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The Exeter Times, 1892-5-5, Page 3HOUSEHOLD. The Robin's Easter Fong.' i7'olcomo, dainty robin t Signal of the spring bulth Ise boast of red -brown, and the satin Win; Bing witnh the gioryof thy 11n1p[d Bong, 'W' ood and mount and meadow—clear andfnll and Strang. Such an ardent wooing, tender, bravo and sweet.. l'lndtamayod by changing skis never met de- feat! And the earth, replying with the spring's soft breath,. Speaks the Resurrection-Life—that follows death! Itravo,robin redbreast 1 with tbe shining win Let thy note exulant, loud and louder ring 1 Till the woodlands echo with the glad. retrai And the soft wind murmur, spring has corn again! Leafy buds aro swelling, with the swelling son 'Unboundg: brooks are laughing, as they dance along; Tender blossoms springing from the brown earth bare— Life and joy and gladness waking everywhere! Ever new the glory that the years repeat, Nature's mat heart throbbing, all about our feet! MA and valley springing into tender green, Touched with life and beauty by the Power Unseen: ' .Elope of joy eternal singing in each breast, All the pain and passion lulled to quiet rest! Everywhere the promise, speaking clear to Hien. Death is life immortal. We shall live again! Sing on, robin redbreast, with the shining wine And tt air riumphant, that befits a king! prom the opnlost branches, frog the glad, proud song, Life, and joy, and gladness, to the spring be- long! With pencilled etriges.af. black moee than an inch apart. They are shirred to the neck in front and back, and have a drawing -string around the waist. A pointed shield.shaped piece on the front is. shirred down through the middle, and is needle -worked in black silk in scallops on each edge. The turned - down collar and cuffs are also scalloped with black.. ' Navy bine crepon with snow -flake:' of white, and ribbed crosswise, is, one of the novelties for spring dresses. It is made to give a priucesse effect,yet the waist is full, and is girdled with black satin: ribbon to hide the joining of the skirt. Tbis girdle is in wide folds even around thelower edge, and pointed up in Swiss fashion in the back, the fulness of the bell skirt being gathered each side of the sloped back seam and strapped on to the satin. White chiffon is accordion -pleated as a long plastron, and hooked to the left under the girdle. A col. lar of white Irish point curves Iow like a yoke. The immense sleeves droop at the top, and are simply turned back an inch, from the wrist and faced with black satin. Anavy blue serge dress has the papular yel. low shade for a Mikado blouse of India silk with large blue designs on the pale yellow ground, the whole in accordion pleats that begin at the back of tho neck, then are drawn forward under the arms, and cruse the fronts below a square yoke of navy blue satin. A jabot of the broadest sash ribbon of the same blue shade is pleated in three clusters at the top, then the ribbon passes plainly to the waist lino and ends in two chows. Over this is worn a serge jacket, as short as an Eton jacket, fitted by a seam down the back, and trimmed on the front edges with chree•coruered revers of the serge corded with the yellow silk, and also with the deep blue satin. The sleeves are gigot -shaped, and the bell skirt has a wide border of blue satin ribbon piped with yel- low and blue cords. A fawn vigogae dress with Eton jacket fronts has the coat back belted with black satin ribbons with sash ends. Great variety of color is given to the front of this dress, as the jacket has revers � h of violet velvet opening on a gathered vest a. of green velvet widely girdled with black satin ribbon, while a cravat of ecru Mechlin lace falls from the black ribbon collar, 'remember the Family Anniversaries. As a people we pay far too little atten- tion to birthdays and ether tamily anniver• caries. Too much cannot be done to make home attractive, so that our boys and girls will prefer it to all other places. "'this has been the nicest day 1 over knew," said a boy to his mother one even- ing. "The birds have all been singing, and the sun has ehone every minute, and every- thing has been so lovely, just for your birth clay, mamma, and I am so glad!" and he em- phasized his gladness with a hearty hug and kiss. For weeks the boy had been looking forward to this day, planning and making a little birthday gift as a surprise, and when the time came Isis whole mind was given to making his mother happy. "But its so much trouble to celebrate birthdays," complain some mothers, "and in larue families they come so often." Yes, it is some trouble, but how eon wo keep our -children contented and happy at home without taking trouble? And no mother regrets the trouble when she sees her children regarding their home as the very best place in the whole world. Try to celebrate the lotaildays one year, and see if it does not "or in the enjoyment of the whole family. Let no one he forgotten from hitherto baby, and try to have each one in. Wasted in all the others, planning, if pos- sible, some 'little birthday gift. No matter how simple or trifling it may be the love and thoughtfulness which go with it will make it precious. The Domestic Tyrant. The normal idea of a domestic tyrant is of course some coarse -minded, brutally dispos- ed husband who scattered bis household be- fore him as chaff is scattered by the wind. Oppreesivo as a husband, he is also jealous. Before such a man as this the children are broken -spirited and cowed ; the servants fly to obey his smallest wish ; the dogs rush from him, their tails aetween their legs; to the very cabman he is a "harbitary gent ;" to his tenants he is the Black Death in person. This speech in society is like the firing off of minute guns, sharp, peremptory, ungracecl by preamble or code. Or it may be, when lie is a hypocrite as well as a tyrant, his "company manners" are grace. ful, soft, gentle, and his flattery as as thick end slab as butter and honeymixed together. Women aro seldom of the latter type. They rarely disguise themselves so well, When a wife has the box seat and holds the reins, the world knows pretty well what the condition of things really is. Despising the pian whose place she has usurped, she is at no pains to conceal her contempt. She opposes hon sharply ; con- tradicts him flatly; looks hint down at his own table; and lets both him and the world see that she regards bim as a foolnot worth the trouble of conciliating, or the effort in. volved in reasoning with. She interferes with his every action ; forbids him to smoke ; allowances his wine ; sends him out or keeps him at home, as she thinlcs best; despises his pursuits, and, when she can, takes them from him as she would take their toys from her children. Hie pet dog she banishes ; his favourite books she puts away ; if he is fond of gar- dening, she digs up and turns over his flower -beds for a tonins ground ; if ho is an adopt at tennis, alio breaks up the court to make a rose-gardon. Her tyranny is like a Nasmyth hammer, and finds nothing too large or too small for its manipulation. 'The whole family suffers equally with the unfortunat)i husband. Wherever she ap- pears she brings with her both tyranny and interference. Her children are trained and managed till they have not a spark of natur- alness or spontaneity left in them. In whatever they aro doing, she must interfere and ordain. At croquet she tells them whore to send the ball ; at tennia she makes them nervous by shouting out unfriendly contmentariew on their play; at the piano she objects Co their fingering, and wishes to alter their light and shade; at the easel she bids them scumble up the whole picture as it stands and begin it anew on leer linea She is always changing her servants, with. whose work and methods she interferes till they lose their patience—when either they are impertinent and so discharged on the spot, or disheartened and disehnrgo them - ;elves. She is the scourge of the family quite as much as that more brutal natured man. He is the hornetand ahe the wasp— ho is the bluebottle and she is the housefly ; and there is not a pin's point to choose be- tween them. Each is detestibls after the law of his or her kind, and the tyranny of a woman is to the full as i11 to bear as the tyranny of a man, and perhaps it is more :annoying because more Incessant. Besides these two tyrannies of authority are others which rule the family and make every member impartially miserable. Look at the tyranny of .children—how they take the very life out of a gentle mother? Their teinpers, their demands, choir wishes, their dislikes, all rule the order, the common life of the house, and everything and every per- son mustgive way to them. Sometimes one sees this kind of thing with a widowed 'nether, over whom her children attempt to exert supreme authority. So ceaseless their demands, and so unsleeping their jealous activities, she leads among them the life of the traditional toad under the harrow.; and she has been known. to marry the man who loved her—but she not loving him—to es- cape from the bondage of her eldestdeughter. Tyranny is hateful at all times and in all eireumstane`es ; but the tyranny of the young brings with it a bitter taste of mock- ery and. unfitness ; and tbe sense of more than ordinary topsyturveydom associated with it gives it a grim grotesqueness, that is half its unpleasantness.— CARRIED INLAND O3 A 'WAVE. 40, t Steamer that Stands. 1[i;tit and Dry Over Too Mites Prep[ the Coast. Tourists that visit Batavia nowadays are quite out of the fashion if they fail to make the passage through Sunda Strait and see all that is left of Krakatau and the vestiges of the ruin wrought by the terrible eruption of 1883. If they push up the Bay of Laln- pong, on the Samabra side of the channel, they are likely to land on the low shores on- cupied by the village of Telokh-Betong, and hire carts for a short jaunt into he inter. for ; and when they have gone about two miles they will pause to take in the curious scene presented in this picture ;; for here is seen one of the most interesting results of the great wave of Krakata'a. There was just one man amid all that wild scene of death and devastation who was not overwhelmed in the common ruin. He es- caped while 40,000 perished. He was the lighthouse keeper,whhe lived alone on an iso - rated rock in the strait. It was broad day- light when Krakatau burst asunder, but in a few moments the heavene were so densely shrouded by dust, mud, and smoke that the darkness of midnight covered all the chan- nel, The guardian of the lighthouse was in the lantern 130 feet above the sea level. Here he remained safe and sound in the midst of the terrible commotion. He felt the trembling of his lighthouse, but it WAR so dark that he -could not see the threatened danger. Re did not know that a tremendous wave hadalmost overwhelmed, the lighthouse, and that its crest had near- ly touched the base of the lantern. He did not hear it because he was deafened by the awful detonation of Krakatau. In a few moments the wave, over a hun- dred feet in height, had swept along a coast hue of 100 miles on both sides of the chan- nel. Scores of populous villages were buried deep beneath the avalanche of water. Great groves of cocoanut palms were levelled to the ground, Promontories were carried away. New bays were dug out of the yielding littoral, Every work of human hands exceptthat lighthouse was destroyed, and 40,000 persons perished in the deluge that mounted from the aea or beneath the rain of mud that tilled the heavens. This is a pioture of a little sidew]ieel steam -boat that was borne on the top of that wave through forests and jungle, over two miles into the country, and was left as the wase receded in the position here shown. It will be remembered that for weeks before the final cataclysm at Krakatoa, the vol- cano was in a state of eruption. Pleasure parties were made up at Batavia to visit the volcano, Nat a few people landed on the island,little dreaming that in the twink- ling of an eye two-thirds of it was to be blown into the air as though: shot from a gun. They wished to got as near as they thought they might safely venture to the growling crater. This little steamboat, on the day before the explosion, carried one of these parties to the island. There were only twenty on boar t besides t'ie crew. They spent, a couple ofheura around the island,and then steamed up the deep and narrow bay of Lampong, auditis supposed they anchor- ed for the night in front of the big town of Telokh•Betong,which was ono of the largest settlements on the south coast of Sumatra. The ill-fated pleasure party was Hover beard of again. It is supposed that the boat was turned over and over like au egg shell in the surf. It had every appearance of such rough usage when it was found some months later. The machinery and furni- ture were badly broken, and were strewn about in the greatest confusion. But the vessel held together, '"and was finally set down in good shape, erect on her keel, as she is seen in the picture, which, was made from a drawing by Mr. Korthals, a member of the Dutch scientific party sent out to study tho effect of the Krakatau eruption. Only two bodies were found in the vessel. They were, of coerso, below deck. As it was morning when she was picked up by the wave, it is supposed that nearly every- body was on shore. Not a vestige remains of the villages that lined the water edge. But the hulk of this little boat still stands, battered and broken, though as erect as when she ploughed tho channel, and she is the most curious and interesting relic of the„greatest volcanic eruption of modern tittles, Wbioh Should Ile Marry? Said the youthful Fred to his Uncle Harry, "I've really made lin my mind to marry, But pannot decide if it is better That love or sacro shall forgot the fetter." ' Ah ! wedlock bringeth us joy and sorrow; Wo smile today and we weep to morrow .And, Fred, there'll always be stormy weather Whore two are unequally yoked together." "Well, here's the ease," said. Fred, with emotion ; "I've given to Clara my heart's devotion ; But she has no money, and, Uncle Harry, You know 't would be folly for us to marry?" " Well--I--don't know, said the other turning, His gaze toward the youth, "since the fire is burning, I've a.word of counsel to give yeu, which is, Marry for love and work for rue os." "But Grace, you see," said the anxious Freddy• "Has a nice little housekeeping fund already, And will help along with a contribution To steer from the straits of destitution. When money is scarce, and the wife is ailing, I telt you, uncle, its not plain sailing ; And to bear up under times changes and chances Is easy, if easy our circumstances," "Stop ! stop!" with a frown, said Uncle Harry " The girl that you love is the girl to marry 1 And if she's true she'll not think 1t cruel To live for a while on water gruel. She'll comfort you in tho time of trial; She'll whisper naught of her self-denial ; And cheerfully take theneeded stitches— Who marries for love, and not for riches!" Do think for a moment, Fred, 'tie bettor To bind the heart with a golden fetter; Though many do it, yet many rue it, And love is a tearful witness to it ! There isn't a chance for pleasant weather Whore two are unequally yoked together; So turn your baok when money bewitches Marry for lova and work for riches. A Physician's Opinion About Corsets. A physician said : " With some women I am told the main object of wearing a corset is that they shall have fine busts, but as a matter of fact corset wearing is accountable for the look of development that one sees in many young women of the day. Were they to throw away their corsets they would find that in a short time the longed for develop- ment would come, and unless they were un- commonly lean or in poor health they wonid not have so very long to wait either. In all the photographs of wild women that one sees, whether they are Sioux, Sumatrans or South Sea Islanders, one observes that a lank of bust development is the exception and not the rule. Nature is nature every time, and natural woman is healthy woman under ordinary circumstances and condi- tions. Inlay state that it is not always well to be too precipitate in this matter of throwing aside the corset. " The beat way for a woman to rid herself of corsets it to first loosen them up and wear them that way for a few weeks. This will in itself give her great freedom and will pre- pare her for the greater comfort which she is sure to enjoy later when she shall have finally cast Wilier tightly buckled shield and made of herself a wholly free woman. Then let the strings be let out still further and further, until the ribs of the corsets give actually no support to the back, when they may be discarded. In this particular, you will see, there is nc exception to the rule that radical and extreme measures suddenly applied often result disastrously. Itis bet- ter to take the reform in hand with a deter- mination not to pursue it too hastily. " Yes, I have no objection to what are known as `waists.' They are all well enough, if the women must wear something to keep them in shape, as they calf it. There is a great deal of difference between the reeds and bamboos in the waists' and the steel and whalebone of the corsets. Compar- ed with the corsets they are, indeed, quite harmless." Easter Costumes. Fawn -coloured wool dresses with black and yellow accessories are newer and more stylish than the gray and tan wools so long in favour. Navy blue is also revived, and 'is as erten heightened by yellow combina- tions as by the use of bright red. Exclusive modistes have imported street dresses of fawn wool dotted withblack, merle with a jacket corsage that has three Norfolk box pleats down the back, belted there by black satin ribbon tied in the middle with np- right loops and long sash ends. The open fronts are straight, and do not quite meet, yet have large buttons and button -holes. J. deep round collar is bound with black ribbon, and the mutton -leg sleeves are similarly edged. Thevery wide bell skirt alas a narrow gored front breadth with two tiny black satin piping cords' down each seam. Two small yet distinct box pleats hold the slight fulness in the back, and the skirt is attached to a black satin corselet wvhioh is whaleboned to a point half -way up the back, then. tapered: along the sides to a .small clhou in front, leaving the waist per- *ectl round. Two yellow China silk louse[ accompany this jacket 1,nd skirt, one finely speckled with black, the other Extravagance of Women in Old Times. Speaking of the extravagance of women in our day, Marie do Modicis had a gown sown with 32,000 pearls and 3,000 diamonds, and her a:temple was followed by lesser person, ages, who cheerfully expended more than their incomes on gowns so laden with pre- cious stones that their wearers could scarce- ly move about in them. Mme. de Montan span, the beauty who reigned at the court of .Louis XIV., wore at one great festival "a gown of gold on gold, and over that gold frieze stitched with a certain gold which makes the most divine stuff that has ever been imagined," according to the panegyrics writtod by the pen of Mme. de Sevigne. Wonders of the Human Heart, A curio•Is calculation has been made by Dr. Richardson, giving the work of the heart in mileage. Presuming that the blood was thrown out of the heart at emelt pulsa- tion in the proportion of sixty-nine strokes per minute and at the assumed force of nine feet, the mileage of the blood through the body might ns taken at 207 yards per min- ute, seven miles per hour, 168 miles per day, 61,320 miles per year, or 5,1:0,880 miles in a lifetime of 84 years. Tho number of beats in the heart in the mine long life would reach the grand. total of 2,869, 7 76,000. Three Doves, Seaward, at morn, my doves flew free; At eve they circled back to me, The first was Faith ; the second Hope; The third—the whitest—Charity. Above the plunging surge's play Dream-like they hovered, day by day, At last they turned, and Dore to me Green signs of peace through nightfall gray. No shore forlorn, no loveliest land. Their gentle eyes had left unscanned, 'Mid hues of twilight heliotrope Or daybreak fires by heaven -breath fanned. Quick visionsof celestial grace • Hither they waft, from earth's broad spade, Kind thoughts for all humanity. They shine with radiance from God's face. Ah, since my heart they choose for home, Why loose then—forth again to roam'! Yet look; they rise! With loftier scope They wheel in flight towards heaven s pure dome. Fly, messengers that find no rest Savo in such toil as makes man blest! Your home, is G'od's immensity ; We hold you but at his behest. —iGeorgo Parsons Lathrop. The Dictionary Habit. Friend—" What queer language your husband uses. He pronounces every word half a dozen different ways." Wife—" Yes, he has half a dozen differ- ent dictionaries." • New Pm -Cushions. The pretty pin-onshions bearing the name "These are the Mice that Eat the Malt," consist of a plush tray with aoonple of sacks made of plush and tied with ribbon, stand- ing upright and ready for pins. Tho mice are to be seen on the plush tray, The "pigs in clover" take the form of a plush sham- rock, the centre petal hooded so that the pigs find a sty. A conrle of sacks occupy other spaces. The small bamboo huts used for table decoration aro made into fain -cush- ions, being stuffed and covered with plush and ribbons. Another kind is a chiffonier's basket on a wicker easel, and another is set in a basket placed on a lyre. Out of Repair, Mr. Peterby—I'll have to send Molly's shoes to the shoemaker. Mrs. Peterby—Are they very much out of repair ? It seems to me she is getting new shoes every week. • "I should say they were out of repair. There is such a big hole in the sole of one of her shoes that site loses her stocking through it." When Baby was Sick, we nave her Castoria. When showas a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. bvhen she had Children, shegQvothemCastoria. aa..a,..c,aa..011e. Money Saved. Little Wile-" I saved thirty dollars to- day." Loving Husband —" You're an angel. How?" Little Wife—" I saw a perfectly lovely easy -chair that I know you'd like, and I didn't buy it." --- A writer in an .English paper has written of racing bicycling men on a last lap riding at a pace of 30 miles an hour. The first impulse of many readers, doubtless, was to express astonishment and doubt, and yet reuprds prove beyond question that at times men ride at an even greater rate of speed. Four times, in 1891, a quarter was ridden in 29 4.5 seconds, orat the rate of about 30 miles 360 yards au hour. It is fair to presume that in neither case wasthe entire quarter ridden at top speed, and it there- fore becomes evident that at some point of the journey the riders must have consider- ably exceeded the speed hnentioned. Discarded Responsibility. Magistrate—" What, you here again, Slattery? This must be the twentieth time you've been up before me." 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