TOLD BY THE ENVELOPE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5953, 4 October 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

TOLD BY THE ENVELOPE.

Some persons claim tltat character discloses itself to the observing from the outside of an envelope, and although the assertion seems decidedly far fetched, there is more than a grain of truth mit after oil. It all depends, however, on that little clause 'to the observing.' If one stops an instant to think, a blurred or bloiied address suggests thatfthe writer must have a good deal of 'don't care ' in his make ; if the contrary were the case and an accidental blottingofliiscnvclope had occurred, it would have been destroyed and a clean one taken its place. If letters come habitually from one person and are habitually blurred and slovenly in' their address, it argues a certain slovenliness in character.

If the penmanship is aquick, careless, dnshy hand, it suggests that the writer is of aquick, nervous temperature, while if the writing itself is hurried to slovenliness if discloses lack of system, an individual always in a hurry. A running hand, small and concise, bespeaks the collegiate, accustomed to taking notes at lectures ; a round, full hand, a public school education with Spencerian teaching in writing ; a very angular up-and-down hand hints at the writer's great imitative powers, for that is never natural; a very bold, dashing style argues individuality, and a peculiar hand originality with strength of character, especially if the peculiarity in the chirography is not pleasing. If it is a labored hand it means one of two things, either lack of practice— perhaps in early education—or a very careful, painstaking individual. If it is, however, a particularly careful, round, even, beautiful hand, it argues vanity, for the writer has evidently been praised for his penmanship and likes praise. If it is a neat, pleasing address, believe in the person's good opinion of you, for ho does his best in writing you. If it only pleases you because it is conventional, neat and good form, believe in his general good breeding and education, for his writing is like the smile on the face of a society woman. Again, if the chirography be almost illegible never ask -the writer to do you a Favor ; he would not bother himself to be nice to anyone. As for the envelope itself, if a plain, ordinary affair, it means, not as might be supposed, poverty of purse, but either poverty of cultivation or the tilling of so chance a need, and the letter itself will reveal thatitisaborrowed article and its use a case of it or none at all. If the envelope be pictured or tinted you may doubt the owner's good taste, while if it have a monogram or crest you can be sure it indicates pride or self-es(ee»i. : If it be something unique and novel in design, as very long and slender, or very broad and square, look out for the gushing innid—at this season of the year 'the summer girl.' Of course the summer girl is extremely particular about her stationery and takes with her the very latest fads or nothing at all; she is prone to fancy something a triile newer than the conventional cream white heavy or linen paper. Perhaps the'latest thing she can get is the paper in deep heliotrope and blue tones stamped with a clover leaf in one corner, with a finish that gives to the clover the glisten of satin. Accompanying (his she must have a sweet grass box tv hold the paper, and a dear little penwiper in the shape of a clover leaf and made of flannel ; the whole thing somehow made to suggest new-mown hay sort of innocence.

If one is simply sighing for tinted paper the shades of pale gray and yellow with the ftddross stamped in silver aro the most desirable things to be used, but a good sensible sticking to a good j sensible conventionality of paper is highly satisfactory. The address is the only thing that is now stamped upon one , !; paper by those who study good form in everything) the envelope accompanying it being plain, A woman who looks after her letter paper and watches tlitit her supply docs not exhaust itself and her needs? require her to take up with anything pro. Icm. adds one admirable qualify to the list of daintiness which should make up her individuality. Precise, dtiinty ways are acquired charm* which should not be sneered at. APPALING DISASTER! •THE IVKCENT CYCI-ONK IN AMKItICA AN» ITK" AWI'TI. IIKsIJI/l's'. ITS OltlOI.V SCIE.HTIKICAI-1-V ACCOUNTED l''Olt, AND HOME IUvMOTE CAUSES THAT I'KOnUCB i-AIVKCL EFI'KUTS KXl'I-AIXEO. The recent cyclone in America, which left the Ohio Valley a scene of desolation, destroying hundreds of lives and thousands of pounds worth of property, has again called the attention of scientists to these awful phenomena of Nature. Whatever the cause is it must certainly be sought far away from the whirling body of wind itself. Its results are powerful; its cause must also be powerful. Let us, therefore, consider a few facts. The-appearance of a cyclone is iiivariably preceded by dark spots on the 'face of the sun. These sjiots, indicating a disturbed' condition of the solar System, necessarilya fleet Ibeatmosphere of our eurtli. Any unusual generation of heat always creates_ a vacuum. Hence the disturbance winch i ,l the cyclone. This theory jinds additional confirmation in the tact that cyclones always occurduringthe day and not at night. The dark spots upon the surface of the sun, whatever they may be, cause great commotion iv the atmosphere of the world. The cause is remote, but the effect is here. This rule finds its application in nearly every department of life. The telegraph operator is in Paris, yet the click of the instrument manipulated by his lingers is heard in London. An uneasiness and disgust with everything in life, commonly called home-sickness, is felt by many people, when the cause is to be found in the distant homo hundreds of miles away. Ah uncertain pain may bo felt in the head. It is rC]™ m other parts of tho body. The appetite departs, arid all energy is gone. Is the cause necessarily to be found in tho

head ? The next day the feeling increases. There are added symptoms/ They continue and become more aggravated. The slight pains in the head increase to agonies. The nausea becomes chronic. The heart ' grows irregular, and the breathing uncertain. All these effects have a definite' cause, and in nine cases out of ten it will be found to exist in a deranged condition of the kidneys and liver," far away from that portion of tho body mi which theeffects appear. But one may say, ' I have ho pain whatever in my kidneys and liver !' Very true. Neither have we any evidence of a cyclone on the surface of: the sun , ; butitis certain thatthe cyclone is here. So it is with these great organs of the body : they are the real cause of the painful effects in other parts of the body, although there is no pain experienced in the organs themselves. Exactly this condition of affairs was the experience of Mr John Rumble, of Port Wakefield, South Australia, whose sufferings may be imagined frotn the symptoms described, which were hucmorrhage, palpitation of the heart, throbbing pains in the head, paralysis of the bladder, and growing weakness, ending in fainting, all of which indicated disease of the kidneys and urinary organs. Under date, July .17th, 1889, he writes :—During my illness I obtained medical advice, but instead of benefiting thereform, gradually grew worse and weaker, until finally i I was confined to bed and despaired of recovery. I commenced to take Warner's safe cure on August 13th, with the happy result that on the Bth September, a period of only twenty-one days,! was enabled'to attend to my business. From that time the improvement although gradual was continuous and decided, tho fluids becoming natural, and the tone of tho system, which had fallen very low from loss of blood - and exhaustion, steadily rising, until normal strength was regained.' Whilst fully recognising the goodness of Almighty God in my restoration to health and strength, I gladly bear testimony to Warner ? s safe cure as being the means or agent oE my recovery. ! You are at full liberty to to use this if you choose. ■