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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-7-12, Page 3COMM' THRO' THE RYE. BY HELEN B. eineenIERS. (CONTINUED.) How fast the days hone Slipped away How utterly pleasant and ssVeet thesehave been! Let nie tuit begin to rejoin: over them though, lest evil ones follow. Far away I see a little soft eloud a gray under the trees,. with dogs lying ebout As we approaoh nearerit iesolyee itself into the gentlemen wile are Iota:ging aboat, cigar In mouth, looking as cool, and Prose, and comfortable, as we look precisely •the re- verse. We all tillable out oe the carriages anyhow, and make a dash through the gate, only longing to get into the shady woodland beyond. In the general scrim- mage Lord St. John is tossed up nearest to "Have we much further to go?" I ask looking with affeotion at a big tree we are hurrying past, '$Not much I" ' he says; "two or three minutes' walk perhaps." I don't think he has done much shoot- ing this morning: he looks as it he had come out of a bandbox and his wicked little eyes are fixed, with doting fondness on Alice's vanishing tail, for with all my haste I ain somehow the very last of all. Everybody seems to have got badly matched to -day; Alice is with Captain, Brabazon, Milly with Mr. Silvestre; Fane's back expresses intense disgust as he walks • by the side a Mrs. Lister, and her daugh- ter's head has a milky air as seen in the company of Charles Lovelace, while-nole wonder of wonders—Silvia Fleming has fallen to the lot a Paul Vasher, ane Sir George Vestris gloomily atalks with that young woman's mother. ' What a dull little lord this is. It is lucky that he does not, like other mortals, depend on "the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it." lie is neither handsome, nor wise, nor witty, yet he will never know the lack of good looks, wisdom, or sense; he wiliness over the heads of Men better in every way than himself, only they are born with wooden ladles in their mouths, and he with a. sil- ver one. Here we are at last! The white cloth , in the grass commends itself favourable to our eyes, and the twinkling silken oalves of the footmen, as they go hither and thither, look festive and cool. I sit down with a sigh of relief, and Paul Vasher comes to my side and site down too. Sir George flies to Silvia, Milly to Fano; the sisters, alas! to the captains—it is a general post. I wonder what Paul and Silvia have been talking about? There is • no expression on her face; on his there is a great deal, as he looks at me. I have hardly dared to seek to learn its meaning yet—hardly ventured to put out a tremb- ling hand to touch the skirt of a mantle of great joy. "I think you must have snubbed St. John pretty well," says Paul, "he left you so precipitately just now." "He is so stupid," I say, looking across at him; "and as I am not clever rayself,I like to be with amusing people; do not you?" "Indeed, I do; but I don't think the cleverest people are the most amusing. They go too deep. It is the nonsense -talk- ers who are most companionable; just as you will laugh heartily at a book that you keep on saying to yourself over and over again is the silliest stuff imaginable." "Then there is some hope for me, is there not?' The servants come and go, merry jests are born and die, the sunbeams dicker jubilantly down on our uncovered heads, the butterflies flutter idly by, the gnats swarm above us, there is a sleepiness in the air, a sense of comfort in one bodies. "What have you boon thinking about all this time?" asks Paul. "You will laugh if I toll you," I say; "but just then I was ruminating about bread -sauce. Partridges grew and so did • bread, but the man who wedded the two must have been a clever fellow, must he not?" "And you were really thinking that?" "Healy I. suppose it was tit% sight of the birds yonder put it into my head." He looks at me amusedly. "I wonder if you could keep a seeret if you had ono?" he says. " I think you would bring it straight out. I always know when you are glad or sorry, vexed or pleased, in an instant: do you think you could be deceitml if you tried?" "You don't know what stories I can tell at a pinch," I say, laughing; "and if that is not. being deceitful, what is?" "You do not mean that you toll lies." "What a downright word I How ugly it makes the smallest deviation from truth look! N o, my fibs are only harmless, extemporized to save the boys from get- ting into rows with papa, and so forth. I don't ever remember telling a real lie." "And you have never deceived any- body?" ho asks, with a strange persist- ence. ((Never!" I say, truly—for have I not told George the plain, rinva•nished truth hundreds and hi n lreds of times? "You are thee Is' says Paul; "shall we go and sit over there?" Be holds out his bands, pulls me up, and in another minute we are sitting against the old monarch. "InoW tired that lord must have got who went on a tour T011110 Bngland without once leaning back in his carriage!" I say, laughing. "Don't you think he must eave taken it out in a long course of easy - chairs afterward?" "I don't fancy they had any worth mentioning in those days. What hardy old people they were, and to what an age they lived! "I shoulcl have liked to live in those days," I say, thinking; "they lived so mush grander, sweeter, honoster lives tbam we do ; they teust bane ban so much more of eternity, so much loss of the pre- sent, I:: their thoughts than wo have!" "Let me tell you, child," says Paul, "that there are girls in tee world every bit es 71100 aud honest and sweet as their grandmothers were. Do you remember," ne says, drawing nearer to me, "that once, years fugal asstered you it was much bettor to be good than pretty? And you disappointed ,no a gooa done by seeming to prefer the prettiness to the goodness!" "Ib Was not for beauty's sake 1 wiebed it," 1. say, looking asliamed; "bot because I had always thought it a greater power, arid because 1 maw handsome people treat- ed far,inore kindly than pl in 0110S I" "Do yon not know, child, that far more deeply rooted 111 a man's breast than the mere eamiration ot physical beauty is his veneration of what is pure, and not to be corrupted, sonuithing better than Minsele in a svord—good?" "Yon are very hard 'upon us," 1 etty,sur- prisal. "Ant till moil 80 dark:Olt to please A8 you?" "Allan I tell you why we See the tattlte of wemen so freely?" he says. "Beeause eve is now hose Infinitely above Us most of You are in, purity, 11000.11Ishness, and good- "Where? And yet somebody must/ un'• insss ; it is bectiese we hate to eee you step less naleed oeveral people rape each other off your pedes als an eome down to our to the hall -door, and from the hall door to level, that we are So severe upon eve y the reception-r000l, and blunt in on the falling and shadow of evtl-floIng. Do We hostess annuitant:me:ay, like, "three Jolly not honor yoa more in setting you a high butcher -boys all of a row," I have Mid standard than a low one?" down ley bouquet, and I am Wrestling "But do you not belp to lower it?" I with the fourth button a MY long gloves ask. "1 have never been out intp the (1thinit I rather overdid teem, they nearly world; I hat e only read and:1140rd people reach to my elbow) when Ming sails in talk; but I think, If girls are frivolous meiotic, gorgeous with the value of the and vain; it is you whohelp to make clothes a twenty ordinarily well-dressed them so, If you talked nobly and Sensibly telltales on 1101' hie*. to them and tried to bring out, not the "Good gracious," she says, ceteleug sight of ine, "how—how decent you aninsing WOILk710S$ of their cluvacters, but the hidden worth, that lies in ()eery lieturn look I" you would mane less toys, more or ofmn. "Yes" I say with delight, "I had no panions of them." . idea so much virtue lay in a gown!" ,‘"Vou are right, I I he says, omen do en. . "Upon my word!" says Alice's gay calculable harm in fostering the vanity 1 voice behind ine. "Talk about tho ugly • and commit of girls; but it is a fact that dlaklingen" you may tell a woman she is virtuous, "Do not revive that stale, stale old story, • discreet, admirable in every way, and elle 1 say, entreatingly,. "I know it is my will not say thank You; but tell her she clothes, not me; but let us try and shut is pretty—and smiles will break out all our eYes to the fact. Let us for one even - over her face." leg indulge in the pious fiction that I am • "Are yen reading me this homily on the good-looking 1" beauty of goodness versus the goodness of "I don't know that it is altogether your beauty, to comfort my forlornness?" 1 dress," says Alice, considering. "1 have ask, laughing. "Indeed, you need not; I seell you look astonishingly well once or have grown quite used to not being pretty twice lately. If I had not always been so like the rot." used to the idea that you were plain, Nell, I should seer you were rather pretty." "Pretty," he says, staring at my face; "can you be so—?" He checks himself, : Much as I have been admiring myself, this unexpected praise makes ine feel and breaks off. " I see your brothers are smoking," he says, presently; "may I?" modest, and I turn the conversation with • considerable haste. 'Your sex ought to be better -tempered "Has any one seen Silvia, yet? I sup - than ours," I say; "for you are able to pose she will be in something evonderful." smoke all your troubles and disappoint- "Was Silvia Fleming ever known to ments and annoyances, ,while we can waste her sweetness on the desert air?" only sit down and think." • asks Alice, seating herself. "When the "You have one great resource that is company is assembled, and the musk: denied to us—you can weep." strikes up, she will appear, not before!" "That is so cowardly. I always look "I do wish Fano would come down," upon tears as a refuge only to be fled to says Milly, who is arranged in the expect - when everything else fails (I mean, a ant attitude of a hostess, on a high and ample crimson velvet chair, that to the course, when I am put out), and of the two I would far rather storm." vulgar eye bears a wonderful resemblance c "And yet," seys Paul, "utterly as you to a throne. "He always behaves in this an rout us by the sight of your tears, I way; it is too bad." prefer even them to being reviled by yea A confused sound ill the distance heralds —a woman's power is pretty well gone an asdnal. when she takes to scolding." "Nell," says Milne • badly, "will you find ram, and make him come here at "Cleopatra kept hers well enough," I say, half to myself. "Now, if I were you, I would far rather have a woman who was outrageons soineiimos and sorry after- ward, than a meek, obstinate, crying creature who never forgot herself—or a grudge." "Then you prefer Katharine to Bien - "Infinitely; and 1 am certain I should evidently prepared to decamp as a mo. liver -colored gentleman whose name I have slapped Bianca even harder than . Katharine did. She only insisted on her ment's notioo if any emissary from Milly hear is Viscount 1dnley, We are all stand - own way until she found some one with a appears upon the scene. 1 ing together when Silvia Fleming comes stronger will, then she gave in directly." • 'Mille says—" I begin, rebukingly. 1 slowly past, the s.ye of every man and wo- "I know," says, Fane, swinging nee man present following. her. She is all "And would you give in to anyone?" round to his side in a rnanner that may white and crimson, and her fairness shows If I were quite sure his ways were bet be indicative of brotherly affection, but oer- snore aazzling than ever against Sir Minty is not good for my gauze trappings, George Vestris's dark beauty. "Now, Nell, did you ever see so much "Are you not going to dance with Miss back as that before?" , Fleming to -night?" I asked as we moved Following his example, I crane my head away, "If so, you had better be quick in and body over the balusters until I nearly asking her, for in five minutes her card precipitate myself into the hall below, and am rewarded by the sight of a dowager //breaking away from him; "the liret deatee eireade over." The haunting, rnatohless strains of Rele Den ube" oonies tioatieg out to meet 115 ati we enter the ball -room, and Paul puts his arrn about my waist and we glide away, the drst couple. After all it Is not difficult to clance wben one hae a perfeet partner: pe haps he adepts Ms etep to teazle --at any rate we Move re earineuy, "I never saw myself dancieg," 1 :ay to • Paul; "bett do yeu think I ever looked like that?" I gimlet/ at Miss Lister, whose head is wandering all over her partner's shirt -front, seeking rest and findieg noun "I will look at you presently when you are dancing with somebody else, and tell you," he says. "How well she clauees!" exolalm, nodding toward a mountain of fat that is going by,held together by a whipper -snap- per whose arm refuses to go any further then the last hook and eye, "Can you tell me wily those enormous women go round so sweetly? They seem to turn on a pivot? •What a pity 111 18 this one does not live in a place I once heard of, where •w•os men.are sold by the pound—flesh, not good looks, being considered the most rnarketable commodity." "Only the inight object to being sold," says Paul, laughing. "Shall we go on again?" 'Look at St. John," says Paul, as we Pena) to take breath. "However earnest his solicitations, do not he prevailed upon to dance with him: he has a knack of mak- ing specteeles of his partners." "But I have promised," I say with seine dismay. "He asked me at dinner, and of course I was obliged to say yes. Do you not know that anything in the shape of a partner is better then none at all?" "You will know plenty of people pres- ently," he says. "Don't believe all the eons% a/ they will talk to you child." "lent I like nonsense; it is far more amusing than heavy commonsense; be- sides, ball -room conversation is never ex- pected to be very wise, is it?" The music has ceased and we are walk- ing down the room, past the wall -flowers —prim and patient, with their white, ' white boots, that by and by will be their shame not their glory, and their sweet once?" 1 little smile that seems to say: "We are Bather a difficult xnatter that; I set out, sitting down, certainly; but only because however, with a bold front, and a regret we much prefer doing so than dancing"— that I have not been able after all to see past the portly, coffee -backed observant the first people walk in. Ascending the dowagers, and so to Mille, who is looking stairs, I bear cackles and sounds of merri- with real indignation at Fane's rapidly- ment above me. Looking up, I discover vanishing heels, which he had. been shak- Pane and that other ehoice spirit, Captain ing with much agility ever since he caine Oliver, outtin capers on the landing and down -stairs. She is talking to along, lean, ter than mine; if not, I should take my own." "You ought to take his,whether you are sure or not." "Lideed! 1 see the race of tyrants isnot quite extinct." "Or that of rebels." "There shall be no question of 'giving In,' es 'looking up,' " I say, demurely. 4 Alfred de Musset says a woman should above all things b bon camarade; and be- tween comrades there is equality, is there not?" "The man should aways rule," says Paul, in his masterful way; "and you may say what you like, Nell, but you would love to be ruled, you would like to be kept in order." "Wait until you fall in love," he says; "I shall see it some day, and I wonder where all your philosophy be then?" "Where it is now," I answer, stoutly, through m blushes; "nothing will ever alter my opinion on that. I think it is nothing but bad management that makes so many married people who begin with so xnuch love, and end up with so little, Mr. Vasher 1" I yew, "Do you think Silvia would ever have been bon camarade?" "No, she would. keep a man to her side by sheer fascination, but she (Quid never—" "What o you call fascination?" I ask, will be full.'" "Therefore I will not presume to ask so who looks as though her enemy had as- groat an honor," he says. "And now, sainted her from the rear, and robbed her •Nell, will you let me see your card?" of half her clothes. • It is hanging at my side—an unmarked "The older she gets," says Fane, "the expanse as spotless as the wallflower's more she shows; and the Lord only knows boots; and I feel rather ashamed of it. what further revelations Time may have "You will keep all your waltzes for in store for us!" me?" he says, scribbling down his initials "She couldn't go much further," I said, at somewhat short intervals. comfortingly. "I never knew before that (TO BE CONTINUED.) middle-aged people's backs were of a rich Who is hat coffee color, d idyouFane?o s t shambling little man?" "Bareback's husband. She might wear him as e bustle and never know he was there." The stream below widens, swells; peo- ple come pouring past in tens and twen- ties, sleek, and clean, and glossy, freshly 1 The COok's DOmain. Cereals can be made palatable even to those who begin by disliking them if they are prepared properly. They should not be boiled simply in water, but in a mix- ture of equal parts of milk, and water. They should not be stirred, for stirring KISSES. rredli Tear Children te ICUs in the Bight Way, Kiss may be conveniently divided lute two elassee those whieh belong to and are •intimately assoolated with the \veneer passions of the heart, and those wilich are purely conventional. In vieW et the exact - Mg demands, of modern sanitary prin- ciples, in neither case is ehe hetet destralele or even per itissible. Nevertheless it is only waste of labor for medical rneaors to protest against the habit, so far as the first "order" of kisses Is concerned. alio- robes, however pathogenic, will be ignored under these cireumstances, and such will be the case until time is no morn With respeot, however, to the second variety of kisses, the matter is different. For the most part, the habit is practised upon children, both girls and boys. Among themselves, too, eissing to a large extent prevails, • But the facility with which diphtheria, measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever are transmitted in early lite rem ere the eabit one which common some will show to be open to grave objections. Reviewer essential conventional kisses rim,y be regarded as a means of demonstrating friendship and politeness, parents should nevertheless, we think, consider in this matter the welfare of their children first. Our condemnation of kisses may, for prac- tical purposes, be restricted to the objec- tionable but oommon practice of kissing on the mouth. Among grown up people It is imbecoming, to say the least, while toward and between ohildren the eanotice is open to the gravest suspicion. Children cen be trained with the great- est ease to offer the cheek or the forehead for tbe proffered caress, and to elude the attempt to contaminate the lips. The tn- eubation period of all the diseases men- tioned may or may not be infective in the ordinary aeception of the term. Upon this matter our knowlege, so far, is by no means certain, svhile on the other hand, recent investigations would seem to indi- cate that the infection of zymotio disetises inpatients is of very much longer duration than used formerly to be supposed, endur- ing, indeed, long after convalescence has been established. The Old Lady and the Carrot. • Upon the opening day of the Parlia- ment of Religions in Chicago, Prince Serge Walskony related the following Russian legend: "Tho Bussians say that once upon a time an exceedingly wined old woman died, and fell, of course, into grievous tor- ment. One day she saw an angel flying through the blue sky, and she called to him and bade him carry a message to God that her torment might be relieved, for she had suftered more than she could en- eeseeteneweeeeenawen Veathered Jailers, One Solite African birdneetiled at tbss Cape the "buteher bird"—his tho ghoul- ' fah leant of killing smaller birde, extreet- nig end eating their britinet and then tints paling lie bodtee of the little vionme oz the foersinebnong tle rns Of tbe "Walt -it - b111" bushes-. ,Anotlier very curious bird is the variety of liornbill known. as Toe - 05 Mena LABIA, regardieg which& paper by Dr, ncliontland, of the Albany- Xeseum, was retie a iO reeent 11 eetIng of the Sotith African Philosophical Soeiety at Cape Towle The nestiu‘s habits of this 11=4111 are so ext.: ao elinary that they have been rope .tedly referred to be the vericats NVIAISVS: but, owieg to the din'', cu V of %Whig the Deets of the birds, any tieutils of the earlier accounts are not quite correct, while others are not touched. at all. During the last four years, Dr. Schee:eland has examined, he said, no fewer than seven nests altogether, with the birds belonging to most of them. The birds are often se n in welter in large numbers in else gardens at Graham s Town, but in the summer they are only to be met velth in proximity to closely wooded kloofs, and this is une to the fact that they nest in places whore hollow trees are to be found. All observers agree that dur- ing incubation the female is a prisoner in it kind et cage, the entrance to whitest is closed to such an extent that it has to be broken open before the female can leave the nest. In all the cases he had. seen tho nests were built in hollow trees. • Mrs. Barber has said that they sometimes made • nest between the crowded stems of the taIl euphorbia, but that could not be rue:moil- ed with some of her other statement. The birds had apparenly no preference for any particle ar tree so long as it suited their purpose. The essential point for them 'Wag that the hollow stem should be sufficiently large for the fem.ale to move about in the nese and whether there is one or more en- trances, all resist be of such a nature that they 00,73 be partly or wholly closel up. The female, once inside, is fed by the male through the narrow slit left in the material with evbich the entrance is closed, or through a natural cleft in the wood. In the latter case tile main entrance is dosed up completely. This may be a premix- tionary measure to /noted the female dur- ing the season of Incubation. He ques- tioned the statement whether the male built or the female as Livingston stated he had been told hy a native, the female took an essential part in the plastering up of the entrance. Having described the nests whine he had seen, he proceeded to state that the female, after going into the nest, usually oogan to moult, and was sem etinaes almost naked. She was usually very fat while in her prime/1S the male bird broughther food every few ininutes. As soon as the danger ape -retuned the female bird clime.- dure. The angel presentea this petinon, ed. an the n 1st as far as potable away from. and God said: "Go and ask her if she ever the entrance, and kept perfectly quiet until did any good act to a fellow being. When the clai ger had passed. The young behaved. in the same manner, ten 11 els relying for proieetion on the faes that uhe nest is not easily recognized as snob. No doubt if at- tacked, the hornbill eould give a good ac- count of itself. The fema e is imprisoned for seven or eight weeks, certainly for no less than six weeks. The eggs are laid aboet the end of December or beginning of January, and are usually three or four in number and vary in size. He felt cer- tain from minute observati n that the fe- male constructed her own prison, and left it some time before the young were fully other sinner was clinging to her, and they developed. On her leaving it was plaster - rose another and another followed, each 1 ed up again In the same manner, and the sustained by his grasp upon the one above; 1 female helped the male to feed the young. and still the carrot held. In mid air the . He concluded by stating that there was • old woman was seized by a horrible fear , still plenty of scope for further investiga- lest the carrot should break. So she be- i ; tion into the the nesting habits of the horn- gan te remonstrate with the sinner direct- , elle • ly below hen 'Let go, she said; 'youn - must not cling to me, I am going up . Origin of the word "Trolly." higher. 1 'But' said the man, 'I, too, wish to get • Most persons which use the word. "trol- the angel made this enquiry the old wo- man pondered and pondered, for she had been very, very, wicked. Finally she re- membered that she had once given a car- rot to a beggar. Then God said to the angel, "Find the carrot and stretch it out to the poor sinner. So the angel held the carrot, and when the old woman. grasp- ed. it she began to rise out of the horrible depths. The angel lifted and the old wo- man felt herself rising higher and higher, but there was a great weight about her feet, and looking down she saw that an - powdered, freshly crimped, freshly smil- 1 makes them starchy, but cooked in a on of torment.' Ing. What a pity that they will be all so ce uale boiler. ' ley probably do not know the °rig n o draggled, and hot, and frowzy in two ! Then the old -woman began. to twist this term, or why this name was given to • hours' time! Fat mammas, portly papas; : Rhubarb is a highly /nedicinal vege- violently to rid herself of this incubus, and apparatus by which electricity is convey - pretty young girls, well-preserved old , table, which should be used as much as finally she screanaed, 'You must let me ed from an aerial wire. Twenty years ago ones; young boys old boys middle -a d , possible during this season. It is not Only go; it is my carrot. Then the carrot the word was used to designate "a forra boys; women white -backed, yellow -back- 1 of truck which can be tilted, for carrying : t • gee a valuable tonic, but a delicious dish broke. ed, - brown -backed; women dressed by 1 when made into a "rhubarb charlotte." Tho triumph of selfishness over love was rail:mad. materials and the like," This is i Butter a baking dish thoroughly and cover complete, and she fell deeper than ever the only defination of the word in Weo- Eslie, women dressed. by themselves, well- , overdressed, undressed, and not the bottom an inch deep with fine bread into misery. ster's Dictionary of tee edition of 1848. groomed crumbs, then with a. layer of rhubarb that There NVO.S no need to apply the parable In the editon of 1892 of the same work, has been peeled and cut into thin, small -111 00aTieS its own lesson with it.—' My three ether definitions are added: 1. "A pieces. Scatter tho rhenbarb thickly with caret" is very likely to break! narrow cart that is pushed by band or is sugancover, it with a second layer of bread drawn hy an animal." It is noted that (numbs and over the crumbs put bits of Sensations of starving. this meaning of the word is.in use in Eng - butter. Continue to fill the dish in this • land, not in the United States. 2. " A way to the top. Tham The top layer should be For the first two days through which a truck from which the load is suspended. bread crambs. Bake the pudding 171 Ft slow strong ane healthy man is doomed to exist on some kinds of manes." This meaning oven for an hour, or until the rhub trb is upon nothing, his sufferings, says an is tecbuical, according to Webster,and em - thoroughly cooked all through and the artiele in Current Literature, aro perhaps. PloYed only in speaking of machinery. 8. top brown. he feels an inordinate, nnspeakable crav- niore acute than in the remaining stages ; "(Electric railway). A truck which tray- A.sparagus and peas, early vegetables, ing at the stomach night and day. The els along thistles:El conductors.and forms a. as he pauses. dressed at all. Truly it is a "motley "I suppose the real essence of it lies in crowd," and from our vantage-grounct we possesses of making the power a woman criticise them with the unripe sarJasm of herself so delightful that every hour spent, .e. our not overwise youth. 1 a ,vayfroni her is an age." . After it, quarter of an hour's impartial "Do witty people fascinate?" - survey of the aharms passing beneath us, "In a different way. They amuse, and "I think," says Fano, "I may venttuas astonish more than they inspire respect." down now without being let in by Mdly "H ow I should like to be witty I" I say, for twentY-five duty dances." . langhing, "I11 is a great power, is it not, Bum-tum-turn-tiddy I goes the music. I to be able to say clever, brilliant, sparkl- • " Come along," cries Vane, "you and 1 ing things?" will have the first together, Nell." L' Y.es, but one not often to be coveted. "Miss Adair is engaged to me for this," !, which have a delicate flavor of their own A. very witty person is no one's enemy so says Paul's voice behind me. How long aro not improved by being smothered in much as his own: he amuses people at the has he been there, I wonder? "I have been sauces. Only a little salt and butter should be allowed to dress them. Strong - expense of others, and the former have a looking for you everywhere," he says, as pleaston conviction that their turn will Fane and Captain Oliver go down -stairs. lY and unpleasantly flavored vegetables, 'however, like carrots, onions turnips and oonte presently, and no one feels. safe." "I thought your toilet must have proved : cauliflower, are improved by being served not," says Paul, "that people should feel epe you like me?' 1 ask, stepping back , "It elates oleo feel very small, does it a wonderfully compliceted affair." with sauce. so much more angry at being made fun from him, and. holding out my skirt in A delicious filling for sandwiches is of, than being called ugly or wicked, or „ made as follows: Chop two tablespoon - disagreeable? Is it not Macaulay who ra7 know; and, to tell you FL so ret, to -night I "You chose it tor Ill% Yen fuls of cold haan Vory Bite, reduce the yolk says, 'Alas for human nature, that the am not Helen Adair at all; I am Howell d hands. of one hard-bolled env to powder, add a ,,, wounds of vanity should smart and bleed & James p, ash of catsup, neppensalt and tho =red so much longer than the wounds of effete- . "Like you?" he says, coming a pace tam?" - nearer, and looking at ;no keenly from, "One can forgive unkindness, ill -usage, head to foot, and from foot back to bead • neglect even—but ridicule never!" I again; "no, I don't like you." say, laughing, "and yot it is curious, 18 111 • "I am so sorry," I say, disappointedly. not, to see how people like to make fools "I thought I looked so nice! 1 eves so of theinselve.s comfortably, but hate to be told of it? That I suppose, is why you ob,a4einsed with myself I" like your poppies," ho says toushing men always like to marry stupid women, those upon my shoulder with the tip of his who never find you out I" ' newer. " They make these things very man, i.e., a fool admires everything and ic e win never ask "You aro wrong," says Paul. "A stupid . wed, do they not?" woyou anything again a,s 11 nt of onion twee. Mix all the ingredi- ents into a paste, with the wbite of an egg chopped coarsely and sprinkled in. This is enough for three sandwiehes. A dainty morsel for the hungry half hour before bed time is "cheese crackers." Spread thin zophyrettes �r salted crackers with a little butter and sprinkle lightly with grated Parmesian cheese. Place on it dish in the oven long enough to brown them slightly. These nen keep for sever- al days. everybody, her husband among the rest; a lone as l live," Isay,evith dienity. "You There eve ways of spoiing the delicious sensible woman looks all about here and, might have tried, at any rate, to say some- strateborry, and 0710 18 to sugar it and let Seeing nothing half so good as the man thing just a little polite!" and I inaroli it stand for a while for tho juice to go out site has marled, admires him 1" 8WIIY. . of it ; another way is to take the hulls off But he catches my hand, flowers and ell; and then I remember that I have not yet thane:ad him for hs bouquet. " Did 1 vox her?" he says, looking down on my fluthed face. "Was elle such a vain little soul aftot all? Nell, Nell! after all the times I have exhorted you not to care about being pretty?" "A most delicate flattery; but suppos- bag ho is not wise?" "Would a woman of sense emery 0 Mall who had none?" . "She often does. Now, Mrs. Skipworth, itt Silverbridge, she is sensible, and she niarried a very prosy, foolish man. And yet," I add, looking out at the cool groen shadows and gold patches of sunlight that lie athwart the vvoocllancl, "I don't know that ho is so foolish as inetatims. Did you ever know a man who amiles when he tells you the day is fine, smiles when he tells you your soul ia lost, and would smile OM` your new -mace: grave, and say, the funnel hedge:me off beautifully? That Is Mr. Skipworth. CHAPTER XX. My feet ball Will it be as disappoint - big, 3 evouder, as the fulfill/no/it of most earthly witeies usually ie? 1 make eatt way to thebali room, wide, and cool, and. lovely with the beauty of fair proportions, and delicate, briUlant clunk: of flowers, The musionetis are in their plat.es, but nobody is Visible, not even that mythical personage, the first arrival. Was over atly one known to tonfess that he or she attiv- ed first anywhere? And yet somebody meet, Oonfees that he or she arrived first. "I am not vain, I say, turning any head away; "I never had anything to be vain of t Hitt when one has boon quite ugly a very long while, and been told so, every day of one's life, 111 is voty disheartening,' just as one begins to thlek one can look eeeent, for tt person to say your dress loiks Moe, not you. "Thom will he plenty of 711011 to toll you that when yon got downstairs, child, ho says "Otto it make any difference to you What I think?" "No, of course it does nett I say, mag- nanimotisly, and ashamed of my tempor- ary 1111 of vanity. "I could not expect you to say what you did not thine, could I?" "If I wor6 to toll you all 1 thougbe he says looking dowe on me, "I shade friginee you, perhaps, end. you would pot Understand. Perhaps you will lot me toll you sonic day, "Loi as go ClOWn• It I isaY, With it sudden quite a while before:putting on the table. The hullo should be loft on as long as pen sible. Too Honest for Ifis Faith. About five years ago the Finkelstein. Brothers succeedea their father in business in the northern peat of Indiana. The old man ahd beeti wont to loan money to re- sponsilbe farmers on good security. One evening not long ago Mr, .7olmson came into their store and. said: "Good evening, Mr. Finkelstein, 1 OWO ;von $10." "Oh'no you don't . Mose, sett evhat Mr. enInison neves, ' "Father, he owes Us nothing. lin buys for '' r The C tight," maid ,l'oltnson "but about one year ago I borrowed $400 from your father, and when 1 paid you the last note of $100 Fou gave me $10 too much change Mn Finkelstein. I hate lately embraced Tens:eon I must pay that $10 back to keep iny tortseience elm." "You arn a good man to do that. But, Mr, eohni on, I think eon $010 1100 honest a Man to be a Chrisitan yeti (eight to be a Jew." Tty this offiee for Ilne job printing. means of eouneetipu between them and. mind runs upon beer, broad and other a railwny caX r." is easy to soo how the substances, but still,' in a great measure, primitive form of the electric trolley, the body retains it strength. On the third which travels upon the wires, came to and fourth day, but especially on th.e receive its name from its resemblance to fourth, this incessant craving gives place other types of trolley; and the name, to sinking and vseakness of the stomach having been immediately given to this accompanied by nausea. The unfortuu- primitive form, was naturally retanie11. ate sufferer still desires food, but with a whon the xnethod of connection was loss of strength he loses that eager craving which he felt in the earlier stages. Should he chance to get a morsel or two of food, he swallows it with it wolfish avidity, but ilve minutes afterward his sufferings are more intense than ever. He feels as if he had swallowed a living lobster, which is clawing and feeding upon the very foun- dation of his 0Si:4V:1100 On the fifth day his cheeks suddenly ap- pear hollow and sunken, his.body attenuat- ed, his color Is ashy pale and his oyes wild, glassy and Cannibalistic. The different parts of the system • now war with eath other, The stomach calls 'upon tho legs to go svith it in q..est of food; the legs,frona weakness, refuse. The sixth day brings with it increased suffering, although the pangs of hunger are lost in overpowering languor and sieknes,s. Theiscad becomes dizzy; the ghosts of well -remembered dinners pass in hideous procession through the mind. The seventh day comes bring- ing inereasing lassitude aed further pros- tration of strength. The arms hang list- lessly, • the legs drag heavily. The desire for food is still loft to a degree, but it inust be bronght, not sought The miser- able remnant of life which still hangs to the sufferer is a 'burden almost too griev- ous to be borne; yet his inherent love of existence induces it desire still to preserve it if he can be saved without tax on bodily exertion. The mind wanders. At one 10 oment he thinks his' weary Ihn be minuet sustain him. a mile; the next he is endow- ed with unnatural stave gth, and if there bo a certn,inty of relief before him, dashes bravely and strongly forward, wondering whence proceeds his now and sudden im- pulse. An Awful Accident. "No," said a Scotsman, "1 haVento feel- ings te enmity agehist Irish:nee. I like them. Ono 0 t ho best friends I ever had was an Itish °Ma The Irish aro a' riche' "The only faulb 1 find wi` an Irishman is that he canna or '4‘111110 speak the Brig. Ish lang ,ago Without a brogue. Its an.t. ant's aw f :hanged from a little truck moving on it wire, to a mast having at its end a wheel pressing on the lowor surfaes of the wire. When Baby was dee, wo gave her Castoria. Virhen sne was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Sliss, she clung to eastoria, When she had Children, she gave thew Castoria. .0.16.11XZE. KENDALL'S-, PAY01 CUR E 11 4StiEizz. 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