What She Ought To Be

A friend hands us this with the reniark : "Here is eomebhing lor ,vour paper : " "A woman Bhould be amiable, beneovlent, charitab'.e, domestic. economical, forgiving, generous, liouest, industrious, judicious, kind, lering, modest, neat, obedient, pleasant, quiet, reflecting, sober, tender, ui bane, virtuous, wise, exemplary and zcalous. And a man ought to match her.'' For private carriages an electric lamp is placed inside, in the center of the roof, and the twin lights are shielded by a circular glass píate rather larger than the "bull's-eye" of an ordinary search light, but neither convex nor concave, says the Engineer. At the back of the lamp there is a dome or bell-shapecl enameled reflector. The carbon filaments are very diminutive and the current is conveyed to them by platinum wires. In this way the roof of the brougham is fitted with a light which will not interfere with a person entering the vehicle. Bach of these lamps gives a light equal to seven candles. In the flrst attempt to light carriages in this manner the moving of the carriage was apt to jar the lamps, often causing a breakdown, and steel springs were not found sufñcient to prevent this. The plan now adopted is to suspendthe complete lamp in a sheet of rubber which is attached to the interior of the carriage, neutralizing the vibration. A supply of electricity for the lamp is stored in an accumulator. One accumulator, weighing two pounds, is the allowance for each lamp. Should the two outside lamps be also electric, two battwies would be needed. The outside illuminators are not of the same shape and differ in principie from the interior lamp, but an India rubber Boeket is used to reduce vibration. Accumulator or accumulators, as the case may be, are carried in the boot, under the coachman's seat, and they are easily accessible. The coachman himself, without electrical knowledge, makes the necessary connections. An eight-cell storage battery for an ordinary riage or brougham is a box 8 incb.es long, 4 inches wide and 7 inohes deep. This keeps the lamp lighted eighteen hours, which ia suflicient to last the owner from odb to two months. The cost of recharging varíes, according to wear and tear, from 50 cents to $1- not more than the expense entailed by the employment of oil lamps, which give out an unpleasant odor aud an uncertain illuraination. The electric lamp does not wear out unless subjected to careless treatment or unless it is weakened by the application of too strong a current. The accumulator, however, makes the latter contingency almost an mpossibillty.