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WS KINGDOM.
. [This is the ladies’column. They are invited to
jxpress their opinions herein—to use it as their own.
The editress will answer questious or accept sug-
with pleasure.]
By tire Brooklet.
(Written for The Consititcton.]
I saw a streamlet coursing
Througn a dark and lonely way
The shuddering trees leaned over
The skies were dull and gray I
But it laughed i n I leapt as gaily
As in the summer day—
When the flowers grow' upon its banks,
And the light wind. were at play 1
The patfi that lives before me
Leads through a dark and lonely way,
The summer flowers have faded
Chill and dreary is the day!—
Yet may not my heart, as the brooklet,
Leap upward, and onward, all day?
For the God. of all times and places,
He standeth within the dark way i
Julia king.
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The grand success of the Piedmont exposi
tion has filled the heart of every tine southern
er with pride, such as a parent is justifiable in
feeling at the success of a much loved child.
It is more than gratifying to heartho commen
dation of visitors and the surprise expressed at
the wonderful developments and resources of
our state and the south generally. There are
Bo many interesting exhibits that it is difficult
to decide which to mention. In the Agricul
tural hall one could spend days and be in
structed. In the exhibit from Birmingham
there is a great deal to interest the visitor —the
making of tacks, nails, the common dress pins
and the machinery for sticking them in the
paper, tlie iron ore, etc. Farther down the
hall the making of type, then paper bags and
many other things. The county exhibits are
not only beautiful but are a revelation to many,
for it show’s the vast resources we have just
within our reach. Sumter, Putnam and Tal
bot counties have fine exhibits. One especially
beautiful and interesting exhibit was made by
Miss Annie Dennis, of Talbot county, in which
I am sure our lady readers could not fail to be
interested. This lady has a space all to her
self, and everything on exhibition was the work
of her hands. There were over four hundred
articles on exhibition, three hundred speci
mens of jellies, preserves, canned vegetables,
Candied fruits and fruit syrups, candied figs,
pears, crab-apples and citron and green toma
toes, and all as nice as ever bought from a con
fectioner’s at a dollar a pound, the fruit and
vegetables all raised on her farm; very nice
sugar made from the cane of her own raising.
This lady had just taken a premium on home
made crackers, equal to the celebrated “snow
flake.” Besides all this, there were specimens
of plain work, the nicest home-made shirts,
fancy work of every description and paintings
after only six weeks’ lessons, that would have
done credit to any one. I do not suppose I
have mentioned half that this exhibit con
tained, but it just shows '. hat an intelligent
*ml industrious lady can do, ami how much
praise and credit she deserves. In the main
building of the exposition there is everything
beautiful to delight the eye—pianos, organs,
exquisite furniture and crazy quilts, plain
work, fancy work and quilts and crocheted
work of every kind and sort. The art gallery
is filled with perfect gems; paintings by the
best of artists, in oil, water colors, and also en
gravings. There arc also several very hand
some exhibits of the different sewing machines.
They are near each other and their enclosure
Is constantly filled with the most eager and
interested visitors. The New Home, the
■Wb ite, Wheeler & Wilson and Singer; while
the work of each and all is very beautiful, we
believe the Singer will bear oft the prize. This
department is under the care and management
of Mrs. M. A. Anderson, and all the work on
exhibition is done by this lady, who is entirely
self taught; never having had any lessons in
•hading, etc. One would have to see this beau
tiful work to appreciate it. One especially
beautiful piece is a spray of oranges worked on
plush. On the spray the fruit appears just as
seen on the tree; the orange is perfection, also
the green fruit and the lovely blossom. It is
bo natural and exquisitely worked tiiat it takes
only a little stretch of the imagination to per
ceive the odor of the blooms. There are various
pieces we would like to mention, but will only
write of one other, an exquisite lambrequin of
Old gold plush, with several sprays of crimson
poppies. The shading of these dowers and the
leaves are simply perfect; they cannot be de
scribed with justice to the work or worker.
Besides the fancy work Mrs. Anderson has
specimens of plain and fine white work that is
beautifully done; one piece an infant’s dress of
fine white lawn and lace, tucked and put to
gether with thread numbering 150. This alone
would give an idea of tho work. The Singer
Company is constantly improving their ma
chines, the high arm I. F. Singer, with the
oscillating shuttle, being now the best of their
make. As usual, Atlanta comes forward in
this exposition and has many beautiful exhibits.
Time and space would fail us to tell all, but we
can safely say from the finest carriage down to
the best loaf of bread, there is nothing want
ing to show the capabilities of our city and
people, and we are proud of Atlanta, Georgia
and the “new south,” and especially of the
Piedmont exposition of 1887.
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Advice.
From Horne Journal.
Advice and counsel are generally regarded
as inrer-changeable terms, but there really seems to
be a difference which, though slight, is decided.
Counsel is never given unasked—advice may be
given in the most unprov: k.d manner. Counsel is
a “reasoning together”—advice is the individual
Opinion of the advisers.
Children who have no parents to advise them, are
regarded as very badly oil’, as indeed they are, but
would not all such as need advice be better for
counsel instead ? To offer advice is to say how one
would ait upon some particular occasion brought to
note, u:id. r the stress ofs ■me peculiar circustanees,
but would it not be Letter for the future of that
Child, that conn'’ ! shoi.l l be taken together,—the
circumstances, inc n“ . < and general aspect of the
Situation be closely inspected as far ns possible, and
counsel given as the proper thing t , do in all such
case-, rather than as to wlmt ii.c adviser would do
under these particular circumstances'.’
Further too, is less advice an I more example were
given to our children, both their lives ardours
would not be one-half so hard.
Listen to the mother speak of her child, "so Cross
that n-•thing can be done with her,” an i note tho
fretful, whiny, pi.ev.di cro-s tone n which she her
•elf relates the circumstances.
Mark the father who reproves bls son for speaking
disrespectfully to his mother, and then note the tone
that same father eniph,y towurds that same mother
When tilings arc not riuht,
Ko, clearly, what the world is waiting for, the
only thin-' that will come anywhere near perfecting
a reform of the world in general, is for the parents
to be and do that which they advise their children
to d > n 1 be.
If parents speak of their children as quarrelsome
among themselves, you have only to note the man
ner In w hich those same parents speak to each
other, to tin 1 the cm: ■ of the fault.
When a parent perceives a new fault cropping out
in their child, it is hit or hertirstduty to see whether
that chill :■> n ' r lacing its elders, and if so,
wisely say nothing, lost the child's attention be at
tracted to the p. r nt s fault, an I it is tints enabled
to d w its own condemnatory c a.elusion.
itot;, r let the fault be corrected in ti c parent and
U will gm luully dhap;e.n- in the child.
Ices Without Cream.
By "Gwen."
Ices can lx? mr.de without a drop of cream, and if
condensed rfl ik i.e u llt will take a connoi: .-cur to
discover its a -et.ce. lieyoud the expense of tic
freezit: -■ ap; ata: is ices an ! toed puddings are a very
eheap luxury. The foundation of till cream ii. -, is
more or le--, rich custard. This is to be made in
thi.-manner: To each pint of milk add a good
tebleq-.iHi.ul of a .in 1 . ilk a:.d let it all b ..
*p with a couple of bay leaves or a piece of vanilla
pod or a little cinnamon. Pour the milk into a jug,
add three ounces of sugar, and three well-whisked
eggs. Put the jug into a saucepan of boiling water,
and stir the custard over the tire, till quite thick.
Then take the jug out of the boiling water and pour
the custard through a fine sieve into a basin to ccol.
Then flavor the custard with fruit syrup, in the pro
portion of four tablespoonfuls ot syrup to the half
pint custard. If jam is used, stir it to the custard
before passing it all through the sieve. Kot quite
half an ordinary jam-potfui is a fair proportion to a
pint of milk. A little coloring, according to the
fruit, should be added to the custard with the jam.
It required richer, partly freeze the custard, then
add to it a teacupful of whipped cream, to be
sweetened with a little icing, and finish freezing.
Very good iced cream for serving with fruit can le
made by mixing condensed milk with a little fresh
milk and freezing it. Condensed milk being so
sweet of itself requires little or no sugar mixed with
it. These cun be molded and served ns iced pud
ding.
The custard given above when, flavored with a
wineglassful of brandy, a small gla s liqueur and a
little essence of vanilla makes a very nibe iced pud
ding, and if half frozen and then molded into a
shape; ornamented with cut fruits, crystallized or
dried, it makes a very good imitation of a Nesselrode
pudding.
Superfluous Duties.
From GoodJlonsekeeping.
A woman's instinct of cleanliness is so strong that
she will actually squander time in unnecessary
work, just ns a squirrel in a cage will store up nuts
by force of his instinct of accumulation. If some
housekeepers had double the time [at their di iposal
that they now have, yet they would manage to oc
cupy it with svq erflnous duties. But this is going
farther than any semblance of a reason can at
tempt to excuse. There is no sense m working
like this.
A woman can be a good housekeeper without
taking all her time to do housework. If she can
not, let her after all be satisfied to .be an ordii a ily
good one and take some of the time from her pre
viously self-imposed drudgery for reading, ed. c.-
ptr, of her children, iclf-improvement and lor
recreation. There is no reason why a long pro
gramme of work should be laid out for every day,
nor why it should be carried through at all haz
ards. If each hour of the day is arranged ior come
kind of work, one hour at least ought to be set
apart for recreation, and that hour of all others
ought to be rigidly observed.
These housekeepers who are facing so much
superfluous work every day never think of such a
thing as reading a daily newspaper or gathering
information that will enable them to improve the
quality of their work. They do not know what is
taking place in the world, of which they are so
small apart. They like to listen to other people's
talcs In never think of informing themselves by
reading or observation. The children ask her ques
tions; that anyone would le supposed to be able to
answer, and arc sent to somebodyjclse for a reply,
or put off with no satisfaction at all. They soon
come to the conclusion that mother isn’t supposed
to know anything outside of housekeeping.
The reader has seen tho more agreeable house
wife who is not always furbishing up something
and yot has a house so clean that no sense detects
anything unclean—the housewife who is a compan
ionable sort of pe: son, it least fairly well Informed
regarding the events of the day as well as her spec
ial daily duties, and who finds time to get out of
that everlasting grind of work that extinguishes a
manifestation of those womanly and motherly in
stincts that may make her an adorable wife and
ir.o.her if they are not laid aside for that perpetual
cleaning and multiplying of work that make every
one uncomfortable at home. Buch a housewife is
by no mean- a rarity, and her opiiosite, the one who
squanders time in superfluous duties, ought to cul
tivate her acquaintance.
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Valuable Recipes.
A Ready Poultice.—Wounds made by rusty tools
or nails, or by the teeth of dogs and other animauls,
are not only very painful, but gene ally quite
dangerous. To allay the pain, extract the poison
and hasten tho healing process, there is nothing
that we know of so. wonderfully effective a, raw,
fat, salt pork and onions, equal parts, chopped up
together and applie 1 in a thick layer either directly
to the wound or folded into a single layer of linen.
Leave on until healed. Even a slice of raw salt
pork, tied over the wound made by a rusty nail, will
draw the inflammation all out, render the flesh
clear white and heal up the injury in a shorter time
than any diug known to us will do it. This is the
best use that can be ma le of fat pork, as we do not
believe in its free internal application, especially iu
summer.—Orchard and Garden.
French Omelette.—Four eggs, three tablespoonfuls
of milk, one teaspoonful of sweet herbs chopped
fine (parsley, lemon thyme, marjoram; dried herbs
in the winter,) two teaspoonfuls of grated cheese,
three ounces of butter. Beat up the eggs, then add
the milk, herbs and cheese; put the butter into a
fryingpan; let boil until it sputters, then pour in the
omelette, stir it round carefully one way until it
thickens, then shake it a little that it does not stick
to the pan, and serve up hot.
Pickled Watermelon Rinds.—Peel the green skin
from the rinds and scrape off all the red pulp till
the rind is Ann and hard. Cut them in small pieces,
about three inches long, and lay them in a weak
brine made by adding a cup of salt to a gallon of
water. After they have soaked in this brine for
twelve h iurs remove them, rinsing them off and
weigh them. Allow half a pound of sugar to every
pound of rinds and vinegar enough to cover them.
Stick a clove in every piece of rind. Add about one
ounce of stick cinnamon and half an ounce of cassia
buds to every seven pounds of rinds. I’ut the vine
gar and sugar in a porcelain kettle, and whe nit
boils add the watermelon rinds and cook them till
they are tender and perfectly clear. It will take
some time. The rinds should be simmered slowly.
Test them with a broom splint. If they are clear
and it pierces them easily they are done. It is better
to cook only part of the rinds at once. When they
are all cooked put them in a stone pot and pour the
hot vinegar over them, after adding the cinnamon
and cassia buds.—New York Tribune.
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Correspondents.
"Rita,” Liberty, Miss.—Thanking the cver-indul
gent editress for pest favors and craving pardon for
present intrusion, I again seek a place in Woman’s
Kingdom. I notice in lust night’s paper that several
of the readers ask for recipes, which will give me
pleasure to supply. I. L. 8., the rule lor making
icing is oneteaeupfulof powdered sugarto the white
of one < gPut the white of the egg in a bowl and
add the sugar by degrees, beating with a spoon.
Flavor with either a tablespoonfill of lemon juice or
a half teaspoonful of vanilla. "Quiz,” tomake jelly,
as you ire, dissolve one box of gelatine in nearly
a quart of boiling water, add the juice of five lemons
and enough sugar to sweeten to taste, str in and set
aside until cool. Beat the whites of five eggs and
whip them into the jelly, turn into a dish. Alter it
becomes cold decorate with pieces of red jelly.
I have many valuable recipes for cakes and pies;
also have recipes for making chocolate and lemon
frosting, which are excellent. Will send them to
Women’s Kingdom if agreeable.
With our esteemed editress' permission I will say
a few words in behalf of a very worthy young lady,
wh i is desirous of obtaining a situation for the
winter. She will accept the position of governess,
assistant teacher, or will open a school in a good lo
cality. She is thoroughly proficient in English and
latin, but will not teach much. Any one desiring
to engage her services may address me through the
editress.
Mrs. E. B. E., Rome, Ga.—“ Mrs. Cleveland's reci
pe,’’ as given in isaie of October 4th, is neither for
"cr k ■ nor pulling, but simply "brown bread,” I sup
pose, as I have the identical recipe under that head
with the difference of “quart” instead of “bowl” as
a measure.
"Quiz,” Logansvillc, Ga., does not say whether
plain or sweet wafers are desired. I send a recipe
f r each; al-u two recipes for icing fur I. L. 11, Water
ford. Miss.
Plain Wafers.—One pint sweet milk, one pint Hour,
two teatqioonsful butter.
Sweet Wafers. Two ounces butter, half a pound
sugar, half pound flour, five eggs.
Icing.—One pound louf sugar, half tumblerful of
water; boil till it falls in short drops from the SfKxm,
pour into an earthen bowl and when milkwarm
break into it the w hites of three large eggs. Beat
till stiff and white, add half the juice of a lemon or
half teaspoonful cn am ol tartar. Flavor as de.-.ired
and color if liked witii cochineal or beet juice.
Frosting.—One joun 1 white sugar, white of three
fresh eggs, a tcasj-oonful of nice starch sifted through
rauslitq the Juice of half a lemon and a few drops of
the essence. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, then
add tl.e sugar and stir it steadily until it will stay
where you p:t it. Il will take nearly two hours,
ler'.aps more. Dredge a little flour over the cake
arid hr sli It offnitb a fui'lctr. This is to prevent
tie frosting from being discolored by the butter in
the cake. Lay it or. s aw,tidy with a knife and re
turn the cake to tl.e oven for ten or fifteen minutes.
:-tra ts, N. C.-Deer Edit. I am a reader of your
excellent paper, and would like to say how much
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1887.
■ pleased 1 am with it, especially Woman’s Kingdom*
The Constitution is one of our xnort welcome visit
ors, and we are always glad when Saturday comes,
for it brings to our peaceful home one of the best
papers in all the laud. 1 live in the eastern part of
North Carolina, in Carteret county. The county
site is Beaufort, a little town beautifully situated
down by the s i. commanding at all times a view of
o’.d ocean, rolling her snow-capped waves to the
shore. A few miles from Beaufort is Morehead City,
a famous summer resort for health and ; 1 ?asure
seekers during the summer season. Throngs of peo
ple visit this place every year. The delightful
breezes, placid, peaceful waters and magnificent
scenery tempt a great many people from the large
cities and surrounding towns to revel iu their luxu
ries. School facilities in the county arc very good.
The people seem anx’.ois that their children should
be educated, and I think in a few years, with the
present prospect, that old Carteret will stand as high
as any of her neighbors. Would like to know what
has become of Bill Arp; have been waiting anxiously
to hear from him. I enjoy reading his letters. Wil)
some sister be kind enough to send mo directions
for knitting feather cd;e and rose leaf trimming?
Any information will be thankfully received. Please
reply through Woman’s Kingdom.
“Pansy,’’ Plano, Tex.—Having mot with a kind
reception before, 1 venture to visit \o t again. How
I do enjoy the lette:s from the sisters, and your gems
of advice. If in doing good to others one is blessed
you surely are greatly sj. Wish that I could attend
the Piedmont exposition and meet with you and so
many of the sisters. Did you receive the sample of
wide crocheted edging I sent in my last letter? M.
A. Boyd, I know you; my earliest recollections are
of the “Cross Roadslam the eldest daughter of
your friend Sallic C—. I enjoy the children’s let
ters in The Constitution. Was glad to read the
letter from Horace Neal, as his mother was our dear
friend.
Your sample was received and was very beautiful.
Many thanks.
Mrs. S. fl, Bryan, Russellville, Ga.—Will some of
the sisters who read novels exchange with me? I
have “Jess” and “She,” by Rider Haggard, which I
wish to exchange for “That Wife of Mine” and
“That Husband of Mine.” My best wishes for the
successor the Kingdom. I have gathered much
from it of pleasure and profit.
“Reader,” Greensboro, Ala.—l have often thought
I would write an 1 exp-ess my thanks ior the pleas
ure and inform ition 1 have derived from the W. K.
Now 1 would ask some of the readers to tell me what
mouth is best for setting out rose cuttings. Also the
best manner of putting them out. I shall be very
grateful for all the information I can get on the sub
ject.
Mary, Tallapoosa, Ala.—The Constitution Is an
ever welcome visitor with us. I think I couldn’t
keep house successfully without it. I derive so
many valuable recipes from Woman’s Kingdom. I
wish to exchange seeds of the preserving-melon; it
also makes excellent pickles. Tho nicest way to
preserve hams is, as soon ns they take salt carve and
fry, but not to a crisp; pack in jars, pour all of <ho
gravy that is in the fry-pan over the meat, except
the salty part, finish covering with fresh lard ; be
sure your meat is always covered with grease, it will
retain its freshness. I have ajar of ham that tastes
perfectly fresh as when I put it up last March.
There is economy in it. There is nothing thrown
away. The fat, odds and ends can be cooked up
into lard. The fragments of meat that remains on
the bones can be boiled with the skins perfectly ten
der and made into mince meat, which can be put up
in vinegar and kept for months.
“M. H.,”’ Georgia.—l have been reading the
“Kingdon”for some time and seeing where so many
have obtained pl. a>ant homes through its medium,
feel encouraged to come,asking the aid of the sisters.
Ain an orphan dependent upon my own exertions
for my own support. I desire to obtain a homo in
some pleasant family, citherns companion or house*
keeper. Will the sisters please aid me in such
place.” My address is with the editress.
I think the kingdom splendid Success to it and
its kind editress.
JOAQUIN MILLER.
Gath Describes His Rough Life in Cali
fornia.
Gath’s Letter.
Returning now to Oakland, let mo say that
I visited there Joaquin Miller, known as the pdo
of tho Siciras a man of unquestionable poetic Ap
prehension and frequent poetic genius, who might
have been with education the best poet now extant
in our country. Lacking original education ho
gives vent to surprises, and sometimes mistakes
strong language for the voice of art. Bret Harte
has written the best poems of any Californian, for
he seems to have been an exploring, reading man.
Miller, however, has had a more consonant life
with his romantic writings than ether Clemens or
Harte, the other two well known coasters. When
Clemens lived out here he was generally hard up,
and being fond of money he was correspondingly
saturnine. He has cured himself bravely of impe
cuniosity, but Bret Harte, as Joaquin Miller said to
me, will sonic day starve if he stays in London and
tries to live upon mere literature, which is no pro
fession in our day.
It is a curious thing to see Joaquin Miller, living
here at an altitude of seven hundred feet above the
sea, on a yet naked mountain, digging with his own
han Is cracks in the black mol l and among the
stones to procure drinking water which trickles all
around his water shed and promises to turn his
land into an oasis in the skies. With his own hands,
he erected tho stone steps which lead up to his door.
In|this operation,it is said that be had*a|hemorrhage
of the lungs, and this, added to his labors to finish a
scriptural poem, gave him a rather old and worn
look when I saw him, and he limped besides, from
some wounds received in his body in Oregon, where
he was one of the lynch-law men, yet ultimately a
judge. He has a little house in a cleft of the moun
tains, made of redwood, about ten or twelve feet
high and perhaps thirty feet long. It Jias just one
room, with alcove beds for himself and his mother,
who is all leold woman, originally from Liberty,
Ind. She went out to Oregon somewhere about
1852, and there had three sons, of whom she says
that two were men of more ability than the cele
brated jioct of the Sierras. Miller says the same
about his brothers. They and his father are deceas
ed. Miller is not an affected man, but one who
really represents in himself most of the evidences of
EXTREME BORDER MOUNTAIN LIFE.
lie has lived among the Indians, has been a fa
vorite in the drawingrooms of London, was at one
time something of a success in Wall street, and he
astonished Washington by building a log cabin
within less than a mile of the president's house.
Thia cabin he still possesses, but the la id he held in
Washington has been sold at a considerable ad
vance. Ho took the money and bought property in
Oakland, which he has turned over to advantage,
and therefore owns one hundred acres of good build
ing and orchard sites only four miles back of the
ferry.
Miller is a blue-eyed man with warm brown hair,
alrncs*- reddish in its tint, and he cun be affectionate
and engaging in his manner, and is a good deal ad
mired by a class of reliable men above the newspa
per paragraphers and below the millionaires.
He says he will never again move, but cxpec ts to
die on his lofty p. t h and have his bones cremated
among the stones (hero. His historical passion was
evidenced from his having plant d the i.a.Muif on
a step upon his cabin, where, he says, Fremont en
camped at the time of his first exploration. 1 found
himjsitting witii his Bible turning the story of Christ
as a human man and brother in'o poetry,if that can
be done any better than the old fellows did it. Ho
is one of the last poets wc possess who, after tho
manner of Thoreau, has given his xnaturer life to
the creation of drcams in verse. It must not be for
gotten, however, that ho wrote two very good plays
w hich Lave been represented on both sides of the
ocean, and they made a fortune for McKee Rankin
and one or two others.
Paid Miller to me: “I went to Washington sin
cerely desired to a lapt myself to it and V) love it,
but they didn’t agree with me there; I found it
wus no place for me ana I came back again to my
own coa.bt. Instead of writing joems hereafter I
fchuil try to enjoy the raising of poetigal houses on
my tract arid to study nature and wait for my time
to molder away.”
Mr. Miller married a few years ago Mrs. Leland,
of New York, an amiable and charming young lady,
and he expects to bring her out here his new pos-
I bCthion and have her superintend his aflalrs and
teach him the ways of practical life,
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Tho Wail of Dudedom.
From the Boston Corn men. a’ Bulletin.
England has sent over the Gcncsta, the Gal
atea aqd the Thistle; but if she wants to win tho
eternal gratitude of America, let her sen 1 us a good
pantaloon cutler.
•'Can’t Speak Too Highly of It.”
So writer a lady from Texas of preparatory
treatment for prospective mothers, by Dr.
Stainback Wibon. Particulars from him. At
lanta, Ga.
FOiJ THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Fun for the Children—Tho Constitution
Training School for Boys and Girls.
Dear Children: Y’estcrday our great Pied
mont exposition opened and of,course I went
out to see the tun. All tho military companies
wore out and a long process-on marched out to
the grounds. After a good deal of speech-mak
ing by the governor, Nir. Grady and others, tho
exposition was declared opened and the can
nons tired and the bells rang and whistles blew
and such another noise you never heard.
There were said to bo about twenty thousand
people on the grounds, and that was a good num
ber lor the first, day. 1 am not going to Ull
you much about the pretty things to be seen
(in this letter) for 1 did not walk about much—
I was too busy watching a balloon that was to
go up with a man in it, so I will wait until an
other letter and tell you about what I saw 7 , and
about tho President and Mrs. Cleveland. Now
I will tell you about tho balloon; wo had to
w ait a long time, but at last it started and sure
enough there was a man in a basket just under
tho balloon. It rose very slowly at first, but
as he threw* out sand to lighten it, up it went,
higher and higher, until it looked almost like
a bird in the sky, and it was getting late and
nearly dark, so I could not stay to watch it,
but the last I saw of tho balloon it was very
high up. I would not have liked to sail that
high up in the sky. But tho man came down
all right after awhile, and ho is getting his bal
loon ready for his wife to go up in next time.
I staid out so lato that when I got home 1
found everybody in the house very much fright
ened about mo; thought some accident had
happened to mo in tho big crowd. They said
they were just about to send and get tho police
to hunt for me. That would have been a joke,
would it not? I have only time now to tell you
that you have all been so good that I have
money enough to buy my Bible now. and after
this letter don’t send any more. 1 will write
you all about it as soon as I get it, and have
all the names printed. You can hoi]) now to
finish the quilt. I want to thank all who have
helped. I have tried to have all the letters in,
but some have been so long this week that wo
did not have room. As it is getting lato I must
say “good night.” Yours, “Aunt Susie.”
o
Correspondence.
Mcßrydo, Ga.—Little Cleveland Mazo’s letter to
the President:
Welcome to Atlanta, dear Mr. President how do you
do,
Icannot go to the Exposition, but I can write a let
ter to you,
I wish I could see you and your dear lady so happy
and gay,
I wish you could come among us southerners to stay.
I have your beautiful picture that you sent me and I
prize it so high,
That I don’t want any one but mama to come nigh.
I can’t help but laugh with childish glee,
When mama lifts me up to it to see.
Aly cheeks are fat, round, rosy and red,
My eyes are jet black so is my head,
I am a merry little rolicing country bo
Full of life and full of joy.
I am just three years ol«l,
And more precious to mama than gliterfrft gold,
A photograph of your dear lady I wish to see,
To correspond by tlic side of .yours as a present to,
me.
Please for yourself and lady accept the love I send
It is from a true little southern friend,
Remember me always you know,
For my name is Grover Cleveland Mazo.
Ralph Fisher, Owensville, N. C.—l am a little
blind boy thirteen years of age. I go to school at
Raleigh; have been seventy-four sessions; will start
the 17th of September, lean write with a pencil; I
am writing this myself. I will send you the letter
in print and write the alphabet at the begluing. 1
will close; much love to Aunt Susie.
Mamie Snowden, Mims, Ala.—Aunt Susie, I read
your letters with much pleasure and think they are
quite interesting; I hope you will write often and
continue to give us good advice. I also enjoy read
ing Bill Arp’s letters, they arc quite pleasing to the
.ear. I have not been to school any this session,
there being no school in our vicinity, but I hope we
will have one next year. You will find enclosed
five cents, as I wish my name to bo put in your
Bible, if I am not too late.
Annie Stewart, Camilla, Ga.: lam a little south
west Georgia girl, eight years old. My father is in
Atlanta, representative of Mitchell. 1 want my
name in your Bible, so I send you ten cents for my
self and little sister, Daisy Bell; want both names to
go in. I send you a square for your quilt. Aunt
Susie, you must think a heap of it, for I have hud a
time getting it made. Aunt Susie, when you get
your Bible, please print all the names in your letter
to us. Cousins, lam going to have me a memory
quilt; it is the double T, nine inches »piarc, made
of white and red. If you will send me a square it
will be appreciated. I have a crying machine to
nurse. Do any of you know how to nurse crying
machines? If you don’t, come to see me and I will
learn you how. When you get hero 1 will ..how you
tho prettiest little blue-eyed sister you ever saw. I
will close, with love to Aunt Susie and the cousins
and Uncle Will.
Your squa;e is very pretty.
Emma and Nettie Franklin: We have for sonic
time had a <*oslre to be your little nieces. If you
will accept, we will do our best to have a good
letter, Wo live four miles from Thomaston. We
live at a home whore we have all kinds of berries in
their season. First, wc have strawberries, then dew
berries, and then blackberries. All these grow on
papa’s land in abundance. We gather them and
dry them to make nic» for winter. There is a brook
that runs near the house. Wh n our cousins and
schoolmates come wc take a ramble on the banks
and gather wild flowers and rushes, and when |they
ore gone in come wild grapes; they are eo nice!
What a plea:uro it would be to us if we could set a
large waiter cf those grapes in your window for you,
and take you by surprise. Wc go to school one mile
from home. Wc go to Sunday-school and have a
nice time, we have so many nice songs to sing, and
a number of nice little girls. We send you some
flowers, as a token of otf love,
Jennie Lee, Palmetto, Ga.; I nclelnkiß your val
uable pa]/cr and we all like to read it. I think it
was very kind of the editor to give us a place in ?o
great a paper. I know Aunt Sus'.e has more pa
tience than Job, for 1 know some of the cousins’
letters are very badly written, at least mine is; this
is my 8.-cond one. 1 guens Aunt Fu-ie could not
read the other one, for I never taw it in print; but I
thought 1 would try once more. Like some of the
cousins, I have hud mcr-; work than schooling.
J. L. Garrett, Lafayette, Texas, wants to know if
some of the cousins don’t want a Texas sweetheart.
Yes, I do, if he is a nice one; but you must not
drink, chew or smoke. Oh, I guess you will think
J am particular, but 1 d <n’t think so; do you,
Aunt bwde? Love to Aunt busie and the cousins.
Missouri A. Harris: I have been thinking of
writing to the Young Folks’ column a long time.
My reason for not coming Uj the front before fs that
1 was afraid I might not make a success of ft. We
have been residents of the country for about six
years. I like country life, but enjoy a in
town as well as any country girl. We had our Sun
day-school celebration September 15. The pro
gramme consisted of dialogue, recitation ami sing
ing, I recited the “Church Walking with the
World.” We received a great many compliments
on our success. Well, cousins, our vacation has
ended; scho< 1 ojx n; for another term, which many
of us may never see close. Wo are having beautlfiil
weather now for the farmers to gather in their har
vest. Little Mollie, my pet sis, Is nc» r me, teasing
and begging me to stop writing and listen to her
while she recites her dear little speech. She is our
household pct, also the pct of the community. She
was three years of age in July. I Imv one brother,
Willie, thirif.n years of age. Will some cf the
cousins please correspond with me?
Lula Clifton, Kaufman, Texas: As all the cousins
bring their trouble to Aunt Eusic’s sympathetic
heart, of comse you will excuse your Texas niece
lor doing likewise. Aunt Susie, when I tell you
we do our own cooking, you will no longer wonder
at the sad expression that is ever present on my
careworn face. My particular trouble at present is
about u cake I Lulel the other day. It ro»c m g
nlficcntly and—well, it fell the same way. When 1
offered my cousin a piece of it he drew himself up
haughtily and said contemplu >usly: “No, I thank
you, dear; if I ate that slfce of cake I should have
the blues for six months.’’ Now, Aunt Susie, 1 know
my cake was b. d but 1 do n< t think he s muld have
given me such a broad hint of the tact, do you?
J. L. Archer, you remind me of 11. Rider Haggard.
The very idea of a common-sized boy swallowing
tl.e greater part of the Atlantic! Next to Mr. Hag
gard, 1 know of no one that can draw on the imagi
nation more than yourself. Samantha Jane, Ido
not think you need the sympathy of any one be
cause you have never had a beau; they arc worthless
rubbish. Now, Master Paul Jones, you needn’t
chuckle to yourself and say, “Guess she was s -rved
like 1 was.” Yon would be mistaken, tor, like S. J.,
I never had a beau. Now, Aunt Susie, do excuse
this nonsens». You know, “variety is the spice of
life.’’ One need not expect us to talk common
sense and look as wse as owls all the time.
Cousins, let us exchange crochet patterns, recipes
for preserving and jellying all sorts of fruit, bread
making, etc. I know the young folks do this, but
they would scarcely welcome us to their Kingdom.
I want some of the cousins to correspond with. I
am sixteen. Aunt Susie, I send you a nickel; please
put my name in your Bible.
Irene Jackson, Lockett, Texas: I am a little girl
between five and six years old. lam all the child
papa and mama has. I have four studies—Fourth
'Reader, Geography, Aritlunetic, spelling an I
writing. I have never been to school; mama
teaches me at home. Lockett is a nice little place.
My papa is a merchant and farmer and keeps the
postoffice. I read the little girls’ letters, and mama
roads Betsy Hamilton’s letters to me, when she
writes. 1 must tell tho little cousins about my dolls
and what pretty names they have. First, Hattie
Bello, a wax doll as large as I am; then Katie
Maggio and Rosa are china dolls, and I 1 >ve them
very dearly. Aunt Susie, 1 send five cents for the
Bible and hope my name will go in. Love to all.
Bnt’ie W. Carroll, Concord, N. C.: Because of my
age, Aunt Susie, 1 have been rather timid about
writing to you, for fear of being teased by my friends
for joining tho children s column, but I want my
name in your Bible, an 1 lam not very old. Aunt
Si se, will you accept this dime from mo, for 11 >ve
you as much as the children or cousins do? You
will have a real fine Bible, will you not? 1 think 1
have counted a few dollars and have not counted
all. So, Aunt Susie, 1 close, hoping you will put
my name in your Bible. Write again, Bachelor,
Aunt Susie and Uncle Will, also I’aul Jones and
Carker Black.
Rabon r. Mazo, Mcßrydo, Ga.: After a long si
lence, I will again ask for admittance. 11 >ve to
read tho cousins’ letters s» much, lam going to
school and am trying to improve tho time all that 1
can. I love my teacher very much. Can all of my
little cousins say that? 1 have four real little
cousins down here from Macon. W1 at a nice time
wc do have playing and running through the green
woods! 1 have a little brother named Grover Cleve
land. Mama sent the president his picture and he
seut his photograph in return. I send a letter to
the president from my little brother. Bloase print
it the week of the ox]K)Sltion. I think ho will take
the premium for the best letter to the prosidont;
don’t you, Aunt S isle? Please accept this nickel
and put my name in your beautiful Bible. With
much 1-jvo to you, Aunt Susie, 1 do hope you will
enjoy the exposition.
Maggie Haynes, Notasulga, Ain.: You really don’t
need another Correspondent, but I want to write to
you anyhow, as I have never written, and
1 know some of the little cousins have written sev
eral times; I think they ou lit to stop and let some
one else in. 1 wonder wl at has got the matter with
Uncle Mill, tl at lie doesn't write; I expect maybe
the little cousins did not appreciate his letters as
they ought to, for I notice that there are but few
that a-k him to write again; 1 will give him an in
vitation, all tho same. 1 did feel so sorry fog poor
Paul Jones. 1 do think his sweetheart could not
have been much cf one; 1 know’ 1 would not have
done him that bad. Will some of the cousins cor
respond with me?
Emma Nichols, Athens, Ga.: I wrote to you once
before, but 1 did not s -e it tn print, so 1 will write
again. lam a lover of reading the Bible, and 1 love
it so well that I get one verse by heart every day.
My father is a merchant and loves to read the Bible
very much. Hu tolls mama and I many precious
things about living a happy life and what he reads
in tho Bible. I wish 1 hid one of Aunt Susie’s
letters to read every day, for the/ are so nice. 1
want to tell Dula E. Harrison al Marlon, La., that
God is not mentioned in the book of tho Song of
Solomon. Now, there is another book In the Bible
tint has not the name of God In it. I would like for
some of the cousins to tell me where it is, also what
book tells where God came from.
Aline Cumming, Camden, Ala.: Aunt Susie, I
wish you could come to see us. The woods are so
pretty all around here. Do you enjoy walking in
the woods’? There are a great many muscadines
and wild grapes hero. I will send you a dime to
have my sister’s and my name put in your Bible.
My sister’s name is Lottie. Lottie and I have picked
817 pounds of cotton this year. Don’t you think
that Is a good deal when we never have picked any
before? I would have liked to have seen the queen’s
jubilee cake and sit by it a week. A thousand
pounds is a half ton. Will some of the cousins please
write to inc? Much love to Aunt frujtf and the
cousins.
Lee Thomson, Ocnaville, Texfis: Thftvc Loen at
tending protracted meetings and picnics all this
summer and have had quite a nice time, but do not
find it quite so pleasant picking cotton; have p’cked
about twelve hundred pounds. Our school will
begin in two weeks. Our teacher boards with my
]>apu. We have had the same teacher for four years.
He is a jolly old bachelor. Ho calls wo schoolgirls
mustangs, because we ramblo all over the prairie
and through the woods in search of flowers, grapes
and plums, and I will acknowledge that name suits
us very well, for at times wc are rather wild. We
all like our teacher very much. Wc have a good
Sunday school at O imvlllc, emsisting of about
seventy scholars. We recite verses from tho Bible,
and the one who recites the greatest number of
verses at the dose of the year is entitled to a prize.
I send you five cents for your Bible; pltuse put my
name in.
EvAChapman, Newton, Miss.: I live in a liennti
ful country, three miles from the town of Newton.
Our country is level and ims most any kind of
timber yot; C>uld name. I go to Mabbath school
every Sabbath; I Lave not missed a time since it
started; wc started it last winter some time. There
is not a man there. Mama acted as superintendent
once. My papa is a preacher, (Baptist), /armor,
miller and ginner. I sometimes help to make mo
lusscs; I can do most any kind of work that comes
my turn to do. Aunt Susie, I think you mu t have
the patience of Job, to receive, read ami print so
many letters from all over the United States. 1
send you a square for your quilt and ten cents to
help buy your B hie; hope I’m not too late. Love
to Aunt Susie and the cousins.
Vernana Thatcher, Rudd, Iowa: Aunt Susie, I
will send you a block for your memory quilt, i’lease
put my name on it, as I have no indelible ink. Tell
me whether you flke it or not. H. G. Collins, I
think you are mistaken about girls having no hearts.
Will any of the cousins be so kind as to send me the
song entitled, “A boy’s best friend is his mo‘her.”
I have no i»ets, except a pig; I am no! so for unate
ns some of the rest of the cousins. I tin going to
school now; I walk two miles to school. How many
of the cousins study bookkeeping'? Ido. I think it
is a nice study. I intend to be a schoolteacher, if
nothing happens. Much love to Aunt Susie and
Uncle Will.
I think your square is very pretty,
J.Oiis A. Wellborn, Edna and Wilda f’rutnp,
Blairsville, Ga.—-Wcaro throe little cousins between
twelve and sixteen years of age. We live up hero
in tho mountains and neither of us ever had a B]mjll
of si' km H 4. How many of i' roiiriiis can wy that?
Wc Lave been together all ’ evening ami as ft was
near time ior us to part v. <• thought w c would write
a letter to Aunt Susie; h< p .ig this won’t find Its way
to the waste basket, ns we have w ritten before, but
never saw our letter In print. Wc i.opc some of the
cousins will write to us; will promise to am were vi ry
letter that will come to uc W • will close for this
t l me, and the next time wc write wo will send Aunt
Eusic fifteen cents for her Bible.
rinldo Montgomery, Norbone, Ma.—Here Tam
again, though almost discouraged. 1 w rote in
March and my letter found the waste basket. I
would like for some of the cousins to amid me the
words to “Lips tlmt Touch Liqu r Hhall Never 'i ouch
Mine.” AuntHusic, I send you a square for your
memory quilt and a niekle for your Bible; please
put my mime in it. J am going to n lmol now.
don’t want to be troubles >mc, Ho*will close.
Your square is very p;etty and neatly made.
Maggie M. Daniel, Bowman, Ga. 1 am twelve
years old. 1 have .ivc sister ,ami bir oio brother. I
have no pets ris most of the cousins i.a-, , but J have
asw eet Huie baby slsiex; her name is Chua. 1 tend
you five cents for your Bible and to get my name in
it. lam not going to school now. Best wishes to
Aunt Susie and the cousins.
Milton McL. Bcrlewell, Wim na, Miss.—We have
averypietiy town here, situated on the Illinois
Control railroad 644 miles from Chicago ai d about
200 miles from New Orleans. This town has about
1,700 inhabitants and is about equally divided be
tween the whites and the blacks. We have five
white churches and two schools and two colored
churclus and one school. I would like to corres*
pond with some of the cousins.
Little Tot tie, Woodlawn—l send you a dime to
help buy your Bible. Mama and papa lets me help
in Ri I good works if I am a little girl. Please tell
Ora Smith I can beat her twenty-three first cousins
a long ways. 1 have thirty. I send my card to go
in your scrap book.
Mattie A. Suber and Suellie Suber, Greer’s station,
S. C.-—We are two little sisters aged nine and lour
years, the only children our mama has living. Wo
too love Aunt Susie and would like to have our
names in her Bible, so we send you ten cents; hope' •
it will not be too late to get in.
As this is our first time
We w’ill drop in our dime
And be off in a hurry
As fast as wo can scurry.
Love to Aunt Susie and the cousins.
S. D. Freeman, Oxford, Ga.—Dear cousins of the
waste basket: The waste looks so tempting that I
cannot possibly pass it by, but will just step in and
say howdy do and bow myself out. Does any one
recognize me? I’ve visited the waste basket before,
but have never had the good luck to get even a ]>eep
at the correspondents’column. I want some of tho
larger cousins w h > love fun to correspond with mo.
Mollie George Cooper, Cuthbert, Ga.—lt has boon
quite a year since 1 last wrote. I am eleven years
old. My papa is dead, but mama and I live at
uncle’s. lam not going to school now but will start
after Christmas. 1 live in Randolph, four miles
north of Cuthbert. The association will come off
th ‘ first of next month at Benevolence and we ex
pect to attend and have a nice time. Love to Aunt
Susie and the cousins. 1 enclose live cents for your
Bible; please let my name go in.
Fannie Justice, Denton county, Texas—Dear
Aunt Susie, I am a subscriber to The Constitution.
1 want my mime in your Bible and will sends
nlckle and a square for your quilt. lamnlittlo
girl nine years old, but I love to read the children’s
letters. This Is my first, and for fear it will lo<igc in
that much dreaded waste basket, I will close, with
much love to Aunt Susie and the cousins.
Rose II •mmerling, New Hartford, lowa—Tills ia
my second attempt. My ]»api takes The Consti
tution and we like it very much. 1 have no peta
except a little niece ten weeks old. I have two
sisters and four brothers. My oldest sister is married;
she lives a mile from our house. I would like to
correspond with some of the cousins. I will close
by sending the cousins a riddle. What ship is al
ways hub’ll with knowledge? I send Aunt Susie a
card for her scrap book. Love to Aunt Susie and
tho cousins.
F.ula L. Billingsley, San Marcos, Texas—l am
fourteen years old; have eight brothers and two
sweet little sisters; one curly headed just two year*
old, the other ten months old. Enclose please find
ten cenlß from L lia and I : hope it is not too lato for
our name to go in your B.bl_*. May God bless you
and your work Aunt Susie.
Etta Barnett, Okolona, Miss.—Wc are having
some right cool weather now. Our school is out
My sister l.ula is going t<> school nt Tr <y, Miss. My
friends, Sallic, Stella and and Ada Atkin -n Imvo
gone to school at Houston, Miss. lam very lonely; £
wish Aunt Susie would write every week. I also
love Io read Paul Joncb aud Uncle Will’s letters. I
will sen I you aqu It square. 1 would like to corres
pon 1 witii some of the cousins.
Anna Billington, Hardison, Tenn. -I am thirteen
years old; I have one little brother and a sweet
little baby sister I love most dearly. I have no pets,
so 1 spend my idle moments in reading the Bible. I
began reading lust autumn; 1 have read from the
first of Genesis to Becond Cornntheans. 1 hope to
get throt gh by Christmas. How* many of the cousins
w ill join me ami rea l it through again next year?
Aunt Susie, 1 semi you a nlckle fur your Bible; also a
card fur your scrap book.
Lena Stewart, Averasboro, N. C.—Have you room
enough Id to admit one more little couiin? I en
close live cents so as to have my name in your Bible.
Like Horace Neal, my sixteenth year
still lam not too old to try to do good. Much lovo
to Aunt Susie and the cousins.
Mattle Milan, Fairburn, Ga.—Rave you room for
another little niece? I am a little girl not quite
six years old; will be six n *xt Saturday. Inm stay
ing nt grandma’s, and she says I must have some
thing nice fur dinner on my birthday. I will send
you a s<piure for your quilt. Do you think it is nice
enough to put in your qtillt? I made it all myself.
Aunt Susie. Mama will bcsiirj r.sed to see my name
among your nieces, but a little girl must write a
little letter, so please Aunt Susie, try to get room for
my letter, aud when 1 get larger 1 will write you a
nice letter.
Your square is very nice.
Mollie Brock, Hill, Ahi.—Dear Aunt Susie: See
ing so many of the cousins have been willing and
describing their hemes, I thought I would say some
thing about mine. Ills situated six miles west of
Giulsden and five miles north of Attalla, in Wills
valley on the Alabama Gnat Southern railroad at
the little station of Reesville. I must tell the cousins
about what a nice trip wc had on last Bunday,
There was a cio.vd of eight persons visited tho
Black creek falls. It is jusl three miles from our
house and is a beautiful place; some of the most
interesting scenery 1 ever saw. Cousins, you ought
to see them, they are so magnificent. 1 cun t begin
to describe them as they should be. The water fails
over a bluffof rocks over a hundred feet and goes
rolling and tumbling into the depths below. You
can g<» all nroung under them and not get even
sprinkled by the mist. Wild Howers grow ten and
fifteen feet overhead o i tlie ruck. One hundred
yards below tho falls you ran step the crook on
stones. Wh* nwc had looked as much us we wished
to we went to the clifik, about half a mile above and
took In the city of Ga Ihlo Wo were about one
mile from the cly and over 0 feet above tlie ciiy
h.vel while we were at the cliffs; the church bell
rung and it seemeu as if telling us to come.
Note—-Your square is bcautil'ul and different from
any I have.
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The Kclipto In lliusla.
From an Kxehanzo-
When Professor Mondelaieff was desccn<!!fcg
in Liz military balloon near Moscow, after olwerving
the recent eclipse, several ponsanta ran out of tho
village of Oderkoff with guns to shoot "the evil
beast that had darkened the face of the sun.”
There was a general fear among tho Russian peas
antry that the world is coming to an end. This ide.
wes strengthened by the curious coincident!, that
on Sunday preceding the eclipse the go*p 1 appoint
od to be read in the churches lisppencd to be tho
21th chapter of Matthew, in which o curred tho
prediction th it the sun shall I.e darke r d arid tho
s'arssliall fall from the heavens. Ten days after
the eclipses In the province ot I’erra theie ivm a
r. markable fall of a rolltca. Ono piece of the tne
torlc stone weighed about a quarter of a ton, and
. caused au carta shook iu its full like au ciuuli
quake.
Very Particular.
From th. revision (Me.; Journal.
Freddie Glcdhill. the young embezzler from
the Citizens’ Relief society of Portland, writes frora
Montreal to the Portland Press to indignantly deny
the story that he was »«i iu Montreal looking very
seedy. The statements concerning his dishonesty
did not seem to worry 1.1 n any, but when the papers
cume to say be looked e dy he resented it. lie
wants It understoid that wbile he may be a thief lis
is not guilty of the crime of wearing poor clothe«.
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hclio, t'ountipuliou uad I’ilvw* liiai
toll’s lls
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ora an*, rrl vln« them tone uutl via or to
assimilate loot!, ft’o griping or nausea,
Bold Everywhere.
Office, 44 Murray St., New York.
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