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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-9-5, Page 2XE.W.**)1(.4e)VereVeNe WEI qeMelf(1,1W.XN/X:,* Or The ie ed Witch 7g0)1(43.:03if Wooing Of cclustantia. '410WsW40W4,m4W,W4W+A.WSWiWOW4W4A00M0)034* 071APTEle IL—Ooetirrued. She mune in with a beef Mettle ulnae her lips and kindly iightjjleei eyee, ' A elender, gracefel girl, 'very eeld, vory self-contained, with a, sub- dued, haughtiness thet was born evitl her, awl was no spurious ollepring o her Marriage, let full of a, sweet gra- ciousness that get Most Pertectly up- on her, She looked only a girl, in sPite Of lier three years of wedded Wo rind her motherhood. Her face we (singularly devoid of colo, being t elear Ivory; her lips Wore pure; bei twee rather deeply Set aud very ear test; beneath them great purpl ehadows lay-eeheelows that added to their gravity, but had nothing to do with deliceme Her dark hair wa coiled in loose knot et -the back o her bend, Dona rose and went towards her Ievoluntarily she looked past her to the door, but no eme elee came, In She received her visitor with a deli- cious little touch of friendliness, be- ing, perhape, freer to do this in that the kindly Soar had admitted no one but her. Lady 'Valley seemed 'struck by her and pleased, "So more than good of you to ono nn so soon," said Doe, prettily, when Lady Varley bad greeted Con- stantia affectionatelee and Mr. Dun- das with the courtesy that belonged to her. By this Unite Donna bad re- eovered any little embarrassment sho might have known, If not better dressed, her gown was, at ail events, more striking than her visitor's, and there could be no doubt as to which avonian had the greatee claim to beauty, Lady Varley ;night not please the many. Her face was too pale, her mouth not prone enough to laughter. -Sometimes a glance from the earnest eyes had power to check unkindly mirth in others. 01 the soul shining through those eyes few cared to know. Society likes to laugh. "I am so glad to Mid you at home —to make your acqpaintance really," said Lady Varley, in her hew, dis- tinct voice. "One may go on for ever leaving cards without knowing enyone. And half feared this lovely day might have tempted you to go out." "Men one has only just come to a new place there are so many little things one must see to oneself, if one ie to live." answered Donna, who never did anything. She put on quite a little housewifely air, that sat charmingly on her and would have been perfect on a mimic stage. Lady Varley smiled in quick appreci- ation, and Mr. Dundee told himself he had inarried an angel. Coneean- tia looked down and frowned. "But I ern glad I could not go out," went on Mrs. Dundee, with one of her bril- liant smiles, "as my staying; in has enabled me to see you." Then quite suddenly: "Lord Varley did floe come with you?" She changed her position and fixed her eyes full upon her vis- itor as she a.sked this. "No, unfortunately. On Monday we hoard of your arrival, On Tues- day Lord Varley was obliged to go to Dublin. Business will, 1 um afraid, keep him there for a. week or ten days. On his return," she look- ed at Mr. Dmidas here and smiled eweetly, "he hopes to call upon you. Mrs. Dundee and he are, know, quite old friends." Her manner was simple, and very cordial. "She knows nothing," thought Donna, watching her closely. Satis- fied on this point she removed her gaze, and a faint sigh of relief es- caped her. "I am giving a dance on the seven- teenth," said Lady Varley. "The invitations have been out some little time, but 1 hope you will waive ceremony and come to me." She flushed slightly. She was still at heart a girl, and a touch of shy- ness now and then shone through the calm that was natural to her. "That will be delicious," cried Mrs. Dundee, gayly. "What a charming chance you offer 200 of seeing all my neighbors at once, instead of wast- ing a. month or two over it! Are they pleasant, these neighbors?" "They are very much like all other neighbors, I suppose. Some axe just as one would have them, some are --" she paused and smiled expressive- ly. Tim smile impressed Mrs. Dundee, "Constantia's saint can be severe at Unice," she said to herself, "I won- der, when a month or two has gone over our heads, In which category I shall End myself?" Chose. To -day elle was Church and worehipped with vestments and eaudleeticks; to -morrow Low Church With a vietuous horror of the ritual. She had supported the Presbyterian Minister, who held Ole chapel in tee loWer mid of the town, end after a bit had opoely deserted him, end given, her countenapo to the Meth- ody parson who spoke to his follow - at the tipper end. Just now she s was pleased with the vicar beeauee ho beta given bee excellent cabbage plants for the vegetable garden and - so was pretty erthedox in her views; O but one could not be sure whither the. next, Wind would blow her. She was very likely to hold with s the tenets of the Church for SOMO tinie to come because her mind was fully occupied with a mission, She adored mese sione. Sbe bad within the past month enrolled herself as a inember of the Blue Ribbon Army, and was now occupying herself making con- verts right and left, She entered with zest into the new erusaue. It suited her admirably. It gave her tho power of wounding telly amount iof ropectable people; it made her feel more eighteous than those who still clung to the pernicious glass of sherry. These she called wine -bib - bees, and read them long lectures, lei which the Rechabites largely figur- ed. She arrayed herself la blue rib- bons. It was an excellent mission, and a1 economieal one; it put a full stop to the wine merchant's bill. Just now she was bent on the con- version 01 Mrs. Mulcahy, tho cook, who now and then used to take "just a thimbleful nate" for the good of her "stoinick," she said. To couvert her—to show her the mar of her ways, and inchice her to erne- ment her person with a square inch of blue ribbon—that Was 3E3,5 MeGil- licuddy's dream! "Do you remember 'Thursday fort- night, Mulcahy?" she asked now in a sombre tone. On Thursclar fortnight the thimble bad last boa put in re- quisition. "That was the day Mies Norah broke your enemy cup," said Mrs. Mulcahy, vela), however, iinderetood het perfeetly. "I was not alluding to that map; I was reminding you of a cup that should not cheer, and does ivebriate. You know well to what I (diode, Mul- cahy. You should learn to resist that cup." 'I niver was much of a nand at Munn' anything," said Mrs. Mul- cahy, deggedev; "an' Jeni now, anyway, to begin. As to the cup ye spake of, I niver teke anything Cart of a cup, save it might be me tay, and shore ye wouldn't thry to deprive a poor ould woman of that. Ochone! I remember well in yer fa- ther's time, whin—" CHAPTER III. "Divil a bit!" said Mrs. Mulcahy. As she gave way to this powerftzl remark, she placed her arms akimbo. "Moderate your language, Mul- cahy," said Miss McGillicuddy. This was not Constantin., It was her aunt —a 8pinster of some fifty SUlitinerS, who ruled with a brazen arm over the five luckless orphans whom an unwise father had left, when dying, to her tender mercies. Poor soul! There was very little money in her liouseheM, and poverty embitters! All her long life she had struggled with it; and when the children came to her, they brought with them but a scanty pittance that barely paid far their board and the somewhat erratic education they had received, and were still receiving. Constantia heel been educated by a distant contortion; Phil, the eldest brothel., was now going through Triiiity, helped by the same kind but cold hand. After Phil came a girl -- Norah, a thin angular little creature with a shy, expressive face—who un- derwent an awful tuition ender her mint. bonstantie teeight her music, hut Mien McGillicuddy insisted upon loving the English in her oWn hands, "Pi eiras e struggling household; Mis$ MeGillieeddy vent her life trying to make both ends meet—a. slid employ- . tient. One luxury She 'allowed hex - self; that was the poWer of changing her religious opitious as often tee sho "Never mind about that interrupt- ed Miss McGillicuddy, hastily. Mrs. Mulcahy noticed the haste. and her small eyes twinkled. She was a Maze stout, comfortable woman, and always wore a huge mob cap, as white as snow, -with no /ess than four lace borders in it. She nodded this cap now sapiently. "Keep to the point," said Miss McGillicuddy sternly. . "Your habits of intemper- ance are growing on you, and I would have you check them before it is too kite." "Faix, there's one thing, sure," returned Mrs. Mulcahy briskly—that the dinner will be too late, unless ye mane it for to -morrow, if ye keep me here idling much longer." "Do not call such earnest pleading idling!" cried her mistress vehement- ly. 'Do you mean to tell me you have no desire to save yourself—to draw back froni the brink—to join yourself to volunteers who glory in the blue ribbon and cold water?" "Divil a bit!". said Mrs. Mulcahy again, even more strongly than be- fore. "You've come here to insult a poor lone widdy, who has stowed you an' yours faithfully for forty year, an' 1 tell ye plainly, Miss McGilli- cuddy, that luck won't come of it. Went ails ye at all, Miss, to be poi- nt' an' dhraggini wid them mane - spirited craturos who would destroy half the Oracle in the counthry?" "Publicans and sinners," said Miss McGillicuddy, in a solemn voice; "they are bracketed. Down with theml is the cry 1 wouid hear oho- ing through the land." '"Twould echo a long time before ye got rid of the sinners, at all events," said Mrs. Mulcahy, "They'll last oar time. I'm thinking, ma'am." "Let us keep to the point," ex- claimed her mistress, nem delighted in this phrase because sho was al- ways wandering from it. "Can you say honestly that you see anything to object to in this temperance 10070 - " "No --no," confeseed other cau- tiously. " 'Tis chape." "What do you mean, Mulcahy?" " 'Tis: chap, I mid. Moil a, doubt of thnt! Ter friends won't cost ye notch, anyhow. Tay in the morning, an' tay in the afthernoon, tay before ye go to bed, an' ne'er • dhrop of wine to warm the heart. Bad cess to such movings, say I. Arrali! in the oulcl man's time what a difference there was! Poor ould =wither, he'd be the last to—" A merciful fate at this Monient caused one of the Milky members of the hoosehold to slip off tha inverted tub in the Scullery on which he was standing on tiptoe, with a view to looking through a. crack in the wood- work at the sone taking place in the kitchen, His heart was warm with a sacred jo' as he listened to the promising skirmish within. He lind boon backing IVIrti. Mulcahy so 'vigor- ously in spirit, that his body got in- iinted With the enthusiasm, and he ticked out.. It wee10 disastroes kick. XI: land- ed hien in an earthenware crock fell of buttermilk, awl the eplesh, the crath, the loud shriek thet Would not be suppressed, all produced a sensatioe that reduced the belliger- e»ts In the kitchen to silence. VOr0 MOltellt oidy. Then 01=1;1- teneiniely they cried seet" nt tele top Of their hinge, and met for the 50011107 door. 'The (4--jhelleY wee his neetee-tholleht, as he still floundered la the butter - that his hut hour was 'COMO; bilt As vengeance Sure cool ewift Was deSOOnding 111)01.1 a loud knock at the hall -doer reverberated through the house,. MiSe McGillicuddy came to a etand- still and eo dia the wok. "Who's teat?" said Mies MeGillie cuddy, 0407088112g 00 0110 en particu- lar, yet evidently desirous of en, an- swer, "Who would it be but efisther Bar- ry?" replied mice. Tbere is score ia her accent, On one point, tvt least, she ami her mistress were as ono. They both Objeetecl to Garrett Berry cte 0. luisbend for Constantin, though he was a young man of fair means and good family, though in ene sense of Me temper as he hadn't soul belonging to elm alive, at Mast 110 0200 nearer than a cousin. The young man's visits of late were of suell frequency as to suggest the idea that he .found a, difficulty in living through twenty-four Lourswithout seeing the yoeuger Mies MeGilli- ctehlyIlis enock was loud and buoyant, something like himself. It aggravated cook and bar mistrees to the last degree, but it sexed the shiv- ming Jimmy, standing in the scullery dripping buttermilk as hard as he could. Bliss McGillicuddy sailed up- stairs eager for the fray, and bent on stopping the irresistible Barry in the hall; but fate, and Minnie, the parlor -maid were too 1011011 for her. Mr. Barry—as she entered the (hewing -room feeling somewhat baf- fled—eh° diseovered sitting there, beaming upon Constantia—who, in- deed, was beaming back at hini in what her aunt called o. most un - maidenly way. Just now she was smiling delicious- ly, and it was ovideet that the young man sitting near her was in the very paradise of contentment. Constant- ia was charming. She had the pro- verbial Irish eyes—blue-gray, rubbed in by the proverbial dirty finger, Lovely eyes they were; coy, coquet- tish, alluring, repelling, as the owner willed. Her mouth was a firm little member, 110 nose seem,. She looked always as good and -true as she was. Her figure was as lissome and pliable as a willow wand; and when she stood erect, with her lips laughing, and her eyes gleaming at you from under their long inshes, I can tell you she Was a thing to deetun of. She WAS, indeed, a thing whom many dreamt of. "Ah, how d'ye do, Miss McGillicud- dy?" sele Barry, rising to Ids feet and advancing towards that gaunt spinster, with an absolute effusion of Manner. He was a tall, large -boned, sunny -tempered young man, with a mouth that was. alwaete noising an effort to get at his °nee; this proba- bly came of much latighte. Ile was bort, in Limerick, where his people had lived for many generations, and where they were much thought of; but an uncle's will, leaving him a considerable property in the bounty Cork, had brought him to that coun- ty. For the 90.51. siee years he bad been living in Englaed, and consider- ed himself specially English it many ways. He really believed he had quite an English aecent, for one thing; but this was an egregious mis- take; a Limerick man never refomns, so far as accent goes—and indeed. Harry had one that, to use an ex- pression of his own, "you could hang your bat on." Even here in Cork, they couldn't. help 'Wondering at it at times. "I con suffering Dom no malady, I thank you," replied Miss McGillicud- dy, regarding bira with a stoey staro "my health is perfect. There is no necessity for you to make such polite inquiries." If she had hoped to disconcert Mr. Barry she was altogether mistaken, "That's capital," said he, cheer- fully; "nothing like health. I'm just like you, as strong as a horse." "I'm not a horse." returned Miss McGilliceddy; "nor yet as strong as One. 'Your similies aro not only wide of the mark, but—" "Quite So,” interrupted he wisely. "You are looking uncommonly well, though, let me tell you; any amount better than when last I SUN you," "Which was exactly twenty-four home ago. Is it yeti', honest 09111e ion, Mr. Barry, that people change much ii that short space of thne?" "Ilours—is it really only hours? Faith, I thought it was years," said lie. He accompanied tide speech with glunCe at Constantia full of ardent affeetion. Sho smiled (in spite of the trepida- tion she was feeling), through force of habit probably, and perhaps be- cause she lilted the glance, and Miss liecaillieuddy saw Jim-. "To 001110 people," she said sternly "lies are acceptable; to one posseeeed of rugged virtue they aro not!" She' paused. Evidently, Constantia 1e-1 presented the "some people," she the "rugged virtue." "It's a lovely clay, isn't it?" said i he. "les it?" returned Miss McG1llicu(I-1 dy, with an uncompromislug glance. Constantin, who was now veey ner- vous, burst out laughing. "One can see that for oneself," she said. She grow frightened when she beard eer own laugh ring mit—not so much of her aunt as becalm of her; ono never knew, indeed, what silo was going to say next. She was beginning to hope that the etteth would open and swallow her up quickly, when again the door "MIS thrown open and "Mr. Featherston" was announced. To be Continued. PUT 1115 FEET ON IT. yoer wife ever bake a chocolate cake ? asked Nuwed cau- tiously. Loads of em, replied Oldeved, proudly ; why ? Well, my wife baked her first one yesterday and placed it out on the .porch to cool1 came along and tholight the thing was ti hassock. Loudon has 22/ aldermen. Its Jenny that you Should be mo tali. 'guar brother the artist, is short, Isn'e, he 1 lIo (abeently)—Yes usually. ei6VSSVOST4ss Household. tMs Vnstiosi VOA THE COOE. • Shrewsbury belseei Ingredien1.5/ Three-quartere Qf 0 pound of butter, 0110 'mend and 11 half of flow, halt an ounce 01 earrieway seeds, half pollnd of sugar, two eggs, and a lit- tle Mile. 'Ruh the buttee into the flour, Add the sugar, and ?nix 09ine to Orm paste with the eggs and mile, royal into bans, roil out to. olio - third 01 1011. inch tiliOlo, stip into a, fancy shaped rolled, and bake in a steady oven. Vienna Stogie—Oho"; one pound of lean beef very fleely, 00000011 with mit, pepper, nutmeg, . and a, little chopped shallot. Mix all thoroughly with a beaten egg. Divide this quan- tity into six portions and with a lit- tle flour for ieto balls, Fleeter; each to about the thickness Of an inch etc' then egg -wash ancl dip into wbite bread crumbs. F17 each in clarified butter for fifteen minutes, serve a poached egg on each and poor a little brown sauce round. Make 'Tomato Sauce as follow, aao. It will keep fer yeers. Peel one gallon of ripe tomatoes end five poas of red pepper, Cook until ten- der. Strain through a coarse cloth, then air thoroughly into it two 0012 - cos of gait, two ouneee of black pope per, half an °tine° of white mustard seed, half an ounce of allspice; adcl ono pint of vinegar. Boil very 'slow- ly in' a jar stood inea pan of boiling water for three to four hours; while still warm bottle and cork, Timbale of Vermicelle—Put 111 a saucepan one quart of milk, with' a quarter of a pound of granulated Sugltr, 0110teaspoonfel, of vanilla ex- tract or any preferred flavor, and olio teaspoonful of good butter; ;viten at the 'boiling poiet add half a pound of vermiolli, Cook twenty minutes, remove from the fire and cool. Add to the vermicelli two whole eggs, mix well, and lastly four tablespoonfuls of whipped cream. Mix again. Butter 0. quart mould, pour the vermicelli in it. Put the mould in a deep pan half filled with hot water. Bake in o. hot oven for twen- ty minutes. Put o rouoci hot plate over the moul01 and turn the timbale out. Serve roend it a hot marine: lade tif fruits, the kind to suit the taste. Chocolate Ice Cream.—Bring milk to a boil; mix tWo heaping tablespoons sifted flour with 1 cup sugar, add 2 eggs and beat until light. Stir this mixture into the boiling milke and cook twenty mine Irtes, stirring almost constantly. Put 2 oz chocolate in a small sauce- pan, and edd 4 tablespoons sugar, and 2 of boiling water. Cook until moon, then add to the other cook- ing mixture. When cooked twenty minutes add the remainder of -the cup of sugar, and i. qt rich cream. When cold freeze. 00111 Sauce.—For this, 6 (its grapes with the pulps slipped out of the skins are used. Boil the pulps until soft, then put through a sieve to re- move the seeds. Chop Inc five large onions, 3 peppers and the grape skins, and add 2 tablespoons salt, I qt vinegar, 3. of sugar, and the strained pulps. Cook until thick. Crab Apple Jelly,-eWash fruit, cut in quarters, cutting off steins, blows, and all decayed spots. Pour over wttter until it is just in sight, bole up quickly, and -11,S 00021 as tender, strain through cheesecloth. Don't let it stand one second after the fruit is tender, for if it coolcs until it falls apart or is mushy, the scum will not rise, and the jelly will be cloudy. For the ;same reason the fruit must be nnderripe, perfectly hard, though not green, After straining, measure the juice, and put over the 111.e. Boil up quickly, then add measure for measure of granu- lated sugar. Boil not more than fif- teen minutes, skimming as necessary. -- THREE ESSEhTTIALS TO HEALTH One of the mistakes of women Is in not knowing how to eat, et a man is not to be fed when she is,she thinks cop of tea and anything handy is good enough. If she needs to save money she does it at the butcher's cost. If she is busy, she will not waste time in eating. If she is unhappy she goes without food. A ivoinan will choose ice cream instead of beefsteak, and a man will not. Another of her mistakes is in not knowing when to reste If sho is tir- ed sho may sit down, but she will claim stockings, crochet shawls em- broider dollies. She does not know that hard 1701.0 tires, ef she is ex- hausted she will write letters or fig- ure her accounts. She will laugh at you if you- hinted that reading or writing could fail to rest her. All over the country women's hospitals flourish bectinee Wonlen do not know how to rest. Another mistake on their Ilse Is constant worrying. Worry ,and hur- ry are their enendee, and yet they hug them to their bosoms, Women cross bridges before they come to them and even build bridges. They imagine misfortune and run out to meet it. Wooten nye not jolly enough. They 'make too eerioes business of life and laugh at its little humors too sel- dom. Men cell stop 111 the midst of perplexity nnd have a hearts, laugh. And it keeps them youtg. Woinee cannot, and thet is tho 0110 1e05011 why they fade so early, There are other retasons but we will Pass them now. Worry not oely wrinkles the lace, but it withers and wrinkles the mind, Have a hearty laugh once in a while; it is a good antiseptic and, will purify the, mental atmosphere, drive aWay evil imaginings, bad tem- per and other ills, ,SIMPLE WAYS FOR RICle. Someone asked for simple ways for cooking rice. Here are a few ways width arc both eimple and theaP: Creamy Rice—One pint, milk, e- cup rice, 2 tablespoons sugar and cup raieins, neat Slowly to boiling point, then bake in a modernte oVen. OM or three hours, Rice Waffles—Ono And one-fourth 0 Milk, .9 tahlespoone tiegar, tablespeen Melted butter, 3, egg, teaspoon Balt, 2-8 oup eookee rice, 24 cupe llour and 9e tonepoons bake ieg powder. ltice leul0ing;—,S0a1f 9-8 cup riee In I tit iiitlk, add 3 egg 'Luellen with 1 cup auger, e little Belt and outineg end helte slowly. LJM1U' 70 SEW. 111. Is the woman Of limited means who derives the greatest benefit from knovieg how 1.0 SOW Well; fOr tile chief expenee of a gown is not In the cost of the material, but in the price aeked for the lualciue. Coneequently she who makes her own goWn$ May nifOrd two for the priee of one, eveien the cost of making is taken out. Sewing 15 a laseinating work for those who bave learned to enjoy it. Aed truly one who 18 capable of eon- structieg for herself, from a quanti- ty ef cloth and lining, and all the Other aceessoriee, or from, muslin, lace ancl ribbon, a costume that be- comes her; and is in good style, and Nvoll-fitting, le nothing less than an TO 'UTILIZE SILIC SCR,APS. Floor cushions and even Sofa nn - lows if the work Is Dee enough, can bo nlade of odds and ends of silk and ribbon cut tie for rag carpets, make the strips 31,5 even as possible mid about a foot in length. Sew these neatly and strongly together, then crochet the strips in single erochet back and forth on a large wooden needle or knit them on needles the size of a lead pencil. If the 'silk ra- vels it will only imProve the work, giving it a. chenille effect. All col- ors may be used, but thoee that blend eoftly together will be the most pleasing. USEFUL HINTS. Cocoa 10005 that raw tiiste ie it is simmered for a good eve minutes after being added to the boiling milk. Dee plenty of cocoa e.nd cook it if yen want a good beverage. - Mayonealee, which one likes to keep 011 hand for an emergency, should be kept tightly covered and in a cool place. It can be kept longer 5 it is . made without salt, though it takes longer to make it. - A delicious fig Oiling for caee is prepared by trimming the stem ends from 0110 pound of ligs and putting them through the meat chopper. Add a cup of water and a tablespoonful of sugar and stew gently till as thick as drop batter, stirring oc- casionally. Take from the fire, stir in one tablespoonful of vanilla tend use when cold. . Somebody says if you want to please the ice man and help bim 1111 hie pockets buy a cheap refrigerator and bargain for your ice by the eon - son. Very few people realize that eggs are scarcely less susceptible to odors than are milk products. The shell is P010225, and the albumen absorbs any odor to which the egg is sub- jected in spite of the lining mem- brane of the shell. Don't feed 1.00 hens decayed Meat, onions, fish or any bad -flavored food unless you ex- pect the eggs to taste of the °rem - sive food smells. STED HOPES. Toinney Tuff—"Say, Main, -the boys all say if 11 0011010 the stick in the baseball game this afternoon, we'll beat the Hilltops fourteen to one." Ills elother—.'1 don't doubt it, but you are going 1,o stay at home this afternoon and handie the stick for me, and We'll beat the carpet worse th an th at." 1115 COLOR. Poll cein an— "S ay, Du telly, why doe't you watee your horse?" Wilhelm. Grausteeyer—"Vat ist de use? 110 vas a bay," PROGRESS IN CHINA,. ORATORICAL FAILIIREO, GREAT SPEAHERS WHO START VERY BADLY, T'iret Attempts ef Feinete Met to Speak it the Beitieh Par - 1 It ;mist 'be ii011019etsolation end enceerageineet to the legielator who eite down, after inahing his maiden speech in the Drieish House of Com - mom with a eeese of abselete fail- ure, to know that mare/ 01 tile great- est Parliamentary orators have ead a einlilar experience, When Sheridall first eliehe in Par- liament tie member for Stafford his speech was pronounced, even by his friericle,10 hopeiees failure. Several there be was on the point of abso- hrte collapse, and lie eat delet amid a silence which he afterwards con- fessed was the most terrible thing Iewi aAslilladadatteeloto,eweirl 1(1cdzio ,lygol jeden. wbyy 8001 llig a 011320, temporaries to be the greatest ora- tor mien in that generation of ora- ttIoeprsrnpluogrell4stc'smcessful than Sheridan's. aiden effort was lit - When he took Ills seat for Oamelford he made a vow that be would not open Lis mouth for a whOlo month; and when he sat down cater hie ilest speech in condemnation of the con- duct of LOrd Cbatbaln, at Walther - en, he was so depressed by a sense of failure that he, half PethetleallY and half humorously, declared that "he wished he had made it a life- time instead ofea month," When Caviling, Brougham's great rival, first spoke in the 501111110115, although he came to the House with a great reputetion as an metier, he OVERCOME BY NERVOUSNESS. and consequent confusion that his speech was a disappointment to all who heard it, but to none so much as to himself. mr. Gladstone, 'the greateet Par- liamentary orator of -last ceetury, created anything but n favorable im- pression by his maiden. speech On the '21st February, 1888. Of his eensatione he said, "I was so iierv- ous that 11 could scarcely articulate nay words ; and the moment 1 gob on my feet my mind, which a mo- ment or two before was crowded with facts and argument, became a tz‘bTol'iann'Itt.aar speech was inaudible, and to those who heard it it was "pinictuated by painful pauses." He did much better three months later when lie sPolce on slavery ; for he felt so acutely the attacks that had been made on his father that "indig- nation put nervousne.se to flight." and the Words Rowed "like torrents of lava." It was then recognised that a new ornior was born to the House, and a brilliant future was confidently predicted for the young .raer, Was ls twenty-one years later when the present Premier made Ms oratorical bow to the House in a 51)00011 which Ransard dismissed in a very few lines. "It would have been a greater compliment and kindness to have ignored it altogether," Lord Salisbury has since declared. But Mr. Gladstone, always generous in his praise and ,ippreciation of oth- ers, saw promise in the halting peri- ods of the young member for Stam- ford, and gave him words of treas- ured encouragement. The present Duke of Devonshire has made vast oratorical strides Sinee his 'prentice effort of forty-three years ago, although even to -day he would smile at being called an ora- tor, His first speech, which was on the uninspiring subject of Lancashire mines, was, both to spea3cer and hearers, - A PAINFUL PERFORMANCE. The impression it left on the speak- er is summed op in the significant words, "1 never felt so sorry for anyone in my life," But, then, the Duke never takes himself or any- thing quite seriously ; and he would confese that oratory is not his strong point. - Mr. Balemir gave absolutely no promise of his present skill as speak- er and debater when the, 11011.Se first gaVe him an encouraging, if bored, ear, In 1870 on the subject of sil- ver. Although lac mune armed to the teeth with facts and figures, he was so painfully nervous and confused that all he was able to do was to read extracts from his copious Metes in a voice which few could hear. When elm Morley went from 1.00 study to Parliament no one, least of all himself, expected 111111 to blossom all at, once into a full-blown orator, but fortunately he -kept his head," and although from an oratorical standpoint his maiden speech meet rank among the failures, marked, as It was, by much halting and stone- blieg, it was, at any rate, a clear and intelligent contribution to the abate. ' Di contrast to these oratorical fins-, os, as indeed many of them may ably' be described, it is only just o say that many of crur most bril- Midi speakers started onl.,their ca - Ter with colors flying. Sir William Inrcourt is said to have made the est maiden 5950011 ever heard le the House of boirunons ; Mr, Chamber- lain entranced a crowded House by his eloquence tool clever debating power ; Lord ltosebery Won Morels at his first at-Lempt in "another 111000,'' 1020 Mr. A sq ui th 's first speech was almost as fluent and co- gent as Ms latest, Ellen COURSE EXPLAINED. I don't think much of a man who takes 'No' for an a2l8We1', 5110 re - merited coyly. Thereupon, of course, he PrePosed agaiu and Was accepted, But why, 00 nskecl, did you refuse I310 112 t110iltol place I wee thinking' of the fetore, ehe 'replied. If onytlaing ever happene to mar oue domestic happleess I insist, upon baying the satiefaction of say- ing thee I refused you 01100 mid only yielded fimelly to your importuni- ties. 1.00,000 people travel daily in Lon - 'don celei, 315,1100 in Parisian, The idea, prevails that the Chinese b are an intensely conservative people, who will prevent, if possible, the in- troduction of the new Western meth- ods of living end working into their coantrynowever true this may be of the people in general, 11 ie 1101. true Of them all, as is ehown by the experience of the special correspon- dent of the London Times in Canton, "When I was last here, live years ago," he writes, "only a few steam launches, mostly foreign built and owned, had Made their appearance on the Canton river. To -clay nenrly three bemired, almost all 'Chinese built, and Chinese owned, are doing a roaring trade, towing paesenger and ,freight junks up told down the river, and the innumerable creeka which inteneect the delta of the 290(4 and north rivers," g— The sovereign, value twenty ell11- lines, was first used in 1626. In 1600 the largest .eeill in general' tiee in England was' the noble, value fifteen STREET ORM IN LONDON THE z4vE5Dn1t 0114117 /$ 011311 (no TIzgrozpgsz, Odeleet Oriee pw:::::pitualktio 0 Their Meaning and Among the signs 01 the last ()aye of the London 1011500 not one 15 more sonvinclog than the 07 01 1110 lavendee vendor in the streets, 51170 the London 'Daily Nell, His Cry ig so familiar to London- ers that oven when his words are not audible Ms Wares ere well knowe to be the odorous purple flower e that housewives love to scent their nePerY with, shredded from thoir grey stalks into musliu bags tied up with rib- bon'bows. It is a pathetic lilt, with a touch of reproach in it, fie who ghoul(' say, if you don't buyeeny pretty lavender, sixteee spikes far a penny, what is to become of me when all of you have gene away la- th the couetry where my pretty lav- ender grows?. One of the last of hundreds of old sing -song hawkers' cries is this. It has survived, perhers, because the Javender harvest 701.5 /Myer been gar- nered. so exelueively into the sliope as have the reet of the wares the itinerent hawker 'used to monopolize and also because it is.still 111 demand among women, . for its appearance synchronizes with that of the hoose moth, a pestilent thief whos,o taste for woolens and iurs does not include one for scents. Tzr, LAVIlThIDER chant Is believed to have originated In the days of the plague, when Lon- don was sore stricken with the dlro disease, for then It was coosiclored salutary among tbo poor to wear eertnin herbs and balsams, just as it Was modish among thewealthy to carry gold pouches or vinaigrettes saturated with the iningent distilla- tions of herbs and roots, which it was hoped would act as a disinfec- tant. Stich being the derivation of the cry, it would be. reasonable to suppose it set in the minor key on Account of the mournful character of the times, for in 1685 Loudon, was a sad city and apenie stricken. • Some students of old-tinie cries, however, think that the lavender hawker was a product of still inore antique times; when Shops were few amcl 1ar between In many parts of tho metropolis and everythieg was borneabout the stecets, and pro- claimed in musical terms that some enterprising vendor invented, intro- duced rued made successful. ehe days of liein7 V. it is re- corded that an open-air tradeSinan ••• Wed to stand at the door of Meet- minster Hall singing in rhyme 111 praise of his fine felt hats and spec- tacles, and ;that in Eastcheap OVell the restaurant keepers of the day CITIED THEIR vitains, "Ribs of beef and many n. pie!" "Hot sheep's feet!" "Hot peascod!" and "Strawberries ripe and cherries In the risel" "Pepper and saffron" were Vended together, "rushes green" for covering 1.00 floors were hawked in their season, and when oranges were Bret taken over to that country they were carried by women in big baskets, one on the left arm and an- other on tho head, whose 3110111012,1 distich reng through the streets, 'Fairetronilensioln,s and oranges—oranges .3w There are people now who are ale- morous to stop the cry of the milk- man, which certainly has degenerated into a merely rash ruid raucteus shout instead of the melodious cry it once was, and it is the coenterparts of these lovers of peace who are re- sponsible for the battle that has been waged for centuries against the street cries of Loudon, and tho con- sequent decrease of them. This and the enmity of the shop keepers to the street hawker gradually elieninated him from the thoroughfares and swept into oblivion bis old cestoms. The muffin men's bell and the laven- der mon's song are tetwe of the last surviving remnants of Lbndon et its noisiest. The Police .Act ote1.839 111 V077 much to etOp the bedlite‘that prevailed before, and with its epee - sing went. the newsboy's horn. vee When the last blare of the lionee was heard the familiar cry of the newsboy in the streets began, and it eas continued all these years until quite recently, when the crying of news also had restrictions placed up- on it. Tho lbw -pitched cry of the lavender -seller remains the same. It "will probably never be interfered with. It is too old, and by 1.00 many 'cherished. Ms A11111171015. Please sir, said a trturip, address - 0.01 elderly gent, could you snare a copper fOr a bloke wot's down on his luck Why don't you work ? said the , gentleman. 'Well, yer see, sir, I've had my bumps examined by a gentleman wot told me as every num was fitted for a certain position in life, and ought to strive after the position he thought he WaS fitted for," 00 1 said the gentleman, then 1 51199080 you are etriving after the posilion you think yourseil qualified to 1121 ? May I ask what your 1101- bition iS ? Yes, said the wenderer, standing erect, My al/11011On iS to be foreman wireman for the wireless telegraph. PROOF. ITo—What makes.; you think, cleat, that 7 don't lo-ve you any more ? She (pouting)—You havelift kiesed 1110 any more to -night than you ever did. • • 1:IA1317 TALIe.:. Slie—Did it ever occur to you what pour "talkers the men ere ? Ile—Did you over 001180107 thet, it is the women who teeth babieli to say things 7 • Johnny—Doesn't Uncle Henry 1101) plum -pudding 7 efazeiniee-Yes, but the doctoe won'e let 111111 oat ,It. .iohnny-11 1 11108 101 leg as 111111 lei 1100 to see any doetoe !mop me from °Ming it,