Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-9-7, Page 2T CHAPTIM XXXII. forgotten, that the Bootory walls were ll As soon as lima settled down I arranged With au advertising agent and anuonnood to the world at large, through the Medium et the Tines, the Morning Post, aid the baturtlay Review, that a lady of birth and, education deuired to reside in the house of 000utry clergymen. She world, the ad- vertianeut oontinuod, briig her own meld if required, and there was no objection to children, The morning after my adeertiaemont ap- peared, I received, ae a vary moderate computation, five hundred lettere, eaoll of Width t offered me the most exceptional ad- vantages. The shower of communications continued for four or five daye,altbough the advertisements were only inserted once. I belt something of the perplexity which Must beset a Civil Service examiner as I opened this mase of correspondence and sorted it out. But the task of selection, when once I set myselt to it, proved easy, Ultimately 1 pitched upon what I may term a selected half-dozen, and of this amen six again, I decided upon one with whoni I would first oommunioate. The Reverend kir. Stookfold was a Lin. oolnahire Rector, and his Rectory was about ten intim from Boston, and about four from the coast. He wee a married man, of course, and had a somewhat large family, but received no boarders or pupils. •11 I desired it, I could have a large private sitting•room,and, except on Suud&ye,eould, by arrangement, have my meals at my own hours and in my own room. There was a large garden and stabling if 1 should re- quire it. Bub he felt bound to tell me that he had hardly any neighbors, sad that 1 must expect to find the piece lonely. "Lonely 1" Why, it was the very place I wanted. I should be entirely out of the world, within easy access of London, and should be living under oicoomstauces which would enable me to maintain a practioally safe incognito. My latter went off by the next post with a reference to my bankers. Bankers are discreet persona. never saying more than they need. They, of course, would reply that tilos. Gascoigne (I still retained my recent nom de guerre) had, to the best of their knowledge, an income considerably exoeedtngher enema drafts upon them,and that her account was of some ateeding, and had been favorably introduced. Such, as i soon afterwards ascertained, was the exact tenor of their letter. I serv- ed Mrs. Gaszoigne'e purpose completely. That good lady, with a heart full of for. and Christie!' feelins towards all h'vannas g er persecutors, spent a week or two louger in London from which ebe felt a strange rlisinclinatientotear herself. She purchased books, carefully avoiding anything in the slightest9 degree questionable. She also procured some country costumes, which were pleasant and elegant, but not at all calculated to arouse hostility or jealousy. Mrs. Gascoigne -that is to say, I -was favorably impressed by the Reverend Mr. Stookfold, by his wife, and by the numer- ous olive branches ot the Stockfold family. Before the day was over 1 had found out all about them without telling them a word about myself. Mre. Stockfold had been the fourth or fifth or sixth daughter of a cotton lord. Mr. Stockfold, who had taken a second. class in Law and Modern History, and could play the flute, had been domestic tutor to oneof the ootton lord's sons. When that great magnate had been informed by the young people of the a0'ectionwhiohthey entertained for one another, he had re- plied that except in so far as they might involve financial arrangements he never, on principal, took any part in domestic matters. He had no objection, however. to the marriage; and suggested that, in- stead of tying up a little money in Three per Cents, it would be better by far to buy a living at once, and make serene - inmate for the speedy withdrawal, on the grounds of ill health or any other, of its immediate occupant. At last, I said to myself with almost pious gratitude over my evening cup of tea -which, by -the -way, was not at all ungeu- erously weak -at last I really think I have fount rest for the Bole of my foot, and people with whom it will be possible to dwell together in unity, and to enjoy a re- freshing sense as of the precious ointment which overflowed Aaron's beard, and ran down to the skirts or his clothing. And yet when I took my previous disas- ters into account, such good fortune seemed incredible. Next day, in company with two of the girls, I explored the neighborhood. The roads in Lincolnshire, or, at any rate, in this part of it, are perfectly flat. A Lin- colnshire farmer driving along them in his gig can see and recognize another Lincoln- shire farmer coming in the opposite direc- tion at the distance of a mile, or, in clear weather, of a mile and a half. The country is intersected with groat dykes full of stagnant water which are crossed by squat atone bridges. The fields are delimited by smaller dykes or scrubby hedges, and sometimes by low wale' of rubble. A tree is a rare object, and a clump of trees or a single tree of any size seems to serve as a landmark ler all the adjacent neighborhood. The industry of Lincolnshire seems to be entirely agricultural. You see, according to the season, cattle of various ages and crops of various kinds ; and there are also any number of windmills, but factorychim- neys are happily conspicuous by their absence. I should say that in Lincolnshire a Dutohmap would feel more or less at home, were it not for an uneasy 0ena0 that the wbole plane was too largo for him and that he had somehow loot hie bearings. Seriously I began to wonder whether the influences of the place might not possibly grow upon me. We had family prayers, I found, at half -past nine o'clock every even- ing. After prayers everybody went to bed, with the exbeption cf the master of the house, who stopped up to write his sermons. This literary effort need to oc- cupy him about an hour, and at the eon - elusion of his task a quick nose might detect in the atmosphere just the euopicfon, and nothing more, of tobacco and Dutch Holleman. But I may be, perhape,uncharit- able. The Lincolnshire coast as notorious for its omngglers, and it ie just possible that these worthies laden with schiedam and tobacco, paused the house every night in the course of their businese after the majoriti$' of its inmates had retired to rest. If so, Ineverenw anything of them, as 1 was always in bed and far too comfortable 114iiekiy overall with honeyenalilc an eine white rosea w'''elt tln•uee 0e41180lvos in through my diamond -paced window the mamma I opened it to admit the morning sap. CHAPrI'.lt XX iII, On the whole, I found myself fairly tom, fortable-1 might almost Bay very gem fort. able, indeed, andI soon begau to fraternize with my new friends. The hector aimed was n meek, amiable num, whose Ono desire, It ;merited to ate,. wee to have as little trouble in life se possible. Mr. Stonkfoid was one of those who drift into Holy Orders. What Ids original vfow' may have been early Wife, I cannot under, take to say. I presume that, like his hair, they were Inore oe less colorless; but when he found himself with a University degree, no income, and no probable means of earning one, he had clearly but throe courses open to hint. The Rector was at this time fifty years doge, a tom porate man. and well preserved, but indolent, and with flaccid moot*, He was a remarkably tall man and his hair was almost as white as alt albino's. All in all he was a better, and, if well dresesed, would have been a much more presentable, man than my very reverend father t and, eertaiuly, there wes no nonsense and affectation about him• He did not pretend to be any thing more than he was, or to know anything More than he really knew ; and, after my exited - elute, his extreme simplicity was aosolittely refreshing. Hie wife was ten years younger than himself, and I ought in justice to her to day that she would anywhere have been pro. uoanced by common consent a remarkably handsome woman, although, like mast handsome women, and like many who do sot possess that excuse, she bad &temper of her own which had set its marks on her face, ff not on that of her lord and master. Therewereeightchildrenofbothseees and cartilages ranging teem four to aboint wen ty. I could not see that they were likely to give me any trouble in any way, and the elder girls would ne doubt be easily propitiated by small presents of antiquated gowns and other such trifles at which a lady's -maid with any ordinary pretensions to self-respect would turn up hor nose. I could see indeed thea they scanned my very simple toilettes not with the eye of criticism, but with wonder and awestruck admiration. Out of mere fun, I came down to dinner one evening in a collar and cuffs of point lace almost worth its weight in blank pearls, and certainly worth many times its weight in gold. They said it was very curious lace, and looked as if it had not been washed for a long time, and then they &eked mo with genuine curiosity, whether It was real Brussels or only Honiton. Such is the ignorance -happy ignorance I dare say it may be, and only until recent• ly shared by myeeif-of a country Rectory in the Shires. Aline it is true, had been a Vicarage; but, as Mr. Weller sagely re- marks, the principle is the same. 0 ensconced m m new 'Atte I had been r Y quarters for two or three weeks, I received a letter from ];tial Fortescue. tescue. It was of course the old story. Evidently it had been a rainy day, and she hadset haraelf down with any amount of paper and pens and ink to scribble on about every thing that interested herself, and anything that might possibly interest me. To those who did not know her as I did, au fond, the letter might have seemed, incoherent and ambiguous: but I found myself perfectly able, without any great diffieuley or trouble, to read between its lines. She had her object of course, and it was a sufficiently simple one. She wished hie to join her at Dinard, where she now was,and afterwards to return with her to Paris, partly because, as she frankly confessed,she was dull and lonely by herself, and partly because she really and honestly would like to see me again and to have the with her for a time .out I wrote to Ethel to tell her that I meant to stop where I was. " I am very comfortable and happy,' Isaid. " From a merely animal point of view I could not better myself. I never had any greet belief in the magical virtues of the climate of France or of any part of it. And the Lincolhahire Fens suits me admirably. 1 have no exeitemeut here of any kind, and I find beyond question that I am better with. out ie." Having finished my letter and sealed it I selected a light Indian shawl, sallied out with the girls for a walk, and, to make things certain, posted my letter myself, and took the precaution of registering it -a preoautton well worth the twopence which it adds to the postage. We went out with baskets, I may add, and returned home loaded with mushrooms, some of which were that evening stewed and flavored with port wine, which the Rector declared to be Carbonell's and to be thrown away on such a purpose. He hap- pened to be wrong, for it was Sandemau's. But I consoled myself with the reflection that there was mora where it Dame from. committed to blo charge' as soon as he knew her atldroae. '.fits it ewe about that I now got almost n mall -bag from hint, which I kept till night, and perused in bed before finally ex• tingniahtttg nay oandle,, And yet in the whole affair I lull ado(' from one inotive only, and that was the future welfare of the man rhea promised to marry, 1 hoard too, that ho wee likely almost iminediotoly to obtain Itis majority. 1(10440 say thio was tree, , The longer you wait the more rapidly precession cantos to you, Itis the tteltless Subalterns for wheel, unloss, der the present system,tnilitaty life con- sidorod rasa mover limns absolutely hope. And now to return to myself. 1 soon began in spite of obi' first tmpreeoi0ns to find my life in the lene'intolerable. I had nothing ao complain of with regard to the Rooter or the Rector's wife, or with any member of their numerous family. Indeed their very kindliness, and good,nature, and desire to 'rialto my life pleasant was, in my present irritable stabe of mind, almost more exasperating than wonid have been a dally auocesaion oflittle quarrels. But an h•rosiatible desire came oyeeme to john Ethel liortosoue, ,and, ae the pltraso goes in its meat harmless settee, knock about with her at bit. Whore we might go, what we should do when we got there, and how long we should stop, I was quite content to leave to •her. And 0o having written to her at some length, bogging Icor to oome and see me out of charity, 1 found myself in the train for London, and ultimately once again in that oolassel caravanserai, the Langham Hotel, where I secured three charmingiitele rooms en suite on the entreeol. It is a long journey from the Tens to London ; butyet the ohange of air, and the rapid motion of the train seemed, if any- thing, to freshen me, and that same even- ing, I actually, by way of contrast to the quiet life I had lately been leading, congeal- ed my features, as well ae I could, in a think mantilla, and took my seat alone in a small private box at the Gaiety, where I fairly laughed over some ridiculous opera bonffs of which, by the next day, I had almost, forgotten the name. The morning after, while I was ocoupied wibhmy anti -toilette alp of oh000late,Ethel Fortescue trade her appearance, looking younger than ever, and more than usually, even for her, busy and important. It was hardly noon, and I was not inclin- ed to get up. A long railway journey does not so much tire you at the time. But it takes it out of you the next day. 10,iustead of getting up, I received my guest in my bed -room, where we soon found ourselves oomfortabiy chatting over the past and present, and discussing the probabilities and possibilities of the future. (TO 41111 CONTINUO.) WILL OPEN UP A NEW MARKET. The Present Eastern War Hay Cance a Liberal Trade, Polley ort the Tart or Cb4rtn-Ctlnala's Opportunity. 2 the means of �e wartea be a me n The present out P Y starting a great expansion in China's de• rnnnd for foreign products. Such a result CHAPTER XXXIV. There is one little matter which I had almost forgotten. When I left Easthamp• ton I had told the house -agent, in whose charge I had left my house, to collect my letters and to keep them for me until I wrote for them, maintaining my address a secret. It now one day occurred to me to have such letters as there might be waiting for mo forwarded. I re.oiv,d a perleot batch. There were tradesman's oiroulare and let- tere Boliaitng a continuance of my highly. esteemed patronage, and no on. There were one or two from acquaintances and depeudents which were of no greatimpot- anus and hardly celled for an gnawer. lint there was also a bundle of letters -one, in foot, and a ,mebttnes two, for every day - from Captain Maltby, They wore not brilliant, bub they were yet considerably above the average of the conventional plunger. And they were honest and manly, and thoroughly sincere. Maltby, so far as I could clearly make out, was evidently muoh hurt, it not angry with me, because I had not written to him. Every latter repeated the same complaint Why did I not write? Surely I could write if it were only a line or two. I was not treating him as he deserved. Then at intervals the expostulation would assume an irritated tone. I had no right, said he, to treat any man in ouch a way. Ultimately I discovered, by carefully reading the lettere in the order of their dates, that he had gone down from London, anti, finding me flown, had hunted up my house -agent who had discreetly declined to give an information as to Mrs. Gaecoignc's to go to the window. where&bouts, but had undertaken to for- And here I may add, what I had almost ward, without fail to that lady, anyletters EXPERMENTS .RIC.'+ c if TURK. A retueoie *toper's oil ft sterfvi*va4--Athuey o1 4t4e Relit Farmer's harrying; Oh Aha •Ifrats, .Thirteen itifndrod and forty £artners throughout Ontario are et present eoeduct. ing important end eystematio experiments In Agrioulturo. Noloee than 8,090 paoaages of grains; geode, tubers,' and fortliliore, were emit out from theAgrioulterel College to these experimenters within the pest year. It 18, however, net 80 111005 the great extent of the work that gives the results their true value, and oauaes them to be-approciuted, but rather, the careful octeoGoa of the experiments, the regular system uuderlyiag the work, and the hearty oo-operation of the experimenters. The results of tea properly conducted experiments, are of much more value than those of one hundred experiments which lack care and system, Many of the boat farmers of Ontario are now parrying on these testa ; the material for the experiments being distributed annually through the medium of the Agrieulturai Experimental Union, which is ppraotioally an assooietton of the ex- ttudents of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. Not only is this material sent to the members of the Union, but also, to many other interested and progressive farmers throughout Ontario, who have desired to join in the work and have written for the nooessary outfit. In theautumu of 1598,nine valuable varie- ties of winter wheat wore selected from seventy kinds tested at the Experiment Station. These were divided into two sots, wish five varieties in spell set, the Dawson's Golden Chaff being used in every instance for the sake of comparison. Each applicant chose the set he desired, and the five varieties were then sent to his address. Bach plot was 1460 of an acre in size, and the seed was sown at the rate of l } bushels per acre. One hundred and fifty seven experimenters with winter wheat have already been heard from this season. Of this number, nighty -one favored us with satisfactory reports of Carefully conducted experiments, sixty-one furnished partial reports, and hfteeu wrote of failure or un- reliable results. The eighty-one satisfactory reports cane from twentynix counties, thirteen of which were situated east and thirteen west of the oily of Guelph. The names of the different experimenters and the detailed results of the testa will be printed in the &omni report of the Experi- mental Union for 1894, which is published as an appendix to the Agricultural College report. The nine varieties were grown upon the experimental plots at the Station in exact accord with theiustructions sent out over Ontario. As the Dawson's Golden Chaff was sent to every experimenter, it is possible to obtain a very reliable comparison of all the kinds distributed. The following table gives the average amount ofstraw and of grain per acre, of the varieties grown on eighty-one Ontario farms : Nemo of Straw per Grain per \'arre ty. aero. acro. (tone) (buses. 80 lbs. Dawson's Golden Chan. 1.84 35.7 Soros' Winter Fife 3.02 3:.5 Early Goneaee Grunt1.86 31.5 Early Ftetl Clawson 1.50 31.5 surprise 1.73 31.4 American Bronze,1.83 31.3 Golden Drop 1.00 31.1 Early White Leader1.80 3(LY Bulgarian 1.03 28.8 would be very welcome to the trading nations of the world, g whose long -felt wanY,is now markets. This country tr would be in an advantageous position to share in the bane - fits of it liberal trade policy on the part of China. The war will likely teach China that she cannot depend on being left to: herself, and that her extreme conservatism is no match for Western progress, as copied by Japan. Her navy shows that she bas been alive to the necessity of keeping in touch with the rest of the world in regard to that branch of her defence. The proved superiority of the Japanese navy will open her eyes to the need of still further improving her own on the same lines. Also, before she is through with the present war she will see the wisdom of LOOK let AltP.OAD FOP. 1004 to develop her military power. One thing her generals will be sure to urge is the conetruotion of railroads. The country is practioallywithoutrailroads,audfor military purpoaea they would be now of the utmost value. The area of China exceeds that of Canada by above half a million square miles, yet its only Itighwaye of transportation are river& and canals and bad wagon -roads, The speediest way of moving troops across hundreds of miles of territory is by march- ing them. When they reach the scene of hostilities they are in no condition to enter the field against fresh troops. This will be a serious drawback to China, and will cripple the brute force on which she pro. bably relies to overcome the science and courage of her enemy. To equip herself as a military nation, China wilt therefore bo likely to open railway Lines into the interior, The building of these lines will call for material from foreign countries, for rails, locomotives, oars, eta, Once the lines are run, trade will begin to spring up. With such channels of oommunioation there should be a tremendous flow of commerce from the interior to the coast, and from the coast to the interior. That commerce would bring ships from all the other trad• ing countries to the Chinese coasts. Rail- roads would revolutionise the country. Even if China were more disposed to en- courage trade with foreign countries, the lack of railroads would prevent the full growth of her international commerce, as 11 would be impossible to carry on an exchange with more than the coast regions. But with the country traversed by rail- roads, the productiveness of the people would iucreaae, and BO WOtiLD TDEMT8 WANTS. The war will incline Chien to look elsewhere than to Japan for commodities she has bought from that oountry in the pest. Japanese cottons, which have lately been making so muoh headway on the Chinese markets, will suffer a setbaok from the war. This will leave an opening for the cottons of other countries. Canada has both the cottons and the means of transporting them direct to the Chinese ports. A part of the demand for foodstuff's likely to arise cub of the war will be pretty oertain to come thio way. At present our aggregate trade wibh China and Japan together is under three million, dollars a year. With China the United States dose a trade of twenty-five million dollars a year, while Great Britain's trade with China amounts to about thirty- eight million dollars a year. When the war is over China will hardly relapse into her traditional exclusiveness. By dragging her out of that, Japan will have done a goad turn to the trade interests of the world. • • Proved the Old Axiom, " There goes my hat," yelled the pomp. cue man with the red face. " Yes," rejoined the calm party with chin whiskers, "straws show the way the wind blows, t, of t 1 course, be la property the will, n r t 1 at^ i a#eta, e p p y pvrimentl+rs ;ane in tallith wo will Kopp to reeeiyo knit roporto of oarofnlly cendrot' ed testa, Tho grams will be forwerded,in. the order in which the applications' are received tuuGll the limited onppiy of 00111e of the Yarietiee to exhausted. The "inetrge. tion sheets and blank forma neoeseery fol' the work will be gent at the time the value are forwarded, !.'hope w,io wish 440 joie in the work the coming year may (Meow; either of the mate mentioned above. Co make the results of the ` most value to 'both the experimenters and the "' Unlou" the five varieties should bo seem 1n every inetanee, THE BUTTER TRADE. Ontarioie the Premier Duller Province or the Dominion -Tate'rrt le Meth Great lli$UUn Itvn• In 1877 CanadeV4aiexpgorted to Groat Brit. ain 12,997,380 pounds of butter, veined at 52,740,030, a fraction over 21 cants a pound. In 1887 the value of the export wee only 5757,661, a remarkable falling off in a decade, But in 1898 the export had risen to 0,076,757 pounds, valued et 51,118,614, a fraction over 18 cents a pound. These figures slow that the butter trade between this country and Groat Britain is reviving, though atilt conic distance from rte mark of sixteen years ago. There is no good reason why Canada should not make a better showing than this, with Ontario as the premier butter provinoe. All the conditions favorable to wide expansion of production are supplied in this provincie. The lana. the water; the stock and Governmental encouragement all invite ventures in this industry which, if intelligently carried out, moat result in renewed prosperity in the agricultural districts. Froin exchanges we glean the gratifying information that many farmers are turning their attention to the dairy and leaving the cultivation of 50 cent wheat to those who find profit in it. Ie is clear to everyone who is observant of events that "change ie fn all things," and that METHODS MOST CHANCE also to moot new and unexpected conditions. No longer oan the fanner derive profit in n the paths which his father trod to well - cluing ; competence dogs not now follow the rotation of crops as it once did. There are As the reports of the partial and the un- reliable experiments have been discarded, and only the satis(aotory ones used for the above table, this summary should be of great value, and one well worthy the care- ful attention of the farmers of Ontario. The conclusions drawn and the remarks made by many of the experimenters indicate much thought, accuracy and good judg- mena The following facto have been obtained from the eighty-one reports under consid- eration 1. The Dawson's Golden Chaff gave the largest yield of grain per acre among the nine varieties tested over Ontario in 1894, as well as among the eleven varieties tested in 1801 2, The Dawson's Golden Chaff was de- cidedly the most DOplllnr variety with the experimenters in both 1894 and 1503. 1 The American Bronze, Dawson's Golden Chaff, and Early Genesee Giant possessed the strongest, and the Bulgarian the weakest, straw. • 4. The Dawson's Golden Chaff and Sur- prise were the least, and the Early Genesee Giant and American Bronze were the most, affected by rust. a". The Dawson's Golden Chaff and Early Red Clawson were the first to mature. 6. The Dawson's Golden Chair and Early Red Clawson produced the largeetquautity of grain per hundred pounds of straw. 7. The Counties of Norfolk, Middlesex, Huron, Lembton, Bruce, Simooe, and Kent furnished fifty out of the eighty-one best reports received. S. The average yield of the nine varieties of winter wheat tested over Ontario was 31.5 buehele per acre and the average of the same varieties grown on similar sized plots at the Experiment Station was 39.5 bushels per acre. 0. The general behavior of the varieties tested over Oataric, was quite similar to that of the same varieties grown at the Ex- periment Station. 10. Among the 156 experimenters who reported the results of their tests with winter wheat, only five speak of wishing to discontinue the co-operative experimental work, and much interest is manifested throughout. For more detailed particulars regarding these nine varieties, aa well as those of seventy-one others, which have been tested at the Experiment Station, the render is referred to the Bulletin on Winter Wheat, which is now being printed by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Toronto. DIsPutenunc a Or SEEDS. too many tillers afield, too many acres.) reclaimed from disuse to warrant the opm. ion that the cultivation of cereals alone will again become so profitable as it once was. In this view labor exerted in this direc- tion is misapplied, if not wholly lost, and the farmer, if ho would have adequate re- turn for his toil, must depart from the beaten track ot his forefathers and eearoh out new and more promising fields. Butter makingis a branch of a riculture whish in• g vices labor and proffers a return which cannot be hoped for from wheat growing. If we consider what has been done with cheese ; that we have become so proficient In this manufacture that ourP roductranks in excellence withany in the world, and is so favorably thought of that Great Britain took upwards of 518,000,000 worth Irotn as in 1893, we teethe result of intelligent ape plication in a special line. The butter market invites the same effort and gives assurances of even more satisfactory returns if we may judge by the experience of other countries where the industry has been es• tablished. The Experiment Union hue furnished sufficient money for the distribution of two thousand five hundred packages ot winter wheat over Ontario thin year. These will supply five hundred experimentero with five varieties each. The following varieties have been ohoeen and ere divided into two sets as indicated below. Set B Dawson's Golden Chaff; Burly Red Clawson, Jones' Winter Fife, Surprise, Amerioan Bronze. Set 2. Dawoon's Golden Chaff. Early Geteeee Giant, Early White Leader, Early Ripe: Pride of Genesee. The seed will be sent out by mail free to all applicants, and rho preclude of the plots Household. Advice to Housekeepers, The moss eeeential ingredient in the art of evoking is oleaulineso. A dirty kibohon le a dfegreee to both mistress and maid, Bo clean in your pane n, paying peetioular aitontion to the hands, wllfoh ohauld waye bo oleat4, 3lo not go about siipshol. Provide yourself with well fitting slloes. You w111 And them less fatiguing in a warm kitchen then loose, untidy support, Provide yourself wait at bast a duzml good•sized, serviceable Booking ,tprnne, made with bibs. These will save your gowns, and keep you neat and clean. Have them trade largo enough round so as to Meet behind. - When you aro in the midst of cooping operations dress suitably. Never waste or throw away anything that can be turned to a000tint. In warm weather, any gravies or soups that are left from the pre. ceding day should be boiled up and poured Intoclean pans, This le particularly neees- eerywhere vegetables have baoa added to the preparation, tie it then soon turps emir. In cooler weather every other day wilt be often enough to warm up these things. Every 'morning visib your larder, change dishes and plates when neoeesary, empty and wipe out the broad,pau, and have everything neat. and Olean by noon. Scrub out tine larder twice a week. If you have a spare kitchen clipboard, keep your baked pastry in it; it preserves it weep, and prevente it becoming wet and heavy, which it is liable to do in the larder. In cooking, clean as you go. Do not al- low dishes, spoons, and other utensils, to aconmulate on the dresser and table while you are engaged in preparing bhe dinner. 13y a little management and fore -thought, muoh confusion eau be avoided. After making a pudding, the four -tub, pastry - board and rolling -pin should be put away, and basins, epoono, elm., taken to the kitchen and neatly arranged near the sink, to be washed when the proper time arrives. Never let your 'took of spices, salt, sea, tonings, herbs, eta„ dwindle down so low that some day, in the midst of preparing dinner you find yourself minus a vary important ingredient, thereby miming much confusion and annoyance. If you live in the country, have your vegetables gathered from the garden at an early hour, so that there is ample time to search for caterpillars, bugs, eto. These disagreeable additions need never snake their appearance on table, in cauliflowers, cabbage, or lettuce, if the vegetable in its raw state is allowed to soak in salt and water for an hour or two, Of eourdb, if the vegetables are 0044 brought in till the last moment, this preoaution ,oaunob be talteu. Be very particular in cleaning all vegetables free from grit. Nothing is so unpleasant, and nothing so easily avoided, if rout tom - mon care be exercised, When you have finished peeling onions, wash the knife at once and put it away to be cleaned. Nothing is more indicative of a slovenly and untidy nook than to use an "oniony" knife in the preparation of any dish where the flavor of the ouion is a die - agreeable surprise. After you hve washed your satempana, fish-kettle,etc., stand them before the fire for a few minutes, to get thoroughly dry inside, before putting them away. They should id be kept in a dry p lace i n order that an they mayescape deteriorating influence of rust, and thereby be quickly destroyed. Never leave sa eepans dirty from one day's use to be cleaned the next ; it be slovenly and untidy. In copper uteosila, if thu tin has worn off, have it immediately replaced. Pudding•oloths and jelly -bags should have your immediate attention after being used. The former should be well washed, scalded and hung up to dry. Let them be well aired before being put away, or they wilt have a disagreeable odor when next wanted. No soda should be used in witehing pudding-clothe,h LACK OF 14NO00EDGE of the manufacture is met by both the Dominion and Provincial Governments, who, in addition to the practical instruct• tion imparted in travelling dairies, are pre- pared to furnish full printed information, om application, and lack of means to under- take the manufacture oan be met by com- binations among farmers to establish creameries where the work may be done at small individual outlay for equipment. The farmers who take this course early will be the first to reap the profit of it. The inoreaee in dairying has renewed in- terest in another line of production to which little attention hue been given in Conada considering its importance, and that ie the raising of hogs. While it would pay farmers to tutn their grain into pork, there ie always a hope that prioee will rise and the grain in attire is treasured in cola sequence, but where dairying is earcied on there is no lank of flesh -producing food for bogs, the skim milk refuse of the dairy af- fording nourishment which willshow its weight and bring its price in a few months Butter for exports anti hogs for the home market moans moneyin bhe farmers' poc- kets and apresperity in which all will share. Shortsightedness in Schools. Shortsightedness among scholars in pub lie schools in this country and Europe has increased alarmingly in late years, and in the majority of oases ib shows no signs of abatement. It is, however, satisfactory to know that a clew has been obtained to ac• oountfor its frequent occurrence, and the supposed remedy is easy of applioation. In the Freuoh public schools 24.2 per cent. of the scholars are shortsighted; in the Ger- man, 35 per cent.; in the English only 20 per cent. From investigations by LYS. Mar- tin into the annals of the French schools it appears that the porceatage is highest in the rhetorio and philosophy classes. The hygienic condition of the school does not seem to affect the percentage, and M. Martin thinks that want of physical exer• vise is the cause of the trouble, By mod- ifying the work of Ibe classes the propor- tion of shortsighted scholars at the College of Giessen has fallen from 56.6 to 17 par cent. in five years. M. Martin recommends reasonable periods of physical exeroise between the houre of study. Where these periods of recreation have been allowed, while ehorteightodneas has decreased, there hue been no diminution of general pro6o encu on the part of the scholars. Preparing Rice. I 'nave bean a housekeeper for a great many years, and in that time have cooked a great variety of food, writes a eorreepon- dont. Rice has always been a favorite dish in my family, and knowing that it is nutritious and easily digested, I have learned to prepare it in many different ways. One of my methods is to wash a cupful of rice carefully, cover it with cold water, set it over a slow fire and let it simmer slowly. When nearly done I remove it to the book of the stove, where it can steam until quite soft. Another way is to cook rico in the morning and turn it into but- tered cups. When cold, tura out the con- tents, make a little hole in the top of each mold, fill with jelly, pour ricin cream over the top and serve. The old-fashioned rine-pudding filled with taisinr is very appetizing, and no one eau know, unless they try the experiment, what a delicious flavor rine will impart to a ohioken pie, Rico loft from dinner should be soaked In milk over night and made into griddle•oakes for breakfast. Alternate layers of rice and fruit make an inviting dish, It should be eaten with rich cream. I advise housekeepers to keep a supply of rice on hand. It supplies the place of fresh fruit, and its health -giving qualibies cannot be questioned. Children eopeoially relish a dish of nicely prepared rice, and the most fastidious adult will not refuse to partake of this attractive and wholesome addition to the bill of fare. The Refrigerator It is a good plan to keep a small dish of powdered ohne:teal on ono of the upper shelves of the refrigerator, as it is an excel - tent absorbent et odors. It should be changed every few days. Food that bee little odor itself and food that absorbs odors readily should be placed ab the bottom of the refrigerator. All foods with a strong odor should be kept on the top shelves, Sour milk or cream should not be kept in the refrigerator. Saladdeeseings, tartar sauoe and celery should be covered closely, or they will flavor everything that is shat up with them. Pineapple, straw- berries and raspberries should nob be shut into a common Me -chest with milk or cream. to the rofrigeratore where there is a cir- culation of dry air, butter, milk, cream and other delicate foods may be kept in the lower part of the re(rigorator,ana the fruits, vegetables, eta., with stronger flavors and odors maybe kept on the top shelves. If arranged in this way there will be little danger that one kind of food will absorb elle flavor or odor of another. Not Concerned. The dainty bit of a summer girl in a be- wildering fluff of gown was twittering sweetly to the rural youth, and he was so tinkled that he couldn't sit still, She had only been in the country two days and had met him that morning. "Is it always so warm as this in the country ?" she inquired. " Too don't think this is warm do you?" he responded. " Indeed, I do ; I think it is positively hot." " Likely it is, but it is fine weather for cern." She looked at 11115 doubtfully and blush. ed• ' Bub I have no corns," she seed, crud lir, fell off the porch in a paroxysm. Two Monocles. If a man is determined to be in the faoh iou nobhing can stood in his way. " Yon will have to wear spectacles, said the oculist. "I'd pwefor a monocle," answered Chap • P to "But both your eyes are affected," • "Theo 1 *hall wear two monocles," 1 ttr;.