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INS young yore ;
uo as VICO%
t e veoing tears ;
r isgOidell es the beam
usher in tee dawn.
otter than the tassels are
at 0113010 UR) growing corn ;
VOW° is tweeter to iny tier
hub:lutes or woodland stret ma;
rings amid my cares by day
And echoes in ray arearas,
elms a hundred pretty ways,
Witt ell 1 eeliget to see i
j1 lo'Ve him nen to if °Avon and her
' Who gave the child to me.
eend wben he nestles to my heart,
And calls me by my name-
' The only name he knows for me -
sigh no more for !quiet
Mut Mink that having mien a gem
To wear upon Inn breast,
(Contented should I be to leave
The chaplets fur the rest.
Ng" other darling's little life
In months is counted yet;
eye is lustrous as a star,
And Week as burnished
hair is•brown like forest leaves,
When autnnan's !mete begin,
,eour teeth have blossomed in his mouth,
A dimple dents his chin;;
41fis smile is like the smile that plays ,
Upon a eherub's face -
Oa') lea annul) though he makes
• -Aly home his dwelling place.
fear that we shall entertain
"An angel unaware" -
h at heavenly look upon bis face,
That glory on Ws hair,
.15eminds us whence the darling garael
• And lads us not forgct
''hat tl a who lent the and to us
eaul ceme to claim him yet.
The Greatest on Barth.
4o111. hail tbe power 0 printer's ink,
"'Which makes the world, of people think
That.what it touches has new grace
" Of character and mind and feet!'
And.that, what is of small account
Xs magnified to great amount.
‘' Row easily it reaches down
To depths of nothingness and finds a crown
. Wherewithto tit the brow of what;
May be true greatness) may be not.
.itbasthspowertopaintbad, good,
To people every selitude,
make a thought, straight from the skies
lir otherwise, materialize
areaehes to tee minims and
, It makes the stupid nederstand ;
.Jt puts an edge on what is dull,
At makes the Jagly beautiful
At &arms the master. wine tbe slave.
Jt cheers the living, decks the grave,
ate language Is in prose Or verse,
Aud speaks a bless ng or a curse
In fact dcar reader, if you'll tinalf,
lirbere s nothing quite like printer s
A CIIRISTMAS IN
TUE TROPICS,
RELY ICLISS1YEAS P'
was a modest little voie
with a fascinatingly ba
pronunciation that awok
me with a reminder th
there coald be such a thin
as a "Merry Klissmas
d the spiced breezes and the burnisl
dome of the equatorial sky.
rubbed my eyes and answered, "Me
Christmas, Ah Mingo,! Bring me te
;And fruit."
Then 1 opened the net door of my ma
..quito-house sad went to the window. M
Tthetmemetes registered eighty degrees i
4tie,4 'Shade. A great, wide-spreadin
'alchbuoyant tree just outside the winch)
azalea my eyes with its gorgeous, flam
acoloreal burden of flowers, and. effectuall
"larought me back to a sense that I was t
-spend a Christmas amid fruits Bud flow
-,ers,green grass and lotus -covered stream
An the strangeness and. newness of th
Asiatic scenes about me, which had som
''w -hat lost their edge during the last yeni
..wcarng,back to me as 1 reflectecl on the fa
%tin"' ferciest eeenes of my former Christma
radays. 1 expeadeamed a renewal of th
:mingled bewilderment and delight that
colt.wh.en. 1 gazed for the first time fron
the Zeck of the great Peninsula and Ori
andel steamship on the long, stone-houn
Bund, that enclosed a harbor crowde
-midi the strange shipping of China an
India. It had a background of masse
npica.ibo1iage that but half hid the tow
Ting minarets of a Mohammedan. mosque
Slender spire of an English cathedral
gilded dome of a Brahmin temple
e rose from tho wilderness of build
and streets thronged with 'ricksha
bullock -carts, Chinese coolies an
cloo merchants that constitute th
„great mart of Singapore, once the hom
..,of the fierce Malayan pirate.
Another timid knock at the door.
..a.seSpond crossly in tho lingua Franca o
,the East, "Apa man ?" -(What do yot
want?)
Minga, who despises Malay, ani
-who will only speak it to the servants
• iinswers : "Kling man. bottomside has
,got manyKlissmas.”
know this carious pigeon -English
..affirase means that there was a Hindoo
slown-stairs who hall brought me many
eliristinas presents.
pulled on. a suit of will:bells:ten and de
. .
,iseended to find Mohammed Sinnpula
.standing in front of an. array of baskets
containing a strange melange of offer-
Cne held a leg of Shanghai mat -
another a peck of mangoes fresh from
13angleek, another pisangs, or bananas,
aeria pomeloes, another a box of Manilla
ngar$, and another manderin oranges.
The mistress had not been forgotten,
. sfor Mohammed had brought her two bot-
taes of Florida water from.oar own coun-
,Ary, a big English almond cake ancl a tin
--box of sweets. He bowed to the earth
-and prayed that "the heaven -born will
-accept these little gifts from his most
;bumble servant Sinupitla, son of Moham-
fined., as a Christmas greeting...". Then he
-prayed that "the.fare or the great Amer-
-,tican sahib may be as odorous as sandal-
-wood." He salaamed again and -walked
with a stately tread oil the veranda.
His tall., graceful form, his kindly,
'bronzed lace, his mit I, black eyes, his
'estrange, flowing gaments, his plaited,
eraanical grass ha and red sandals, im-
- Anted a picture open ray mernoey that
stand. unique aineng other Christmas
nes that are treesered there.
lowly following Sint:Tula came others
vhom I had been kind, or who were in
' employ. They bore fruits, home -
e candiee and cakes. They were
all dressed in their own .peculiar Oriental
.eositame ; the Malay with his sarong :Lied
"-loosely about hie waist and falling like
.15k/re about his legs; the Tamil wrapped
in a hall -dozen. yards oapere whitc) gauze,
•evitli. his nose and. ears filled with brass
'estiids a the Chinaman leaking coob and.
eauin iiis voluminous white.pantalettes
et/filly-starched jacket; the Ceylon
merchant with his long, ;job -black
hold primly back in. place by coolie
tortoise -shell comb.
y• one and all aeoepted the feet,
iiamurrnurtng or questioning, that
Ifeeember the 25th of each year is a time
-of givingpresenee to their masters, To
Ai
Altera it s prolactbly a heathen eustiorne
but they bow pacefuily to it, and 'put
tbeir masteas to shame by the 'pros.etil-
ionstietse with which they observe it.
We went to 011ie& at liall-pase tate
weather was intensely hot, and yel
' rens strove to the greet Etiolieh eathedrat
ing glarp o the Malayan sun., jest to try
and eiip up a simulation ot the Christ-
mas we observe in distant homes. r.L'he
ususual hours for worship ere half -past
six in the morning and half -past five in
the evening.
Our ordinary garb of pure whitealinen
and cool cork lieltuete we had disearded
Lor suits of woollen and black derbys - so
hard did we try to deltale ourselves into
loonier Christmas feeling. The night
before, on Chrietras eve, I WM a hUndre1
or more .inen-rieli ship -owners, high offi-
dais -try to do the same thing,
Their wives were at home in Eagland
or Germany, reettporating ailter a long
term in the Orient, or perehance some
had gene home to die. Those that had,
not wives were younger sons and broth-
ers. All had met t the club to spend.
Christmas eve.
In the centre of the room was a tree, a
oe,suarinte, decorated with candles, toys,
candies and penny balloons; just sachets
tree as they would have gone into rep -
three over in their childhood. At its foot
wore the presents,
Au orehestra played outside under the
widespreading arms of a great banian-
tree, and spotlessly dressed. Chinese
"boys" circled about with refreshments.
Songs were suag ; every one laughed and
cheered and slapped moth other on the
shoulder, and yet every knew that it was
a pitiful failure.
Between laughs faces grew grave, and
far -away looks filled tired eyes. They
were wondering what wives, mothers an
friends were doing on that night in the
blessed land of the snows.
The ,great English cathedral is but a
copy of its sisters in Loudon and New
Yurk ; as unsuitable in its Gothie gra-
dour for the ha winds of the Torrid Zone
as for the cold winds of the Aretic. Its
great welted roof, ponderous pillars awl
long, narrow chancel, protect you from
nothing save a sight of the faoe of the
kind old bishop oi Singapore and, Sara-
wak, or the sound. of his pleasant voice.
The one innovation that has broken the
oast -iron sameness of the Episcopal, tem-
ple is the great white punkahs which
swished. back toad forth through the hot
air above our heads, The punkah is the
sign of the East, from Port, Said to Yoko-
hama.
The thumb was decorated with maid-
en -hair ferns in abundance, great, pure
eucharist lilies and delicate dove orchids.
A, brilliant green lizard with a long,
curving, pointed tailglided silently down
the eagle and peered into and then crawl-
ed into the soft felt hat of ails heeler the
chief justice. His honor only smiled. It
paissed only a moment and then departed
on its journey among the worshippers.
No one felt any alarm. It stopped. 'in
front of a little English miss with golden
hair and a great blue sash, and gazed at
her Brom head to foot with its jewelled
eyes. The little rniss took no more notice
of it than an American girl would of a
fly. Then it wandered. back and found a
resting -place on the venerable archdea-
eon's prayer -book. Another lizard, with
red and yellow stripes, came out and
chased the green lizard into the organ
When we returned to our bungalow we
found many Christmas greetings await-
ing us. They were covered with pictures
of snow -angels and the aurura, borealis,
Outside a great ripe papaya dropped to
the ground, and the luscious odor of the
pink meat was wafted up amid our con-
teinplation of the frigid cards.
.A. heavy rain came down without a
moment's warning and lasted but for a
few moments'for we. were in the rainy
season. Thetemperature was reduced a
Jew degrees. I took up the Christmas
Century and beguiled the hours till tin,
reading, dreaming and sleepily watching
a pair of little jungle monkeys struggle
with the over -ripe papaya.
That night thirty of us met to ea a
Christmas dinner. There were no great
arch, fires or blazing Yule logs; no mis-
tletoe, no snow beating against window
panes, no passin.g sleigh bells; nosae of
the vigorous and brumg winter sounds.
with which we of the Northern Zone were
But there was an ethereally beautiful
sky, stadded with innumerable stars and
jewelled with the Southern Cross. There
were mild breezes, heavily laden with the
intoxicating perfumes of the profuse trop-
ical life outside, and the soft cooine of
the ring -dove in a hibiscus -bush neare'by.
There was the realization that on each a
brilliant night, amid such a tropical
scene, the first Christmas was celebrated
on this same continent, a.nd not amid
the longed -for snows and ice of our native
land.
There were toasts to the "absent ones"
aaul to the "Queen' attetto the "hostess;"
there were bonbons awi snappers, and
songs and happy faces and good. cheer;
but after all we left for our homes with a
half -expressed thought that, in the face
of a charming clay and of historical facts,
Christmas is not Christmas when the
thermometer stands above one hundred
degrees in the sun.
Of Feminine Interest.
Strauss writes his best music at night.
American societies employ 1,619 mis-
sionaries.
The Germans have 525 missionaries
abroad.
Dresden taxes cats, and they:are dis-
appearing rapidly.
Electricity is now used to improve the
complexion.
Tortoise shell daggers, wrought with
gold, for the hair,
Poisons are sometimes developed in the
systems of sick people.
Astrachan jackets, with vests of velvet
and gold passementelie trimmings.
Until forty years ago the Japanese
were vaccinatea on the tip of the nose.
Brownie [stickpins thrust through the
tailor-made girl's four-in-hand tie.
Umbrellas of dark blue ana rod silks,
with porcelain. handles, covered with
tracery of silver. '
Hem Baster, of the German army, in-
sists that man, to be healthiest, must
subsist on fruits.
Seventy-one cities of England have as-
sooiations striving to improve the homes
of the poor,
Opera donate lined with ermine and
made with a high-stexiding Medici oollar,
Usually made of pinkish heliotrope,
Exquisite lunch cloths with insertions
of &awn work. Square-shapecl doylies
with a narrow border of drawn work.
The King of Belgium is spending his
own fortune and that of his sister largely
for the benefit of the Congo Free State.
The gift sent to Johann Strauss by
Ishmael Pasha, the ex-Kbadive, is a pair
of giraffe?. P6Ill hi fri ether preseuts
Awn the Esplanade, and' bray,..4.1 the blind- ,eome so high.
•
THE NIGHT AFTER,
voiee of bno crying, not
in the wilderness, but in
the nursery, is the sound
that gmets the startled
ears el the mother the
night after Christnias,
awl eseuerally it is a noiso
that maywell, startle the ears of a mo-
ther. It is next to impessible to prevent
children from eating things on that day
that prove too mush for the tender litble
stomachs. Loving aunts, inclulgent
grandmothers, heedless fathers and otten
ignoraut mothers let the little ones, even
the baby, have things that no chilcl or
growo person should Get. They say, "Oh,
a little won't hurt him," but when nearly
every one in the household has acted On
the same prinoiple the ohildren have
filled themselves with indigestible stuff
little better then poison.
Christmas is a day wherein, nearly
everybody gete more than. is good .for him,
and the food coneiciered suitable for that
day is of the richest and most ournplioat-
ed and indigestible kind. Grown people
find a Christmas clay's feasting a serious
matter. How then can we expeot a lit-
tle child. to live through it? ,A. physician
of note once said more ohildren die of
overeating than of starvation,
The most dreaded anddangerous form
of illIkOSS resulting from overeating is the
convulsion. The chilcl limy or may out
show signs of the coining illness. Its
cheeks may be very zee, its lips -White
and pinched., and the child cross and
nervous. It may go to sleep, but it will
often ory out in sleep and move about
restlessly, The museles often twitch and
the eyes frequently turn upward, but all
these symptoms may be present and \yet
the child will not have a convulsion.
Still they give sufficient cause for alarni
to demand a good dose of sirup of rhu-
barb, or of magnesia, or a wineglassful
of Hunyadi mineral water, -which I have
used with goed success with children.
When there are symptoms like those
inentionea above, one has a warnine. and
can ecenbat the danger, bet onlytoo
often there is no sign of coming sickness
nothing can be done for a child in ecn-
vulsions from the Christmas feast but to
rid it as quiekly as possible of the cause
of its trouble, end the hot bath and
c: areemetithe limb remedies and oxi be
administered safely while awaiting the
arrival of the doctor. None but physio -
lane should, administer ether.
The wise xnother will take care to la -
elude among her Christmas purchases an
ounce ab syrup of limas, two ounces of
spiced syrup of rhubarb and two ounces
eastor oil. When 8110 goes to bedat night
after the great day has passed, she will
have seen that there is a plentifal supply
of hot ivater, and that the mustard and
salt are handy, and lastly she will visit
each happy, if uneonafortable, little sleep-
er and see how he or she looks and note
whether the sleep is restless and the ohild
flushed. Then she may go to bed and
sleep with one eye open and both ears
and all her senses en the alert. .A. few
such precautions would prevent many an
early death,and a little more firmneas
in not allowing children to eat too much
sweets and rich foodwould avoid those
clangers.
RAM'S 'TORN BLASTS.
Truth has no Sunday coat.
Knowledge of sin leads to it,
Only those can forgive who love.
Love always weeps when it has to
whip,
Birds with bright pltunage are seldom.
fat.
Love never bestows a burden that is
heavy.
We are fearing God when we fear to do
wrong.
Faith in Christ changes the coffin into
a chariot.
To believe the devil is to lose the peace
of Christ.
In the tree fold of Christ there is no
bleak sheep.
One symptom of backsliding is a lack
of thankfulness.
Religion pare and und,efiled never works
by the mouth.
CANADA
The Right lionoievoiti Six John Sparrow David Thompson, K.C.M.G., was born ni
Halifax, N.S., ou November kalif 1814, and had therefore, just tamed his fiftieth
bixtliday. He studied law and wee ealled to the bar of Nova Scotia when he was
twenty-one years old. In 1879 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. Ho was coun-
sel on behalf of the United States Goverunient, acting with the American lawyers,
befon the Fishery Commission. sitting at Halifax„ ander the Washington treaty.
He was a member of the Executive Council and Attorney -General of Novo. Scotia in
1878, and Premier and Attorney -General of his native I. rovinee from May 25, 1882,
to July 2511b of the same year, when he was elevated to it Judgeship of the Supreme
Court of the Province. Three years later he beotime a member of the Privy Council
of Canada, and was chosen by Sir John A. Macdonald to be Minister of Justice and
Attorney -General of the Dominion of Canada. He was re-elected at the general
electic,nsin 1887 and 18ei, and for his services as ene of the British Representatives
on the Fishery Commission at Washington in 1887 was created. a Knight of the
Cross of St. Michael and St. George. in August, 1888. On the resignation of Sir S.
C. Abbott, who, succeeded Sir John A. Macdonald as Premier of Canada, the
deceased was appointed to fill the highest political office in the gift of tha people of
the Dominion, his commission clating frounDeeember 5, 1892, Since then he has
clone his country good service being one of the British Commissioners in the Bering
Sea Arbitration. I-te died at 'Windsor Castle, Decemaer 12, 1891.
until the mother hears that one strange
croaking cry, and then it is often tee
late, and m any ease, requires the most
active and heroic treatment to save the
little sufferer,who lies rigid and with-
out consciousness. 'The eyes are then
turned upward, having only the whites
visible, the little teeth are set tightly
_awl the lips drawn back. After a,while
the convalsione begin, and the poor hale
niuseles steein, and the child writhes
and, twists,butis all the while maim. -
scions. Sometimes 'bloody froth appears
in the meth, the breathmimes irregu-
tale- and often seems to stop altogether
-amid sometimes does. •
There is something- so unearthly in
that one terrible cry that preeedes it mai-
vulsion that no mother ever heard it
without trembling. In an inetant the
doctor is sent for ana women •fiy for
remedies. The firs% thing is to get the
ittle safferee into a hot bath up to the
chin, the water to be as bit as the nil eliciee
wrist can bear. It is easy to say from 90
to 100 desists or heat, but few have a
thermometer at hand., 80 the mother's
wrist must be a guide m emergencies.
The child should remain in the water
ten to fifteen minutes, a lieble longer if
the come:deems do not relax somewhat,
Then ie should be taken from the wetor
and laid in it warm Sh£4141 Or woolen
blanket, without stopping to dry Or dress
the little one. and as soon asit can swal-
low give it an emetic of warmem fleeted or
salt and waist (a teespoonful 01 eibber 18
enough), mixed with 0 cap warm
water. Syrup of ipeette is bettor still, it
04 hand, end can be given in teaspoonful
doses every ton minutes until the little
stomack is freed from the muse of irrita-
tion. As soon as the ohial has vomited
freely the convulsions generally 5 ase,
bat some nervous children are apt, to hey°
sweetie in succession. '
As soon as the vdmiting late eetteedate
dose of castor oil, rhubarb or magus/it
should be given, the ail preferably, ae itt
heels and cairns the imitation awl carries,
off the Metter whieh luxe' mused all the
danger and trouble.. %me ph e si dam
employ ether ana &tote 'ono to (lige the
convidsions, but all do torsiagrce
ILaw wears iron shoes, anal:don't care
whero it steps
There are no real strong people in this
world bat good people.
The truth we hate the meet is the truth
that hits us the hardest.
It is not what you. put into your pock-
et, but what you take out, that will make
you rich.
The busier a man is the harder it is for
the devil to get into convereation with
him.
Boll down the religion of some people,
and you will find nothing itt it but a few
rations.
There are some people who are ravens
at home who pass for doves at camp meet-
ing.
The mon who would go to heaven alone
if the mead, 18 the very one who ought to
he kept out.
A sbiugy man's life is a prayer that God
willbe just like him. •
Anybody can go to heaven, ---011 a tomb
stone.
If the devil couldn't lie he would have
Ito qui b.
The man who loves his duty will not
slight it.
No man lives right who does not live for
God..
All we can tell others about God is what
ie to us,
When God tells us to rejoice it ie a sin
not to do it.
The pecieernaker neecl never be out of
employm ea.
Don't sere with infidelity ; show it the
eve or Chnet.e,
It took the death of Christ th make our
lives worth living, ,
Godliness goes right on paying clavi-
aende after the bank breaks.
If we would spoak kina words Ivo must
cultivate kind feelings.
You need not be civil to the devil in
order to show that you aro no bigot.'
The things which do most to make tis
happy do not Wilt mohey.
If yoa would have power with God in
prayer, take time to meditate.
Whon a peacock'spreads its ,feathers 18
forgets it has black feet. ,
The hardest work any inan can under-
take, is to try to manage himself:
The more polish you pat on it mean
man th.e better the devil isIsuited.
I, was alxrat it week before Christ-
i''
mas when Colonel Smith. was wan -
tiering. hommverd upon, the main
thoroughfare of the city of his adop-
tion, The colonel was as full of the
spirit of the merry season as was the
very Prix itself. Ile thought a the
presents he was about to make and of
those whish he expected to receive as he
ixoast.y
tohise. eyes about him th
and saw e
shop windows full of the la,thet novelties
When he was lost in such a pleasant
*Christmas reverie as he hadn't had since
he was a small boy, he happened to pees
along in front of a great marble hotel.
At the time he -was passing a painter
was engaged in the act of retailing some
of tlie inside blinds at the open window.
It is not likely that it -will ever be known
just how it happened, but the painter,
while probably prooecupied with dreams
of the approaching holiday, toppled the
pot of paint off the wittdow sill, from
which point it whirled through the chil-
ly ashen air and. deposited about three-
quarters of its contents npon the eoionel.
The later we,s as red with rage as he
was with paint when he flew mai a.nd
through the mairi entrance of the hotel
and presented himself at tit° office.
"Sir I" eaclairaed the colonel in a tow-
ering rage. "Whatkind of treatment do
you oall this, sir '?" -
"Pretty rough," replied the clerk, not
knowing exautly what to say, because he
was ignorant of the accident that hail just
happened.
'I am gad," roared the colonel, with
beautiful irony, "that you are at least
kind en,ough to a,ssurae an. attitude of
sympathyebut I ana her, sir, to demand
satisfaction for damages. As I was pass-
ing, sir' '
one of your painters sir, upset
a pot ofred paint upon me, sir!"
Here the colonel paused for breath,
and the clerk, learning the cause of his
trouble, became -very profuse in his apol-
ogiI
i‘esam sorry it happened,, sir, very
sorry. But you should not be so unrea-
sonable as to blame the establishment
Lor what was the fanit of a painter em-
ployed by it."
"You should. employ only painters who
understand their business, air!" roared
the colonel in a fine frenzy, "and I will
teach you that paint cannot be poured
upon me with impunity, sir !"
" We are williag," said the clerk, "to
do what is right in the matter, We -will
pay for having your olothes cleaned, or
we will buy you, a new suit if neoessaay."
"You cannot aet out of it on any such
basis as that, sir. 1 am going to make
an example of you, sir, and inside of
twenty-four hours, too sir !" And hay
ing triade this threat, the colonel bustled
out of the building and up the street,
Upon the following day tlie eolonel
sent his legal representative to talk the
matter over a.nd see if it could not be
adjusted to his satisfaction without the
worry and expense of a legal contest.
It happened that the hotel's attrOTtioY
was present when the oolonel's legal friend
arrived, and the former eaal :
"We are perfeetly 'wMiag to do the fair
thang by Colonel Sniith, We admit the,
the colonel's clothing was ruined through
ehe negligence of one of our employes,
.1,14 we are willing to pay for it, We will
give him. it eufficient sum to purchase
himself a new suit of clothes. How doee
e80 strike you ?"
"Such
it proposition would not strike
he colonel at all," replied the friend of
he ex -warrior. "It is not the amount of
teensy involved in this thing that is mak-
uttfo,f.na77.1nevaiseeertallisleit"?" asked the hotel's
•
"It's his feelings," mailed* tine either
awyer, "his feelings. You know he ocie
ngs to one of the oldest and proudest of
11 the old 'Virginia families, and he is as
aughty and. hypersensitive as any other
arer of his name. His feelings have
een deeply wounded, and they can never
eothhusea.le, d by the price of a Suit of
"It is pretty hard to ask us to pay for
is feelings," said the hotel's attoraey,
ith a smile, "because I do not see how
e can appraise them in order to reach
n intelligent idea of their monetary
aline"
"And then.," broke in the other lawyer,
he is living with it maiden Mint who is
so a very allsertifi.ed and proud spirited
rson. And When she saw the colonel
ter the house bedaubed with red paint
id heard. that he had been jibed at by
ys as he passed alon,g the street she was
mpletely anaone awl has since been
Wined to her bed. Her feelings have
1 to be paid for too. The colonel is
ally more distressed over his aunt's
elings than. anything else connected
th this unfortunate affair, and he pro-
ses to fight it out on the basis of their
linos awl wounaed pride,"
"See here," said the hotel's attorney,
'11 tell you *what we'll do. We'll settle
e thing for e83.75, and not a cent more.
this doesn't meet your views of a fair
mpromise, you must seek your remedy
the law, and then. you will find what
ur client's feeling's are worth."
'Is that the best you will do ?'
'It is," replied the hotel's attorney.
On Christmas morning. when. the bells
re ringing merrily in the frosty ais.
lone' Smith appeared in a new suit of
thes to celebrate the occasion. for he
cl accepted tho hotel's terms of 888.75—
for his ruined clothing and 83.75 for
feelings and those of his dear old
nty.
tAete•qOunitply.7o4Eir:(Zirt e4:1140;:a4:::'s
the iniman frame it iiice a tree arra grow*
as it is bent, Stooping, pushing th.e. hee4
forward, weakens the Always18
walking lift the feet and pnt them down
firmly, but lightly, Rut down the front
ofthe foot flea, not the heel, and reat
your weight on the ball of your foot,so
that the ceriter of gravity falls plumb
through your hips and the museles
your lower limbs insthad of et the end of
ysour nittseies of the lape and
waist should be trained to bear the full
share Of the weight of the body, and to
preserve the elasticity of the figure, A
good exercise for this end is to sit bolt.
upright tor half an hole at a time read-
ing, sewing, or doing whatever you like,
only not letting yours'elf sink down into
your hips. An excellent exercise fpe
training young people to hold their heads
properly is the carrying of a 'weight of
some sort poised en the head. The col-
ored women of the Southern States, who
from childhoocl are accustomed to carry
burdens in this manner, are models for
soulpthis in the carriage of head and
IleeTte woman who has not an erect car-
riage should. avoid severely tailor-made
a‘aoliclmseanntsd gabttihnegrs cloissgealLet°thethbead4liurneee.
of the form that are pitilessly revealed
by a perfectly plain. gown. A round-
should.ered person usaally leeks best in. a
bodice with a full back and skirt with it
large allowance of material gathered into
the waistband behind, SlinTed bodices
are beconaing to very slender women, and
the present fashion uf immense sleeves
is an admirable fashion of witlening nar-
row shoulders.
Mixed, Relationships.
A London newspapermen with a' taste
for mystification has . propel aided an in-
teresting conundrum. in regard, to the re-
lationship which little Prince Edward
bears th himself and to his father and
mother. As he is the third cousin of his
mother, it is poin.ted out that this makes
his eelation to himself somewhere be-
tween that of a third and fourth cousin.
Be is, as it were, his own double -third.
cousin—a relationship which the pro-
pounder of the conundrum rightly thinks
will take some time for him to compre-
hend. Both his father and mother are
descended from George III. of England.
George 111's son Adolphus Doke of Cam-
bridge, had a daughter Mary, who mar-
ried the Duke of Teek, and became the
mother of the Princess May, who mar-
ried the Duke of York; and the Duke of
York's father, the Prince of Wales, is the
a,tagrandson of the same King George
1. The young prince. will thus have
the right to address either his mother, his
father, or himself as "my Royal cousin,"
and, it is suggested that he may excuse
any partiality for his mother over his.
father by decla,ring that she is a nearer
relation to hena than his father. Pro-
digious!
Upper Canada College.
There is at present great activity
among all the "old boys" of this old in-
stitution, which has since its foundation
in 1829, played such an important part in
-Els educational history of Canada. The
"Old Boys' Association ' which was form-
ed. some yeers ago, Las been rapidly gain-
ingbsshtripenl.gorisiiincrwell'ayrbwo.eayanaanrdepitrsesrnenetam:
eve. The object of the association is *
1 s;atallptahthe ygrweaitthbtohdeyirofAelxm-PeutanT :464t
I present to the world a formidable plus=
e laarx, reader to.protect and assist their obi
school as far as in them lies. The asso-
ciation -will be hen.ceforth represented by
The College Times. This paper appearee.
first in the year 13.o. wig qv& editcaship•
of Mx, ;Tehli Ross Rebertson. It Was then
eatiny pamphlet of four pages, devoted to
school life. Since that time, almost with-
out interruption, Upper Canada College'
has been represented by a very creditable
literary orgaa. A change has, however,
beert made en the Methesi of conducting
this paper, and with Nov., '94, begins a
new volun-i, published in magazine forra,
under the patroziage of the "Ohl Boys'
Associetion" and. the management of the
pada/Mt college staff. 15 will be devoted
to the interests of eV I.1. C., C. boys, past
and present' and will give an accurate
record of present school life, as well as a
report of the transactions of the "Old
Boys' Association." Besides this, a spec-
ial feature will be correspondence, and
articles dealing with college life from ex -
pupils. In this way it is hoped that pad
and present will be joined together by a
common devotion for the old. school that
trained them for the battle of life. The
magazine will appear at Christmas,
Easter, and midsummer. The subserip-
tion price is 81 a year. All communiea-
tions are to be addressed ix) the editor, Mr.
A. A. Ma,odonald, .U. C. College, Deer
Park, Ont.
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Suitable Wits.
Dort't be too paatioular about giving
useful Christmas presents, nawithsea.ncl-
ing thet hosts of practical individuals,
especially those of it pailarithropie turn of
mind, are forever advising just to the con-
trary. Of course, where extreme poverty
is in question, when the very necessaries
of liae are lacking, a ton of eoal or a be,s-
keb of provisions is doubtless e more suit-
able gifb than would be a silken table
eover or en etnbroiclerea scarf; but, barr-
ing sueh extreme cases, the greatest de-
gree of benefit and happiness experioneed
by the exchange of gifts at the season of
'good will to men' does not, as a rule,
result froni those of ft strialy useful na-
ture. After all, mon arta women ere may
boys and gills grown tali; and, prey,
what heathy boy or girl would prefer it
pair of boots to te toy pietol or a pais of
SitatOS, it doll or a box of candy, as has or
her anntiel contribution iron*. Santa
Claus /
Belief in Santa Claus.
"The belief in Santa Claus gave me
years of unqualified satisfaction," says
Mrs. Burton Harrison, "Whether it wee
actually swallows ia the chimney top or
flying squirrels gamboling upon our
eaves, 1 believed sundry noises of the
night to be the pawing of tiny chargers
on the roof. When. recently I asked a
small person of six whether he still be-
lieved in Santa Claus, and he answered
me in withering good English: I never
believed it was Santa, CIa,us ; I always.
thought it was parents.' I felt quenched
and dejected beyond reason."
A Christmas in Paris.
Oppesite the church of St. I3ustache is
he reat market of the Hails, which
ornished the worst of the horrible mob
fishwomen, who, one hundred years,
go, swarmed, Versailles to tear the queen
to pieces. On Ohrietmas eve their lineal
lad commercial successors, the present
`dames des Hallos," raisea among them-
selves a handso
a
me s bs
u ex p on and fur-
nished e great tree for the half-starved.
poor of that quarter. The lower branches
were loaded with toys and ;good things
for the children, the upper with legs of
mutton, bottles of wine, warm clothes
and all sorts of comforts •from their well -
stocked stalls; illanuinated by candles
and encircling bonfiree, Around this
tree was held a great reveillon -the best
attended in all Paris, needless to say—
which lasted from midnight until 4
o'olock lahristinas day. The generons
women who had prepared the tree did not
go home at all, but opened their stalls.,
rubbaa their eyes and. made 'ready far
business.
It is certain that imither wise hearing'
no ignorant catriege ie caught, as mea
take dices, one of another. Therefore,
let Men take heed of their. eompany.
• The cleifil is not teach tonterneil about,
the influence of the Christian erthe dent,
not prey in eettet,