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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-12, Page 30.01WINTHRO' THE. RYE. ar meetsB, menelfsna. •••••••••"-• Breams -near stay open with the family of a country 1 -quire bpeedirer the Sabbath morning writieg °pit ets. ar d tie the are ail more or less fond of f ue, these artaise somewhat of the heniorous. 'flip family eel feats of ten. children; eltbright and hubblieg OTer Nkitil mischief. The squire, known among the children as the gover- nor, is a typical enelish gentleman. The chil- dren are very n ueb in an e of Tem. His will is law to thouand nay infraeti, of the law as laid down by him l ubjsetto severe panish. meat, • inCterrinuan,) ears, and listening intently to the faint murmur that must, we think, so exaetly represent the shoaling noise the sea makes at a great distance. We have listened to the same murmur before at Silverbridge ; ahd nurse always told us it was the sea that we heard. After breakfast we accompany Amber - ley and our sisters in a sober trot through the one long stieet that forms the town of Peri iv inkle, and sit down on the shingle where Apparently, the beauty and. fash- ion (?)' of the place do congregate, for no other purpose than to watch the rows of fat and lean kine who are takinn their daily dip in the sea hard by, bobbing up and down in the sun like seals, with snaky looks of hair clinging round their checks, and tight, sticky bathing gowns that most lavishly display their charms, or the lack of them. Jack and I have a hot dispute as to -whether a very lean woman or a very fat one looks worse in the water. I say the former, he says the latter, and implores me on no account to submit my person to the public, gaze 'without at least six thick bathing -gowns put on, like an old- eiothesinan's°hats, one above the other. They are a gruesome speetacle, these fat matrons and lean old maids; even the young girls, who raight be good- looking if their faces were dry, have an unsavory appearance, for salt water seems to have an ugly knack of washing out shams, stripping off borrowed charms and leaving the original visage clear and visible. Aphrodite herself must have found it rather a hard matter to look as handsome -under the circumstances as she did: It must 'be on the principle that there is always something pleasing to us in the misfortunes of our friends that -makes these people flock to see their ac- quaintames au naturel, sans crinoline, sans bustle, sans pads, sans everything, save their own unembellished bodies and countenances. I wish the performers -would go throtigh their paces with a little more vigor and spirit, take a good sousing header into space, and look as if they liked it, instead of taking a dip as though they were going to be hanged; coming up, not smiling, but with shut eyes and screwed -up mouth, spattering, coughing, gasping, groaning, and hold- ing on to the rope, as though they were being shipwrecked. Others do not go so far as the heroism of dipping; they hug the shore and sit basely down on the sand, letting the water ripple over them by degrees For decency's sake, one could wish the process were less gradual. Others again shiver on tb.e steps of the machine, and are afraid to venture in at all. • Now and then a daring young woman creates enormous excitement by lowering her elf earefally into the water, and brmgiug her pink toes to the surface in the first -position, stares up unwinkingly at Father Sol. Gallant creature ! the pint or so of salt water that she swallows is but a slight set-off against the glory she achieves, ancl the admiration her prowess evokes from the lookers-on. Jack and I soon weary of looking at this raree-show ; ani having promised Amberley not to drown ourselves, not to get into a boat without a boatman and with a large hole in the bottom, not to sit noon a rook until the tide surrounds an.d.: flows over us' not to climb to the highest pinnaele ofthe cliff with the ex- press intention of toppling over it to the rooks below, we take our departure. and speed the morning hours well enough. make out a strange, dark, sleepless mass beneath them, that is—what? A dead man, with horribly discolored face and wide, staring eyes, looking out etith. dxtll and awful meaning from among the cruivt ering, leaping fish for which the rest was oast, and which has brought in this. A. woman thruste her way through the crowd and falls on her knees beside the net. "My led !" she says, "my lad !" He went out alone in his boat a week ago and did not r turn; but she said she knew he would come beak, and she has been , etching for hint night and day. "Come away," I say to jack, dizzily, and we go away, away inland, ani d it s many a long day before I love the treach- erous sea again and can forget. We do not see mach of Alice and Milly, who prefer the town and the shin- gle to the rocks and the caves; and it soxnetimes strikes Jack and me as odd that, when we do come across our sisters, all the black, gray and blue coats belonging to the youth abiding in and sojourning at Periwinkle should be in their ioamediate neighborhood. But then Alice is so lovely; who can help liking to look at her? The very girls turn and stare at her with that grudging, unwilling, breathless interest tbat I am alreadel. learning to know is the highest compliment one woman can pay another, and which 1 sb,all never, never wring from any of my own sex. 1 may even fall to the degradation of being called " nice " by them. Alice looks demure as a un;Pand how can the pretty eoul help it if rade men will stare at and follow her about? All I know is I love to look at what is plea- sant to the eye; and if I had been tom comely shouldhave carried about a pocket -mirror with me, and refreshed my eyes with a sight of my charms every five minutes, while nobody would ever have admired, me half as heartily and appreciatingly as I should have admired myself. they stand at the door meek and stub' bora, each provided with a small boyt whose duty it is to "whip up" the afore' said beast and make it "go." Amberly' charger staggers ominously as she Monist him; and, when seated, her long leg touched the ground, but she would rathe die than be left behmd, or prove unequal to the emergency, so the 'Atones them u and leads the van with dignity, and, think, ramie diseorafort. Alice has the; best beast: it has a broad back witla fat body, and she sits on it at her ease, shaded by her cool straw hat, under which her face takes no yellow refieetione as does mine, looking as the queen oi Sheba may have looked in her young and palmy days. Mother has insisted on oun taking two or three of the fry, strong - backed, stout -limbed boys, of whom there, is an endless succession after Dolly, so we make a goodly calvattade as we jog away without our attendant gamins. Now there are few things pleasanter than to idle among the De-vonthire lanes in suramer-time on a wellgrown, broad. backed peaceable donkey; one is not at the trouble of walking, nor .yet at the trouble of riding; one can Just arable along at leisure, enjoying the air, the sky, and the light that quivers on tlae path through boughs that meet cooly overhead. There is a dreamy sensation of utter rest as one wanders in and out of the tangle of lanes that seem to have no beginning and no ending, but to indulge this feeling, the boy with the stick, whose whacks, regular as the flail On the thrash- ing floor, fall upon your animal's hide, must be left behind; there is little ro- mance in these darkly -shaded, dower starred lanes to the tune of such music. We have a few mishaps by the way. .A.mberley is painfully thin, so is her beast, and their bones do not agree, so every now and then she slips senselessly over his head and glides into the ditch or dusty road. We get usea to it after &bit; so does she, and takes it as a matter of course. Dolly's steed walks into a turn stile, and is with some difficulty disen- tangled. The fry have, et) our great re lief, long ago succeeded in goading their asses into a trot, and. have vanished amid cloudsof dust, closely followed by their attendant sprites, yelling with delight at the spirit their several proteges evince. At Alice's request our party of beaters have fallen lethind, so we pace silt ntly along the dim green lanes, meeting neither man nor horse; it is all as hushed, as still, and as solitary, as an uninhabit. t d island. Loathfully we turned homeward at last, and are met at the. house -door by mother with the intelligence that the governor is coming to -morrow. Our socundlaughter ceases, we all dismount anyhow, and go indoors to sit down un- der the shook of the intelligence -which (though we knew it must arrive some tirae or other) comes uport us like an ice- cold shower hath. We all seem to have forgotten our days of bondage during this past fortnight. Farewell, deice fax niente days! We did not make half enough of you while you lasted ; and now You are gone, and we shall never get any at all like you again. Farewell, social breakfasts leisurely dinners, pleasant strolls, and general ease of bodyand soul! Farewell, donkeys, crabs, shrimps, rocks, seaweed, early walks, and natural conversation. Now that those happy days are gone, I beeome aware that Ja -le and I did not half fill them. We might hay., got into much more mischief, done so many more things, enjoyed ourselves twice as keenly. How shall we ever pull ourselves together by to morrow! Morally speaking, we have fallen to pieces during the past fourteen days, but all that must be seen to at once. We must put on our stays, gird up our loins, and look sharply to our manners, morals, and clothes • the very expression of our faces must be altered, and. our voices brought down a great many notes. We must get out of that loose and ridicalotte habit of laughing at everything and nothing; we must smooth the gay smiles out of our faces' and he or she who has any dixnples mustTut them away for the present. The schoolroom must be put in order and some school- books laid about to look as though they had been used, the dining -room must be polished till it winks ag ; James must be awakened from the sloth into -which he has fallen, and the cook st rred up to punctuality ; the fry must be prompter broken, of the habit they have lately fall- en into of tumbling down and cutting open their heads, nose% or lege; in short, the whole house and all that dwell there- in must be thoroughly revised, weeded, and. drilled against the ordeal of that awful to -morrow that is rushing upon us as fast as it can pelt. It does not seem half an hour ago that mother told us the news, and tlo ! the night has passed away, the morning has come and gone, one o'clock has struck, and in the distance the smart trot of horses' feet, and we know that behind that cheerful trot site our uncheerful governor. papa, deliberately, looking at her from ton to toe, " you object ! Go to your rOOM and take that vile barrel off, and if you dare appear before mein it again, I'll poll it off and burs it !" Off goes Alice, whisking a pile of books from thet table in her passage to the door ; she does uot mean to do it, poor pretty Alice, it is only an evil trick played her by that fatal eorobination ef whalebone and alio°, but the governor thinks she does,. and flies after her Thank God, she te too old to have her eirs boxed, and he soon return, but, oh; we heartily wish we had no ears at all, as we sit for half an hour listening to his tirade against Aliee, mother, Am- berley, and his own evil fate in marrying to be become the father of eueh dadinbusgdhiter. (It fetliwa,$) the best thing he ever oneenyea The clock is striking eight, and we are all hunting ventre-a-terre for the family book of prayers. Not once since we came to Periwinkle have we looked anon its goodly face, and now it is revenging itself by refusing to come forth and save us from utter disgrace. If papa dis- covers tlaattwe have eaten our morning meat without the seasoning salt of chap- ter, prayer and benediction, then woe, woe, woe betide xis! We distractedly turn the books over and over, but no- where does that much -coveted old brown cover meet our eager gaze. Overhead we hear his 'war -like tread as he walks to the toilet table; he is putting on his coat, now he has opened the door, and is telling mamma the is the laziest -woman in Christendom, and a disgrace to her sex ; his foot is on the stair, oh ! o o oh! We tumble madly over each other in dancieg agony, and a pale tear tickles down A.mberley's nose, when. hallelujan! I have found it, wedged in with it's back tq the wall, between the " Arabian Nights" and the Pilgeire's Pr < gess." We are saved by the elm of our teeth, and fly to our seats with thankful hearts while Alice finds the place, and sets the old marker, "Jesus wept," with its back broken in three planes, on the open. page. He is in the room before she has done, and having received our twining salutes, and looked sharply at Alice's collapsed charms (she looks like Samson shorn of his strength), rings the bell for prayers. He is half through the chapter before the servants can get in at the door ; but that is of little consequence, they would not hear a word if they were present. Break- fast passes over better than might be expected. There are so Teeny safe re- marks we can make about Periwinkle ; every man and woman we see is not an. enemy, the niention of velaose name must be shuned as a plague; and I am ev n able to provoke a smile by remark- ing that it is difficult to hear the sermon on Sunday evenings because the sailors snore so loudly. CHAPTER It is nine o'clock, and I am making my toilet for the night, and smiling to myself at the ridiadous story Jack told, me just now about an old sailor down here. He would like to be devout, but has not time to save his soul, so has copied out the longest and fieest prayer he knows of and pinned it over his bed- stead, and every night and morning, when he turns in and turns out, he looks toward e it and says, " Thim's my said- ments, 0 Lord ! " I have time, plenty, so there is no fear of my following his example As I took a last look out of the window preparatory to jumping into bed, my attention is arrested by the ex- traordinary appearance presented by the hedge that lies on the other side of the road, wbich appears to be anintated wi.h what may be a row of uneven trees swaying to and fro, if, on this stirless night, there were wind enough to stir anything. It is growing dark, and in the uncer- tain light it is difficult to pronounce dis- til:tale on the phenomena ; but I, never- theless, eome to the conclusion that the bobbing objects are hats, hats which may be reasonably sspposecl to have human beings inside them. "Burglars I" I say to myself promptly, and descend to jack's room, which overlooks the back garden, not the front. He is not in bed, so returns with me, and surveying tlste enemy with some interest, squashes my theory by saying " Burglars ! Why, you little sawney, burglars hide, they don't hop up and down like Jackson -the - box ; besides, there are too many of Parental Ohllgetlone. A legman who has spent a long life bate tling with unfavorable eireunistanees, says that it seems to her that there is a grayer misapprehensiou about the oblige, blow of ehildren to parents. She believes that the first obligation should be from the permit to the child. If parents have children they are by fact of bringing them into existence responsible for them mental, moral and physical well beipgllp to the time of their majority. and they ould under no circumstances forget that such obligations reet upon them. in the first place they ought to be morally certain th it they will he in a condition to give their children education enough to fit them for their position in life. If the child shows any partieular talent the parents are under plat as much Obligation to ealtivate this as they are to give the Uttlone proper food and clothing. As they gr w up the youngers should have reasoaably good society, and the sur- roundings to give there a propt r familiar- ity with the usages of the world. "To rear a child en total ignorance of the good graces and courtesies of life is thee short of a crime." Of cornett, if parents are ignorant themselves, they neve just so mutab more to struggle with, and as chin arm, grow older epecial pains should be taken to bring tbern into contact with other young people and to put them into society of their own age. Of all the melancholy conditions in life that of a brilliant young person in a community where there is nothing congenial is about the worst. Such person in a community -where there there re no course of dine to marry, and in nine times mit of ten the marriage is uncongenial. Th. y do not suspect it beforehand, and when the awakening conies it is altogether too late to help matters then. Tbere has always been a good deal of talk about a millen- nium, but it will never come till parents realize their responsibilities tc then chil- dren. and take some pains to meet the de- mands that the relation of parent and child brings upon them. Yariee frt ra twenty to thit.ty-five indeed, pees sometiateerequireafilty =Sa- ntee' cooking, It is a pity that it is a faihtma to serve such vegetables as peas and asparagus in a Bence. They have so delicate a flavor that only a little salt and g, (xi butter should be added to them, This is true, also, of turnips. Cauliflowers, onions and carrots, however, need e Ammo. Oh! the sea is a rare playfelio-vs, for, unlike many a human. one, he never wearies you! Each day he wears some new aspect, compels from us fresh won- der, admiration and fear. He is terrible ni his angry splendor of wind-tos ed, thundering breakers, what his surface' is all cleep-green valleys and towering, snowy -crested mountain -tops. He is soft tender messing as a summer breeze, -with his shoaling, rippling murmur and lazy, ereeping wavelets. Sometimes he is sulky, not angry, that is when the sun has hidden his face : then he catches the refieetion of he sky and is sad -colored and dull. Another day he Nein. lie calm as a lake like a great raonster soundly asleep, arid -we do not love his monoton- - ous peace ; dearer fax to us is he when he stirs and flushes and quivers in the sun, his kingly breast sown -with millions of sparkling diamonds. He gives no sign of the dark secrets he hides away so deep, so deep; of the water -slain bodies that lie below, with the swish ! swish! of his green waters, swirling over their pale, drowned faces, of the souls that trusted themselves to his smiling mein and silv- ern whispers, and whom he has drawn do = n, down, clown! to the sea -chambers, of whose treasares we can but dimly guess from the rainbow -tinted shells and bloomy seaweed that are now and again washed up to us from their depths. Has not the sea its cities, and towns,, and gardens, and dwelling -houses? Do not Bowers as lovely, as glo-wing, as frag- rant grow in those silent gardens as any the dry land affords? They must have rare jewels clown there; jewels such as no mortal empress ever wore; precious stales, common as pebbles on the shore; rare and costly gew gases, plentiful as the sand, with goodly store of gold and silver, rifled front the gallant ships laden eirith splenaid store of merchandise brought from foreisn lands, Oh! it must be a rich land, and inight be a fair land if that nreat and countless array of the dead did not claim it so urgently for its own. We have uot been in Periwinkle a, week; we have not learned one-half his moods, one-latlf his seorete, whim some- thing bappons—soniething that sends me shuddering away from him inland, and makes me hate the sound of his voice and the dazzle of his brow. Tack and I are standing on the beadh one reornieg, watehing a haul of meek- erel in. The inen have been, pulliag for hours, "It is strangely heavy," they matter ; "the net will break ; but by and by it comes safely in, and vre all gather round to whore it lies on the edge of tile send, 'with the waves rippling gen- tly up to it. At first I see nothing but a glittering, brillient, opantinted mass of glisterdeg fish, which sparkle and sehiti- late in the sun, as they leap toand fro in their restiees, unknown agony ; thou 1 HOITSEI1OLD. FOR BROM AND SLIPPERS, Shoes and slippers well taken care of will last much longer than if eareleesly thrown around, and look well as bong as they are fit, to wear. One of the best pieces to keep them. is in the pockets of a strong shoe bag, firm- ly fasteued on the Closet door. Wig. 1 shows a good design. The bag may be made of linen twill, eraonne or ticking in fence- stripes. The back of the bag is 25 inches wide and 26 inches long. The top is mit to a point. Two strips, each 9 inehes deep and 86 inches long, are cut for the pockets. These are bound across the top with dress braid, then laid on the back -with the extra fulness in plaits in the bottom, and stitched across twice, nine, All at once alight breaks in upon rite. I have surreptitiously read two or three works which have given me some small insight into the imbecile practices of courtships, and now I am able to pot two and two together, while Jack, poor lad, is completely at sea. "1 know," I say, nodding my head violently, "1 know ! it's lovers." "Lovers!" repeats Jack, quite unim- pressed, and in a most scornfully con- temptuous voice " how exactly like a girl with her silly notions ! Whom do you suppose they'd come after, miss; You?" " No • but there is Tabitha, you know, and Balsam's Ass" (Balaam's Ass is our under nursemaid, 'whose obstinacy is so incurable that years ago we gave her the above name, which has stuck to her). "Very likely either of them would get a lover, is it not?" asks Tack, peering about. "Perhaps you evould not mind cook's having a chance?" "It may be cook," I say, brightening up, "1 heard James call her an old flirt' the other day, and she was so pleased." "1 should say it was cook," says Jade, grinning, "for one man would not be much use in that quater ; perhaps if they all stood in a circle they might be able to clasp her charms. No, it's not cook, it's somebody or other in the school- room under, for 1 just saw one beast de- liberately kiss his hand toward it. I'm going down to see who is there." "'Wait' a minute for me," I say, furl- ing an Elijah -like mantle around. me, and, so equipped, go downstairs with him. We go Into the schoolroom, but there is nothing there, nothing, that is to say, but Alice and Milly. who are sitting by the window in their white gowns. We retire end walk slowly up- stairs; half -way Jack stops short and looks at me. "It's not cook," he says, deliberately, "and it's not Tabitha, nor Balaam's Ass ; it's Alice," " Alice I" I stand staring at him. "Are you mad ?" I ask at last. " No, ' he says, walking on, "bub I'm disgusted. To thiult that those impti- dent---" The rernainder of his speech is lost in a mutter. He is very young, but he has in him the germ of that dislike (so tenacious in the breast of all English- men) that emery brother, husband or father has, to having his womanhood looked upon too farailiarly or too nearly by any stranger. "What a row there will be when papa comes !" I sayedrawinga big breath, "Servs her right, too," says :Tack, as he welshes into his bedroora, and I re- tire to bed with a troubled mind and a resolve to give my sister a friendly warn- ing tonxicarow. Finding an opportunity, I put ray arm around her neck, and, looking into her fresh 'ewe, that is nob, I hope " A vioitt in the youth of Niro Nature Forward, not permanent ;sweex, net lotting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute, afo more---" say, " I were you I would not have quite so—so many, dear; there will be such a row vshet papa (tomes t" Alice laughs, blushes, and is about to attewa, when mother comes in, and no Mote is said. We go out Aotikeyeriding this aftetestoon everybody except Jack, wins is 'too proud. A small drove of asses has been &entered for the occasion and at the appointed hour I think that if we were to travel much we should find plenty to talk to him about; become quite collognial, in fact. Ah! travel's a wonderful thing for eu. larging the mind. No -wonder splendii 'Will said Homekeeping youths have ever homely ‚wits" (of course he meant that for girls as well). 'Ten Hulas. 1. Thou shalt get a move en thee early before thy patrons, with the voice of a multitude as it were, or the voice of mighty thundering, are shouting to be delivered. 2. Thou shalt wash thy hands every day in clean water—counsel is mine— clean from -ander thy nails, soak out dirty creases and wrinkles, for a dirty butter maker is an aborcivatien. 8. Thou shalt not let fat escape, for when thou givest dividends thy patrons shalt say, "'Why taketh it 25 pounds of milk to make a pound of butter when 20 will do just over the way ?" and thoa wilt be left as the bine= on top of a main- tain or an ensign on top of a hill. 4. Thou shalt not add -water to mar skim milk and so cheat a whole neigh- borhood of hungry hogs. The Lord have merey on thy soul. Repent and, sin no ro.ore. After breakfast ur troubles begin. We go for a walk, and make the de- pressing discovery that in every deep there is a lower depth, and that, bad as the Silverbridge walks were, the Peri- winklennaterarerinfinitely, immeasurably WOrSe. The governor is apparently as im- pervious to shingle as to plowed fields, for he leads the van without a falter, while we flounder, slip and stumble after hitn like a badly -drilled sqin d of infan- try. The sun is fiercely smiting our backs, 'blistering our cheeks and nases, making us feel that our bodies have sud- denly grown gross. and heavy, and suf- focating ; our etathes might be of woollen., so irritatingly do they oh ale us. is one of those broiling m.,rnings when existence under a green tree is bad enough, but existence taking a race over a glaring shingle is diabolical. We are bound for the rocks now un- covered by the receding tide, end over them we are going to Cod's Bay, a fieb- ing village of evil reputation and bad smells, that hides its dirty head mune the corner of the cliff. It seems near enough, but, judged by the endless suc- cession of slippery bowlders that inter- vene, we find it a very long way in eed, and groan in ourdipiiits as we slide and scramble after our leader, who bounds on in front, agila as a chamois, and twice as sure footed sat his progeny. Not one cropper does he come; but .Axnberley comes up for hint; she slides majestical- ly down the rocks as though born to the accomplishment, and eveu sits in the pools among the scurrying little crabs, whence sbe has to be 6.4lied out by our united efforts. She makes no eoreplaint though, fax from it; her brt ised shins. damaged elbows, and wet petticoats, al come in the day's work. 5. Thou must not mix tbe flies. Dead flies cause the ointment of an apothecary shop to send forth a stinking savor. How much more so will it do in butter? To- bacco smoke, ashes or juice is ineompati- i. making three pockets in eaeh strip, -with a box -plait in eaeb. pocket. The entire bag is beund with worsted dress braid. A. small -sized. brass =tans ring is sewed ou strongly to each upper corner and to the tip of the point. The shoe bag is sus- pended by these rings from nails, or what is better. small screws, on the inside of the closet door. Where there are little children, such a pocket on the ineid.e of the sitting: room closet door will prove a great conveniee for house shoes and slippers. If the low- er pockets are lined with Tubber cloth they -will be useful for holdingrubbers or overshoes. When they become damp or muddy they can be easily -wiped. out. The better part of a cast-off waterproof or cloak answers very well for lining tile pockets. .A. handsome slipper case is illustrated by fig. 2. It is designed to contain cnly one pair of slippers, and, is ornamental enough to be an addition to any bedroom. By observing the proportions a paper pat- tern ean be easily cut. The first step is to have a piece shaped for the baek out of thin board or very heavy patheboard, also one for the front out of pasteboard. The pieee for the back should be 6 inches across the boteora, 9 inches acrosr the - top. and 12 inches along the sides. The dis- tance across the bottom and the lengths of the sides for the front piece is the same as for the back, but across the top the distance is 13 ines in a straight line. As shown in the illustration the front is rounded across the top. The back is neatly covered on both sides with dark brown. sisesia. Tbe front is covered with goldea brown felt on which. a, design has been embroidered in We are drawn up in well -brushed, well - scrubbed, solemn -faced ranks in the school -room. There is not one vagabond smile among the whole lot. And now he is in tbe ball. he is kissing raotber, in an- other minute stands before us. Why can. I not infuse into my salute that warmth and. alacrity that I did on wishing him good -by on Ole Manc.r House doorstep? Why, indeed-! As we pass in review be- fore him, he looks at each from head to foot ; but we all pass muster safely -until he conies to the lett of all, Alice. We know what is coming when his eye lights on a certain portion of that young wo- man's dress—nothing more or less, in short, than a crinoline row. The fact* Alice loves a big ainoline ; papa, ac- customed to the strait up-and-down charms of his mother and grandmother, hates it; and sure as ever her petticoats swell beyond a certain limit, there is fearful to do, and the whole house is turned upside down and out of windows. Now, Alice knows tbe length of tether permitted to her perfectly well, but she is under the mietaken impression that the more balloon like her skirts, the more cb arming he pretty form appears ; and when she wants to look partieularly rav- ishing, pats on a little more crinoline, just as a South Sea islander puts on a little more paint; and in the excitement and novelty Of the Periwinkle life, she has forgotten her parent's little mitt, dices, and stands before him eoefeiteled in all her autplitade of five yards and. a It ie odd. that she should. be caught, though, for her crinoline is like some magical flower that opens and shuts, ex- pands and eontraets, according to the, weather, i.e., papa's temper. IC he is in an erasable or engrossed. mood, she usually lets out an extra teof or two; if be is in a bad one AA collapses at a moment's notice and' 'looks like a folded butterfly, but Adiee's &clinkers have evidently turned her ideal topsy-turvy, "You disguetitig epeeteetle I" sale ble to gilt -edge butter. 6. Thou must own a knowing nose, a sensible note, ever on the alert • know poor milk at the first sniff. Milk " off" thou must send, off, for if taken in all will ba titivate inel 7. Thou shalt not allow one or two hogs to steal from the many. A two - legged hog allowing other two lcgged hogs to steal milk from half the four - legged hogs in the neighhorhood, is a sad picture. 8. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. A filthy butter mak, r is of all abominations the most abominable. 9 Thou shalt be prompt -with thy divi- dends. Thou shale r ot let woxnen and childen go hungry and ragged that thou mayest have a raw more shelties in the bank. Attend to this, that thou mayest be blessed and not cursed. 10. Thou shalt not say that one-half water their milk, others skim. Don't shout "stop thief." With the judgment ye judge ye :hall be judged, Verily, verily, 1 say unto you, the pot is black and so is the kettle. We reach Cod's Bay at last, loeking as though we had. fallen among thieves, and take our way throngh its one un- savory street and clixab a hill 'het would be trying in mid -winter, but in dog days in simply brutal. In two hours' time we get home, blowsy, foot- sore, and worn out, knowing that our evil days have indeed begun. Somehoev the hours go by, and blessed nightfall CMOS. At the present moment I em standing with my bands behind nay back, atTee- tionately regarding a crab, garnished with frequent prawn 4 and abunlant bread and butter, which Jack and I have provided for supper, as a eet off against the disagreeables of the day. Re has gone to fetch a jug of cider; when he comes back we shall fall to. I walk t the open e indow and look out. The dim gray of night is creeping river the land; the cold salt smell of the see blows faint- ly- but most freely up across the town; the lights yonder look like coarse reflec- tions of the bright restless lamps that quiver and burn in the pale vault over- head. I 113an ray elbows on the window sill and look across the rose garden that, like many matter ip Devonshire, is on the other side of the road, whence a fra- grant whiff coma now and again, and makes a diSaStrOnS discovery. Those moving shadows yondet, what are they? Followers ! Not one or two or three, but dozens! 0 Alice, ,Alice, do 1 tot know welhenough what will happen In five minutes the governor will come back in from the garden at the back of the house, and sit down to sapper (bis seat faces the reed and the hedge to the left of the rose garden), he will see thein—he will rush eat—and here coztjeetere Wits 'MO. GE eABLE LORE. Practical Riots Regarding the Cooking and Proper Serving. All 'vegetables should. be put in boiling water when set on the stove to cook. Peas, asparagus, potatoes and all delicate- ly flavored vegetables should be only eovered with water, but those with strong flavor, like carrots, turnips, cabbage, unions and dandelions should be cooked us a generoue quantity of boileng water. All green vegetables should be cooked with the cover partially off the stewpan. it gives them a better color and a more delicate flavor. The average housekeeper is careless as to the time of cooking .vegetables, yet, a vegetable is as much injured by too much or too little cooking as is a loaf of bread or cake. When vegetables are underdone they are hard and indigestible, and when overdone they become dark, strong - flavored. and indigestible. Now, although a potato will be hard. if not cooked enough, even two minutes' cooking after the proper time will injure it. If potatoes be eovored with boiling water and planed on the fire they will eook in thirty minutes. If they be very smaul they may get clone in twenty-eight minutes, aid it they be large it may take thirty-two to cook them sufficiently. lhey should be kept boiling ail the time atter they onee begin., but not at a furi- ous rate, a. a too rapid boiling breaks the surface of the potato before the center is cooked. The time of cooking is to be count d from the moment the boiling water is poured on the potetoes. When the potatoes are done the water should be poured off and the steam allowed to escape. Should it be neeessary to keep them warm after that eaver them. with a coarse towel, neva with th.e pot cover, for it the steam does not have e, °hence to escape it will be absorbed by the po- tatoes, which will become sodden, dark and strong flavored. Baked potatoes talte about forty-five minutes for aooning. A great deal ()anemia upoo the oven. 11 1± be necessary to keep the baked potato waxes break it open, wrap it in a towel and put it in, a warm pleee. Now, as to turnips. The small white ones should be boiled, if out in thin slices, for thirty minutes ; but if they be eooked whole furty minates' time will be 'needed, Yellow turnips, when slieed, need forty - Ave minutes' eooking. UarrOtS should be cooked forty-five or fifty minutes; cauliflower only thirty Minutes with peas and ettpa,ragus moob depends upon the :Atte of freehnees tnd teadaisess whoa picked, and the time Fig. 2 outline using dark brown. erevvel for the catetail's a.nd dark green for the leaves. It is lined. -with brown ellesia. The front and back is overhanded. together across the bottom and up the sides, and. finished with a dark twee I ead which extends around the entire case. A -ribbon of the same color is tacked to each other upper corner, by. whieb the case is suspended from a strong picture nail driven in tlae wall. Where closets are wanting and more is an object, a very handy combination of the useful easel ornaraental will be found in an ottoman and shoe -box like fig. 8. Procure a good strong box-. the size in which soap usnally comes pecked. is good.. Fasten tlset lid to the box by tacking pieces of leather hinge fashion on the back. It can then be easily raised and lowered. Cover the side, ,. smoothly with any strong plain meterial. Cover the lid era es ottertriten.) A. mysterious buried wall dieeovered in lilitergreen Towlaihipl Mich. ha e been traced for five milee. Nobodyiknowe who Wit it. s; in tlae same inalener, first pattiag on enough excelsior or hay to make itlook rounded. The ottoman in the illustra- tion has a strip of felt worked in a sire* paetern aTOUna it near the top. Inside in one corner fasters by o nail through the bottom a medium sized baking powdet can, in which to set the bottle of shoe blacking. The three 'teethe= of the Prinde of Wales nave been prominently used in handles of large bothon and berry ser- vices of silver and sil-ver gilh, Phi e is probably due to tbse toyal Love hes to die to ptove that it nee s,