Fireside Scrape.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 8

Fireside Scrape.

'o Howtao Rzorfvit lW»i>«K.'~The. Erape-v i-or Titui was wont to'; Bay th'» 6 he was ftbovti it wai with himself, he; ought the. rather to, be; angry^thaflj '.(^"ith,, Jbhp * jn.arrator;; and Platoj on -peingi-told^he had, many, who spughttq vijify Him,, said',-v ",J[ f wfli' .live io that none;,wilt bpligye them'.}j' t!il • „V ,\ » How to Live* Long.—Try to'liv^a' great deal in a short time. f'Many a man has died old, at thirty. • - .Thousands do not die old, though' they, live -to! sixty. .Thati^ja long life which answers life's,'ends. , No is ],ong unless it is the .beginning of' eternal life. > . t: /.,,; >„.;! „/.-:

Tracking the Girls.—A- clever gh%l who can turn her 1 hand to anything is very useful ;itv a family,!l-but<a> girl of much less .ability; thoroughly'mistress of one particu-" lar art or industry, will have a' far' better chance ot making her living than her sister. Miss Nightingale once said that " threefourths'of '• the'mischief-iri women's lives arises 'from their excepting themselves from the rule of training considered needful; for men." -The* great remedy" for this is to, bring up girls to'hiow that they may have to work hard.and be and to impi ess upon them'th«s fact that labour ia in itself as noble as idle dependence is degra ding, t, / .-, ,

Fixing a Hat.—Thefollowingis of epurse the effusion of an uriregenerate man :—t)id you > ever notice • the; broad, comfortable, shady-looking Leghorn hats r in the milliner's window ? J use buy your wife one, and the first thing she will do with it will be to donble;up her dainty fist and punch,a threecornered dent on,the right side ;,then she will pinch the front rim down and the back rim \\[i, t and then stave in th/ee or four more big dents at odd corners 515 1 and when it resembles in shape an bid tin pan that has b6en a target for a stone-throwing match, she will remark upon the " elegance and grace "of the affair But let Johnny serve his new straw'hat in the same way, and he will be stood up 1 in a dark closet, and forced to go without marmalade for a month.

Correcting Children.-^Those parents who approve of the rod as a wholesome form of correction will find it much more effective if used sparingly, and reserved for seriout* offences, eucli as falsehoods, wilful disobedience, and small pilfering!* ; and on no account should any, of these faults be pns-ed over without eeyere punishment of sonio kind. Locke says: "To neglect beginnings 13, the fundamental error into' which mo;t people fall." dn no account whatever let anything be said or done in the nursery that " mrther is not; to be told." In case of nny utipleasant' occurrence, it is the duty of a nurse to ,take an early opportunity ofjnforming her mistress, if possible in the presence of the children ; and always to enforce the same habit among them, and encourage them if they have committed a fault, to go at once to their mother and confess it.

AVomkn'sNeuralgic Headache. On this subject the Lancet observes : " The iricre«aed and apparently increasing frequency of neuralgic headache among women must needs have a cause. Theie is ono of singular simplicity and quite obviou*. which has been overlooked, and to which it is worth while to draw attention. The pain experienced is generally located in one or more of the branches of the second cervical nerve, very commonly those terminating in the scalp at -the occiput. ■ As a matter of fact, the nerves of the scalp are irritated by the hafy being drawn tightly back and put on a ■ train, not as a whole, in which case the, strain woul 1 be spread over a large area of the surface, but by small bundles of hair which are pulled back and held in place by hairpins. Belief is often consoiouvly experienced m a result of removing the hairpins, but this has only a temporary and partial effect The injury done is lasting, if not permanent, in its consequences. The present stylo of dressing the hair should be discontinued-, m it probably, in part at least, accounts for the extreme prevalence of a form of suffering which is both intractable and distressing."

Mjcmory in Parrots. -These birds have retentive memories. A parrot that belonged to * lady recognised a black servant after three years' absence. Another bird was so fierce that no one iv the house liked to touch it, but it would allow a lady visitor to handle it with impunity. It was at last givon away, as its ill temper seemed incurable. About three years later -this lady called upon a friend, when a parrot in the comer of the room became greatly excited. As it was generally very quite in its demeanour, its mistress remarked the unusual behaviour, but her visitor on going up to the cage recognised her old friend of the savage disposition, which had not forgotten her. When she spoke to it the bird was much pleased, and came on to her hand and fondled it.