HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-2-7, Page 3HOUSEHOLD.
• Ma:IMAM
Do you remember how the sunset sky
Bl d
ilea/Ione from the glass. A picture not I
covered by glad (and certainly we enjoy
thoeepicturee best that ere net) my be
i
kept n good condition many years by care
fully chiding with a feether.brush and
eocamonally washing it with a sof t rag,
-anima we were puting ; hew, at eel. ogeett Using warm int0 ltof) water Bald Partiole
bye," B oap thet is not strong. Of curse this
Black thunder.oloucts that rolled washing ehould not take place more than
twice a year, and then the picture should
Angrily round, were touched with purple be wiped so gently that the flak& or
1
pension— glaze on its surfaoe cannot poesibly be in.
Like that sharp pain jured.
Whiehseeffied to seize our hearts and in them , Daring the summer, pictures and their
fashion frames should he proteoted from the files by
A etc= of fire and rain f not or tioaree led.
Regular picture cleaning and repeiring
And how thn thrush upon the bending twig should never be attempted by the 1.101190.
WAS mud with fears; keeper, bet put at once bato the heads of a
And future things loomed terrible and big good ertiat. —Peed }beekeeping.
Throogh blinding haze of tears? —
Good Oheap Syrup.
Do you remember when we met again,
How all the dawn A writer in the New York Tribune"
Was thrilled with light that flooded hill and anYs the cheapest and best syrup for cakes is
plain, made at home. To make a gallon of syrup
And crepfrom lawn to lawn take five pounds of (augers add one quart of
t ;
hot Water. Set on the back of the stove and
When the glad skylark on his buoyant melt slowly. When throughly melted pull
wingthe kettle forveard where it will boil. After
,
' Wet hem the dew, the syrup has boiled rapidly ten minutes
Soared up and up, and could not choose but remove it from the fire and when cool pour
snag . in a demijohn for ine.
Within a sky so blue
That June herself seemed moved with our
Clothe -Pias.
ewn gladness,
Where do all the olothes-pins go? In -
Axid everywhere numerable dozens of them are flowing out
Berth's beauty mingled with the sweet hlf. into the world °continuously trom the factor -
sadness a
ies, and mangle expert packer handles 72,000
,
That conadefrom things most fair' of them in a day, packing 100 boxes at a cent
a box. They are made of ash, beech, hirch
Do you remember? Ah, those memozies and maple. The logs are out into lengths
Of days long dead— of 31 inches, these are sawed into blocks, the
How CBE they die? Bloat with the breath of blocks into sticks and the atioks into abetter
seas, ones, the length of the olotheapin, about 5i
Dawn's blue and evening's red, inches. These are fed into a lathe bK an
With light and musk, magic scent of and passes them along by a turn -table to a
flowers BMW which cute out the slot, When the ma -
And e
And winds to play, chine is through with them it drops them
With fragrance of the dew and summer into a box or barrel. The pins are then dried
showers, in a drying -house and then put, 20 to 40
With moonteams and sun -ray, bushels at once. into a slowly revolving
cylinder, and the friction caused by their
With meetings and with partings, hopes tumbling about in this cylinder polishes them
and tears, A single plant for making clothes -pins costs
And all that gives from 87,000 to $12,000. But what becomes
Life'a tinterohange of launghter of the ins?a
tears—
How die, while .ove atilt lives? Kitchen Su re
—Paglish Dlustrated Magazine.
Mistreats and maid work to a common end,
—.
the family welfare, and in the matter of
.., frottsekeeping. recompense quite as often as otherwise the
"I think housekeepinggreat fun," remarks maid has the better of the matron, Whose
Miss Jeannette L. Gilder, editor of Critic. salary is an uncertain factor in the list of
"I have always kept house, and would not household expenses, contingent; upon the
live any ottier way if I could only have one generosity, juetice and kindred variable ele-
room, to deep in one corner and cook and meats in the heart of mankind. Trifling
eat in the other. If housekeeping is a matters like food, ahelter and warmth mis•
failure in any one instance it is entirely the tresa and maid share in common, and weekly,
fault of the woman who fails. Look at me, I in addition, honest Mary pockets her round
have a great deal of literary work to do, bard dollars, with whatever of humiliation
but I find ample time to look after my house. blie aot may entail, and there seems to be no
keeping. Until recently I had the care of good reason why the wheels of household
aachinery should nut move with -out a creak.
. Teur e ildren, and even now have a little
ket
niece an one of aiy brothers with me, yet Most housekeepers will bear me out in
I did 3io gad it any care or worry, seying that almost any annoyance can be
* "Depend upen it, BI108068 in housekeeping borne from the "girl" who tries to do as
mainly depends upon the olds of servants well as she oan, and, on the other hand,
you keep. If they are bad or ignorant that a domestic will do almost anything for
' evetything will go wrong. But if you get you if yon" get on the right aide of her."
e good servants half your care disappears. 1 rho adjusting of temperaments, then, seems
have always been fortunate in getting good to be the fundamental necessity to ensure
ones. But there are some things a house household barmunY.
keeper Should insist upon doing herself. I
always do my own marketing. I adopt the
and of
endless belt. The lathe turns theminto a ape
Choice Repines.
French plan and go to French people for my mosite meteee ptz (p,m,eters)..—Bake in
, supplies. They are more civil and accom two crusts the following mixture: One
roodating, and,know how to make muoh out cupful of chopped raisins, one capful of reli-
ef a little. You OBE buy in sznaller quieted crackers, oue cupful of molanzes, one cup-
-tides -'for instance, I got two chops Past now fal of brown sugar, one-half of a cupful of
for ten cents, just for my niece's lunch. vinegar, one. half of a tablespoonful of obana.
The ' French grocers . keep many things mon, one hall of a, teaspoonful each of all -
other grocers never think of providing." spice and cloves, one-half of a nutmeg, one-
.
fourth of a cupful of melted butter.
The Care of Piotures.
NUT Punnexce---One cupful of sugar, one-
'
half of a, cupeel of butter two cupfuls of
Engravings with mildewed or rusty mar flour, one-half of a cupfuls of cold water,
gin, faded water colors and dirty oiapaint tiaree eggs, one and one half teaspoonfula et
ings—this is lik ell to be the final condition
k
of our pictures unless tome care is exercised baking meatspowadded the last thing.
in their preservation. The change takes COFFEE Pomaria.—One egg, one and one.
place and the damage is done so gradually half oupials ot sugar, one cupful of batter,
tbet We begin to care for our treasures too one oupful of Molasses, one cupful of cold
late. The foes we have to fight are dust, coffee, four cupfuls of flour, one and one-half
vermin and damp. In the ode of water
colors and oil.paintings we shotild remember teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoon.
also that too much light will fade the formful•of soda', one tablespoonful of cloves, oneer tableapoouful of (anaemia, one pound of
and too much darkinies yellow the latter. resins, one half ot a pound of currants, one
Most engravings have at their back a mill- grate& nutmeg. sake and eat with seam
board, a kind or wood known to absorb
°emcees= Emeerris.—To one-half pint of
and retain damp with so much ease that
no better substance could be found to injure boiling wean seir four ounces of butter and
a print premsmently. Any . one who has aix ounces of flour; let it boil five minutes
Jived in a house eonly a little damp has when take it tram the fire and let it get
d
noticed that the Mardis behind framed en. early cold. Add to the mixture five beaten
graelegs bulge out after the picture has eggs, whippiog them in slowly, together with
been hung for a little time. It is the action elm half cant teaspoonful of astern= dis.
solved in boiling water. Beat all up well.
of the moisture in the boards at the back
of the frame that canoes them to swell. Pat them on white paper in the shape of a
When there is much moisture growths will large lady finger and bake in a very hot oven.
appear on the surface of the engraving like Take two squares of Beker's chocolate and
the growth of plants from the damp scat in put it to melt in a cup placed in a verse' of
the garden. If there is iron in the paper boiling water, when soft add to it a little
an whioh the print is made, spots of rust boiling water, beat the yolks of two eggs
von appear. and fair in it, and sugar euffitsient to make
. letter than a mill -board is a thick, wood-
en back; but even with this the print is not
• safe frora mildew. Many houses are though
by their owners to be ail well built that it
we're madness to speak of the presence of
damp ; yet rewinter more damp than timid,
abeence from home, or a falure ito beat leer
tain roomer with regularity may prove the
presence of it by the injury done. to pie.
tures.
Perhaps the very beat packing for a print
he a thin Piece of sheet -zinc. Take care be.
fore framing to drive out all moisture there
may be in the engraving iteelf by heating it
caeefully over a spirit lamp; then enclose
baween the zinc and glass, using gumlao
clissolied in spirits of wine, instead of
oedinitryaretete, for the Lips of paper
that join t the glass to the inside of the
benne and the backing to the back of the
frame. .
Aes water -colors are even more delioate
that, prints they should be framed with the
same care. Water-oolors are oleo injured pour into a Mould. Serve with a soft ous.
by light, though perhaps not perneptibly tard. ;
in several yeetre. The only thing that LADY Fihriaits.—Talle six egg% separate
cart be done with them is to pat them them and beat the yellers up with two oup-
away in air -tight boxes, or to let them fide of auger until they are so light that no
fade. hair Maims settle on the foam. Silt in the flour
Engraving% fortunately, are sweat all one Amu di teaepoonful of soda and one half
it sweet, also vanella flavoring.
SDOArcCooKnii.—One cupful of butter, two
ouptuls of sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful
of eoda dissolved iu halt a cupful of milk,
one tablespoonful of ginger, flour enough to
roll,(Abuut confine), roll very thin,
sprinkle with granulated sugar, give one
more roll, out and bake on the bottom of
an ungreaeed pan; or it may be rolled on
the bottom of the pan as thin and evenly
at possible; as soon as taken tram the 'oven
out in squares and remove from the pan by
slipping a thin knife under it.
JALion Pneones.—In one-half oup of
cold et ater soak one.half box of gelatine
about tweney minutes or until soft ; then
dissolve in ono cup of boiling water. Strain
the cluseolved gelatine and add a pint ot
pettish syrup from a can of peaches, if there
isnot soffi -tient juice add water; add aleo the
juice of out) lemon and one oup of sugar. Set
on iae or in a cool place and atir until it be-
gins to thicken, then put in the peaches and
injurlight by etrong ight, he only effect
teeepoonfol of cream fatter and stir lightly
being to bleach alightly the paper that they but thoroughly into the sugar and eggs.
are printed 00. . Make is 1 unnol of stiff brown paper and
pictureS have a more robot constitit put the dough through it, preseing it out in
Son than water colors; etill they must be strips ahout a finger latg and the thickness
protected from damp and dust. The canvas of e. lead petrel. Put them OE 11/1bLItt8Fed
on which an oil picture) is painted may paper and sprinkle w rh granulated sugar,
alafiorla moititure from the want and this bake in a quick oven, nd when 000l wet the
will drilla in through the priming to the under side of the aper with a breed), and
colors. One Way to redid this is to give the Miele the fingere toget er back to back.
cativim at the back A coat of paint, applied
with varnieh ; etill better Way ie to '
The 1.1e0preSel 0 Book Agent.
pled a operate cativae at the twit tho
pietiire, having is coat of paint on both Mra. Baking (bime, lidnight)-"Horrows I
• eicleis. Husband 1 husbeeed I 1 hear tome one bur.
The only Way to keep the face of an oil. rowing through the "iv II."
painting peefectly free from duet and duet to Mr, Blfkino—"Welf, W6 11 lb must be
to cover lb With a glass, in whioh case your that book, agent. I kew We'd' All be in bed
picture is Well preilerted, although it is bet by eleven o'clock, an
eftey. to Kee the pioture on elocenint of re- halt poet."
1 raid him to cell at
African. Cannibalism,
A Hindu soldier maned Alaka ,, in the
servloe of the Cengo Settee, had a thrilIng
experieaoe a while ago, whioh, C'eptart B3
ailbat imYs• in The Memphis Ave onehe is
one of the meet drametio noideatathrt has
come to hes notice in Africa. He 'was one
of the three eoldiers whom Captain flanesens
left at the mouth of the Atuwhirai to male a
a little station which Hanssens establiehed
there. The captain stemma away, leasing
those men alone among the wont ommtbals
in the Congo gain, and several months lat-
er Alakai told Captain Coquilhat thio story
of what happened.
The ohief of the village;" he said, told
Capteda Hanesens that he would protect us
as he would his own children. He asked tie
not to leave the village,as he oould not
answer for whet hits neighbors might do.
Be prudent,' he said. Several days passed
quietly, and then, about noon one day, sev-
eral of the villagers asked nay oomrades to
go with them over to an 'eland to fish. I
opposed the exouraion, but it was no use, ae
much pleasure had been promised the men,
and so they treat away with the fishers.
"A little after nightfall the °anoint of the
returning fishermen touched the shore, but I
did not see my two comrades with them.
Fearing trample, I .hid myself in' an abandon.
ed hut. Soon after, fire was built near the
place where I was condaled, and atter a
while I coutcl smell the odor of 000king
meat. I believed they were
ROASTING THE TL6Sti OT MY ?B1E1DS,
and the thought filled me with 'horror. I
crept out into the darkness, and lying in the
tall grass, I could see everything that yeas
going on at the fire. Large pieciee of meals
were roasting over the coals,and soon the
cannibals took out of e large jar two human
heads, which Precognised as those of my
oomradea. Many men were laughing around'
the fire, and others were attending to the
cooking.
"I crept away in the fgaBEI and hid in the
forest, but did not go every far from the
Bank° villages, for I hoped that one of our
steamers would come there before a great
while. For a week I lived on •root e and
wild fruits and a little raw manioc that in
the night I took from the field% In about
a month I was discovered by a woman who
was looking for naedioinal plants. She gave
the alarm, and I was seized, taken back to
the village and delivered to the ohief who
had made the allfance with Captain Hans.
sena When I was alone with him 1 told
him he had a terrible account to settle with
whites for what he had done. The chief
said he was nob responsible for the death ot
my friends, for if they had followed hie
counsel they would have been safe. He
said that if I would promise to tell the
captain my ideas had been accidentally
drowned, he would proteot me. I promised
to do so. The chief put a guard over me,
but did nob confine me, and. for some weeks
I hoped to escape the fate of my friends.
"Then the people of the village went to
the ohief and demanded my body for a feed.
" It is useless," they said, to hope to sat-
isfy the white man by restoring to him only
one of his men. Slime we have killed the
other men it is better to make away with this
witness of the with For days the chief re-
fneed to give me up to his men, but I saw
at last that he was certain to yield Vi the
i
solicitations, whioh were beoomng more and
more pressing. So I seized an opportunity
one dark night to take refuge a second three
in the forest. Believing then that our boats
would not reach the Arawhimi again for
three or four months, I
orrano onions, THE niTsuroni
Not daring to aPproach the fields I no long
er had manioc to eat, and my strength dim.
Wished day by day.
"Alter living in great misery for oven
three months, I oautionsly advanced toward
the -villages. One day I heard the puffing
nf a steamer; it wall the missionary venal,
Peace. I went down to the bank, bat the
steamer was far away and did not see me.
E saw the white men take some villagers ou
board, evidently to get news of us. The
natives said, without doubt, that we had
gone away, for they were soon released and
the steamer went on.
"Some of the natives, who at sight of the
vestal had fled into the forest, discovered
tne and I was again pounced upon, and this
rime I was cloiely guarded. I heard them
say that was too thin to eat, and they
wouldre't kill me juet then. After re,
frightful privations 1. was nothing bob skin
and bone. They fed me all I could eat and
I oould not resist my appetite. As I had
no exercise and lived on the fat of the land,
f rapidly inoreased in flesh, and in fesv
weeks I was regarded as in fit condition to
eat. I saw them preparibe the manioc and
the beer for the feast, telt that my last
hour Was approaohing. On the afternoon
of the day when
WAS TO BE xreazn.
my arms ware tied behind me. The sun
was still high, when all of a eudden we
heard a great noise in the village, near the
Congo. 'The Arabs are coming,' everybody
shouted, and the men seized their spears.
The women and chiidren hurried off into
bhe woods. Presently the Arab glovers
came neer enough to pour a volley of shot
into the town, and the men took to flight.
In the midst of the retreat the Basook said
I ought to be taken along, and a warrior
was assigned to this task. Ail the others
daappeared. My guard stepped into hie
hat to get his shield. Seizing this unex
peoted opportunity, I leaped, tied as I was,
inbo the neighboring bash. The man hurled
hinaself after me, but just then the Arabs
broke into the village and the warrior burn-
ed and fied. I stuck my head out of the
thicket' and the /Arabs' 88,14 and eeized me.
They thought I was a Basoek, but I ehouted
'1 am one of Stanley's men,' I bore the tat-
too mark of the Hanna, with which they
were familiar. They unbound me and I was
saved. A few days later Captain Von Gele
appeared with his steamers and I was turn.
ed over to him,"
The Hamad are natives of the Soudan,
many of whom have served in the Congo
State as aoldiers. When Alaked was re•
stored to hie fellowa they bore him around
on their shouldere and had a great jubila-
tion. Captian Cognilhat soya he was fat
and idea and laughed heartily when be
spoke of the good nourishment the cannibals
had given him during the last month of his
captivity.
The Dude Pelt Puzzled.
"Say, Chawley 1" he called, as the pair
Were fir:Iterating, "jadeite word, you know,'
"A dozen, old Wirth."
"Are you pazzled, Chawhay ?"
"Don't think it, Novah gave it any
thought."
"Well, I am."
"What about?
"The weather."
(este,
"Why, be jove ! I don't know 'whether to
$0 Sweet On the daughter ot a plumber or
an hie man. The open Wintah hart knocked
tie all out, Chawleymall Olt. Good-bye,
1.1awley—see you latah,"
' A trooton, Mad., shoe , factory will be
operated by eleetricity.
A Tita VELUM'S VIE WS.
The Emil Interests of Vancouver Ida nd at
Nanalino and comer.
it is nob only on the eastern aide of elle
R )(sky mountains that Cenade, la growiug
and trade is being opened up, On both alopea
of that mighty range, ranching li now the
prinoipal orioupetion, and thie is one that
Sootahmen do not dem to take kindly to ;
but the ineuntaine and all the districts ad-
joining abound in minerals, of which use ie
just beginning to ba made. At present the
most extensive Oanodian mining is for ooal,
of whioh moro than fourfiftlas comes from
Nova Scolia,and most of the rest from. Van-
couver Island, The Nova Scotian coalfields
have been worked steadily and without rapid
immerse of the output for a long time. lb is
in Vancouver Wand that there is meet fresh
"tehriParet
Terprise ie mainly due to a Sootch-
man, Kr. Robert Daum -mit, reckoned the
wealthiest and In mune ways the most influ-
ential man in 13ribish Columbia. Mr. Dans.
mon heals from Hurlford, in Ayrehire, where
his fattier and grandfather were cog -mestere
and where he Was born in 1825. At the age
of 25 he entered the iiervicie of the Hudson's
Bay Company, to which Vancouver Island
then belonged, and during the next fifteen
years he was busily employed in prospecting
for coal and bringing his disooveriee under
nett= To him especially the 7..tnIn.
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ilo 1411;‘'3D1a;Ptililiell'il7t"3raphflyill:,a1;?L'el.'il!is451
ra"Bine• Wheat. 96o. to 97o, per bushel,
fine harborage
connected with the capital by a line of roil -
way, of which Mr. Dunernuir is alinott sole
owner. The yield of Ile Nanette° coal fields
WAS 81,000 tons in 1874 and 413,360 tons in
1887, considerably more than half coming
from the Wellington colliery. Lest year
was a bad year, however, as business had
been hindered by etrikes and explosions, and,
besides anticipating a much larger produc-
tion at Wellington, Mr. Dammam intends
next spring to open another and better coal
field, whiuh he has just purchased at Como;
45 miles farther north, where he tolls me he
will have work for several hundred fresh
hands in addition to the 700 or 800 employ-
ed on the older property.
In view of the great increase that is thus
likely to take place in the mining inusdtry
of Vancouver Island, and of the need of
fr eh immigrants, a few farther details may
be interesting to some of your readers. Most
f the men at present employed by Mr.
Dunsmnir have come to him from Philadel-
phia and other mining dietriots in the Unit-
ed States, thonghthere is a sprinklingsmong
then*if more hard-working miners who have
come out direct from Saotland and England,
and also of newly -arrived Belgians. From
76 to 90 cents (i. 4., from 3s. 1Ic1. to 3s. )
are paid per ton, and the earnings average
from 3 to 5 dollars (or, say, from 12s to El)
a day, each man having to load his own
boxes or to pay an assistant for doing it.
This subordinate work was until lately per-
formed by Chinamen, whose wage was a
dollar or a dollar and a quester (4 or 5 shil-
lings) a day, and no difficulty occurred until
it was proposed to employ Chinamen not
only as subordinates in the mines but also
as drivers, in whioh case they would be em-
ployed and paid by the proprietors direct.
To *le new arralgement the white miners
objected last spring, and after a great deal
of frietion they got their way, so that none
or hardly any, but white MEM are now em-
ployed about the militia, the laborers reoeiv-
ing ebony 21 dollars, or 10s., a day, and the
others twice as =oh. The cat of living is,
of course, higher in Vancouver Island than
in England or Scotland, but this is kept
down by means ot the general stores pro-
vided. by the proprietors, at whioh whatever
is required can be bought by the men ab little
more than wholesale price. With ea, it
miner's oct:age, however, there is given a,
large garden, in which vegetables can be
grown, and for those who ohoose to spend
part of their leisure in shooting or fishing
there are plenty of birds in the fields and
plenty of trout in the small lakes and rivers,
whieh are within marsh of all. There are
practically no game laws and no law of tres-
pass in Vanooaver Island. The rent of the
cottagekset up by the proprietors varies, ao.
ording to seize, between three medals dollars
montb. It mint be remembered, howeter
that these comfortable arrangements are
portly consequent on the scarcity -of good
workmen in these districts. If the labor
market is overstocked wagea cannot but fall.
On the other hand there dents no limit
either to the supply of good coal, proourrble
with very little trouble, or to the raarket for
it. Of the Hanalei° coal—and the Comex
ooal is said to be better—Dr. Ceorge Dawson
says : "It is true bituminous coal, of the
very best quality. It was tested by the War
Department of the United States some years
ago, to find out which fuels gave the best
results for steam•raieing purposes on the
western coast, and it was found that to pro-
duce a given =lathy of the steam it took
1,800 tons of Nanaimo coal, to 2,400 tone of
Seattle coal, and 2,600 tons of Oregon or
Californian cold, showing that, as far as
the Paoifio coast is concerned, the coal of the
Nanahno has a marked superiority over all
others." Four-fifths of the coal produced in
Vancouver Island is exported to San Fran-
cisco, the demand from which is increasing
every year. Departure bay, moreover, is
being made a busy port by thenumber of
ships that come to ooal in it, and if the nevv
city of Vauoouver, on the opposite side ot
the Gulf of Georgia, perdue any thing like tbe
commercial importance predioted for it,
Wellington, Comex and the adjacent weal -
fields oannot fail to share in ite prcsperity.
—(Glasgow Herald Correspondent,
Spoke Before Thinking.
The Soienee of Talking,
A greet deal, has beep Kaki of talking as
an exercise of the tongue. It Is questionable
whether enough is said of it, as an exercise
of the mind; yes, and a great etumulus of
the mind too, for perhaps nothing is lesrnsd
wholly until it has been talked out or talked
over between two ideal* and nothing so
exeites the mind to new idea ri on a eabjeot
es the talking out of floss) already acquired.
A good method for an author has been said
to he,—firat to think himself em$ty, then to
read himself full, Rad, thirdly, to talk it
all over with a Mead. Seine min& can
work only as it wero Kohut other minde.
They Mild have the etimulas and exercise of
disoussion. Indeed, perhaps they do their
beet, only under direst and strenuous op,
position. Other minds, though they need
not opposition or debate, never attain their
beet exeepli in isympathetio oonver-
petiole Some mind, to :say the same thing
figuratively, are like flint and steel, perfect-
ly oold till struck together, when cite flashee
a epark. Other minds are like Area
which, joined together, may make a greet
008.118(08t1011, though eaoh one but a strag-
gling flame in heed. With either kind the
quickening effeot of Waking is eqnally re.
limitable and needful.
Accuracy ts involved in the communica-
tion of ideas, and is increased, therefore,
by talking. Many is man thinks he knows
something well till he tries to express it,
when he finds no end of little gaps of igno•
ranee whiale he has to fill up before he wilt
be master of the aubjeat. The aeholastio
dictum, Dooe ut quid," teach that you
may know, is founded on the effaces of ex-
pression bo, produca accuracy of thinking.
&WOE puts the effect of talking among the
choice benefits of friendship. He says:
"Certain it is that whosoever has his mind
fraught with many thoughts, his wits and
understanding do clarify and break up, in
the communicating and discoursing with
another; he &meth his thoughts more ease
ily ; he marshalleth them more orderly.;
he seeth how they look when they are
turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser
than himself; and that more by an hones
discourse than by a day's meditation."
Bacon also advises that it were babter for
a man to talk to a statue or a picture "than
to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother."
When is MEM has wribten on any subject, it
may be that he is ignorant of it still, for he
may have "crammed" for the maiden. He
may have filled himself for the moment with
a masa of really =nattered matter or un-
digested information whioh he oan write out
from his memory, or perhaps copy out from
books without really understanding the sub-
jeot ; but if he be required to talk of it, he is
put to his purgation." Can a MBE talk
about what he has written of ? This is good
test as to whether he has really made the sub.
jeot his own, or ie but loaded with it for the
moment. Aristotle said "The one exclu-
sive sign that a man knows anything thor-
oughly is that he is able to teaoh it."
But it must] be said that the kind of talk
that dears a man's mind and really colliers
any power on him, is not demon gadding.
This is one of the reasons why oommon gad-
ding is doh a miserable thing. It is nob
only bad in itself, but it is a vile abuse of a
fine and powerful tool.
Many authors of divers times and nations
have said• one after the other, that man has
two ears and one tongue, in order that he may
eisten much and speak little. tint so has
any donkey two ears and one tongue, and
good long ears, too, and he is not voluble;
and yet when he does epetek, the midi* of
his speech is not improved by his previous
silence. I should read the lesson of nature
differently. We have two ears and one
tongue because human speech is so great
and admirable a thing that it takes two
ears, and two eyes also, for that matter, to
pour in all the knowledge and good sense
which the tongue oan do up in neat packages
forthwith, and distribute. But silence is
safe and speech dangerous, some will say.
Well, so is air dangerous, when it is a
harrioanee and water, when a roan falls into
it. Nevertheless, es MU is dead who will
not breathe, and a dried mummy. if he oan
not drink. There is a wide differentia be
tween doing no herrn and doing good. A
man who takes no pains to learn to talk
wed and pleasantly, simply buries in a
napkin one of the most excellent means of
human kindness, amusement, enoourage-
meat and instruction. J. V. B.
A Convinoing Point.
A man onaa called upon a Boston portrait
painter and asked him to paint his father.
"But where is your father ?" lathed he of
the brueh.
"Oh, he died ten years ago."
'Then how oan I paint him ?" asked the
artist.
"Why," was the reply, "I have just seen
your portrait of Moses. Surely, if you oan
pelat the portrait of a man who died thous.
ande of years ago you OBE more easily paint
the portrait of my father, who has moly been
dead ten years."
Seeing the sorb of man with whom hew
to deal the artist undertook the work.
When the picture was finished the newly
blossomed artrpatron was oozed in to B8E3 it.
He gazed at it in silence for some time, hie
eyes filling with tears, and then softly and
reverently said:
"So that is my father? Ah, how he is
changed 1"
A Spontaneous Affair.
Wellesley Sophomore (to Vassar ditto) :
"I do think your class yell ie just too lovely
for anything 1 How Aid you get it up ?"
Vassar Sophomore "Oh, we were having a
meeting ter that purpose, and a mouse came
gliding out of its hole. The yell WWI a kind
of spontaneous affair."
Not Always so Timid
Julia—"Yes, Tom's a good follow—hand-
some and has plenty of money—but he's go
Awfully timid and bashful, you know. He's
An agreeable young man was calling with been coming to see me twice a Week for
due ceremony on a nice Auburn girl the nearly a month, and he's never attesmpted to
other evening when her brother Tom, just kilos me."
arrived home from college) on the evening Clara—"Well, he certainly appean to
train, rushed into the room and embraced possess good taste, among his other
his dater. exoellent qualities, but really he was not
"Why, how plump you've grown, Edith 1" d timid when he celled to de me the other
he exclaimed. "You re really quite an armevening."
fail" They don't speak now.
"Isn't she 1" exclaimed the agreeable
young man—and then he felt a chill racing
down his spinal column.
"That ie," he exclaimed, I've no doubt
of it—I—"
The brother looked oarving knivea at him,
and the maiden blushed furiously.
«1 mean--er," said ho, "1 should judge
SO l"—[Lewiston joinnal.
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what it was Soared Him.
me that aealakiht .1ffeeiTy I you oettainIn bu 111•A 1 the raiddl° t' the fic4d "" " J. "11 get
W" 1E1 n a be; 11 —eV tt:ht: ff,t: really
et11:1 "ni flonry
tthlnk you °- :5 -hiller' etiti kl tt":Patih*t/ the
hat:: ttlhgri 4ght :61bead,° :n11:3°‘ all'en°'"fiele'111° °61:" urh;e;
care about; a 'mere trate. It's the tile bsia'411,t)fTee tiltlit:?°onf r4et scatitiL, "1 misun
tovaenorsiElOiEnEt tehlt noott'rest,..th' 2a64:t omit hor to acIt just veei then but I wadhat likit t '
thin i that ma,faith 'a bolo* it 1
lait leo omithe :rob, for tint:hanged
rising, too." ' , eon
&ketch Deliberation.
A Soot& country Ltd went up to a man
who wai ploughing he a field near the high-
way, and Bald, I Bay, mat, L ve cement ma
°aid." " Coupit your °anti that's a pity;
where Is it, and. Whet Was On it 1" "
doun on the road yonner, an' it was & cart
o' hay. Div ye think ye nen come and help
me to lift it ?" " Oh, yes, I'll come AS pooh
as 1 oen, but I canna leave my horde here 10
FASHION NOTE.
A German speeialist aseerts that Patti has
two extra valve) in her windpipe. She may
be eonsidered, therefore, a hind Of bivalVe5
a veritable oyster Patti.
The dowager Empress Augusta has be..
dewed during the aitet eleven yeas diplooz-
as, with her own signature and gold orossee,,
on 1,535 female servants remaining forty
years with ono fatally.
A clamming devices for the dainty gauze.
fam is to Moe one aide covered with tiny
kitten heeda bearing various expreasione.
On tint other aide canning little Utile axe
panted with rings and epaia to correspond.:
to the beetle in front.
A °banning danoin.g toilet is made of
green and gold matalasse satiu, with as
accordion -pleated blouse ang petticoat of
palest golden green crepe lisse. A soft Em-
pire sash comes from the under -arra seams -
of the bodioe, this of the lista dotted with
pendants of tiny amber breeds. The exids
reaoh the foot of the skirt and terminate in
a fall of deep fringe.
The hebit of having moveable trains is
growing. They are fastened to the waist by
handeome clasps and hnohiee whioh do the
two -fold service of use ae, well as ornament.
This braid, detsobed from the skirb, sweeps
out at the back in long straight pleats or
folds and measures from two to two and
half yards in length. It is lined throughout
with silk or sorseoeb, and a layer of muslin
is laid between the two materials. A train
so added is never whelp dissimilar from the
of the dress. The bodice is entirely or
in part of the same fabric.
The boa, a favourite article of apparel, has
obtained great favour ot late. NO11 only is
it worn as a finish to fur -trimmed street cos-
tumes, but as a wrap for the neok at the
opera, and kept on during tb.e whole even-
ing by a few ultrafeehionables here anti
there, who prefer the becoming to the con-
ventional. Of course Itis only boas of the
handeomeet description that oan be SO treet-
ed---sofb fluffy ostrich feathers, marabout,
and Russian sable, delicate to the touoh and.
rich and sombre of colour, the latter pre -
meaning a Berthing contrast to the sheen of
white satin,. the delicaoy of lad, or the
creamy tint of a pair of snowy shoulders
and the contour of a delicately. arched, fair
throat. A white ostrich boa is ale° a very
piottneeque addition, hub not so hemming.
The generality of =opaline thwart -gee*
are delighted to note thedownfall of the high
bonnet and its still higher trimmings, though.
the chronic growler who annually hurls in-
vective at bonnets and hats of outre shape,
has not raised his note of commendation yet.
High -spreading, rampant headgear is now
deemed a vidgesity, and is rarely seen. True,
there are dainty and aggressive little feather
aigrettes that ehove themselves alma° the sew
of heads, but these harmless transparent or-
naments only wave a. misty, diminutive cloud
before the spectator's eyes, and do no real
harm. Some of the hats are ultra fiat. The,
shapes have suddenly made a remarkable
collapse, demanding too suddenly from their
extreme height to extreme flatness. The new
crowns are really too low either for grace or-
beimmingness, especially when stiff wing
feathers adorn the hat, their straight uprighn.
position making the lowness of the crown all
the more pronounced. The wearers of these
ladest models have an uncomfortable feeling
as of aomething missing. Some of the brimit
are edged with fur or feather 'Wanda, and
long ostrich plumes are hiegiunitly used to
the number of three or four on one
Y. Evening Post.
It Was a Su000tash.
Maggie, the kitchen lady, to whom the
family is ander obligations for its daily peb-
alum, has had the Polioemen's Ball on the
brain for the last two weeks. The oulinina-
tion of her Lopes was reached when she
deposited her avoirdupois in a coupe Wed-
nesday evening, arrayed in gorgeous appareL
Thursday morning she showed up as fresh
as a lark, end in response to th's query as to.
having enjoyed herself she said that she had
" sphlindid toirne.'• "And did you dance,
Maggie ?" was asked. "Faith I did, sor ;
I wor on the flare four times. Three av
thim wor kittillians, an' the other wan won
what they calla a succotash."
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Itaking it Clear to Her.
A oertain learned Judge, when attempt-
ing to be clear, is at times rather perplexing.
"My good woman," he is reported to have -
said to a witness, "you must give au animas
in the feweat possible words of which yea
are capable, to the plain and simple question.
whether, when you were crossing thestreet,
with the baby on your arm, and the omnibus
was coming down on the right side and the
cab on the left side, and the brougham was.
trying to pass the omnibus, you sew the
plaintiff between the brougham and the cab,
or between the omnibus and the oab, or
whether and when you saw him at all, and:
-
whether or not near the brougham, cab, and
omnibus, or either, or any two, and whicb.
of them respectively—or how was it 1"
Street Oars in Damascus.
tAn
Imperial firman has, it is rep.orted, been
granted for the construction of is ane of tram-
ways in Damascus. Nor is this concession -
to Western oivilfzetion the only sign that the
far famed cityof Damasoue is on the high
road to becoming modernized. Gas also is
to be introduced into the oity, and the in.
habitants are eagerly awaiting the promised
innovation% which will, they believe, not
only add to their own comfort, bub will
materially inoteme the value of property
within the oity boundaries. The latest esti-
mate of the populations of Deaneacue places
13 at 150,000.—(London Times,
M. Anders Zorn% picture from the las*
French Salon, called "Ilio Peohour," has
been plaoed in the Luxembourg.
Dyneanitards in Spain are making bold
efforts at destruttiveness, but iso far they
have not been speoially suceebeful. It it a.
pity some of these fellows don't, get a hoist
with their own petards.
Henri Lefort has for the third time been
elected president of the Society .of French
Etchers. The vice president is Chatles
Couttry ; the imeretary, M Fooillon, the
i treasurer M. Mongin and thearchivisb, M.
The 'Vuitton of the divorce laws, which ia
now agitating the public mind inthe United
States, is expeoeed to come tip for general
disotiashn in England. Mr. Gladden°, 13 18
ie etudying the subject. It is custom -
sty to throw donee at the 'United, States for
the Mitrierimet divorces whioh take place
among its people, but daddies show that
the percentage of divorcee in England 13
, growing with alarming rapidity, Since the
• Divorce Act was adopted by Parliament,
thirty years ago, there have been no fewer
' than 13,022. stilts brought tinder it ; and is
'7,295—more than half—the °Min has pub
asunder those whom the Church had ioitie4
' together,