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THE HOUSEHOLD.
Hashed Ham. —Chop cold boiled or fried
ham fine as for hash. To every cupful of
the ham add two eggs, one tablespoon of
flour, salt and pepper to taste. Fry in hot
lard, as fritters, or upon a gridle.
Rice Mdefins. —Two cups of cold boiled
rice, one pint of flour, one teaspoon of salt,
oue tablespoon sugar, two teaspoons of
baking powder, one half pint of milk, three
eggs. Mix into a smooth and rather firm
batter.
Harp Molasses Cookies. —One cup o!
sugar, one of butter, and one of molasses ;
one teaspoon of soda and one of ginger,
Boil all together, and while boiling stir in
enough flour to thicken. Roll thin and
bake quickly.
Soft Molasses Cookies. —One pint
buttermilk, one pint molasses, one-half cup
butter and one-half cup lard mixed, two
teaspoons soda, one of ginger, one of cloves.
Mix as soft as possible, roll one-quarter of
an inch thick and bake in a quick oven.
Clear Icing for Cakes.—P ut one cupful
of pulverized sugar into a bowl with a
tabletpoonful of lemon juice and the whites
of two eggs. Just mix together smooth,
and pour over the cake while it is warm 1
enough to dry the icing or set it iu the oven
’
to dry. j
Oatmeal Muffins.—O ne cup oatmeal,
one and a half pints flour, one teaspoon of j
salt, two of baking powder, one pint of milk, j
one tablespoon of lard, two eggs, Mix
smoothly into a batter rather thinner than i
for cup cakes. Fill the muffin rings two- i
thirds full and bake in a hot oven.
Batter Pudding. —One aud one-half
cups of flour, one teaspoon baking powder,
one-half teaspoon salt, and tablenpoon but
ter, two eggs, oue pint of milk. Steam one
hour, and serve with sauce. By adding a
cupful of raisins, or any other desirable
fruit, either fresh or dried, to the above
pudding mal&s a most delicious dish.
Brown Bread. —Sift together one pint of
corn meal, one pint of rye flour, one tables
spoonful of brown sugar, one teaspoonf ul of
salt and two of baking powder. Rub into
the mixture one tablespoonful of lard and
add three-fourths of a pint of milk. Mix
into a batter like cake and bake one hour
Protect it with brown paper if it should
brown too fast at first.
Butter Rolls. — One quart of flour, hall
teaspoon of salt, two teaspooul'uls of baking
powder, one egg, oue pint of milk, one
tablespoonful of lard. Sift the flour, salt
and baking powder together, rub in the lard
cold, then udd the egg and milk, mix as soft
as possible. Roll it out one-half inch in
thickness and cut with a plaiu round biscuit
cutter. Dip them in melted butter, fold
one-third of each piece over the remainder
and bake in a quick oven for fifteen min¬
utes.
Culinary Gems.
Tbe stew is the great dish of the future.
The uncertainty of meal-takiug brings I
with it a craving for stimulants. ;
Stsws should uot he cooked too long, ns
the best particles evaporate. j
It is impossible to get warm in cold :
weather with undigested food in your
stomach. Fish should be boiled, but steamed |
never
so that no fine properties are diisolved in
the wale’ and so lost.
Exclusive diet on peas, beaus aud dentils
do not develop tbe brightest and quickest
tone of mind iu man.
Food is only coarse when coarsely cook
ed, as the plainest materials contain nutri
tious and dainty elements.
It is a great mistake to eat half-raw steak
on a cold winter’s day. Half raw meat
yields much less nutrition than well cooked
meat.
If meals are kept, irregularly in youth
something creeps up in adult age which
shows diminished vitality. 1
The want of a warm meal in the mid
die of tbe dav rsl is to people breakTast who have had
perhaps D rhaus but but a slight ght hr .a and have
been in the cold winter uir, the cause
ditease aud want of vitality.
Notions about Curative Oils.
Some people still hoi t ie curious m
superstitions concerning curative properties
of the oils of certain atr muls; an to lear
the drnegists tell of the strange nrtu es
called for by some of their customers is to
be reminded of the vagaries m u yd 111 by
the aboriginal medicine man in his native
wigwara. For instance there are a great
many persons who pin great nub . u I to t c
virtues of iattiesn .ke oi , mi w 10 ' ie '‘ 11
specific for .
to be a rn< ” matu 11 u 1 ■
A travelling quack who announced that his
cure all was partly compoum - .j i.it n sna 1
reaped a big harvest ot stiver coin from
crowds on one of our squares net very long
ago.
is aLoa frequen demaa , . ,
there or p . P
erel oil, which is said to cure deafness, and
vkhieh ia oriud from the livcis piust n.
Mud turtle oil is frequently < alb d lor by
people who are afflicted with st if joints.
It has been but two or three J < ars uro H.ni
all these o.ls were s!ll l de 1 tvtr .'
drugstore. Pickewl oil sold for fifty cents
an ounce and turtle oil for one dollar a pint
These oils ate rarely found to-day, and
probably from this very rea^ti are accred¬
ited pith the more wonderful qualities by ihe
oracles.—Exchange,
Comforts in tl-s Oidan Times.
In the thirteenth aud fourteenth centuries
elegance had scarcely any existence, and
even cleanliness was hardly considered as
laudable. The use of linen was not known,
and the most delicate cf the fair sex wore
woolen undergarments. In Paris they had
meat only three times a week; and about
£5 was a large portion for a young lady,
The better sort of citizens used splinters ol
wood aud rags dipped iu oil instead of c«i;
dies, which in those days were a rarity
hardly to be met with. Wine was only to
be had at the shops of the apothecaries,
where it was sold as a-cordial; and'to ride
in a two wheeled cart along the dirty, rugged
streets was reckoned a grandeur of so eu- i
viable a nature that Phillip the Fair pro
hibited the wives of citizens from enjoying it. ,
LOOKING AT BOTH SIBES.
Tbe'gotxi wife bustled about the house, j
Her face still bright with a pleasant smile,
As broken snatches of happy sons
Strengthened her heart and bauds the
while.
The good man sat In the chimney nook.
His little clay pipe within his lips,
And ail he'd made, and ali : he had.lost, ;
Beady and clear on his finger-tips. |
“Good Wife, I’ve Just been thinking a bit; !
Nothing has done very well this year,
Money Is bound to be hard to get,
Everything is sure to be very dear.
How the cattle are going to be fed
How we’re going to keep the boys at
school,
Isa kind of debt and credit sum
I can't make out by any rule."
Hhe turueit arounil from the baklug-board,
And she faced him w'itii a cheerful fungh;
“Why, husband, dear, one would really
tbiuk i
That the Rood rich wheat was onlyichafl.
Ami wliatif wheat i« only chaff,
Ho long an we both are well and strong?
I’m not a woman to worry a hit-
Somc how or other we get along.
‘‘Into all lives Rome ram must fall,
Overall lands fclie storm mast beat,
But when the storm and pain are o'er
The niter .sunshine in twice an sweet.
Tblough every strait we have found ft road,
In every giief we h ive found a song,
We ha ve had to bear aud had to wait,
But—some how or other we get /dong.
“For thirty years we have loved each other,
Blood by each other wbat ever befell;
Si* troys have called us ’/ather’aml ‘mother,’
And .11 of thP.n living and doing well.
We owe no man a penny, my dear;
Are f riii of 11 s loving and we’I aud strong,
Good man, I wish you would smoke again,
Aud think how well we have got along.”
He filled bis pipe with a pleasant laugh,
Ho klssid bis wife with a tender pride, i
He said, “I'll do as you tell me, love, |
I'll just count upon lire other side.”
•Stic left lu la then with his better thought,
"adiI lilted her work with a low, sweet
sons;,
A hour that’s followed me many a year—
“Borne how or other we get along!”
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“All’s Well That Emls Well,”
1
"When I wan abroad—” “When I was j
i
abroad," mimicked a young lady's voice,
with a mocking inflection and a rather un¬
necessary widening of the “abroad,” and
then added petulantly, “Harry, don’t
forever begin your sentence with 'When 1
was abroad,’ as if yon had left your wits
there !"
“I really don't know what you mean,
Charlotte,” said the first speaker, loftily, to
hide annoyance, “What is the use of trav¬
elling if one ia never to speak of what one
has seen.”
“I am Giire, Harry, I don’t want to pre¬
vent your talking all you" want to of what
you saw or did or thought or meant to see
or do, but you needn’t always begin «o ,
grandly, ‘When I was abroad, i ni sure j
every one must be tired of bearing it, and J
tell you for your own good," she added,
looking and speaking tho last words very
primly, but with a world ot mischief ilanc
ing in her eyes.
“What would you have me say then, Lot,
ta ?” answered Harry. “Perhaps you will
lie kind enough to dictate the torm of speech
you admire.”
“Oh, 1 wouldn , t have you say anything— .
just tell what you want to, as if it had hap- j
pened, or you had seen it, in some UT>im_ i
portant American village Now, Harry
dear, you know 1 like to have you tell me ,
things, but 1 do hate pomposity, and I’m
afraid-she put on the prim look here- j
“you think yourself a very travelled person,
amt are puffed up. You know every one
cannot worship you as Marion Wilson !
does,
The speaker here raised her eyes and
looked rather maliciously at the young
man
It is time, however, to explain who the
speakers were, and to formally introduce
them to our readers. Tbe lady first: Miss
Charlotte Somers, a bright-eyed, fair lassie
ol about twenty, with quantities of bronze
golden hair which rippled and run into little
ringlets all over her head and on her broad
' white forehead, though-she was sensible
cough not to “bang” it down to her eye
! j br0WB . She was cousin to Mr. Harry Me
Intire, a young fellow two years ber senior
1 tall, with broad shoulders and well knit
frame, dark, almost black, hair and blue
eyes, a small auburn—as his mischievous
cousin called it mustache shading his upper
,. pg H e had lately returned from a year’s
tra ; uve i t | ieo j d world, aad Lotta said that the
glory ‘ of D ‘ -.d deprived him of common
sens u ft| , sllP thought they should send
himHn , o (hp coun(ry t0 hoe potlU0 aud
^ m(jnUl e q a il\brium. In truth,
yjj gg charlotte loved and admired her cousiu
j vflry n)ueb| entirely in aeousinly way, which
| I would have my readers understand is a
j Wd ^ y 0 | j ts 0WIb no , sisterly, as some have it
^ ^ ^ very lpast - iu love ” „ lth
( l^im, tnouygh quite aware that he was, or
fftucied , l( . W;jg _ very much in love withter
gbe wgs a ; wa y S making sly allusions to
i Marion Wilson, or some other young lady,
w | 10m sb e pretended to think admired Hat
^ ktliwin(5 all the tirae that 8uch a U ugions
f ron) h*r were, as expressed it, “very
tr jj ^ n thtm, she told her prim,
n » 0
oW maid auQt> who remonstrated sometimes
with her. "it is good for Harry to be teased,
a!ld really isn't old enough to be in love
witbanyone _ R PS ide, I want him tor my
j cousin, and mean that some other man shall
j be my husband, ii 1 ever marry at all”.
Meanwhile poor Harry hovered around
her, and was both charmed and angry at
h'r saucy speeches, ana was especially tor
mented that she would always cal! him a
“boy” or "a dear teliow before ot her youeg
ladies, and when they were not pres- ut, dr
etare she was sure they must be dying for
hint; did he observe how so-and-so hung on
j his words? Generally it was Marion Wil
son, who, being twenty-five, very p ain and
very jofly, treated Harry with good matured
indifference, or q lesuoned him sb >ut h ; s
travels as if she meant to write a b ok about
them, and jftueraUy ended with, "I suppose
this little‘go’ will have to last until ycu
marry an heiress, and go again on a wt-d-:
ding jaunt,”
There was one young la y. however,
about whom Lotta never ttaSed him ; in her
secret heart b-'s cousin had decided that
Maggie Mitt sell was the pearl her hand
some cousin was to win and wear; but she
never whispered the idea even to herself, ;
unless she was locked up alone in her own
room for she said with a wise nod. ‘If they
,
has J‘ n0W distressed ."‘ tht ?' 1, her W:ver some that t "^aggie^and Maggie anQ
never agreed on any given subject,
that Harry said Miss Mitchell was “opin-
10 . „ . pouted 1 and told
•
Charlotte her covin . was really ., ... too con
ceiled.” Charlotte fought the battles of
both to each, and wondered at their per
versity ; but still she hoped and held her
peace find her
t„. t now ’ ton ’ Charloite began to
/ , devotion , rather , in ■ the 1 way. TberP mere
cousin s
was a bright young lawyer lately settled in
t j, e pl ac ,, ' w ,th whom she had been used, be
fore H f . ame home> f0 fence a parry
words, until he had said she would make a
good law. er herself, It' had been all fun
and play together—now a game of croquet,
now a little dance alter a moonlight walk
with a few other of the girls and young
men He had generally fallen to her share
in the walk, when she was not flitting
f ?ke a sprite here, thf*re and everywhere, aid
jo was more frequently her partner in tbe
lance than any one else; still she had never
er ously thought of him as a lover until
Master Harry’s incessant attentions had left
no room for Mr. Warrington's, and she was
compelled to have Harry for tbe escort or
partner, and see her friend quietly appro¬
priated by some of her friends. Just now
lie was at leisure after his travels before en¬
ter ng some business house, and as their
ho see nearly adjoined, there was, as she
raid pettishly to hersell, “no getting rut o*
irm.’'
However, she had no idea of staying at
home or getting melancholy because the
wrong man would be her escort. Her
heallh was perfect, spirits diito, and she
r j > 1 ;i rl y loved fun and exercise of all descrip
tion, and was always panning some excur¬
sion, principally walking, for the girls were
all famous walkers.
About three miles from the village was a
p 1 ^’ ce called Rocky Hil, '.* h ! re * rewa ’*' the
daintiest aud sweetest will -flowers. 1 here
was p little waterfall, and plenty of what
Lo’ta called romantic situations; so one
fine afternoon she beat up several recruits,
among whom were Harry, Mr. Warrington
and Maggie Mitchell. -They started off in
high glee, each with a small basket; for it
bad been univeisally decided that they
should have a cold supper by tbe waterfill,
and return by mooonlight with baskets fill¬
ed with ferns and flowers.
All went w ill, the afternoou was perfect
in respect to the weather. The picked up,
scrappy, impromptu picnic was all the
enjoyable for its being got upso hastily and
wheu luncheon was eaten and the lew dishes
packed aw -y, the young people prepared to
ramh!e about at their own sweet will. Lotta,
, 1eteraiiueil for once to escape from Harry,
cut, him to look if he could find her hand¬
kerchief by the waterfall, though all the
time the little witch well knew it was in her
pocket; and then ebe scampered off like an
antelope, and began the ascent of Rocky
.HU, not by the circuitous path, which led
iu and out and round about the trees until
ihe top was reached, hut a regular scramble
traight up, through brambles and briars,
over the face of rocks with only litt’e moss
<rQWn nictie8 in v „hie)i t, 0 stick the toes of
ipr pretty Iiule j, oot8| a t which she would
some tim“8 look ruefully; but a feverish,
lefiant p08sessed her; for she had
^ Mr vVarrington and Maggie Mitchell
wauder i n „ s i ow |j up t i, e pat h as she sent
Uftrry 0Q his frni|le88 errand , and though
^ tQ | iergp]f s |j e “aid not care,” there
was a very uncomfortab'e lamp in her
throat, and a recklessness in her move¬
ments, which would have te’rified a,calm
looker on.
But there was no one to look ; she had
climbed on regardless of all obstacles, now
«’ cd thei > jumping Irom point to point of
the broken rocks, somatunes slipping on the
mossy grouud and going down, down, umtl
clutched hold of some f‘rn bushes of
yo“»K fees, aud then toiled back, not
always to where, she bad started from. At
^t she found herself at the foot of an
»'">ost perpendicular rock about twenty
^ At tke basc wa8 a ^ narrow
pathway of slippery, sun dried, mossy
grass; half way round the e a steep, mossy
bank without tree or shrub
She turned and walked cautiously round
to the other siue and saw only an almost
perpendicular descent, well wooded, but
going it seemed to her excited eyes, half a
mile straight down into a valley. It mad
her dizzy and frightened. She returned to
the spot she had climbed to, meaning to
r trace her steps; but to go up in her reck
less fashion had not been much ; to go down
in her present mood was quite another
thing ; the point of rock she had jumped
Irom to her present fooling seemed double
the distauce 0 ff that it had looked wheu she
made that wild spring which landed her
here.
What should she do? She was now
thoroughly alarmed. Turning aroun • de
spairinglv she attempted to scale the high
W r 11 at her side; but there was nothing
cling to, no where to place her feet! Then
she realised her position ; aloue, she did not
know where exactly; it might be the oilier
side ot the bill from where her
were: and how would they ’ know where to
find her?
Lotja was no coward, but at this m mieui
a terrible fear took possession of her. She
looked at her watch halt past five. Had
they all forgotten her? Why, they would
-je guirg home soon, and night wa- eonring
on. Should she have to stay tljere all alone ?
Perhaps some wild brasrs might even be
there, or srakes 1 At tbt last thought she
shrieked aloud, for she had a deadly terror
of sm.kea.
The scream was echoed and re echoed,
and at last died away and left the stillness
more still than b. fore. But it had awaken
ed her to tbe sense that she must try all j
make her friends know where she was, a'd
again she screamed, then listened for some
ausweriug sound; but nothing was heard
but ; be echo ot her own cry.
Again she walked around the rock, but it
only made her dizzy; indeed, she was aft aid
lock iu any direction, she seemed pt. ehed
up so hgh. How ev ( r had she contrived
climb those rocks? And she shuddered
she thought of it alL
A nother look at her watch showed it was
six o’clock; still no sound. It was about
the middle of September therefore the sun
she sne was wm on m'ustte musi c the eastern side, ’ for it
was already ge ing rr„ rthp ’
‘
moon would soon be up, and she eagerly
scanned the. sky; but there were so many
tall ,. rees, PP a and and she oh P did did not no know know wn.cn which way wy
to look, At in '
screamed until her voice broke . into sobs.
it was chi ly too, * y
sacque on tit tor the warm, pleasant < ay.
Would the moon never rise? Oh, why did
they y not come to look for her? Would she
have to die there? And again „■ she , shouted, aVin „, P d
but still only echo answered her.
At last it began to grow lighter, and she
could see where the moon was, and knew
that she was a long distance from where the
path situated She # felt
winding was
erampad and cold, but m the uncertain
light did not dare to move. Anot er
and surely this time _ there an
scream, was
answersng cry. ft gave her new courage,
and she lifted up ber voice and gave a shout
which startled herself. The.i she heard tbe
| church hell; it sounded so near, wafted on
the clear night air, that it gave her acom
lortable sense of companionship, Then
fhere was the report of a gun,
“Ob, dcai!” she cried. “I hope they
won’t come right under here and shoot.”
But, as soon as the report died away she
shouted,again; then she thought if she only
had a light they would know where she was;
no light was procurable, but she groped
and presently found a small dead branch,
io which she tied the two corners of her
handkerchief and held it aloft,, wavi g it
occasionally, and repeating her echoing
scream. At last she Vieard voices, then the
cry of,—
“Lotta! Lotta!”
“Here! here!” she shouted. “Oh, bring
a lantern!"
But she could not make out where the
voice came from, and she kuew that from
below uoheip could reach her in the fright
ened, exhausted state she was in.
“Where are you?” came a voice she knew
to be Harry’s, and knew, too, it was above
ber.
Then another voice, which made her
heart leap, said slowly and quietly so that
every syllable reached her ears,—
"Describe the place you are in and how
we can reach you. Speak slowly.”
With a safe feeling that all would be right
now she told where she was, and that they
could reach her only by coming down with
a rope or something; and looking up she
saw lights flashing, and waved her little
banner until they saw it also. Then the quiet
voice said.—
“Be patient; we must fiud a way to the
top of the rock; it may take some lime, but
be of good cheer.’,
“Yes.” .
A very little word,but full of faith. Yes,
she could wait, for the owner of that voice
would strain every nerve to save her; she
felt suddenly sure of that, and she was con¬
tent; but, it Sfemed a long time to wait. She
looked up thankfully, noting the moon’s
rays, which were lighting up her perilous
seat, and would help ber friends to find out
where she was.
Presently a shout almost over her head
was answered by a scream of joy by her,
and again she waved her banner, and wished
she might dare go a little further from tbe
rock.
“I am coming with a rope; be still.”
Straining her eyes, she saw a lithe, dark
figure creeping, scrambling, slipping down
the face of the rook; now and then a pebble
or some little tuft of vegetation giving way
as it was touched, would roll down, first to
her feet, and then bound off the ledge and go
down still farther. At last, when the sway
ing figure was within a few feet of the ledge
she found her voice, for she had grown
breathless watching the decent,—
“This ledge is only about four feet wide,
so be careful, Mr. Warrington.”
“Yes,”
Then he stood at her side and a sudden
shyness seized her, so that she trembled
more than with the fright. But there was
no time to be lost Henry Warrington had
a clear, steady head, and had taken in every
point of advantage as he made his perilous
di cent, and he well knew that the worst was
yet to come; but repressing all outward sign
ot his perturbation he quietly fastened a
rope securely around her waist, aud said,—
“Tli°y cannot drag you up; you will have
to help yourself a little; the rope will keep
yun safe.
j Then looking at the little hands with only
! thread gloves on, he took them in his own
for ° ne moment and kissed them passion
ately, then, resuming his quiet manner,
| sa ' d ,
| Try help aud us! keep a steady head, Lotta, and
| Oh, the terror and weariness of that ter
rible assent! No foothold, her hands torn
and lacerated; when a smoother place would
j be reached a shout from her companion
| ' vo >rid cause those at the top of the rock to
bau l U P the rope alitt-e; but then they had
; use their hands aud feet to keep from
torn by little shrub trees and briars
j ’n the crevices of the rock, but ot
j 00 use beI P up. At last, it seemed
a ^ er hours of toil, they reached a place
wberh ^ bc T could take a firm foothold and
clutch a projecting piece of rock,
Courage! We will rest a minute.
j Then began another climb over jagged
bl * s and l°° s e stones, and at last they stood
011 ‘ irmer ground, and the ropes were slack
ened on their waists. They walked—did
j no ^ climb—and there were the twenty or
thirty men who had helped to save them
Irem destruction,
Poor Lotta! her clothes were in strings,
her poor little hands torn aud bleeding,
herself shi rring with excitement and frig't;
but through ^J1 this she remembered tbe
w 'id kisses on ber bands, and a thrill of de
light would come at. the thought.
Harry was there, voluble in his effort to
show everyone that it was not his fault,
w inch no one thought it was.
“Why, Lotta, I searched everywhere for
your handkerchief, and then you had gone
when I looked for you; I ran after the
e s and did not see you, so I thought I
wou'du’t go chasing about any more. War
rington had gone off too, so I thought you
were together, you see.”
Lotta turned her eyes on Mr. Warrington,
blushing crimson, aud with some of her old
saucy spirit said,—
"Well, I think we might as well go home
now and wash our hands.”
So they went borne, Harry talking to Lot
fa all the way down the hill, aud telling how
he had heard of such things on tbe mount¬
ains while he was abroad; he would have
gone after her himself, only Warrington was
such a determined fellow—seemed as no one
could contradict him. He hoped Lotta did
nt ‘ mind; he had done all he could, and
really it was a queer freak in her; but it was
agony, just agony, to be waiting up there,
not even able to pull the ropes much for fear
of hurting them. Did she mind him not be¬
ing the one to go?
Lotta listened as in a dream; when he bad
finished she said,—
“Oh, no! I don’t mind.”
Then there came that thrill of pleasure.
Mind! How little he knew! And there was
Henry WarringtoD just behind them!
Carriages were waiting when they reach
ed the foot of the hill, and Harry was about
to drive Lotta when she turned her eyes on
her rescuer. Nothing more was needed;
without a word he sprang into the buggy
and drove off, leaving Harry to find a seat
with someone else.
When Lotta reached her aunt's house
i
that good ledy, who had been suffering un¬
told agony and anxiety, and expected to see
her niece carried dead into the house, looked
at her bright eyes in astonishment, and was
more bewildered still when, after a huge hug
Lotta said,—
“Oh, I am so happy! I mean—oh, auntie,
he saved my life, and says he loves me!”
In tne course of time the old lady had it
all explained to her, and “in consideration
of all” said she “didn’t wonder.” and if Lot¬
ta was satisfied she was; only she pitied poor
Harry.
But poor Harry seemed to bear it philo
sophicsily, and told Lotta tbe other day in
confidence that really Maggie Mitchell was
very sensible, and he liked a girl who had
an opinion of her own; and so it seems that
in this case also, “All is well that ends
well.”
A Woman Talks.
"People may eat strychnine, true women
don’t All the stuff with reference to tight
lacing aud kindred appliancrs, that ladies
are alleged to use to beautify their form
are falsely described and maliciously ri i
culed. This is the spirit of the age. I want
to be saved from such an age.
“They say, do these womanly tradueers
of women, that eyebrows are colored and
pinched and painted. I say it is false.
they choose to select demi mondane3 for
average women, and describe their habits,
garments and falsities as those of.an every
day woman, the world is as foolish as tbe
pen painters are knavish, and I am satisfied.
But the world don’t believe them, believe
me. Not much Beauty is power, women
know it, and seek to be as beautiful as pos¬
sible. Some false means are trken to im
prove the, real. Art has reached su#k
perfection that it improves on nature. But
such hideous art as these newspaper women
describe would show its hideousness.
“Beauty enhanced by fair means is fair
beauty. After all, whose benefit is this
very beauty < 01 ? Men! We have only
to please. They take care to fight each
step by which we seek to become independ
ent actors in the world. They don't
ceed at all times, hut they make an honest
effort. I'm an average woman. Am I
tightly laced? ’ The reporter said he didn’t
know iu such an innocent way as to cause
the quick glance of suspicion that was cast
at him to become calm.
The fair sppak^r answered ibe question.
“No I’m not. Women are not, as a rule,’
the latter qualifjiugly. “Some women may
be, but not even a small part of tbe sex.
Women cannot bathe hut they are written
up. I believe that is what you call it? Our
perfumes are ridiculed. Let them be
Flesh brushes, nail-cleaners and glycerine
are held up as the articles with which a
woman is to deceive pour mankind and
ruin him. It’s all bosh. A woman may
have a slight moustache. She pulls it out
or destroys it. Good for ber. Men use the
razor to get one. Each sex thus follows its
own natural road. Wbat decorates the one
distorts the other. Appliances, made by
human ingenuity, makes things even. Good
tor human iugenuity say I. Aud now let
me tail you something. I am going to
bathe, use perfumes and glycerine destroy
hairs that grow on my lip if they grow, and
use every lawful meaus to make myself
presentable t9 humanity, especially mascu
line humauiiy.—Cleveland Leadtr.
Training the Hands.
Oue lesson a week in carving, designing,
or embrodiery, given to the scholars of
public seho Is during study hours, would go
far to training eye and band. As a source
of happiness to the child, this ability to
reproduce what it sees is of ^comparable
value, to say nothing of its poss.ble value
as a factor in self support. The children of
various Europeau and Oriental nations are
taught to become skilful in many arts that
in this country are acquired, if at alt, only
by adults. In Catrio boys aud girl of rix and
seven years do the most beautiful decora¬
live art-work, creating the design as it is
wrought out by their little fingers. Io
Switzerlanl exquisite carvings are made by
children, who learn to whittle out toys al¬
most before they can talk plainly. Given
the same opportunities, American children
would become equally skilled. That there
is abundant time for teaching the “minor
arts”—modelling, drawing, carving, design¬
ing, china decoraiion, embroidery- experi
enced and thoughtful teachers know full
well, as when properly tanght they do uot
displace the set routine of school room but
simply vary and relieve it, and aflord op
j portunity for each child to reveal bis or her
special gift. A dull etild in the grammer
class may redeem himself iu the drawing
class, a stupid pupil in geography may show
himself brilliant as a designer, and the little
girl who finds only defeat in arithmetic may
charm by her taste and skill in embroidery,
We do not hesitate tosay that in many schools
where the “cramming process” is in vogue
there wonld be a great gain by throwing out
some of the text-books and in their place
putting carving tools, hair pencils, needles
and drawing m&teriales,
A Tame Panther.
A panther, which is remarkable for its
tamenesa, has recently been added to a
of the Winter, noticed a little knot of men
around an object in the front yard f a
,
saloon one day. The attrac’ion was a
well grown panther, or, at the Texans called
it, a Mexican lion, chained to the wall. Its
color was a beautiful drab, and its graceful
movements and glistening skin made the
circus man’s heart leap for joy. Suddenly
he became rooted to the spot as a handsome.
curly-headed little boy, about 5 years old,
stepped up to tbe animal and put hia arms
around its neck. He breathed freer, how
ever, when he saw that the panther made
rr’rrs^'r he found that the animal was docile as a
house cat. The saloon-keeper who ownecf
it told him the story of its capture.
“I was vis ting a friend of mine on the
Mexican border about two years ago. We
frequently went out hunting, but had never
met auy dangerous game, except an occa
sional bear, until one day that I shall never
forget.” His countenance ass urn d a
solemn expression and his voice became
ow and sad. “Poor Jim Briggs 1 that was
a fatal hunt for him. But I am anticipat¬
ing my story. We made a party of five
that day. We had bagged a lot of small
game, and when night came we camped
oeside a little rivulet deep in the woods.
After supper four tired men wrapped them
sevles in their blankets, while Briggs pre¬
pared to act at sentinel until midnight,
when I was to relieve him. A guard was
absolutely necessary, njt only to keep up
the fires to prevent the larger animals from
coming near, but also to preveut a surprise
by Mex ; cau bandits, who would kill a dozen
men for a peso.
"Shortly before midnight we were aroused
by the reports of a rifle. To spring up and
throw brushwood and dry leaves on the tire
was the work of a moment. A horible grow 1
ing and crushing sound came from some
bashes a few yards away. Briggs was
nowhere to be seen. We cautiously ap¬
proached the bushes. As we drew near we
could see a lurid pair of eyes glaring at us
from the gloom. Taking careful aim, I
bred. With an awful growl the animal
bounded id the air and fell dead at our Pet.
Briggs' body, terribly lacreated by the claws
aud teeth of the panther, lay in the bushes,
Near by we found a pair of cub3, which w<>
took with us. We started to the ranch next
day with the remains of Briggs. Alter the
poor fellow was buried I started for home,
taking oue of the cubs with me. It has
become extraordinarily tame and has nevei
shown the slightest fierceness.
The agent was not long in makihg a
bargain lor the possession of the Jells par
dus, and in the future it will jump through
rings and do other tricks to amuse admir¬
ing crowds.—Philadelphia Press.
A Wonderful Flower Garden.
A reporter lately visited Jay Gould’s con¬
servatory at Irvington, on the Hudson,
whicn was built to replace the one destroy¬
ed by fire over a year ago. Mr. Gould's
hobby is horticulture, and with limitless
means at his command he pursues it with
the same enthusiasm that other men beriow
on fast horses. Last winter a -list of new
plants, covering almost every variety o(
vegetation, was made out, and this spring
an enormous collection was imported. It
is Mr. Gould’s intention to have at least one
specimen of every flowering plant known.
The main building is over four hundred I eel
long. It has several wings eighty feet long,
the temperature in each of which is regu¬
lated independently of the adjoiniug tea
ions. By this means fruit and grapes can
be insured all the year round, as the vine
can be kept in different stages of develop?
ment. The conservatory coutai ns over four
thousand different varieties of plants. There
is room for twice that number. The gard¬
ener estimates there are from six to eight
thousand in the conservatory and on the
ground?, which are five hundred acres in
extent The majority of the plants have
been brought from the European conserva¬
tories, especially from Belguim. In one
room there are one hundred varieties of
double geraniums in full bloom. One sec
tion eighty feet Iona is devoted to roses, of
which there are four hundred varieties
There are four hundred varieties of plants,
three hundred of them from Ecqnador and
one hundred from Asia. Some of the spec
imens cost two hundred aud fifty dollars.
There are forty varieties of the pitcher
plant from Madagascar, There are one
hundred varieties of crotons from the Fiji
Is’ands, five hundred varieties of foliage
plants from Central America and the East
Indies. A collection of ferns from Central
and South America and the East Indies
numbers three hundred varieties. In sum
mer many of the plants are in beds outside
the conservatory. The flower garden com-1
prises three acres, and the vegetable garden
four acres. There is also a vineyard of
two acres, and a large orchard containing
some four hundred apple trees aud five
hundred pear trees. There are any quanti¬
ty of strawberry vines, gooseberry vines etc.
An importation of rare plants from Central
.Africa Gould is expected to arrive soon. hundred Mr |
will expend this year one |
thousand dollars in the drainage of his|
place, aud millions have already been spent
to make the place wbat it is.
A Coon Hunter’s Wife.
A minister laboring in the mountain ;
districts of Fayette county, W. \a.. ,
gives the following conversation he had with
a woman there, recently :
“Is your husband at home V
‘No; he is a coou-bunting. He killed j
two whooping big coons last Sunday.”
“Does he fear tne Lord
“I guess he does, cause he always takes
his gun with him.”
‘‘Have you any Preefevteriaus around j
‘-.f
“I don . tbnow if he has killed any cr not.
You can go behind the house and look at
the pile of hides to see if you can find $“7
of their skins.”
“I see that you are living in the dark.
“Y'es; but my husband is going to cut
out a window soon.” 1
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