DON'T BE A PORCHER.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 382, 3 September 1903, Page 3

DON'T BE A PORCHER.

lan* for Women And Girl* Who Constantly Freci-.:fnt th<> Hotel Or Cottage Poroli. At every summer hotel there is to be seen an army of women and girls who have, been t"vm<»d "porchers." Don'tbe a "porcher," even though you have to spend your holidays at a hotel. The "porcher"—well, she sits on the porch. That's all, says Ada C. Sweet, in Woman'* Home Companion. Perhnps she crochets idly, or diawdlesi over a bit of lace or muslin which she lrysnarrrs her work. "Dressed up" and ready for inspection morn, noon and night, the "porcher" nits and rock* in her chair, meanwhile gossiping over the really live people who come and go between her and the rest of the world. My dear girls, run about on. the grass, in the woods, along the country roads, afoot, awheel or on horseback; row on lakes, drift on streams and rivers, drip in the salt sea; camp in the pine woods; rejoice in the natural life of the farm; > journey the world round, or stay in the sugar-camp cabin with a jolly party of friends, and be happy in whatever you do, finding change, exercise, happy companionship and rest; but never, never be a "porcherl" WM the Ball Jntt Oaoo. It was Charlie's first game of golf. Hia patient friend had taken him sadly around the 18 holes and watched him hack the ball into smail bits and cut up the green as though It had been plowed by shrapnel. After the game Charley and his patient friend were talking to a few of; the golfers on the clubhouse veranda. "That wa* a beautiful shot ' you made this afternoon, Charley," said the patient friend. Uaa» Charley brightened up and flushed happily, while the young 1 women looked at him admiringly. "Whloh one?" he asked, eagerly. "Why," said the patient friend, "the time you hit the ball."-~CKSoajr« Tribune.

f 0»c of Veimvl»#"ll©«nßWS. ' During an explosion in the crater »f Mount Vesuvius on May 9,1000, one |wf the volcanic bomb* hurled skyWard, And the larges* one observed attained en elevation •< a third of a mile, and then fell back upon the mountain. A* it now He*, lte height exceeds that of a man standing beside it, and its estimated weight is 30 tons. Mr. Ma-n+euoci, the ■ays that the energy of the- esploeion Of steam that threw this, hugo proje«r tile must have equaled about «©O,OOO- - power. When the mswei of partially fluid lava from which susd* bombs are formed rise in the air tie*! rotate, and are thus caused to aottuoo a mere or less globssla* ofitflgsV" ll %ov&* C^P*" v '- >isg§&i J