeked child as to be 
hardly recognizable 
even to its mother. The 
child has ever since en¬ 
joyed perfect health. I 
have known of several 
other cases of the use of 
Ridge’s Food among my 
neighbors and friends, 
and always with the 
same satisfactory re¬ 
sults. 
Dan’l L. Milliken, 
Editor of the Cottage 
Hearth. 
This letter tells the 
merits of Ridge’s Food 
better than any procla¬ 
mation of its virtues 
could do. The writer is 
a man well known in this 
community as one 
whose word is thorough¬ 
ly reliable; and, as a 
journalist, he would be 
very cautious regarding 
the use of his name. 
There are thousands of 
parents all over the land 
who will cheerfully in¬ 
dorse this testimonial, 
for Ridge’s Food is no 
stranger in the commu¬ 
nity. 
Brookfield, Mass. 1 
Feb. 12, 1884. ( 
Messrs. Woolkich & Co.: 
Sirs ,—1 do not see any 
testimonials attached to 
your advertisements of 
Ridge’s Food, and you 
may not care for one 
from me ; but the case 
in point is so remarkable 
that I thought I would 
tell you about it. My 
little granddaughter, 
now about ten months 
old, weighed at birth 
but three pounds. 
Neither doctor nor nurse 
had any expectations of 
her living to be a month 
old. She was fed on 
cow’s milk about a 
month, and the gain was 
hardly perceptible. 
Then, by the advice of 
the physician, she was 
fed on Ridge’s Food, 
prepared according to 
directions, and gained 
five ounces the first 
week. She has used no 
other food since, and 
now we are proud to tell 
you she is as hearty and 
as fine a child of her 
age as can be seen any¬ 
where. 
Yours truly, 
H. H. Phetteplace, 
General Agent for Pub¬ 
lishing House of Cas¬ 
sell & Co., New York. 
. 
Such unsolicited testi¬ 
monials as these are a 
better argument than 
whole pages of theoriz¬ 
ing of what a child can 
or cannot digest. Write 
to Woolrich & Co., 
Palmer, Mass., for pam¬ 
phlet on rearing of 
children. 
