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Red Lipstick Kisses And A Black Eye

2012-02-21T17:41:00.000-08:00

My first wife used to cover me with red lipstick kisses before we made love. I must admit, it really turned me on. I would watch her applying it while standing in front of a mirror. After finishing, she would turn to me and begin kissing me all over my face and neck.

One night we had a terrible arguement after having too much to drink at a party. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but she had bruised my male ego. The party we had been at was both indoors and out. There was a badmitten net in the backyard and we started playing. At first, we just vollied back and forth, but then started a game. Some women started watching us and keeping score. The first game was close, but she pulled ahead toward the end and won 15 - 12, receiving a loud applause from the women spectators. During the second game, the women started really getting into the game, calling it a battle of sexes. When she won decisively (15 - 7), they cheered all the louder. I started to walk off the playing field, thinking we had played enough when my wife yelled out; "What's the matter, afraid to get beaten by a woman in front of everyone?". I agreed to play another game and got soundly trounced. I think it was around 15 - 3. We stayed about two more hours and consumed more margueritas than we should have.

While we were driving home, she kept talking about how much fun it had been. My replies were short and with a bit of an edge. After a while, she became angry about my attitude and things started to escalate. When we got home, it got much worse. At some point, I said something really ugly and she whirled around and socked me right in the eye, knocking me flat on the floor. I'm not sure if I was knocked unconscious or not, but the next thing I new, I got hit with my pillow, which she had thrown. She stormed off upstairs and locked our bedroom door. I staggered over to a sofa and fell asleep.

I really should have put ice on my eye before falling asleep because in the morning, it was almost swollen shut.

My eye was all bloodshot and the bruising around it was dark black and blue. I was so mad at my wife. How was I going to explain this very black and swollen eye to everyone in the coming week? I think my wife was a little shocked when she saw what she had done. However, she didn't say anything and we stayed clear of each other for most of the day. In evening I was watching a football when my wife came in the room dressed rather provacatively and with her red lipstick on. She sat down next to me. I tried to ignore her and watch the gave, but then she started kissing my face. I kept trying to hold on to my anger but she was wearing me down. After a couple of minutes, I took a glance at our reflection in a mirrow on the wall. She looked at the mirror the same time and our eyes met. I probably had a dozen large lip prints all over my checks, forehead, neck, everywhere except close to the black eye. (It was real sore.) We both broke up laughing. Then we started laughing about the whole situation, the badmitten game, the arguement, and the black eye. She went and got her camera and set up a timed picture of us embracing - me with my black eye and covered with lipstick kisses. She had it framed and used to show it to her friends and tell them the story behind it. Funny thing, neither of us could remember what I had said before she knocked my lights out. While telling the story, she used to say; "we can't remember what he said, but whatever it was, he knows better than to say it again".

We didn't over-indulge ourselves with alcohol very much after that. I learned not to say hurtful or damaging things when we argued. Also, I worked at overcoming my fragile male ego. Fact was, she was a better athlete than I and regularly beat me in tennis, badmitten, volleyball, ping pong... you name it. She even beat me a few times armwrestling. I didn't mind so much, as long as it was just between us. She came to realize that she had a hot temper and worked to mellow out some. I loved that woman.

I lost my her to breast cancer after 13 years of marriage. I sure to miss her.

Life Together

2012-02-21T17:40:00.002-08:00

One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70, walks into a lawyer"s office.
Apparently, they are there to file a divorce.

Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story....
This couple had been quarreling all their 40 over yrs of marriage nothing ever seems to go right.

They hang on because of their children, afraid that it might affect their up-bringing. Now, all their children have already grown up, have their own family, there's nothing else the old couple have to worry about, all they wanted is to lead their own life free from all these years of unhappiness from their marriage, so both agree on a divorce....

Lawyer was having a hard time trying to get the papers done, because he felt that after 40 yrs of marriage at the age of 70, he couldnt understand why the old couple would still want a divorce..

While they were signing the papers, the wife told the husband..
"I really love u, but i really cant carry on anymore, I'm sorry.."
"Its o.k, i understand.." said the husband. Lookin at this, the lawyer suggested a dinner together, just 3 of them,wife thought, why not, since they are still gonna be friends..

At the dining table, there was a silence of awkardness.
The first dish was roasted chicken, immediately, the old man took the drumstick for the old lady.."take this, its your favourite.."

Looking at this, the lawyer thought maybe theres still a chance, but the wife was frowning when she answer.."
This is always the problem, you always think so highly of yourself, never thought about how I feel, dont you know that i hate drumsticks?"

Little did she know that, over the years, the husband have been trying all ways to please her, little did she know that drumsticks was the husband's favourite. Little did he know that she never thought he understand her at all, little did he know that she hates drummsticks even though all he wants is the best for her.

That night, both of them couldnt sleep, toss and turn, toss and turn...after hours, the old man couldnt take it anymore, he knows that he still loves her, and he cant carry on life without her, he wants her back, he wants to tell her, he is sorry, he wanted to tell her "i love you"...

He picks up the phone, starting dialing her number....ringing never stops..he never stop dialing....

On the other side, she was sad, she couldn’t understand how come after all these years, he still doesnt understand her at all, she loves him a lot, but she just cant take it anymore....phone's ringing, she refuses to answer knowing that its him..."whats the point of talking now that its over...i have ask for it and now i wanna keep it this way, if not i will lose face.."she thought...still ringing...she have decided to pull out the cord...

Little did she remember, he have heart problems...

The next day, she received news that he had passed away...she rushed down to his apartment, saw his body, lying on the couch still holding on to the phone...he had a heart attack when he was still trying to get through her phone line....

As sad as she could be...she will have to clear his belongings...when she was looking thru the drawers, she saw this insurance policy, dated from the day they got married, with the beneficiary being her... And together in those file, there was this note...

"To my dearest wife, by the time you're reading this, I'm sure I'm no longer around, I bought this policy for you, though the amount is only $100k, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that i have made when we got married, I might not be around anymore, I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you, just like the way I will if I could have live longer. I want you to know Iwill always be around, by your side... I love you"

Tears flowed like river......

"When you love someone, let them know... You never know what will happen the next minute.... Learn to build a life together.. Learn to love each other. For who they are.. not what they are..."

Haircut

2012-02-19T17:43:00.005-08:00

Ring Lardner

I got another barber that comes over from Carterville and helps me out Saturdays, but the rest of the time I can get along all right alone. You can see for yourself that this ain't no New York: City and besides that, the most of the boys works all day and don't have no leisure to drop in here and get themselves prettied up.

You're a newcomer, ain't you? I thought I hadn't seen you round before. I hope you like it good enough to stay. As I say, we ain't no New York City or Chicago, but we have pretty good times. Not as good, though, since Jim Kendall got killed. When he was alive, him and Hod Meyers used to keep this town in an uproar. I bet they was more laughin' done here than any town its size in America.

Jim was comical, and Hod was pretty near a match for him. Since Jim's gone, Hod tries to hold his end up just the same as ever, but it's tough goin' when you ain't got nobody to kind of work with.

They used to be plenty fun in here Saturdays. This place is jampacked Saturdays, from four o'clock on. Jim and Hod would show up right after their supper round six o'clock. Jim would set himself down in that big chair, nearest the blue spittoon. Whoever had been settin' in that chair, why they'd get up when Jim come in and at" it to him.

You'd of thought it was a reserved seat like they have sometimes in a theaytre. Hod would generally always stand or walk up and down or some Saturdays, of course, he'd be settin' in this chair part of the time, gettin' a haircut.

Well, Jim would set there a w'ile without opening his mouth only to spit, and then finally he'd say to me, "Whitey,"--my right name, that is, my right first name, is Dick, but everybody round here calls me Whitey--Jim would say, "Whitey, your nose looks like a rosebud tonight. You must of been drinkin' some of your aw de cologne."

So I'd say, "No, Jim, but you look like you'd been drinkin' something of that kind or somethin' worse."

Jim would have to laugh at that, but then he'd speak up and say, "No, I ain't had nothin' to drink, but that ain't sayin' I wouldn't like somethin'. I wouldn't even mind if it was wood alcohol."

Then Hod Meyers would say, "Neither would your wife." That would set everybody to laughin' because Jim and his wife wasn't on very good terms. She'd of divorced him only they wasn't no chance to get alimony and she didn't have no way to take care of herself and the kids. She couldn't never understand Jim. He was kind of rough, but a good fella at heart.

Him and Hod had all kinds of sport with Milt Sheppard. I don't suppose you've seen Milt. Well, he's got an Adam's apple that looks more like a mush-melon. So I'd be shavin' Milt and when I'd start to shave down here on his neck, Hod would holler, "Hey, Whitey, wait a minute! Before you cut into it, let's make up a pool and see who can guess closest to the number of seeds."

And Jim would say, "If Milt hadn't of been so hoggish, he'd of ordered a half a cantaloupe instead of a whole one and it might not of stuck in his throat."

All the boys would roar at this and Milt himself would force a smile, though the joke was on him. Jim certainly was a card!

There's his shavin' mug, setting on the shelf, right next to Charley Vail's. "Charles M. Vail." That's the druggist. He comes in regular for his shave, three times a week. And Jim's is the cup next to Charley's. "dames H. Kendall." Jim won't need no shavin' mug no more, but I'll leave it there just the same for old time's sake. Jim certainly was a character!

Years ago, Jim used to travel for a canned goods concern over in Carterville. They sold canned goods. Jim had the whole northern half of the State and was on the road five days out of every week. He'd drop in here Saturdays and tell his experiences for that week. It was rich.

I guess he paid more attention to playin' jokes than makin' sales. Finally the concern let him out and he come right home here and told everybody he'd been fired instead of sayin' he'd resigned like most fellas would of.

It was a Saturday and the shop was full and Jim got up out of that chair and says, "Gentlemen, I got an important announcement to make. I been fired from my job."

Well, they asked him if he was in earnest and he said he was and nobody could think of nothin' to say till Jim finally broke the ice himself. He says, "I been sellin' canned goods and now I'm canned goods myself.

You see, the concern he'd been workin' for was a factory that made canned goods. Over in Carterville. And now Jim said he was canned himself. He was certainly a card!

Jim had a great trick that he used to play w'ile he was travelin'. For instance, he'd be ridin' on a train and they'd come to some little town like, well, like, well, like, we'll say, like Benton. Jim would look out the train window and read the signs of the stores.

For instance, they'd be a sign, "Henry Smith, Dry Goods." Well, Jim would write down the name and the name of the town and when he got to wherever he was goin' he'd mail back a postal card to Henry Smith at Benton and not sign no name to it, but he'd write on the card, well somethin' like "Ask your wife about that book agent that spent the afternoon last week," or "Ask your Missus who kept her from gettin' lonesome the last time you was in Carterville." And he'd sign the card, "A Friend."

Of course, he never knew what really come of none of these jokes, but he could picture what probably happened and that was enough.

Jim didn't work very steady after he lost his position with the Carterville people. What he did earn, coin' odd jobs round town why he spent pretty near all of it on gin, and his family might of starved if the stores hadn't of carried them along. Jim's wife tried her hand at dressmakin', but they ain't nobody goin' to get rich makin' dresses in this town.

As I say, she'd of divorced Jim, only she seen that she couldn't support herself and the kids and she was always hopin' that some day Jim would cut out his habits and give her more than two or three dollars a week.

They was a time when she would go to whoever he was workin' for and ask them to give her his wages, but after she done this once or twice, he beat her to it by borrowin' most of his pay in advance. He told it all round town, how he had outfoxed his Missus. He certainly was a caution!

But he wasn't satisfied with just outwittin' her. He was sore the way she had acted, tryin' to grab off his pay. And he made up his mind he'd get even. Well, he waited till Evans's Circus was advertised to come to town. Then he told his wife and two kiddies that he was goin' to take them to the circus. The day of the circus, he told them he would get the tickets and meet them outside the entrance to the tent.

Well, he didn't have no intentions of bein' there or buyin' tickets or nothin'. He got full of gin and laid round Wright's poolroom all day. His wife and the kids waited and waited and of course he didn't show up. His wife didn't have a dime with her, or nowhere else, I guess. So she finally had to tell the kids it was all off and they cried like they wasn't never goin' to stop.

Well, it seems, w'ile they was cryin', Doc Stair come along and he asked what was the matter, but Mrs. Kendall was stubborn and wouldn't tell him, but the kids told him and he insisted on takin' them and their mother in the show. Jim found this out afterwards and it was one reason why he had it in for Doc Stair.

Doc Stair come here about a year and a half ago. He's a mighty handsome young fella and his clothes always look like he has them made to order. He goes to Detroit two or three times a year and w'ile he's there must have a tailor take his measure and then make him a suit to order. They cost pretty near twice as much, but they fit a whole lot better than if you just bought them in a store.

For a w'ile everybody was wonderin' why a young doctor like Doc Stair should come to a town like this where we already got old Doc Gamble and Doc Foote that's both been here for years and all the practice in town was always divided between the two of them.

Then they was a story got round that Doc Stair's gal had thronged him over, a gal up in the Northern Peninsula somewhere, and the reason he come here was to hide himself away and forget it. He said himself that he thought they wasn't nothin' like general practice in a place like ours to fit a man to be a good all round doctor. And that's why he'd came.

Anyways, it wasn't long before he was makin' enough to live on, though they tell me that he never dunned nobody for what they owed him, and the folks here certainly has got the owin' habit, even in my business. If I had all that was comin' to me for just shaves alone, I could go to Carterville and put up at the Mercer for a week and see a different picture every night. For instance, they's old George Purdy--but I guess I shouldn't ought to be gossipin'.

Well, last year, our coroner died, died of the flu. Ken Beatty, that was his name. He was the coroner. So they had to choose another man to be coroner in his place and they picked Doc Stair. He laughed at first and said he didn't want it, but they made him take it. It ain't no job that anybody would fight for and what a man makes out of it in a year would just about buy seeds for their garden. Doc's the kind, though, that can't say no to nothin' if you keep at him long enough.

But I was goin' to tell you about a poor boy we got here in town-Paul Dickson. He fell out of a tree when he was about ten years old. Lit on his head and it done somethin' to him and he ain't never been right. No harm in him, but just silly. Jim Kendall used to call him cuckoo; that's a name Jim had for anybody that was off their head, only he called people's head their bean. That was another of his gags, callin' head bean and callin' crazy people cuckoo. Only poor Paul ain't crazy, but just silly.

You can imagine that Jim used to have all kinds of fun with Paul. He'd send him to the White Front Garage for a left-handed monkey wrench. Of course they ain't no such thing as a left-handed monkey wrench.

And once we had a kind of a fair here and they was a baseball game between the fats and the leans and before the game started Jim called Paul over and sent him way down to Schrader's hardware store to get a key for the pitcher's box.

They wasn't nothin' in the way of gags that Jim couldn't think up, when he put his mind to it.

Poor Paul was always kind of suspicious of people, maybe on account of how Jim had kept foolin' him. Paul wouldn't have much to do with anybody only his own mother and Doc Stair and a girl here in town named Julie Gregg. That is, she ain't a girl no more, but pretty near thirty or over.

When Doc first come to town, Paul seemed to feel like here was a real friend and he hung round Doc's office most of the w'ile; the only time he wasn't there was when he'd go home to eat or sleep or when he seen Julie Gregg coin' her shoppin'.

When he looked out Doc's window and seen her, he'd run downstairs and join her and tag along with her to the different stores. The poor boy was crazy about Julie and she always treated him mighty nice and made him feel like he was welcome, though of course it wasn't nothin' but pity on her side.

Doc done all he could to improve Paul's mind and he told me once that he really thought the boy was getting better, that they was times when he was as bright and sensible as anybody else.

But I was goin' to tell you about Julie Gregg. Old man Gregg was in the lumber business, but got to drinkin' and lost the most of his money and when he died, he didn't leave nothin' but the house and just enough insurance for the girl to skimp along on.

Her mother was a kind of a half invalid and didn't hardly ever leave the house. Julie wanted to sell the place and move somewhere else after the old man died, but the mother said she was born here and would die here. It was tough on Julie as the young people round this town--well, she's too good for them.

She'd been away to school and Chicago and New York and different places and they ain't no subject she can't talk on, where you take the rest of the young folks here and you mention anything to them outside of Gloria Swanson or Tommy Meighan and they think you're delirious. Did you see Gloria in Wages of Virtue? You missed somethin'!

Well, Doc Stair hadn't been here more than a week when he came in one day to get shaved and I recognized who he was, as he had been pointed out to me, so I told him about my old lady. She's been ailin' for a couple years and either Doc Gamble or Doc Foote, neither one, seemed to be helpin' her. So he said he would come out and see her, but if she was able to get out herself, it would be better to bring her to his office where he could make a completer examination.

So I took her to his office and w'ile I was waitin' for her in the reception room, in come Julie Gregg. When somebody comes in Doc Stair's office, they's a bell that rings in his inside office so he can tell they's somebody to see him.

So he left my old lady inside and come out to the front office and that's the first time him and Julie met and I guess it was what they call love at first sight. But it wasn't fifty-fifty. This young fella was the slickest lookin' fella she'd ever seen in this town and she went wild over him. To him she was just a young lady that wanted to see the doctor.

She'd came on about the same business I had. Her mother had been doctorin' for years with Doc Gamble and Doc Foote and with" out no results. So she'd heard they was a new doc in town and decided to give him a try. He promised to call and see her mother that same day.

I said a minute ago that it was love at first sight on her part. I'm not only judgin' by how she acted afterwards but how she looked at him that first day in his office. I ain't no mind reader, but it was wrote all over her face that she was gone.

Now Jim Kendall, besides bein' a jokesmith and a pretty good drinker, well Jim was quite a lady-killer. I guess he run pretty wild durin' the time he was on the road for them Carterville people, and besides that, he'd had a couple little affairs of the heart right here in town. As I say, his wife would have divorced him, only she couldn't.

But Jim was like the majority of men, and women, too, I guess. He wanted what he couldn't get. He wanted Julie Gregg and worked his head off tryin' to land her. Only he'd of said bean instead of head.

Well, Jim's habits and his jokes didn't appeal to Julie and of course he was a married man, so he didn't have no more chance than, well, than a rabbit. That's an expression of Jim's himself. When somebody didn't have no chance to get elected or somethin', Jim would always say they didn't have no more chance than a rabbit.

He didn't make no bones about how he felt. Right in here, more than once, in front of the whole crowd, he said he was stuck on Julie and anybody that could get her for him was welcome to his house and his wife and kids included. But she wouldn't have nothin' to do with him; wouldn't even speak to him on the street. He finally seen he wasn't gettin' nowheres with his usual line so he decided to try the rough stuff. He went right up to her house one evenin' and when she opened the door he forced his way in and grabbed her. But she broke loose and before he could stop her, she run in the next room and locked the door and phoned to Joe Barnes. Joe's the marshal. Jim could hear who she was phonin' to and he beat it before Joe got there.

Joe was an old friend of Julie's pa. Joe went to Jim the next day and told him what would happen if he ever done it again.

I don't know how the news of this little affair leaked out. Chances is that Joe Barnes told his wife and she told somebody else's wife and they told their husband. Anyways, it did leak out and Hod Meyers had the nerve to kid Jim about it, right here in this shop. Jim didn't deny nothin' and kind of laughed it off and said for us all to wait; that lots of people had tried to make a monkey out of him, but he always got even.

Meanw'ile everybody in town was wise to Julie's bein' wild mad over the Doc. I don't suppose she had any idea how her face changed when him and her was together; of course she couldn't of, or she'd of kept away from him. And she didn't know that we was all noticin' how many times she made excuses to go up to his office or pass it on the other side of the street and look up in his window to see if he was there. I felt sorry for her and so did most other people.

Hod Meyers kept rubbin' it into Jim about how the Doc had cut him out. Jim didn't pay no attention to the kiddie' and you could see he was plannin' one of his jokes.

One trick Jim had was the knack of changin' his voice. He could make you think he was a girl talkie' and he could mimic any man's voice. To show you how good he was along this line, I'll tell you the joke he played on me once.

You know, in most towns of any size, when a man is dead and needs a shave, why the barber that shaves him soaks him five dollars for the job; that is, he don't soak him, but whoever ordered the shave. I just charge three dollars because personally I don't mind much shavin' a dead person. They lay a whole lot stiller than live customers. The only thing is that you don't feel like talkie' to them and you get kind of lonesome.

Well, about the coldest day we ever had here, two years ago last winter, the phone rung at the house w'ile I was home to dinner and I answered the phone and it was a woman's voice and she said she was Mrs. John Scott and her husband was dead and would I come out and shave him.

Old John had always been a good customer of mine. But they live seven miles out in the country, on the Streeter road. Still I didn't see how I could say no.

So I said I would be there, but would have to come in a jitney and it might cost three or four dollars besides the price of the shave. So she, or the voice, it said that was all right, so I got Frank Abbott to drive me out to the place and when I got there, who should open the door but old John himself! He wasn't no more dead than, well, than a rabbit.

It didn't take no private detective to figure out who had played me this little joke. Nobody could of thought it up but Jim Kendall. He certainly was a card!

I tell you this incident just to show you how he could disguise his voice and make you believe it was somebody else talkie'. I'd of swore it was Mrs. Scott had called me. Anyways, some woman.

Well, Jim waited till he had Doc Stair's voice down pat; then he went after revenge.

He called Julie up on a night when he knew Doc was over in Carterville. She never questioned but what it was Doc's voice. Jim said he must see her that night; he couldn't wait no longer to tell her somethin'. She was all excited and told him to come to the house. But he said he was expectin' an important long distance call and wouldn't she please forget her manners for once and come to his office. He said they couldn't nothin' hurt her and nobody would see her and he just must talk to her a little w'ile. Well, poor Julie fell for it.

Doc always keeps a night light in his office, so it looked to Julie like they was somebody there.

Meanw'ile Jim Kendall had went to Wright's poolroom, where they was a whole gang amusin' themselves. The most of them had drank plenty of gin, and they was a rough bunch even when sober. They was always strong for Jim's jokes and when he told them to come with him and see some fun they give up their card games and pool games and followed along.

Doc's office is on the second floor. Right outside his door they's a flight of stairs leadin' to the floor above. Jim and his gang hid in the dark behind these stairs.

Well, tulle come up to Doc's door and rung the bell and they was nothin' coin'. She rung it again and she rung it seven or eight times. Then she tried the door and found it locked. Then Jim made some kind of a noise and she heard it and waited a minute, and then she says, "Is that you, Ralph?" Ralph is Doc's first name.

They was no answer and it must of came to her all of a sudden that she'd been bunked. She pretty near fell downstairs and the whole gang after her. They chased her all the way home, hollerin', "Is that you, Ralph?" and "Oh, Ralphie, dear, is that you?" Jim says he couldn't holler it himself, as he was laughin' too hard.

Poor Julie! She didn't show up here on Main Street for a long, long time afterward.

And of course Jim and his gang told everybody in town, everybody but Doc Stair. They was scared to tell him, and he might of never knowed only for Paul Dickson. The poor cuckoo, as Jim called him, he was here in the shop one night when Jim was still gloatin' yet over what he'd done to Julie. And Paul took in as much of it as he could understand and he run to Doc with the story.

It's a cinch Doc went up in the air and swore he'd make Jim suffer. But it was a kind of a delicate thing, because if it got out that he had beat Jim up, Julie was bound to hear of it and then she'd know that Doc knew and of course knowin' that he knew would make it worse for her than ever. He was goin' to do somethin', but it took a lot of figurin'.

Well, it was a couple days later when Jim was here in the shop again, and so was the cuckoo. Jim was goin' duck-shootin' the next day and had come in lookin' for Hod Meyers to go with him. I happened to know that Hod had went over to Carterville and wouldn't be home till the end of the week. So Jim said he hated to go alone and he guessed he would call it off. Then poor Paul spoke up and said if Jim would take him he would go along. Jim thought a w'ile and then he said, well, he guessed a half-wit was better than nothin'.

I suppose he was plottin' to get Paul out in the boat and play some joke on him, like pushin' him in the water. Anyways, he said Paul could go. He asked him had he ever shot a duck and Paul said no, he'd never even had a gun in his hands. So Jim said he could set in the boat and watch him and if he behaved himself, he might lend him his gun for a couple of shots. They made a date to meet in the mornin' and that's the last I seen of Jim alive.

Next mornin', I hadn't been open more than ten minutes when Doc Stair come in. He looked kind of nervous. He asked me had I seen Paul Dickson. I said no, but I knew where he was, out duckshootin' with Jim Kendall. So Doc says that's what he had heard, and he couldn't understand it because Paul had told him he wouldn't never have no more to do with Jim as long as he lived.

He said Paul had told him about the joke Jim had played on Julie. He said Paul had asked him what he thought of the joke and the Doc told him that anybody that would do a thing like that ought not to be let live. I said it had been a kind of a raw thing, but Jim just couldn't resist no kind of a joke, no matter how raw. I said I thought he was all right at heart, but just bubblin' over with mischief. Doc turned and walked out.

At noon he got a phone call from old John Scott. The lake where Jim and Paul had went shootin' is on John's place. Paul had came runnin' up to the house a few minutes before and said they'd been an accident. Jim had shot a few ducks and then give the gun to Paul and told him to try his luck. Paul hadn't never handled a gun and he was nervous. He was shakin' so hard that he couldn't control the gun. He let fire and Jim sunk back in the boat, dead.

Doc Stair, bein' the coroner, jumped in Frank Abbott's flivver and rushed out to Scott's farm. Paul and old John was down on the shore of the lake. Paul had rowed the boat to shore, but they'd left the body in it, waiting for Doc to come.

Doc examined the body and said they might as well fetch it back to town. They was no use leavin' it there or callin' a jury, as it was a plain case of accidental shootin'.

Personally I wouldn't never leave a person shoot a gun in the same boat I was in unless I was sure they knew somethin' about guns. Jim was a sucker to leave a new beginner have his gun, let alone a half-wit. It probably served Jim right, what he got. But still we miss him round here. He certainly was a card! Comb it wet or dry?

Araby

2012-02-19T17:43:00.001-08:00

James Joyce

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.

The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant, and The Memoirs of Vidocq. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes, under one of which I found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness. When we returned to the street, light from the kitchen windows had filled the areas. If my uncle was seen turning the corner, we hid in the shadow until we had seen him safely housed. Or if Mangan's sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea, we watched her from our shadow peer up and down the street. We waited to see whether she would remain or go in and, if she remained, we left our shadow and walked up to Mangan's steps resignedly. She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door. Her brother always teased her before he obeyed, and I stood by the railings looking at her. Her dress swung as she moved her body, and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side.

Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her. This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On Saturday evenings when my aunt went marketing I had to go to carry some of the parcels. We walked through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys who stood on guard by the barrels of pigs' cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land. These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

One evening I went into the back drawing-room in which the priest had died. It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house. Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds. Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me. I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: `O love! O love!' many times.

At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I did not know what to answer. She asked me was I going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar; she said she would love to go.

`And why can't you?' I asked.

While she spoke she turned a silver bracelet round and round her wrist. She could not go, she said, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent. Her brother and two other boys were fighting for their caps, and I was alone at the railings. She held one of the spikes, bowing her head towards me. The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon the railing. It fell over one side of her dress and caught the white border of a petticoat, just visible as she stood at ease.

`It's well for you,' she said.

`If I go,' I said, `I will bring you something.'

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read. The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me. I asked for leave to go to the bazaar on Saturday night. My aunt was surprised, and hoped it was not some Freemason affair. I answered few questions in class. I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning to idle. I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

On Saturday morning I reminded my uncle that I wished to go to the bazaar in the evening. He was fussing at the hallstand, looking for the hat-brush, and answered me curtly:

`Yes, boy, I know.'

As he was in the hall I could not go into the front parlour and lie at the window. I felt the house in bad humour and walked slowly towards the school. The air was pitilessly raw and already my heart misgave me.

When I came home to dinner my uncle had not yet been home. Still it was early. I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room. I mounted the staircase and gained the upper part of the house. The high, cold, empty, gloomy rooms liberated me and I went from room to room singing. From the front window I saw my companions playing below in the street. Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass, I looked over at the dark house where she lived. I may have stood there for an hour, seeing nothing but the brown-clad figure cast by my imagination, touched discreetly by the lamplight at the curved neck, at the hand upon the railings and at the border below the dress.

When I came downstairs again I found Mrs Mercer sitting at the fire. She was an old, garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose. I had to endure the gossip of the tea-table. The meal was prolonged beyond an hour and still my uncle did not come. Mrs Mercer stood up to go: she was sorry she couldn't wait any longer, but it was after eight o'clock and she did not like to be out late, as the night air was bad for her. When she had gone I began to walk up and down the room, clenching my fists. My aunt said:

`I'm afraid you may put off your bazaar for this night of Our Lord.'

At nine o'clock I heard my uncle's latchkey in the hall door. I heard him talking to himself and heard the hallstand rocking when it had received the weight of his overcoat. I could interpret these signs. When he was midway through his dinner I asked him to give me the money to go to the bazaar. He had forgotten.

`The people are in bed and after their first sleep now,' he said.

I did not smile. My aunt said to him energetically:

`Can't you give him the money and let him go? You've kept him late enough as it is.'

My uncle said he was very sorry he had forgotten. He said he believed in the old saying: `All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' He asked me where I was going and, when I told him a second time, he asked me did I know The Arab's Farewell to his Steed. When I left the kitchen he was about to recite the opening lines of the piece to my aunt.

I held a florin tightly in my hand as I strode down Buckingham Street towards the station. The sight of the streets thronged with buyers and glaring with gas recalled to me the purpose of my journey. I took my seat in a third-class carriage of a deserted train. After an intolerable delay the train moved out of the station slowly. It crept onward among ruinous houses and over the twinkling river. At Westland Row Station a crowd of people pressed to the carriage doors; but the porters moved them back, saying that it was a special train for the bazaar. I remained alone in the bare carriage. In a few minutes the train drew up beside an improvised wooden platform. I passed out on to the road and saw by the lighted dial of a clock that it was ten minutes to ten. In front of me was a large building which displayed the magical name.

I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man. I found myself in a big hall girded at half its height by a gallery. Nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness. I recognized a silence like that which pervades a church after a service. I walked into the centre of the bazaar timidly. A few people were gathered about the stalls which were still open. Before a curtain, over which the words Café Chantant were written in coloured lamps, two men were counting money on a salver. I listened to the fall of the coins.

Remembering with difficulty why I had come, I went over to one of the stalls and examined porcelain vases and flowered tea-sets. At the door of the stall a young lady was talking and laughing with two young gentlemen. I remarked their English accents and listened vaguely to their conversation.

`O, I never said such a thing!'

`O, but you did!'

`O, but I didn't!'

`Didn't she say that?'

`Yes. I heard her.'

`O, there's a... fib!'

Observing me, the young lady came over and asked me did I wish to buy anything. The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty. I looked humbly at the great jars that stood like eastern guards at either side of the dark entrance to the stall and murmured:

`No, thank you.'

The young lady changed the position of one of the vases and went back to the two young men. They began to talk of the same subject. Once or twice the young lady glanced at me over her shoulder.

I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless, to make my interest in her wares seem the more real. Then I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar. I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket. I heard a voice call from one end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

An Affair of State

2012-02-19T07:08:00.003-08:00

Guy de Maupassant

Paris had just heard of the disaster of Sedan. The Republic was proclaimed. All France was panting from a madness that lasted until the time of the commonwealth. Everybody was playing at soldier from one end of the country to the other.

Capmakers became colonels, assuming the duties of generals; revolvers and daggers were displayed on large rotund bodies enveloped in red sashes; common citizens turned warriors, commanding battalions of noisy volunteers and swearing like troopers to emphasize their importance.

The very fact of bearing arms and handling guns with a system excited a people who hitherto had only handled scales and measures and made them formidable to the first comer, without reason. They even executed a few innocent people to prove that they knew how to kill, and in roaming through virgin fields still belonging to the Prussians they shot stray dogs, cows chewing the cud in peace or sick horses put out to pasture. Each believed himself called upon to play a great role in military affairs. The cafés of the smallest villages, full of tradesmen in uniform, resembled barracks or field hospitals.

Now the town of Canneville did not yet know the exciting news of the army and the capital. It had, however, been greatly agitated for a month over an encounter between the rival political parties. The mayor, Viscount de Varnetot, a small thin man, already old, remained true to the Empire, especially since he saw rising up against him a powerful adversary in the great, sanguine form of Dr Massarel, head of the Republican party in the district, venerable chief of the Masonic lodge, president of the Society of Agriculture and the Fire Department and organizer of the rural militia designed to save the country.

In two weeks he had induced sixty-three men to volunteer in defense of their country--married men, fathers of families, prudent farmers and merchants of the town. These he drilled every morning in front of the mayor's window.

Whenever the mayor happened to appear Commander Massarel, covered with pistols, passing proudly up and down in front of his troops, would make them shout, "Long live our country!" And this, they noticed, disturbed the little viscount, who no doubt heard in it menace and defiance and perhaps some odious recollection of the great Revolution.

On the morning of the fifth of September, in uniform, his revolver on the table, the doctor gave consultation to an old peasant couple. The husband had suffered with a varicose vein for seven years but had waited until his wife had one too, so that they might go and hunt up a physician together, guided by the postman when he should come with the newspaper.

Dr Massarel opened the door, grew pale, straightened himself abruptly and, raising his arms to heaven in a gesture of exaltation, cried out with all his might, in the face of the amazed rustics:

"Long live the Republic! Long live the Republic! Long live the Republic!"

Then he dropped into his armchair weak with emotion.

When the peasant explained that this sickness commenced with a feeling as if ants were running up and down his legs the doctor exclaimed: "Hold your peace. I have spent too much time with you stupid people. The Republic is proclaimed! The Emperor is a prisoner! France is saved! Long live the Republic!" And, running to the door, he bellowed: "Celeste! Quick! Celeste!"

The frightened maid hastened in. He stuttered, so rapidly did he try to speak" "My boots, my saber--my cartridge box--and--the Spanish dagger which is on my night table. Hurry now!"

The obstinate peasant, taking advantage of the moment's silence, began again: "This seemed like some cysts that hurt me when I walked."

The exasperated physician shouted: "Hold your peace! For heaven's sake! If you had washed your feet oftener, it would not have happened." Then, seizing him by the neck, he hissed in his face: "Can you not comprehend that we are living in a republic, stupid;"

But the professional sentiment calmed him suddenly, and he let the astonished old couple out of the house, repeating all the time:

"Return tomorrow, return tomorrow, my friends; I have no more time today."

While equipping himself from head to foot he gave another series of urgent orders to the maid:

"Run to Lieutenant Picard's and to Sublieutenant Pommel's and say to them that I want them here immediately. Send Torcheboeuf to me too, with his drum. Quick now! Quick!" And when Celeste was gone he collected his thoughts and prepared to surmount the difficulties of the situation.

The three men arrived together. They were in their working clothes. The commander, who had expected to see them in uniform, had a fit of surprise.

"You know nothing, then? The Emperor has been taken prisoner. A republic is proclaimed. My position is delicate, not to say perilous."

He reflected for some minutes before the astonished faces of his subordinates and then continued:

"It is necessary to act, not to hesitate. Minutes now are worth hours at other times. Everything depends upon promptness of decision. You, Picard, go and find the curate and get him to ring the bell to bring the people together, while I get ahead of them. You, Torcheboeuf, beat the call to assemble the militia in arms, in the square, from even as far as the hamlets of Gerisaie and Salmare. You, Pommel, put on your uniform at once, that is, the jacket and cap. We, together, are going to take possession of the mairie and summon Monsieur de Varnetot to transfer his authority to me. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Act, then, and promptly. I will accompany you to your house, Pommel, Since we are to work together."

Five minutes later the commander and his subaltern, armed to the teeth, appeared in the square just at the moment when the little Viscount de Varnetot, with hunting gaiters on and his rifle on his shoulder, appeared by another street, walking rapidly and followed by three guards in green jackets, each carrying a knife at his side and a gun over his shoulder.

While the doctor slapped, half stupefied, the four men entered the mayor's house and the door closed behind them.

"We are forestalled," murmured the doctor; "it will be necessary now to wait for reinforcements; nothing can be done for a quarter of an hour."

Here Lieutenant Picard appeared. "The curate refuses to obey," said he; "he has even shut himself up in the church with the beadle and the porter."

On the other side of the square, opposite the white closed front of the mairie, the church, mute and black, showed its great oak door with the wrought-iron trimmings.

Then, as the puzzled inhabitants put their noses out of the windows or came out upon the steps of their houses, the rolling of a drum was heard, and Torcheboeuf suddenly appeared, beating with fury the three quick strokes of the call to arms. He crossed the square with disciplined step and then disappeared on a road leading to the country.

The commander drew his sword, advanced alone to the middle distance between the two buildings where the enemy was barricaded and, waving his weapon above his head, roared at the top of his lungs: "Long live the Republic! Death to traitors!" Then he fell back where his officers were. The butcher, the baker and the apothecary, feeling a little uncertain, put up their shutters and closed their shops. The grocery alone remained open.

Meanwhile the men of the militia were arriving little by little, variously clothed but all wearing caps, the cap constituting the whole uniform of the corps. They were armed with their old rusty guns, guns that had hung on chimney pieces in kitchens for thirty years, and looked quite like a detachment of country soldiers.

When there were about thirty around him the commander explained in a few words the state of affairs. Then, turning toward his major, he said: "Now we must act."

While the inhabitants collected, talked over and discussed the matter the doctor quickly formed his plan of campaign.

"Lieutenant Picard, you advance to the windows of the mayor's house and order Monsieur de Varnetot to turn over the town hall to me in the name of the Republic."

But the lieutenant was a master mason and refused.

"You are a scamp, you are. Trying to make a target of me! Those fellows in there are good shots, you know that. No, thanks! Execute your commissions yourself!"

The commander turned red. "I order you to go in the name of discipline," said he.

"I am not spoiling my features without knowing why," the lieutenant returned.

Men of influence, in a group near by, were heard laughing. One of them called out: "You are right, Picard, it is not the proper time." The doctor, under his breath, muttered: "Cowards! " And placing his sword and his revolver in the hands of a soldier, he advanced with measured step, his eye fixed on the windows as if he expected to see a gun or a cannon pointed at him.

When he was within a few steps of the building the doors at the two extremities, affording an entrance to two schools, opened, and a flood of little creatures, boys on one side, girls on the other, poured out and began playing in the open space, chattering around the doctor like a flock of birds. He scarcely knew what to make of it.

As soon as the last were out the doors closed. The greater part of the little monkeys finally scattered, and then the commander called out in a loud voice:

"Monsieur de Varnetot?" A window in the first story opened and M. de Varnetot appeared.

The commander began: "Monsieur, you are aware of the great events which have changed the system of government. The party you represent no longer exists. The side I represent now comes into power. Under these sad but decisive circumstances I come to demand you, in the name of the Republic, to put in my hand the authority vested in you by the outgoing power."

M. de Varnetot replied: "Doctor Massarel, I am mayor of Canneville, so placed by the proper authorities, and mayor of Canneville I shall remain until the title is revoked and replaced by an order from my superiors. As mayor, I am at home in the mairie, and there I shall stay. Furthermore, just try to put me out." And he closed the window.

The commander returned to his troops. But before explaining anything, measuring Lieutenant Picard from head to foot, he said:

"You are a numskull, you are--a goose, the disgrace of the army. I shall degrade you."

The lieutenant replied: "I'll attend to that myself." And he went over to a group of muttering civilians.

Then the doctor hesitated. What should he do? Make an assault? Would his men obey him? And then was he surely in the right? An idea burst upon him. He ran to the telegraph office on the other side of the square and hurriedly sent three dispatches: "To the Members of the Republican Government at Paris"; "To the New Republican Prefect of the Lower Seine at Rouen"; "To the New Republican Subprefect of Dieppe."

He exposed the situation fully; told of the danger run by the commonwealth from remaining in the hands of the monarchistic mayor, offered his devout services, asked for orders and signed his name, following it up with all his titles. Then he returned to his army corps and, drawing ten francs out of his pocket, said:

"Now, my friends, go and eat and drink a little something. Only leave here a detachment of ten men, so that no one leaves the mayor's house."

Ex-Lieutenant Picard, chatting with the watchmaker, overheard this. With a sneer he remarked: "Pardon me, but if they go out, there will be an opportunity for you to go in. Otherwise I can't see how you are to get in there!"

The doctor made no reply but went away to luncheon. In the afternoon he disposed of offices all about town, having the air of knowing of an impending surprise. Many times he passed before the doors of the mairie and of the church without noticing anything suspicious; one could have believed the two buildings empty.

The butcher, the baker and the apothecary reopened their shops and stood gossiping on the steps. If the Emperor had been taken prisoner, there must be a traitor somewhere. They did not feel sure of the revenue of a new republic.

Night came on. Toward nine o'clock the doctor returned quietly and alone to the mayor's residence, persuaded that his adversary had retired. And as he was trying to force an entrance with a few blows of a pickax the loud voice of a guard demanded suddenly: "Who goes there?" M. Massarel beat a retreat at the top of his speed.

Another day dawned without any change in the situation. The militia in arms occupied the square. The inhabitants stood around awaiting the solution. People from neighboring villages came to look on. Finally the doctor, realizing that his reputation was at stake, resolved to settle the thing in one way or another. He had just decided that it must be something energetic when the door of the telegraph office opened and the little servant of the directress appeared, holding in her hand two papers.

She went directly to the commander and gave him one of the dispatches; then, crossing the square, intimidated by so many eyes fixed upon her, with lowered head and mincing steps, she rapped gently at the door of the barricaded house as if ignorant that a part of the army was concealed there.

The door opened slightly; the hand of a man received the message, and the girl returned, blushing and ready to weep from being stared at.

The doctor demanded with stirring voice: "A little silence, if you please." And after the populace became quiet he continued proudly:

Here is a communication which I have received from the government." And, raising the dispatch, he read:

"Old mayor deposed. Advise us what is most necessary. Instructions later.

For the Subprefect,
SAPIN, Counselor."

He had triumphed. His heart was beating with joy. His hand trembled, when Picard, his old subaltern, cried out to him from the neighboring group:

"That's all right; but if the others in there won't go out, your paper hasn't a leg to stand on." The doctor grew a little pale. If they would not go out--in fact, he must go ahead now. It was not only his right but his duty. And he looked anxiously at the house of the mayoralty, hoping that he might see the door open and his adversary show himself. But the door remained closed. What was to be done? The crowd was increasing, surrounding the militia. Some laughed.

One thought, especially, tortured the doctor. If he should make an assault, he must march at the head of his men; and as with him dead all contest would cease, it would be at him and at him alone that M. de Varnetot and the three guards would aim. And their aim was good, very good! Picard had reminded him of that.

But an idea shone in upon him, and turning to Pommel, he said: "Go, quickly, and ask the apothecary to send me a napkin and a pole."

The lieutenant hurried off. The doctor was going to make a political banner, a white one, that would, perhaps, rejoice the heart of that old legitimist, the mayor.

Pommel returned with the required linen and a broom handle. With some pieces of string they improvised a standard, which Massarel seized in both hands. Again he advanced toward the house of mayoralty, bearing the standard before him. When in front of the door, he called out: "Monsieur de Varnetot!"

The door opened suddenly, and M. de Varnetot and the three guards appeared on the threshold. The doctor recoiled instinctively. Then he saluted his enemy courteously and announced, almost strangled by emotion: "I have come, sir, to communicate to you the instructions I have just received."

That gentleman, without any salutation whatever, replied: "I am going to withdraw, sir, but you must understand that it is not because of fear or in obedience to an odious government that has usurped the power." And, biting off each word, he declared: "I do not wish to have the appearance of serving the Republic for a single day. That is all."

Massarel, amazed, made no reply; and M. de Varnetot, walking off at a rapid pace, disappeared around the corner, followed closely by his escort Then the doctor, slightly dismayed, returned to the crowd. When he was near enough to be heard he cried: "Hurrah! Hurrah! The Republic triumphs all along the line!"

But no emotion was manifested. The doctor tried again. "The people are free! You are free and independent! Do you understand? Be proud of it!"

The listless villagers looked at him with eyes unlit by glory. In his turn he looked at them, indignant at their indifference, seeking for some wore that could make a grand impression, electrify this placid country and make good his mission. The inspiration came, and turning to Pommel, he said "Lieutenant, go and gee the bust of the ex-emperor, which is in the Council Hall, and bring it to me with a chair."

And soon the man reappears, carrying on his right shoulder Napoleon II in plaster and holding in his left hand a straw-bottomed chair.

Massarel met him, took the chair, placed it on the ground, put the white image upon it, fell back a few steps and called out in sonorous voice:

"Tyrant! Tyrant! Here do you fall! Fall in the dust and in the mire. expiring country groans under your feet Destiny has called you the Avenge, Defeat and shame cling to you. You fall conquered, a prisoner to the Prussians, and upon the ruins of the crumbling Empire the young and radian Republic arises, picking up your broken sword."

He awaited applause. But there was no voice, no sound. The bewildered peasants remained silent. And the bust, with its pointed mustaches extending beyond the cheeks on each side, the bust, so motionless and well groomed as to be fit for a hairdresser's sign, seemed to be looking at M. Massarel with a plaster smile, a smile ineffaceable and mocking.

They remained thus face to face, Napoleon on the chair, the doctor in front of him about three steps away. Suddenly the commander grew angry.

What was to be done? What was there that would move this people and bring about a definite victory in opinion? His hand happened to rest on his hip and to come in contact there with the butt end of his revolver under his red sash. No inspiration, no further word would come. But he drew his pistol, advanced two steps and, taking aim, fired at the late monarch. The ball entered the forehead, leaving a little black hole like a spot, nothing more. There was no effect. Then he fired a second shot, which made a second hole, then a third; and then, without stopping, he emptied his revolver. The brow of Napoleon disappeared in white powder, but the eyes, the nose and the fine points of the mustaches remained intact. Then, exasperated, the doctor overturned the chair with a blow of his fist and, resting a foot on the remainder of the bust in a position of triumph, he shouted: "So let all tyrants perish!"

Still no enthusiasm was manifest, and as the spectators seemed to be in a kind of stupor from astonishment the commander called to the militiamen:

You may now go to your homes." And he went toward his own house with great strides, as if he were pursued.

His maid, when he appeared, told him that some patients had been waiting in his office for three hours. He hastened in. There were the two varicose-vein patients, who had returned at daybreak, obstinate but patient.

The old man immediately began his explanation: "This began by a feeling like ants running up and down the legs."

A Haunted House

2012-02-19T07:07:00.001-08:00

Virginia Woolf

Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure--a ghostly couple.

"Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here tool" "It's upstairs," she murmured. "And in the garden," he whispered. "Quietly," they said, "or we shall wake them."

But it wasn't that you woke us. Oh, no. "They're looking for it; they're drawing the curtain," one might say, and so read on a page or two. "Now they've found it,' one would be certain, stopping the pencil on the margin. And then, tired of reading, one might rise and see for oneself, the house all empty, the doors standing open, only the wood pigeons bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm. "What did I come in here for? What did I want to find?" My hands were empty. "Perhaps its upstairs then?" The apples were in the loft. And so down again, the garden still as ever, only the book had slipped into the grass.

But they had found it in the drawing room. Not that one could ever see them. The windowpanes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass. If they moved in the drawing room, the apple only turned its yellow side. Yet, the moment after, if the door was opened, spread about the floor, hung upon the walls, pendant from the ceiling--what? My hands were empty. The shadow of a thrush crossed the carpet; from the deepest wells of silence the wood pigeon drew its bubble of sound. "Safe, safe, safe" the pulse of the house beat softly. "The treasure buried; the room . . ." the pulse stopped short. Oh, was that the buried treasure?

A moment later the light had faded. Out in the garden then? But the trees spun darkness for a wandering beam of sun. So fine, so rare, coolly sunk beneath the surface the beam I sought always burned behind the glass. Death was the glass; death was between us, coming to the woman first, hundreds of years ago, leaving the house, sealing all the windows; the rooms were darkened. He left it, left her, went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky; sought the house, found it dropped beneath the Downs. "Safe, safe, safe," the pulse of the house beat gladly. 'The Treasure yours."

The wind roars up the avenue. Trees stoop and bend this way and that. Moonbeams splash and spill wildly in the rain. But the beam of the lamp falls straight from the window. The candle burns stiff and still. Wandering through the house, opening the windows, whispering not to wake us, the ghostly couple seek their joy.

"Here we slept," she says. And he adds, "Kisses without number." "Waking in the morning--" "Silver between the trees--" "Upstairs--" 'In the garden--" "When summer came--" 'In winter snowtime--" "The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.

Nearer they come, cease at the doorway. The wind falls, the rain slides silver down the glass. Our eyes darken, we hear no steps beside us; we see no lady spread her ghostly cloak. His hands shield the lantern. "Look," he breathes. "Sound asleep. Love upon their lips."

Stooping, holding their silver lamp above us, long they look and deeply. Long they pause. The wind drives straightly; the flame stoops slightly. Wild beams of moonlight cross both floor and wall, and, meeting, stain the faces bent; the faces pondering; the faces that search the sleepers and seek their hidden joy.

"Safe, safe, safe," the heart of the house beats proudly. "Long years--" he sighs. "Again you found me." "Here," she murmurs, "sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure--" Stooping, their light lifts the lids upon my eyes. "Safe! safe! safe!" the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart."

A Dark Brown Dog

2012-02-17T21:12:00.001-08:00

Stephen Crane

A child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.

Sunshine beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds down the avenue. Clattering trucks moved with indistinctness through it. The child stood dreamily gazing.

After a time, a little dark-brown dog came trotting with an intent air down the sidewalk. A short rope was dragging from his neck. Occasionally he trod upon the end of it and stumbled.

He stopped opposite the child, and the two regarded each other. The dog hesitated for a moment, but presently he made some little advances with his tail. The child put out his hand and called him. In an apologetic manner the dog came close, and the two had an interchange of friendly pattings and waggles. The dog became more enthusiastic with each moment of the interview, until with his gleeful caperings he threatened to overturn the child. Whereupon the child lifted his hand and struck the dog a blow upon the head.

This thing seemed to overpower and astonish the little dark-brown dog, and wounded him to the heart. He sank down in despair at the child's feet. When the blow was repeated, together with an admonition in childish sentences, he turned over upon his back, and held his paws in a peculiar manner. At the same time with his ears and his eyes he offered a small prayer to the child.

He looked so comical on his back, and holding his paws peculiarly, that the child was greatly amused and gave him little taps repeatedly, to keep him so. But the little dark-brown dog took this chastisement in the most serious way, and no doubt considered that he had committed some grave crime, for he wriggled contritely and showed his repentance in every way that was in his power. He pleaded with the child and petitioned him, and offered more prayers.

At last the child grew weary of this amusement and turned toward home. The dog was praying at the time. He lay on his back and turned his eyes upon the retreating form.

Presently he struggled to his feet and started after the child. The latter wandered in a perfunctory way toward his home, stopping at times to investigate various matters. During one of these pauses he discovered the little dark-brown dog who was following him with the air of a footpad.

The child beat his pursuer with a small stick he had found. The dog lay down and prayed until the child had finished, and resumed his journey. Then he scrambled erect and took up the pursuit again.

On the way to his home the child turned many times and beat the dog, proclaiming with childish gestures that he held him in contempt as an unimportant dog, with no value save for a moment. For being this quality of animal the dog apologized and eloquently expressed regret, but he continued stealthily to follow the child. His manner grew so very guilty that he slunk like an assassin.

When the child reached his door-step, the dog was industriously ambling a few yards in the rear. He became so agitated with shame when he again confronted the child that he forgot the dragging rope. He tripped upon it and fell forward.

The child sat down on the step and the two had another interview. During it the dog greatly exerted himself to please the child. He performed a few gambols with such abandon that the child suddenly saw him to be a valuable thing. He made a swift, avaricious charge and seized the rope.

He dragged his captive into a hall and up many long stairways in a dark tenement. The dog made willing efforts, but he could not hobble very skilfully up the stairs because he was very small and soft, and at last the pace of the engrossed child grew so energetic that the dog became panic-stricken. In his mind he was being dragged toward a grim unknown. His eyes grew wild with the terror of it. He began to wiggle his head frantically and to brace his legs.

The child redoubled his exertions. They had a battle on the stairs. The child was victorious because he was completely absorbed in his purpose, and because the dog was very small. He dragged his acquirement to the door of his home, and finally with triumph across the threshold.

No one was in. The child sat down on the floor and made overtures to the dog. These the dog instantly accepted. He beamed with affection upon his new friend. In a short time they were firm and abiding comrades.

When the child's family appeared, they made a great row. The dog was examined and commented upon and called names. Scorn was leveled at him from all eyes, so that he became much embarrassed and drooped like a scorched plant. But the child went sturdily to the center of the floor, and, at the top of his voice, championed the dog. It happened that he was roaring protestations, with his arms clasped about the dog's neck, when the father of the family came in from work.

The parent demanded to know what the blazes they were making the kid howl for. It was explained in many words that the infernal kid wanted to introduce a disreputable dog into the family.

A family council was held. On this depended the dog's fate, but he in no way heeded, being busily engaged in chewing the end of the child's dress.

The affair was quickly ended. The father of the family, it appears, was in a particularly savage temper that evening, and when he perceived that it would amaze and anger everybody if such a dog were allowed to remain, he decided that it should be so. The child, crying softly, took his friend off to a retired part of the room to hobnob with him, while the father quelled a fierce rebellion of his wife. So it came to pass that the dog was a member of the household.

He and the child were associated together at all times save when the child slept. The child became a guardian and a friend. If the large folk kicked the dog and threw things at him, the child made loud and violent objections. Once when the child had run, protesting loudly, with tears raining down his face and his arms outstretched, to protect his friend, he had been struck in the head with a very large saucepan from the hand of his father, enraged at some seeming lack of courtesy in the dog. Ever after, the family were careful how they threw things at the dog. Moreover, the latter grew very skilful in avoiding missiles and feet. In a small room containing a stove, a table, a bureau and some chairs, he would display strategic ability of a high order, dodging, feinting and scuttling about among the furniture. He could force three or four people armed with brooms, sticks and handfuls of coal, to use all their ingenuity to get in a blow. And even when they did, it was seldom that they could do him a serious injury or leave any imprint.

But when the child was present, these scenes did not occur. It came to be recognized that if the dog was molested, the child would burst into sobs, and as the child, when started, was very riotous and practically unquenchable, the dog had therein a safeguard.

However, the child could not always be near. At night, when he was asleep, his dark-brown friend would raise from some black corner a wild, wailful cry, a song of infinite lowliness and despair, that would go shuddering and sobbing among the buildings of the block and cause people to swear. At these times the singer would often be chased all over the kitchen and hit with a great variety of articles.

Sometimes, too, the child himself used to beat the dog, although it is not known that he ever had what could be truly called a just cause. The dog always accepted these thrashings with an air of admitted guilt. He was too much of a dog to try to look to be a martyr or to plot revenge. He received the blows with deep humility, and furthermore he forgave his friend the moment the child had finished, and was ready to caress the child's hand with his little red tongue.

When misfortune came upon the child, and his troubles overwhelmed him, he would often crawl under the table and lay his small distressed head on the dog's back. The dog was ever sympathetic. It is not to be supposed that at such times he took occasion to refer to the unjust beatings his friend, when provoked, had administered to him.

He did not achieve any notable degree of intimacy with the other members of the family. He had no confidence in them, and the fear that he would express at their casual approach often exasperated them exceedingly. They used to gain a certain satisfaction in underfeeding him, but finally his friend the child grew to watch the matter with some care, and when he forgot it, the dog was often successful in secret for himself.

So the dog prospered. He developed a large bark, which came wondrously from such a small rug of a dog. He ceased to howl persistently at night. Sometimes, indeed, in his sleep, he would utter little yells, as from pain, but that occurred, no doubt, when in his dreams he encountered huge flaming dogs who threatened him direfully.

His devotion to the child grew until it was a sublime thing. He wagged at his approach; he sank down in despair at his departure. He could detect the sound of the child's step among all the noises of the neighborhood. It was like a calling voice to him.

The scene of their companionship was a kingdom governed by this terrible potentate, the child; but neither criticism nor rebellion ever lived for an instant in the heart of the one subject. Down in the mystic, hidden fields of his little dog-soul bloomed flowers of love and fidelity and perfect faith.

The child was in the habit of going on many expeditions to observe strange things in the vicinity. On these occasions his friend usually jogged aimfully along behind. Perhaps, though, he went ahead. This necessitated his turning around every quarter-minute to make sure the child was coming. He was filled with a large idea of the importance of these journeys. He would carry himself with such an air! He was proud to be the retainer of so great a monarch.

One day, however, the father of the family got quite exceptionally drunk. He came home and held carnival with the cooking utensils, the furniture and his wife. He was in the midst of this recreation when the child, followed by the dark-brown dog, entered the room. They were returning from their voyages.

The child's practised eye instantly noted his father's state. He dived under the table, where experience had taught him was a rather safe place. The dog, lacking skill in such matters, was, of course, unaware of the true condition of affairs. He looked with interested eyes at his friend's sudden dive. He interpreted it to mean: Joyous gambol. He started to patter across the floor to join him. He was the picture of a little dark-brown dog en route to a friend.

The head of the family saw him at this moment. He gave a huge howl of joy, and knocked the dog down with a heavy coffee-pot. The dog, yelling in supreme astonishment and fear, writhed to his feet and ran for cover. The man kicked out with a ponderous foot. It caused the dog to swerve as if caught in a tide. A second blow of the coffee-pot laid him upon the floor.

Here the child, uttering loud cries, came valiantly forth like a knight. The father of the family paid no attention to these calls of the child, but advanced with glee upon the dog. Upon being knocked down twice in swift succession, the latter apparently gave up all hope of escape. He rolled over on his back and held his paws in a peculiar manner. At the same time with his eyes and his ears he offered up a small prayer.

But the father was in a mood for having fun, and it occurred to him that it would be a fine thing to throw the dog out of the window. So he reached down and grabbing the animal by a leg, lifted him, squirming, up. He swung him two or three times hilariously about his head, and then flung him with great accuracy through the window.

The soaring dog created a surprise in the block. A woman watering plants in an opposite window gave an involuntary shout and dropped a flower-pot. A man in another window leaned perilously out to watch the flight of the dog. A woman, who had been hanging out clothes in a yard, began to caper wildly. Her mouth was filled with clothes-pins, but her arms gave vent to a sort of exclamation. In appearance she was like a gagged prisoner. Children ran whooping.

The dark-brown body crashed in a heap on the roof of a shed five stories below. From thence it rolled to the pavement of an alleyway.

The child in the room far above burst into a long, dirgelike cry, and toddled hastily out of the room. It took him a long time to reach the alley, because his size compelled him to go downstairs backward, one step at a time, and holding with both hands to the step above.

When they came for him later, they found him seated by the body of his dark-brown friend.

A Coward

2012-02-17T21:04:00.001-08:00

Guy de Maupassant

Society called him Handsome Signoles. His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.

An orphan, and possessed of an adequate income, he cut a dash, as the saying is. He had a good figure and a good carriage, a sufficient flow of words to pass for wit, a certain natural grace, an air of nobility and pride, a gallant moustache and an eloquent eye, attributes which women like.

He was in demand in drawing-rooms, sought after for valses, and in men he inspired that smiling hostility which is reserved for vital and attractive rivals. He had been suspected of several love-affairs of a sort calculated to create a good opinion of a youngster. He lived a happy, care-free life, in the most complete well-being of body and mind. He was known to be a fine swordsman and a still finer shot with the pistol.

"When I come to fight a duel," he would say, "I shall choose pistols. With that weapon, I'm sure of killing my man."

One evening, he went to the theatre with two ladies, quite young, friends of his, whose husbands were also of the party, and after the performance he invited them to take ices at Tortoni's.

They had been sitting there for a few minutes when he noticed a gentleman at a neighbouring table staring obstinately at one of the ladies of the party. She seemed embarrassed and ill at ease, and bent her head. At last she said to her husband:

"There's a man staring at me. I don't know him; do you?"

The husband, who had seen nothing, raised his eyes, but declared:

"No, not in the least."

Half smiling, half in anger, she replied:

"It's very annoying; the creature's spoiling my ice."

Her husband shrugged his shoulders.

"Deuce take him, don't appear to notice it. If we had to deal with all the discourteous people one meets, we'd never have done with them."

But the Viscount had risen abruptly. He could not permit this stranger to spoil an ice of his giving. It was to him that the insult was addressed, since it was at his invitation and on his account that his friends had come to the cafe. The affair was no business of anyone but himself.

He went up to the man and said:

"You have a way of looking at those ladies, sir, which I cannot stomach. Please be so good as to set a limit to your persistence."

"You hold your tongue," replied the other.

"Take care, sir," retorted the Viscount, clenching his teeth;" you'll force me to overstep the bounds of common politeness."

The gentleman replied with a single word, a vile word which rang across the cafe from one end to the other, and, like the release of a spring, jerked every person present into an abrupt movement. All those with their backs towards him turned round, all the rest raised their heads; three waiters spun round on their heels like tops; the two ladies behind the counter started, then the whole upper half of their bodies twisted round, as though they were a couple of automata worked by the same handle.

There was a profound silence. Then suddenly a sharp noise resounded in the air. The Viscount had boxed his adversary's ears. Every one rose to intervene. Cards were exchanged.

Back in his home, the Viscount walked for several minutes up and down his room with long quick strides. He was too excited to think. A solitary idea dominated his mind: "a duel"; but as yet the idea stirred in him no emotion of any kind. He had done what he was compelled to do; he had shown himself to be what he ought to be. People would talk of it, would approve of him, congratulate him. He repeated aloud, speaking as a man speaks in severe mental distress:

"What a hound the fellow is!"

Then he sat down and began to reflect. In the morning he must find seconds. Whom should he choose? He searched his mind for the most important and celebrated names of his acquaintance. At last he decided on the Marquis de la Tour-Noire and Colonel Bourdin, an aristocrat and a soldier; they would do excellently. Their names would look well in the papers. He realised that he was thirsty, and drank three glasses of water one after the other; then he began to walk up and down again. He felt full of energy. If he played the gallant, showed himself determined, insisted on the most strict and dangerous arrangements, demanded a serious duel, a thoroughly serious duel, a positively terrible duel, his adversary would probably retire an apologist.

He took up once more the card which he had taken from his pocket and thrown down upon the table, and read it again as he had read it before, in the cafe, at a glance, and in the cab, by the light of each gas-lamp, on his way home.

"Georges Lamil, 51 rue Moncey." Nothing more.

He examined the grouped letters; they seemed to him mysterious, full of confused meaning. Georges Lamil? Who was this man? What did he do? Why had he looked at the woman in that way? Was it not revolting that a stranger, an unknown man, could thus disturb a man's life, without warning, just because he chose to fix his insolent eyes upon a woman? Again the Viscount repeated aloud:

"What a hound!"

Then he remained standing stock-still, lost in thought, his eyes still fixed upon the card. A fury against this scrap of paper awoke in him, a fury of hatred in which was mingled a queer sensation of uneasiness. This sort of thing was so stupid! He took up an open knife which lay close at hand and thrust it through the middle of the printed name, as though he had stabbed a man.

So he must fight. Should he choose swords or pistols?--for he regarded himself as the insulted party. With swords there would be less risk, but with pistols there was a chance that his adversary might withdraw. It is very rare that a duel with swords is fatal, for mutual prudence is apt to restrain combatants from engaging at sufficiently close quarters for a point to penetrate deeply. With pistols he ran a grave risk of death; but he might also extricate himself from the affair with all the honours of the situation and without actually coming to a meeting.

"I must be firm," he said. "He will take fright."

The sound of his voice set him trembling, and he looked round. He felt very nervous. He drank another glass of water, then began to undress for bed.

As soon as he was in bed, he blew out the light and closed his eyes.

"I've the whole of to-morrow," he thought, "in which to set my affairs in order. I'd better sleep now, so that I shall be quite calm."

He was very warm in the blankets, but he could not manage to compose himself to sleep. He turned this way and that, lay for five minutes upon his back, turned on to his left side, then rolled over on to his right.

He was still thirsty. He got up to get a drink. A feeling of uneasiness crept over him:

"Is it possible that I'm afraid?"

Why did his heart beat madly at each familiar sound in his room? When the clock was about to strike, the faint squeak of the rising spring made him start; so shaken he was that for several seconds afterwards he had to open his mouth to get his breath.

He began to reason with himself on the possibility of his being afraid.

"Shall I be afraid?"

No, of course he would not be afraid, since he was resolved to see the matter through, and had duly made up his mind to fight and not to tremble. But he felt so profoundly distressed that he wondered:

"Can a man be afraid in spite of himself?"

He was attacked by this doubt, this uneasiness, this terror; suppose a force more powerful than himself, masterful, irresistible, overcame him, what would happen? Yes, what might not happen? Assuredly he would go to the place of the meeting, since he was quite ready to go. But supposing he trembled? Supposing he fainted? He thought of the scene, of his reputation, his good name.

There came upon him a strange need to get up and look at himself in the mirror. He relit his candle. When he saw his face reflected in the polished glass, he scarcely recognised it, it seemed to him as though he had never yet seen himself. His eyes looked to him enormous; and he was pale; yes, without doubt he was pale, very pale.

He remained standing in front of the mirror. He put out his tongue, as though to ascertain the state of his health, and abruptly the thought struck him like a bullet:

"The day after to-morrow, at this very hour, I may be dead."

His heart began again its furious beating.

"The day after to-morrow, at this very hour, I may be dead. This person facing me, this me I see in the mirror, will be no more. Why, here I am, I look at myself, I feel myself alive, and in twenty-four hours I shall be lying in that bed, dead, my eyes closed, cold, inanimate, vanished."

He turned back towards the bed, and distinctly saw himself lying on his back in the very sheets he had just left. He had the hollow face of a corpse, his hands had the slackness of hands that will never make another movement.

At that he was afraid of his bed, and, to get rid of the sight of it, went into the smoking-room. Mechanically he picked up a cigar, lit it, and began to walk up and down again. He was cold; he went to the bell to wake his valet; but he stopped, even as he raised his hand to the rope.

"He will see that I am afraid."

He did not ring; he lit the fire. His hands shook a little, with a nervous tremor, whenever they touched anything. His brain whirled, his troubled thoughts became elusive, transitory, and gloomy; his mind suffered all the effects of intoxication, as though he were actually drunk.

Over and over again he thought:

"What shall I do? What is to become of me?"

His whole body trembled, seized with a jerky shuddering; he got up and, going to the window, drew back the curtains.

Dawn was at hand, a summer dawn. The rosy sky touched the town, its roofs and walls, with its own hue. A broad descending ray, like the caress of the rising sun, enveloped the awakened world; and with the light, hope--a gay, swift, fierce hope--filled the Viscount's heart! Was he mad, that he had allowed himself to be struck down by fear, before anything was settled even, before his seconds had seen those of this Georges Lamil, before he knew whether he was going to fight?

He washed, dressed, and walked out with a firm step.

He repeated to himself, as he walked:

"I must be energetic, very energetic. I must prove that I am not afraid."

His seconds, the Marquis and the Colonel, placed themselves at his disposal, and after hearty handshakes discussed the conditions.

"You are anxious for a serious duel? " asked the Colonel.

"Yes, a very serious one," replied the Viscount.

"You still insist on pistols?" said the Marquis.

"Yes."

"You will leave us free to arrange the rest?"

In a dry, jerky voice the Viscount stated:

"Twenty paces; at the signal, raising the arm, and not lowering it. Exchange of shots till one is seriously wounded."

"They are excellent conditions," declared the Colonel in a tone of satisfaction. "You shoot well, you have every chance."

They departed. The Viscount went home to wait for them. His agitation, momentarily quietened, was now growing minute by minute. He felt a strange shivering, a ceaseless vibration, down his arms, down his legs, in his chest; he could not keep still in one place, neither seated nor standing. There was not the least moistening of saliva in his mouth, and at every instant he made a violent movement of his tongue, as though to prevent it sticking to his palate.

He was eager to have breakfast, but could not eat. Then the idea came to him to drink in order to give himself courage, and he sent for a decanter of rum, of which he swallowed six liqueur glasses full one after the other.

A burning warmth flooded through his body, followed immediately by a sudden dizziness of the mind and spirit.

"Now I know what to do," he thought. "Now it is all right."

But by the end of an hour he had emptied the decanter, and his state of agitation had once more become intolerable. He was conscious of a wild need to roll on the ground, to scream, to bite. Night was falling.

The ringing of a bell gave him such a shock that he had not strength to rise and welcome his seconds.

He did not even dare to speak to them, to say "Good evening" to them, to utter a single word, for fear they guessed the whole thing by the alteration in his voice.

"Everything is arranged in accordance with the conditions you fixed," observed the Colonel. "At first your adversary claimed the privileges of the insulted party, but he yielded almost at once, and has accepted everything. His seconds are two military men."

"Thank you," said the Viscount.

"Pardon us," interposed the Marquis, "if we merely come in and leave again immediately, but we have a thousand things to see to. We must have a good doctor, since the combat is not to end until a serious wound is inflicted, and you know that pistol bullets are no laughing-matter. We must appoint the ground, near a house to which we may carry the wounded man if necessary, etc. In fact, we shall be occupied for two or three hours arranging all that there is to arrange."

"Thank you," said the Viscount a second time.

"You are all right?" asked the Colonel. "You are calm?"

"Yes, quite calm, thank you."

The two men retired.

When he realised that he was once more alone, he thought that he was going mad. His servant had lit the lamps, and he sat down at the table to write letters. After tracing, at the head of a sheet: "This is my will," he rose shivering and walked away, feeling incapable of connecting two ideas, of taking a resolution, of making any decision whatever.

So he was going to fight! He could no longer avoid it. Then what was the matter with him? He wished to fight, he had absolutely decided upon this plan of action and taken his resolve, and he now felt clearly, in spite of every effort of mind and forcing of will, that he could not retain even the strength necessary to get him to the place of meeting. He tried to picture the duel, his own attitude and the bearing of his adversary.

From time to time his teeth chattered in his mouth with a slight clicking noise. He tried to read, and took down Chateauvillard's code of duelling. Then he wondered:

"Does my adversary go to shooting-galleries? Is he well known? Is he classified anywhere? How can I find out?"

He bethought himself of Baron Vaux's book on marksmen with the pistol, and ran through it from end to end. Georges Lamil was not mentioned in it. Yet if the man were not a good shot, he would surely not have promptly agreed to that dangerous weapon and those fatal conditions?

He opened, in passing, a case by Gastinne Renette standing on a small table, and took out one of the pistols, then placed himself as though to shoot and raised his arm. But he was trembling from head to foot and the barrel moved in every direction.

At that, he said to himself:

"It's impossible. I cannot fight in this state."

He looked at the end of the barrel, at the little, black, deep hole that spits death; he thought of the disgrace, of the whispers at the club, of the laughter in drawing-rooms, of the contempt of women, of the allusions in the papers, of the insults which cowards would fling at him.

He was still looking at the weapon, and, raising the hammer, caught a glimpse of a cap gleaming beneath it like a tiny red flame. By good fortune or forgetfulness, the pistol had been left loaded. At the knowledge, he was filled with a confused inexplicable sense of joy.

If, when face to face with the other man, he did not show a proper gallantry and calm, he would be lost for ever. He would be sullied, branded with a mark of infamy, hounded out of society. And he would not be able to achieve that calm, that swaggering poise; he knew it, he felt it. Yet he was brave, since he wanted to fight I ... He was brave, since....

The thought which hovered in him did not even fulfil itself in his mind; but, opening his mouth wide, he thrust in the barrel of his pistol with savage gesture until it reached his throat, and pressed on the trigger.

When his valet ran in, at the sound of the report, he found him lying dead upon his back. A shower of blood had splashed the white paper on the table, and made a great red mark beneath these four words:

"This is my will."

The reason for a love

2012-02-12T15:40:00.001-08:00

The reason for a love
A girl asks her boyfriend:
-Why I love you?
-Why do you ask that, did you find reasons instead! - Boy replies
-There is no reason he does not love you
-I can not be deduced as
-But your boyfriend, I always let her know why he loves her
-Well, I love you because you beautiful, good Giang, agile. I love you because your smile, because
my optimism. I love you because you are always interested in others
She feels very happy

A few weeks later she encountered a terrible accident, but fortunately she was still alive. Suddenly she became upset because she felt useless. Several days after recovery she received a letter from her boyfriend
"Hello dear
I love you because you beautiful. Then the scar on my eyes now I can not love you anymore
I love you because you now have good giang but do nothing. So he can not love you
I love you because you are real quick but I was sitting in a wheelchair. This is not the reason that he can love you
I love you because of your smile. Now he can not love me anymore because I always grimace, groan
I love you because you cared about other people but now people do not care about you too much. You should not love you anymore
That there is nothing I love you so I should feel that he still loved me. Do you need any more reasons not love
She cried out and make sure she does not need a reason anymore. But you have never asked why their loved ones they love you? Sometimes love is not necessarily where you need a reason

Dragonfly wings on the shoulders you

2012-02-11T18:32:00.001-08:00

Dragonfly wings on the shoulders you? Unknown
Love a person is not certain to get them. But there have been a love, try to get them. Dragonfly wings on the shoulders you?

Small town quiet and beautiful, two passionate lovers, each dawn were to watch the sunrise coast, and each false positive way to practice ball in the sand. It seems that those who met the couple were watched with admiring eyes.

One day after the crash, seriously injured girl lying motionless on the hospital bed, do not wake up some day.

In the morning, sitting on the bed guy desperate lovers are called inanimate; night falls, the boy to kneel in the small chapel of the city, asking God looked up, eyes no longer eligible to cry.

A month passed, the girl remained motionless, his son had long since broken heart, but he's still trying to hope and pray. There is also a day god pity.

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God the boys are trying forced a chance. He asked: "Do you consent to the use of human beings to trade it?" The boy quickly replied without hesitation: "I consent"

God said, "I can tell people I love waking up, but you must trade three years of dragonflies, I consent to it?" Do not hesitate hurry boy responded, "I consent"

In the morning, flying wing aircraft leaving God rushed to the hospital, like every morning. And the girl who woke up!

Non dragonflies, moths do not hear what people love talking with the doctor stood by the bed.

When the girl left the hospital, she was very sad. She went around asking the people she loves, no one knew where he had left.

She's looking for a long time, while the other wing flying never left her side always love flying, only not the dragonflies, moths do not speak. The wing is flying in front of people who love love but not be realized.

The summer passed, autumn, cold wind blowing the tree leaves leaf branch, dragonfly wings can not leave. So off last fall on the shoulders of the dragonfly is a girl.

I want to use thin wings caressing your face, lips dry want you kissed my forehead, but too light and thin body of the dragonfly has not been finally realized the girl.

Blink of an eye, spring has come, fly wing flying frantically back in town looking for a lover. But her appearance was familiar titles into a strong handsome son, dragonfly wings falling painfully, very quickly from halfway up the sky.

Everyone knows that after the accident the girl how serious, young and lovely good doctor was, their love to the nature of how, and who also knew the girl was happy again as the days old.

Dragonfly wings pains to comprehend the heart, these days, moths still see the doctor the other guy who took his daughter loved the pool watching the sun up, way down the coast to see false positives, and dragonfly wings can only sometimes perched on the shoulders of love, dragonflies can not do anything more.

The crowds of players say, the happy laughter of girls do dragonflies breath.

Summer Tuesday, moths did not usually visit the girl he loved again. Because she is always on my shoulder doctor clutching his hand on her face is so eager to kiss his daughter who did not have time to care about suffering a flying wing, also did not have time to last the past.

Three years of God coming to an end. In the last day, lovers of ancient dragonflies to step in with a young married doctor.

Dragonfly wings flew quietly into the church, parked on the shoulders of the person he loved, he said he loved the girl kneeling before God and say: "I consent." He saw the doctor on hand cage ring girl. They kissed passionately sweet. Dragonflies to hit the ground seeds of a pain.

God asked, "regretted already?" Beads of brushed dragonfly said: "I do not!"

Pleased God says: "If so, from tomorrow you can become all right!"

Dragonflies particle detector into small tears, he shook his head replied: "Let me just do dragonflies life ..."

Love a person is not certain to get them. But there have been a love, try to get them. Dragonfly wings on the shoulders you?

And if you get this translation, are shown someone loves you, or because you love someone at the party.

"We have nothing left, only drop two tears of the ice!"

Black coffee vs coffee milk

2012-02-11T18:31:00.001-08:00

At the bar drinking, I always call black coffee. He always called coffee milk.
They carry water, always confused. British black coffee. I milk coffee.
I quickly changed 2 dishes. Silly waiter stood out, face seemed full of wonder. He laughed. Wait for it to go, he shall, "Why did not you let it go and change? Losing his face too! "I burst out laughing:" Beyond that, too. It's nothing shy. "
I prefer girls that black coffee.
He loves his son but coffee milk.
I told pure black coffee, but drink but bitter aftertaste and will bring, but if mixed with milk, it will no longer feel the café.
He asked for more coffee milk little more bold coffee flavor, the sweet feeling of milk ...
You and me always so. Completely different.
You and I do not love each other. Simply friends. But not on your friends a little. Somewhat like a fraternity.
But I do not his sister. I said, my sister seems to depend on his brother, seem weak, it seems ... hundreds of the "sound" and I disagree.
He did not want him as my brother. Brother throughout the day to care for her sister, was fussy and asking all sorts. He has no patience.
      Appointment time to time I go out drinking his coffee. I black coffee, his milk coffee.
Occasionally he pulled me sad sad walk around, eventually to bar the country. British milk coffee. I black coffee.
      He has a girlfriend. His girlfriend lovely, very gentle, feminine. Go with me like a fragile young rabbits. He proudly said, she did not "locust," stubborn as you.
      I have a boyfriend. You handsome brother, galant, always spoiled me. Come with me, he never made me instant death. I proudly show off, he really is the support pillar.
2 pairs occasionally meet. I have black coffee. He always coffee milk.
My boyfriend said, he changed his glasses for children. I do not bear, black coffee is my hobby.
His girlfriend questions, he does not drink coffee as black as the other sons. He shrugged, milk coffee taste with him.
      While talking, you and I have often quarreled. My boyfriend is always a mediator. His girlfriend says he must know the gentle daughter compromise.
Finally he is he. I'm still me.
He split with his girlfriend. There is also unsteady time. But I have no regrets. Britain and her fundamental incompatibility. Although she tried to spoil him, but he still found something missing personality. Personality that was truly missing him attractive.
      My boyfriend broke up. For a time it felt empty. But I have no regrets. You and your son can not find a common voice. Although he does not make me angry, rarely a fight with me. But I still see missing. That "missing" it made me depressed.
      He and appointments that do not meet in the old cafe.
      I call black coffee.
      He called coffee milk.
      The two people familiar with compensation. He's not a wrong place again.
He was silent. I would not say. Wait waiter left, he pulled a black cup of coffee on his side, pushing me toward the cup of coffee milk.
      On that day two people try to drink "taste" of each other.
      That night, he texted me "or true black coffee! He came to enjoy it! "
      I leave a message for his "milk Café also excellent. I'll drink coffee milk ... "
      Then you and I always go together, no matter where, you always called coffee milk for you and do not forget to call him black coffee ...
      Black coffee or coffee are coffee milk, right?
      Love or bitter love sweet love ... are not star?

Always wait for you to hang up first ...

2012-02-11T18:30:00.001-08:00

That day, when girls and boys are in love dearly. Each phone call, two people talking seemingly never-ending. End the call, she always hangs up before, after having tried to linger, not wanting to say goodbye, boy again feel the warmth from the king's voice was in the air, and a sad man marks, problems kingdom, save the attachment.

Then the two parted. She quickly have a new lover, a handsome, flashy. She was very satisfying, and very favorable reviews. But then later, she gradually felt between two people seem to lack something missing, the insecurity that makes her see like there is an ambiguous loss. What is discretion? She is not sure. Only when two people end a call, she felt barely finished speaking when his half of the phrase "See you", then the other end were ringing voice, "how to" hang up. Every time so she always saw the shrill sound that froze in the air, where it passes into the eardrum. She felt like a new boyfriend off like a kite string, his feeble hands could not hold the rope that hopeless.

Then along came a day, two people arguing. Depressed guy, turned around and left. Girls do not cry, but he felt like a liberation.

One day, she suddenly remembered her first love, suddenly I felt sadness: He "stupid" questions waiting to hear she finished saying "Bye". The emotion that she picked up. The boy voice of feet high, calm as ever. She never uttered the words, feverishly say "Goodbye"

This time she did not hang up, a difficult emotion that made her name known to listen to silence the silence of the other line.
Do not know how long after that, the other end came the voice of the boy, "Why do not you hang up?" Hoarse voice of the girls like, "Why I want to hang up first". "Forget it." The boy said calmly, "I want you to hang up before, so he will confident."

"He hung up later, often feel regret, as just something to lose." Her voice trembling slightly. "So he'd rather get the loss, just me happy enough." The girl burst her, crying, hot tears soaked all the childhood memories of love that. Finally, she also understood that, people do not have the patience to hear out the last sentence she said, is not this the life that she had expected.

It turns out, love, sometimes it's simple, just wait a bit, was able to say it all.

What to eat to replenish nutrients to the brain?

2012-02-09T20:26:00.003-08:00

A. Limit fast foods make way: The absorption of large amounts of food and drink make the fast line (such as candy, soda water, ...) will increase blood levels of insulin (hormone to regulate blood sugar rate) , will lead to shortage of blood glucose ratio by the body to regulate, not stop to absorb too much sugar. It makes the body becomes tired, easily impatient, distracted, ...
Two. Eat foods containing complex carbohydrates: vegetables such as dried fruits or other types of whole grains (brown rice, oats, wheat, ...), and bread. Do not forget to use these foods for dinner, because when we dream, the brain will consume 30-50% more sugar. The lack of roads are often the source cause sleep problems.

3. Avoid drinking too much alcohol: a study from 2006 by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in France revealed that the brains of people who regularly use beer, wine has a lower proportion of gray matter non-users.

4. Eat eggs: yolks contain lecithin (an indispensable type of fat in the brain), and choline (physical help develop memory). You should take from 3-4 eggs a week.

Five. Eat more foods rich in essential fatty acid: brain cell membrane specific focus is very much fat. Eat more fish to absorb the omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids is the human body is not naturally produce.

6. Eat more fruits and vegetables:

- Avocados: contains 77% fat, helps to provide the fat needed for brain, while vitamin E provides enhanced antioxidant helps slow the aging process for the brain cells.

- Broccoli: contains 90% water, iron, potassium, vitamin C and low in calories. Those who consume more substances will decrease 50% risk of cerebral vascular accident.

-Bananas: contains large amounts of vitamin B6, vitamin kind of interference in the functioning of the nervous system.

This is a love letter of a boy

2012-02-09T20:24:00.001-08:00

This is a love letter of a boy. Her father disapproved of the relationship of two people and a strict blockade. Sad ..... boy .... desperate decision to send his girlfriend broke up this letter:

1.Tinh his great love for you
Two. Gone. And you see I'm fed up with
3. On a lot more. When we meet
4. He even did not care where your face.
Five. The only thing he wants is
6. See the other girls. He never thought it would be
7. Married with children. Talk to our final
8. It's tedious and it did not
9. Make him wait to see you more
10. I just know I think for children only.
11. If we married, he felt
12. Life will become unstable. And you will not find
13. Passion as we live. He has a heart
14. But certainly not
15. To dedicate to you. Only my new children in this world
16. Furniture selfish and stupid, so I did not
17. Ability to embrace the heart
18. You really want you to understand that
19. What he said was true. I will help him a lot if you
20. Understanding our love has ended. Do not try
21. He replied. This letter is full of things
22. He did not want. Do not think impracticable
23. About true love with him. Well hello. Please believe what he says.
24. He could not care where you more. And please do not think that:
25. He will always be people who love you.

It was a letter too bad right? However, the bottom guy just asked the girl read the odd letter. You try to read it again to see, ensuring there will be fun! And you also predict the behavior of his girlfriend well?

The role of vitamin C for the eye and brain

2012-02-09T20:23:00.001-08:00

Scientists at the University of Oregon Health & Science, the United States has found that: You have to provide sufficient amounts of vitamin C necessary to maintain normal functioning of the brain and retinal neurons. The results of the study are published online in the journal Neuroscience, of the June 29, 2011, this is the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience United States.

"We found that the retinal nerve cells should be provided with vitamin C dose is relatively high, both inside and outside, in order to maintain normal operation of the eye", Henrique von Gersdorff Dr., Leading scientists at the Vollum Institute, OHSU University, USA, and co-author of the study. "Because the retina is part of the central nervous system, suggesting that vitamin C plays an important role during the operation of the human brain, which we had not previously realized."

The brain has special receptors, called GABA receptors, helps regulate the rapid communication between cells in the brain. GABA receptors in the brain act as a "brake" to help inhibit the neurons before the stimulus in the brain. The researchers found that the GABA receptors in retinal cells no longer function properly as lack of vitamin C.

By retinal cells is a nerve cell is easily accessible, so the GABA receptors in other areas of the brain are also required to provide the necessary amount of vitamin C for normal operation thereof, as Von Gersdorff. And since vitamin C as antioxidants in nature, maybe it is actually a protected area of the receptors and cells before the incident, Von Gersdorff said.

Although the function of vitamin C in the brain is not fully understood, but in reality, the human body is deficient in vitamin C, vitamin C in the brain will eventually disappear. "Maybe our bodies want to spend the final amount of vitamin C in the brain," according to Von Gersdorff. This finding may provide answers to why patients in the scurvy, the result of severe vitamin C deficiency. One of the common symptoms of depression disease scurvy, and is the first consequence of the lack of vitamin C in the brain.

The findings could influence the course of treatment for diseases such as glaucoma and epilepsy. Cause the two diseases is due to the dysfunction of the nerve cells in the retina and the brain, they are more irritable, partly because the GABA receptor was not functioning normally.

"For example, a diet rich in vitamin C may help protect the retinal neurons, particularly for those at risk of glaucoma," said Von Gersdorff. "Anyway, this is just speculation and theory need more empirical research to prove. However, results of this study has provided some important insights and lead to a variety of authors new theories and potential treatment strategies. "

Von Gerdorff Laboratory of Vollum Institute, OHSU University, United States, are reserved for scientists and students to perform basic research in neuroscience. The study was conducted using goldfish retinal cells, which have the same overall structure as biological human retina.

Retinal research work done by Dr. Evan Vickers practice, this is part of the work of Von Gersdorff laboratory. Co-authors of this study include: Cecilia Calero in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel J. Calvo from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Gustavo and Luis Cid Aguayo from the University of Concepcion, Chile.

The research was funded boiHoi Research Council National Science Argentina, Pew Foundation, the Organization and the International Brain Research National Eye Institute National Institutes of Health of the United States.

Life experiences

2012-02-09T20:22:00.007-08:00

A. Do not anger out on others:

Everyone has accepted time feeling down, do not aggravate the problem and take out her frustration on others, this only makes the situation more serious and growing frustration; instead, please rely on friends to drive away the discomfort and get back to fun.

Two. Do not worry about the breakdown:

Accept the breakup as an indispensable part of life, not everyone will get the first one you love, you can also not an exception. Instead of anger, think about the future, do something useful for yourself, your sadness will pass and you have a new love.

3. Avoid the word "know" when other people are saying:

It's like "I knew it, he shut up!", This is a suppressed excitement of the people are talking and digging a gulf between them (I imagine when I tell someone a story of the thrown in the face "I know"). Instead, listen happily because he agrees with them or know what I know, and say to talk to them about this common problem.

4. Check the odd thing:

"I can do all satisfied", which is one odd thing. Whether we have to be kind to everyone, then it does not mean that everyone will treat with me (hazeem: you are a vegetarian does not mean that the cow will not be knocked into you). Instead, have fun with those who behave with me and beautifying that friendship, accept those who are indifferent to our good actions, see the object that is not to make friends.

Five. Meditation as a way to retrieve the spirit:

People who could not avoid endless thoughts, and worries about work, friends and even yourself ... if we do not know to stop these thoughts, then your brain will overload and BOOM, I would stress, as everything will be messed up. Meditation is a great way that anyone can also be applied to reduce the load to the brain. Sitting in a quiet place, do not think any of what to take a deep breath and I will feel comfortable and more intense support. Life will become more comfortable and full of joy.

6. Do not become scavengers hair trace:

This is easier to make and most common in every person, always focused on the flaws, shortcomings of others and of themselves, these errors are exaggerated up by disparaging and complaints ... When that we will always scowl and discomfort and have a fun fantasy to find a weakness of others. Instead, accept it as a defect integral part of each person, focusing on the good things of them as well as of ourselves; if it is not yet found a good score or (a can) not good (for us), it is not obvious to bother us.

7. Be careful when choosing the battlefield:

Everyone has their own battle, think carefully about the importance of the battlefield before the fight, avoid these critical battlefield can not have just effort, have lost the peace. It is best to score-10 for each battlefield, where were scored from 5 or less, should not be stuck to. This will help us avoid the stress in your life and resolve work more effectively

8. Accept their mistakes:

I would be very upset if a friend had given during their error clear. Sadly, this happens very often, people can see the faults of others but rarely easily accept his mistakes. When we do not know the school swimming pool, can not sit home so that others do not know it. If people accept their faults, we will progress more quickly and more beloved by all.

9. Fun for others:

Are you glad you met your jokes? If the answer is yes, congratulations, you've got a very precious source of nutrition for the happiness of life itself. If we know the joy of fun with others, we have been beneficial to themselves, which adds more fun and warm friendship, above all, we have contributed to a world of fun together.

10. Ask your loved one honestly:

"What are my weaknesses?": I heard the weaknesses of others from the mouth does not make us ashamed, because they say it or not, has realized that, and now we hear that is useful to oneself, one side knows about the conclusion to modify itself, on the other hand to help other people know that I am an open person, ready to collect opinions of others, making friendship and love is long lasting.

Balanced diet

2012-02-09T20:22:00.001-08:00

International Conference on Health in Victoria (Australia) launched a manifesto consists of three issues: balanced diet, oxygen & Advocacy mood well, exactly like the idea of meditation. Professor of medicine Qi Nations Luc (Americans United, has worked for the World Health organization for many years-WHO) deployed on the following three issues:

A. Balanced diet.

For years many people think that keeping healthy people have nothing to worry and that her bed early up early, but what a healthy person would. Please say to you, a hundred years ago, I can say that it was, but now says it is so ignorant, that many things have changed.
Said balanced diet is said the two stories: eat and drink.

Drinks

At the international conference that six people had to drink health protection:

- Green Tea;
- Red Wine;
-Soy milk;
-Yogurt (side note, people do not say cow's milk);
-Bone soup;
- Mushroom soup.

* Mushroom soup can enhance immune function. An office that people always have a cold, sick people do not ever, why so? Because of different immunity. Drinking mushroom soup can enhance immunity, so that is wellness products.

* In bone broth containing flexible delivery (a colloid), flexible delivery longevity. Do not underestimate bone soup.

* Yogurt maintain the balance of bacteria, meaning bacteria on the growth, harmful bacteria are destroyed, so they can eat yogurt less disease. In Europe, yogurt very popular, many girls we like to eat yogurt, but they do not understand why. Made In Asia, consumption of yogurt is very low, while milk consumption is enormous. Milk itself, of course does not negate its effect, but it is far less yogurt.

* Green Tea Today many people know drinking tea, but fewer young people drinking. Why green tea could protect the health effects?

First green tea containing tea momentum distribution, momentum distribution that tea can fight cancer. Japan made a very good census. After the census, they say no one over age 40 who have no cancer cells in the body. Why are people with cancer, others do not? This is linked to drinking green tea. If you drink 4 cups of green tea per day, the cancer cells do not divide, but despite the parting of the nine years later. So in Japan, elementary school students attend school every day to drink a few cups of green tea.

Monday please note, in green tea contains fluoride, it can not only durable teeth, but also cure cavities, kill germs. 3 minutes after a meal, bacterial spot that has appeared. Currently many of us that is not good, not only do not rinse your mouth with tea, but not white water, so that new people have begun to shed 30 teeth, 50 years old, have fallen off.

Third, self contained green tea Tea orange security, improve the strength of this substance as blood vessels, making it difficult to break blood vessels. Many people with cerebral sudden, in the hospital every 4 people who die have a brain hemorrhage. Hemorrhage is not no cure, most cavalry is angry, angry beats everyone desk rolled his eyes, cerebrovascular off immediately. The position A, the drinking age should go early, you have to beat at the round table a few eye is not concerned.

* Red wine capital is on the shell with a red grape called pure invert (reverse alcohol). This substance is effective against aging failure, and an anti-oxidant, people or less red wine heart disease .. It can also help us prevent heart suddenly stops beating, we call down unexpectedly. In any case the heart may stop beating? One is heart disease, hypertension two, three is high cholesterol. Dangerously high blood fat wherein? The heart may suddenly stop beating. There was a guy 20 years old, he took out the blood of the form of mud, very dangerous. Ask him, he was told to eat more nutritious too. He's not eating too much junk food that is too unreasonable.

Red wine also has an effect is that lower blood pressure, lower blood fat. Red wine has some great effects like that, it sold very well overseas. Many people will ask: why not ban alcohol? World Health Organization says that smoking cessation, limiting alcohol, but alcohol ban say where in addition also clearly limit the amount of wine: wine grapes per day not more than 50-100cc, white wine per day does not exceed 5 -10cc, 300cc of beer every day too. If you exceed that amount is wrong, it is not so good quality .. There is a woman who asked: I do not know how to drink it? I do not drink, do not eat grapes lower interest back?

Eating grapes may lower interest not eat all the skin back? But no white grape invert the net, you eat to no avail. Now that Europe has with red grapes and cakes. Washed red grapes to eat, swallow the shell is like, nothing's okay. So people have money to drink red wine, people without money do not eat red grapes are peeled stay healthy alike. Still others retorted. I do not have money, how? Please say to you, at international conferences we have investigated it, the areas of longevity around the world are in areas less money, are poor. So there are strangers? Who have the money on drinking days, large and small parties, poultry meat, they have a big belly, with the tail, so very few people who live beyond the age of 65.

Food

Everyone knows that corn, beans and vegetables are very good. It is said Mac Donald is junk food, because it is a food stimulus offset, resulting in first person by the tail, like a bunch of luggage. People are afraid to eat because food has to take a slimming finished. We should know that food stimulation, misleading, inconsistent with the culinary habits of man.

* The type of glass:

- Maize (corn)

At the international conference this ancient people did not mention rice, white flour, nor Mac Donald said. The species comes first cup corn, calling it gold tree. Background of corn, the U.S. medical society has found that investigated the original Americans, the Indian no hypertension, no atherosclerosis. Because they eat corn. Later discovered in the old corn containing high egg should not happen once more hypertension and atherosclerosis. Since then, America has changed, the Americas, Africa, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Guangzhou of China, eat breakfast tortillas. Now many people eat egg once more to do? The hope is not atherosclerosis .. But they did not know that a lot of old corn, not cost much.

- Buckwheat (Oats)

Why mention buckwheat? It usually has three high current, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar. Buckwheat is three lowering, lowering blood pressure, lower cholesterol, lower blood sugar. In buckwheat contains 18% cellulose, people do not eat buckwheat gastro intestinal, rectal cancer, colorectal cancer. Among those who sat ill office, up to 20% of rectal cancer, colorectal cancer.

- Oats (Rolled Oats, the market under the brand Quaker Oats).
If you have high blood pressure, certain to eat oats, oatmeal, oat

- The potato

White sweet potatoes, red potatoes, yams, potatoes. These international conferences mentioned. Why? Because they have three absorption: absorption of water, fat and sugar intake, absorption of toxins. Water absorption, intestinal smooth, not rectal cancer, colorectal cancer. Absorption of fat and sugar, not diabetes. Absorption of toxins, not suffering from gastritis, intestinal. . Expect people to eat more potatoes, the staple food should be the potato slices. It can lower blood pressure, lower blood fat.

- List (Millet: small particles larger than sesame seeds)

Draft draft section says very clearly: this can be deducted low Pi conditions, calm, security domains, (sleep) greater benefits like that he does not eat? Now many people are sitting office, sleepless nights, suffering from depression UAT documents, certificates nerve function, there are people who take sedatives to 8 members still could not sleep. Statistics on eating porridge is good spirits, at a bowl of millet congee, bed suffering of pain. Better food and treatment with drug treatment.

Why do not we solve the problem by eating, but insisted to take medicine! Ten drugs are toxic, the second nine, never heard of using drugs to stay healthy. Should be clear: no one should take indiscriminately, taking only a short time, if less disease then quickly stopped.

* Beans

Soy is nutritious flower, the king of beans. In soybeans at least five kinds of anticancer agents, particularly the royal cell, it can prevent and cure breast cancer, colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer. So for us is the yellow is the best soy milk.

Cow's milk or soy milk good? At an international conference of the United Nations is said, in breast milk has more sugar, but two-thirds of the world is not absorbed as sugar, the yellow in Asia has 70% of people are not interesting obtained powder sugar. Soy milk has the advantages? In soy milk contains fruit sugar, fruit sugar intake to 100%.

* Vegetables

- Carrots.

The draft policy outline China's entry is written vegetables eye care. I looked at did not see, especially blindness, food is from. It protects the mucous membranes, prolonged eating carrots look less cold. Americans for the carrot is the herbs beauty, hair care, skin care, nursing mucosa. People who regularly eat carrots is a beauty from the inside out. The concept is beautiful in person than harmony. Many of our girls get tricked, and her makeup is easy to see, to remove makeup when going harder than originally considered.

Americans are aware of this, they are eating carrots. First, it support lining, cold look at. Second, it's pretty healthy. Third, it has little effect against cancer, more good for the eyes. Europe has a carrot cake. At high temperatures, nutrients in carrots are not impaired.

- Pumpkin.

It stimulates pancreatic cells, insulin production. So people who regularly eat very little pumpkin diabetes. The vegetables also need to mention the bitter melon (bitter gourd). But it is bitter, but it secretes insulin, people often eat bitter melon did not have diabetes. Pumpkin, melon, people in certain age we have to eat too.

- Tomatoes.

In the U.S., almost every family who has planted tomatoes, tomato eating, the goal is to avoid cancer. It is known that the new 5 or 6 years. Eating tomatoes is not cancer, you know this? But not eat tomatoes arbitrarily. Tomatoes have a chemical called substance tomatoes, cut it in combination with a protein, cellulose wrapped around a very difficult place. So to warm up, warm up to certain level, it was new. Please tell you, tomato fried egg is most worthy. And tomato soup or tomato soup chicken eggs are also good. Do not eat raw tomatoes against cancer, for people to remember.

- Garlic.

Garlic is the king against cancer. Someone immediately said that dish must be eaten hot. Why you want to eat something hot? Please answer with you: garlic is heated up to 0! There was a Shandong, loves to eat, just peel and eat each branch, also said that garlic does not have cancer, but soon he had cancer before. What is the cause? Please answer the position, we must first move into individual cloves of garlic slices, each slice in the air for 15 minutes, after it combines with oxygen to produce quality new garlic (elements of mathematics).

I personally do not fight cancer, estimates of new cancer-fighting elements, moreover the king against cancer. The other day I see someone eat garlic, he took a bowl of noodles, then quickly peel the garlic, eating garlic each, less than five seconds have eaten. Not even 5 seconds! So do not eat anything useful. If fear of garlic odor, then eat a medlar fruit, chewing communications holding popcorn, or eat some tea leaves that smell all day. In the week that abroad people eat well, do we not eat!

- Black Wood ear (black fungus).

Black fungus effect? Now just to Year, who died of a heart attack on a lot, more and more people die young, even in the age of 30! Why so much death until New Year? There are two reasons, one is high blood stop physical characteristics, ie high blood fat. The memory for you, special people called high blood physically stopped.

Elderly people can stop high quality plus food stop, so the festival who died of myocardial infarction significantly more, regardless of age. Died of myocardial infarction but not in any way to cure, but prevention is possible. There are doctors recommend taking aspirin, why? Can cause non-specific blood, no heart attack. But what consequences? Consequences of drinking plenty of aspirin is bleeding of the eye. Now many retinal hemorrhages. So should not take aspirin anymore. Currently in Europe do not take aspirin anymore. So how?

- Eating black fungus.

Black fungus (mushrooms) has two effects, of which one is causing the blood thickens. The effect of black fungus is caused by a U.S. expert to detect heart disease, he won the Nobel Prize. After he was discovered, all the Europeans, who have money and position should eat black fungus, not taking aspirin again. How high people are physically stop? Please answer the low, big, fat women, especially in the transition years. Moreover the blood group AB were more likely to stop high blood characteristics. The shorter the neck more vulnerable.

The first is do not eat much seafood, second drink some tea and delicious, performance targets blood stasis; third is necessarily angry, everyone is angry blood thickens. Drink special white blood is easy, they want to drink red wine, no more than 100ml. If you eat the peanuts (peanut), necessarily do not eat, but eat it peeled away. Someone asked: The silk cover is not that why nutrition? Who says so, let me tell you, there is no nutrition nut, it can only stop the blade of blood, improve the blood profile, used to stop bleeding. Middle-aged and old people should not eat us.

Attention and watching TV, television or the view for a moment, then do not watch television. Why? So long sitting, the blood will stop rising. Dwarves, stout, fat, no neck, back transition is old, the blood type AB eat wild shellfish, then angry, to drink white wine, finished touch not eat peeled, such people died without myocardial infarction, it is strange ..

- Pollen (Pollen: only sold in herbal stores).

President Reagan once wounded, was once the melanoma, he had aged so remains healthy, only suffering from dementia of the elderly. The pollen has worked great for his body. Now in Europe, the Americas are prevalent pollen. Wu Zetian was eating pollen, Empress Dowager Cixi also eat pollen.

Everyone knows, pollen is the plant's sperm, it conceived life, nutrition is rich, is the best plant. Ancient have, but we forget. The pollen you do not buy in the street, pollen in the street selling hard shelled, not breaking the wall. Break the wall should have handled high-tech science. Second, the pollen grows wild, ease pollution, to disinfect. Third, it is a protein, to escape introspection. Pollen have been using this new 3: treatment and disposal of toxic, free introspection. Pollen is used in Japan much, at what age it is also used to beautify. The sample used in French no one. Documented that, the rate of pollen treatment was 97%.

If using pollen from the drug does not cure nor solve, were finally depleted kidneys, haematuria, and renal tumors. So early treatment but do not have to wait until the kidney function exhaustion. Even intestinal disorders, women with multiple, nature retention practices. Many medications come out that colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer. Pollen has a name called the police intestines after eating pollen, police can maintain order and intestines. Thirdly, it makes pretty healthy, maintain fitness. Three major effects of the pollen can not be ignored.

* Food Animal

It is said to eat four-legged animals, not by eating the legs, which eat their legs did not eat a lot of legs. If the meal includes pork and goat, the goat meat; with goat meat and chicken, the chicken meat, chicken and fish, eat fish, eat fish and shrimp, the shrimp. It was not a guest. The smaller the animal protein as possible.

Nutritionist mass to just watch or small animals; bring out the molecular formula, people do not understand. Not to mention mouse. At an international conference of the protein was said fleas are the best. Flea, do not see it's small, it can jump higher than 1 meter, he can not believe .. If you enlarge it by the human body, it can jump up to the moon again either! So have some American doctors are studying how to eat fleas.

WHO now recommend people eat more chicken and fish. Why do not recommend eating shrimp? Is not recommended, but is too expensive shrimp, hardly universal. If a shrimp, the shrimp is good food. Some crawfish eating enough protein rather than a belly full of beef.

More popular fish is easy. Protein of fish an hour is absorbed, the absorption rate of 100%, while beef protein to three hours to absorb. Fish is particularly suitable for the elderly is the body weakness. Of course, even better shrimp fishing. International survey, the most famous life world are Japan, the life expectancy of Japanese is coastal, coastal life which is the highest local fish. Especially the baby fish, baby shrimp, remember to eat fish (the head and tail), because the active substance, which is at the top of the active substance in the stomach and small fish, shrimp, baby. This is science, not just chose to buy fish as well.

As a good rule is to eat more food must master volume, not eating as much as possible. On the international rules: eat no 7 in 10, stomach pain for life, food 8/10 is the max, if you eat it 10/10 then 2/10 other useless. So international recommendations golden ratio is 0.618: food additives 6, four major food; food raw 6, fine food 4; six plants, animals 4. Material balance is a rule. Children birth to 5 months of breast feeding is best, breast milk than 5 months is not enough, need more 42 or more foods.

It's especially hard to old age. Fortunately there is a French doctor named Climent, travel to Africa saw the largest lake in Africa dress well outlive us. They eat what? Eat seaweed, dried and made dumplings to eat, then drink seaweed soup. So he brought the Paris experiment, it is seaweed, seaweed spiral. This spiral Rong discovered in 1962, discovered this tumultuous world. Why? One gram of it with a synthesis .. 000 grams of all kinds of vegetables, especially nutrient-rich, very comprehensive, distributed nutrient balance, is more alkaline foods. In Japan every year they sold 500 tons of spiral algae, they travel to China to bring everyone. 8 grams of seaweed is twisted can sustain life for 40 days. Also it is very important for some diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes ...

The biggest advantage is made of seaweed twisted diabetic patients without complications, can eat like normal people. Diabetics lack of energy, not to eat sugar, the dried seaweed is twisted, dry sugar is absorbed energy. Patients with diabetes, unstable blood sugar, seaweed twisted after discontinuation of the drug can slowly, then gradually stop twisting seaweed, ultimately controlled by soft foods. For gastritis, stomach ulcers, spiral algae chlorophyll, which acts to restore the gastric mucosa.

Rong twisted also have the effect of radiation rooms. When nuclear power stations of the Soviet Union exploded, Japanese experts to research and bring seaweed twisted, anti-radiation effect is very strong. But there are several ways to reserve: one is drinking green tea and the second point is to eat green vegetables, carrots, Tuesday is eating seaweed twisted; Wednesday for spacious eat algae. Algae for the best resistance. Depending on economic conditions that pick their way, they really are not eating green vegetables, carrots. Radiation exposure can anybody. International has warned, do not lead necessarily electronics in the bedroom. Microwave is for us the greatest harm, within 7 meters of radiation it can be to us. And other electrical appliances should not be open at once. Just a TV, just a fridge, a microwave oven to moderate, your food right next to, the cancer is not something unjust.

10 ultra cool fruit for the summer

2012-02-09T07:21:00.003-08:00

During the heating season to avoid the too sweet ripe fruit, full of sugar because the body heat easily from the inside. The fruit is suitable for hot summer include:
A. Watermelon contains more antioxidants in nature, is a source of vitamin C and A. Red watermelon contains a lot of beta-carotene and licopene. These are agents that neutralize free radicals damage the body and the most dangerous cancer-causing cells.
Two. Melon can I prevent sun. According to research results, the melon has some vitamins and minerals beneficial to the body. Mature fruit can be eaten or not eaten with sugar, green food cooked shrimp or shrimp cool. However melon eating more susceptible to colic live, who should be cured and organ welding fasting.
3. Mangosteen xanthone rich compounds act as natural antibodies enhances energy, fight fatigue, combat obesity, preventing heart disease, circulatory system and improve digestion, fostering body and anti-aging, memory and increase longevity.
4. Lemon high levels of vitamin C and contain more organic acids are very good for refreshment. There are also many other nutrients and mineral elements, particularly selenium, should lemon is good for balance diet. But people should not use the stomach.
Five. Sweet passion fruit, contain organic acids, mainly citric acid (3.9 g gam/100, less acidic than lemon). In addition, there are lemon and mineral micronutrients such as iron, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium ..., vitamins, especially vitamin C.
6. Tangerines, oranges, grapefruit also have high levels of vitamin C, especially citrus fruits, especially grapefruit, citrus fiber because there is more fat-burning feature is very popular woman.
7. Pineapple also contains vitamin C, minerals and micronutrients, but more specifically regulate the bromelin, an enzyme capable of causing soft and easily digestible protein.
8. Contracts are sour sweet pepper-inflammatory effects, diuretic, used for clearing toxic heat in the body, treating flu, fever, headache, runny nose, cough, sore throat. Every day about 100-120 grams of fresh contract extract juice from drinking.
9. Grape also contains organic acids help better cooling. Especially in grapes contain compounds such as resveratrol (polyphenol structure is effective against oxidative cell) is related to the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular and nervous.
10. Dragon contains many nutrients and micronutrients help increase the metabolism of substances in the body, enhanced detoxification, improved skin smooth skin. Thanks to contain more fiber and less sugar, dragon also help treat diabetes and obesity.

5 types of diseases should avoid eating more fruits

2012-02-09T07:20:00.000-08:00

We all know that fruit contains many nutrients, the fruit will be beneficial to health. But many people have the misconception that fruit is always good for your health and eat as much fruit as healthy then.
Eating more fruit can interfere with digestion and respiration, such as eating too many oranges, tangerines will make our body to heat (heat) can lead to diseases such as sore throat, hoarseness; pears much food will damage the spleen and stomach; eat much red will make our bodies dry. If you have hepatitis, we should refrain from eating sour fruits such as cell mai, hawthorn fruit (Hawthorn).
Here are 5 types of diseases caused by eating more fruits:

Disease susceptibility: Common mango and pineapple (pineapple). There are two kinds of people when they eat this fruit, the mouth will be itching, swelling, severe and serious than a rash.
Kidney disease: eat more red will have kidney stones. Especially older people eat more red easily cause intestinal blockage.
Constipation Disease: According to Chinese medicine and guava apple capital work "hushed", and two types of fruit can also cure diarrhea, so those who suffer from constipation should eat two fruits this. In apples contain substances Tannin and protein in combination with tannins that make up the hushed protein, causing the intestines to work slowly and cause constipation.
Low blood pressure: eat more fabric will lead to low blood pressure and may have concurrent diseases such as tonsillitis, pharyngitis. Those too sensitive or high blood sugar should eat no more fabric.
The disease is difficult to digest: the durian plant contains more protein, eating durian chemical will cause indigestion.

Experience exists in the sea

2012-02-08T23:37:00.001-08:00

GROWTH WITH CURRENT INFORMATION IS VERY fast, ships in distress ALWAYS RECEIVE TIMELY ... BUT NOT WITHOUT RISK!
ACCIDENTS AT SEA
On your voyage, whether large or small vessels, may also occur the accidents such as the two ships crashed into each other, touch the reef, and on ice (typical case of the Titanic), having storm damage on ship ... If you entered a combat zone may be sunk, hit by torpedoes ... And the consequences can lead boat was capsized.When incidents occur for any reason, then:- Immediately signaled (by any means whatever) for emergency power with International SOS code.- Try to slow the sinking of the vessel by closing the door to the sea, the air vents and exhaust ... Take advantage of the full capacity water pumps. To extend the standby time relief.- If the vessel is large, relatively slow time sink. You need to inform all passengers carrying lifebelts prepared to leave the ship. Lower down the lifeboat. Priority for children, women and the elderly. Do not panic.- If the vessel is not damaged, try to run on the mainland or the nearest island, as close as possible.JUMP IN THE WATER
If the cold season (or are in cold waters), before jumping into the water, should wear more clothes (if any waterproof clothing as possible), a hat, bring socks and of course is to provide lifeline students.When jumping into water, vertical jump, feet first, legs closed, eyes forward, hands arms around his chest, fell on lifebelts. Do not jump down as plug-in pool. Nose to prevent choking water.If possible, you should choose the direction the wind blows the wind to avoid bumping into the boat.If a vessel, after the water, should leave immediately broadside. Because the ship sinks, will form a very strong swirl flow, pulling in all the objects nearby.After the water, people should gather together to be able to rely on each other, help and encourage each other ... And best of all the rescue teams will be highly visible and easy to help you. Divide the piece of wood or other floating objects floating on the water to increase its strength well.
USE buoy
When an accident at sea, need to jump into the water to escape it whether you are a beat length swimmers, also need to bring a lifeline to maintain their strength and prolonged survival time on the water.Life buoy with a variety of different types: a type blower in mouth, with little use of compressed (just snatch up key free compressed air is inflated buoys), has a type of the material itself it has a certain force emerged.When encountering a dangerous situation, immediately notify everyone on board knows to bring lifeline. For the buoyancy floats are high for children, women and the elderly. Help them bring floats, tie, tuck button, buckle, rough guide ... Those who swim should use floats support, but low power floating, but convenient to manipulate while swimming.If lack of lifebelts, who know how to swim should find or make for themselves a lifeline by finding empty cardboard boxes, empty can, nylon bags, foam materials, light and high buoyancy ... ties used together. It can blow many small nylon bag, for the two columns and then grabbed the pants. When using this type of buoy, not jumped into the water because the dam will break the power and air bags, floats will take effect.(Please refer to the "MAKE FRIENDS SIMPLE)
USE Boat & life rafts
When the accident occurred at sea, boats or life rafts as the best means for us to escape. But to be safe and highly effective, you need to know some things:- If the lifeboat is made of wood or fiberglass, when used, must be released slowly into the sea. If you should drop by a crane for a few children or weak women to sit on and control the canoe down slowly (these people can not jump straight into the sea).- If boats or life rafts are made of rubber blower (usually compressed air) may be thrown straight into the sea. But before you throw, need a long rope to the boat slip friends precautions when thrown into water, because the wind was light so easy to lapse.- Or the assistant captains, sailors ... should be prepared for each boat or life rafts some food, water and living equipment such as weapons, flashlight, fire flares, reflective glass, color posters, knives, paddles, emergency medicines. .. and a long string column after boat or life rafts, to miss someone fell into the water, they can stick to it so we pulled up.- After defeating boats or life rafts into the water, they need to send two healthy, good swimming, a climbing friends and friends around a pool to help others climb.- If more number of people are loads of boats or life rafts good swimmers should wear a life buoy and swim under the boat, if they stick slightly in chronic fatigue canoe.- After a boat, absolutely follow the guidance of the crew, where they sit there, not pushing, running back and forth, leaning out canoes alongside ...
- If before, the ship was promptly signaled for help, then the rescue teams will come and they will hunt priority areas first accident, so after taking canoe, kayak you should not go too flicker but should drop away around the accident area, unless you know the direction to the mainland or islands or see the lights (for night).- Appointment of alternate water slapped out of lifeboats.- Cut appoint not always observed on the sea and, if the sight of the plane, or boat, immediately signaled for help. If the sun is good, mirror or a piece of polished metal is the most effective (see CONTACT THE PHI), if not available, use smoke, color, fabrics, bright colors ... attract their attention. Can be used at night fireworks light the fire or fire.- The most important thing is to know how to unite, encourage, comfort and attention to help each other. If so, then you can overcome all hardships to survive together.
Swim to shore
If the directions or you can see the shore and the situation likely or forced to swim to shore, you go:- Try to find a buoy or floating object to cling to.- Take advantage of the wind or the flow of the ocean.- Use of soft comfortable breaststroke to save energy.If that is the wave normal.- Swim behind the waves.- When the waves break, if necessary, to dive through.If you have big waves.- Swim between the two waves.- Try to swim close waves.- If from sea waves advance into close (behind you), let's dive a little hold over from the then pending between the two waves emerge and swim to. If not, when the waves lapping at the back of you, will make you somersault.
Float
In order to conserve energy while swimming, relaxing you to know the rest by floating. Everyone of us can float, even those who could not swim, because it does not require health and exercise more.In calm waters, you can drop back slightly to rest and help you gain more strength or energy. But if in the ocean currents or big waves in the ocean, you can not drop back which can only swim float by standing quietly.The floating when you need a boat capsized in the dark, unable to swim to shore orientation or floating to rest your rehabilitation after a long swim. Float also help you conserve energy to be able to stay long under water while waiting for people to save or improve the situation.
It is easier to float if you have a buoy or other equipment, materials, floating ... Otherwise, you can use their pants to make a temporary pontoon (as shown) to break.
The decrease in heatYou can only stay long in the water if the water temperature of not less than 70oF, which is equivalent to 21.5 ° C, but if the temperature is below 68oF (# 20 ° C) will lead to hypothermia very dangerous if the body can not be protection. If there are clothes, the symptoms will appear after 8 hours in the country, without clothes, just after 4 hours. If the temperature down to 57oF (15oC #), the survival time not exceeding 2 hours.When you are in cold water, keep your head well above water, trying to protect the neck, chest, armpits, groin (part of the body are susceptible to the cold intrusion) by thick clothing. If there is only one of their knees up, folded both arms in front and motionless body to retain body heat. If there are 2-3 people, let's embrace the bitter cold (of course you need floats or equipment as well).
EXIST IN FRIEND
Can be caused by shipwreck, by accident, by plane to an emergency landing into the sea or for a reason that you are drifting at sea with a raft, then ask you follow these instructions the following:- Fasten the items that you have on friends, to avoid making waves or flip down lost friends.- Keep dry clothes, socks and gloves, covering all the places where the body is exposed to sunlight, if possible, because the heat of the sun can burn your skin blistering.- Dry clothes is essential to help us against the cold, especially at night.- Take advantage of shade sails or other materials to cover the sun, trying to minimize exposure to sunlight, since it is easy to dehydrate your body.- Inventory all food and water and keeping a safe and cool, dietary restriction in the first 24 hours.- You can be at sea for several days, so the need to conserve energy, avoid these activities do sweat and energy consumption.- Prepare a sign of things to do for the plane, or boat (as mentioned previously).
MOVE WITH FRIENDS (OR lifeboats)
When traveling with friends, you need to choose one of two methods move: Either the downwind, or be relied on ocean currents.Wind and ocean circulation rarely move in the same direction, usually a forward and a gain. You need to have some knowledge of wind and ocean circulation, the location (relative) of yourself, you need to know direction, wind or ocean that will take you anywhere.
Application of ocean currentsA raft sails must not be dominated by the tides, so you have to know how to use it so it helps you in the voyage.To use ocean currents, it is common to use a thick cloth bag called "sail bucket" or "neo bucket" (sea anchor) to drop into the water, the water flow will cause the bucket and push them apart accompanied by a raft. When water flows up, drag friends to go too fast, people deflate "bucket sails" again. As weak as water flows slowly or real friends, people expanding the "sail bucket" out.
If no "sad bucket", you can also use the ocean currents by making friends is partially submerged in water (as steam blow down if the friends of rubber), the column for some objects sink in water to withstand the impact of ocean currents more. If lucky, the flow will take you through the maritime routes of your boat or bring ashore.
The ocean currents:As the water exchange between the sea and other sea, forming the flow circulation in the sea as rivers. The tides vary by season and each different waters. Below is a diagram of the currents in the South China Sea.
Application of windThe wind was a companion of the ancient mariners, but if we do not master the rules of the wind, instead of leading us into the land, the wind also takes us further away.South China Sea, fills our country in Southeast Asia monsoons with two major wind: northeast monsoon and southwest monsoon.Intensity, two types of wind changed a lot in the transition months (April and September, October) the wind is not stable.Northeast monsoon activity lasted from October to April next year.Southwest monsoon lasts from May to October and by the ocean originated in this period should rains.
For maximum use of wind:- Do not use "sail dandruff"- Blow inflated real friends (if they are rubber friends) make friends as well as high light as possible.- "Passengers" sitting very high on the friends, the body can be inspired to wind up.- Set sail (or other materials used to catch the wind like sails). It is also used as animal signs for other vessels easily seen.Where you are in a difficult position, friends can not rely in the wind or ocean currents to move, try to preserve and limited food rations and drinking water to sustain life as long as possible.
Catching up on FRIENDS
During the lifetime of friends, whether or not you have food, you also need to know some methods of fishing for more fresh food and supplement their food supply as much as possible .
FishingIf you only have hooks but no bait, you can hook one or more columns at different depths, gently pull back to the friends. The fish are curious or friends to stay under the pool can hit hooks and stick (this is often the case when we go fishing, sometimes you stick with the hips). When the first fish caught, you get bowel disemboweling hooks to hook into the bait.
The tools and other fishing methods:No hooks, you can use knives, sticks, oars, forks, noose ... even bare hands; for cutting, stabbing, beating, strangle, shoot ... fish or other marine life near the surface hovering around friends.

COLORS OF THE SEA
When traveling on the sea, we also need to know a number of issues and phenomena related to our survival, which is also the color of the sea for us more important information. Seawater usually has two main colors: Luc and Green.Clerk: When the number of microbial organisms and many, low salinity.Green: When microbial organisms and small, high salinity.Chromaticity of the sea (and green) will depend on:- Sunlight and depth of the sea (as far as dark).- The difference in salinity and the number of organisms of the flow (eg the Gulf Stream and Labrador in the North Atlantic) also changes the color of the sea.- The areas of coral reefs often yellowish.- The color of the sea when the weather is not exactly bad or murky.
APPROXIMATE DISTANCE
At sea, the target distance used to be disturbed by a multitude of water vapor and droplets forming mist snow or fog, ... so as to estimate the distance at sea, often dishonest.Many of you see the goal seems closer than it really is because:- Light the sun behind you.- When you look through the water (light is refracted).- The air is so pure.Sometimes you see the goal seems more distant by the fact that:- Lack of light or by the fog.- Always looking for more than large waves, especially when the direct wave (perpendicular) to the observer.In the case of good weather, with the naked eye, you can see the images in the table below to estimate distances:- The distance of 50 meters: Foreseeing the eyes, nose or mouth of a person.- The distance of 100 meters: Two eyes only 2 points.- 200 meters distance: You can still see the face.- The distance of 500 meters: Also see the color of clothing, chess table semaphore and read the names of the average ship.- The distance of 800 meters: People like a little stick. Also read the table names of the big ship.- Distance 1500 meters: Also see the full ship.- Distance 3000 - 4000 meters: In the upper part of the ship- The distance 11-15 km: Only the chimney or mast.
Latitude by ESTIMATES ABOUT U.S.
When floating on the waters in the Northern Hemisphere, you can see the North Star to estimate we are at Latitude (North) does. Want to be like that, you get the Meridian and Horizon Road to form two sides of the right angle, crossing at ourselves. Horizon we get a point 0o and 90o Meditation is, if the North Star is located in many corners of the square, then we're right at that latitude on the ground (sea).In the figure, we see the North Star is at 45 ° (between Heaven and the horizon). Thus, we are at 45 ° North Latitude.Even if you do not have the "glass hexadecimal", you can also use the above method to estimate distances quite accurately by calculating the difference of the north star after each move the road. Every difference is equivalent to 60 miles (miles) or 90 km on the ground (sea).
ISLANDS IN MAY FIND
The cloud will make real our attention because it is standing still while clouds still moving around.Real clouds generally appear above the island (or hills or mountains on the island) is due to the winds carry more water vapor continuously blown into the island, when touched the island land mass in the high rises, cold air meet then condenses into clouds (cloud real estate is provided by continuous steam). The island is located below the horizon it is difficult to see.Once past the island, low wind and warm, can not form another cloud.

SEARCH BY LAND CHIM
The ancient mariners they went to sea without a map and marine areas, they are just based on experience, judgment and some tips. To find the direction of the land, they brought some birds live in the continent. When needed, they released the bird, if that land, the birds will fly towards it, if not, the birds will return to the boat.
Estimates DISTANCE BY LAND Seabirds
COAST TO TAKE ONLINE FRIENDS
In order for safe landing was close to shore friends, you go:- Try to find a hidden place onshore wind (or islands) to landing.- Do not sweep the opposite direction to the sun, light and reflection from the sea will make you dazzled, did not see the target, easy to get beat.- Select a swell little place (little white foam) will give you easy access to the beach and less energy consumption.- If you are forced to cross swell, go down the mast, tied to the tools, clothing, shoes, to minimize scratching or friction due to collisions can occur.- Use the oars or poles, sticks ... to check the depth, coral reefs ...- Drag the "sail bucket" up, especially when passing or when coral reefs were inshore.- Avoid areas with strong surf on the rocks or cliffs.- When friends prepare landing, you look straight forward, sat for it to be strong to withstand the single shock when friends ashore.- When friends just touch the ground, you just jump down, relied on friends to pull the waves on the shore.
HOW AN LOADERS ARE FRIENDS RUBBER an UPS
When a capsized rubber friends, without knowing how, alone and struggling you will hardly turn back because there is no world. You first tie a rope on one side of the line held alongside friends and swim to the other side remaining. Leo stood up straight on the redness, itching after pulling the rope straight. When friends turn back you will fall into the water, beware friends who strike.
If no "sad bucket", you can also use the ocean currents by making friends is partially submerged in water (as steam blow down if the friends of rubber), the column for some objects sink in water to withstand the impact of ocean currents more. If lucky, the flow will take you through the maritime routes of your boat or bring ashore.
The ocean currents:As the water exchange between the sea and other sea, forming the flow circulation in the sea as rivers. The tides vary by season and each different waters. Below is a diagram of the currents in the South China Sea.
Application of windThe wind was a companion of the ancient mariners, but if we do not master the rules of the wind, instead of leading us into the land, the wind also takes us further away.South China Sea, fills our country in Southeast Asia monsoons with two major wind: northeast monsoon and southwest monsoon.Intensity, two types of wind changed a lot in the transition months (April and September, October) the wind is not stable.Northeast monsoon activity lasted from October to April next year.Southwest monsoon lasts from May to October and by the ocean originated in this period should rains.
For maximum use of wind:- Do not use "sail dandruff"- Blow inflated real friends (if they are rubber friends) make friends as well as high light as possible.- "Passengers" sitting very high on the friends, the body can be inspired to wind up.- Set sail (or other materials used to catch the wind like sails). It is also used as animal signs for other vessels easily seen.Where you are in a difficult position, friends can not rely in the wind or ocean currents to move, try to preserve and limited food rations and drinking water to sustain life as long as possible.
Catching up on FRIENDS
During the lifetime of friends, whether or not you have food, you also need to know some methods of fishing for more fresh food and supplement their food supply as much as possible .
FishingIf you only have hooks but no bait, you can hook one or more columns at different depths, gently pull back to the friends. The fish are curious or friends to stay under the pool can hit hooks and stick (this is often the case when we go fishing, sometimes you stick with the hips). When the first fish caught, you get bowel disemboweling hooks to hook into the bait.
The tools and other fishing methods:No hooks, you can use knives, sticks, oars, forks, noose ... even bare hands; for cutting, stabbing, beating, strangle, shoot ... fish or other marine life near the surface hovering around friends.
Getting seabirds:You can start by hooking seabirds prey (small fish is best) into a hook (or a manufactured object such as a hook) mounted on a floating object, floating objects that connect to friends, the sea birds bite prey swooped down it will be sticky question. (See CREATE Hook).If there is a mild and slightly larger phytoplankton, (planks, empty barrels ...) the last column as your friends about 5-10 meters, a noose on it to connect with friends. The sea birds are very bold, find accommodation feet will respond to, you just snatch noose to grab.
You can also play dead lay motionless. These voracious birds will think it landed near you, just hand when suddenly grabbed. Note that the claws, wings, beak can cause injury to you. (This is the experience of a Hainanese fishermen floating on friends for nearly three months after the boat sank) (Please see also Hunting fishing).
Algae: As a supplementary source of vitamins are essential for our bodies. In the sea there are many types of algae, most are edible. However, you also need to know how to distinguish as well as processing. (See seaweed)
COLORS OF THE SEA
When traveling on the sea, we also need to know a number of issues and phenomena related to our survival, which is also the color of the sea for us more important information. Seawater usually has two main colors: Luc and Green.Clerk: When the number of microbial organisms and many, low salinity.Green: When microbial organisms and small, high salinity.Chromaticity of the sea (and green) will depend on:- Sunlight and depth of the sea (as far as dark).- The difference in salinity and the number of organisms of the flow (eg the Gulf Stream and Labrador in the North Atlantic) also changes the color of the sea.
- The areas of coral reefs often yellowish.- The color of the sea when the weather is not exactly bad or murky.
APPROXIMATE DISTANCE

Hair Care (3 items)

2012-02-08T23:36:00.000-08:00

So that the correct shampoo

(SSM) - Shampoo is one of the things that most of us do every day. So you often subjective or do lightly familiar with this work. Just a wrong action or habit also makes your hair damaged and lost inherent beauty.
Please note the following note to make sure I was shampooing the right way at times to come.
Comb your hair smooth and wet
Comb your hair smooth the troubled before wetting the hair so no more complicated problems.
You must make sure your hair is completely wet before shampooing: It will help the hair is easier to clean, and shampoo and conditioner to easily penetrate the hair better. Rinse wet hair also helps to shake off the styling products that you used earlier, using the flesh of the fingertips to lightly massage.
Hot water or cold water wash
Absolutely not wash with hot water, you can use warm or cold as you like but it's best to use warm water to help wash the hair cuticle open and easy to clean up oil and dirt.
Finally, rinse your hair with cold water afterwards to close the hair cuticle and make hair shiny.
In the direction of hair growth shampoo
It is best to shampoo hair shower located in the right way to grow it, do not wrap up the top hair shampoo makes hair easy to become confused and damaged.
Choosing the right type of product
Using the right shampoo and conditioner for your hair type will help create a healthy hair. Each product line will have different uses such as for dry hair problems, hair, oily hair, dandruff, hair straight ...
Ask the expert hair advice to choose the best for your hair condition. Absolutely not wash with soap or shower gel. These products are not consistent with the hairs making them fragile and drier.
Apply shampoo to scalp
Given a sufficient amount of shampoo to the palms. Add a little water, rub hands together to dispel then apply shampoo on your scalp.
Note that you should apply the shampoo into the scalp to the ends rather than the shampoo would dry ends and making them weaker and prone to split ends. You are not dug up and hair all over your head while washing hair easier because it will cause confusion.
Massage the meat with your fingertips
Using the flesh of your fingertips rather than nails gently massage the scalp in a circular motion. Just massage the scalp shampoo and massage along the length of hair, not hair with raking fingers to prevent damage to hair loss. Rinse shampoo.
Shampoo a second time
Normally, you need a second rinse. The purpose of the first washes to clean oil and dirt washes Monday also will help promote efficiency shampoo hair. So repeat the process but keep shampoo hair shampoo on for a few minutes. Then rinse thoroughly.
Squeeze the excess water but do not drag or pull her hair because wet hair is very thin. When your hair is dry, apply conditioner to the scalp hair shaft about 5-7cm. Claws are a bunch of hair and hold for about 1-2 minutes.
Rinse thoroughly
Finally, rinse your hair thoroughly. The rinse operation is equally important because if you do not wash shampoo or conditioner left behind will produce dandruff, leaving hair with a matte. It is best to rinse shower at least 5 minutes.
Rinse thoroughly, but do not rinse shampoo for so long that take away the natural oils beneficial to the hair. Shampoo and rinse clean medium to make sure the shampoo and conditioner hair or other substances to be cleaned.
Drying Hair
Use an absorbent towel to squeeze and squeeze dry hair, hair or rubbing your hair will cause confusion and damage.
Above washing process seems lengthy and time consuming, but remember that to have healthy beautiful hair you have to invest time and effort very much. Wash your hair properly is the first step in that journey.
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The secret to owning shiny hair, shiny

(SSM) - healthy hair is not dry or damaged by the often dull, not shiny. However, even if there was a strong hair, you also need a few more tips to help your hair is always shiny, shiny hair.
Shampoo and conditioner
You should choose a shampoo that contains natural ingredients such as the olive oil, extracted from rice ... nutrients to help save the hair around and act as a protective layer of hair from harmful agents that shiny black hair your natural color lost over time. These nutrients will naturally help restore hair's natural oils.
Use conditioner after every shampoo will make your hair shiny. Apply the conditioner with added nutrients Ceramide levels - Macadamia, serum - Olive over the entire hair, scalp to 5cm in about 1-2 minutes. Conditioner will penetrate deeply inside the hair, and cover every strand of hair, smooth hair, the optimal fine.
Occasionally, you can also use some extra nutrients to help natural shine.
Use acidic water to wash the rice (or a few drops of lemon juice to wash the rice water) wash 2 times / week. This can keep the nutritional content of vitamins A and C help hair shine, vitamin B helps the black pigment cells become darker.
Mix a teaspoon of honey into 4 cups cold water and rinse hair after wash, do not rinse with water. Or use lemon juice also helps hair smooth, shiny healthy, apply on hair for 20 minutes and rinse.
Mask for Hair
You hair should be incubated for at least a week / times to increase the shine to the hair.
8 Mix the strawberry puree with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise, massage this mixture on the whole was washed with wet hair. Hair with shower cap and wrap the hot towel for about 5-10 minutes. Then rinse and shampoo normally, this mask will help your hair shiny.
If you do not have time, use the cream hair brewed commercially available for human hair is always soft and smooth.
Glossy hair products
In order to quickly gloss hair, you use the hair finishing products. With a spray of crystals of light oil as giving you spray hair until soft and radiant shine. With hair cream ball, then stroked both hands to remove each strand of hair. However, you also should not be abused hair finishing products for greasy hair will be prone to cause dandruff.
If the product is not available, apply a little olive oil or coconut oil to add shine.
Some other notes:
Want shiny hair always stay away from high temperatures. When washing, use cold water to the hair cuticle closed and always flat. Hot water makes dry hair, loss of gloss. Drying temperature and drying medium in the direction from top to bottom to keep the hair cuticle is always flat.
Do not use too many styling products because they will cover the hair and cause tarnish.
To the hairdresser to trim the ends to damaged hair is always shiny. You should cut ends 6 to 8 weeks even if you do not need to change your style.
Vitamin E and fish oil in the diet every day to shine better.
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Hold your breath as the sperm cow hair!

The cow was "cruel" wholeheartedly serve the health and beauty of human beings. I thought so to hear of a new beauty secret team cheer: Healthy hair with cattle semen.
The dairy cows, bulls, the raw material for ... hair care, cows for meat in general. Indeed, the cow is actually a species of special use "
Therapy "Viagra for hair"
Hair on the head should also be mindful of the skin on my face like that, so I lost a lot of time to look completely natural product it will become increasingly great.
Culture in the desire to have a hair shiny, soft, smooth, while she stayed at my cousin in London (UK) and rest a little, I took quick map to find Hari's salon.
There is prior to England, I was her cousin "gossip" beauty in London has something interesting. But when I come to the right opportunity for her to work so I have aggressively independent. Inherent pleasures I travel alone and sometimes experiencing the adventure from small to large, and sometimes quite dangerous but luckily not for what terrible consequences.
Be instructed in advance about the way the way back, I do not have much trouble finding the Knightsbridge area in west London. To prepare for this first discovery, I was eager to work for some time to spare no money or experience. It is interesting to stride on the smooth gray stone path sparkle, my biggest aims to today's walk: exploring beauty abilities related to cow hair.
It's a 3-story house outside nothing special. Architecture, it's not like the houses of neighbors, in color, it more unique combination of gray stone with dark green moss. The sun's dazzling early summer sun. Hari's welcome customers with a smile the size of the salon owners. Immediately behind the glazing great view from the street into a series of pages written about Hari's is one of the salon leading London with over 30 years experience and pride invent all new therapeutic and unique London with materials originating worldwide.
Hari's word is considered as a way to capture the market very quickly and flexibly. He knows the competition is wrong somewhere and trying to always be an architect for the hair.
Hailed as "Viagra for hair" treatments by sperm synthesis combined with Angus cattle Abrdeen Latera roots - a protein-rich crops are grown in Iran - to create a hair mask special and we can be assured by customer commented that this mask does not ... smell. Someone unstinting praise cattle semen is "new miracle hair."
At Hari's Salon in London, if you have 45 minutes and $ 100 (about 2 million), your hair will be treated with bovine semen. I had the interesting experience here, my hair was washed, then there hairdresser wields a scan on each layer using a broom soaked hair out (like a small paint brush trees at home) scans on each layer by layer and keep wet hair out like that for 30 minutes. After washing rinse and blow dry styling, mirrors itself in the mirror and I walked out with a hair shiny, unbelievably healthy.
Found in the heart of intense curiosity about everything strange and added that little "under play", when in Scotland, I have built fair to see the cows to see firsthand the animals were "labor "hard to help Hari's hair salon and the other is a product like that.
Aberdeen Angus is a cow without horns are black, born in Scotland. I guess the name Aberdeen Angus cattle for this species because they radiate from the Aberdeen area - the city is now populated city Tuesday Scotland. But that is not so important to me, because my purpose is not to study the history of this cow. Just know that if you come here, you will have the opportunity to watch the cows no pitch black eyes. You can go to the farm like a condominium golden brown color of straw. The cows here are numbered properly named. Have him / her "Miss" is tied up as a model for tourists to visit, they often wear the "gizzard-bottom," said number one on semen quality and the taste of the meat. The cows are black branch tips with a tip to make sure that the coast is less to more chains when necessary.
The farmers here let me feel no different from the pure-minded farmers I've met. They're casual, friendly and post-soul. They are proud to introduce their cattle breeds of fame, is recognized as a strong brand worldwide and is a source for products made from beef and dairy cattle the most prestigious.
It suddenly shine
Now, I remember the scene with Cameron Diaz star mistook "physical essence" of man is his hair gel and use it to fix her hair style. It's funny and somewhat more vulgar. I remember watching movies was thinking "My God A, how can this be okay in real life!" It turns out I was wrong.
Cattle semen has many applications and is used around the world. Some people use it because it contains more protein while others get on to breed, the cows produce. These cows "manufactured" mistaken semen in his being "happy" true, then their product a bag, then this material is cooled and stored until people come to buy.
"I was searching for something more organic products with quality protein because it is made of hair and hair that is easy to lose things after each drying" - Haris salon owners said. "The semen was frozen prior to use and does not smell at all. It just makes your hair look great software and conductors."
The boss said, tried hundreds of different products - including butter and wild mushroom oil - before cattle and semen have been identified that is a factor in the formula makes hair look radiant. This product is suitable for any type of hair do. Thus, the salon of the hotel he never deserted. And he said, all this treatment will also be popular until the cows away.
Indeed, more people ask about her children and their friends, I know, cattle semen used as a hair-care products, from strange places have become so popular in London. This substance is very good when used for dry, damaged hair .. The normal price of such treatments ranged from 90 to 138 USD depending on the requirements and that it takes time for those around different: 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes ... Hari's Salon is located in the Knighetsbridge (London) Special use only Ablerdeen Angus cattle semen from a farm in Cheshine. With roots Katera, the scanned product was washed hair and massage. After that, customers are absorbed into every fiber. A final point is the hair dryer and feel a new vitality.
I already have your own experience like that, about you?

10 softens the skin solution

2012-02-08T23:34:00.001-08:00

(AP) - Environmental pollution, much work in the room air conditioner, hormonal changes, diet imbalance ... is the main reason your skin is dry. Here are 10 tips of beauty professionals to help you revamp your skin.
A. Use lotion and cleanser daily
As well as other ways to enhance skin moisture, these two products help regenerate skin by holding water in the epidermis.
If your skin is too dry, use lotion and cleanser rich in moisture and substance seramit (a fatty acid)
Experts recommend that you shower with this kind of lotion at least once. With the second cleanser at least once in the morning and evening.
These areas need more massage bath thighs, legs and places on the body that you feel very dry.
In order to bring moisture to the skin effect most clearly, you should wet before applying the cream. Then, using a hand towel massage body lotion will help you better whisper in my skin.
Two. Use proper moisturizer
When coated with a layer of cream to the skin, evaporation will be reduced.
Can only use cream or combined with skin oils.
In the case of very dry skin, use products derived from natural substances containing water and rich seramit (a fatty acid). Use morning and evening, preferably after bathing.
Note: too greasy cream that can cause acne. If found to be replace by a rash other creams. Maybe you are allergic to creams are used.
3. Using moisturizing oils
The essential oil is a high-end skin care products containing a lot of fatty acids. Use essential oils extracted from avocado trees sweat, wheat circuit ...
But this product contains a lot of vitamin E - an antioxidant, protecting skin against aging.
You should use essential oils to the skin all day. Also, you can take medications that contain acid enantilic (1-2 capsules of 500mg/ngay) ...
To use hydrating oil brings the best results, every day you go to 2 drops of essential oil ... celery in a teaspoon of vegetable oil for massage.
4. Principles for selecting lotion, soap
You do not know the correct choice of milk bath can also be dry skin? If the dry skin type, choose to buy products rich moisturizer: containing glyserin, karite.
To prevent the disease can be spread through hands and feet, of course you must use soap. But that is one reason your skin from drying hands. Do not use soaps smell so fragrant because it contains a lot of alcohol.
You do not need to day is a bath, if possible, let your skin "breathe" naturally within 48 hours.
Do not rub soap directly on the sensitive spot in the shower: back, legs, half the above.
Five. Do not take a bath
If you want a beautiful skin, do not take a bath. That's the advice of the French dermatologist Sebaoun Joelle. Reason? Because when bathing, skin contact with water too long will damage the external epidermis. It is best to use the bathroom shower. But even with this you should not be abused.
Bathroom 2 days / times if your work does not make you sweat a lot or his dusty body. Each shower shall not exceed 10 minutes.
Do not use hot water for bathing. It will make your skin dry and lose mucus layer protects the skin.
6. Drinking water daily
To create moisture also means that you must provide enough water for your body, to drink at least 1.5 liters / day. Not only is the water you can drink herbal tea, lemonade, orange ...
Do not drink put into a time of day that you should break in the day.
Note: Do not drink more coffee and other aerated soft drinks. The drinks will make your skin dry, not to provide moisture to the skin.
7. Use products containing Omega-3
To provide enough moisture to the skin, we should use every day foods containing vitamins and fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6). It is a fatty fish (salmon, extracts ...), fruits and vegetables, carrot juice, tomato juice, cereal ...
Rapeseed is rich in Omega-3, so experts recommend that you use more oils.
8. Homeopathic solutions
The treatment homeopathic treatment for dry skin. In this treatment, the drugs the doctors commonly used are: Natrum Muriaticum (7 and 9, CH), Bryonia (5 CH), Aluminia (5 CH).
The first drug treatment for your depth, root disease treatment. Two drugs after treatment for symptoms of the disease.The drug is used more than once / day. Once dry your skin out, you can stop.
9. Hormone treatment
When women began in pre-menopausal, hormone reduced rate leads to dry skin. For lack of hormone treatment, the doctors will treat you based on the hormone estrogen. This measure provides moisture to the skin and softens the skin.
However, you should consider taking measures to treat dry skin. A number of studies worldwide indicate that this treatment may cause cancer and heart disease.
10. Protect your skin while walking in the sun
Do you know the sun is the enemy of the skin. To protect your skin, you should not be out in the sun from 10 am to 16 hours. Only one time use soap to bathe every day, even if you bathe several times / day. Shower immediately after you go to the beach or swimming in the pool. Use a sunscreen when out and note that only clean the skin cream.

Want beautiful skin, do not turn on the lamp

2012-02-08T23:33:00.001-08:00

Want beautiful skin, do not turn on the lampIf you have a habit of sleeping at night lights should be removed, because the light of lights will make your skin aging faster.
The best time to take care of your skin at night, not only because this is your free time, but also because it is time to recover da best anti-aging skin and helps remove wrinkles. Here are the notes when skin care at night.
No light sleep
When there is light, the skin cells will work, absorb nutrients less efficient way. Therefore, if the light, the night skin care products will not be absorbed deep, especially the skin whitening ingredients. This makes the skin darker but not weak. After a day of exposure to sun exposure then a night under the lights, you do not have time skin regeneration, the signs of aging appear more easily.
So, at bedtime, do not forget your lights out.
Massage cream to be effective
Massage that can promote metabolism in cells, helping to absorb faster than other skin care products. Skin cell is like a memory, if you work continuously for a long time without care for the aging rate will increase, more wrinkles. So you should always massage, just relax, fight fatigue, both firming and maintain elasticity.
Bed before 23 o'clock
To best care for your skin, you should plan to sleep properly. Should go to bed before 23 o'clock at the latest to ensure 8 hours of sleep time per day. From 22h to 2 am is the most effective time of cellular metabolism, removing layers of skin aging, skin recovery, regeneration, ensure elasticity and removes wrinkles.
Indispensable moisturizing cream
The older, the skin cells become dry because of water shortage. Normally accounted for about 60% - 70% by weight of the skin cells. When water drops below 60%, skin cells will dry out. The active ingredient in moisturizing cream will prevent water evaporation and keep the water in cells. When going to bed at night, the skin tend to dry out over the day. Therefore, the use of a moisturizer is needed.

10 softens the skin solution

2012-02-08T23:31:00.003-08:00

7 ways to lose weight the fun of Japan

2012-02-08T23:30:00.002-08:00

Each week there will be two days without meals, only eating the porridge form as white, soy milk, fruit juice ... to replace the fish meat in the normal 3 meals.
Lose weight by ... whistling
When the whistle, mouth and cheek muscles will be in tension than usual, the capital of little use when it will be the opportunity to exercise. Can be seen as action massage entire face, making anti-aging and beauty effect.
In addition, because the whistling breath from your stomach will be so this is one way to lose weight, fitness and be widely disseminated in the form of the same class as other forms of yoga in Japan.
Lose weight by stop eating
Each week there will be two days without meals, only eating the porridge form as white, soy milk, fruit juice ... to replace the fish meat in the normal 3 meals.
This approach works purification of waste in the body, helps the stomach and intestines work better, smoother skin and bright. This method is quite simple so recently become a favorite way to lose weight of Japanese women.
Rub the skin to lose weight ...
The ongoing weight loss should be the "new discoveries". Recently, the Japanese medical community has discovered a natural way to lose weight, believe it or not depending on you! Use your thumb and index finger 2 removed the abdominal skin every 5 minutes, constantly in a month will help you lose weight significantly.
Lose weight with fizzy water ...
This is a strange abilities in new ways to lose weight in Japan. Often people are fat free or hunger, or desire to eat more, causing involuntary intake of too much heat. Effect of carbonated water was added water, and increases the feeling of fullness to the body, control your craving, your body just right amount of heat load, thus giving effective weight loss.
Lose weight by sleeping ...
After childbirth, most women usually have oversized waist. The Japanese researchers have invented some kind of natural slimming pajamas are very soft, light can help you lose weight even in sleep. This kind of pajamas to keep body temperature at 33-37oC, is the ideal temperature for sweating, help of sweat is eliminated from the body 3-5 times higher than normal during sleep. Each day so, soon you will see the weight loss effect is very clear.
Lose weight with vinegar ...
In Japan also eat vinegar surge in weight loss. Research shows that eating vinegar not only helps eliminate constipation phenomenon, adjusting acidic and alkaline in the body, but also remarkably effective weight loss.
Of course, according to experts the chemical effect of vinegar and vinegar completely different nature. Types of naturally fermented vinegar outside looking precipitate, color is also darker, after shaking foam will slowly disappear, and with vinegar chemical foam will disappear immediately after mix. So if you really want to try this method, choose vinegar to lose weight naturally.
Waste cooking oil to help ... all fat for weight loss
Eat products containing olive oil, and fish oils containing omega 3 ... to lose weight is that of the sisters craze in Japan
Experiment has shown, the oils contain high levels of GLA seed oil rose, oil seeds, jute ... can help drain the excess fat accumulation in muscle metabolism of fatty acids into energy, increasing percentage of body burn calories. Combination of motor conformity with the enhancement of intake of oils on your body will become neat and boast.