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CHAPTER. 141, 1 '• Oh, no. The thing is bound to act.
; I'm sure of that."
A 1115w ur)8N1x11. 1 " Thee why can't you got on?"
" I don't know. I've been growing shag
" She mast be in a low state of health in. 1 girth for the post fortnight -1001n;; lntevest
'deed, to Ahtal Ware like that for nothing at I iu the thing ; and jest now, when I bad my
'said to s• out to 10 apron on, my sleeves naked up, and ail
all," 1 myself, going y
1vot'h, 11•eady to b0giu, n darling of disgust aur to
But the explanation did not satisfy me. W1(010 thin;; came over me that 1 hadn't
I amid not dismiss the eub'eet from my the sLruegLh to 000100)00. I can't explain her nose, Ilia tutu of her lips, tiro bald
thoughts. '!.`hose three tears la•pt fresh in' it." sweep of lar chin as I glanced at her plc•
my memory all day, while a con(iati;,1 " 105551," she explained, arida a flash of tile,
•
grew that they had not been shed for neat- triumph in her eyes, and a smile mantling She drew book with it little cry of delight
m'stall. brightly in her face. " It's work fora and waited in silence for farther airplane,
Iola was quite herself again at dinner- Ulaelestuith ;not for yet 1'' Lain.
time. tiles was bright a'd cheerful all the Oh, it was fine—the seurn in her voice a0 Then I Isla out my design, widish was
evenin5. It was 1 who had to exert myself she uttered that word "Id50ksmitb"—ria nothing 111000 r°monde or extraordinary
to appear at hn ease. scorn in her delicate nostrils, on her curved Lhai to work a slips of metal into erne. 0(1')) 111!luen0e. No'et•the10880110(mom heals
Pl y s'o
When the hour acme to ee for the lip, its bloom ' o 1 beaded with moisture —fn her mental candelabra, (lower holders, sal the to arta soon after, with not a t.ign of ill will
night. I expected site wou:d give me iter Clear, aar•k eye's, in the dark curve of her like ; but had 1 been telling e. wondrous in her Gaup, to tall oto tint she had cleared
p
hand after my advance in the morning ; bent Wawa, 1 smiled partly with amuse• fairy story to a Child, I 015001)1 not lava the dresser and arranged it so that 1 coal(
bat she took the candle I had lit for her in moat, bat Wrote !with admiration of that found a more pager heteu01, go on cutting out my "punches rel l things"
her right hand, holding a hoc k In bee haft, face, whiul had never before Hemmed so here for her was an opening th ('ougll in the evening.
" Well, one of us mist," thought 1; "it's beautiful. Then as her brows rose, and the which it seemed she caught a glimpse of The met5.l•worlcing fever lasted just
ridieolous after shaking hands in the morn- whole expression of her countenance relax- heaven ; and though other rifts had Closed as long as there were technical dile.
ing to part at night as if we had 18115n out ed from severity to tender pride, another up, leaving nothing bort a leaden, dreary oulties to bo ovoreome ; when there
since." sentiment for welch 1 cannot find a pante outlrok, her hope revived with steadfast (3800 550 further calla upon my inventive 111-
'•So,as I said good -night, I held out my thrilled in my ('01(58; it may have been confidenco in a faturo where every 01ouc1 genuity, I 5 irod of it, The look of Hebe
land. nothing but gratified vaulty. should be swept away, and 1100 400 815100 disgusted mo with tiro state of my own
Goodnight, Gregory," she replied look- "A blacksmith is as reepectahlo as acar. out glorious, hails, Grimed with molal, and set off with
the straight into my face, and disregur'ding mater or itilas815,''seed II "rind you didn't And so I talked on and she listened, and a thumbstall and a finger rag. Coble from The Tastes of Ohildren,
my otfored hand, find me too good to build the room over we forgot our dinner until it wee spoilt ; the living room, with its perfect, neatness,
odor of lead and are iu
acted
'L'has'a some meanienin atria," I said to there.. and then even she who had prepared 11 and a sweet emelt of new bread, to the lit- A great many good people in the world
myself, 11011011 she was gone. 1, I mast think " It's good to do all that—to be a mason, cetlii not find it in her heart to murmur a workshop, alis reale alined to look slightingly upon childish
out lilts a mechanical problem, or there'll 0 varpcuter, and bla0ksmitl:—anything of regret. —_— anppe'siukua0d me. It was a relief to go tastes and Ohitdish preferences, as thoegh
it b
be no going to sleep urntght," you eau do nothing butter ; but tuns'," eine ant into the open air and have a look at the they warn in themselves something so frau•
sold, laying fret Inutile a5 m Lara arm, I CHAPTER XIII.
clouds, They are always beautiful, amt 010,10 as to be unworthy of all notice. Yet
I sat down with my elbows5158 on the table, g Y if of the enemies hind, you can invariably there are few grown up people to -day who
and my face in my hands, glaring at the think, involuntarily, '• you. wouldn't hada a s•n0 SIN1.1,0 FAIT]] OF WOMAN, find a likeness to the face fn ,your mind. I can not recall aeon suffering in childhood
pattern08) tbehunp—jest. es my habit eras great man like Tennyson (.t t form
We were both prodigiously excited over found I•Iobe's. Icor one 100100nt 1Lset 8 ex- because of 18 total disregard of these same
when some plan of commune Deed motion Brand °ouceptuma and put them iuu, vuble I this 110W a5he00. P 1 believe ]'iebo was just acts like her. It, only needed a piece of tastes and references. gThe tastes of Usti
was in caseation amt beautiful words, in order that he might i YY P P
: as Impatient as I to make a beginning. sunset fius;h to bo perfect it
in color as well as child are mine likely to be the tastes of the
'Mien I uttered my hand this morning,' make his poems up into honks doing work
1151100 could perhaps do bet -
dinner,
remember that the wind sprang up after form. When is lost shape, an inclination to woman, modified only by years and ex -
01 s, ex -
thought t 1s "and said 1 hoped site i'055 better .that a ale p L P dinner•, bringing gusts of rain ; the tors
or 'sometime of that kind, she gale ale herr, leC• ' !rete IIl,ddell to clench, and it felt raw and
n , reasoning," said I.
That is very g o l r n y,
qui Clasped mile tight. Her soft augers . „ pile if we could get that water up without ; ohflly 00115 le. 11 hen T went, in for the
quite clung to my hand. I can nhuuat aeol third time to sue if les wile ready, Hebe
that clasp now ; and she looked as if ale I treapasshtg throne!' the wet heather. ofd—
could ling ale. Then she was as pler8ed as I ' Why shouhiu t we'?" she interrupted, i t ., \\'0'11 have to light the lampter Lea be -
pleased asa child about the pictures ; sail 1 " To save us so much inconvenience is worth {ora long„"4
they reminded her 0f the morning wheal 1 a certain sunt, and ata bla:kenith will carry I "\l'a'th terve it to•dny," said I ; "it won't
brosght her the flowers 1 that was a happy 1 out your Edea for that sem it is worth whale matter into tong 10. evenings era now,"
day for her. Seddetly, in the midst of her , giving it to a blacksmith to do. And surely As 90017 Ila *I10 11x11 galls o her room to
pleasure, she risks why I had btnogist her: wa can afford it. T1110 10 all that money I dress for the eveuig, 1 closed the shutters
the books, and when 1 let out the troth she ' in my box wo have got fee the butter , t n5 I to shut out the gloomy shy. The rain; olted
begins to cry, What mixt 1 I as gond 1 if that's not enough, there are my rungs." I viciously against the window, but the
Sts ' tiered to let her go to her children 1 The shillings m that box were fear to l sound of it was drowned bythe singing of
and she refused, saying that her 11158001 her. In her mind, I believe, it raphe• the kettle ou the stove. Thlight from the
0
was horn while there was any hope of laid- seated subsistence far the fature, Yet oho fire fell on the tea things bawl white " it'0 al. neer titin Can't o on, said I for her faun;. No soother were the tat••
tee her Imsband. After that she goes on was willing to give it all up for this per• l cloth, and spread s low gvCr the room to hide my mortification. g menta sent h•nno than the nether returned
nail
in the olrlway, just asifnothing had hap -I Pose. I11111sthavehadasoul°fifiooantClot' P g Y
t0 be Lunched by such self•saceifice trod do- chat aroused a feeling of satisfaction and "lint you can go on 1" she exclaimed, 011001 in a spirit, of indignation, and ordered
paned, until110 now, when she declines to ac., comfort within me, whish put my boasted " and the strange thing weld he if you for her daughter r duplicate -of the q1 ser,
ceps my Laud, stud says, ' Gond night, Greg- 1 v".' -n• ! state of passive 0,11110111 to shame. It look- could stand still. And it is standing stili to old.l aehionel trousseau which she }rail hurl
• That's true," maid I. 1'11 give it to a N G
Cry,' with the mfr of n princess. Olt, she 1 Ulauksmitls, I think. But I must do some- , ed so genial that I refrained from lighting Labor at anything teat ceases to please you, made for her wedding so
many year: ,go.
saw my hand clearly enough. It was not I the lamp, that Hebe might share my pleas- for you may ho sere that than it 000800 to be Those the mimesis must >e Con Lel,t
without a purpose that she 1 11(00ed it. There :
thing." urs. Going out for some fuel to stack a work of invention and worthy of y051." though if report says true, she shod many
was a heap of meaning iu that wonderful1'5100. i If there aero no Vetter occupation, do , under the stove for the eves Mg, I caught This reasoning pleased MO hugely, and tears -over them, and after her marriage she
face of hers ! She put a stress upon ' l:re5 - ,yen think 1 Shama have eking 110 Shan- eight of Howler standing (tt the and of his raised the high opinion I already had of 111y (Reposed of thein as quickly as possible and
cry.' Thera aro the tact's :now what d'o : d°pang this? she asked taking her baud ; chain and shivering.Ho had boon melee 1 1105(0 a judgment and understandin bought dainty shuttles to snit her taste
they signify?" •from myu all' in his kennel all dand seemed to have " Tell Ole," she continued, " hate you which lied sotnethiu of the French chic and
The ideas simmered awhile in my mind, °—unless—" I stopped, surprised to (onto out for the express purpose of break- left any dillicultp nmma000li 1"
5 sir about them. g
and Bottling down left the extract clear had myself about to be playful. I ing the monotony with a little positive auf- " No. A boy might put the thing to- The nld•tasltioned idea that there was
Unless what'?'
enough. I '< Unless you thought that the blacksmith • feting. He. yawned as I passed, having net getter taw." something sinful in pretty clothes or that
"Uood Lor! 1" Igasped ; "she keens en0ughs frit left to rowl. I unfastened " There :" she cried. "Dirt not I sat 8n? one was pandering to vanityand fold in
that I am her husband !" 1 would forgot all about you as tho mason I the chain from his collar, not from any feel. Are yon to do a boy's work 7 Only when it consulting the tate in matt's of dress
I might have found thisouta month be- : ( y r bent forward, her hands 15154 of pity or love for hint, but with the pleases you to ploy. Set the pieces aside for passed away. There is Ito possible lrtrm in
fore if 1 had given myself the trouble to 1 She Salle i and oa w knowledge that it would lease Hobo. the occupation of idle moments, and give allowing a little girl who Inas 111000 of her
folded on her knees, and l saw the color rise 6 N N g 8
Clink about in. Ito the angio of her 00,0, where a silky little ! Under these exceptional influences 1 pet yourself to drawing new designs—if you Can own to have considerable freedom in the
all\t salt this had key `Dune la i ertolanation of Carrs strayed from her waved lift. She on my Sunday clothes, after I had washed, use a pencil with that poor huger." choice of her own belongings. She should
P I Shook her hoed. 1 nlmust instinctively. Hobe also seemed to "I'll have to go at is toalight," said I, bo enided, of course, by the means at land
"She knows I am her husband" I con- „I don't fear that," she said. "Yon fuel that this was an oceasiou for special joyfully. I've been itching to sharper a and by the ,judgment of older people as to
tinned, fu10 assng up my discovery,"and is have savor lot me fetch the wood and water attention to her appearance, for she wall peloil since Sunday, but I really hadn't the the utility of what site Chooses. But it is
prepared to and „„hedge me when I attain 1 twice as lona as usual over her toilette,
to that standard which shall e title me to 18f c Well, what shall I do ?" I asked, after I and name down in the new dress she
such a wssg sagall, that's pretty good, too, watching her sidelong in silent Wunder a had made for herself. She tune delighted
10 ole. • ring what sort of a wife she's been h G g with the cosy aspect of our room,
to me. However, I an content to let by little' 111ect seeing Howler lying on the rug
genes be bygones ; though its pretty cool of Invent invent She raised. her head in the low of the fire, his jaw on the
her to take it as right. If she wants to quickly, and spoke with animation. Th,,, rotted, his tail beating the floor, and the
wipe out old scores end start afresh, I'm is more that a nommen blacksmith Can do. S Mites of his eyes showing as he looked to -
haps, . It's the best thing we cal do pet.- You liaise a head." wards her, 000801000 that it was grata
And hands as wells—and they object to
haps, to ignore the past. It's the present against ordinary rules for him to be there,
we have to make the best. of. It's clear idl" Then eness."
shouldn't you employ them and fearful of the consequences, she turned
that she expects me to have a certain is not con- in workingout some fine deal n—some work
to me ouch said—
ten• Luvithts nmltralcondition affection for her, 1110vhich
there of art in hich hart and head would work Woldetl1181 10 kind
sisi nava tea in the fire•
is neither love nor hate. She hopes to re- together. I made
wive in my heart a feeling of disinterested She struck the note I had in vain been so ne utua 11150 tiso teaCturned over g on his
love ;that explains her submission, her pa- Veen awakened in me throuing to find. The old gh l lvatf alhing 101.
back while I bent over him with the fork
deuce, her untiring er. When
to make my life It was that had made the lard lines of i11 my hand, es if he had made up his mind
better and hrtppier. \Visa I brought her mechanics distasteful to mo, rand exoited an to clic there without a growl if I were mind -
those flowers, she thought my heart was ad to take Ins life.
touched 1 when I showed her that I hard theindrule
yearning which the compare and "That's better than quinine," I said,
heart to touch, her courage failed, but herel. the rule failed to satisfy. Her 0ion when Hebe took a second 000 of toast.
hope was not trite dead. It revived this turned my thoughts at once to wood care• "1 ,you know I only took two or throe
morning when I gave her my hand. It ing, conveying the idea that was in her own do11e0 just at first," she said, " and I shall
languished again when she lomat that I mind. not need the rest? Oh 1" she added, with
was concerned for myself and not for her. r I'll think about it," said I, rising' an outbreak of gratitude, "it's coming back
That's it 1 when I lot`s hustle will heli i a l- Perhaps I'll sot a lathe." tome—my life and atrengLU,"
edge mo as her husband. Until then I am
But going presently into the workshop to When the lamp was lit I was struck by
to ow hexing bt Gregory. Site is ready to put away the abandoned 'siesta of metol, the prettiness and elegance et m wife's
throw herself into 151 arms of the ono; she ny eye was caught by a ahfning thread of P Y
reFuses her baud to the other. And yet she copper, curled in a delicate spiral by the •it so It
without dnsaiatance.e had redo
stoops without hesitation to do the work of ateion of the shears in trimming the edge of „ How is i1 in the back is she asked,
a domestic servant. That's something like a " .ret. That Conveyed n new scheme to my I anxiously.
pride." taunt, and a whole train of Pious, wife!' I "There's not a crease anywhere. It fol.
•How would it be, 1 wondered if I threw occupied my thoughts until Howler, bark- lows the beautiful lino from your nook per•
o ff all disguise, and told her that I wart not
ins a rhapsody, intimated that dinner was fcotly,"
Gregory, but lift lyyndham, her husband? Using put on the table, q» She laugher], and bent down to turn up
I Could not see any advantage to be gained Hnve you been thinking about it the lump ; then I noticed that, though her
by that. It would simply precipitate the asked Hebe, as I entered. the
was freshly dressers, site had left aa -
catastrophe I wished two avoid. All T "Yes. You were quite right. it isn't tray the little furls that had moved me to
wanted was that we should jog along nmin, the first tim0 I thought so," admiration.
She nod a loaf in her hands, but her look
ably together, with the hope that in time and mien as she acknowledged the mom h " What shall you begin with? she melted
my wife would reconcile herself to the in. n p when I brought out my drawing board.
rationle, and settle down, satisfied with a meat were worthy of a princess. A mirror frame," said h ' A beautiful
rational state of companionship,f ty,without I think i see my way to tieing head and
hand together." face ought to be seen in a handsome set -
any stuff and nonsense of love, 'stat seem• g' til , and this shall bo for you.
ed to me reasonable and right. Man "Oh, I'm se glad. Toll me about it,"
sou lea after being married claval ears She set clown the loaf, and came eagerly to ne would think I had been studying
would be glad to be no worse off than Chat, my side as I seated myself, taking no notice compliments, but indeed every word cane
P g over, boiling pot that was bo
of the to me naturally, just its rhythtnioal words
.and very few after such a term bother eaggeat themselves when the thought 10
themselves or their husbands with sena. I rose and took it elf the fire, sayyfug the poetical.
mental rubbish. A mal with the best dis- would tall about it over diene. 'Set she
P 1. draw first of all a redo outline, and
position in the world can't give what he has woubd have it that the dinner wostld bo then 5 miLlrtn Reba sit o ositu I waled in
not• got ; and examining my feelings I
better for waiting till I had sntished her
eurio•,ity, and then when I sat down again the details, nett elaborated them according
found novae that Could be calla) love, or she drew a chair beside me, and asked what to the idea I had conceived ; and from brat
anything like it, it was I held so sarefull in m hand. to Iasi. Hobo never stirred a hand's breadth,
I settled in the end that it would be best y 5 though i told her there was no necessity
to let dings take their nurse, aid say"They're copper shavings," bo," Siad I. o
nothingto disturb m wife ;but, nu Lh"Look at them ; aren't they beautffhl":" for maintaining a pose. She had abook be.
Y I daresaytheyaro mora beautiful to an fore her 8011 1011 she pretended to be reading
contrary, to do all that l Coll to make her arti'st's eye 110(1 re aro t0 1em0." at nor ease ; brit not one pogo was turned,
saO fi 1 wits* her lots Y Y She Was full of wonder and admiration
One morning Belo found me, fleeted mat•
It yet sato alis long one 5nonnted on a w1(00 she saw the inn finished,
side the stied I had fitted up as a workshop,
8Len1'llatlthai'ouil bvine eing
beside tendril. c h es "That will be very beautiful,"she said ;
doing nothing. Her exclanatlnn of our hyes, and than, after looking at, it for some oto•
prise atthis15.8 1 sualxpeotacle full in cadet= 1 Or If t, ]tis bountiful." mends, she asked—•
of anxiety as I raised to lor,m Paco. Or if this whorl limit another smaller n„
Y Y e Y whorl springing gin the reverse way with n eon• But where an I
I was glad to 000 her ; her very llresen00 P g Y " Why, everywhere 1 Theta's not a Niue
was helpful, 3 had opine to respect, gar ' ventioual (lower bud prnjeetiug between —"
PP "Yes, yes," she safd eagerly ; " I under- that MIA a faithful copy of some curve in
judgment even in those pmatterswhich were stool news IL never oceurrcd to mo what rim figure and face-80me fold in your
]east within was so oioarl siger hted Asn a tolerant 1t, n 't taws in a scroll that pleased me. Perhaps 'h':ti'°ry a+t-
She w B it was the oonventinnal (lower Ind." Then 1 pointed out to her one after
<{nick to perosive hopeful possibilities, I „\\'h shotld n (10300• bail lease bn and other the particular turns 1 had nand, to
gave the beech a flick with my apron and
everything else in nature," P Y her 01111 granter astonishment. I fancy she
made room for her, had a notion that the design Wee to be an
"What has happened ?" oho asked, low. "ll 81)Oetl !t
PP "Asa matter of feet I should say, no, effigy of herself in the position of Britane la,
ly," sitting down beside me, with ale shield out to lot in the leaking
"Nothing, I can't get on, that's all."
lint, you sea 110th ing but, flowers and foliage Inas,
Lookinginto the workshop for au ox• used in ornament—if you except an Cocas- glens.
P 0 mal bir'1's ,,law or boast's log, I believe The next moment; I began to work out
plaustinn, she fixed her eyes on the forge, now forme and liner combinations aro to be my dooign in notal ; naw Mem name with
and oeid— got by etli(1yine new models, and the model every step forward, hells found me hem.
" Won't the anvil work?" of tno'lelo shnnld be the human form." nl0ring nut the lead pipe I had procured for
"').'hat's all right," Hebe, kinking at. me in something like the water engine when elle came into the
She paused a moment, and then, with a awn, naked in her low, sweet moo— wolkeh°p,
fearful presentiment, exclaimed ---"'Whet rood.: yen think of that?" " Look hev well the gray lead gone with
" 0, 1 forgot the rivets I" " Why, f.hatliLtic marl over your temple-- the roil copper," 1 cried. " 3 shall work
,r No, you didn't. Thoy'r there. You arse, here: it ie in thio thread ; end that neo Thom together, and sea tubal: au admirableput,'ern down on the 1FHt.al right. I've got {0 5555 lily liutiint aG flu nat10 of your (AWL is pr»dneed by cutting tlrnugh the
everything, The e'e th0 temper ca oat ail 55,,.15." - oxidised snifann, Yon (10.11 Hen 1101V VIA the
ready to trivet, tube, rives --all," r 11rr ,1,,,o, Ilmh 1 ,Lid her ryes Lwfuhlol e55nbfhnl.fon will 1 e, 5(1511 imW onowill
" 1110 water can't help terming up when ' ._-s;,e 55185 as pi.„ally n,mfwred rs 11 30nn tiglian the other, Anrl that s not all—w.'
you turn out the tamp, can it?' girl listening toy the first time to a laver'ri yen gut body by flung the load whore
BRUSSELS POST.
'strength is needed, and punching out car•
taro pasta In relief,"
" Will you be able to do all that before
ten ?" 0110 asked,
I laughed al her, "tido shoed -hill l" " Prosaic!"
" 11'hy," said 1, " it will take me weeks ; :Ul the Indy fingers slight,
there are mashes to matte, and (11'1I an Took from the waiting servunteMind
drills, and a tool for rivottiug before can The tiny nits:ice white,
begin.n ono careless gannets at its contents,
KAnd sin tossed It. in Ile air
Then you won't want me to s t to you It shaped ihrwgh she open easement,
to•nlght,"also said with asigh. l\•ilmelt her thought orcare,
" Not fora good fortnight," I replied, ('Iset leg, floating, lint tering down,
laying it length of tube on the anvil amt 'sought aha (lusty Ntroct,
dinging atony with my hammer, And dropped as soft n0 a stmw•llake,
She was disappointed. I Could see that At a h1hy's pattering feet,
by the constraint in her manner as elle made The little inn caught the impel.,
\t'ith nary of glad surprise,
ass excuse for leaving me. The mound of the Anal lifted to ,110 bite to heaven
haninaron the anvi1meat have been «shate- Apate ofheitvetlyoyes.
fel to her 001 as it was pleasant to mine.
"'Tieleiter from my melena,
Site had reason to look will a jealous eye on I know," the baby sold.
meelutuics as a distraction dangerous to her Gan Ime sent It down front Heaven
Micro Sho went when sin tonal dein.
Road It., 1551580," the bey eouunnnled ;
But the nurse's oyes were dint,
Not for Isar to Pena the message
That itis mother sent to Mtn.
But the holy hissed the tronsn l.0,
1151 ('1)1(1(1 •• re td between he Item,1
And the coarse and consume paper
Lore a word from fnlrer
So the Ind y's careless lingers
Tossed rt 100411/1055 10 his heart.
Which, In all the yours of ehildhoo(1,
Buren not focgottenpat.
whisper, It was the awakening enthusiasm
of sal artist that stirred tie, and nothing
else.
It is buantilul any way you look at it,"
I sold, holding ono of ale slutvinge up in the
light; "the surface is tarnished and Clark,
but the cut edge is bright, Just like your
(lair 111 the X1151."
She drew her mead near urine to Bee it
front the same point of view,
"Oh, bet that's nothing to the lines I sou
in your face," I cautioned, catchingthe
euros of her eyelleh, the nudulsltin ine of
Fim. 24, 1893
HOUSEHOLD..
A Baby's Faith.
by t
would Iilce a change, for 110 good region ; lot
mother coddle lint, 511151 exenee him, defen11'
ing his hazy, 0h11(100e freak from hie father's
just indignation, the (ileums are that that
mind is disfigured for live. It will be n
fickle, easily 1I1001nraged career,
t\ sttaceeoful falsehood tinder sixteen goon
IL great deal fort o'r towa'•ds a'stigurdng a
allaraeter then in hated' )5 5 'l',le idea le,
I did it once, and Oscal, n 1 always 0011
do it," rhe earllor 1001,1,111, to 11(0 010
more distinct, in memory, make deeper im-
pressions, than in after years, when e, day
10 erowded fuller of incidents than a whole
month of youth -tine was.
It is a hideous thing to deceive a child
to show yourself a falai friend ; to fail to
keep your word to a Child ; to display the
meet silo of p(305000 ail base appetttas to
a Child. 13eeter It broken nose, than an eye
with such Week Spoto of (lark eccnes daubed
en its young retina.
"As the twig le bent, an is the tree in-
olnol." Projudioe sgain0t the church,
against clergymen, against genteel manner,
and educated people, against, °heritable
gifts of ou0's 00.1•11ings-•-L11050, If °entracted
in childhood, are most obstinate ditigure-
ments. The most careful efforts of after
ye.r0 aro of ten powerless to °Ilium cools prej-
udices. Yon will not unfregnently hear
people confess: "I never liked ministers
nor churches B1nee I saw suoli and'suoh
things when 1 11140 a Child." Others say,
" 1'ly father always enema at educated
people. I was taught to lay up my anonev,
not give it minty." These bail twists 111
childish character are identically like
mounts in the Clark of young saplings
which eau be plainly dete'15.05 in the full-
grown trunk. Be careful of implanting any
kind of pre•j•Idiees in a child's mind. Pre-
judging is always evil. How much nearer
jest it. is, even tt yen do not believe in a
,.hatch yourself, to leave your child open to
judge for himself.
It seems to 1110 that %verse thee the broken
go bark and limit at the real face became fl.- pe•ience. nose is the early cultivation, in a 1115.115 fel-
rceistihle, and 1 glanced ut the ditty A story to illustrate this ;is told of (poen low, of the idea that clothes melte the titan;
banal. Victo•ia:s eldest daughter, wees0 nueouly that lie is hotter than the poor because Ite
I had some intention of asking if 1 had mother kept her under soulewhat rigid Clio- lives 111 a tine oteeet, and dresses bettor
left my callipers on the dresser when 1 cipline, even after she had arrived at the than seine of his sewn:hates on tihe play -
went iu, hitt the open fr,.nkness of llobe's rage when young Galles usually have some. ground. Particularly are the littlo daugh-
faeee Chased me from the mean excuse, what of their OW11 way in the matter of le.'•X of the well tido people of these times
"Von haven't 11411110110111,1 your finger dress and surroundings. Tho marriage of liable to this disti,gusemen1 of vanity. Yon
again 1" she raked, with sudden anxiety. the Princess loyal hod already been agreed will often see 51 daughter tricked out in de-
•' No ; I've only come in to sit down in upon, and the Prineesy when visiting nu lightfu attire which 10 prompted by love,
the clean," I said, and then I confessed my attractive lingerie ehop, ordered a yet whish you know is far beyond the ,'ea -
disinclination to work. She could not quite large summit, of dainty nttreetivr aonable expanses which the parents can or
oonaoalher triumph, Omagh she dill her best garments, whioh were entirely (1iIra r. oissubl aflurd, 15 is not possible to keep it,
to euhd110 the smile an her face and still the oat from tile stiff, uta-fasninned linen up. The young lady is tempted to dise0n•
twin tling of her pretty eye. which the (sleet' had always insisted upon tout by it, as lite goes on. The love of
chess has betrayed more than one fide young
life. At any rate, nothing is morn hurtful
than to 508051 a child to „feel above" de-
cent people on the score of wealth nr sur
roondings ; for this is a world of great
changes, and this is a country of very start-
ling ups and downs, and contrasts between
the condition of parents and their children
years after.
One shudders to think of some disfigure.
stents for life in6iuted cn childhood. 'l'o be
taught theft, to he instructed to deoesve, to
be schooled in 01aas hatred, like a nihilist
or eumnmltiat, to be inspired with the "Get
rich, my sou—honestly, if yor can, bet get
rich 01 all events, no matter how ;" to bo
poisoned with a family feud, and expected
to " fight your father's enemies as long as
you live ;" to be educated into dislikes of a
sister or brother who has offended the home
uir0le; what eau bo more dreadful than these
chilnga?
It is a wonderful blessing to re:over from
a wounded spirit. If one Dan thoroughly
Fa:a cruelty to compel her to wear anything get overa bitter disappointment, or au in-
"%% hat did you fear—not mo?" whi011 she inetinotivoly dislikes as old- jury, end not be despondent no' soared, it
I said nothing, not knowing how to at. fashioned and ugly when it is just 10 easy is better• that teeovery from bodily wounds,
tribute the want of courage to anything to got her something that would please her How haat it is to ileal the fears of a child
else, fancy and in which she will never foal ill at who has been seriously frightened by some
"Have 1 shown want of faith in you?" ease, idiot. How hard itis for you and mo to
she asked, in tender reproach, quickly Saiz- The proverbial ease of manner of the heal the fears excited by a calamity under
ing this brat sign of humility on my side as dweller of the City may bo, after all, but a which we have 0100 guttered ! It seems as
an occasion for 'hearer approach. 0ouoaioueness of appearing well, while the it God's spirit could do ns no Greater service
I got up, feeling that this 001500(1 of faith awkwardness of his Country brother may than to pour balm into the wounds of our
was the one of all others to be avoided if just as naturally be duo to a consciousness spirit. Rarely do they heal wiLhoue scars.
we were to go on pleasantly. She turned of ill-fitting attire. Tho teen urbanity, lbw of us live long without some bodily
the thence atones. which orginally meant city -bred, ha0 in its scars. But how 11001 truer is it that all of
"01, I knew you would come back to natural sequence nomo to mean a tranquil us boar some mental or moral disfigure•
me I" she exclaimed, fervently. "I know and polished demeanor. Now, if you wish: snout, When life is done we aro, the best
you would not go back to nn occupation to make a little girl awkward, dress her of us, like ships that sail into port from
that shut me out from you." against her own protests in clumsy attire, winter's seas ; scorched, covered with the
"How did you know that?" Not all the teachers of deportment can salt sea -foam, bearing signs of the contest.
"Because God is on good to us 1" she overcome the shyness that will be bred of Happy ho who reaches port with his cargo
said, in a tone of trembling awe as though her young impressions. No wise person safe ; his loves, his faiths, his good deeds ;
she felt the Divine presence ; "so good to can fail to appreciate the value of ease and whose clfsftgeremonta will all be left behind
us that in the darkest hour we may be sure polish of manner. If takes years sometimes when 11e goes upward.
the light is coining. Everything grows and to overcome the self-consciousness which --
moves onwards ; doesn't it? Nothing begins in childhood as the result of this
stands still—unchanged; and in every kind of petty household tyranny, which Taking Oare of a Oanary.
Change there is some good if we have utterly overlooks the individuality and A pretty bfrd in a pretty cage 13 as ahem,
but patentee to wait for it, Oh, 1 am so tastes of the child and 00 0 81115 5 only the fel a sight as can be found in a long search
two of it that all tine happiness of the past convenience of the moment, through the ooziest homes, says the New
I would not take again in exchange for Lot the little dattghtero and sons of the York Batter. 1i, is pleasant just to look at
that that i8 to come." house lave roans of their own as soon as birdie as he hos from eruh to perch or
* e e e * they aro able to take proper care of them. lazily rooks in h swap, p13ut if hcan be
She would scarcely have found courage Let then bo consulted in the furnishing of persuaded to open itis little bill rend send
for that assertion had eke foreseen what was the room. Yield something where it le Korth notes of melody, he becomes 'tot only
to come, not inoonsistont with economy, to their a thing of beauty to bird lovers, but a joy
(To art oo.STisolD. ) tastes, so that the room may be their very to all who catch even the faintest notes of
own. Let them bring their friends there. his roundelay.
Do not buy clothes for any girl of an age To bring birdie to the state of physical
Five Oenturies into the Past in as Many to have tastes of her own without consult- and mental delight such as will suggest
Hours. Ing her. EVOn boys sometimes have dos song keep him always, during the clay, in
It is barely five hours eines leaving Spain Meted a leas iematter
mara f dress,
a light room. But at night let him be
and yet here we suddenly find onreolveo in y proverbially where it is dark, for too often birds ex -
the millet of people totally different from girls. The daughtee and sons in such a 'must themselves early in the season by
those with whom we breakfasted -in race, home usually find home the 0w0010at place. singing at night as well as by day, because
religion, end civilization, In the morning_— they are deceived by artificial light, think -
w0 were living in the nineteenth century, ing it to be cdaytune.
eurrouuded by 00100083 learning, and art, Diefieured for Life. Olean birdie's cage every day, shaving, if
and among a people who, if differing from l.5 Oh I oh I oh 1 'doctor 1 His nose will possible, two tinges, so that the feathered
ourselves m raga, still belong to our ego and ver Como straight aBahh !" beauty may be transferred quickly from ono
fundamentally tura in sympathy with us in never fear 1101, modem. You 800, the to the other without being greatly disturb -
Min, roligiun and thought. At Wool all is frontal ethmoidal bond Sud the vomer--" ed by the ordeal of Iiia daily house oloan•
changed, White men have become black; „tel etous i Doctor, 1 mire nothing Pot' ing'
trousers 111106 boom) burnooses 1 lata, Ole names of the bones l" exclnhn0d the 1)o not allow his birdship to bathe too
turbans; cathedrals', mosques ; 0r0S0ee, arae• handsome young, moths, wringing her often in cold weather, Once a day is often
Cents; cuhgatenment,darltnesa. Civilization enough at. best, an(1, when the weather is
has leen lust behind,aur in five !Plate litters and bending down over lir little
8055• 'I lint to think of my pretty boy with
below zero let the both be a very short, one.
°prdly eva, ourr ship than
lone lss,o borne thus t pass
baokward a broken nose, disfigured for life 1" Yater, lottub
itrrenuh1 1051 nwith
minutes, and thewarm
n.lmlg the path of time as many centuries. The poor little follow had been hit, with a
bird cines not offer Lodi1
r into it, remove the
Uase•bail, his nose jammed in, and thea was
It is dreamy, weird, fantastic, and the Lhe end of that. No surgeon could ever
bath until next day. His lordship is an ex.
1 00100 even thought he 0100 05 brimstone quite romerl the ua,y' aellent judge uponuponthin matters.
and suggested that "his majesty" had boon 1 Y 1 As a daily diet, day in and day oat, give
shifting the 0001100, Often have wo been But suppose Ivo think of other disfigure 111m are bird seed. And if he scatters ]t
»della, A w(nman who hbshtuaily frets at N
requested upon the programme to fanny a d We he• children is, in all probability, li5figur. beyond all reason, try buying you• birdseed
Dave oescotnee of five ylishedit, buteim the never8have we ing their yonn, minds fpr life. Sheteaohea at," C11Ife1'ent sem. It Is probably musty.
experienced rho sensation of so suddenly theme in indtilto 1l'0 is ' and 0.1 eon}„astic othoPoriod They
f
boiled egOnce o g in ltd a ongma a e andf ltgivolhilt t of II
the
parGmg with five u>nturies, There is mush, directly mfmia bur tones of vides, and Dull celery ens lettuce Ise omit eat. If you have
of aouroe, to remind us of our epoch—the destroys the Cam >or of their tangs, erntnn- 0 window goecle0, it is not a bad plan to
villas, the flags, the steamer, en0selvc5— destq injuring the t tepeehe of their
They mimic
piano your"pet among the plants 'shoo in a
but ft is far too lido to tliaturh the illusion outher keit brows, and a's'hy crease their Cava while and lot him pick up au insect or two
—too ail the rest aro merely anachronisms, pun beauty with Crow's marks. They era for (Mange of diet. Plant a little grass
meougrnous and out of place. The oily fay g y y seers, a few oats and 11 handful 0f iloin for
at absurd roll° or medieval life, and it is soot' chilelr0n, and the saneness boomer] birdie's benefit.
P
ditleult to take it, seriously. ICmuot Uo, fm very grid by middle life. ])au t trot b0(050 Let the drinking water in his amp bo el-
ft5hpinely, ovary -day life, but little changed
theatlh>uoo ra man swears in the constant tvaysaool, noel sec that ifs'sage fs oarpotad
from whin it was one thousands years ago
halving of his ohildron• tvitlr too (host white Bald.
-••for notwftl'atanding its oloae proximity All that find 800008500 for Gnrl'a name,
A °rattle bone, an npplc•eeto, a pisco of
with • nlolentcontentment.ofthede�civilization o.f ogen ttatwholesome feat, ofdisple;tsingHim, and
eggshell and eoaasiolljLl lumps of sugar am
with g the sense of amine lays, which are essential
among the things that make a bird's life very
orate Moslem—it tI has not only declined to to aharaotor, aro almost endo irnposeibla Pleasant to himself and to others,
be ipillu°nned the•el>y5 but, from a total Give him, besides all these things, a neat
lackof airy native dnalinaLi(n to keep It may bo questioned it over again snob
ehildrrn Cali recover whattsproparly Called little swing, a hall or two of wood, sus•
abreast; of the world, it has failed noel to rovarrn°e, It i5 a disfigurement foe life, fended 1>y twinge, and something at wlifoh
held iia awn, and is to•dny frtr to ](award Tho Divine Nana can Hover sump to them
am pull and scold fm' hie own amuse -
of the jr)00iml 1G occupied several ennturi°s hat it rlonsto children who never hoar it, moat, and you have provided till the inspir•
age, It s truly a Ili, Van Winkle.— wseam 1.110.5.birdie can ,loose(00111s0tvu°teat,
[Alfred ,Toron:0 \\ esti»', m Scribner, aisiunanrefi' oieal'Cat amt
Lot a boy of sixteen relit his Shen tine g'
"bntasothe work ie ten herd"—milers, in "tipped wonle 5 oi two am;rastan enle's
Hosiod hawu1 women, and trek Ito value feet, le is an --or la •mane hie pride flee solar ;n tiny cards, et' lager mete its Ahrodod
t1 aonoe'l the feat, day been wnmule(1, ar 1)000158o Ito thinks he stripea,