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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-7-22, Page 3jurx 22, 1998. A AD FLIGHT. II••••••• 1. Day by day I bad found myself vow- ing more impatienl for the dinner gong to sound. lied the basing air of Llandudno put, such a raverithe edge on my appetite 4 It was hardly that, for breakfast and Math had no core respouding attractions ; they were mannered throe -et as neoes- serY formelities. Was R., then, that the entrees were eo excellent, the wines ao choice, the ligenure ea the conversation so speeding? I asked myself those questions es I .stood Looking down into the placid waters which softly lapped the tall black pillars of the pier, Then I Lum- ea my heel, and for answer laughed a mocking negative to them all. "I have seen her at table d'hote ev- ery night for a week." X soilloquIsed, and I believe Ilaughed again, and wont all hot. Can yo8 guess wile Somehow I fano, you can, and that you, are laughing at mo. How lovely, how divine a °restate she was, or at any rate, how lovely she seemed to mo, 1 cannot telt you in cold print. I would only bo fool- ish in the attempt. Let Me ask yoll to take her beauty for emitted.- the riots black hale, the large, lustrous brown eyes, the roeatint of her cheek, the glorious -but hare 1 ant running into raptures. Let me eimplyeet down once and for all that, as Christina's lover says in Browning. "She should never have looked al, me I1 she meant I should not love her," For a week, as I have said, I gaz- ed at her, where she sat -near the cor- ner at the far end of the Leble. And meanwhile I sipped ray wine, and now end then remembered that I might as well eat someLhing. The buzz of conversation was lost upon me t I took no heed of aught save her fair face. I was as one entranced. If sonie one asked me, to pass the mus- tard I found ;myself replying, "No, thank. you," or if the waiter murmur- ed, "Claret or 'ook, air," I absently rejoined: "A few potatoes, please." It was a bed case -a very bad case -and toward the end of the week I began to realize where I. was drift- ing. So for 'the first time 1 deigned to speak to my right-hand neighbor, a spry young fellow who had an air of knowing everybody and everything, X startled. him out of his omniscience 'when I spoke, for I think he had wagered fifty to ono that I couldn't letter a dozen words .consecutevely; but he recovered readily from the shock, and. we prattled o. while con- cerning varidus matters. I didn't want to broaoh the subject; nearest ray heart too quiokty, and We had got aa far as the sweets ere I said: "Who es the lady at the top corner, yonder?" "The brown -eyes lass with the sheeny locks?" he rejoined. I could. have kicked him for his ir- treverence. "Yes." "Oh, that's, Mrs. —. Mrs. Ali, yes, -Mrs. Faulkner." "Oh." "And the dark, disagreeable look- ing gentleman nem always 6000mpoetise her," I added in a trenaor, "Ile is Mr,-." "Exactly, Mr. Faulkner, her --. No; ,ohitinvagne, please. Yes, he's her -." "Oli, thanks, thanks awfully," I stammered precipitately, and X rose from the table and hurried from the room with a lump in my throat and a mist before my eyes. I crushed a het on my head and walked or stumbled somehow out in- to the street. Anon I was pacing the pier, and right at the end in, the dark- est, loneliest corner I could find, I eat um down. I smoked four cigars in half an hour, and all I said was But I kept repeating it. 11. It was very late wean 1 returned. to the hotel, and. in the morning I rose betimes, and Was off on my bicycle for a day awheel in the Conway Val- ley. I am afraid I morehed terribly at times. "I must get this fever out of me somehow," I muttered; and so I rode hard. the day through, and to- ward evening was near Conway on my return, going as keenlyeas ever. Cou14 it be that I was hurrying to be back time for that dinner gong 2 Suddenly I looked up and saw be - late me the Berme the face which had haunted inc all day. She was stand- ing by the roulette holding her ma- -chine. I leapt off mine, discerning her "Can you oblige me?" she said in a voice that tingled in my ears. "I am eo sem to bother you, but I left ray Pump behind, very foolishly," " I am delighted to bo of assistance," I replied, starting to repair and in- flate the tire, Would only that the other had been punctured 1 Tho job was too soon accompliehed. "Von are staying et the — Hotel, aren't you 1" she gametal as she got Vender to remoent. "I have seen you at dinner. Ole, shall -we be 10 time, for dinner, do you think?" rather liked the "wee' It seemed toemply that I need not ralee my bat and dear off. So I •mounted and rode bosido her, "We can just =nowt it, fleecy," ,queth 7, looking tie the time, "teat Is, if you vide alitele quicker." pace me," seta elm, laughing gayly. And 1 laughed gayly, too, as if R Were6 OIlpdt8l joke. with more aelemishment than ever. She overflowed with mirth and brightness, emit did too. Only nowand again iny inner 001.1001en00 would say: You are making a fool of yourself, met you will suffer. for it. You are losing your heart to one who cannot give yuu her hand." But as 1 looked et ter and, her eyes fell shyly beneath my eraent guee, I choked conseionoe 'seek with a piece of chicken Or submerged It in a glass of hook, "Are you. going to the Patentee con- eert tc-night?" 7 inquired, handing her a dise of strawberries, which mat- ched her lips to a, nicety. "Yes. Are -are your There was a nervous quaver in her voice, I thought. "Yea Might i, -that is -is Mr. Faulkner away 1" "Oh, yes; ho has been called to town for a few days." "Then perhaps I can help you to find the toll gate." "As Mrs, Dfalaprop would say, that duty shall revolve upon you, ef you, will be do kind," was her reply. It seemed. bo me this was the most sparkling wit I had over encountered, TB1 BRUSSELS PO$T. VojiNa FOLKS. ter half the VIZO of an egg and a Small • 00.•••••••••••••••••••••• i •• teaspoon of flour, stir till smooth and • • et • About the House, stook or gravy. When this boils Put .1 well mixed, 'then add one °qv a rfoup • in the potatoes and (season with a itoceiligedefee00000•00+11....teetee. week, 01 farepewees 01 malt and TO A DAFFODIL, three dashoe of pepper, and let all Long. to her bosom prest, stew together a ewer inizautes; take Suoirfrom the fire, and when it stove brae Fed were your Illea by bar generous Ing add the yolk of an egg, beaten up with Otne Le/u3p0On lemon juice and a , t:ofect;a1. Nat:meet breaet Fresh from a dwelling dark, little cold water. Stir for a minute Yet but a golden spark, in a WaTUI place, then pour into a hot Here have you come as a. lamp for the dish' wood. Potatoes a la Maria -Peel eight raw IV. But, ah 1 let inc draw a vele o'er it all. Why should I recall the blies of those few cloys together -together on the pier, together in the Happy Vallee, together laughing at the niggers, to- gether scaling the slopes of the Great Orme ? Why, indeed when the recollec- tion is but pain, and pain bow lacerat- ing, how torturing t I was in love, and madly in love, and happy to be in love -when I was with her. But when I was calmer and she was absent and the truth smote ma I could have fled to the uttermost end at the earth with very wrath, with very shame. I felt I was a villain, and all the deeper dyed because it seemed tome I was not ttogether objectionable to her, and that I was becoming less and less so each time We met. My Passion, however, only boiled. within me. I took care of that, I let it have no tongue. Her husband was away longer than she had anticipated, but he returned one afternoon quite unexpectedly. Ele jumped out of a brougham which had brought him from the station just as she and I were entering the hotel. The heel of one of her shoes had come at, and. I had been compelled -aeon what delicious compulsion -to give her my arm. He scowled at me darkly as he espied us, and her smile was distinctly abashed. He greeted her with a single snappish word, and went off to his room, not vouchsafing to be introduced. That look of hie pursued me. I could not dismiss it from my mind's eye. It served only too well to call me to my right senses. I saw the quagmire 1 was stepping into. I saw jealousy and. the divorce court and scandal and misery ahead.. So that night I did not appear at dinner. • I had summoned up courage to fly. I remembered Colonel Newcome's story of bow sometimes the bravest thing to do is to run away, helter-skel- ter as fast as you can. And at 9 'clock I was at Colwyn Bay. Not far off, but far enough. In the smoking -room of the hotel I encountered the dapper young gentle- man of Llandu.dno. "Hello!" he oried. "You here. You look glum; what's up?" "1 always regret to leave Llandudno, you know," I muttered. "Why did you then?" I changed the subject. • Slue sat next me et dinner that night .and 1 did not glance at the top far corner oece during the whole meal, Mr. Faulkner somehew did not put it an appearance, We chatted merrily and unceasingly, and the dapper youth, etill on my right bona, looload at me potatooe, then out teem around as an Daylight's inheritance Won by that tender lance, apple is peeled ; let the paring be as Now is your weapon a blossoming rodl near the same thickness tie possible, least through the glebe you came, and the longer they are the bettor; put Bearing at heart a flame, thera. in 0, frying basket and plunge Sent. on your lovely adventure by Coil, into bailing lard. When they aro a golden brown drain them in front of Now with the journey done, the fire; dish an a very hot plate, Quell a bright fill of sun, sprinkle with salt and serve imnaed- Nesting with mosses and hyacinths joule, Whitlaellfoi r your minetrelsy, Potato Balla -One pint cot hot mash - Bubbling from bush and tree, ed potatoes, seasoned with a halt tea - Birds of the wood lend me toditheler accent ul salt, quarter teaspoonf al of WI. white pepper, half teaspoonful of eel - May my soul's errand be erg salt, some (Mopped parsley and Straight on to purity, butter; moisten, if needed, with a lit - Swift as your passage to beauty hath tle hot milk or cream. Beat one been' f egg light and add part of it to the p0- So shall I live my lease at shape into sm,00th, round balls, Under the sky of peace, brush over with the remainder of the Cool as , a flower and heavenly clean, egg and bake on buttered tins until bretvu. Be eareful to not get them too moist. --- ABOUT PRUNING ROSES. Turnips and Potatoes au Gratin, - 4 great. many persons miss having Mix thoroughly together a. pint of hot fine rows in their gardens from not mashed turnips and an equal amount knotving holy to prune them. It is oft- of mashed potatoea; add two table - Next day I took a train to London, deemed it best to get out of the neighborhood. hey strength was give ing way even in one night. Somewhat to my annoyance tbe dapper youth came with ma I wanted to be alone -miserable and alone, and to think. He evidently wanted to be lively and. to talk. But I kept himl tolerably quiet by pretending to fall asleep at frequent intervals. Near London, however, 7 gave in to him, and we chatted a little. "Did you know Mrs. Faulkner well?" I asked after a while. I felt so far away from her new that I thought I dare speak of her. He looked puzzled at my question, "Mrs. Faulkner, you know," I repealed, "who was stopping at Llandudno; the lady with the scowling husband; the dark -whiskered gentleman." "Ohl I know who you mean; no, I don't know them well, hardly at all. en fact, never saw them before in my lite. But the scowling gentleman was not her husband, but her brother. She is a widow; married a man, curi- ously enough, of the some name as her own. I thought I told you. Why, what's the molter ?" "Oh, nothing, nothing. I only fear- ed lost my ticket." • • • • e • In a few hours I eagerly opened a telegram which 1 had been awaiting in reply to one of my own, It Dame from the manager of the Llandudno Hetet and read: "Mr. Faulkner and sister left here this morning. No address." en a sorrowful sight to pass a place spoonfuls of butter, a teaspoonful oaf in which are handsome shrubs and salt and teacup of milk, Put into baking pan; stew with bread, crumbs, roses and see the ruin and disfigure- dot with bits of butter and bake to a meta caused by lack of knowledge of delicate brown. what pruning is for. It is not always -- the proprietor who is at fault alto- THE STOCKING BAG. gether. It is sometimes the case that Below we give directions for making one looking for work comes along and a bandy bag to hold the stockings that professing a. knowledge of pruning is may need mending. It also provides a set to work to prune the roses and shrubs. It is strange that in nearly every case of this kind the pruner's idea of What io the proper way to prune Is that all young shoots of the pre- vious season's growth should be lop- ped off. This is sometimes done, leav- ing the shrub balleshomed, at other times with a flat top. Those notes are on the pruning of the rose, but it may be seed here that meet shrubs m-ust not have the young shoots of last season's making cut away, or there will be no flowers the coming summer. As lo roses, the pruning must depend entirely on whet class they belong to. What are known as daily roses, which are those that flower all through the season, and embrace Teas, Bourbons, Chinas and. Noisettes, and some hy- brids, need closes pruningeTbe flowers come from young shoots of the same season. Out down almost to the ground, strong shoots will succeed, which will bear flowers on their ends. Nol that they need such close cutting down as Lime if the Menthes are out down to half their length it will be found to answer very welt. Few other roses need cutting back as much as these do, so that after determining whether a certain bush is an over - blooming one or not, the question of how to prune it can soon be settled. It may be added here that these roses aro the least hardy ot any. TEA SERVICE COST $65,1330. • At a sale in London a service of old Sevres ware was sold for 55,000. The genuineness of this set was proved by certificates issued to the ownere the French Government. But by ear the most valuable service turned out at the Sevres Pottery (ie 1778) was mode for the Czarina Catherine et of Russia, end consisted of 745 pieces, which cost 555,810. The Sevres ware, old or modern, 'is usually light in color and (tidally de- corated, with flowers or figure sub- jects tastefully arranged. Although the Sevres works we still in opera. - tion, they are kept busy in copying ancient Chinese and Japanese models, instead of inerectsiag their reputation in the manufacture of the nem whieh innele them Rumex The Princess of Wales hits ct. tea ser- vice of 60 pieees, each one of which Is decorated with a different photograph which she herselt took while in Soot, - 13101(1. THE FI,Y IN THE oninnwT. Hes-Yea, 11. Is a tint thing to own our own little horde, leut there is ono Idling 1 alias. She-Wbal, is thee? Het-Ottr periodital scrape with the landlord about the revers which he timer would inake and whieli ivo heves' simposea be would. The next important olass consists of what are called Hybrid Pereetuals, or June roees. They are so named be- cau.se they flower freely in June, but hardly at all after that, excepting a stray bloom or two. The flowering is quite different from that of the oth- ers. Teey are like almost all flower- ing shrubs, producing their blossoms from the shoots made the previous sea- son; therefore these shoots must be well looked after. The share:ter of this rose is to make a few strong shoots, of a length perhaps three to four feet. These shoots should be cut back to leave about two-thirde of whet there were. Leave two feet of what was a tereesfoot shoot. From these pruned stems there should come an ab- undance of flowers. If nut down as low ais 'the evert:ewe:tiers should be there will be no flowers. What are called climbing roses Should be pruned in the same way es June roses, A little =thing back of strong shoots, and. a ()lose cuiting,of weak ones, is the rule. Such old sorts as the Prairie rose and its seedlings, climbing Tema and Noisettes come into this class. 01 late years the Russian roses, known as leu,gosae, have become well known. These are very hardy, and have given a desirable lot of seedlings of different colors. They do not ueed very much pruning, but should have a little. Very often a bush may be u,nshapely; and a pruning, to give it good. shape, may be a, great help to it, The old sweetbrier rose and the Aus- trian brier are valued in every gar- den. They need little pruning; neith- er does the beautiful hardy yellow one, called Persian Yellow. There are a few wild roses bearing single pink flowers, which are often found in gar- dens, both bemuse of their flowers and their having numerous rod berries on in the fall, which lest alt winter. These, too, need but little pruning. As. a rule, roSee are pruned in spring. Et is thought; that as hard, winters are apt to injure the shoots, it is better to wait until freezing woollier is over to see what injury, if any, has been done, and then out away the injured part. Su the ease of those mentioned es better for a good culling baok ob the Menthes, Some praotice the men - Mg back early in the winter, and then coeer 11.5 completely 511 that is left of the Wee. On the other hand, a rose or any other bush pruned in the fall pushes into growth earlier than a Spring-prttiled One, an11 this early growth is not desirable where late freeeings sometimeo occur, Setesee FOUR POTATO DAINTIES, Chaniplain Potatooe.-Cue, a pint of colcieboiled potatoes in rather fleet 511168, 2(111 in it saucepan a piece Of but. Dottirs DISEASE. Poor Dolly'a fees wee crlrosen, With oranberry juice rubbed, id, "She's got the eepeles fever," Explained Mamma Ethelind. "You can take her, Mutt Paraelia, 'Less you're 'freed you'll eateh it, too, But she's fumerygated up so, I wouldn't be '1 I were you." "law cranberry juice," said Awatis, Has it helped a little bit t" "0, my, no," said Bettye mamma, "Why the eranb'ry juice is lel" AUNT DID'S BURGLAR, We were gathered at grandpa's, 00014 - WS from many different homes, to spend the holidays. Those werejolly times for us young people; every day brought scene fresh pleasure, and Aunt Did was the general supervisor of those good times, Aunt Did was grandpa's youngest child and lind leen married to a young lawyer, but in less than a year after their marriage he ha(1 died and his young widow had return- ed to her father's berme. By far the pleasantest hour.: of those pleasant holidays were the twilight, hours we spent listening to Aunt Did's stories. We asked her one evening if she ever had any experience with burglars or robbers, and she laughed u 0 merry way and answered: "Yes, I suppose I was as thoroughly frightened as one could possibly be, by an intruder hidden under my bed." We were all attention now, for we felt euro lf anything had really frightened Aunt Did it must have been very dread- ful. So we gathered closer wound her and prepared to listen. "When we had been married a few we,eks," she couatinued, "my husband had business which called hien to the oity far a fete days, and I accompantea Place for all the artioles necessary to him. to visit his sister, who resided use in the mending: there. Everything seeme(1 so strange the city 1, felt tbnid and tier/Gus. Get a large horseshoe and draw the 11'1,1. outline on thick pasteboard; out nut heyfalareew Sigteiyn-Ifiwved1 livaadrynegyarmeaet four and eover with the material you from the plain ways we were accustom - are going to =eke a bag of; now ens ed to at home. But she was very kind ' three leaves for the needlebook of any and I began aftera day or two to feel more at home with bar. desired material and shade, a half-inch "One thing that portioularly pleased smaller all around than the horseshoes me was 0. very large Newfoundland deg called Lee. He and I became fest and make a eie-ver of the bag material friends, and he oaten followed me from for the outside of the needlebook, fast- en these at the tops of the large horse- shoe and put two together; take a piece of the material one yard long and half a yard wide; gather lengthwise on each edge and fasten onto the two herseshoes formed of the four pieces of pasteboard; now you should have a large bag shaped like a pocket. On the opposite side from the needle - book fasten a little puffy pocket for room to room, or lay on some soft mat at my feet. He had the freedom of the house and no one questioned his right. "We usually spent our evenings atone, my sister-in-law- and I, as busi- nem kept her husband and mine some- times till a late hour. One evening I had a slight headache and retired to my room before their return. I seated myself before the fire, brushed and braided my hair, and read a few the yarn. Both this pocket and the pages in a pleasant story hook, an cover of the needlebook may have a finally retired for the night. I turn - monogram worked in colors. Now hem ed low the light, and prepared to sleep. the edges of the material between the I suddenly became aware I was not horseshoes, fasten on eight little rings alone in the room, for I heard low and run braid through to hang up by. When complete the bag should measure about half a yard across. TO Bum CURRANT WINE. The currants should be fully ripe when picked, put them into a large tub, they need not be separated from the me or twice I heard a, sheet move- ment under the bed. stems. After they have remained In "My first thought was to suddenly the tub a day or so, crush them with spring from zee, bed and rash from the hands, unless you have a small , the room. But if I undertook to petant wine mese, in which case they escape 1 should be overpowered by the ruffian hould not be pressed too much, or the and perhaps killed. I must s keep still and remain where I was an - stems will be bruised and impart a dis-,1 til nay husband's return, which might agreeable taste to the juice. If the be in an hour or more. breathing. The stillness of the room made the sound quite distinct. Thoughts of burglars and. terrible murders came to me, and to say X was frightened would not in the least ex- press my feelings, "I held my breath to listen. The breathing had ceased to be audible, but door Lad been left open and he had come in and gone to steep widen Me bed. "Since that dreadful. night with 0, burglar I never retire without first looking: wader my bed."' This is the story as Aunt Dia told us and we were fully Impressed with the horror of that eight. A GHOST STORY, The genie grille Dissipated Lord eyiiieitin a (enemy ).go. Lord Lyttleton, In the winter of the year 1778. had retired from the mete fore, had failed. to find the solution, melee with a party of bis dissipated Prior to that time, voyagers to belie cohilmllane, 10 profane the Christmas traveroed, the mratterreheee, the soul ab bis country house, Pit Place, near They bee net emu isthmus and the Red Sea, or crosseci Epsom, in eurrey. Azle Minor to the Euphrates, to find abandoned themselves tp the indutgence their wuy down that acroexa and (ma odfenthaentrd dtitsnset'xituelle"(11.77101scein:whGeneel scaa'si-t routes were controlled by the Arall through the Pastan Gulf. But theme over the party tv the extraordinary seaman who. long before, had exploited. depression ef spirits and dejection of the whole East African coast, and countenance 10111111 were observed Co pushing easeward, had founded serene • take possessiun of their host. It Wee estelecnents In India itself, and thei La vain that he attempted to silence ote,o,.ery for which II:orapa was waiting tlee inquiries of the goatee on the sub - was that of new road. by which trade jcct of eel dejection, They were eon - with India and the Emit might be see vented that he was ill. or had met with cured. Ices at play, or was crowed in levee and his denial ot all these imputations only excited a niore eager euriosity Co The story of ehe efforts of the Por - be informed of the origin of his de- Laguese navigators and a the Pori WM gum% printee centinued_ through more than three-quarters of a century., to circumnavigate the African Continent will never ceam to stir the imagine, times of men, as the loos by Portugal of all the rewards of their labors will never cease to excite sympethy and ree gret. Stimulated by the intelligence and assistance of Prince Henry the Navigator, and later rulers, the Pore tuguese mariners pushed their way, ear atter year down the le est e.frie- and deserted, and who, when daunt- e aexdisetaandaap;uathee ‘vvioaaleiatttanednida giniabiehr ao awl 0n- aknno,cloia.nsgt, wihh:OtUtghlolystmo rni tadnidec ho erne rt bnnalt erture of the window from which the hoping for gold, and, most of all, to. fluttering speed had proceeded. The penetrate the obscurity beyond thew, Norms AAV) CallanarrS. 0,4.1 In the abearption of popular interes8 by the war leiec attentlen has been' peed to the recent three days' relebratieri by Portugal of the discovery of the sea roate to India round the Oape of Good Hope then the importance of the oettleveatent warrants, it is feet Muse deed years siace Vasco de Goma, fade. lag away toward the sunrise in a little shit) of one hundred and forty toast solved the problem of ehich Coluenhuai sailing to the west, only a few years be, pression. Thus urged, he at last de - terminal. to reveal the secret that so painfully depressed him. The night before, on his retiring,. to bed, after his servant was dismissed, and his light extinguished, he had heard a noise resembling the flatter - lug of a duve at his chamber window. This attriteeee urs attention, to the aloe when, looking in the direction of the sound, be saw the figure of an unhappy female, whom he had seduced hands are used, put the crushed fruit, "Oh, haw I wished. I had that faith - atter the juice has been poured off, ed me to my room, end if 101 were only ful dog with me • he had often follow - in a cloth or seek, and press out the here now I should be sate. I turned remaining juke. After cleansing the over in bed and my gaze fell upon tub, put the juice back into it, and al-' a large plate glass mirrori we eh re - i fleeted the bed an which 7 lay. I low it to renetin three elvers, or until looked at the shadows reflected the first stages of fermentation are under the bed, and slowly as nay eyes over, removing once or twice a day the became acoustomed to the lights and scum which rises to the top. Then shadows a. dark form could be seen 1 stretched on the floor under the bed. put the juke in a vessel-ctemijohn, 7 lay silently and watched the glass key or barrel, of a size to suit the quan-, and listened for my husband's steps tity made, and to each quart of juice ; at the door. I wondered es I lay there odd three bounds of best yellow sugar. I if I should be alive when he returned; and 'tort water sufficient to make a ' or would that dark Rim under the bed gellon. Thus ten quarts of juice, and slowly weep out and zny life be over. thirty pounds of sugar wilt give you,' "If I should still be spared until he ten gallons of wine and so on in pro-, came into the room, would. nab the portion. Those who do not like sweete robber, murderer, or what ever he wine, can reduce the quantity of sugar , might be, strike him down before I to two and a half pounds, and if you could give him warning? wish it vary sweet, raise to three and i "The agony of that night I can never a hill' ponds per gallon. The vessel recall without feeling a thrill of sym- in which this is put must be full, and,' pathetic horror. the bung or 8105560'lett off until the "It seemed ages must have passed fermentation cetieee, which will be in before I heard. the beevy front door 12 or 16 doe. Meanwhile the cask , close and beard steps in the hall. Then muse be tilled up daily with ourrent; "The form, moved several. times and I knew my husband had returned. juke left over, as fermentation throws I out the impure matter. When fer- I felt each time that my hour had mentation- ceases rack the wine oft come. Then he would lie still and I ettrefully, either from the spigot or by knew he was becoming tired of his un- SyliliOn, and keel) running all the' comfortable eosition ; and 1 felt sure time. Cleanse the Neck thoroughly he was waiting for my htishand. 11 with boiling water, then return the could: form no plan, so confused were thoughte how I eoutd warn my wine, bung tip tightly, and let stand. four or five months, when it will be, husband and so perhaps Save hie fit to drink and can be bottled if de- life - sired. All the operatious, the N•essels, "I knew in the city it was easy to etc., should be scrupulously oleen. 80101111001 a voliceman, but unless I Brandy or Other spiritnous liquors are could escape from the room 1 felt sure not necessary, and if added will de.. it all the Police in the city were at the treat, from the flavor of the wine. Cur- door below they could not sawe us. rant wine made in this way will keep After whatseemed hours, I heard my husbaect at the door and a& the same for an age. time T saw that dreadful torm begin to slowly move. PRAYING FOR EDS GIRLS, "As youx uncle opened the door I sprang from my bed. and rushed to- les got his daughters off his hernias wards him, wildly screoming and R11 And thought it quite a, treitt, in a dead faint in his arms. When 7 Until ho found be had to keep ; regained c,miscioutriess, 1 was lying on the bed and (sty husband and all lbs Their husbands on their feet. initiates of the holes() were bending He didn't mind, the Ilarrye or Tee Georglee with their ills e over me or standing around the bed. The jacke and Thetas he rather liked, Something cold teethed my hand and the dog, Lee, put his nose up fee Bee dre lino at Bilis, his usual caress. FINGER -NAIL TRIMMING. "'What NWIS 114 darling S' nay hus- band asked., 'what frightened you so.' The everege person trims off the "'Where, oh where IS that dreadful thirty-second pert 01 80 inch from each robber,' 1 faintly asked. finger e week, or Mend an 111011 "5101 11 was some time before I could tell them oC that burglar bidden un- ana a half a year. The average hu- der the bed, in it way they weld un- man life all over the world is 40years. Thole are 1,000,05e000 people in the world, who, theeefora, waste, on 8.0 commie°, 28,400 miles of finger nails in a geitelation, form approached the foul of the bed - the room was eupernaturally light, the objects of the chamber were distinct- ly visible. Raising her hand and feint- ing to a dial. which stem on the man- telpiece of the chimney, the figure, with severe solemnity of voice and manner, announced to the appalled and conscience-stricken man that at that very hour on the third day after the visitation his life and bis sins would be concluded area nothing but their pun- ishruent remain, if he availed himself not of the warning to repentance which he had received. 'The eye of bis lordship glanced on the dial, the hand was on the stroke of 12. Again the apartment was involved in total darkness, the warning spirit disappeared, and bore away at its de- parture all the lightness of heart and buoyancy of rpirit which had former- ly dlstinguiahed the unhappy being to w-hom the tremendous summons had been delivered. On the succeeding day his lordship's guests, with the contrivance of bis at- tendants, had provided that the °looks throughout the house should he ad- vanced an hour, without the impos- ture being discovered. Ten o'clock struek-the nobleman was silent; and depressed. Eleven struck -the depres- sion deepened, and now not even a smile indicated him to be conscious of the efforts ot his associates, as they at- tempted to dispel his glooM, Twelve struck. ER returned to his chamber, convinced of his seourity, and believ- ing that the hour of peril was now past. Lord Lyttleton's guests remained to- gether to awatt the completion 01 the time so ominously designated by the vision. A quarter of an hour had el- apsed -they heard the valet descend from his master's room; it was jest 12. His lordship's bell rang violently; the company ran in a body to the apart- ment; the clock struck 1 at their en- trance, and the unhappy lord lay ex- tended on the bed before them, pale and lifeless, and his countenance ter- ribly convulsed. WOMAN'S WORT'S ABROAD. In Norway a law has recently been passed which makes girls ineligible for matrimony until they obtain rertifi- eates of proficiency in knitting, bak- ing and spinning. Germany and Austria have about 150 cooking schools. A tour years' course is necessary before the student obtains O diploma. Most of the hotel chefs have diplomas from these schools. In some parts of China 'the young women wear their hair in a long single plait, with %vetch is intertwined a bright scarlet thread. This style of ornamentation denotes that the young hely is marriageable. A. Peruvian heiress recently paid Worth 45,000 for a, gown trimmed, with lace. Of this sum 44,000 was for the lam, When M. Worth wishes to create a new fashion he does not make designs 00 rarer, but takes the materials and drapes them around the Models Until be has either developed his Rem or hit upon something new, The oval is new fast losing its bad reputation as an unlucky stone, and the result is that opals are More viola- ter now than ever before, and their price has risen, especially in Lha 111185 of those that are distinguishell for brIe. Haat flame tints. A young lady, well known in the London society world, recently showed her superioriLy to common superstitious notions by ac- cepting as an engagement ring an oval surrounded, by thirteen small diamonds, and thus setting at defiance two ancient superstitions, THOUGHTLESS GIRL A most thoughtless girl, said her mo- ther in accent's of despair. What has she done? asked her fa- thelnir't sat on Om bench this morning so elose to the water that the spray from e, brealter unexpectedly reached her, exclaimed her mother, ae'retallias.t your uncle seemed to under- Arld Look the curl all out of her atm:ail:and thee ho told ine tee dreads hair, I suppose, suggested her fatter, fee, villianous murderer wider my bett eVorse than that, answered the Mo- neta only Lee. It wined my bedroom tiler, It metal her bathing sait. Baffled in the Gulf of OulneE6, Whicli they had hoped mtght mark the end of the continent, repulsed and swept back, as was Bartholomew Dias, at the Cape of Good Hope, they fetal pushed into the uuknown, attraclea by that ir- resistible charm which still so moves the restless tribe of Phoenicians thee, there promiees soon to be no route 131 the wide earth witraversed, ft re - maned for Vaseo de Gama. sailing straight through the South AU:anted from the Cape Verde Islands, to double the Cape and reach India, a voyage whieh ended the quesl of eighty years and changed for nearly four centuries the greal, mate of commerce. From that time untie De Lessem: cue the Isthmus of Suee the old roads were abandoned, and on the discovery of the Portuguese adventurer the great trad- ing nations of the Western world have built up that traffic with Asia which has contributed so largely to their com- mercial greatness. Indeed, the rewards of Portaged's daring and persistence have mostly•fellen to them. for though for a, time the wealth of Eastern Air- ka, of India and the East found its way to Lisbon., there to be distributed the great commerce and vast empire which Portugal once controlled have) through her misrule and indolence passed into other hands. Da Game founded Goa, but to -day the pleat is forgotten and the Portuguese are the least efficient European race ie India; Brazil has been lose and only Mama in China.. an island in the Moluccas, remain to mark her former glory. For the achievement which she recently celebrated she may well be proud for its influence) on the progress of the world was only second to that of Col- umbus, but the joy of its commemora- tion must have been tinged with re- gret that allis results so little is to- day lett to Portugal. WOMEN IN JAPAN - The marvelous development and all tenement of Japan within the lase , quarter century has been marked by • most radical changes in the treatment and social status of women, The op- ponents of woman suffrage, will find. Japan a fruitful field for their mis- sionary labor, for in no part of the world is woman to -day making more rapid advancement toward equality of the sexes, Visitors to Japan comparatively 6, few years ago emend the gentlewomen of the island empire popularly regard- ed as mere toys, willing to be sold into virtual slavery for about a6 a month. No stigma attached to this custom, and the daughter sold Into slavery for the support of her parents often eeturned afterward to her grade of society ends contracted an honorable marriage. At that time Japanese women of the high- er grade, led gay and easy lives, and were taughl that woman's thief jewel was ignorance, and a writer in the Criterion has fittingly described them as "mere Verified toys." Tha nutgleian's wand which ia rap- idly transferring' a halt -savage, semi. barbaric race into one of the most e11 - lightened tions of the earth is also elevating the status of Japanese WO. ManlMod. Na better evidenee of that last is needed than is shown by the announcement that a univeraity for the higher education of woman is shortly to be opened in Tokio. This institution, wheel will wet 5250,001, lutli the enthusiestic indorsement Of the nobility and the haute oe government, trom the etaperot and analgesia clown to the petty Officials of state, That Ja- vonese sanrise nuns &ailed 10 Vetter 101 e period bey, • . • • settee:tee