Church review . and feast days are allcelebrated with fireworks and housesare decorated with colored lanterns. The various nationalities represent-ed are in quite a clannish way inter-ested in different branches of French control the dry goods bus-iness all over the republic; the Ger-mans are largely interested in thedrug and liquor trade; the Spaniardssupply the groceries; Americans runthe railroads and represent big UnitedStates firms, and Italians are copper-smiths. — The Review of Missions. A few years ago the native station-master of an out-or-the-way Indiarailway station was
Church review . and feast days are allcelebrated with fireworks and housesare decorated with colored lanterns. The various nationalities represent-ed are in quite a clannish way inter-ested in different branches of French control the dry goods bus-iness all over the republic; the Ger-mans are largely interested in thedrug and liquor trade; the Spaniardssupply the groceries; Americans runthe railroads and represent big UnitedStates firms, and Italians are copper-smiths. — The Review of Missions. A few years ago the native station-master of an out-or-the-way Indiarailway station was suddenly attackedby a tiger, made bold through startled assistant immediatelyrushed to the telegraph office and wiredto the European stationmaster at thenext place on the line, as follows:Tiger on the platform eating station-master; please wire instructions.—Short Stories. Friendship improves happiness andabates misery by the doubling of ourjoy and the dividing of our grief. 18 THE CHURCH WHY AMERICAN CHILDREN AllENERVOUS. Parents in. general are strangely ap-athetic to the fact that Improper diet,late bourn, and the general hut-houseForcing process of education are wreck-ing the nervous systems of our chil-dren. Nervous prostration is far toocommon a disease, and its origin ninetimes out of ten may be traced to care-lessness on the part of natural guard-ians in one if not all of these respects. In the matter of diet, Americanchildren are far too often allowed toBit at the same table with their elders,and, at a late dinner, permitted touse the same food, highly-spiced andover-rich, and to pour into the tenderlittle stomachs tea and coffee; and theresult, hysteria and irritability, is asource of wonder to their parents! A beautiful child of four years wasrecently reported by her mother asalarmingly ill. It is strange, but mychildren, though so healthful in ap-pearance, are almost always complain-ing of something, said the mother. Are you careful of their
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