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About Women. Edea lca.se, jething that will Interest and amuse. k only possible secrets between two people should be those which [fided to either one of them by While some people, who call hives worldly wise, will laugh at of such perfect confidence as implies, others still, especially the Jwly married, who have but small Worldly experience, will be shocked [iat I should suggest the keeping of jy kind of secret by either wife or sband from the other. I am not Fepared to say that these hist are not wiser of the two. Only, in that when any confidence is proffered either husband or wife, the recipient it should make his or her position flearly understood. Possibly there is a certain hardness Ward old friends in requiring them ither to dispense with the sympathy re have been wont to give them, or else submit their weakness and trial to ) cold judgment, the cynical con sideration of a man or a woman who has for them no tender toleration born of loving intimacy. Yet it would be better to refuse ever to listen to another confidence while the world stands than ^jto receive a secret to keqp when its cus- ly would be a wound to one whose j.ppiness should be our first object, le wives and some husbands are Jo-minded enough and free enough jealously not to be troubled by the riedge that a confidence has been Wed in which they cannot share, Ihen there can be no harm in such ldence. it no personal secret can fitly belong fie only of the two people of whom Land law have made one flesh. The of marriage had been realized judge, who had knelt for so frs to say a last prayer at night lis wife, and when at last she Bft him, his lips were dumb and Lout her he could not even open his to God. requent cause of trouble in mar- te is a want of openness in busi- latters. A husband marries a thoughtless girl, who has been Lp taking no more thought as to should be clothed than the lilies lie begins by not liking to ler requests. He will not i he can help it, at care in 3es—he does not like to if in her mind with dis- enial. And she, rilling enough, to please her up any whims or whatever, falls into extravagance, and |dien, at last, a re- IIow much wiser srfect openness in just so much money to ler. Now, shall we ar- lus or thus ?” was a ^ery young husband ^bride not long ago ; answered not a hitherto S&s and lain life.” I am not Pages that are no mar- ^Yenus has wedded Vul- Vulcan prospered at his ft marriages where two true Lve set out together, for 6, to learn the lessons of life together till death shall part Lnd one of the first lessons for arn is to trust each other en- tte most frivolous girl of all jud garden of girls,” if she Quires something of rom her love, and is ready ojBlp make her small sacri- Lf° l general good. Try her fou Witt Bee. f ‘f you fail to toll her just how \ jjfou have, and just what portion ( V* Ihs j*rof>erly spent, and what ^ould be saved for the nest-egg riier interest is not less than >uyou cannot justly blame , ' e 1 c ttr«ie8S and self-indulgent, aU< .V°'(W to want to-morrow. Viands 0 f little courte- 'i®L»id not be lost sight if course, the best thing is when talk does not weary—when two people are so unified in taste that whatever inter ests the one is of equal interest to the other, but this cannot always be the case, even in a happy marriage ; and is it not better worth while to take the small trouble of paying courteous at tention to the one who depends on you for his daily happiness than even to be stow this courtesy on the acquintance, whom it is a transient pleasure to please ?—Louise Chandler Moulten, in Our Continent. Scraps. A three year old little girl at Roches ter, N. Y., was taught to close her evening prayer, during the temporary absence of her father, with, “and please watch over my papa.” It sounded very sweet, but the mother’s amusement may be imagined when she added, “And you’d better keep an eye on mamma too !” A Boston type-maker, who occasion ally dumps old type into his melting kettle, lias several times been scared half out of his wits by violent explosions in the molten fluid, and now, after in vestigation into the cause thereof, he requests the printers of New England not to buy any more pistol cartridges into their old type. A celebrated vocalist, whose demean or and acting were as awkward and un gainly as his voice was beautiful, said one day to Charles Bannister: “Do you know what made my voice so mel odious ?” “No,” replied Bannister. “Why, then, when I was fifteen, I swal- low'ed by accident some train oil.” “I don’t think,” rejoined Bannister, “it would have done you any harm if, at the same time you had swallowed a dancing master.” “Why, Franky, I never knew’ you before to ask for preserves a second time.” Franky didn’t say much, but his little brother Tommy, who was in nocent of the ways of bad boys, spoke up, with a guileless smile on his pure, little face, and said : “That’s because Franky lost the key he made to open the pantry. That’s why he never used to want much preserves at the supper table. He used to get all he wanted before supper, but now he can’t open the pantry.” After Franky’s father had administered the proper corrective, and the stricken youth was left alone in the shed to repent of his crime, Tommy remarked to himself, as he sat down to study his Sunday school lesson : “I expect poor Franky is sorry he didn’t give me some of them preserves when I asked him for them. He will know better the next time. ” Convicts at Dartmoor Prison, in England, make skeleton keys out of the bones of their meat. Nothing could be more appropriate. Their escape by this means reminds us of one of those skele ton leaves. To get up a dinner of great variety, cooks should be allowed a wide range. Men who have money to loan take the greatest possible interest in their business. A gentleman had his picture taken recently ; cost him $‘200, and still he is not happy. A fellow’ took it out of the hall when the latch was up. The reason that aesthetics so admire the story is that he can stand for hours on one leg and look as though he didn’t know anything and didn’t want to. It is an undeniable fact that nearly all centenarians are poor and have been poor all their lives. If you wish to live to a good old age, young men, never advertise. of marriage. The jal success is to The same mar- riio Pious Reflections. “Bear ye one another’s burden?,” was the solemn admonition of Him who sub limely bore the burdens of the entire world. Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell easy there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. Our lives should be like the days, more beautiful in the evening, or like the spring, aglow* with promise, and like autumn, rich with golden sheaves when good words and deed shave ripened on the field. “Let love be without dissimulation.” Let your profession of it be sincere and not hypocritical. Do not wear a mask, pretending to be one thing, while you lire af other. “Lover not iiu. worj Men may not appreciate your labors, nor reward you for your toil, but you may rest assured that labor faithfully performed, with an eye to .the divine glory, shall not fail of its reward. If it is not rewarded here, it w ill be here after. Then l>e patient; labor on ; do your duty, and leave the result with God. There are two sides to a question, but, where our feelings are concerned, we are apt to look at but one, and that the one that justifies us. We forget that others have also a right to their opinions, and they view the matter in an entirely different light. It is well to consider both sides before deciding what is right. They say that I am growing old, be cause my hair Ls silvered, and there are crows’ feet on my forehead, and my step is not so firm and elastic as before. But they are mistaken. That is not me. The brow is wrinkled, but the brow is not me. This is the house I live in. But I am young, younger than I ever was before. The Labor of Love.—A century ago, in the north of Europe, stood an old cathedral, upon one of the arches of which was a sculptured face of won drous beauty. It was long hidden un til one day the sun’s light striking through a slated window revealed its matchless features. And ever after, year by year, upon the days when for a brief hour it was thus illumined, crowds came and waited eagerly to catch but a glimpse of that face. It had a strange history. When the ca thedral was being built, an old man, broken with the weight of years and care, came and besought the architect to let him work upon it. Out of pity for his age, but fearful lest his failing sight and trembling touch might mar some fair design, the master set him to work in the shadow’s of the vaulted roof. One day they found the old man asleep in death, the tools of his craft laid in order beside him, the cunning of his right hand gone, his face upturned to this marvelous face which he had wrought—the face of one whom he had loved and lost in early manhood. And when the artists and sculptors and workmen from all parts of the cathe dral came and looked upon that face they said : “This is the grandest work of all 1 love wrought this !” In the great cathedral of the ages—the temple being builded for an habitation of God we shall learn some time that love’s work is the grandest of all. How to Spoil a Husband. In a Russian Prison. Henpeck him. • Snarl at him. Find fault with him. Keep an untidy house. Humor him half to death. Boss him out of his boots. Always have the bust word. Be extra cross on wash-day ! Quarrel with him over trifles. Never have meals ready in time. Run bills without his knowledge. Yow vengeance on all his relations. • Let him sew the buttons on his shirts. Pay no attention to household ex penses. Give as much as he can earn in a month for a new bonnet. Tell him as plainly as possible that you married him for a living. Raise a row if he dares to bow pleas antly to an old lady friend. Provide any soi’t of pick-up meals for him when you don’t expect strangers. Get everything the woman next door gets whether you can afford it or not. Tell him the children inherit all their mean traits of character from his side of the family. Let it out sometimes when you are vexed that you wished you had married some other fellow that you used to go with. Give him to understand as soon as possible after the honeymoon that kiss ing is well enough for spooney lovers, but that for married folks it is very silly.—Christian Advocate. In the cells of the upper and middle tiers are put the least compromised criminals. All the cells are of the same size—ten feet long, seven feet broad and twelve feet high. The doors have each two openings—one large enough for the daily food and drink to be put in through it and the other of smaller size, to serve as spy hole for the jailors. The doors are also each fastened with two pad- locks—the key of one being in the jailer’s custody, while that of the other remains in charge of the commandant of the fortress. The dish from which the prisoner eats is pushed through grooves cut in a plate of iron which projects from the interior of the door, at the height of about four feet from the lioor. The dish cannot, therefore, be removed by the prisoner, who must take his food standing against the door —and this with a spoon which is at tached to the plate. The drinking water is put into a sort of jug hinged to the door. When the prisoner wishes a drink he must get down upon his knees and turn the vessel upon its hinges or pivots. Food is supplied at eleven o’clock in the morning and six in the evening, and ordinarily consists of oatmeal gruel and a quarter of a kilo gram of meat; besides this there is a daily allowance of a kilogram of rye bread. The prisoner’s bed consists of a plank, six by three, with a straw mattress, a sheet so strong and coarse that it is impossible to tear it, and a covering of felt—all of which articles are taken away during the day. The dress consists of a gray woolen jacket quite short and tight-fitting ; short pant aloons of the same color, and long felt boots. For women the jacket is sup plied, and a gray shirt added. The prisoners must get up at six o’clock and go to bed again at eight. It has been ascertained, by means of the secret observations which are constantly taken through the peepholes, that, as a gene ral rule, the prisoners, spend their long hours from their rising until their breakfast in pacing to and fro in their colls ; after this they are wont to re main quiet for an hour or so, only to give way next to an excess of desolate despair which their pitiable situation may well inspire. A Medical Opinion of the Electric Light. A good old Quaker lady, after listen- ng to the extravagant yarn of a person as long as her patience would allow, said to him : “Friend, what a pity it’s a sin to lie, when it seems so necessary to thy happiness I” • Before the electric light becomes, as it must soon become, the common illu minating agent of the period, says the Lancet, a determined effort should be made to devise some mode of *mitiga- ting its peculiarly unpleasant intensity. The vibratile impulse of the electric force is obviously stronger than the delicate terminal elements of the optic nerve in the retina can bear without injury. We are wont to apply the ad jectives “hard” and “soft” to light, and their significance makes them pecu liarly appropriate. The electric light is too hard ; it needs to be softened. The waves of motion are too short, and the outstroko—so to say—joins the instroke at too acute an angle. This might doubtless be obviated by employing suitable material for globes, and shades, but perhaps the best plan would be to break up and scatter the rays of light by reflection. If a small convex re flector were placed immediately below the light in the protecting globe, and one of larger dimensions above it, so as to secure a double Mlection with ultimate divergence downward and out ward, the effect would be. to cause the “rays” of light to fall obliquely on all objects within the immediate area of illumination. This would, perhaps, obviate the need of colored gliisses, which the promoters of the electric light seem to dislike. Certainly there is a considerable sacrifice of power in the use of the opaline globe—so much indeed, that some of the districts light ed by electricity displayed through this medium do not present any obvious BUj>eriority over gas. Something must be done, for, as it is, the electric light is “trying to the eyes,” which means that it is in danger of injuring them, and, already, there is reason to believe, mischief has been wrought by its use. For true comfort there is nothing like th< light given by the old-fashioned pure wax candle. The Real Profit Overlooked. “And I’ll want to lay out af 000 in improvements, I presuj “Yes, fully that.” “And l can invest another blooded stock ?” “I think you can.” “And $5000 more in grading, up, creating fish ponds, and so for “Well, you may get through that sum.” “That’s $40,000 ; and now let’s I the income.” “Oh, you don’t need pencil' paper,” said the victim, as a si of sorrow darkened his face. income will be about $5 for turr $2 for potatoes, $5 or $fi for and a bull calf or two at $3 a head, save time, call it $25. I’ll see again in a day or two. Maybe I’ve gotten something which will add a lar more. Good morning to you.” Home Economies. Fruit Pudding.—Three pil milk, eight Boston crackers spl| buttered, six eggs beaten light cups of sugar, one teaspoonful oi quarter of a nutmeg grated, half spoonful of cinnamon, one poj stoned raisins, quarter of a currants. Boil the milk, andl sugar, eggs and flavoring, deep pudding dish, put in a 1^ crackers and moisten with a the custard. Then add a layer and do this till all is in tU Pour over the rest of the cua bake in a slow oven. Brov last, and eat hot with or withe Tripe Curry.—Boil two tripe and cut it into strips^ large onions and cut thy; pieces, and put the onic pan with three tablespoonful of Lit it stew till brown, stirring mixing a tablespoonful of cur der. Now add one pint of 1 the cut-up tripe. Let all ste\ hour, skimming it well. Serv? deep dish with boiled rice also with it. An East India curry powcl is made thus: Pound very fine in mortar six ounces of coriander see three-fourths of an ounce of cayenj one and one-half ounces of foenug| seed, one ounce cummium seed and t" ounces of tumeric. These articles be brought at a druggist’s. Pound tin? sift through fine muslin ; spread on j dish and dry before the fire for till hours, stirring frequently. Keep thl in a bottle with a glass stopper. Florida Grape Fruit. — T! fruit is refreshing and wholesome, pecially for a bilious temperament. H flavor is sub-acid, but its juicy pulpj inclosed in a tough white membrane intensely bitter tiiste ; when this brane is removed the fruit is delici? It has become the fashion to use it as' salad. The fruit is placed on the tal whole (one is enough for a party of foil] or six), cut in quarters and fUrve au noj ural. When not used as a salad, the skin in sections and peel it off; arate the sections as you would thoij an orange, and, holding each 04 the ends, break it open from the < disclosing the pulp ; tear this out bitter white membrane which- the sections, carefully removing part of it; keep the pulp as unbr] as possible and put it into a de with a plentiful sprinkling sugar. lA>t ito*hm*||0lW5FTour hour or over niglu^m^hen use the ft “Do not put riiich have held iys a domestic pat A Baltimore man who bought him a farm two or three years ago was re cently approached by a friend who had some money to Invest, and who ashed : “Can 1 buiLa preU^fair fai^^pr Our Recipe for Making Kraut.—The best we ever at made ourselves for many years, ad a considerable time with our own 1 and always from Savoy cabbag was manufactured in this wise ; first place let your “stand,” hoT from a half barrel to a barrel, oughly scalded out; the cutter, and the stamper also well scalded. 1 off all the outer leaves of the c? halve them, remove the heart aij ceed with the cutting. Lay som? leaves at the bottom of the st sprinkle with a handful of salt* half a bushel of cut cabbage, gently until the juice just makes it l>carance, then add another handi salt, and so on until the stand is Cover over with cabbage leaves, on top a clean board fitting the space pretty well, and on top of that a stone weighing twelve or fifteen pounds. Stand away in a cool place, and when hard freezing comes on remove to the cellar. It will lie ready for use in from four to six weeks. The cabbage should be cut tolerably coarse. The Savoy variety makes the best article, aut it is. only^^^Hiroductive as the dm^4