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12 aye in Santa claus. He Sava Ho is Unfitted for the Life of a Monk. Tiie Lady Who Was Anxious to See a Dow, Which Eecalls an Incident in William's Paris Career. [Copyright. 1883. by Eiltfnr IV. Nyc.l Santa Clai i, Cal., April. , Tho old missions of California are a groat treat. 1 have visited a number of i hem. At first I thought they were built unfl operated for the entertainment of excursionists, lint 1 now find that they are genuine and do much good. (' \ ’ r' -i / AC. OMPANIED BY FF.TF.r.AL ATTRACTIVE ) .ADIES. The tni 1 ion at Santa Barbara is an v building of some size, and inside ry through f he iron I arred s monks may bo observed en i in “monking,” as Mr. Barnabee might say. " 1,, ide the chapel a middle aged monk was dusting the nave with a feather duster and polishing the hard benches so ;:; to make it more difficult to sit on them By and by perhaps he will make it impossible. 1 trust so. At present ea< h attendant supplies his own “roz zu:n." ; everal a( tractive ladies accompanied me. and when the mbnk heard thei" voices he turned, looked the other way and said something to himself. A man can t be too careful that way if he be connected with the monking industry. Only two women have ever cross «! the thn shohl of the monastery proper. They were I rineess Louise and lies. Harrison Ever since then the brotherhood have been engaged in trying to overcome this by a rigid course of devotions worthy of a Letter cause. Looking over the rules required of these moults, I can see how eminently unfitted 1 am for such a life. Nothin;.' could bo moro widely different than 1 heir livvs and the gay, butterlly existence I now lead. (lilting Ido from place to place. ] ausing only hero and there to earn mi fotu t dollar if possible, but taking ; of course, in some instances here on the coast. 1 > rot f;now exactly how old these mi ;. a < are, but they m e pretty old and . i :’i'sqno. Tl’.i re should be ■; srf. ( 11 a there for the tourist to • ■a - ■ in the box for the aid of y wi> '.hl not mind it. . • . •>-m dtot he act of con- Iri ;o most everything as they go 1 me ladv of our party is very fond of I dogs. I- ■. ■■ found that there was n col-1 leeiion of th- so mrim.ilsntopping at Red lands Ji v, s a troop of edwoted d. ;..s seeking to elev.de the stage. They were I spending the Sabbath at n livery siiblo’ there, having played toS. I! <'. (>i; i . ing room only) at San Bernardino on Saturday evening. The lady was anxious to see them, and BO asked a large man in a. white hat and shirt sleeves who was oiling a buggy if he could 101 l her where they were. Ho opened a door, took down a fence and help ‘d-her find them alter some trouble. When she came away, she gave him a shilling for his trouble, but he said the do- •; were not his, and that it was no trouble, etc. When she got to the hotel, rhe found that ho wits one of the most wealthy men in the .‘ fate. Tie . reminds mo of an incident which occuri'. .1 when I was in Franco. M letter of credit was payable at the mai t ,:ik of the Credit Lyonnaise, a ter 1 :ri\i . • concern with branches all over 1 urope. I used to go to this bank very o an, as it is very kind to Americans mid lias beautiful reading and writ in , parlors and a night school for wealthy Americans who wish to learn retuling and writing, but who have never had time to at tend to it. 1 was always waited upon by one of the officials, who was extremely court eous to t; io. Hi s name was M. Trozeaulebong When I came away one day, 1 expressed my gratitude to him, and from force of habit alone pressed into Ins palm a 5-franc piece. He accept edit with a Lewy Quadroon bow, and as he placed it with his other francs in his purse he said: “Perhaps monsieur has no engagements for tomorrow —Sunday—if so would he honor me with a visit to my country place near Versailles? I should be most joyful to call for him at his address with my drag in the morning, and monsieur could remain at Versailles until Monday if he chose.” 1 accept ’d more out of curiosity than anything else and found an establish ment that threw my North Carolina bungalow entirely in the shade. He was an excellent host and pressed me so hard to remain that the creases in my trousers could be seen for two weeks. 1 was pained last week to read his name in the reports of the Panama affair and can hardly believe that he is the man. It must be some other M. Tro zcaulebong, I think. Yesterday 1 ate a tomale. The tomale, if well made, is said to be very toothsome, but unprincipled Portu guese and Greasers sometimes make them of inferior material. They are made of chicken and hot things chopped v.p together mid rolled in a corn husk, 'then tliev are heated in an alcohpl stove and kept hot by men who son inentui the credulous throng. When chickens are scarce, the sea gull is used. That w. i. the kind I got. lam not enough of »iu ornithologist to select tamales. Designing people might make them out of weathercocks <.r other deciduous fowls and fool me :::;<ily. A man who is not an ornithologi t otild shun the tomah unless lie has faith and a stomach which will not turn when trodden upon. California has more attractions than any other state in the Union, but the cli mate was about a month later than usual this year, and several people pol ished from exposure. Living here is cheap. Workingmen can get good board nt the large hot bi at $0 to $lB per day. with coal at :'U p r hod. Horse hire is extra. Dogs uro not allowed to play in the halls or to eat at the regular table with guests. Monterey probably has the best hotel in the state < xcept Saugus. Saugus is an eating joint where vour meals are pre pared while yon wait—while you wait four hours for the Los Angeles train for San Franc i co. There is nothing at Saugus but the eating house and a few cases of colic under the same management. The pas sengers in ou rent ire car, excepting a man from New Haven, ate lunch there and were poisoned Uy something they ate there. Probably it was the canned vege tables which are used at that place and are obtain? I f rom the east, I judge, in exchange for oranges and lemons. Our car was the scene of the wildest commotion all night, and several of the passengers wore iil for 10 days afterward. I do not know how the employees at Saugus live. Probably their meals aro brought to them from Los Angeles. Thero aro many pleasant hotels in California, but when crowded, as they are nt this s’vison, of course they have to Work' hard io please people, and they tannot always succeed. It would bo well toengagoroo is: "vend week's ahead if the reader is co; ing to the coast. I nov' ■ ’.'such a rush in search of health in i y life. It takes a pretty healthy , ’ ■:i to go in search of his he., 1! ,i. ; o i I The trs: . . he:. I of ours had 15 sleep ing cars . ■ I 3 engines, besides the coaches, 'i •> sleeping cars were so full, too, that ia car. filled almost entirely by ladies. 11 ’. r: • dressing for over 350 miles in th" t r h'ig. One lady had to brush her lr- r on the Oakland ferry. She said th.'it when she comes on earth again . lie is ; . -i she will be a Chinaman. One fin:!.; Iho Chinese here quite fre quently. They are divided by natural ists i ■ two ch.-..-e —viz. male and fe ma 1 ■ ' ‘ . 'male Chinaman goes bare- he.i ' . ■ male w- irs a bat. Lately th < e>e h. ve hi n pretty busy as-i . ■ "'i h <>'. a r and th.is endear-' i,i , i ; to ilie people of San i h Uli . o. II in . i ■■■ t‘:i < 1 at a table in the i ■ ■ x - lof l! hotel, and a man with "i v . learm movement” is writ ing: • ' . "of the table. 1 judge th.u ; l .1 to write on the side of a I , 1 . 1 . rn t! it hail been s eared bye i.i king, so that it could not > i ii. ■ I, while ho was writing. Tin' t :h! ■is . i.. ly bowlegged trying to follow .he thread of bis remarks.) Rec'- r.ly i met Mr. Hatch, the biggest, fruit i " ■■ rou the coast, I am told, lie began to h< rt about 18 years ago and was w p te l to have at that time about :\iO,ou:i. but 'airing mi' by the arm and leading me < ti to the Cliff House, where the sou. .1 oi' the breakers drowned his voice, 1: . d to me that ho did not have ..... mai J. A, & \ ■ /\ I a i I ■ / IJ HE ACCEPTED. Now he is getting an income of $3C5.- 000 per year —$1,000 per day fortlie year, including Sundays. Every four years, when thero is an extra day with no in come. the I'. or man eats an orange. This proves that any young man with persever.'.'i'.ec and SIO,OOO may in 18 years by industry and economy, and by know ing as much as Mr. Hatch, provided the rod scale docs not. break out on a large scale in his orchards, be far beyond the reach of waAt. It was thought for many years that Mr. Hat ch was the author of the piece entitled “Monuments of Human Gran deur Perish.” but afterward it was <lis covered that ho copied it from n Fourth Reader. During the busy season Mr. Hatch is compelled to hire help in picking the fruit, while lie attends to the packing and arrang -ntof the large, juicy fruit which one notices on the t op of the basket. All kinds of trbi s grow in this state, especially tropical and subtropical trees. The date tree grows here, and at the right season busy men may be Seen stand ing on a stepladder in the rich foliage canceling their dates. The pepper tree, the camphor tree, the banana tree, the breadfruit tree and the oyster cracker tree all grow here in abundance and are pointed out to one by.the driver, who is generally a pretty fertile man himself. Some think that all the great liars go to perdition. This is a mistake. They go to Yosemite and drive teams there. One of them said that down the road a little “furder” he would showus a strange sight. It was a big hole in a tree. The .was one of the Miamosa trifoliatum giganticum, if my memory serves me at all creditably. This tree during a con tinued rain, which sometimes occurs in the Yosemite, expands, the cells filling with water rapidly and enlarging. Daniel Walton, a low and vulgar man, was hunting through the valley in the spring of 1878 with ill success, hav ing killed nathiikg but .grizzly bears, THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 2G. 1893 all of which w< re too large to tote wine. As he camo up thi) valley a heav ■ rain set in, and it came on to rain, as it some thin i docs in the rainh ; s region o: Cali • fornia. Seeing that it was gr >wing worse, Walton topped into this J le in the tree, and unbuckling a large thermal b it which lie wore and which conltnined cartridges he laid it aside and soqp went to sleep. When ho awoke, he wits sur prised to seo that the hole was almost closed up by the swelling of theiwood Ci'llsof the tree. He was greatly at Jrmed, for ho had no means whatever tocscape fropi the tree and did notknow when the storm would cease. Tie li ared that he would become a part of tie tree possibly and . m.. day bo put iritoA, side board or i !:e t.ip of a bar counter j/>rhaps. Ho lii'i il his i !i!e several times oiA. of the hole, but diil n- kill anything. As ilark ness came on a I 1m felt the/pangs of hunger f maw; eg nt bis vitals Ihe heard foot ; ■ pas. 1. .' I y mid rightnj' judged that the author of them could pot be far away. Looking out through true aperture, he saw a inan ami: poke to him in a glad tone. The voici , coming out) of a knot hole not wholly cl .ed up Ait, startled the man, for he feared it wnw something SiiperiHitural. The man's iamo was Rodgers—L<.a Itodgirn, they < ailed him. He ran at first, but Walton l/'gged him so all piteously that he paused and went back. “What is the matter?” he esclainied. “Matter cnoumi,” rctortejl Walton, trj'ing to gi.-t a piece of bark! out of his eye. “The tree is during ill upon me, man. C.tu yon not me that I am lost tinl" yon ei'l me, yon g ily, yon?” “Ah,” mid Rodgers, “the i-ood, being porous, admit > moisture,: ml th s ex pands i: ro tli.it, tho apertui >by which you i .lu red is b coming nJ loss as an exit. Am.l right?” / I ri'. mt Ip . libel ; hilcyo" pre- j .'co an e:."" '-'is «.n capilli. attraction ami ponioli . , ; y? Oh, ma i, man, in L avei.' nn::iii git a moveor yon, I beg!” i Il ~.1. .1 down his dit ner pail and b. ■. ~i work at the knothole, butbotween win! ■: h ■ got a better vim ■ of Walton ami ; . M, “Arc you not Dan Valton, who lives down ti; 1 gorge where t tie branch is . where we wa' r tho teams at?” “1 ma,sir, i.ideed,” exclaifaed Walton I now cr\ lt:g piteously, "but, do not lose all you have e; rine.l now by four accur: e '. delay and loqn.ieiiy. lloTj* me, man, oh, hi Ip i ; .or I si).JI die here mid po ibly annoy vl-iiOrs wiiocome this way! Help me ...it, i. in 1 sir, whoever you maybe, and 1 will p.it up a petZ ion to heaven each night lor your well, re and signed by all the pr< q> Tty owners in California.” “Ah. but i member you,” said Rod gers; "you . :o i o 'liian if ho whipped his wifol.i ' iin nidi a disgric i l'ul way:. I;.. i.;r t-.l b dly. I tuow w . i'n you ar'.’ 110 then began to bo r:: " dton .< i all his great command of bur. 1 l:i ;i and wentaway. Aiti .i: i u.ie \.. in i gave up ;.il hope and bn down utterly, crying li. mi <■!..’l - ’. I making it very wet iu diidasoi. h.t r after another cliusi 1 it. *' f ilow ii; • nzed cheek. Thea Iris pa-t life ro up before him, and he imw how tri t< mi' mpi iblo ho was in the sight, of his fe • ,ws. Meaner and meaner, smaller ami. i ..11 rin his. own estimation he became until he was able to crawl out of the knothole, which he then done. This is th 1 1 ■ ;end of tho knothole. This kiioi yet staijda with .1 im'.re ir -i', aTI have described it, near th'.' ei ir., ice to tho park and outlie left hand side going in. The I nknown. A fresh story of alarming adventure in a newly set tled country comes from a Weil known Indian painter. Some years ago ho was traveling in Montana. Ho went to tho Lri t table in a moun tain hotel and sat waiting for someone to take his order. Suddenly he felt a jar and then a heavy weight resting on his shoulders. He looked around and found leaning upon and over him a huge, bearded man, in a bri'iid brimmed hat and with two revolvers sticking in Iris belt. “Well, old feller, wlia’ll ye have?’ said . the man. “Wl>o are you?” asked tho artist in dis-; may. "Me?” said the man. “I'm the waiter.” i —Youth's Companion. .Evolution. Watts—l wonder what becomes of < these messenger boys after they grow up? Potts—Some of them develop into os-1 sified men, I imagine.—lndianapolis i Journal. No Friend. Ethel—W ':o v.: ■ the friend I saw you with a moment m o? Ellen—He's not a friend. I'm engaged ; to him.—Tit-Bits. A Sign of Intelligence* $ ( \ . i ■ J w Zl\ ! Chappie—Her dog is one of those blawsted eweatnres that never lets go. She —How do you manage it now? Chappie—l send my man in ahead.— Life. An Oversight. A certain popular lecturer gave evi dence of great longevity on one occasion, according to an old lady iu a New Eng land town. At the close of his last lecture in that place, as the audience was leaving the hall, a gentleman remarked that it was a funny slip of the tongue which made the lecturer say that the Pilgrim Fathers reached the bleak New England shores 170 years ago. “Oh, well,” said a little old lady, quick to furnish an excuse for her favorite lec turer, “I dare say it's one of his old lec tures. and he forgot to change the date!" -•■Youth’s Companion, WOMAN’S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS. The Small Account Taken of Daughters Among Millionaires. The will of Colonel Elliott F. Shepard calls attention anew to the little value placed on daughters by many rich men. Colonel Shepard's anxiety was for his son, a youth of 18. For this boy The Mail and Express newspaper, tho colo nel's pet, must lie fostered and kept, so that in due course tho Shepard name will again stand ns that of the individual owning and bossing the concern. Nut not » word about the Shepard daughters. One of them is married, but what about the others? They may marry, stay sin gle, eat their h< arts out for want <>i occu pation, or take to church and b icvolent work, which rooms to lx ..hi ■ i'!y r ur e left to rich won :i who never i: r.-v. Tne Shepard daiffi.te'-. j.,-r . arc ; as utterly igm i' d in tin ir fat ■ ’ > ex pressed hop' . and ami .ti uses if had never hoi :i I Ti.is is in line with Vauderiiilt trr '.itFii.,. W eu W. 11. died, he left hiscliildnu sll. ''.■.'i 1 apiece. After that mid v.iri other bequests had been paid W. H.‘Vatffi' r bilt divided the r idue of his ■ stalo I. - tweon his sons, William K. and Corne lius. This residue a r"< ■'-r 4 .writ' ;• de-j Clares he knows for certain to have been about $100,000,1; it). The Astors portion off daughters in the same way and leave i the real fortune to their sons. Jay I Gould is a notable and praiseworthy ex ception to tiie usual Whatever his failings and sins were, he at least gave credit to woman for hav ing brains ami tt nse. He divided his i property equally among his children, | making to his son George suitable ,! reconijien e fob the fidelity with which he had s. rved his father’s fortum s, but he also li ft the homestead and its con-1 tents to Helen in her own right, and ini the inanageiirnt of the million.- aflerhisl death Helen Gould was to bo consulted as well as George and Edwin. With the ; care of the younger Gould children and i the equal management of the Gould cs-1 fate, Helen will have something to fill her hearbnnd brain, even if she shoul l not marry. For’this provision of his will I honor Jay Gould. It is a piece f mis erable, pitiable vanity, the ignoring of daughters in millionaires’ wills. If daughters marry, they will chan:?' their names and thus cannot jicrpetuato the old man’s millions in connection with his ' name, and he wants bis name attache: 1 , to his even after he is dead and turn:';! to dust a thousand years. Another instance of tho sad conso- i queni " i of cultivating emotions instead of b: ns among our sex is eiiown in the loss of life at tli,. 1 burning of Mr. J. Jefferson's beautiful home a Buzzard buy. TI “ Bian in charge of the pla ■ • knew that t :n'mom nt t ie 1 . ',i ;gga o ■fine vapor t -urhed the iuniace there: would b" a ti i rlitful e .pli! ion. “Run. run fur ; ..ur livi he cri to the thr women n rv;ants. Buttle ydid not mow . They stood root ed in their trucks wi’ ii terror. Ew ry atom of sense in them was paralyz; 1 by the sen wli. s fright they had never been trained to control. | The explm ion v’-i.iTe.l. Al the risk of his life the one man drag;.; d two of the women away scorched and bleeding. The other he could not get at, and she was burned to ashes, all because she was too scared to get out of the way. The ! tWi.ntiuLla.xrw>uurv woman will control her silly, stupid fears and keep her head ' on. Wl’.atrver danger confri e I:< r, she will face it and use her brains to g. l out - of it. Women have much before them in tjie way of working for their best an 1 higlu-it development. But men have something todo.too, nndo’ieof the fir: ' -mgs they should do is to rid themselves of the tra ditional prejudices of their sex in regard to women. Tho United States inspector of furni ture for tho trea. ury d- par. n nt gets $3,000 a year and traveling expenses. It is his duty to travel fr, m place t . pl", and inspect and purchase fnrnititre sup- - plies for government bnil iings through out thecountry. Air. A. ('arlisl ■>has ju.-. been appointed to this office. Some brainy, businesslike, Denim-ratio woman ought to have applied for tne place anil got it. The Ohio legislature has passed a bill approuriating SOO,OOO for monuments at Chii-kaiuauga. ’Tis well. The members of the Ohio legislature aro monuments themselves—monuments of a ruined, broken old fogyism which has lost all on the battleflel I of progressand now .shelt ers its shat: red romnants in th. • Ohio legislature. I shall never again fi 1 proud to toll the name of my native-i.iti'tiilher lawmakers rescind that vote by which they have refused to grant school su c'rage to women. Monuments! Gnat Scott! If you have grit and p 'rsever.ineo. yon cannot f.'il. (.’hoe.-e y r i.iiu' according to your L... c 1 mon se;:.~e and stick Io it. '. at i»o:::id lo v 1. More than 20.000 women voted at the municipal elections in Kansas City th’ spring. But women don't want to vote! Oh, no! Two hundred women are practicing dentistry iu this country. A southern young lady. Miss Anna Y’okum, was graduated from the Alabama College of I Dentistry at its late commencement and was valedictorian of her class. Mrs. C. 11. Grei n is secretary of the Society of Cliff Dweller Archaeology of America and has proved her right to her office by the discovery of an ancient piece of cliff pottery designed after the pattern of a Maltese cross. No wonder there is trouble in France. A people so benighted that they allow no wonum to witness a legal document and no wife to pe.-st'ss her own earnings cannot be expected to maintain a stable republic. They have not intelligence enough. Miss Sophronisba Breckinridge, daugh ter of the silver tongued orator of Ken tucky, will practice law. She''has al ready been admitted to the bar with the approval of her distinguished father. Iti this matter Congressman Breckinridge affords a shining contrast to some of the fathers who are in official life iu Wash ington. Eliza Akchard Conner. I ■■ , Many Hail to Suffer. It is said of an eminent oculist that lie spoiled a hatful of eyes in learning how to perform the operation for removing cat aract. It is sad to think, of tho scores who suffered that thousands might be benefited. but the knowledge could be obtained in no other way.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ART IN POKER WORK. Beautiful Decorative Effects in Burnt Wood Etching:. .Copyright, 1803, by American rress Atrocia tion.] Poker work or burnt wood etching is productive of tho most fascinating re sults in decorative effects and is being en thusiastically seized upon by the woman who believed in the “house beautiful." While one of tho best artists in New York is giving his entire time to demon strating what artistic effect c.'in lie got from [,okcr work, it is still within reach of the au'iiteur who has tho smallest grain of artistic abiHty. Tho difference is that the nr. Ist makes his own designs and draws them on tho wood with a free hand. Tlte amateur who is not an ex perienced draftsm.u should never do that. But he c ..i easily find charming dt signs everywhere in the art magazines and ju -mils, and t;:e.,e can bo trans t -rred to the piece of wood he wishes to decorite. Often ; xiternsfor woodcarv ing, china painting, water colors or even embroil, ry can be used iu this way. 4 M A BOX COVER. Bold fi cires or conventionalized de signs having simple outlines and very Jittie sb;, ling :;r b , ■ for beginners. Such b. uiiful things as I have seen done in this poker work! Some of the pie. 1 !. 1 like rare old carved ivory and otf. s 1; : > fine sepia pictures. It is cliarmii'g :->r panels over chimney | pieci s and u s and h-uds itself equally ; well for cabin.-is, bexet, antique chairs, book covers, letter cases, portfolio cov- , ers. gl;>v" i .s and picture frames. An in : t trious little woman I know of is busy i: ..ffing panels wherewith to decorat" the living room of a new cot tage which is being built among the ! mountain . This is tho Way she is do ing it: O . . the mantel is to lie a long panel. On t ids has traced a procession of | cupids, r ;>i, ••: nting "Spring,” which she ; foil: lin a.-, ol'l. "t jounial. At one side ' of tile n.'.citel . .. .c;ll cabinet, the door I of w! i 'll 1;.. a < , ,n ... g female figure from o.r- ■ V, ill H. Lewis' designs in an art maaa’inThe figure was large enough to t. . i “ without any trouble. ( CJ THE INSTRUMENT. Over the two low front windows are to bo panels, one in a straggling brier rose pati. ?:i. :1 the other in grape leaves, fruit and tendrils. Now, let me tell yon how she does it. ■ She g-: -a nice, smoothly .plar.. d board ■ of basswood if it is to be a panel. On ! this she fastens with artist 's tacks a sheet of tracing paper. Over the pajxT is laid the desi -ii, also fa- .oned securely. Then with a tracing tool she goes carefully over the entire design, being particular not to slight a line or a dot anywhere. She removes th" {cittern and paper, and the wood is ready for burning. You can use the old fashioned poker, i or t’ne iron points made for the purpose if you wish, but there is much delay in. cooling and reheating, and the work is apt to be uneven in tone, so this young I woman who is decorating her cottage uses the platinum point and the small machine which keeps it all the time at red heat. Into the glass bottle she pours benzine fluid, malting it about half full. To the stopper of this bottle is attached two flexible tubes, one ending iu the plati s DOOR OF A CABINET. num point, the other in a rubber bulb. She lights a small spirit lamp, holds -the point to the flame and with the left hand compresses the bulb and works it to send the benzine vapor through the tube. In a minute the point is redhot. She ex tinguishes her lamp and keeps the point redhot by continually compressing the bulb in her left hand, while she traces the design with her right. It is at first no easy matter to do two different things at the same time, but a little practice soon reduces this to a me chanical movement, just as -one may learn to use the two hands in playing a musical instrument. Practice first making the strokes on a piece of board before trying to do a de sign. If you can draw, you will find this an easier matter than if you have had no training with the pencil. Try to make quick, light, even strokes. The moment you hesitate or bear heavily on your tool your line will be broader and darker than the rest of your work, and its harmony will be hopelessly marred. I 1 i * COVER FOR HANDKERCHIEF BOX. One of tbu west trials of beginners are the nnsight y dots at the ends lines. This? come from allowing tho jioint to rot tat t : ■ finish of a stroke, A . -Jliotiri'i Lun hub' instantly, and/" you mn-it r<.'. 'i.iXr to lift it the instant ; you get to the end. , z • ' Sl».cling is ■ by running th videos the a- kit. li., -!y : long the ffirfate'mf the wo -I. It you wi-ha very ligt>t shtideS do nor touch the wood at alk but just/ skim lightly over it. The slight scorch-1 ing will produce a lovely brown tint. [ <>nd t ."ul are the possibilities of poker work! Alice E. Ives. THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN. A Di Jicult Problcm Which Culls For Care ful Consideration. There are as theories upon this subject as there are children upon whom <o jiruciico them. Nor is this to be won ' dered at when each little one differs from anotl .-r, so that each careful moth er has to fall back upon her own judg ment or expt neo and finds she cannot rely on that us the wisest of her contem poraries. V>: y few children never re j quire to be puu: ffied stall. The dispo sition has to I • altogether taken into ac countin con.- i leriug tho method of that punishment. There in rare natures, brutal from their infancy, t 1 demand.stem, strict accounting. M ny others are so mor bidly sensitive that a word of condemna tion yvill go all the necessary lengths. , And most small people belong to a happy, I normal condition midway between these two, which requires a firm, light ha: fi . upon the reins. 1- To all children justice appeals vAv-) irr ■ is! blu force, and injustice is on<W>' their blackest crimes. This is I the reason they aro absolutely at tß’k i.i -rcy of th'ir elders, and they - the keen com iousness of that fact niit-V i urnl to a slave placed under the unlim ited power of his master. It certainly \ behooves parents to remember that this is not an agreeable situation. Tobcsure, the tiny sliivet by no means seldom re- * volt in their turn and become the tyrants, but that is so entirely the master’s fault that it is not worth considering here. The question now is what just and right eous punishments may be meted out. Bc- I yond peradventure not those barbarous ! onslaughts of sheer brute force of which 1 have heard human beings (with pre sumable human souls inside their bodies) « say “I never should, have given i* I hadn’t been angry. I couldn't strike ( a child in cold blood.” There is no reason ing with such people, or one might ask/1 Why do it, then, in hot blood? Forthel. child's good, or for your own {.'ratification? If the former, jiow is that ■ purpose served by an act of flagrant in- I justice? And you admit that it is un- ■ just, because you “caji’t strike a child” when just and calm. A decently admin istered whipping, with ti moral to adorn the sting, is one thing; culfmg and slap ing. m angry beating, is quite another matter. Thero are other 'punishments quite as hard to bear, but more dignified and seem ly, which teach the world’s great lesson of cause and effect. Such is a sort of game in these families which have a pound wherein all articles are put which are found lying about out of place and must lie afterward redeemed. Such is the method adopted by one young mother. Every Monday morning she gives to each of her children a row of pins. Every Saturday night she gives each one a cent for every pin left in the row. Sometimes the debt is t;pon the other side and has tu be paid off in another week, for every time any one needs a correction during those seven days ho has to present his mother will: one of his pans. There is strict justice, and fine object teaching, all swci tened like a sugar coated pill. A middle ag' -I woman told me once with tears in her c/es: “I never shall forget one lesson that I learned when I was nothing but a baby. It was the ir revocable consequences of a broken law. I was in the habit of straying off after school, and to break me of it my mother forbade my going outside the gate for a week. In that week came a party, and parties wore so rare in those days! She told ute afterward that she never was so tempted to break her word. I bless her memory now that she did not break it. Yet, yon see, I cry over my lost gayety to tin’s day.” S-uth Hall. Society Girls Ir. Business. , Two of the society girls of New York are said to be starting a milliner shop. ’ It is probably not the fact, but why should they not? English noblemen run cab companies; English ladies of title are reported to be the financial backers of milliner and dressmaking establish ments. The difference would be that, while it is clear business with the Brit ish noble cabmen and milliners, the - American scciety girls would take up employment as a mere fad. Miss Ellen E. Kenyon, doctor of pedi> gogy, is assist::':, editor of the New York ! School Journal. Dr. Kenyon is a bril liant little w< inan who made a distin- - guished success as teacher and education ' al writer and lecturer before she became »n editor. Encouragement. Strawber—Old man, I'm going to take the fatal step tonight. I propose to Miss j : Quillcutter. Singerly—Are you going to do it in | j that n cktie? Strawber—Why, yes, of course. Singerly—Then if she says yes, old fel-' low, you may be sure if is a case of true love.—Clothier and Furnisher. Just the Name. Clerk—Have you a' name for this new flannel? Manager—Yes; we’ll call ir boys’ flan nel. “Why. that doesn’t sound quite right.” “Well, it will v. hen they see how it shrinks from washing.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.