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MANY BEAUTIFUL GARDENS.
Rev. Dr. Talmage e Discourses on the
Springtime.
.
Mtany Beautiful Gardens in the World -.The Church
Compared to a Garden -The Different Kinds of
Flowers --Mien's Character Compared to the
Flowers.
A despatch from Washington says: bas in the garden, and if they are not
-Or. Talmage pgpreached from the fol- there
lowing text:-" I ani oome into my THEN SHAME ON THE CHURCH,
garden,"-Solomon'a Song, v.i, Religion le not a mere flowering senti-
Christ said this to the Church, us- useatality, It is a pra(tioal, 1LEe giving,
fag a figure that seems veryfreak' healthful fruit -act posies, don't
pies. Oh," 'says somebud,v, "I dun t
and suggestive this morning, now as seetwhaL your .garden of the Church
the blossoms begin to start, and the has yielded," Where did your asylums
coma from? and your hoapita1e? and
parks are alive with birds migrating your institutions of mercy? Christ
northward, and our yards are being pleated every one of them; He plant -
Planted and trimmed. If you have ed them in His garden, When Christ
been In the outekirte pf Lha city this gave sight: to Bartinieus, Ile laid the
morning, as I have been, now that the corner -stone of every blind asylum
that has ever bean bujlt. When
veil of the darkness and the stormis Christ soothed the demoniac of Guli-
taken away, you have seen Christ lee, Be laid the corner -stone of every
walking amid the hyacinths, and un- lunatic asylum that baa ever
established, When Christ said tic=
der the tree branohes, and in the gar- sick roan: 'Take up thy bed and walk,'
dens, and you have heard His voice He laid the oorner-stone of every hos-
more distinctly than you hear my pita' the world has ever seen. When
awn saying: "I am come into My gar Christ said; "I was in prison, and ye
visited Me," He laid the corner -&tone
den:." of every prison reform association
That would be a strange garden in that' has ever been formed. The
which there ware no flowers. If no- Church of Christ is a glorious garden,
where else they will be along the bor- ait rit. w.thera
dens, or at the gateway. The ilomeli- is somend is poorfull fruitoffinuit, I Iknoknows there
IX aro some weeds that ought to have
araC taste will dictate something, if it been thrown over the fence. I know
be the old-fasbioned hollyhock, or there are some crabapple -trees that
dahlia, or daffodil, or cercopsis; but, ought to be cut down. I know 'there
pea tnac ought t
If there be larger means, then you will be 'uprooted; but are you going t
find the Mexican cactus and dark- destroy the whole garden because of a
veined arbutelion, and blazing tuella little gnarled fruit'd You will find
worm-eaten leaves to Fontainebleau,
and clustering oleander. Well, now, and insects that sting in the, fairy
Christ comes to His garden, and He groves of the Champs Elysees. You do
plants there some of the brightest not tear down and destroy the whole
spirits that ever flowered upon the
world. Some of them are violets, in-
conspicuous, but sweet In heaven.
'You have to search to find thein. You
dm not see thein very often, perhaps,
but you find where they have been
by the brightening Pace of the invalid,
and the sprig of geraaitmn on: tbe
stand, and the new window -curtains
keeping out the glare of the sunlight,
They are, perhaps, more like the ran-
unculus, creeping sweetly along amid
ing o -morrow moron that h -
the thorns and briars of life, giving ion will keep them just as,eonsistarant
kiss for sting, and many a man who and consecrated on "exchange" as it
has. had in his way, some great black ever kept these at the communion -
reek of trouble, has found that they table, There are women here this
morning covered it all over with flowery of a highar tape of charas_ T
tel than bfary of Balhany. ley not
j:isamine running in and out amid the only sit at the feat of Christ, but they
ereviees, These Christians in Christ's go out into the kitchen to help
garden are not like the sunflower Martha. in her work, that she may sit
gaudy in the light; but whenever dark- thhaere too. There ds a woman who
ages hovers over a soul that needs to DR('NJZ N 13C:5I3A7J
N,
be rnrriforted, there they stand night -
blooming Vel,`IINAS
ightbloomingrcretr•cs Rut in C']irist'a gar- who has exhibited more faith, and
patience, and courage than Hugh
den there are plants that msy be bet- Latimer in the fire. He was consume.
ter compared to the Mexican cactus ed in twenty minutes. Her's has been
-thorns without, lovelinrs• within--'
tiwes have high feneee around than,
and 1 oannoti get in. It le a/with
the King's garden, The only glimpttes
yon ever get of snob a garden is when
the king ridge otut in his splendid oat'
ritlge, et is not so with; this gaetien
this
King's garden. T throw wide
open the gate, and tell you all to comp
in, No monopoly' in religion, uo-
ever will, may, Lhooso now beiWwoen
a desert and a garden, 4410Y, of you
have tried/ the garden of this Werld's
dellgbt, Yon beeea hound It has been
a c haS rin, Sol it wart with; Theodore
Hook. He made tall the world laugh.
He makes up laugh now when we read
lass perusebut he could not make his
own heart laugh, While in the midst"
of his festivitiea, be confronted a
looking -[*,lass, end he saw Mineolaand said: "Mares that is true. I look
just rte I are, done up en body, mind,
and purse," So it was,wlth Sheustone,
of whoa° garden I told you at the
beginning of my sermon, Ile sat down
time amid the bowers, and said; "I have
lost MY road to happiness, I am was-
gs•y, and envious, and frantic, and de-
spiee everything around Dle, just as
it becomea a madman to do." Oh,
ye weary souls, conte into Christ s
garden to -day, and pluck a little
heart's -ease.
CHRIST as TUE. ONLY REST
and the only pardon, for a perturb-
ed spirit. Da you not think your
[Mancebad, almost comet You men
and women who have been waiting
year after year for some good ode
portunity in whiten to accept Christ
but have, postponed it five, ten,
twenty, thirty years, do you not feel
as id your ;hour of deliverance, and
pardon, and salvation, had come?
Oh, mart What grudge hast thou
against thy, poor amyl, that thou
wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if
salvation musts come this morning in
some of, your hearts.
the
Somerocksyea,rsTago,hey ahad vasosalnly stone rucklifeon
-
boat, In that life -boat the passen-
gers and crew were getting ashore.
The vessel had foundered, and was
sinking deeper and deeper, and that
e one boat could not take the passen-
gers very swiftly. A little girl stood
on the deck, waiting for her turn to
get into the boat, The boat came and
went -came and went -but her turn
did not seem to come, After awhile
she could wait no longer, and she/
leaped on the taffrail, and then sprang,
into the sea, crying to the boatman:
'Save me' next h Save me next l" Oh,
how many have gone ashore into God's
mercy, and yet you are clinging
to the wreck of sin. Others have aa,
cepted the pardon of Christ, but you
are in peril. Why not, this morning,
make a rush for your immortal res-
cue, crying until Jesus shall hear you,
and heaven and earth ring with the
cry, "Save me next I Save me next 1"
Now is the day of salvation. Now!
Nowt
•
garden because there are a few
specimen ,of gnarled fruit. I admit
there are mien and women in the
Church who ought nut to be there;
but let us be just as frank, and acbnit
the fact that there are hun-
dreds and thousands and tens
of thousands of glorious Christian
MAD and women -Moly, blessed, use-
ful, consecrated, and triumphant.
There is no grander collection in all
the earth than the collection of Chris-
tians, There are Christian men in
this house, whose religion is not a mat-
ter of psalm -singing and church -go -
a teems. years' anartyrdom. Yonder
men with char marlin ,,; , is a act en is a man who has lain fifteen years on
p i his back, unable even to feed himself,
They wound almost every one the+ yet maim and peaceful as tbough he
touches them. Tbey are hard to hen- lay on one of the green, banks of hea-
ven, watching tbe Oarsmen dip their
paddles in the crystal river! Why,
it seems to me this moment, as if St,
Paul threw• to us 'i pomologist's
catalogue of the fruits growing in
this great garden of Christ -love, joy,
peace, patience, charity, brotherly
kindness, gentleness, mercy - glorious
fruit, enough to fill all the baskets el
earth and heaven.
;Again:. the Church, in my text, is
appropriately called a garden, because
it is thoroughly Irrigated. No garden
could prosper long without plenty of
water. 1 have seen a garden in the
midst of a desert, yet blooming and
luxuriant, All around was dearth
and barrenness; but there were pipes,
aqueducts reaching from this garden
up to the mountains, and through
those aqueducts the water rano
streaming down curl tossing up into
beautiful fountains, until every rout,
and leaf and flower were saturated,
violent temper. Yesterday g, murrain That is like the Chur: h. The Church
is a garden in the midst of a great
1 was crossing very early at the Jer- desert of sin and suftt t in,:; it is well
say city ferry, and I saw a milkman Irrigated, for "our eyes are unfothe
otank r aclarge mount of i of him: `I think into the bide from whence cometh our help.'
that willn su and saidhe insulted 1 t and From the mon•ntatns of God's stretorth
1 knocked him,'dove. Do you think there flow( down rivet's of gladness.
I ought to join the Church!" Never- There is a river, the stream, wheredf
y Pea ing( glad ;lie city n oafs hod,
tireless, that very same man, who was Preaching the Gospel is Dna of these
so harsh in his behaviour, laved aqueducts. The i3ible is another.
Christ, and could not speak of seared Baptism. and the Lord's Suter are
things without tears of emaqueducts. Water
otion and e
affection. Tborns without, but sweet-
oreto slake the thirst
ness within -the best speedmen of water to restore the faint, water to
Mexican cactus I ever saw.
wash the unclean, water Cussed high
In this garden of the Church, which up in the light of the Sun of eighte-
Christ. has planted, 1 also find the roun s, showing us the rainbow
slinowdrops, beautiful but cold look- around the throne. Ohl was there
ng, seemingly uuother phase of the ever a garden so thoroughly irrigctt-
wimter. 1 mean those Christians who ed? You know that the beauty of
are precise in their tastes, eneswes- Versailles rind Chatsworth depends
monad, pure AS snowdrops and as very much upon, the great supply of
cold. They never shed any tears, water. I came to the letter place,
they never get excited, they never say Chatsworth, one day when strangers
anything rashly, they never do any- are not to be admitted; but by en ta-
ttling preeipita tely. Their psises dunement, which. always seemed as
never flutter, their nerves never applicnbla to an Englishman. as an
twitch, their Indignation never boils American, I got in, and then the gar-
over. Tboy live longer than most dener went, far up above the stairs
people; but their life is in a minor of; stone, and
key. They never run op to "C"' above TURNED ON THE WATER.
die. Men pronounce them nothing but
barna,
BUT CHRIST LOVES THEM,
nutwithst ending all their sharpness,
Jlany a man has had very hard ground
to culture, and it has only been
through severe toil he has raised even
the smallest eros of grace. A
very harsh minister was talk-
ing with a very placid elder, and
the placid elder said to the harsh
minister: "Doctor, I do wish yon
would control your temper." "Ah,"
said the minister to the elder, "I con -
control mora Lem'per in five minutes
than you do in five years." It is
harder for some men to do right than
for others to do right. The grace
that would elevate you to the sev-
enth heaven might not keep your bro-
ther frabn knocking a man down. I
had a friend who came to me and said:
"I dare not join the Church." I said;
"Why?" "Oh," be said: 'L have web a
This Sabbath is the last for some
of you. It is about to sail away for
ever. Iter bell tolls. The planks
thunder back in the gangway. She
shoves off. She floats out towards
the great ocean of eternity. Wave
farewell to your last chance for heav-
en. Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! how
often would I have gathered thee as a
• hen gathereth her brood under her
wings, and ye would not. Behold,
your hoarse is left unto you desolate.
Invited to revel in n. garden, you die
ids a desert. May God Almighty, be-
fore it is too late, break that'infatua-
tion.
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LOVE If1IEflS.
Of modern English letter w•ritars,
but four are of remarkable merit.
Grey, Horace Walpole, Cooper and
Charles Lamb.
Lady Mary Worthley Montagu was
doubtless celebrated in the line of lit-
erature, but her letters are marred by
a certain iodelicaey of tone and aself-
consciousness which will not bide it- 1
self.
Lord Chesterfield's famous epistles
to his son, are more creditable to his
bead than to his heart; polished man P
or the world though be was, his teach- o
ings show hien to have been but a sor-
ry gentleman.
bmLme. de Sevigue's are always cheer-
ing, for she possessed the rare art of
giving a touch of biucere coloring to b
her correspondence, whatever the sub-
ject.
Honore 13nlzae's letters to Dime. de
Henske. before his nutrringe with that
lady, are all that is pure, refined and
d eligps tfuh b
But not one of t hoes had, even in
a remote degree, any influence over
the style of the cpLetolary literature
of the age, whilst a small. volume of
182 pages, consisting of five love let-
ters, written by an unknown woman
immured in an obscure convent to a
rernote province of Portugal nearly
three centuries ago, and entitled sim-
ply "Leltres Portuguese," suddenly
revmlaiionized the art of letter writ-
ing and became a modal for the whole
of Europe.
In the seventeenth century the style
of correspondence in France and .Eng- s
land was laho°'lous, affected, finioml Y
and illuslvo. Wcmcu expressed the a
ecmptex emotions of their hearts With
complex insipidity and with an club- a
orale effort al rhetoric wh�ie.l1 was et 1
(ace weariwoute and irritating. It in
deed seemed, rte Talleyrand, exnreased e
11, that words were used to disguise
their feelings rather then exp roes
them.
A short. prefetie to the "Leitree
Portuguese ' which were Published in
Peres Mates Ihal they were written
to is "gentleman of quality" who'was
$8EU;O 1,QSTo.
soldiering In Portage', of whesenama
the psebilshar was ignorant.
Edition after edition of thin ourioua
little bank was willed for. Its auoaaea
wee immediate and uitpreeedented,
Countless r'apetitione of the Legatee/
numerous trttnsluttiaps appeared,
Moate of imitetiena flooded the book
stores, taut the genuine letters held
their own.
Who was the woman la Row game It
that any loan who received such let-
ters (Wold have allowed mortal eye
other tbius ids own to reel on them?
AJII that the letters told was tba
the [Janie of the welter yes Marianna
that she was a nun,. that her convent
windows overlooked the plains of Mar-
ton, that she lead loved and lost,
So dareat and so eloquent in thein
olassie aimediolty were the axprossione
off a forsaken woman that the eyes
off the world at tube opened to its
own deficiency, and freta the day of
the appearance of the i'ortugueee
tetters began Lo express themselves
[n simple direct: and sincere lenguage.
Thi+ letters are valuable as a-'rev'e-
lation of the heart, pure and eim-
ple. They tiaintaiie no Ineident, no at-
tempt at rhetoric, but are simply the
successive appeals of an unhappy wo
man who repeats her protestations
Of love without any effort at sense -
time or effect. Whits'. she clamors at
the door for mercy, she is fully con.
salmis that the impassioned incident
of her life is closed forever, but she is
absolutely powerless to moderatehar
emotions.
In her fdrat letter, whlc:b begins
abruptly and angrily, Inc .it would ap-
pear hat bar lover had ridden off
without a personal farewell, shesayt
"Your Lieutenant' tells me that a
storm forced you to put into port a
few tutees from here. Are you: quite
sure that your Lieutenant takes more
interest In all that bappens to you
than I do? Why do you keep him bet-
ter informed than you do nee? I am
very unfortunate if you find no oppor-
ity of writing to ,me before your de-
parture, and still more so if you
found one and did not use it in writ-
ing to me. Ton take advantage of
the excuses which you had for going
hack to France. A ship was starting.
Why did you not let her start? How
can it be that having known the depth
of my? heart and affections you are
able to persuade yourself to abandon
me forever and 80 expose me to the
terrors of believing that, for the fu-
ture, I shall be forgotten and sacra -
Bead to the memory of some new pas -
son."
Her misery culminates in the third
Fetter, which is unsurpassed as a re-
velation of the self-Lorture of a sen-
sitive mind.
• '91 can not persuade myself that you
may no lohger be thinking of ma,
and indeed I am feverish[y jealous of
whatever may give you happiness and
of all that may touch your heart and
please your taste in Trance. I do not
know why I write to you, I see well
enough that you wall only pity me,
but I do net wish your pity.°
She recognized fully the hopeless-
ness of her Int, twit write she must.
In the fourth letter she says:
"Dora Brites has been persecuting
nee for the last few days to leave my
room, fancying it would amuse me.:
She took me for a tour on the balcony
from; which one has a view of Martoli,
but onoe there a cruel memory surg-
ed me and kept me company for tbe
rust of the day. . . . Whatever. is
done to solace nee, and augment( my
sufferings, and in the remedies, there-
fore, 1 -find infinite reasons why I
should! be miserable. I have often seen
you pass this spot and I was on that
balcony on the fatal day when I first
began to feel symptoms of my 111 -
starred passion. I fancied that you
wished to please me, although you did
not know me. I persuaded myself that
you had noticed me amongst all the
ladies that were with me. Your air
charmed me and I fancied that you
were pleased that I should admire."
It was many years balore the clew
given by the allusion to the plains of
Martell brought forth even a part, of
the romantic history of the immor-
tal letters which ware to create auah
a sensation and exercise such an ex-
traordinary influence in their way.
At length St. Simon and Duolos, the
French philosopher, informed the
world that the parsonage to whom
the letters were addressed was the
Marquis de Chantilly, a brave soldier,
and afterward Marahal of France, and
ubsequentiy a student, pursuing the
quaint old book, found a marginal
note in faded ink, stating that the
otters had been written by one Mer-
nnne A,itaforado, a nun in a convent
at Baja, in the Province of Aluntijo.
Research proved this to be correct and
Ind to the elucidation of such scant
artieulars as we are now poseessad
1. Of Marianna nothing more is
known. But of the Marquis de Chan -
illy, history frequently speaks,
CARE OF THE EYES.
Avoid sudden ebnages from dark to
rilliant light.
Do not depend on your judgment in
Young Folks. f
KITTY'S MISTAKE, •
"Deal' ate 1 whet oan I hear," says
""A little wound of 'cheep, ehiiep,
'Tie obipi ens young and tender;
So round the forme i'il (reap, oreap,
Droop,
No doubt Old Biddy's fast asleep,
So she no help oan render."
""I think I'll have a tender, meal,"
So round 'the 'fenpe she crept, orept,
crept,
But not a °Woken slept, elopes slept,
And Biddy, too, was there'
And wicked Kitty atood and quaked
At J3idtly's awful stare.
"What do you want round here?",
said she;
"You're up to mischief, 1 can Beet
So quietly you crept around
You meant to eat my chicks, I fear,
And thought that I was out of the
way:
Quick 11et me hoar what you've to
say."
Kitty began an,explanation;
Biddy broke in with indignation,
,,"You say you only meant to play;
Tell me that tale aneither day .
I know what was your wicked wish 1
My ohickb. would make a tender dish I"
"But you a lesson 1 will teach
Unless you're quickly out of re oh!
She rushed at Kit with wings out-
spread
And lilt got one peck on the heed.
"I've had enough of this," she/ said,
Then quickly turned, and fled, fled,
fled1
selecting spectacles.
Up to forty years oL age, bathe 'the
yes twice daily with sold water.
When the eyes are tired, rest them
y looking at objects from a distance.
Avoid reading when lying down or
'ban mentally or physically depressed,
Always ride in railway coaches with
back toward engine; 11 is more agree-
able and safer.
Old persons should avoid reading
much by artificial light; be guarded as
to diet, and avoid Bitting up late at
night. •
Avoid atimulants and drugs which
affect the nervous system, espeoially
when they tiro known to exert an in-
jurious influence.
After fifty years of age bathe the
eyes morning and evenings with water
o hot that you would weeder how
ou would stand It; .follow this with
old water, tbat will make them glow
with warmth.
Do not give up in despair when you
re informed that a eataruct is deve-
oping; remember that to those days
of advancing surgery it oan be remov-
d with little danger to The vision,
the Muff, In the music of their life
they have no staccato passages.
Christ planted them in the Church,
and they ,must he of some service, or
they would not be there; snowdrops,
always snowdrops.
Again: The Church may be appro-
priately compared to a garden, be -
pause it is a place of seleet fruits.
That would be a strange garden
which bad in it no berries, no plums,
he peaches, or apricots. The coarser
fruits are planted in the orchard, or
they are set out on the sunny hill-
side; but the choicest fruits are kept
In the garden, 40 in the world out -
gide the Church, Christ has planted a
great ninny beautiful things -patio
canoe, charity, generosity, integrity;
but no intends the choicest fruits to
t saw its gleaming an the dry pave-
ment, coming, down from step to step
until it cams so near I could hear the
musical rush, and all over the high,
broad stairs ib Dame foaming, flash-
ing, roaring down, until sunlight and
wave ire gleesome' wrestle tumbled at.
my feet., Setitis with the Church of
God. Everything come from above,
pardon Erode above, joy from above,
adoption from( above, sanctification
from above, Ohl that now. God would
turn on the waters of salvation, that
they miglst flow down thrbug'h this
heritage, and that to -day we might
find this vary place to be "Elim„”
with twelve wells of water, and three
score and ten palmets'oes.
I notice that the fine gardaua some -
A SUBSTITUTE.
The Moke.-•Why do they put such
a 1ot off stuff on hills of faro?
The bran -So that you II eat leas.i
You know Bacon mays, heading mak-
ell a fall man.
FOR WOTTLD-BE POPULAR GIRLS.
First -;Remember' that a good voice
is as essential to self-possession as
good ideas are essential to fluent lan-
guage. The voice should be carefully
Trained and developed. A full, eleur,
flexible voice is one of the surest in-
dications of good breeding
Second-JIiemember that one may be
witty without being popular, voluble
without being agreeable, a great talk-
er and yet a great born.
Third -Be sincere. Ona who habitu-
ally sneers at everything not only ren-
ders herself disagreeable to others, but
will soon cease to find pleasure in life.
Fourth -Be frank. A frank, open
countenance and a Clear, °beery
laugh are worth far more even socially
bitten "pendantry in a stiff cravat."
Fifths -Be amiable. You may hide a
vindictive nature under a polite exter-
ior for a time, as a cat mases its sharp
claws in velvet Sur, but the least pro-
vocation brings out one as quickly as
the other, and ill-natured people are al
ways disliked.
Sixth -Be sensible, Society never
lacks for fools, and what you may con-
sider very enterprising nonsense may
soon be looked upon its very tiresome
folly.
Seventh De cheerful. If you bays no
great trouble on your mind you have
mo right to render other people miser-
able by your long face and dolorous..
tones. If you do you will be general-
ly avoided.
Eighth -Above all. be cordial and
sympathetio. True oordiality and sym-
pathy unite all the other qualities en-
umerated and are certain to secure
the popularity so dear to everyone.
The girl who not only keeps in mind
but conscientiously practices in her ev-
eryday life these eight rules will have
no occasion to question her popularity.
Wherever she goes she will find her-
self a general favorite, no matter if
she cannot boast beauty of face or
form nor any special acaomplisbments,
She will forget herself in her interest
in othans when these rules are car-
ried out, and it is this self-forgetPul-
ness and sympathetic interest in oth-
ers Which will give the unconscious
chasm important both in" the soedai
end home life
PAID HIM BACK.
A visitor to the cireus one day
teased one of the elephants by offer-
ing it/ a bun, and, just: as the animal
was going to take it, paining it back
out of' hos reach. This he did several!
times, and at last the elephant
naturally began. to feel rather angry,
and finally. he refused even to look at
the bum, or do attempt to: take et.
Later in, the afternoon the elepliaut
was being marched around the show
ground, when in the crowd he spied
his tormentor. I
He reached oust his trunk and calm-
ly appropriated, the man's hat. Jae
held rt in his trunk for some time
and thou offered it to its owner. But
as sods uta he attempted to take it
pulled i1 back in the same way as the
men had done with the bun.
This he did two ar three times but,
after holding' it out the lust time, he,
drew 11' back and swallowed it, mush
to the man's dfsgvu'st,
ed ribbon, the oalioo ruffle standing
above it, about our peeks,
" Our wraps were plaid sthawla, and
Mother knit our Winter ateehings pi
yawn waren as ampuse's neat,
"Our winter everyday Shoes were a
leather, lapod earl with popper Wee;
our beat boots were heavy kid, also lap'.
ed. One head -gear Was uhooked ging-
ham and (hegke(' ealico sun -bonnets
for soilool in waren weaalier-some
tunes "slut" bonnets, with strips of
pastoeaoard inserted iia the crown -hon-
est bonnets; with long (apoe.
In 'winter we wore hovers. Millie
and I thought we were indeed ' fixed;
wheal we donned our Sunday hoods'
here of red zephyr, shading to palest
pink, and mitre of dirk blue shading
to pale. Timy had even shaded rib.
bon for drawstrings,' earl were too sac-
redly proolaus for sebool. For that or-
dinary wear we had home-made worst-
ed bonnets, quilted, or ;some -knit yarn
hoods,
f nnnnr id lift I1flTi I
1 EALTHH.
TO RESTORE BEAUTY.
When you are tired you are ugly,
and the proper thing to (10 is to go
into retreat. An Englishwoman,
whose daughter is the reigning belle,
says: "The first thing that profes-
sional beauty mustlearn is never to
let the world see bar except at her
very best, neither tired icor nervous
nor unbecomingly dressed, if you
look sallow or sunburnt, or have in-
flttenza, atay at home, but don't lose
your reputation as a beauty by ven-
turing out, It is beet to burn up a
good dress if you can't dye it or give
it away, if the afoot on you is grotes-
qne."
This is a severe dictum from high
quarters, but its truth is known to
those who know the world. The Eng
lisb are examples of inner harmony,
and taste, when they really do excel
be dress. When ypu are fatigued lie
down, not on a pillow, but perfectly
flat, pull u shawl over your feet and
darken the room. This rests the eyes.
It has been said that Mee, Langtry
never sleeps facing a glare, but al-
ways in a darkened room, with a
screen before the window. Hot milk
is more reviving than spirits when one
one is very tired and is obliged to
face the public again shortly. Sharry
wine, a teaspoonful in a cup of bouil-
lan,is good to take after a hot bath.
A gruel made of cream and celery
makes one sleep like a baby, whtle
spinach or onion soup will bleach the
dingiest skin to freshness. The pupils
in French convents eat a soup of
leeks or sorrel when they expect com-
ponY. •
Bot water and pure soap will cleanse
the face and erase wrinkles for the
time being, if Ley water, is dashed re-
peatedly over the face immediately
after. A headache may be scared
away by a cloth wet in alooboi and
cold water at the nape of the neck
and• a hot water bag .applied to the
feet. A glass of hot water with salt
in will ward off indigestion if drank
slowly at the beginning oft tri attack.
Slippery elm tea will cure a eaid,
and a tea made of black walnut
leaves is a better spring tonin, ac-
cording to a celebrated French dao -
tor, than sarsaparilla. Poplar bark
one-half ounce powdered, to a pint o1
water, boiled down very strong and
mixed with port wine, will, if taken in
thrice daily doses of a teaspoonful,
restore appetite and prevent: malaria.
SULPHUR AS A FUMIGANT.
The fumigating properties of sul-
phur have long made it a valuable
household remedy, and the sulphur
candles now on the market fill a long_
felt want.
Not only are they a convenient dis-
infectant, but they aro almost sure
death to flies, red aunts, roaches and
moths.
The room to be fumigated must be
tightly closed, even the keyholes stop-
ped with paper; then closets, trunks,
drawers and all infected receptacles
must be opened, so the fumes of the
sulphur can penetrate every nook and
cranny.
The candle is put in a metal Dandle-
stiok and set in an earthen or lronyes-
sel-a coal ,hod will answer quite as
well as anthing else.
The only requisite is that it shall be
deep enough to prevent the flames
setting fire to anything. Care must
be not to inhale the flame when,
lighting the candle.
The room should be kept closed for
about four hours, during whish time
the purifying fumes of the sulphur
will thoroughly do their work,
These Bandies must not be used
where there is gilt paper, picture rails
or picture frames, as ibey will be tar-
nished.
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A gentleman with a faculty for sole
;acting statistics has boom lately pup,
ening conte rather novel inclulriee re..
Intimating the population ell London..
The main objeot in view, wee to amen.
tan the parts of Great Britain which
furnish London with its population,
for it is a ourinua fact that a third
of London's residents are not Londe*
ars at all. To a groat extent the
metropolis is composed of people who
were born In the pravinoes and came
to Landon' in the hope of.improviuo'
their positions.
The statistician wire bee been mak-
ing these investigations has forward, -
ami the results to the London Daily,'
il;tail and it would appear therefrona
that out of every thousand people
living In London 000 were born in the
metropolis, 310 in the; provinces, in
Scotland, Ireland, Walee and the
• email islands, and thirty have come
from foreign countries. Every third
man you meet in the streets of Lon,.
don is consequently an, Outlander.
IThese Outdaudors are by no means
the poorest, and most struggling oe.
the population. They have the pink
of every kind•of work, they live
IN THE HEALTHY SUBURBS
,and Dumpy the new houses. London-,
•ers proper crowd into the densely*
populated districts, six in a room,
,Tile manager of the London Road
Car Company told Mr. Booth - the
greatest living authority op London's
population -that fully one-half of
his staff are provincials. It is said
that the General Omnibus Company's
staff consists of three provincials to
one London -born. The vast majority
of railway porters are country -men.
More than ]calf the shop-assiettants
and nearly all the caretakers of Lon-
don hail from tba provinces, The
police force is mainly recruited, front
the country, Quite two-thirds of the
masons, carpenters, plumbers and
others engaged in the building trade
are from the country,' and it is a
remarkable fact that at the building;
of the Tower Dridgo most of the skil-
led mechanics were north country
men. Contractors, in faot, prefer to
employ men who were born out of
London, assorting that each does from
a fourth to a third more work than
a native of the metropolis.
' What part of the country do those
Outlanders mostly come from? Dis-
tance seems to have the main
INFLUENCE ON IltEMIGRATION.
If you draw a (umbar of circles
around London you will find that
very nearly half the immigrants
come from an average distance of
about sixty miles, from Kent, Surrey,
Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Bedford, Hunts, Oxford, etc. The
large and populous counties, Yorks
shire, and Lancashire, furnish acom'-
paratively small number, as wages are
good and employment plentiful there,
besides the fact that the great north-
ern cities attract those' who like the
brightness
and bustle oflarge towns,
If you take an average thousand
Londoners you .will find that 000 were
born amid its own bricks and mortar,
That leaves 340 to accounr for.
In ;bis remainder Kentish men are
1 the mast numerous, amounting to 24,
;Natives of Essex, wh.o crowd into the
east end, run the Kentish men pretty
close, as tliey number 28.
'Chen there is a big drop to na-
tives of Middlesex, who number .17, and
they aro closely followed by Surrey
men, who are only one fewer,
1 Irishmen come next in numbers, no
fewer than 15 natives of the Emerald
Isle being found among every thou-
sand metropolitans, Of Ela mpahire
folk there are fourteen, and. of De-
vonians thirteen. Next there is an
EVEN DOZEN EACH OF SCOTSMCN,
Norfolk men and Suffolk men. The
,Berkshire men number eleven, the
Hertfordshirians nine, the Glouees-
tors anti Yorkshires eight, and the
native of Wiltshire, of Biekingham
and of Lancashire seven each, The
oolong; -born Londoners also number
seven.
Under the heading of the Buff -dozens
(tome Welshmen, Warwickshires, Can-
bridgeshires - and half a dozen who
neglected I.o tell the census commis -
pion exactly where they were !torn.
Of Oxfordshires and Somersels there
are only five, while there aro four
from Cornwall, four iron Dorset, four
from Northampton and four from
Lincolnshire.
Prom the remaining counties sur-
prisingly few Outlanders come to seta
the do London. Staffordshire urea
number three, and only tire are nu-
tives each of the counties of [lunting,.
donshire, Barer rd, Shropshire, Wor-
cester, Leiceeter, Nottingham, Dur -
hem and Narthun,berland,
Of Derbyshire and Cheshire men
there are 1 1-2 such, while from Cum-
berland, Monmouth, the Channel Is-
lands and the Isle of Man ibere is only
li singly representative in eachthou,.
sand Londoners.
Rutland natives amount to holyy
one-third of a MAI/to the thousand,
while Vl estmoreland furnishes only
one-faurth, or one whole elan l:o 4,000
Londoners. ISnally, a quarter of a
man in each iheasand
W,AS BORN AT SEA,
11 is a remarkable Mat that : there
are far more female than male Out-
landers in London. Of foreigners
there are, within asmatll fraction, the
same number per thousand as there
are natives el Essex -that is,
Cluso on seven of those are lt•usslana
and Russian'Poles, who congregate Ln
the east and; saved more are Germans,
who aro scattered all over London, A,
trifle over two aro Frenchmen and
Frenchwomen, who live mOslly either
in the west end or .about: Soho,
Of Italians (hero are Anil. 1 1-2 per
othrioruaasnn0o1 w)huiltacbLima reonnusoininofg liA3u4-
are made up of visitors from all (11110r
quarters of,the globe,
Modern ;Tabylon ie cerininly a was.
derful human botch -Welt.
THE HEALTHFUL BEDROOM.
A lady noted for her good taste and
her unusual ability as a housekeeper
says that evsrythiug about a sleep -
ng room should be simple, immaculate
and ettsily kept so. Bedrooms may
be either carpeted with mattlug or
the floors oiled and rags placed beside
the beds. 1f the walls tare papered the
colors should be modest and the pat-
tern subdued.
The windows should be curtained so
as to be uniform' with the rest of the
Neuse, but too mucb drapery is an
abomivation and it should be entirely
dispensed with in a sick rooms Thebedroom is what its name implies, a
place of repose, and everything about
t should lie conducive to the one pur-
pose of sleeping, Pictures bud garish
urnittsre, or - articles not actually
necessary to the comfort of the ca
upant should be entirely ignored,
Above ell things, a sleeping apartment
hould be flooded for at least oho !sour
luring the day with sunlight and have
n at night an abundance of fresh
eking care the while. that the sleeper
si
a al. exposed Io a draft.
HOW THEY DRESSED. t 1
"How nicely the little girls of to:
day are dressed," said a mamma who
was a little girl in the long ago days,
"How sharp is the contrast between
these girls and those of 20 or 30 Years
ago In winter we wore calico dressesch
for best as well as for sool wear, If
WO had a woolen dress i1 was made of
red and blue clhooked flannel, of the
kind that long aline toll into disuse,'
even Inc petticoats, and wibh 1t we
wore browns-oheckcd calico alcove
aprons, to keep it clean.
" now well I remember the joy with: 1
which wo hailed same new dresses that
were .bought for us one October day. f
Our new sohool gowns were sprinkled
with green clover leaves; Millie's Sun-
day dress, of. shining ' oil' calico, had a
strawberries acattared over a dark
green ground, wihtle mine had sprays i
of red roses over a black ground. Wa t
had each an inch -wide piece of flower- 1