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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-2-10, Page 22 T E BRUSSELS POST. FEB, 1Q, 18n r X91 zl monde Cut Diamond OR, TIE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. u11ArT.rllt �111,—C,.ntiuuud. It watt a heavenly summer evening; seven o'olock, the best hour of a July day. The shadows were long and deep, the light golden and tender, all hazy still with the long warmth and luxuriance of the noonday. On such an evening a certain peace falls per- force upon the world, trouble stands afoot for a little space, and sorrow it- self is hushed and deadened. Prom Mongaigne's pages of wis- dom and wit, Rose's eyes wandered to the deep green of the river's banks, to the glow of the rad sunset on the water, to the bum of the dragon -fly poising amongst the weeds by the edge. 'I tun reconciled," she said to her- self. "I have fought out my battle, and I have conquered. I have gone book to my old life, to my higher aims, and I have rooted out that fever -giv- ing new thing—that love that was a sweet poison, a delirium of joy, and yet a sin -staining evil—for ever and ever out of my soul." And even as she said the words, there shot a little boat into her sight upon the stream. A boat that was lazily rowed down the stream by a broad- ehouldered man, with a placid, good- natured face, like that of a kindly giant. A boat wherein two fair girls to cool summer dresses, pink and white, and jaunty little sailor hats, leant bank In the stern, and sang together, smiling as they sang, into the face of another man, young and well -looking, who half reclined at their feet, with his arms flung up behind his smooth dark head, and whose brown eyes rest- ed admiringly upon the, sisters. "For life is short, and love is long, lend ).ifs is made of tears and song, But love goes on for ever." sang the girls, their lovely well-train- ed voices ringing out clear and bell - across the water. Then the boat vanished, and a silver track of ruffled water streaming out far behind her was all that was left of her—but still the echoes along the shore took up the song and wafted it back again— "But love goes on for ever—for ever —for ever." And Rose de Brefour turned and fled from that sight, and from that sound, with a bowed head and dazed eyes, and a heart from which the black- ness of a horrible anguish had blotted out all her vaunted peace and content. CHAPTER SIV. It was a delightful day. A day such as—when the weather is fruitless, and the party harmonious—can only be enjoyed upon the river Thames. Angel and Dulcie thought that nothing so perfect had ever been planned or ear- xied out before. It was Geoffrey who had proposed it; and although Mrs. Dane had demurred a little on the score of propriety, her husband had at once decided that there could be no earthly objection, and had decreed that the little party of four—Miles Faulkner, in virtue of his •boating capacities, being the fourth—should be sent out for the day, with a due allow- ance of hampers lull of good things, to sustain teem by the way. From early morning, when they started, full of good spirits and merriment, from Paddington, down to night -fall, when they reappeared at that familiar ter- minus, somewhat leas lively and very sleepy, the day was one of pure and unmixed enjoyment. ihsy had sung, they had laughed, and they had feast- ed. Sometimes the young ladies had taken the oars and rowed—and in capital style, too— for these Canadian girls were at holes upon the water as much in summer as in winter. Some- times they all sang in parts together; or sometimes they only rested and talked, and made little jukes at each other's expense, for they were all young and healthy ; though one or two of them had suffered keenly, autfering can be laid aside on a cloudless day in July, when four young people are given a holiday by their elders in or- der that they may enjoy themselves as thoroughly as possible. So, although Geoffrey believed that his heart's best love had never loved him, and was now lost to him for ever, and although Angel had heard, only a few days ago, from the lips of the man she had allowed herself to love, that he loved not herself, but her aster- -it is, nevertheless, in no way detri- mental to the good qualities of both, to say that neither of these young peo- ple did any the less justice to the rais- ed pies and the lubster sandwiohee provided by Mrs. Dane's housekeeper, nor to the vary excellent champagne with which these dainties ware wash- ed down. The picnic, in fact, was the cream of the whole day. Angel spread the olotb, and laid the plates, and the knives and forks, Geoffrey undertook the wine and ice department, and Dul- cie and Miles Faulkner made the salad between them. Now, as to that salad, some very remarkable results were ef- fected. Let me ask of my readers, if ever they have tried the concocting of a salad, as our neighbors say—"a deux l"—and let me assure them, if they have not done so that there is no occupation so conducive to falling in love, in Lha whole world. Oh 1 that salad -making 1 What an infinite vari- ety of combinations does it not preaent I Let me give the correct recipe, as furnished by Franoatelli, with margin- al notes by Cupid:— Francatolli Take, and carefully wash, two lino lettucse, divide leaf from leaf, and dry each separately in a glean white cloth. This is best done in the palm of the band, as if pressed on to a table, it is apt to bruise the leaf. Cupid. Lay the cloth upon a small white palm, the leaf upon it—then dou- ble over the cloth, and press a larg- er palm hard upon it. Franoatelli. For sauce, take two spoonfuls of oil --half of tarragon vine- gar—one of mustard—a sprinkling of salt and pepper—mix all well together. Cupid. This sauce has never been found to be successful if not mixed with two spoons impartially. Francaielli. Slice up and add a cucumber and a couple of hard.boiled eggs. Cupid. It is essential that they ahottld be etiesed avanly; to ensure this, one person must hold, another must select, ifrantatol)l„ Then with the fingers break the dried leaves carefully in half, The knife must never be used, as it spells the flavor et the lettuce, Cupid. But as many fingers may be used as can be conveniently brought in together. Frnncatelli: Until you get to the hearts, These must not be broken on any account, but laid in whole, side by side, Cupid. And they generally are) It was very much according to this recipe, that Miles and Dulcie made that particular salad. The over -arching trees made a ere. Jul shade above, the sunshine flickered trough the leaves, the little waves ripp ed with a soft coo- ing music along the boat's side; all the surroundings were poetical and harmonious, and Miles looked shyly and adoringly—as big men have a way of looking—into Dulcie's eyes. "is that the way 1" he asked, and his great fist closed on the rosy finger-tips that held the tender green lettuce leaf between them. Not quite," said Dulcie, and sprink- led twice too much salt into the bowl upon her knees. "But it will do very nicely, won't it 2" "Rather nicely, perhaps," was the enmewhat inconsequent rejoinder, and th, n her hand shook, and the knife that was slicing the cucumber slipped, and there was a perfect tragedy of fear and apprehension. Did it cut you?" "Not at all." "But, it did. I saw it graze your lit- tle finger. Let me see." And then the finger had to be care- fully seratiuized, and by dint of hold- ing it up to the light, quite close to the eyes of the examining surgeon, a very small scratch was discovered—or, Per- haps, invented. The particuleir• form of treatment to which this alarming wound was sub- jected, belongs to the lure of lovers and nurses, and need not be entered into at further detail. No doubt, like many other surgical operations, it proved beneficial in the long run, but the immediate symptoms were —no chloroform having been employed — those of violent agitation, • "How dare you 1" with a little scream. Please forgive me," penitently, but not with utter misery. "Never—never—never 1" in a voice of suppressed rage. - "I'm a brute! I can never forgive myself. I'll promise never to do it again," energetically. "Ohl well, don't make such a fuss, the others will hear, we'll say no more about it; just go on working, please, you haven't got half your leaves in yet, and I am at my heart." "So am I," ruefully. "Mine's gone in long ago. Give me yours. "Don't break it," laughing. "Not for worlds I it's far too preci- ous," sentimentally. "You great stupid!" throwing the heart into the salad bowl. "That's the nicest thing you've said to me yet," etc., etc,, and the next few remarks are made so low, and the two faces are bent so intently over the new- ly-con000ted salad, that it requires a well -directed soda -water cork upon the nape of Faulkner's stooped colossal neck to rouse them both to a sense of the surrounding scenery. "Haven't you done that salad yet 1" "Ages ago 1" retorts Dulcie, mistress of the situation in a moment, flinging back a worry face of unconcern. "And if you hadn't been so absorbed at the other end of the boat—I can use no other word—you would bave discovered long ago that we are starving for want of our food." But Miles Faulkner came back from that water party hopelessly in love with Dulcie Halliday, He owned it to himself, somewhat ruefully, as he and Geoffrey in a hansom together followed the broug- ham that had been sent to meet the young ladies at the Great Western ter- minus. Miles had been unaccustomed to ladies' society, he was a rough, man- ly man, and women had played no part in his life. In London heknew no- body, and, save an occasional dinner - party, either at Mr, Dane's or a.1 some old-fashioned friends' who invited him because they knew his parents, he had had no insight whatever into the So- ciety life that most young men lead Intown during the London season This had never been a source of regret to him; his virtues were all sterling and solid. Ila was staunch to his friends, kind to those beneath him, chivalrous and honourable towards all, buthe had no qualities such as enable a man to shine in society ; the small talk of London life was a closed science to him, the half -familiar, hall-cun- temptu"us tone of conversation which young men affect now -a -days in talk- ing to ladies was utterly unknown to bim. Women were to him strange, wonderful, beautiful things, too good to be spoken of save with bated breath, too pure to be touched by the rough hands of life's sterner realities; every lady made him think of his dead moth- er, for whose sake, till his dying day, be would respect and worship her whale sex. Such a man fulls an easy viable to the first pleasant girl who takes the trouble to interest herself in him, and as a rule his conquest is not only rapid, but it is complete. Miles Faulk- ner was by nature so faithful and so patient that to love for a day, with him, meant to love for Iife. In one short summer day he had set up Dulcie Halliday in the empty sbrine of his great true heart, and Dukes was destined to reign there for ever. He had no sort of doubt about it himself—but hs supposed that for a clerk on a hundred and twenty pounds a year to love the daughter of a part- ner of the house whish he served was, 'Ind must ever remain, a perfectly hopeless condition of things—and so he sighed as the hansom sped in rho sum- mer twilight across the Serpentine bridge, with all the dancing lights of Lemlon away to the east and all (.he shadowy old Kensington trees to the west—sighed so deeply that had not Geoffrey been much occupied himself with his own affairs he must have noticed and rallied the despairing swain at his aide, - Geoffrey for lila part was thinking about Angel. He was not—and he was perfectly well aware that be was not —ID the very least in love with Iter. Geoffrey was nut able to blind himself about this. Ste knew perfectly well that love does nut leave the pulses calm and even, and the reason wide awake and active, as this did. When he started forth to meet Angel, there was no longing fever at his heart such as bad possessed him on those winter days when he bad hurried down to Hid- deu Iluuse., filled with a passiunate eagrrnesss to behold the woman who bad been a Divinity to him. Angel's sweet placid beauty never made his pulses beat any fustier, nor did her quiet, yet lovely eyes, as they met his. produce ul'ou him that strange be- wildering fusoination, that "thrill of pleasure that is almost pain," whish the presence of one woman alone up- on earth, had ever produced in him. Tie was perfectly well aware of the dif- ference—and yet be told himself that no doubt this was Che better thing for him, 11 was plain to him that his uncle desired him to marry Angel—that Mr. Halliday desired it—and be told him - sell that no doubt Angel herself de- sired it also ; and day by day, as be found himself constituted her compan- ion and her guide, it became borne in upon him that a man might go further and fare worse than take Angel Halli- day to himself for a wife. "You will marry ono of those girls, one day." The words Dame back to him, again and again, with one of those horrible twinges of pain which a past love, even if it is partially stifled, has always the power to inflict upon us at intervals. And they returned to his memory, too, with a sense of impend- ing fate that was almost a superstition. Perhaps she had been right. She, who had taken his life's devotion as a sport, who had not loved him, who had not ewn been true to the compact, so one- sided, which he had striven so hard to keep with ber 1 For it was thus he thought of her. He had poured forth his all at her feet, craving for so entail a boon in return, that it seemed to hint a cruelty—born of a hard and wicked nature—that she should have withdrawn even that little from him. He could not forgive her. 11 was as if she had betrayed him. Every day of absence hardened his heart towards her. And every day be saw Angel I In that one sentence, is summed up the major portion of the infidelity of lovers all the world over. The one is away—the other is there 1 "L'absenoe eat le pare des maux," sings the forsaken ring -dove in the old French fable of Lafontaine. And for lovers' vows, and lovers' truth, it is the worst misfortune under the sun. Mistrust, uncertainties, doubts of our own heart, doubts of the heart that we have won—misunderstandings, silent fallings away from one another of souls that have bound themselves into one. All these things arise Miasma - like, out of that one great evil of Ab- sence. Across that insuperable chasm of bodily separation, the heart strives in vain to reach—the pen only makes matters worse. The self-inflicted tor- tuees do but thrive and grow like weeds, choking up the fair flowers of affection, until they wither and perish, And yet, if for one golden minute hands migbt olasp, and eyes might meet, and faltering tongues—however lamely—murmur broken words of re -1 pentanca and of regret, then whole years of miserable misunderstandings might be washed away, and all the mischief melt into nothingness, like snow before the noon -day sun. People may talk of hard-hearted par- ents, of mischief -making friends—of i jealousies, of lovers' quarrels—not any one of these things—nay, not all of • them, put together, can be so dire a foe as that silent, secret enemy, who comes stealing, like an evil spirit, be- tween those who have loved—pushing them away and away further and fur- ther apart, back with drawn sword from their Paradise—till at length they become hopeless, because they are helpless—they struggle no longer with their fate, and are content to drift away into the cold grayness of a per- petual division. Thus it was with Geoffrey Daae. Absence mads him unjust and unloyal to his love—whilst the eoustant pres- ence of one who was fair to look upon, and pleasant to talk to, began to make him faithless too. Angel was very sweet. There were no mysteries about her. She did not withdraw herself from him—on the contrary she welcomed him with smiles. Perhaps, indeed, he had, un- wittingly taught her to love him al- ready. Geoffrey, without any undue amount of vanity, had perhaps been sufficiently successful in life tar this - thought to be not altogether unna- tural. "Perhaps it is fate," he said to him- self, as the hansom drew up et the house in the Cromwell Road, and the lights of the hail and the welcome of a cosy supper -table recalled the two men from their somewhat serious re- f leotiuns. As Geoffrey entered the house be noticed with surprise, .a ecmewhat un- usual incident. Albert Triabet, fol- lowed by Mr. Dane, came out of the library dour. Triches looked flushed and excited, in good spirits too—for he bowed with eftuelon to the Miss Ilallidays and nod- ded gaily to his fellow clerks—and seemed disposed to linger in the hall and join the little party of young Imo - Pie as they entered. Angel and Dulcie had met young Trichet before, their father had ante brought him down to dinner, and they bated bim with a deadly hatred, Dulcie bent over tbe hull table, where lay a letter directed to herself, which she slipped into her pocket with a slight flush. Angel turnea ber bank upon bim, and began talking hard to Notes Faulkner—Geof- fray nodded to him carelessly„ If Mat- thew Dane had had the remotest in- tention of inviting his third ()lark to join the supper party—which is per- haps doubtful—the reception he en- countered from. the four young people evidently decided him against any such hospitable intent, "Well, good night, Albert I" he cried, in a hearty, cheery voice—a thing Mr. Dane could assume at pleasure when it served his purposes—'Very good of you 10 call. Come in to supper, my dears," to the girls. "Have you had n nice day, and are you very tired1 Geoff, my boy, go and see if your Aunt is coming down. Como in, Faulkner; you are hungry, I daresay,' Albert Trichet felt himself dismissed anti his smile of triumph changed into a saowl, . When he got outside the doer, he turned round and shook his fist angrily against It.. "Abel you think yourself a blg man, You do—you are the favorite nephew, and you are to have the pick of Halle day'e daughters, rtr'0 You? Ah 1 I wun- der who'll be partner at Dane and Trichel's in the long run, my fine tel - low, you with your pretty moustaehc and your dandy clothes, and your fines gentleman airs, or 1 with a few home truths to drive in about you, Alit I think I've pat a spoke In your. wheal to -day, young man. Men who want to gut on fair and square in this world, shouldn't lead double lives and carry on with married women. Ah 1 the Governor will stand a lot, but he'll not stand that, I fancy 1" To Be Continued. "VISITING JEWELLER-" A Young English woman whose oard la inscribed "Miss Bleak, Visiting Jeweller," is pioneer on a path which promises to lead to fortune; for in this the second year of her venture she can boast a long list of patronesses containing many well-known names. Shortly after she found herself oblig- ed to do something to make money she chanced to see a quantity of old-Pasb- toned jewelry which a friend had in- berited, In spite of their clumsy, out- of-date settings the beauty of the stones inspired Miss Bank, She be- gan to make sketches of different or- naments in which they might be set, and so pretty original were her designs and so much igenuity did the show in planning the rearrangement of the stones that ber friend exclaimed: "Why, you are a genius' Here is your vocation, You must go about ask people to get out all their oltl odds and ends of jewelry, and then show then what beautiful things those same odds and ends would make." This suggestion was not lost on Miss Blank, whose fancy was at once taken by the idea of such an artistic and pleasant pursuit. ' She got the neces- sary letters of recommendation and, without delay, set to work. Her first step was to introduce herself to some good jewellers, and two leading firms readily consented to sot jewels brought in by her at a considerable discount on their ordinary prices. Then Miss Blank ,began to study precious stones and became a good judge of their value. This knowledge sown opened another branch of her ehoeen eall:ng, namely, the selling and exchanging of stones, old ornaments, etc. For instance, Dlrs, A., who hold opals, thought them unlucky, and was only too delighted to exchange them for the turquoises which Mrs. B. felt sure made her look sallow, Then Mrs, C., found one really fine pearl set in an old-fashioned locket, was s(mply dying to match it and have a pair of earrings Made, but could not afford the neces- sary outlay. However, she had dia- mond surews she was willing to part with, and now she sports in her ears moat becoming big pearls, Then Mrs. D., had an unpaid dressmaker's bill on her ronscienee which she simply did not dare show to her Husband, But Miss Blank, by soiling for her a quan- tity of old gold ornaments, enabled leer to settle the account herself. As a matter of course Miss Blank always keeps the names of exchanging parties secret, even from each other, and In their new settings the stones are not recognized. Next it occurred to Miss Bleniti that she relight also undertake the cleaning of jewels„ a matter which during the season sba found greatly neglected by overworked maids. the has now earned quite a reputation as a"pearl doctor," for these ems which are found lying loose in the oyster shell, and need no cutting, or polishing to en - chance their beauty, as if to make things even, require more careful usage than any other precious swine They become dull and discolored or, as jewellers express it, get "sick" and "die." In England, where it 80 often happens that family jewels are stowed away for many years, it has been dis- co7ared that such treatment is very injurious I pearls, which indeed ought from time to time to be exposed to the direct rays of the sun. In the early days 01 her career Miss Sheik found that some of the pearls ntrusled to her, after being well rob- bed with the bare band, her usual mode of polishing, still persistently remain- ed dim, So she read up aboat pearls, unearthed and copied a great number of quaint old-fashioned recipes for re- storing lustre. and color. Moot of these remedies for "mirk" pearls proved, whin tried, to ha useless, but a few, of real value. Among tbe latter, the old East Iodise trick oe rubbing the stones with boiled rice tees found lobe a good way of polishing them, and the more modern European device of bak- ing the gems in dough an excellent one tor removing a tinge of yellow. On one occasion, when a large, bad- ly discolored pearl given her to experi- ment on resisted bolh these treat- ments, she determinedto try an an- cient recipe found in some musty pamphlet, This set forth that the gaetrlo juice of Powis had a wonderful effect on dull yellow pearls, and would, if applled aocnrdleg to directions, quickly restore their original beauty. So, ie. fear and trembling, Miss Blank fed tbe big pearl to a rooster, which she securely confined, and, as the recipe prescribed, after two hours' time killed it and relieved it of its valuable luncheon. ,As to the result, her own words were: "Of course, I felt like nothing more nor lese than a murderess, but the pearl was ever so much improved," CARREID T00 FAR. Timmins, you .don't seen to be Mak- ing as much love to the landlady as you did, Had to ease up a little. She thought she had mo so sure that she could) put off the scraps and meat ends on ane, as if I were already married to hat. Interesting for Women. The report that Sarah Bernhardt In- tends to go to India to per'for'm there for the benefit of the rajah, and In- eidentally do some hunting on her own account, has been e.onfirined, The fair Sarah's fondness fur tawny, vel- vety tiger skins is of long standing, but a new one, gained by her own prowess, will be a trophy worth coo- sidering. The actress is going in a yacht cbartered by herself, to be rum- mended by the artist-sailor-drumatist- journalist, Pierre Lotl, Ono of the most noted women art- ists of L"ngland is Mo's. E. M. Ward, in whose studio most of the royal ladies of Great Britain have taken lessons The Duchess of Albany was at one time her pupil, and since then has taken the greatest interest in her teacher's work and always attends her exhibi- tions. Among Mrs. Ward's innumer- able souvenirs and treasures is a model of the hand of the Duchess of Albany, made especially for her by the royal sculptor. • 1t was proposed 10 one of the leading Incliau papers a short time since that a woman should be placed on the gov- ernor general's council in the person of Mrs. Solomon Sassoon. Mrs. Sassoon Ls managiug partner of a well known Jewish firm, with headquarters in Bombay, and is president of various companies in which the firm bottle con- trolling interests. -ih e takes the chair at the board meetings, and in every respect fills the position of her late husband, who teamed her in com- mercial life. She has made a special effort to draw together the women of different communities in Bombay. A French woman has collected for fifty years specimens of corsets worn at different periods, and in her chat- euu is a billiard -room fitted up with glees cases, in which her treasures are kept. Those who frown at the idea of an eighteen -inch waist would be shocked at a corset of the Catherine de Medici reign, with a waist of thirteen and one-half inches, and an outside cov- er of steel bars to prevent stretching. In the same collection can be seen some leather stays, worn by Charlotte Corday, and a pair of brocaded satin ones which cape belonged to the Em- press of Austria, with only a fifteen and one -half-inch waist. Ding Solomon has just been contra- dicted by the irascible ifrench chemist,. liaubet, who claims to have. discovered something new under the sun. It is a colorless rouge that shows.no.tint un- til the wearer compresses her lips, when a faint glow will flush the cheek and fade or deepen, according to the pressure brought to bear. Baubet, who owns to hating womeu, and gloats over the fortune he has made frum the vanity of the Lex, calls his latest in- vention the "twentieth century blush," and claims for it that when properly regulated it will express every emo- tion the naw w-uman can find use for, from the peach pink to maiden bash- fulness to the peony red fury of Shake- speare's "Woman Scorned." Queen Victoria has a great aversion to smoke, and does not allow smoking in her immediate neighborhood; But the cigar hill for ber guests is a very heavy one. The prinetpal item is the brand of the finest Havana cigars, which aro usually made for her and sent to Windsor 1n glass tubes herme- tically sealed. Qneen Victoria's cigars could not be obtained in Cuba at wholesale. prices under $l apiece. ' Tha man who makes them receives e0 cants for each cigar, and none but the old- est and most skillful workmen are in- trusted with their manufacture. At this rate they can earn quite a small fortuee, for 800 cigars a day can be turned out by an expert. The ingenious woman can make her- self any number of pretty and becom- ing things for her nook, and the num- ber of pretty new things is increasing. The affinity which fur and lace have for each other this year is manifesting Itself in pretty soft scarfs and bows. A charming and becoming bow can be made from a bit of lace, a little chif- fonand narrow sprigs of sable. A lit- tle real lace, if one has it, or pretty lace of any kind will da, for a couple of bows or ends and more bows and ends of the chiffon, lh3 ends ruffled and edged with bebe ribbon, and above the tette the narrow bands of sable about ,hal£, an inch wide, Or a scarf of some thin soft material can lee tucked and ruffled, and bands of the Du. run on across. 0£ all the niarrlage rites of which ons ever heard those of Burmah bear away the palm for conciseness and sweet simplicity. Hare it is upon the dusky lady that life plensiog duties of oourt.hip devolve. Sha sees u, ytnlh whom she deems calculated to make her happy, and forthwith offers him a stink of candy. If he accepts ber pro- posal he promptly eats Lbo token of af, Motion and they are thereby 'rade man and wife. There is no further cere- mony and no witnesses erre necessary. In the act of oatiug tbis most primi- tive marriage rite consists. But if, on the contrary, the youth is not part. - ling, he assures her that that parti- pular kind of candy is not to his taste, and the maiden must seek elsewhere for one more appreciative of her candy and her affections, The Queen of Belgium is known to. be devoted to animals. 006 hot day last summer a dog was drawing a milk cart containing a peasant woman along the high road bordering the roy- al park at Laelten. The dog, utterly exhausted, was panting under his load, but the woman remained callous to his sufferings and began to beat the poor beast merollessiy to make him go on. At that moment, the queen ie her pony cart drew out of the park. Observing the wwnen she. gob out of the carriage and severely admonished the woman in Flemish. She than scot a servant to the eagle to fetch water for the dog and insisted on the peasant getting out and walking, remaining herself In the middle of the road In the ]tut ten tut - 111 the milk cart w'uo oat of eight. The woman was ignorant of the identity of the gttoen and grumbled at being interrupted in herr cruel course. Gormsny is said to be, fni' 'head of America in its women agriculturists. Foto' years sinec an agricullunil mimed for Women wets opened at t'riederau, near Barkin, by Dr. t'ast'er, Haven wolucn were graduated IMOD it 1110 fal- lowing year, one of whom established a sintilrtr' school at Riga, in Livonia. The Btu'oness von llurtieliarmiting opuned a School of agriculture foi' wo- men on her estate at Platten In Sax- ony and a society fur lhe'iirwnotion of the support of women by mimes of fruit culture raid gardening wits forum - ed three years since by Leertiutein Anne Blum of Spardun, In Englund the Countess of Warwick is striving to es- tablish a school on the same lines. Sha ine.ludes beekeeping unci poultry rais- ing in hoe curriculum, inc Germany the courses of study extend over two or three years and include not only the most. varied branches of gardening and horticulture, but also such aolon- tifia and commercial instruction as is needed for the successful pursuit of farming as a business, 'Throe stu- dents of the first mentioned school hum established themselves on rented land and proved the profitableness of the ocoupation. BEDTIII'IE. A physician of courtly old -school manners used to give prescriptions marked respectively for early bedtime and for late bedtime. A discussion arose the other day between several friends as to whet constituted early and what late bedtime. Some of the ladies maintained that 10 o'clock was the limit between the two, ethers thought that early bedtime lasted un- til 11, and a few who believed in beauly sleep pleaded that early bed- time began at 8 and ended at 9.30 o'eloak. So many people are engaged all day, and the dinner hour is necessarily, in oily life, deferred to so hate an hour, Lhe families do not break up from their quiet evenings until after 10. Society pushes its hours later and lat- er, and the votaries o£ fashion come near baying no bedtime at all, snatch- ing their rest when They can between one gay rout and another. The invalid and the aged person and the child must perforce retire early. For those steady -going persons who regulate their lives by rule, and who habitual- ly rise at an early hour and breakfast punctually tit '7 o'clock, 10 10 certainly a good bedtime hour, Brain workers would find their account in seeking the repose of the couch and the dark- ened and silent chtmber, with prefer- ably opaque curtains to exclude the light of the moon and street lamp alike, at 10 o'clock. • A long sleep rests ilia mind as well as the body, and prepares one for the work of the nest day, whatever it may be. Fur better than an opiate ex a narcotic is the habit of seeking the pil- low at an early hour, and quietly ly- ing still, with closed eyes and relaxed limbs, until sleep, gently wooed, comes with its healing touch and softly weaves its spalls of balm. The good doctor probably meant by early bedtime any hour between 8 and 9.30, and regarded the latter ported as between 9.30 and midnight. Growing children cannot too care- fully be enjoined to get plenty of sleep. Tha boy or girl who has les- sons to learn must awaken early after n good night's rest, and this is insur- ed only by punctuality in retiring. Eight o'olook is a good bedtime for all young people under 5 and should be insisted upon by parents. , HER MAJESTY'S WAITING MAID, The duties of the English maid of honor are not tiresome, and as a good salary goes with the office, Queen Victoria hes no difficulty in selecting companions.; They are always Ilia daughters of peers, who, if not them- selves connected with the royal house- hold, are personal friends of the queen. When an honorable Miss or n Lady somebody arrives for bar first"wait," sbe receives at once lie: badge as maid of Inner. This is •a miniature picture of the gamin net in brilliants, whi'h abe wears about her neck hung fry m a ribbon. Frim Ihet liana her miss- ion a3 to be on home when wanted, Just before the dinner h,ur, the meld ort h'nor in 'WS/ling stands in the cort'i- tior outside 1 be queen's private apart - milts to raa'ive Mar as she is 111.63 cut, DI carries a boutluet, lvlttch on ems - ing lha dining so an, sha Iey.t I erble the queen's plate, Her plicae at tbi t meal is next to the g'ntleman on thequeon's right hand unless royal guests air Ire - sent, when sera 1e differently p1L.ed. After dinner, unless 01 herwise c: m- manded, she retires to her men apart- ments , Inc mast I.ro in readiness .to answer a summons at any moment to read, sing, play the piano, or tales a band. at cards. The maid of honor usually makes a brilliant marriage and the queen sends her fore a wed- ling present an Indian sl'ewl out of het' perennial stock. A DUTIFUL POLICEMAN,, Melbourne, Australia., possesses a policeman who is no respecter of tier, sons, He recently reverted Uie Gov- ernor, Lord Brassey, and several mem- bet's of the Vioorcgal statf, for riding bicycles on the wrong side of the road. The local Yard authorities were,greatly fluttered on receiving tiro report, They were riot quite sere whether the Constitution of the Empire would sur- vive such a shook as would be invol- ved in bringing the representatives et the Queen before a megieirate, and on conviction, fining him Gs with the Gestation of twenty-four hours imprison - meet. They eventualiy decided that a cautinn privately convoyed, wottld moot: the necessities of the case. .But —unkindest cut of nil -1116 courageous; constable asserted in hi erepate that: "Lord Ilress;'y is neither au expert no' a caxefui rid'ot'' UNGLE SAM 15 t:! :HEMS OP INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE, Neighborly Interest In His Deluge—Mnttee 01 Moment and Mirth gathered from HU Dally Record. Robert DleCarcly, Ann Arbor, Mich,. Inherits n large fortune in Ireland. Prince Lodes Suplebe, a Russian. prince, has given $1,000 to the Cuban Relief Committee. Many American volunteers will re- main in t e Philippines and engage In business enterprises. The Mayor of Toledo opposes Leath - leg typewriting in the night schools because, ha argues, it will mean more typewriters clod lass wages. The Catholic churches of Cincinnati have been forbidden to allow the sing- ing of certain masses, because they too. closely resemble operatic music, Tho cabmen of Evanston, Illionois, leave organized a union to fight the civic ordinance which prohibits them, from soliciting patronage at the sta- lions, Joseph Turner, of St, Louis, until reoe:n fly a messenger boy on the Msr- chanst' Exchange, is the inventor of a ship roller adopted by the navy, and it will make him a fortune, it is said - It is officially stated by officers of the Window Glass Trust that menu- farntrera aro able to operate by 1,108 of the 2,118 "puts" in the nation be- cause of inability to secure blowers, all now being employed. A bill tendering the thanks of the United States Congress to Miss Clara Barton and the Red Cross Society for services rendered to the United States soldiers during the recent war has been introduced. The steamer Alameda from Australia brought themes amounting to $3,- 510,000 to San Francisco. There were 120 boxes of English sovereigns, 5,000 sovereigns in n box, and 2'1 boxes fill- ed with bullion. The money is to set- tle, in part, the balance of trade be- tween the Slates and England. Ham and Eggs,—Place a frying -pan. with one-quarter ounce of butter over the Lire; when hot put in a thin slits of ham, cook two minutes on each. side, lay the h Inc on a hot dish, cut it into four pieces, break four eggs, put them in the hare fat and fry till the whites are set; then carefully lay on each piece of bun one egg. Timothy B. Blackstone, of Chicago, who gave the Blackstone Memorial Li- brary two or three years ago to his. native town of Brantford, Conn,, has now added $100,00;1 to its endowment. it is one of the finest public libraries in the United States, and cast more than $4C0. Mr. Blaalcstone's first endowment gift was a hundred thou - stand, se that the aggregate of his bene- factions is more than $000,000. While men empluyed•by the Craney Construction Company, St, Louis,. which is building the embankment of a large reservoir for Paris, Texam were engaged in removing dirt they excavated a number of Buffalo heads and portions of carcasses, watch were imbedded three feet in hard clay. They were petrified and the outlines were perfect. Thirty-two flint arrow- heads were also found sticking in one of the buffalo heads. Last fall Susan M, Bennett, Albert Owen and Lloyd Bennett, all of Cas- tile, threw a hive of bees under a team owned by the Highway Commissioner' of that township. The bees stung the animals and the commissioner and caused a runaway. Suit for malicious mi.,,chief was brought. Mrs, .Bennett was fined $50 and given 50 days in Albert Owen received a like sen- tence, while Lloyd Bonnett gets off with 30 days in jail. As the steamer City of Dublin was entering Philadelphia harbor recent- ly, an interesting ceremony took place on board. Among, the crew were a number of Malays and Lascars, who was shipped in the Orient. Worming a circle on the deck of the vessel about thrix priest, wh,m they brought with - Ih:m for this purpose, they sacrificed o 01101, In the sea, the wive. ousting the heart from the living animal and to using ter: pro trail. forms of Cha d;v,tees w.th its blood. He then hurled the gory organ into the waves and oast the body after it. • LACE 'TAKING. elt.hcu„h about the middle of the sav,n,o:n b tcn:urylacem:cking spreai from Venice to oilier parts of Europe such as Alenpou Di -ussels stud. some 01 ber towns of Menthes, the art of snaking it renlly belongs to the south of Europe, .i. i.low lacemaking, on the contrary, though it originated in the picturesque city of Venice, belongs lc l,nglauel and 1'l'anders, It is made by first drawing the pattern on parch- ment, which is testunod on a cushion, Ulna sura ilcen steak into the pattern, and the linen threads, which arc around on to bobbins, etre then twisted in and out. For elaborate patterns in pillow lace a vast number of pins and sometimes 1,200 bobbins aro used. The best kinds of pillow lace are Mechlin, Brussels and Ili niton, V:.leneicnnes is also a very t:heme(eeislle tpecnrten, 11111 the valu'thl s hand -puede ladies bave been in a greet mensure replaced by theeltetion, mode by mu libtely with cotton instead of linen, Thu, the in- dustry of lacemaking by hand, Lo a great extent, died int, Attempts, however, hove since been mndo to re- establish it, nett they have pertly sue- eeedod in the south of Italy; also ie Llonil.on and parts of Ireland, HOW IT HAPPENED. Iforrifiol 12olher—I should like ti cow brew you hnppeued to let young tilinpkina kissou 8 Dart• hter'--I—I- T thought no one was looking,