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coffee  was  now  administered  and  the  patient  placed  upon  a  bed. 
She  speedily  began  to  show  signs  of  returning  consciousness, 
soon  was  able  to  swallow  coffee,  and  a  small  dose  of  carbonate 
of  ammonia  which  was  prescribed,  and  then  for  the  first  time 
evinced  an  inclination  for  sleep.  I  ordered  her  to  be  let  alone, 
and  she  soon  fell  into  a  quiet  slumber  which  continued  until 
morning.  When  she  awoke,  she  was  somewhat  weak,  but  went 
to  her  play  as  usual>  and  seemed  to  experience  no  further  incon- 
venience. 
One  circumstance  struck  me  with  some  force  during  the  ex- 
citement of  the  occasion  ;  this  was  the  self-upbraiding  of  the 
child's  father.  "Oh,"  said  he,  "if  I  had  only  cut  these  weeds 
down.  I  was  about  to  do  it,  the  other  day,  but  when  I  thought 
they  looked  so  green  and  cool  I  would  let  them  stand."  "  But," 
he  continued,  "  if  I  live  till  morning,  I  will  cut  them  all  down 
before  breakfast."  How  many,  like  this  honest  German,  by  neg- 
lecting precautions,  the  propriety  of  which  was  or  should  have 
been  obvious,  have  been  compelled  to  confess  their  negligence 
or  want  of  forethought,  when  it  was  too  late. —  College  Journal. 
iJaxteties, 
On  Perfumer)/.    By  Septimus  Piesse. 
(Continued  from  page  180.) 
By  way  of  personal  adornment,  few  things  are  of  more  ancient  origin 
than  the  practice  of  painting  the  face,  dyeing  the  hair,  and  blackening  the 
eyebrows  and  eyelashes. 
There  is  a  practice  universal  among  the  females  of  the  higher  and  mid- 
dle classes  in  Egypt,  and  very  common  among  {he  lower  orders,  which  is, 
that  of  blackening  the  edge  of  the  eyelids,  both  above  and  below  the  eye, 
with  a  black  powder,  which  they  term  kohld.  The  kohhl  is  applied  with  a 
small  probe  of  wood,  ivory,  or  silver,  tapering  towards  the  end,  but  blunt. 
This  is  moistened  sometimes  with  rose-water,  then  dipped  in  the  powder, 
and  drawn  along  the  edges  of  the  eyelids.  It  is  thought  to  give  a  very 
soft  expression  to  the  eye,  the  size  of  which,  in  appearance,  it  enlarges  ;  to 
which  circumstances  probably  Jeremiah  refers  when  he  writes,  "Though 
thourentest  thy  face  (or  thine  eyes)  with  painting,  in  vain  shalt  thou  make 
