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BEAUTIFUl- HANOI.
fwfAwm ember the tot fair touch
Of thoee beautiful hands that I love so much,
X seem to thrill as I then was thrilled
ywtTig the glove that I found unfilled—
When I met your gass and the queenly bow
As you said to me laughingly, "Keep it
now!"
i«^ dazed and alone in a dream I stand
Kissing the ghost of your beautiful hand.
When first I loved In the long ago,
And held your hand as Itold you so
pressed sad caressed it and gave it a kiss,
And said, "I ooukl die for a baud Uke this!”
Little I dreamed love's fullness yet
Had to ripen when eye* were wet,
And prayers were vain in their wild demands
For one warm touch of your beautiful hands.
Beautiful bauds! 0 beautiful hands!
Oould you much out of the alien lands
Where you are lingering,, and give me to¬
night
Only a touch—were it ever so light—
My heart were toothed, and my weary brain
Would lull itself into rest again:
For there is no soiaoe the world commands
Uke the caress of your beautiful hands.
—James Whitcomb
“IT.”
OING into my
wife’s boudoir,
after a tempor¬
ary absence from
home on busi¬
ness, 1 discov¬
ered her npon her
kntes before an
arm-chair, npon
9 whioh sat a small
» . with
t boy round, very
large, sur¬
prised eyes. She
rote, came rust¬
i X ling towards me,
and greeted me
with neither
port heartiness nor more formality
then was then her wont. “There it
MV* *he cried, pointing to the ohild.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
She was crenohing again in front o
the little one, holding a biscuit dose
before hia eyes, and, turning half to¬
wards me, we said:
“Why, don't you know we read
..about it in the paper the other day ?
Isn’t it nioe?”
I remembered then that e few even¬
ings beek she had thrust a newspaper
intoroe oirole of light beneath my
lamp, ana bad eaid, pointing to an ad¬
vertisement. “There 1 just read that 1”
It wae the Uhl! known “petition to the
charitable”-*.* despairing cry from a
stricken heart, from a mother, offer¬
ing her child for adoption by well-to
do people. do think about taking
“What you
it?" she had.asked, and I had only
pv«n her hack the sheet with e shrug
Vsf the’ shoulders.
“But Martha, what is tha meaning
of all this?” I cried, with a slurp note
of indignation. "Jj6u oan’t hare
. 1 it ifpk" * ''as see,"she
S '**lndit you
belongs to me. I
glade a bargain made with the unhappy solemn
m, and her a
Jae, too, that it ehall be well
I care of. Yes, that it shall I”
A took the little head/ with its
brown, silky, curling-hair, carets
between her hands.
f, “Eh, little one? You ehall have a
s good time, sha’a’t you?”
Not a feature of the little, delioate,
' talker siokly, faoe ohanged; but from
bowshaped mouth oame one of
t^oee ouriouely deep obild-sighs. I
soon gave up all serious protest against
the arrangement, and, indeed, for
-years etch of us had been in the habit
of our own
Our marriage was not happy; any
* Mil but happy, iu fsot—although
ng we
had not married for love. The union
had been amid arranged olink by our respective the
fathers the of money on
exohaage. She had wreaohed her
heart away from another’s—in mine a
ailent passion still glowed; but figures
mightier, and we fully intended
to hi obedient children. At first each
of us was a dumb to tha
other, then followed wretohed days of
declared war, till at last we settled
I down to a polite but oolorleee pesos,
And yet she was pretty and good,
she had brilliant parte, and other peo
pi* went *o farm to sail her “a per
ggfcaaw*-.—r. wot aagaL H Haw about myseU, then?
Analytic revealed the ex
iataooe a 1 the fiacet rainbow colors.
ahe
1B00 guldens,
vt ala which ahe
■
difi^^teU wSSdtST Me about it?" I
mift
M
i wan
ndf—
vj > driven days,
iatttt
**pr with
i§~2 faE l
! me,” I
lb** 13
fT? m In
.a r V
uaae^wabFf
J
J ■ ■ •
ed by a violent fit of ooughing—she broken
had thought, as I made out the
words: “I will sell the bealbty ohild
that the cripple may have something
to live on when 1 am dead.” Ah, she
was sot to be condemned—wc rich folk
have an easy oode.
When my wife came back I told her
about my visitor. “1 gave the poor
thing exactly the same amonnt as you
had given her,” I said. “So now, you
understand, the ohild belongs to both
of us.”
She bit her lip. “It is all the same
to me,” she observed, after thinking
for a moment, and kissed the little one
with a vehemence that sounded like a
challenge. I I hardly
Oar ohild, forsooth ever
got a sight of it, and all the changes
our establishment suffered on his s &
count happened as it were away over
my head. Sometimes, in more than
usually important matters, my consent
was grudgingly asked, “We need a
nurse; I have already secured one,
”
I nodded mutely.
Or it would be, “We must arrange
a nursery—it is too warm for the
child up there.”
A gain I nodded, without a word—
the workmen were already busy in the
passage. There was nothing to be
done, for was it not all for our'child?
We two seldom talked about him.
When we did we always spoke of him
as “It.” But I was all the more con¬
scious all day long of the presence of
this It in the house. "Hush ! not so
mnoh noise; It is asleep. It mast
have its dinner. It mast go oat. It
has hurt itself.” The whole house¬
hold began by degrees to revolve round
It. This nameless Neater annoyed
me.
“It is absurd; he most have a
name,” I said at last.
I |“I quite forgot to ask the mother—
I mean the woman—his name,” an¬
swered my wife. “She said she was
ooming again, but she has never been;
I suppose she is ill. Well) I shall call
It Max. Max is pretty and * shjrt,
don’t you think so?” '
“fl!m,” said I, between *frwo puffs of
my cigar. “Fritz is a nice name,
too." , t f
“I oan’t have its Aameohanged about
for what shortly/4nd everyopte thinks,” she an¬
swered, going.to the door
she oried, “£i f Max up yet?” Our
ohild, indeed f dfcrion, however, I did
On one oo
assert my das, » share in oar ohild. At
lunoh time It w’fcs having dinner at
a little table internals in the adjoining room.
In tho * of our scanty,
flickering conversation we heard his
merry babble, aobomn*nied by the
rattle of his spoon. My wife had hot
a moment’s rest; she was table perpetually
to and fro between our and his,
t° see if the soup were not too .hot,
or if It were not perhaps taking too
much.
“Wife,” I said, quietly, but very
deoidedly, “from to-morrow It shall
have its meals at table with us. It is
two years old—quite old enough.”
From that time It dined with us.
Sitting up in its high elbow-chair like
a prinoe, olose beside my wife, the
tiro opposite seemed like a hostile
party. The poverty-strioken, little had yellow- given
ish pallor of the faoe
plaoe to a delioate, ariatooratio bloom,
and the round oheeka above the stiff
folds of the dinner-napkin Bravely looked
prosperous and cherubic.
did it work away at its soup, and
when it was finished the little,
round fist grasped the spoon on the
table like a sceptre. My wife and I
had exchanged a few words and now
sat silent As the silenoe was pro¬
longed, the great eyes seemed to open
wide and wider. They gazed at my
wife, gazed at me, in astonishment,
almost uncannily oomprehsnding, liks
the eyes of a grown-up person who
felt that all was not as it should be
between us. I oonfess frankly that
those eyes confused me, and that it
was a relief when Friedrioh entered
with the next oouree. And I know my
wife felt the earns.
It wae wonderfully the same Jrtue thing next always day.
The big, eyes
sosmed to be gaaing a sort of reproaoh
ful question at the pauses in our talk,
and, absurd aa it may seem, we two,
man and woman, felt ashamed before
the ohild. Thus it happened that by
degr ees our explained talk beoama and more elucidated ani¬
mated; we
the opportune lisping* to oae another,
and even sometimes laughed heartily
together over the little one’s stumb
M»g efforts a* talk. *
Her laugh was aa Hear and pure
a bell. How was it I had
aqtieed it before? It happened often
now that aa 1 heat over my writing
that dearly ringing in laugh teemed though to sound bone
my ears, as
from afar. . , ;
With the first spring days It a
on its doings in Mm garden, el
I ©ommaaded a View from my
there
Httle
feet in the gravel, aAfed step
■ft. ehirping •• voioe made vied with a tha ehorua at it. its of
narrows—now ahe bald it, and I heard
sound of ki eses.
How foould I work with such mono
going on? I had opened the window;
a bnttezfirftwJW warm, t^my air streamed to in, writing and a
qa my
hind a 1
dressed in whita
of parasol. S
towards me
must have bam blind 1 Whv. PM
gg Lt
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An _
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The prosaic words fell cold ss the
shadow of a heavy She made cloud upon a sunny reply
landscape. 1 did hear, but some the happy
which not
light had vanished from her face.
Then she lifted up the child, which
stretched out its arms to her and ca¬
ressed it before my very eyes.
It‘was then that the first feeling of
jealousy awoke in me. Beal jealousy,
though of so odd a kind that I was not
quite sure as to its object. When It
called her “mamma” a stab wenh
through my heart, and the caresses
with which she overwhelmed the little
one put me beside myself. I was jeal¬
ous—of both of them! I was sore at
having making no third share in in the the bond, dranu^at wnd not re¬
a
solved to take steps to give myself a
claim to it. Alas, I thought drearily,
the child was afraid of me; and as for
herself, I had kept her, as it were by
foroe, at a distance, through long
One day at dinner there was a pro¬
found silence after a skirmish of words
—a painful silence. I stared down at
the painted flowers upon the Meissen
plate before me, a pneker of anger
npon my forehead; bnt all the time I
felt the great eyes of It fall upon me
—and hers too. The rays from those
four eyea seemed to barn npon my
forehead. Suddenly And the silenoe loader was
broken. “Fa-pal” again,
and more confidently, “Pa-pal"
I started. It was sitting there gaz¬
ing at me in terror of the storm its
word would call down. She had turned
scarlet and her lips trembled. No one
bnt herself could have taught him that
“papa.” My heart was warm within
me—why did I not spring np, and
with a word, a touoh, cancel for ever
those dreary six years? The have righA
word at that moment would done
it, but Ifwae u^der a spell. I did not
There was no donbt that with yonng
ourly-head a new upirit had taken pos¬
session, a spirit whioh made me a
stranger in my own honsm- The zooms
were illuminated even sfhen the snn
■without was hidden n»y olonds. The
faoes of the servants, even intimate
objeots, seemed to reflect it; only I
was left untouched.
I beoame more and more wretched
in my solitude. My jealousy grew
apace and filled me with mad thoughts.
I would oppose the little tyrant—ab¬
surd idea 1 I would set before her the
ohoioe between him and me—ah, but
whioh way would her heart have gone?
At one time I thought of taking steps
to trace her the by unhappy gift of mother, to and take to j
enable a money
back her child. Yet, behind my wife’s
back, that was work—I top mean.
I conld not looked tronbled
Ad confused, and when people asked
what ailed me 1 pleaded indisposition. wiped
But the sunlight would pot be
out, and the spirit of love was stronger
than I, and drove me forth.
“I must go on my long journey,
Martha.”
My voioe trembled as I said the
wor da, and my wife observed it.
Something like a tear of pity made
her eyes bright.
She held the little one towards me
as I was going. “Won’t yon say good
bye to our ohild, too?” she asked, in a
gentle, persuaaive tone.
I suppose I took him uptio roughly,
for he began to cry, 1 t.nd fought
against my embraoe. I put him down
and harried away, I wandered hither
and thither about the world, and to
my first companion—ill-humor— in
another soon joined himself, who
formed me straight that I was a foot
I heard it first as a whisper, bnt the
words grew loader and more mooking;
u hat a fool I was I At last I began to
read it in the newspapers. I saw it
written on the blue mountains; it was
borne to me in the shriek of the en
gine. Yes, yea, I quite believed it—
enonghl But why did I not torn
round at onoe and go borne? Ah, the
fool had to work out hia folly before
all conld be set straight tumultuous
At last, full of foelinge,
1 returned home. A solemn still
ness reigned in the house; every
sound seemed snbdned apd mysterious,
My red wife came towards “It me, is her ill— eyes
with weeping. very
dying I” she sobbed. I tried to oalm
her, but her fears were reepitefof only too well
founded. Only a short hope
leaa anxiety I Through the last night
we both eat by hia oot, one on either
sidet and eaoh of aa held one of the
little hands. How the pulses beet and
throbbed! Quick, sharp, fever beats;
and every best was an admonition:
“Love—love—be good.” and understood Together
we felt the measure
the exhortation. Our eyes met through
tears, and the look was as a sacred
vow. Words would have been seeri
lege. Then we laid It to !*•» in the
warm spring earth.
Afterwards, when we sat again at
the first time, again there
rH>eitween us. But it was
another sort of- aUeaoe to that whioh
the poor little Mkaager had interrupt
ed with hia lisping jitUl “pa-pa" His
high elbow-chair stood against
the wall, and on the board in front of
it lay the spoon-eoeptJR held white hand \
My wife table. out b^ “Did love to
me across the you
a little, too?” she said, and her
voioe “My shook. wife, # deer wife 1" I |
mv W own
held her bends.
And then I pointed to the high
k “It oaa# to teach as iota,” I
had dona its work It
" aha mid.
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* JAPANESE FENCERS.
TWO-HAM DED SWORDS USED
WITH MUCH SKILL.
■JSt
A I'ieturesqe Baoonter According thftZ
to the Approved Buies of
Orient—Much Depends
On the Eyes.
u HAVE been challenged to
fight; the weapons will be
swords,” said the young Jap¬
anese, calmly, “Excuse me
while I prepare.” iron-barred hel¬
Then he put on an
met, sheathed his body in a loose pad¬
ded suit of cotton staff, grasped defensive. his
weapon and stood on the
The weapon was not a Damascus blade.
It was, in fact, bamboo. The fight
was not to the death, but for points, the
and snoh boats can be seen at
rooms of the Japanese Glob off Fond
street^ near PowelL
The opponents stood facing each
other, each with a glare of satq>icion
in his eyes, and each too oautions to
even wink lest the other take advan¬
tage. The point of each sword was
held at the height of the throat The
handle wa i grasped in both bands.
Suddenly the men span round, and
one of them leaping into the air by a
dextrous downward stroke from that
elevated position whacked the other
on the back of the head, where there
no protection by iron bars. The man
who was hit blinked as though at a
vision of stars and called out A word
which being interpreted means that
the other had scored. He made his
oall promptly, for had he neglected to
do so the one delivering the blow
would have done so himself, and ac¬
cording to the rales of the game
would have been entitled to an extra
point. in assault
Bat there was no panse
and parry. The man who had the
-"vision of stars reoovered himself, made
a lightning parry and had throat the of end the of
the sword against the palpable jolt.
foe, bestowing it with a
And evtt -yet there was no relaxation.
Each strive to strike the other on the
wrist. COiis member is proteoted the by
a gauntlet, bnt above the ganntlet
arm is bare save for a oovering of one
thickness of light doth. So many a
stroke was reoeived on the arm—and
some of them must have hurt—before
the bamboo lell across the wrist.
Bach a blow is supposed to disable an
enemy, or at least be a start in that
direction. The swords are held in
both hands or in either one, as the
exigqney The of the moment may require,'
and charges are made with a
celerity that the observer oan hardly
follow. The two men ciroling about
each other, thrusting, dodging, making
parries, falling to escape a blow or
from that position to make a vieions
upper out, remind one irresistibly of
two gameoocks.
A fourth point is a blow on the side,
under the arm, of snoh a nature that
strnok with real weapons it would end
the fight and the fighter’s earthly
oareer. When this blow falls it gives
a sounding whaok that shows the use
fulness of padding, even where the
broad blade is represented by strips
of bamboo,
The Japanese are fine fenoers, but
their methods are so different from
those in vogue in this oountry that
there is no familiar standard by whioh
to judge them. Certain it is that
when half a dozen bouts are in pro
grass at onoe. half a dozen men c&ll
ing ont the blows that have been suo
oeesfully delivered, a dozen swords
cutting the air into streaks and oiroles
aa a dozen men duok, jump, stoop, fall
down, spring high, beating the barn
boo on iron bar and wadded doublets,
there are lively times in the Post street
olubroom.
As one of the fenoers explained
while resting, mnoh depends on the
eye. It is the guide. Sometimes in
Japan in deadly oonfliot two fenoers
of skill will faoe eaoh other for a long
time, grasping the two-handed sword,
eying eaoh other grimly, eaoh ready
to move, but not moving until the rov
ing eye of the foe makes an opening,
To stand this indefinitely, refusing to
be led into hostilities that may give
the other e obanoe is regarded as evi
denoe of the highest skill, as it u oer
tainly evidence of wonderful powers of
endorseoe.
The mimio swords used in the olub
»re made of four pieoes of bamboo
joined in the form of an elongated
hollow square. They are not fixed at
the edges, so when a blow is delivered
with say side of the instrument the
bamboo yields, breaking the foroe of
the impact. But for thia the tool
would be battered to pieces in e short
term of service.
In a fenoing match there are sought
to be obtained four principal points,
these being a blow on tha back of the
head, a fair blow, for glancing strokes
do not oount; a thrust at the throat,
a stroke aa the wrist aad.a stroke on
the side. So many are the positions
from which thoee blow* oan be de
livered that there to be no rule
qg to bow delivery shall be made. The
stroke may eome from the right or
left band or be dealt with both, in
which earn it is apt to be no trifle.—
San Fraaomeo Examiner,
squirrels and Fruit.
Squirrels are very abundant in
aoe|e plaoee thia year, and we they hear by
that are
fruit in a way. The
squirrels do not eat tha fruit, but
Of
it quicUtv the fruit decay*, in
ies te gx
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V- Names ol Carriages. )
The feet thei the firsteoacb betn^ ever
brought to this oonntr j+-it im¬
ported by Colonel peLancey Kane,
son-in-lawof C<ymfcodore Vanderbilt,
some twenty wears ago—was named by
tall -J' h °’’ X/ 0 * T l
3*°*°. meaning i, and enlarging for upon twlst ^« the im- tha h
portanco of the word, so as to make it
refer to coaches generally considered,
than it would be to call all yachts
“Alvae” because Vanderbilt chooses to
oall his boat by that name. The word
“tally-ho” is used in a perverted hunting sense
as applied to coaching. It is a
term, pure and simple.
Take the common expression that
yon hear on every side. “Mr. So
and-so has just passed by in his drag. ”
Now, a man np in snoh things would
expect to see a person go by with a
swell four-in-hand tournout. Drag is
the name applied to a coach when it
is used privately. As poon as a four
in-hand coach is put into publio ser
▼ice and a fare is charged for riding
npon it, it oeases to be a drag and be
comes a coach, just as a hansom when
driven publicly becomes a hansom
oab.
Another oommon mistake is the call
ing of two horses a team instead of a
pair. A pair of horses is never a team
unless hitched tandem. A team is
something more than a pair, such as a
tandem, unicorn, four-in-hand, etc.,
and to hear people talk about a pair of
horses as a team is quite as bad as to
hear a person say, “John, put that
single set of harness on the bay.” (> A
single set of harness is an impos
sibility, as it takes a double equipment
for a set.
Used in the sense of the word trap
. another , which , . , yon never
is expresajon Yankee States.
hear except in the very
It seems to be a generic name for all
kinds of traps, and nothing is too low
ly or too lofty to apply the term to.
A name almost as general as a rig in It
its significance is ‘ dog cart.
seems as if anything having two
wheels should be given this name, ao
cording to the notion here. The only
thing that sbonld be given that name,
however, is a two-wheel cart having a
box under the seat, called a dog box,
for the reoeption of dogs, guns, game
and such things.
You very seldom hear the arrant
ment of one horse in front of twd
spoken of as a unioorn ; it is more
usually oalled a spike, yet this is
the slang name for it. Properly should speak
ing, a “spike’ is the name that
be applied to such teams as yon find
working in iron or dray wagons, when
the driver rides the near, horse and
dmes the lead horse with a jerk line.
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mining by Fire.
J. O. Hestwood, who is well-known
in this city, returned from Alaska on
the last trip of the Alaska Commercial
Company’s steamer to San Franoisco,
arriving in this oity on Monday night.
Mr. Hestwood has some mining claims
on the upper Yukon, near Forty-Mile
City. He .left that point in the early
part of September, and it took him
over a month to get home. He came
2000 miles down the Yukon to St.
Miohaela, on the ooaat, then down to
Unalaska, and from there across to
San Franoisoo.
“About 700 people went into the
npper Yukon country last season,”
said Mr. Hestwood, “by way of
Juneau, making their way over the
monntains at Chilkat Pass, then on
the loe over the great lakes for 300
miles; from there they had to go 400
miles further by boat, when they
reached Forty-Mile City.
strated last winter that these mines
can be worked as profitably in the
winter as in snmmer, in fact, at much
less expense. This is done by the use
of fire. A hole is sunk by fire down
to the pay streak, the earth being
thawed ont by the heat The dirt is
then hoisted by windlass and left on
top of the ground and is washed ont
in the spring. I opened np quite a
rich claim this season on Qlaoier
Creek, and have men employed this
winter burning. I expect to take in
prospecting machinery next spring,
whioh will enable me to locate the pay
streak .....guloh in the gnloh in in a a comparatively comparatively
short time. By By using using this this machinery machinery
a hole twenty-five feet deep oan be
sunk in a day, when eighteen inches a
day by burning is a pretty good day’s
work.”—Beattie Post-Intelligenoer.
A Headsman With a History,
On the little Island of Ustioa, forty
mfl— from Palermo, Italy, there died
the other day a man who for years
was the terror of Naples and the
Kingdom of the Two Sioiliee. He
was Gaetano Impellizaezi, once the
under Feidinand H of
Naples. The useless executions at¬
tributed to Impellizzeri are count
leas, and, with the cruelty whioh he
showed, led to liis denunciation by
Mr. Gladstone forty years ago in the
Phillipios whioh that statesman di¬
rected against Fsrdinand. The execu¬
tions were only in part secret—usually publio; it was at
the executions in
night—which gave the man his power.
It was he who executed in San Fran¬
oisoo plaoe, Naples, the Oalabiian
Milanoque, who on December
9, 1856, had made a bayonet thrust at
wing Ferdinand H., and patriots in¬
numerable became his victim*.
When Garibaldi entered Naples in
September, I860, the excited pop-a¬
we* t in search of the hated
; but be cared modi for his
own life, although ha thought little hia of
that of Later others, end imprisoned eeeaped with the
wife. he was on
Island of Uetaea, where he
of the tort built in
the
to of n Of $5
* he
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A
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIKSl
TO CLEAR TCro GLOVES.
Glean your kid gloves with naphtha
remembering that it is very explosive Put
if exposed to fire or lamp light. oleaa
one glove on, dip a pieoe of
white flannel in the naphtha and rub
over the glove, rubbing the spots second very
hard. Then rub dry with a
piece of flannel and hang in the air
until the odor has evaporated. —Ladies’
Home Journal.
a dinner appetizer.
The dinner appetizer par excellence,
is made of anchovies. This ’obtains
^ 1 ^,, favor as & qnickener of lagging Tha
appet ites than anything else.
bonele6S anchovies are preferably used
j or + hi» purpose. They come in small
are denuded of head, tail and
bones, and are covered with an oil
i ike sardines. Squares of bread with
ont should 1>e toasted to a nice
even brown. Two anohovies are then
pi aoe( j thereon, in opposite directions,
in or j er pro dnoe an equality of
arrangement Over the whole are
tbeu sprinkled the yolks of hard
boiled eggs, crumbled np fine, the
w bites being chopped into oubea and
disposed over the top. A dusting of
w bite pepper and a very little salt
completes this remarkably delicious
appe tizer. They are frequently whioh more
relished than the Bine Points
f 0 n 0w go spee dily in their wake. For
anpper and teas broiled sardines on
toast are frequently served and are a
mos $ appetizing* preliminary.—St
Louis Star-Sayings,
cleaning cakpets.
A clean barrel which will hold
Welv6 gallona ^ req uired. Put into
thfl barrel threo gallon8 of luke warm
water (soft water is best) then a dd half
a £ - t of ammonia . Take ftn iron ket
tl and t in three pinte of water
and eix onnc08 of 80ap bark> w hioh
will flnd at a druggists’s; boil
twenty £ minutes ; then strain into the
barre Shave very thin five bars of
« d ^ ftnd t in a boiJer wit h
ne ° of water> and boil until
^ is all dissolved, then add one
Qf lyerized bor ax and boU
ten minutes, stirring all the time,’then
pour £ it into the boiler, and add eight
ftlIon9 of 8oft water> stir well and let
8tand until cool, and it is then ready
for U80 Brussels carpets can be
0 i eane d nicely with this soap, also in
. Q et(J which are soiled, if they
haV0 nQ dafjt under them Take two
of water . with a brnB h put on a
httle of thia soap> aorub wit h warm
wat on0 brea dth, not over one yard
in length at on0 time> theil| with an .
other brush and the clean water, scrub
it over to rinse it, then proceed with
the rest until you have cleansed the
wbo i e . it should be done on a sunny
day> un l eaa you have heat in the
room . xuJ
An excellent scheme for cleaning
grain oarpe t a an d art squares is
a hake the carpets free from dust, then
apre ad them on the bare floor, make
a g00( j aa ds with this soap, and with
a a ^£f bra sh scrub the oaipet, one
breadth at a time, after yon have
cleaned a place; have a pail of clean
^ater and soiub it well to get the suds
ou t. This takes out grease and dirti
Jt jg equally good for cleaning chilA
dien’s and men’s clothing. Lay thel \
g arm ent on a clean board and scrub
wjth a small brush, whioh you oan
puro hase for a dime, then rinse. — At
i an ta Constitution,
RECIPES.
little; serve mixed with raisins.
Cauliflower Omelet—One cup cold
boiled cauliflower, sauce inoluded,
chopped into small pieces; four eggs,
one teaspoon ful corn star oh; beat
eggs thoroughly, add cauliflower and
cook as other »q mele ts.
Fried Mush—^Jut the mush into
cubes two inches square. Dip in a
batter made of one egg and one table
spoonful of water; then roll in fine
bread crumbs or cornmeal, drop into
hot lard, fry a golden brown,
Cranberry Jelly—Scald the berries
an d express the juice as for other jel
lies. lies. Measure the jnioe and allow
three-fourths of a pound of sugar to
one of juice. Boil twenty minutea,
a dd the sugar hot, then boil twenty
minutes from the time it babbles all
over.
Crescents—Take nicely raised bread
dongh, roll it on the board until
about one-eighth of an inch In tbiek
neas and oat into five-inch square*;
then divide through the oenter into
triangles; roll up, beginning with the
wide side, plaoe in the pan to rise in
semi-circular shape and bake in a
quick oven.
Citron Apples—Select and nioe tart ap¬
ples, pare remove the ooree, fill
the oavitiee with sugar, first placing in (
eaoh apple a few bits of ohopped cit¬
ron. Cover oloeely and bake till per¬
fectly tender, but not till they have
fallen to pieces. When cold serve
with or without a spoonful of whipped
cream on each apple.
Farina Fruit Mold—Put a quart of
red raspberry juice, well sweetened,
into the inner cap of a doable bailee.
Heat to boiling and stir in four heap¬
ing tablespoons of farina, first moist¬
ened with a little of the juice. Boil
up until thickened, then set into the
outer boiler and oook for an hour.
Ppur into molds, previously we* in J
©old water.
Creamed Sweet Potatoes—Peel
potatoes left from dinner the :
before; out into blocks and
made by be a ting one
cap of milk in your skillet; fiourfl that
tableepoonful of
until with
with sett IX
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