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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-7-28, Page 22 T.m.351 BRUSSEILts POS JULY 28, 1890 eaaopeonoreoesogeoreopeegeooe%eveaeoeno.a.oceeeoPeateseaeaWesee Diamond Cut Diamond OR, THE ROUT OF THE ENEMY. nosuorkr, -N,ev...es%"No- oliAvrEut N1).XV11.--Cominu21a. vie ie about to /attire open uo, reaa. " Why, Angel, I really bink you are me, whet ho actually said must noo- n lucky pet To think mat yeti hold be revealed: all the t rump turas in your hands, and " The infernal blaekguard I" Nvue have emelt a grand, trembling. game be- what Miee Iledliday said aloud, in it fore you I Chanop, indeed! Are you not ealm and reneu'kably sweetetempered young sari pretty, and always with manner. And it 1, (lune vermin that him?—as geed as gold and as sweet ete hawthorn blessein e' Du you think any man could resist you if you set to work to try and wilt him; 011. I would not sit and cry it I were you. I would. try with all Illy might and 11 main to Kee if I could get the bel ter or that 'ether witmana Win Geoffrey youreelf, defy theseitefe w,,rds id a 1t. was not to poor Miles that she nod allusion. Then walking back towards the Mots slowly patting her letter back in,. the eneeleoe as she went, she call1 ((11212(7 a 212121(7111j119 (ming inround f rot the at sides, Cain yen take a telegram down t the peel -afire for nie at once?" sh sInteful Bleier-in-law, and ehow her enquired of the man. that it was a wicked lie .1,12 she tolls " es, miss." you I Begin tills very day, my dear ?" "Then wait here. and I will bring "Do you think I 1•o2l1d, Delete 2 to you in a moment." "1 ant sure of 0, Angel. Think. what She went into the drawing -room, am a grand advantage it is to bp aeon- sat clown to the writing-tnble. ally it man's wife, Ola if yeti try hard! 1" said savagely elenehin enough, you will sticvoed, pro11080 her little fists together, " so the you!" I w rend) 1 thinks he can force me into giv Then igel hid her face upon her , ing Miles up. ch.es he 2 TIe itnagine sister's shou bier. ; that of course I shall deep him the ver "Duleie," elle whispered, "I have a moment he has succeeded in ruining secret to tell you—do you know that him2 "2 ou. don't know much ebout Dul I have made a wentlerful discovery ?; ch. Halliday, my young friend !" I always thought, you know, that I I And, then she got out a telegraph loved lIerttee Lessiler--1 did owe, you form and wrote this characterist le rues see—and therefore I thought (11112sage: could never love nnybcsiy elee. When I '' All rubbish. Refuse to be given utt was married, I said to thyself that I Prefer paupers. Lame down here im- would be a good nnd dutiful wife, but mediately." lhat I could be nothing more—lett since "Strict obedience 2" she murmured to —ninee I think the very hour that herself, with an odd little smile of dreadful man said he loved me, and mentseraent. " He did not say I was tried 12117 disparaging things of not to telegraph I" Deoffrey—samei Wag has suddenly come Then. after she had given her mis- t() me. Perhaps it 'was the herror e sive to the groom, law came back to the felt, the disgust at hiinsolenee, er writing -table and took out a sheet of s perhaps it is Geoffrey's C11211101112 that Paper. . lens hurt nee, and this horrible jealousy " This settles it" she muttered, dip - which is eating away my heart—I dohe n't Ping her pen into tink. And then know how or why it is, but I 1(1212211212(1wrote covered all at mice (het I a 131 in love "Dear Father,—I -.oppose you will with him! Gla, but desperately, dread- think tne quite mad, although I can't fully in love I- 110110 it if you do. I am going to mar- " Oh, Angel! Angel !" nnd Dulcie coy- ry Miles Faulkner. I hope you will erect the blushing face with kisses of gire me something to marry open, in unfeigned delight. "to you. see you addition to the four hundred a year have love as wait to help you to Nein which 120211r21 to me under my mother's your battle I" marriage eettlement, and Whiell, as I Per some minutes neither sister am ot age, I suppose I shall have a spoke; they remained silent, fast lock- right to. Of course I am aware that ed in each other's arms. this is very little, and so I hope you Then very seriously Angel raised her will kindly 1311112(2 some further 1)120121"face and looked anxiously into Dul- 8(1)23 for me. I have thought it all over cie's eyes. for some time, and have quite made up "Dulele." my mind to marry nobody else on earth My dearest." but Miles, so it is too late to make " Don't think me a great feel, but me change ray determination, but not —but don't you honestly think that too late, nay dear father, to give me Geoffrey is a very handsome man?" your blessing and your help. I fear I " He /et an Adonis, my dear, a very may he disappointing some 24 701112 =- Adonis, with a touch of the Apollo and bitions, but you are too :good a fa - flavouring of a Cupid 1" (her not to see that happiness and af- Aa nd then she jumped up from her (mma are, after all, the best things lowly position and laughed merrily and td make a marriage suceessful.—Your heartily. affectionate child, Duleie. But all this time she bad said not "P.S,---By the way, I hear Miles is a word about her own concerns. turned out of the business. This will Truth to say. Duleie was a oward. Make not the slightest difference to She knew that she was about to fling me, as it would 0) 11 mean thing, 115 7011 an explosive machine down into the• will egree, to throw a 11111211 over because bosom of her family, and she was a he is in 'tremble. I suppose it is little bit afraid of the storm and con- trick of that detestable little rad, Teich - fusion she was Pertain to bring upon et. I 11112012711 hated the little beast ! hereelf. That Dulcie, the practical, the Ile is more like a monkey than a man, sensible, should be the one to fling X think 2" herself away in a reckless and improvi- dent fashion upon a man an poor, that Nvithoot her father's assistance, he would certainly be unable to keep her in bread and cheese was to say the I oast ot it somewhat galling to her vanity. She felt, too, that really there was no special tenon to show to the world's eye for her folly. If it had been Geof- frey now. there would have been some excuse. Geoffrey had all the needful charm of look and manner wherewith to storm successfully the citadel of feminine h.earts; there was something interesting and poetical, and intensely fascinating about Geoffrey—but what on earth could there be in honest Miles Faulkner, that a girl like Dulcie Hal- liday should throw herself away upon and consider " the world well lost " for bis Enke? 11 "I do verily believe it Is on account of his size !" Dulvie would my. with a rueful disgust to herself, " They say savages are impressed by brute forte and gigantic stature—it is their only 11100(1112(1 0. excel lenee. At heart. there is not a doubt 01 0', 7 must be an Ojibe- wny Indian 1" Nevertheless. Dulcie did not repent of her infatuation, and had not the smallest intention of drawing back from her bargain—only she shrank from the confession of it, Alter her little talk with Angel, she went out and walked drenmily about the garden, pacing thoughtfully along the newly -laid out paths. Not a doubt of it that her intentions could no long- er be kept a secret ; her father must be written to nod Angel and Geoffrey tweet be told, A hundred end twenty pounds a Year," she said aloud, with 22. pertain grim tense of amusement. " D's pre- Poeterous, of course; 1 almost evisle it were nothing at all : the measure of ro- mantic idiotey would at least be poet- ically fuller I" The words were searee- ely out of her mouth, before she had a practical opportunity of testing her as- pirations to their uttermod. The second post had just arrived, and a servant came out anbrought d her a letter. It wee tram Miles, and the very first glimpse showed it to be of a most unprecedented brevity. With a vague wonder at its shortness, she began to read: ' My dearest Dulele,—All must be over between us for ever—cur engage., anent Must be broken off, My. Dane hos dismissed me from the business, 7 do DOW know why, but think is Albert Triehet's doing, Of course that puts marriage out of the question with me kr years --I am a pnuper, Godblees yoit—T can't write more.1 feel a bit bowled over. You needn't write, I'd rnther you diatri—Ivrm," For some moments Dulcie remained staring down 81.21211217 it this letter, with no other sign of emotion save 11 slightly heighteried colour. Then, z nitwit regret to be obliged to slate the three words that fell alowly and delib- erately front. her lipa. They were neither Indy-like nor re- fined worde, and 1 only record them from a stria. (20315(1 of data' and 0)- 071(2(250)render a tele eitliteoely end tine aninishedly truthful, it is neceasary, oceaalonalty, to offend the enseeptibil- ;Hee of plinctillotes permits. In hopes Mei the 021110g302 tender eaay 10 10140 211(2(1511126aeiiIgate the Aimee 'Owe; mil - 21 21 Dulme felt proud of this composition more particularly of the postscript. " That will prevent the chance (gamy 1 misunderstanding On that score !" she said to herself, as she folded and ad- dressed the letter. "D will show Tema , that I consider Miles' dismissal as a matter of minor importance, and also Put any little dreams he may have ha d on the subject of my becoming Mrs, Albert Trichet out of his calculations. No woman who describes a suitor for her bend as a monkey, could, by any possibility, be expected to retract the expression and marry him, under any preemie of circumstances whatever It'e just as well papa should, see ex- actly how matters stet:oil" Anter that, Mies Halliday felt as happy as a bird—a happiness which was in no way diminished by the sight of Geoffrey and Angel coming to- wards the house together from the stables, Delete eaw that Geoffrey looked pale and ill, but that he was apparently making an effort to talk to his Nvife; and presently, cla she watched them, she saw Angel half shyly, and with a quiek, nervous glance at her husband's face, slip laer band through his arm, of her own accord. Geoffrey was evidently surprised, toed a little colour mounted to bis oo, net after a minute laid his other hand upon his wife's, and looked pleased. Perhaps coming straight from that sad interview upon the Downs Geof- frey Dane might reasonably have car- ed for a little interval of ectlitude and thought ere he was d 0403) 10 begin to tread the path whicb his lost love had pointed out to him, But life sometimes hurries us on in an Untie - countable faehion, and when, as he turned into the stable -yard and flung himself off his foam -flecked horse, he wae met by Angel, coming out hatless from the house. to greet, him on his return, something in her timid smile made him remember Rose de Brefour's words; "Et is always possible for a "Indeed!" Ile looked at, her inquir- hasty, anti a certain dim perception of thine% he had never yet thoupht about came into bie mind, when he eaw the but colour rine like a flatuei ilia wife's fair face. "Captain LessIter will not come back, Geoffrey," site went on with an e,forl; 'ht. -11e has offended memorial- ly, 1 shalt never speak to lieu again." coet her a great deal to say this. Geoffrey was lookiug at het curiously "022101 12211(1' le Name etuldenly revettitut to him; elw was not Gem cold, ate he had eiways believed her to lie, only, as aith himeelf, things had gmee Nerong. Hie infinite tact end eympally sewed idea from the fatal error which nine men out uf ten would bavo fallen Into in the eirt•unasteuees, Ile refrained Dom neking her a single question, or from dem:toiling the elightest eepliterie den from. her. Onav he talk!, very tp.itilly and simply, just as if he knew all about it -- "Thank you, my dear, 1 UM. quite ..ure you hare done right." And then it was that Angel, touch- ed by his 1711121 1113(1 his genet: test ty, al ip- p el her Land, in it shy, caressing fash- ion, under his arm." Geoffrey Lad nester felt eo drawn to her befoie, "Perhaps, after all, she IN ill grew al love eue a bit," he mid to himself, as lie laid his hand softly up- on the little timid fingers Imola his erne; "and I may at beast be able to make her happy," And eo /Miele met them on the lawn as she camp out of the long French window or the drawing-roona, with all sorts of great purposes in her deice - Inked little fate, "Look here, Angel ante Geoff," she began, plunging after her habit right into the very middle oa her theme, "I have got something very startling to tell you. I don't !mow. What you will say abeta it, although I may as well tell you at once that it doesn't matter verY (town what you say," here she looked (mite defiantly at them both, "because I have quite made up my naled--" "Geed gracious, Dulciel" murmured Angel, turning a little pale at this altiming preamble, whilst Geoffrey only bent his brown eyes very atten- Lively upon her. "The fact of the matter is, that—I am going to marry—Miles Faulkner!" hid Duleie, a little breathlessly, bat flinging the words in a staccato fash- ion al' them, as if in very truth they were littk burning squibs, and then shut her lips up with a snap, and look- ed quickly from 0.130 to the other, as though to ask, "Now, what have you got to say to Gotta" Ceeoffrey's answer was to reach out both his hands to: her, and to shake hers very heartily. "Then you toe going to marry one of the very best fellows in the whole world, Delete, and I only hope that you are good enough to deserve him," Duleie's eyes literally shone with de- light, and her face broke out into smiles. No answer in the world meld have phased her better, "I don't deserve biro in the very least, of course," she answered, with a. little saucy toss of her ehin; "but that's his affair, Geoff, and meanwhile, I am looking to you to help us. Do you know that those terrible old men— your uncle and PaPat I mean — have given him his dismissal from the house." "Yes; I heard of it the) other day. I couldn't make it out," murmured Geof- leY, an a senee of shame and 0031- trition filled him that the trouble of his friend had made so little impresa siOn upon him—how selfish, after all, be bad been in his OW.33 grief) It was noL thus stalely Rose de Brefour tvould have treated a friend who was suffer- ing under all -fortune. He had gone away and absolutely forgotten the bad news he had heard about a man who had been his greatest friend. He had not made an effort in his behalf, nor even proffered one inquiry coneernihg his probable fate, Poor old Miles1 "You see it is that hateful little sneak Trichet who has done it," Dulcie Was saying; "they wanted me — those two silly old idiotsl—to marry him, and he was jealous of Miles, mod thought he would get him out of the way. But yon are each at favourite with your anele, Geoff, that I am sure if you try you. could get things put right for him." "And Bo I will try!" cried Geoffrey. "I will go up to London to -morrow about it. Albert Trichet starts for Sotuh America this very night, and when be is safe oirt of tile way my uncle is far more likely to listen to anything I say, Don't you worry mar- e , Duane, Write and ask old. Miles down here for a tiny or Iwo--" I have telegraphed to him to come already," said Dulcie, demurely. 'rhat's right, Pll be off by Gm 8.10 31 the morning, Angel, I'11 get that, put right for you somehow, Dulcie• the House shall not leave the dear old boy out in the cold if I can help it." He watt full of a, new enthusiasm and energy—already work for others, that grand. panacea for private trouble, lay under hie very hand, "There are oth- er things in life to live for," Rose said when she bode him turn his back upon ircit....yeAoi ever, Was she not always ItOr der brt akfast for me at seven to- morrow," he said to hie wife, as they vent, into the house, ''and Pll have the log -rt to take me to the station," hen, turning to Dulcie, he added with smile, "Angel will have tel wait till Monday to ride The Moor. You see, Ehe has nobody now to pilot her but mel" So Angel had her reward too, To be Continued, REMARKABLE OPERATIONS. Two remarekble surgical operations for the purpose of stopping internal hemorrhage have been performed by Dr. Hebert, of Vienna. In the case of a young man who had fixed four slugs into himself, alie surgeon mit Mtn the aboraela cweily, removing One of the ribs, and stuffed a yard and a ball of i.odoforne gauze between tae heart and the lungs. The otber case, that of a man stabbed through the armpit, was treated in the same way. Both patients recovered and are now perfeetlY wen. ' • • AN AWFUL FLING, Mks, Styles—I'd lattao yea Onderetand at .1 know le good Many *01288 men an my husband, MIL Atyles-My dear, yott Millet be ore particular about picking your atgen el n tancee. a man to make a young wile love him." a Was itt he wondered. At any rate, he had made up his mind Unit he would ry, A certain surprise came upon him, too, at the manner in which Angel greeted him; there was a shtick of em- pressemeut ne her welcome, and a sense of being met half -way 111 her manner, that he had not notice(1 in her before, ale spoke to her at once about the home, and told her that be would rather the waited a day or two before riding him to hounda. "Take hire out for an hour along the roadie if you like, he is very fresh, and wants exercises and wait to hunt him till next week." She agreed, with all he ateutdomed gentleness, yet pleaded that she might at least hunt on the following Mon- day, "The mare will not be right for a week, Gibson says, and Weldon Gorse is such a good, meet, Geoff, and if you will he so geed as to look atter ana abit-', oe ()'('112" "71121126 is Captain Lessiter to do that, Is there nod" 'he said, a little ta shortly, making not a gut:slime but an th aseertion of the remark. • "Captain Levan' has gone aWaY," eet said Angel quietly, 0.0041190 043.000.0..04,00004.00 0 About the House, t.00000eitetoate>4430 Otteato11041010 Holy TO UTILIZE laill"rh'IMILK, 7110 houeewives Who always Use ('.Wee 1 milk 011d baking powder in i11' 111110.4 where sueli ingredients or their equivelents are collect for little guess the euperior results which may be obtained from the use of sour milk and Kla. If etur mille is used it must be freshly marvel, net stale ; bence, the beet lime to use it is in the summer time, am Lerma preferable all the year reunet, Bluetit:7, griddle -cakes, waffle% turn -breads, muffins, gems, gingerbread, cookies, etc., are all ef them more (milder, delicate and Pr( b - ably more wheleseine, since the majur- ity 01 bedtime powder,. are adulterated, it (boy are made of buttermilk and Rla. A. general rule is one level tell- spoenful of soda to one OM or lantriere milk, or freshly soured; milk. The soda must be rtrat pul- verized by rubbing with a knite 031 the table or breadboard, then added to the flour, to be sifted with 11. It is even Ix ea to sift the Deur, soda 2122(1 5(112 to- gether two or tbree times to ineure even blending. In a very short time one learns Lo gauge the soda exave- ty to the avidity of the milk to be used. Baking Powder cannot give the best reeulte in the clews of articles enumer- ated. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. The trying yellow spots so often left by sewing machine oil on white goods may be removed by rubbing the stain with a cloth wet with ammonia before washing with soma To remove paint from WindOw glass make n strong solution of potash, saturate the snots of paint with this, and lel it remain until nearly dry; then rub off with a woolen cloth. To clean cut glass, thoroughly wash in soap ends, and polish sawdust and chamois. ,A. shall piece of charcoal placed in the box where cutlery is kept will pre- vent rust. To scour steel knives and forks use sifted coal ashes or powered rotten stone or pumice. Ashes should be sifted through fine flour sieve. To cleanse and brighten a carpet Put three tablespoonfuls of ammonia intoa pail of clean water and go over the surlace of the carpet with a cloth wall wrung from the liquid. IlIor Sunday night supper It is a good plan to serve a platter of deli - cats cold meat with salad. Try serving thin shims of mid tongue or chicken, garnished with parsley sprigs as an accompaniment of the lettuce, Always use the purest of soap and no washing powder when cleansing table linen. After soaking in warm water which has been well soaped, rub well between the hands, rime several .times and blue. 'For laces and deli- cate artioles, put in a net, shake well in soapsuds, rinse well and hang up to dry. To remove Tress stains soak in a weak solution of oxalic rcid and hang in the sun. Atter washing ,and drying table napkins, instea(1 of starching them, dip them into boiling water and lightly wring them out between two cloths that have been starched; iron with irons as bot as can be used without Scorching; then they vill be just right, neither too stiff nor too soft, and with a beautiful gloss, When closing your home for the sum- mer upholstered furniture should be well brushed and wrapped in newsPaP- ars ; thou ii.acat piece of ordinary tar roofing paper in each article and again cover them with newspapers, This also applies to eugs, looee carpets or Other articles that are liable to be at- tacked by moths. TEE RED LILY. The read lily of Palestine is in size and shape much like our Easter lilies, but they are yellow with purple streaks upon the outside and a red blush tint within. In the bottom of each bell there are six drops of sweet wateaolike tears. If you take these away six more will at once take their places. About this flower this pretty story is told by the simple folk who live near there. " Once the Garden of Gethsemane was full of flowers of all kinds, and mom; them none so fair and queenly as the slender, stately lily, with 1111 her clustering bells proudly upright. It was °centime, and the Lord came passed along each gentle Plower bow- ed before Him, while he breathed the refreshment of the quiet hour upon them; but when He came to the lily - her haughty head remained erect in the defiance of conscious beauty. The Lord paused and looked upon her. FOX a second she braved that bright, mild eye of reproof, then slowly bent her silvery bells, white blusbes swept in Painful brilliancy over them, Still the Lord's gaze rested on her; lower sank her head, deeper burned her crimson; then tear after tear welled up he the lily cups. At this the Lord passed on, " When morning came all the flowers lilted their &lade and smiled to see the light; a11 but the lily, that once white queen among therm later head remained bowed in shame, while to this day she Mashes over her vanity, and the tears of repentance kill Hove in the delicate cups of the flower that re- tuned to bend before the Lord as ale walked in the Garden of Gethsemane at the evening hour." , • ; " US/NG THE 011187 THINGS. On the top shelves of the cupboard reposes in solitary state the best tiet of diehes. Wrapped carotene in cot- ton flannel in the bureau drawer of the ''8J12( ('0 room" are the silver knives and forks, 22 eompany with olaelever ether pieces of tither the housewife may Possesla Ironed 101112 inunaeula to Imo/oiliness are the flanking and lieml linen tableelotbs, which rarely see the light. Closed ere the parlor blinds and tight slant the door, A. well worn path lentle around to the baek door, while the walk to the front of the Louse he gramsgrown frein disuse. Aro three 11111111>, ,110y or all of Gwen true of your home, 11061' reader? They aro of 200 11.111123' country house% Wily do women hoard their tree» sures with such mire ? They cost hard -mimed dollars, it is true, often representing suerifiee on the part or one who had a desire to have things tie good as her neigh- bors. Then why not enjoy them? Why esteem them too fine to be used in tho ftenly at ientit often enough to re- move the strange feeling of newness so unemnfortably evident sometirnes when there is rompany RECIPES FOR, RYE PlillniNnS, Hitter Pudaing—Beat together 1 henping albite:poen butter and 1-2 leacup brown eugar, add 3 beaten eggS. a ecant half teacup of sweet milk, 1-2 pint molasses with 1-2 teaspoon soda stirred in. 2 teacups rye flour, 1-2 ietuelmen each of cinnamon and chives. Steam an hour and serve Neitia Je/ly Stowe—To a pint ut boiling water add 1 tete up sugar, 1-2 tea- spoon salt, 1 tablespoon corn al 12121 mixed with a Little told water. Buil a minute, stirring constantly. Add 2 teaspoons sour grape or cur- rant, 1 tablespoon butter and boil two minutee, meantime stirring well. Plain Rye Pudding—Break rye bread into small pieces, nour over boiling water to soften and let stand until cool, then press end mash. To every quart add 1-2 teaspoon salt, 2-3 teacup sugar and 1 teacup seeded raisins. Mix well and, bake in a wellebuttered bak- ing' dish about an hour and a half, To bewith. Sugar Sauce—Melt 1-2 oint maple sugar in a smell teacup of *61011 add 3 tablespoons butter mixed with a level teaspoon of flour, bon a few minutes and season with nutmeg. Monday Pudding—Cut the crust from rye bread, if hard, slice, fold in a nap- kin and steam well through and seeve with maple sugar sauce. Layer Pudding—Put slices of steam- ed. bread au a dish in layers, eover, with a very sweet custard and steam half an hour. Serve evith any Livorno sauce. DO BABIES' THINK? Proressor Ilttbot, of France, Advances a NOW Theorr. Do children think before they can talk? Professor Ribot, the great Feench psychologist, says that they do, deny- ing the old fasbioned notion that we must think in words or not at all. He buses his conclusion oe the systematic study of the chit' dren of scientific men who have recorded the growth of their Intelligence step by step. He cites the case of the child of Preyer, aged thirty-one weeks. Preyer was a famous student, writer and sci- Malin His child interested itself ex- clusively in bottles, water jugs and other transparent vases with white contents; it had thus seized upon a characteristic mark of one thing that was important to it, to wit, milk. At a later period it designated these lay the syllable "mom." Another illustration Is that of a boy, aged less than one year and incapable of pronouncing a single ward, to whom a stuffed grouse was shown with the word "bird" uttered to identify it. The child immediately looked across to the other side of the room, where there was a stuffed owl. A eltild, ltaving listened first with its right ear, then with its left, to the licking of a watch, stretched out 1112 arms gleefully toward the clock on Lhe mantelpiece. Darwin related these observations of his grandame 1—"The child, who was just beginning to speak, called a duck 'quack, and by special association it also called water .By an ap- preciation of the resemblance of quali- ties it next extended the term 'quack' to ,denote all birds and insects on the one hand and all fluid substances on the other. By a still more delicate appreciation of resemblance the child eventually called all the coins "quack,' because on the back of a French sou it had once seen the repeesentatioxi of an eagle." Prayer says of one of his children that tt was impossible to take away one 2423 0' niae-pins without its being discovered by the child, while at eigh- teen months he knew wile well wbether one of his ten animals was missing or not. Yet this is no moot that he was able to count up to nine or ten, At seventeen months Prayer's child, which could met speck a ward, find - Ina that it was unable to obtain a pleything placed: above its reach in a cupboard, looked about to the right and left, found a small traveling trunk, took it, climbed up and poeseesed itself of the desired °Wed. Here there is certainly an element 02 ineention, :d 'CZ...3' 1.84a.... 441kAtAill.A8024W%. 410%44,4848648,18.88* Oh the Farm. 1101V TO FEED. The 'meet diffieult queation to an- swer is, " How enuell hunt 811611 one (11(0 1" When we consider that no two fowls lutve the same appetites or eat the same quantity of feud the ques- tion is 1101 one cattily answered. Fear ounces ef solid food. has been given tis an eetimette for a hen fur one day, whiell im intende11 not„ only for 11)0 511111111111)11,t,14(,3ifi. 024;:glis,,141attui tuatureue.,Tein1,11intulelie0t1 laying requires Wee. There is quite a difference ia thu habits and eharac- terieties of the several breech), and that which will proVO „successful With so= fails with others. Leghorns, when laying, enay be fed as much as they will eat, and they teal seldom become tou fat, but the Bra11ant/3 calluot be so treated, -Ls was elated in a former number, a hen seldom begins to Ea un- til elle becomes very fat, atm it is this peculiarity et the 11033-Sittilig breeds, inaptitude to fat ten, that ioduces them to refrain 21212113 sitting. The great difficulty in feeding is to know wha1 to git e. The two ortncipal materials are nitrogen, for atesh, al- htunen, OLC., and carbon, fur fat. 'The itaregenous foods are meat, beans, clover, end, to a ttertaln extent., the grains. The etubunaceous foods are grain, tat meat, arease, rice etc. If a hen is fat she needs no rood excelling, in fat. Hence, finely cut plover hay, scalded, giveu ill the morniog, with a tablespouuful of meat in winter, is better for egg production than grains, If a hen is poor give some grain at nig•lo. All food,, however, contain fat, and also some nitrogen. It ahould be borne in mind that the more quiet and sluggish the disposition, the less heating food Le required. A laying hen should never be fat, for the ammonite - tion of fat. is injurious to reproduction. IS too fat the hen is a poor layer. She becomes egg -bound, breaks down and soon proves unproductive. Any breed of fowls that are active foragers, and are laying, may be fad all they will eat of nitrogenous Oxide; but if the hens are apparently 10 good health, and do not lay, feed 110 oven, give plenty of meat, and allow bulky food. or they will quickly fatten. If fed heavily, a hen will either lay or fatten in a short time; and if the hens are Asiatics, and cease to lay, the feeding Mast be done cautiously. It is even better to bring them doom 3%0 a poor condition rather than to alio0 them to become Loo fat. ',rhe best mode ot feeding Ls to allow plenty ot bulky food and to give each ben an ounce of raw, chopped meat in the morning and whole oats at night. In the sum - neer good foraging ground will pro- vide all the food neceSSary. DON'T, LET COWS GET TIRED. Remember that if a cow is eom- pelted to travel back and forth over thiely-aere field from morning till night in order to hunt a ration for herself she Neill not give you btg pay in the pail. If she has lo use the en- ergy 10 omega a living that Eche should have expended in elaborating milk, she cennot be profitable. To do her best., the 00W Should be enabled to fill up well in a few hour e and rest the bal- ance of the time, as it is during the rest spells thal she is grinding out your profit. There is some profit in aulmmer dairying, but we must give very careful attention to all the cle- taile, if we would realize at. STACKING SMALL GRAINS. The sooner small grains are in the stack after matting the better. There will then be less wt,s1e i2 storms should occur, less waste from bleaching or growing of grain in the cap sheaves and less waste from quails, prairie chickens and other fowls. If grain is well stacked it matters little whetb- eg it ts put in roun(1 stacks or lung ricks. Ulm whole aecret of successful - 13' stacking small gsains is to keel) the middle of the Muck high and solid. If Lilts is done, and, the bundles are of •ed,erate tame, the grain will keep for oaths without much danger 24 spell- s. There to an ocoasiontO season, owever, ot cleiving'ruine, during which stack that 15 1101 under ouver of nvae will turn water, and cense- u.ently the beet method la to 11110811soon as possible after the grain is the stook. (12111258rdeas you have rail foundations for ux attune, start by standing bundles end. just as you would in shocking. 001) 11* ,middle .5011(1, but not very gh until the Attack is about six feet eve the ground. Then by adding act- tionet1 lows ot bundles LO the middle d tramping (Ruefully, make lbs n31(1-, e high and solid, keeping it 3 or 4 above the outer row of bundles un - 1 the tote is almost reached. .A.5 slat - before this is u very important point 111 muet not. be neglected under anyratemstance,s. Of course stocking 18 ore difficult with a high middle, 311(011151213'tieularly with grains that have a ft, harsh straw, as wheat and rye, outer 111761272 are very apt to slip, t2)30' can be partially overcome by titling on the outer layer with a rk and not stepping 011 it at (1ll. In ming 1130135 11111 down the butt °COQ ndlo first so that somf th e oe 1221)125 '212111 stick into the 10121201tver Min- e, and thus tend to prevent. slipping. ep this up 1111 the top is reached, voiding any very high sleeks, then, ver with lava layers of bundles well oken and keep in place by using keels not loss than 4 21 long, Treat - in this manner gawking will be n(1. satisfactory and as a rule there 11 be little 0(12,1,140 01 toraplaint. Although wheat le more difficult to ek than oats becahe use of tstiff- s of the straw, a wheat steak turns Ie e better than 11012501540460033 t, )(tack and as conseemee the topping out of an stack mak be given more alten- t. is notch better to topeeith ow kind of hey, particularly prairie '212 1(2 too largo to weight down, is is not necessary where 211112011,- is to be (lone at once, but if the ek is to etend vary long it should well topped.. 512 in no ca as in y0 012 2(1 112 011 di an (11 22 ti ed air el 03 pa 1311 bla pu to plt bu at 121 He II'AMILTAR av A FR1END, co bt The eleverest daughter recently ate mode' a beautiful shade for the piano ed lamp from a pink evening dress and fou trimmed it with roses from her last wi summer's hat, That evening a young man celled on her and 10 low -toned sta mum they chatted, nett aloav do you like our neve lamp um shade? 8110 asked deraueely, a He studied it for a moment. The oat loot time I stew it, be replied, 1 was tio doming with it. 80 hely The State authorities of New, Jersey Th recently analyzed vo. samples of food ing and drugs, and dieetwered that 208 of ate be illent were adulterated. interesting for Women, The Queen of ilelgiura, who was re- cently so very ill, bad 211111,1250 queer bringing up—for a Queen uf the pre., aeon day et least. She lived in her father's eastle at Pestla amid sur- routolings and customs which remitul one of the feudal ages. At niglat her father himself descended the great staircase to lock the outer gate end the door of the principal hall. Tbis hall was divided into two parts, one end Ileitis raised a step or two above the ether. At the elevated end tlw daughters of the house sat at their needlework or painting or music, while their nteentlants, busily seWIng or embroidering, sat at the lower, end of the hall. Marie Henriette, now the Queen 1,2 the Belgians, was married when site 1212a5 17, It, is said that, next to the late Empress ot Auetria, 5130 was the best horsewoman in the Buro- peso aristocracy. An enterprising — or imaginative— hin(f 11511 journalist has recorded some, entertaining details in regard to the appeliteS Of A few famous wumen. begins by remarking delicately that "the Princess of Wales is a large feed- er rather than a dainty eater. She likes a number of dishes and takes. quite respectable helpings. The lug - est appetite in the royal family is at- tributed to the Ducbess of Saxe-Co- burg-Gotha, Not one member of the royal family is a teetotaler. The Duchess of Devonshire has a very healthy and energetic appetite. Mrs, Langtry has a cultivated taste, both In entrees and liqueurs. She rarely does more than put her lips to a glass, but her opinion on its contenta is arena able. Ellen ferry always has some- thing to eat between the acts. Sarah Bernhardt for severa1 years znad e a practice of taking a little absinthe be- fore. going through a death scene, eddies after the final fall of the aur - lain she recuperated on bouillion." The women of Holland have started movement of their own, and, as might be expected from that thrifty people, it is an eminently practical one. The object is to take tbe poor from the cities and plant them in. country colonies. The object is not exactly 11 new one, but it has not seemed to appeal to womatt's societies until the real Holland dames took hold of it. The women who collect the funds and manage the business buy 501120 sandy waste within easy distance of a town, reclaim the land, buildsani- tary cottages and let them: on easy terms. The tenants wives aro start- ed in poultry and d‘airy farming and. many of the meit secure work be the neighboring towns, the distances so short thee there is no trouble. about going back and forth faily. A young woman of Sheffield mime into a fortune and promptly hunted up, 11 country house, where she played the role of chatelaine to tho manner born according to her own ideas of the part. Ono day some of her old-time friends came to see her, and she con- descended to show them, all over the plum. "What beautiful chickens!" exclaim- ed the visitors when they came to the poultry yard. "Yes. All prize birds!" haughtily ex- plained the hostess. "Do they lay every day." "Oh, they could, of tiourse; but," grandiloquently, "in our position it isn't neceasary for Unmet() do so." An old woman, known as "the sol- diers' sweetheart," leas just died at Berlin. She had gone through the WAX of 1870 as a vivandiere, end ac- quired such a love for army life that she thereafter refased to leave her be- loved euldiers. She was wounded during the war, and had a choice col - teatime of decorations for her brave deeds. At Berlin she lived near the barracks, toed might be seen every day tramping beside the guard when it marched along the Linden to its post et theepaleme. Girls who attend some of the we - Men's colleges in England are wailing because they don't have enough to oat mud they don't like What they doahave, The parents are adding their voices to the lament, becauee their daughters are driven by hunger to buy foodout- side Lb 0 college, "the bills for this extra diet being an additional charge ott the parental purse, already taxed with high enough fees." THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. Nationality 1211)5(0 Warded Ily Moister of ('.lP'', Ing asimey. To the initiated a man's nationality 15 betrayed•by the way he carries his money. The Englishman melees his loose in his rigat-hand trousers' pock. et—gold, silver and copper all mixed up together. Ile pulls a handful of the mixture out of Ms pocket in a largo, opulent way, and eelects the mine he has need of. The Ameticao carries his wad of billet in a peouliar long, narrow peeketbook, in which the greenbacks lie flat ;elite Frenchman mukes use of a leather Pnrate with n0 distinguishing chayacteristics; while the German uses one gayly embroid- ered 111 silks by the fair hands of some Lola:ellen or Miata, The half-civiiieed capitalist .41-0112 20010 torrid Scotch Am- ertean city merles Ids dollars in a belt with cuuningly devieeel pockets .120 baffle the gentlemen with the light Wagers, Some of these bolts are very oxpenelve. The Italian of the poorer olasaes ties tip his little fortune in a gayly -tailored, thandkerehiet secured with matey knots which he secretes in soMe mysterious manner about his clothes. A similar Plan has eharma for the Spardroal, while the lower - lees laussuth 'exhibits preferetute for his boots or the /king of Mottles as a hiding place for his %wanes,