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ladil? i>;;i’u;T4Ei7. Stcv'lvlnw a Uafkl <»!«• F««hl«l»» Th<- pmpri'tv an I tro >d tatte of doing away with abi»r. viatid r.mn< » among women i« fa<t growing into favor and the good old f iidiion of giving the full nan <* i« regarded the correct and dig niffod thing. and Mattie, and Tillie, and Maggie are again Mary, M >rth&, Matilda, arid Margaret stately nann t, allot them, and full of Mgnifi* cance, whrroM th ir diminutives arc silly and meaning lew*, arid women are gradually awakening tn the fa< t that it is far more elegant to rewrvr these pct names, if they be used .it all. for the household, and to sign themselves always in add reding those outside this little circle with tlrn full name they re ceived at the baptiarnal font. In thin respect our ancestor* showed a proper amount of dignity, and it would be well i Low if the old form of addressing j women as Mi tress Ann Page, .Mistress Catherine Smith, etc., were revived. The present custom of retaining the maiden name as a middle name after marriage and the use of the husband’s Christian name by widows are both sen- Bible, rm they identify the individual , -vith a certain family. Chicago llccald. A Flirt’s Conrr««ioi». “I do not think that 1 ever flirted with the hope or intention of lerioualy win- 1 ring men’s heart,. It was fun to receive their attention, and to be able to lure them away from other girls, and especi ally wua thia the caw when tiie men were married or engaged. In most in- j ttances I think they went bark to their • I awn and their own received thi-in. Why lid Ido ill Well, I think tho reason wa, thia: I really liked all agreeable men, and anything that looked like lack of appreciation on their part wa, so ex eeedingly diala,teful to metbat fatraight way atrove to overcome it. The young fallowa ju.t coming out camo into iny net aa a matter of couriie for several yearn, hut older men heard of me before being presented, and fought shy. J did not understand this then, I thought they disliked me, whereas it wax probably caution or disapproval, and I set myself forthwith to disarm the caution and change tho disapproval to liking. It wax •imply unpleasant to mo to have anyone indifferent. I have cried time and again on iny way homo in the carriage, simply because some one whom 1 wanted to please seemed indifferent. Several times ■I wax actually caught with tears on my cheeks by those of whom I waa thinking, and I always managed to let them guess ilia reason of iny tears. That wasalway, effectual. It never failed to bring about the desired end, but I declare solemnly .that I never did it on purpose cried, I mean and I never intended to he caught in tears. I suppose that most men will refuse to believe thia, but it is true. 1 was simply at my wits’ end with wretch- i ednexa, because I thought some one hud taken a dislike to me." The Hour. A Persian l*ri ■»<*<*«■. Lady Hhiol, in her “Glimpses at Life and manners in Persia," says: “I went to we tho Hindi's half-sister, a bountiful gir| of 10, who lived with her mother in an obscure part of tho ante-room, neglected by the Bhxh, and consequently by every one else. She was really lovely, fair ami prith indeacrodiblo eyes and a figure only equalled by some of the chefs d’cciivre of . Italian art. This is so very rare among ■ Persian women that she was one of the few persona 1 saw in tho country with an approach to a good figure. “She wax dressed in the usual fashion of trousers on trouser,, the Inst pair being of such stiff brocade that if put standing upright in tiie middle of the room there they would remain. Her hair WiuiCUrled, not plaited, mid she was literally covered with diamonds. She wa, quiet in h r manners, and seemed dejected. She was most anxious to hour about European customs. "And what seemed to surprise her m wt was that we took the trouble to un dress every night going to bed and she asked me was it true that we put on a long white dress to pass the night in. "All Persian women are n-t.mished at this custom, and are quite unable to ac count for it. They never undress at night; they untie their thin mattress from its silken cover, draw it out from its place against the wall, and roll them wives up in tho wadded quilt which forms their blanket. The only time they change thoir clothes is when they go to bathe If they go out to visit they of course put on their best garments, and take them off at night; but generally they lie down just as they are, and even in cold weather they wear their ’chadeor, or out-of door veil, at night. Ito bue< You it a American Women. Seme years ago, says the New York See, a young woman rather coveted an appearance of delicate health, as an evi dence of refinement, and associated fresh and blooming cheeks and a vigorous ap petite w iUi a daiy maid style of beauty that seemed to her coarse or inelegant. She was also taught to look on little hy sterical fears and tremor, as prettily fem mine, and, of all things, she most dreaded to be regarded as a tomboy or a hoyden. She might dance all night iu a tight and loug gown, but she must avoid the outdoor sports enjoyed by her broth- ! era, and stan I in mortal terr:? cf cows ! and mice. Therefore it hapjiened that I the typical American girl of those days was s fliin and nervous creature, beside whom her English sister seemed full and rugged. She was a pretty, but a fragile specimen of her sex, whose good looks were like ly to be soon replaced by tho lines of chronic ill health, or destroyed by the cares of motherhood. - Hut all that has changed since the time* when Dio Lewis began to preach hi, dor trim of w hat he called physical cul ture. The girls of this period vic with their brothr i s in outdoor cxm. ise. They wear stout boots, easy clothing, and gar ments appropriate to the weather, and which are made with careful regard to the protection of their health. First, : croquet took them out upon tho lawns, j and then tennis: and meantime they learned to row, to ride, to drive,to prac- ; tire archery, to take long trumps, and to 1 endure exposure, so that ii ha, come to puss, that girl.,, like boys, arc ashamed I to be unequal to vigorous physical ex- ' crcise. They want to be healthy and strong and mi'<- and cow . do not terrify them a, of old. The result is that the well-trained American girls who arc now approaching maturity; or who arc already in the first ■ flush of womanhood arc distinguished for the symmetry and beauty of their physical development. Their lungs are stronger and their voices better than those of the women who preceded them. The race has grown taller and far hand somer, ho that now we can sriy without , boasting that the handsomest types of their sex a lywhere to be found arc the young American girls of to-day. Os course Dio Lewis only helped to bring about this happy result, for many Causes contributed to it, but we accord him great praise for the part he took in inspiring our young women and their parents with enthusiasm for health and , physical exercise. Fashion mote,. Lscc dresses arc more flowing than for merly. Embroidered nun's vci.ing is very at tractive this season. Beige and corde-dc-la-reine are com bined for girls' wear. Yellow and black on high walking hats is a favorite combination. A bouquet of carnations is one of tho most stylish hat garnitures. Chalii, etamine, foulard and India silk arc used for girls’ nice dresses. Tucks or folds on an under dress are very stylish in any heavy goods. Shot silk in light shades is used in combination with light summer woolens. ; Draped polonaises and overdresses, , with bosque bodices, are in equal favor. I Veils of colored crape accompany tho shirred crape bonnets so stylish this sea son. Plain skirts without gores, some being made with deep plaits at tho side, arc worn. ; Watered ribbons arc used very effec tively in tri.niuing light weight cos tumes. A largo gray parasol is a very stylish affair this season. A huge bow ornaments the top. Egyptian and oriental lace ore used for flounces over colored and white dresses Wide sashes of surah are very stylish with street costumes as well as those for the house. Embroidered crape, gauze and muslin are shown in most elaborate designs and beautiful coloring. White canvas cloth combined with black velvet makes a very stylish cos tuine for the seashore. Course meshed nets have largo oi small polka dots. They uro to be found in nil the fashionable colors. They are made up over silk. Sorges for children are made with blouse bodices and box-plaited skirts. These frocks are useful for seaside wear, and are made with square collar and cuffs of striped flannel. A velvet sunshade is not only senseless but it is very heavy, and when it is adorned by a bouquet of artificial flow ers on the handle, it is worse. Some of the new woollen laces nrc of very fine quality and are quite glossy. Lace for millinery purposes is often edged with wire so fine that it cannot be detected. This wire prevents lace from becoming limp and clinging, and en ables lace bonnets to preserve their pris tine freshness. The Moon. Astronomers are continual? making ! as ounding < a'cul-.itio .s w ith regard to the moon. Prof. Darwin savs there was a time, about fifty-four millions of years ago, when the moon was so near ths earth that it revolved around it some where between two and four hours. It must have rubbed the tops cf some of our highest m untains. Telescopes were unnecessary in these days, AU ' that an astronomer had to do was to ’ climb a mountain and wait till the moon conic along, then step on and investigate things at his leisure. Finally tho moon started on its long spiral journey awaj from the earth, and we shal lose it al together s' few million years hence. ‘ Siting*. FOB THE FARM AND HOME. Most seeds grow by flrat absorbing moisture, then swelling and putting forth a germ and roots to sustain it. Hence they require some dampness in their seed bed. But the |x>tato is not a seed. Its first nutriment is from the tan h stored in the set and planted with it. Hence not only is dampness not es sentia! to starting potatoes but it is even detrimental. If potatoes arc covered with dry earth they will come up quicker than they will if covered with that which is wet. This is partly because dry earth in the same t -mperature of air is warmer. When a potato lias been cut the surface of the wound must dry over before the eyes will start. If planted frcshly-cut in very wet ground potatoes often rot, es pecially if this is early while the soil is cold. But as soon as the germ is above the surface, or even before, fine roots start from the base of the eyes and catch ing hold of the fine soil soon do away with dependence on plant food stored in the Het. If the soil is rich and in fine tilth the seed may be safely cut much smaller than where it is poor and cloddy. Cultivator. I.llllc Wastes. Manure, the farmer’s bank stock, in liquid form flows away to the stream an! is lost. Old machinery, in which arc many good bolts and screws, are al. lowed tx> rust out in the field. In an emergency, lie drives an overworked horse to the nearest town or shop to duplicate an article that should have been preserved from the old one. He fails to keep his toofs in perfect order, and in haying time, when the weather is threatening, a tire rolls off, a bolt is missing. And down comes the rain and up goes the temper. Tiie missing shingle is never replaced, and a constant leak finds its way to the grain bin and then he growls because his wheat is docked for dampness. Odds and ends of lum berremain where the last job is finished, curling up and becoming worthless in the hot sun. Good tools often keep company with the perishing boards. The weaklings of his herds and flocks are allowed to remain with the strong until they droop away and die. This man tells a continued story of bad sea sons, weather too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, taxes too high. No in tellectual shadow falls across his pessi mistic path, and he never reaches the goal of the successful farmer.— Farm and Live Stock. Feed for Butter* It is not necessary to feed oily food for a large production of butter. On the contrary nitrogenous food mixed with selected food rich in starch and peculiar ly well flavored fatty matter is prefer able. It is a fact that oils taken into the digestive apparatus nrc largely ab sorbed directly by the blood an 1 are carried, without change, into the milk, thus giving to tho butter a flavor like that of the food. But when peas, bran, malt, sprouts, and other food rich in nitrogenous elements, and fats which have an agreeable flavor, are used witli cornmeal or other starchy food, the whole is thoroughly well digested, and pass into blood and tiie milk in a changed form, and not directly. The butter is thus of a better quality than when oil meals are fed. The selection of food for dairy cows is a matter for tiie greatest care, and also for individual experiment. A good mixture of food for cows used for making butter is 100 pound of peas, or Southern cow peas, 200 pounds of corn, and 260 pounds of fine wheat o r rye bran, all ground together. To eight quarts of this meal may be added four quarts of thoroughly soaked malt sprouts and one of cotten seed meal for a full daily allowance, divided into three feeds for a largo full milking cow.—-V. T. jTi'mos. The Cure of I’nsturee. At a farmers’ convention held in New York Hon. Lewis Hams said: I have heard it remarked many times that it cost more to summer a cow in pasture than to winter her, but I have never kept a strict account so as to be able to decide the question. But I know that our pastures are usually neglected. If we have a..y manure to apply, it is used on the turable land and not on our pastures. Then in fencing our farms we fence off the poorer parts and then make an average of fencing for the whole farm. I dou't exactly like the principle of soil ing, preferring to send my cows to pas ture. In suggesting points for the im-, proveinent of pastures, I would say, first: If there are any mudholes in the pasture I would say tile-slrain them. They will then be tho most productive part of tiie farm. Another improvement js to break up the droppings of the cattle about the 20th of October. Break them up with a stable hook and then go over the ground with a harrow. Also top dress the pasture late in October with horse manure. There should be a hurdle fence to surround that part of the land that is newly broken up for pasture. I would sow two hundred or three hun dred pounds of ground bone on any piece of land that I was going to seed down to pasture. In taking from the soil a pound of milk the cow takes a piece of phosphate of lime as Urge as a good sized pea, and in sixty p ounds of milk she will take sixty times that amount. Now we must find some way of putting this back, and ground bone is best for this purpose. I would •ow for seed a mixture of fourteen pounds of orchard grass, ten pounds Kentucky bluegrass, twelve pounds meadow fescue, and six pounds each of meadow foxtail and of redtop. This may seem a good deal. A half a crop of grass is worth more than a little grass seed. These grasses are all deep rooted and least affected by drought, and will give a succession of food. I’m not in favor of clover in the pasture, as it has too much water in it. I also regard tim othy as the poorest pasture grass on ac count of its bulbous root, which is easily pulled up by cattle grazing close. When you sow these grasses keep the cattle off the ground the first season, because some of tiie grasses are weak when young. The tread of cattle is always an injury to growing grass, but it is unavoidable. If you take the cattle off by Oct. 20 and break the droppings as I have described you will keep the grass in good condi tion. I would turn cows on to the pasture early in the spring, as soon ns the ground is firm enough not to meach. They know when they want to get out, and will eat the rank early grasses well. They will crop it evenly, and will keep it so all summer. Some men never take their cattle off in the fall, and there is nothing worse for a pasture than this eternal grubbing of roots in the fall and in mild winter weather. IXnlry anil Hlovk Topics, The best butter is made on the old pasture. Rye bread is a common feed for horses in Belgium and Germany. Sprinkle salt upon the back of a lamb to induce a sheep to own it. The butter supply can be increased by frequent stirring of the cream, The cows should be milked as “regu lar as clock-work,” as to the hour, and in precisely the same order, each day. Keep young pigs dry and warm. Clean pens and dry beds are necessary; damp ness causes mange, which stunts the pig. A flagstone floor is the best for the dairy; wood, cement or brick absorb drippings, and the floor soon becomes foul and odorous. A Maine man says the way to start an obstinate horse is to take him out of the shafts and lead him around until he is giddy. The last month of an animal’s life has great influence upon his flesh, because the feeding during that period largely determines the flavor and quality. Stock needs salt, and it is a matter that should be looked after. Many cases of colic in horses and hoven [in cattle are caused by a deficiency of a supply of salt. The small mess of milk furnished by one cow may be far richer than the larger quantity obtained from another cow. And it is the butter yield that is the best test of a cow’s value. Horses will go eight and probably ten hours without food if properly fed at evening and morning. They should have water more frequently, but never when hot. The root crops for swino should con sist of a variety; tho farmer should grow not only beets and turnips for them, but parsnips and carrots also. The cheapest pork is that made by securing rapid growth on roots and grass. A mixture of skimmed milk, buck wheat bran, and cobmeal with good corn fodder should be very good feed for or dinary occasion, but in fattening an ani mal, an evenly balanced food is not wanted, but one rich in carbohydrates, and cornmeal bran and corn fodder would be the best. lloiiMeholil Hints. In washing bedsteads use strong brine or hot alum water. Wash grained woods with co’.d tea, wipe dry and rub with linseed oil. Cayenne pepper blown where mice or ants congregate drives them away. A little carbolic acid put in your glue or paste pot will keep the contents sweet for a long time. Rub window-sills with fine wood ashes and rinse with clean water to remove flower-pot stains. Beat carpets on the wrong side first, then on the right side. Spots may then be removed with ammonia and water or ox-gall. When hard-finished walls have been calcimined the soiled coats should be washed or scraped off before a new one is put on. When drain-pipes or other places get s our or impure they may be cleansed with lime water, carbolic acid or chloride of lime. llecip... Ham Croquettes.—One cup of nam, two cujis of potatoes, one cup of bread crumbs, one tableepoonful of butter, and one egg. Make in balls, roll them in bread crumbs, and fry in hot fat. Omlet.— Four eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, and one and one-half tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix the whites and yolks together, and add a little salt and pepper, and turn into a buttered spi der. Fish 3M.ie.—Tuke some fried fish, two tablespoonfuls of cream, a dessertspoon ful of butter, three or four onions, green chillies (when they are to be had), a piece of ginger, and two or three tablespoon fuls of vinegar boil for ten minutes, then serve. This is an excellent breakfast dish. Green Corn and Peach Pudding.— One cup of the pulp of green corn, which is obtained by cutting the kernals with a silver knife and pressing out the pulp with the knife, being careful that the kernels are not loosened from the cob, one cup of sliced ripe peaches, crushed slightly, two table-poonfuls of sugar and one cup of water. Mix thoroughly, put in an earthen pudding dish, placing thin slices of peach on the top. Bake from twenty minutes to half an hour in a mod erate oven. Serve cold. Carnival Scenes at Buenos Ayres. A Chicago A'eics correspondent, de scribing the carnival scenes at Buenos Ayres, says: Landing at the Boca, we entered a closed tram-car and started toward the hotel. The driver and con ductor were protected by rubber coats. Soon the seige began. All along the narrow streets from the tops of the one story houses were thrown pails of water. Paper bags filled with water were thrown on to the car. It was drenched. The faithful gossamer did good service again. At last, within a block and a half of the hotel, wo left the car. A close hack passing that moment, we chartered it and drove on. We had not gone a block until the carriage was nearly submerged in water thrown from the houses. This was only a sample of what went on for three days and nights in every part of the city. There was no law—no pro tection. The chief of police forbade it, but the first day had not passed before his superior, upon whom he depended for his appointment, was out on his house throwing water upon every one as they passed by. Fre quent collisions occur. One North American, for years a resident in South America, was in the street with his bride when some one squirted water in her face from the universal pomo. This was too much for his fresh affection, so he promptly knocked the “carnivalite’’ down. Os course he was arrested and taken to jail, It is proper to wet strangers, and spoil their clothes, and perchance leave them far away from their homes with wet clothes iu a changeable climate, but it is not allowable for a man to protect his wife from assault. This is carnival. Some friends interceded, and the slow procession of legal justica were hurried up, and by paying a lib eral “fine” the North American was re turned to his bride. Occasionally parties in the streets went to the nearest gro cery and armed themselves with eggs, the worse the better, and returned to the points where they had suffered and drove their assailants into their houses. In a few instances the enraged “vic tims” used their revolvers. Generally the best people either left the city or kept within doors during “the reign of terror.” The Poisonous Scorpion of Mexico. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Dr. Leidy read a communication from Dr. V. Gonzalez, giving an account of the scor pions of Durango, Mexico, and the dead ly effects of their sting. They are found everywhere in the city, and every effort , has been made to exterminate them, but without effect. A reward of a cent and a half for males, and double that amount for females, is paid by the authorities, and tho records indicate that some years over one hundred thousand are captured and destroyed. The sting, especially in the case of children, is invariably fatal; tho victim, if under two or three years of age, dying in a few hours, and some times in a few minutes, in strong general convulsions. No antidote for the poison has yet been discovered, and the assist ance of Dr. Leidy is asked by the writer in his endeavor to determine some suc cessful mode of treatment. It was sug gested by Messrs. Horn, Heilprin, and Leidy that the Mexican scorpion must differ from the species found in Florida and California, as the sting of the latter is not usually graver than that of a wasp. Whipping Up Nature. Margaret Sidney says in Good House keeping: There is a whipping up of tired nature going on that ought to come un der the notice of some society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The lash is being applied in this way, to ! take a common instance, in your very house. Your husband did not sleep any last night, thinking of his business en tanglements. Y’ou prepare him two cups of strong black coffee, which he pours down for breakfast, unable to eat anything with it. No doubt while the stimulus lasts he is carried through an immense amount of work in a savage manner, it passes for pure grit by the on-lookers. Perhaps it may be; but there is another kind of grit that we like quite as well, —tho patient, steadv fol lowing one’s conscience. And your doses of strong tea that enable you to get through the house cleaning, or the fall sewing, is another,—long and cruet I The society should have iu hands on you both instantcr. Set not too high a value on your ow a abilities. He that will not look before him will have to look behind him—and probably with some regret. The appellation of gentleman should never be affixed to a man’s circumstances but to his behavior in them. Those who sneer habitually at human nature, and get to despise it, nre among its worst and least pleasant samples. If a man’s religion is pretentious on Sunday and obscure on week days, vou would better do business with him on a cash basis. Happiness does not consist in our possessions, but what we are in need of ourselves. Tho person who has a clean heart and conscience is far happier than if he was the owner of untold millions. Goodness is beauty; and beauty cannot stay inside; like the sap iu a tree, it must come out in fresh leaves and buds and blossoms. Good, pure, kind gener ous thoughts light up the plainest face and make it beautiful and youthful. Idleness is the hotbed of temptation, the cradle of disease, the waster of time, .he canker worm of felicity. To him who has no employment, life in a little while will have no novelty; and when novelty is laid in the grave, tho funeral of comfort will soon folllow. Forestry and Cyclones. The only means of which we can con ceive within human power for the pre vention, or at best the rendering less fre quent, of cyclones, is in the covering of the face of the country as much as pos sible with trees and verdure. Let there be ascending moisture instead of ascend ing currents of heated air. In the great timbered valleys of the Amazon cyclones are unknown, yet when we look at the ; formation of the laud it is probably one of the mosh monotonously level regions on the face of the earth. In the vast area drained by the Amazon in its trifj.' utaries might be packed the whole United States and not one of its boundaries would anywhere be touched. Seen from any of the eastern spires of the Andes, this whole region is a sea of verdure. The boundless and unbroken forest give it the appearance of an illimitable mead ow. From the grassy steppes of Venzu ela to the treeless pampas of Buenos Ayres expands this sea of verdure. In it we might at almost any point draw a circle of eleven hundred miles in diam eter, within which all would be an un broken evergreen forest. And so matted, corded and festooned with vines are all the trees of this forest, and such is the exuberance of the undergrowth, that a “macheta,” must be used with which to hew away into the wall of vegetation the moment the voyager on one of these put a foot ashore from his canoe. Such is the steaming moisture within these great forests that salt soon becomes brine, the best refined sugar becomes j syrup, epsom salts and many other kinds of medicines deliquesce, and the best gunpowder becomes liquid in a few days, even when enclosed in a canister. Take away the forests and verdure, and leave this region a vast desert plain, and it would no doubt at once becoue a very playground of cyclones.— Salt Lah j 't'rilmne. The Dead Sea of the West, The famous Dead Sea of the West, Mono Lake, situated in Mono county, California, is thus described by a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘‘lts water is .so strongly impregnated with alknlies that the hand held for a few minutes in it will crack open and the skin be eaten off. No living thing ex ists in it, though it is said that often, after strong winds have blown across its surface, there is a layer of worms several feet wide on its leeward shore. It cleanses clothes dipped in it almost instantly, and if they are not as speedily removed does worse. Its shores are bar ren, bleak and lonely in the extreme, bordered by a soil that will grow noth ing but the scrubbiest of sage brush. In the prosperous times of Bodie a steamei plied on the lake, but it is now laid up in ordinary. The length of the lake is about 30 miles, and its greatest width about 18 miles. Seen from tliis magni ficent point, surrounded by the walks of Bloody Canyon, it is one of the noblest views on earth, but at the same time it only proves to one who has been about its shores and toiled across the deserted and sandy interval to the welcome foot of the Sierra, with even no better way across than the Bloody Canyon, that truly ‘distance lends enchantment to the view.” Taking Him Down. They had just been introduced. She was a pretty country girl and he a wheel man, who was very vain of his personal appearance when clad in 'cycling cos tume. He—l assure you there is scarcely a man who does no find the wheel suit most becoming. She (doubtingly)—lndeed ! He—As for myself, everybody insists that I look 100 per cent, better in a bi cycle costume than in an ordinary busi ness suit. She (innocently) Dear me. How awfully you must look in an ordinary business suit.— Boston Record.