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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-4-28, Page 2S HIS HEIRESS, OR, L(">VE .18 Al WAY$ Tl1L Set 11.1.11. CHAPJ.NR I.---Wovrt\I'15D. Sir Mutius, stepping throegh the open window into the school -room, Hooks labor - mealy around him. He in not, perhaps, aware that there is young man behind -Min who is following his footmarks ns fast a5 his legs nae carry Will. "Se," says Sir Mutius Mumm, with a sniff, "this is how you comport yourself, Margery, when the eyes of your relatives are not on you." "As—as I ant now, uncle ?" demands Mart•ory, who is sitting in the demurest at- titude possible to her, with her hands ems - ed dutifully before her, " I—I mu very sorry to dlaappoint you in any way, but 1 world not alum your trnstingnature, uncle, and oonsoiencc compels me to confess that I delft always sit like this. Sometimes I— stand." "And sometimes you halloo et young men out of a window," stutters Sir Matins, angrily. " How dare you be ao impertinent, noise? D'ye think I haven't got eyes in my head, oh?" " t''ven if you had I don't see how you could hear out of them," says Margery, wbo 10 in a mutinous mood. " What I want to know is," returned old Grumpy, striking his stick savagely upon the earpot, " how you, who probably call yourself a teapectable young woman, wan explain away the feet of having yelled an invitation to young man across an acro of grass, and of having used in my hea•ingsuch a low term n3 ` Drat it.' I only wish your mutt Selina has heard yon." There is sotnewttere in the dint recesses of 11100101.3 Hall a gaunt spinster, sister to Sir Mutius and aunt to the young Beryls, whose name has been transmogrified into Selina by Sir Murine. "That's vary unbrothwly of you," says Margery, " You should be anxious to spare • her all the pain you eau." There is a touch of open mischief in the lovely broad little smile that accompanies this wilful speech. Sir Mutius swells with rage. He is a short, stout little man, with a corporation, an overweening opinion of his own impor- tance, a fiery eye, and a sandy trig, Be- sides all these qualifications, he has a tem- per that knows no control. What the crushing remark he is preparing for llargery may be is never known, because at this moment the young man behind him cameo- into full view. It is plain, however, to the Daryls that he hadnot known he was following Sit Mutius, because of the fall of his ingenuous countenance as his eyes sleet those of tit irate old baronet. He is a tall, indeed a. spendidly hull( young non, with a figure that Hercules need not have sneered at. but with a face, alts, that falls far short of the figure. Ills eyes, perhaps, are ahoy; reproach, so clear, 50 blue. so straight•look• ing they are, but as for the rest of hint ! his nose is impossible, his mouth huge, his cheekbones disthetly en evidence. As fol his mustache, it is not worth speaking about at all, and his hair is abominably void of curl. He is ugly ! There is po doubt about it, he is distinctly ugly, but with this sav ing clause—that nowhere, under any air• cumstanoes, could he be taken for anything but a gentleman. The presence of Sir Mucins seems to freeze hon in part. He pauses with his foot Midway between the balcony and the sollool-reom, and looks anxiously at. Mar- ge" Come in, young man, come in," says Sir Matins, in an odious tune. " What are you afraid of, ell? Seems to me that a young fellow like you nest consider him• self almost one of the family to enter a house through a window like a burglar, as ' "'-yon-h ve done." " And as you have done," says the new. comer ,'smiling. " sever mind me, sir. An uncle may come in by a window, I suppose, when a young jackanapes— Is there no hall -door to tkfs house, I ask, that you must needs charge through a easement, as though you were a mounted dragoon, or the most inti- mate friend of the family? " Atter all, Sir Matins, perhaps I ant that," says the tall, ugly young man, with a, oonrilatory smile. " In- bimate, I mean. I've been coming here, off limp on. ever since 1 can remember any. thing." " Then the sooner you put a stop to your eternal comings the better," says the baronet, aagt•ily, "Margery evidently ex- • pecte your visits, and—" "Uncle 1" exclaims Meg, rising to her feet with a face suffused with indignant shame. "I assure you you are wrong. I did not come to see Margery. I came to see Peter' about a terrier pup," interposer! Mr. Bellew, with a haste that might be termed agonized. "You remember, Peter?" Pater doesn't but, with a noble desire to succor the weak, declares at once that the Irish terrier in the yard shall be Cnreon's without any farther delay. There is no lrisil terrier in the yard. "Thanks, old man,'' says Mr, Bellew, heartily. At this moment he is indeed in tensely grateful. " 1 don't believe a word of it," declares Sir SIutine, with true grace, "Terrier 1 What terrier? Which terrier? I tell you, young man," eidvaueing on the astonished Lorton. Rut Angelica, who has been terri. fled ail along, hese rustles to the moth. " Oh ! Uncle (Ilton—Uncle Mafia, she corrects herself, nervously, "are we not unhappy enough without your adding to our misery? Mrs, Daryl, Billy's wife, is com)ng tc•night." I m delighted to hear it. I hope she'll move a woman with a character," says Sir Murine, with a withering glance at Mar. ge'y, "Yon all require a person who would keep you in order." "ro•night! Nonsense! Why, when did you hear 2" asks Curzon, in a low tone, of Margery. •A telegram today at one," curtly. Then with a return to that grievance aril- ing out of this frequent worshiping at her Anne, " Now 1 hope you see what your persistent end Maimed visits here mean to me." "That I love you." " Stuff sad nonsense 1" says Miss Daryl, indignantly, "They mean public 03stiga• tier at the hands of that bad old man, 0h1 how I wish you were in Jericho 1" She moves away from him, glad in the thought that ile is stricken to the earth, and Advances 011 her whsle, "Now that you have made us all unuttcr• ably miserable," she says, tearfully, "( hope you 'II go away. If that horri-1 woman fe coming to eight, there ere things that must be looked to, eee?" with a little stamp. Dear Uncle Mutius, you will v,mderstand how busy we tire, ani have been, all d,ty, and }tow many thin:Ts Lave •t0111 Sob'• ,done, and you will f•,r•m \1 t •;:;ery f a• s„omimg to little over luno, ' pills in :111•, lic)„ wit.. -tier soft smile, squeezing the impetuous Islay. gery's aro: jest a little. ” You are going now? Ah, that is good of you. good even- ing, dear [Notellutttts," There are momenta when the youthful Angelica, who is yet only half child, half woman, seems older than Margery, wlhn is quite nineteen. Peter is twenty, Dick seventeen. After Angelica there was quite a pause until the twins crone—and the moth• or went, There was 0 pause, too, after the birth of Billy and Muriel,who are foto' and three yours older than Peter, but after that the children seemed to tread upon each other's heels, so fast they came. The mother's death had been hardly felt, they were so very young. But with the death of the father—an event now two years old—there itad come the lad knowledge of money's value, and all the petty miseries that accompany straitened means. Sir Mutine—Mrs. Daryl's only brother— an old bachelor who lived at Mumnt's Hall, a plena situated about foul' eolith from the Manor whore Lite Daryls reside, had looked after his dead sister's children in a snap. nilly unsympathetic fashion when the hast blow fell, and death of Mr, Daryl been fol• lowed by the certainty that the had been liv- ing considerably beyond his means for many yetars, and that nothing hut debts and a very insufficient income was all he left be- hind him—except the eight children, That was—its I have said—two years ago, and theeedlylively, merrymournfel family had up to this struggled through all difficul- ties will a strength that only youth could grant; but now to -day fresh trials have seized upon them. The eldest brother, •Bit• ly, to whom, indeed, the house and land (such of it, at least, as is not mortgaged up to the hilt) belongs, is bringing house a bride. A stranger ! Horrible word ! And who is to greet her? Who? There is no one at all to go forward and face the en- emy's guns, now that Muriel is away. Now that Muriel is married' And sit strangely ! CHAPTER II, " When you come into any fro.h company . Observe their honeys: ", snit your own earring(' thereto; by which in inuntion you will make c115s veneers more free and open.' "There's a ring at the door -bell; did you hear it?" cries Angelica, rising to her feet, pale ani nervous, " They have cone ! I teal it ;I know it, by the cold thrill down my bath." It is some hours later, and the Daryls are waiting ,-n etas.., in the rather shabby lib- rary, and in the very lowest spirits, for the expected coming of their brother and his wife, Now, at last, all is indeed over 1 " Yes ! and there is the knock. They'ste some to a moral," says Peter. The twins grow pale. All Ln a body move solemnly toward the library door, " Good heavens ! why isn't Muriel }fere to receive them'! gasps Margery, hanging lire on the thresbeld. " Why am 1 to be the victimized one? I feel as if I should like to faint." "Peter? a pin," says Dick, with stern determination in his tone. " No, no. I'll go, of course," declares Meg, hastily. " Only—" Site pauses, and looks as though she is on the point of tears. "Don't boa goose," puts in Peter, not unkindly. " She won't eat you 1 She can't even blow you into fine dust on so short an acquaintance. Here ! step out. Put your best foot foremost. Quick! march! And, for goodness sake, take that lachrymose ex- pression off your face. It would hang you any where. If she sees she is unwelcome, she'll make it hot for us later on." ' " She'll do that anyhow," says Dick, grimly, to whom there is evidently a sea/i- ron of enjoyment in the whole affair. " uo on Meg. You shouldn't scamp your duty." " I'm going," whimpers Margery. She takes a step forward with what site fondly, but erroneously, believes to be valiant air, and tries to think what .Muriel would have done on such another occasion as 1118-1a1{Plel, with her calm, haughty face, her slow movements that she hastened for no man's pleasure, and her little strange smile, so cold, so sweet, that could attract or subdue, as its owner willed, There is a dignity about Muriel that she wishes site could copy, if for " this occasion only"—a s'troirc •/'aire— a sense of breeding, a— " I3lanche 1 if you tread on the tall of my gown again," breathes Miss Daryl at this point of her meditations in an angry wit1s• per, " I'll tear you limb from limb." This awful threat being received by the culprit with the utmost indtfferenoe, the train once more advances. The hall la reached, "Mary Jane is Just opening the door, and her back hair is all down,' telegraphs. Peter over his shoulder, He is with the advanced guard, and has, besides, an eye like a gimlet. " It is stinking ant like a furze bush," he goes on, exaltedly, " To the front, Meg—and don't give Mrs, Daryl time to notice it, or otic reputation is lost forever," " And the time I took Over that girl's get -tip," groans Angelica, despairingly, "If you could manage to throw yourself into Mrs. William's arms and lean heavily on her, all will bo well," whispers Dick. "You're a well -grown girl, and weight al. ways tells, Dr) anything—hart her, even —hut don't let her sae 011r Mary ,lane." " Oh, why wasn't Muriel here 2" returns Margery with quite a shiver of nervous horror, On along—you'll do well enough at Is pinch," says her brother, table onc0nra re. meet to his tone, as he gives her a friendly push that sends her -with what the new. comers imagine to be most flattering haste --right into the glare of the lamp. Here, at the hall -door, there is a slight oonfuteou, A little bmtdle,appgaronty uratio tip of blasters shawls,is standing near the hat -stand. A young man is fumbling hope. Mealy with these shawls, and Mary Jane, who has now finally got rid of the small amount of wits that onto wore hers, ie eourtesying profoundly and unceasingly, "A.ftet all, she isn't frith, she is a Ilia• d0o, whispers Disk ; "she thioles else is once more in the presence of Slalom, tate Pervade•, 805 bow alto mope and mows, Poor thing, Slry is very mal," Margery tapes the finial step, " Von have come, Billy," eho says, timidly advancing toward the young man who Is trying so hopelessly to disentangle the little parcel of soft goods, "So we have, 30 we have," oriel Mr. Daryl, in a (theory ve10e, He is a man of middle iseight, the very ago of Margery, and he now abandons ifmono efforts to unravel the little form, to go to hie Meter and give ler a hearty hug, "f)h ! there you till cue," cxctlatrns he delightedly, eeeblg the eilt•rComos drawn up in battle array in ille 1,ekgroned, " Lnnk, Willy ! Here they ail arc in a hotly In bt 1 you tveteeme." " Look 1" laughs homebody iron: beneath TUB B i,USSBLS POST. the ntutiliuge, " Oh ! how- I wish I could. I wonder if 111 5505 look with living eyes on anything again f l'nt just smothered.-' Billy having kissed the ,children, who are frightenednted shaken mends with his broth- ers, who are stolid, now once more attacks the bundle and finally brings out from ie (tie wife with quite a tlonriatt ns dist Maly proud of liar. lie is new to it,'' says Peter, with fine contempt, taming to Angelica. She's—she's pretty," returns Angelica, slowly, and as if just awakoning to some. thing. The meetings, the introductions, have been gone through. Mrs. Daryl is quite a little woman, whit clear oyes, that have looked with leisurely keenness at each of Iter new kinsfolk in turn. Her mouth, if firm, {a pleasant, There Is 1908elf•conse1Ons• nese about her, and no ehyr.ose whatever, " Nice old (tall, Billy," she says, smiling, when site Inas spoken to every one, and is at last at liberty to look round her. Nice 1 All the Daryls exchange covert and furious glances al each other, Nice, indeed 1 when they have been accustomed to pride themselves upon it as being (which it really is) the finest hall in the country. "I should just like to seethe one she has been mod to," mutters Peter, with extreme diegnst. Dinner will be ready in about five minutes," says llargery, suggestively. "You must be very tired, and—" Dimer 1 Ah, you should have nhen- tioned that, Billy,' says itis,. Daryl,brigltt- ly. " We dined at Watton about two hours ago, and to dine again so soon world be dreadful. As to being tired, I never felt fresher In sty lite. But you must all go to dinner, anti—" We dined early. It makes no difference at all," says Margery, slowly. " You will like a cop of tea instead, perhaps 2" " Presently. When I have talked to you all a little," arranges Mrs. Daryl, promptly. •' 1 think in the meantime•—Ah I what room is this:' Margery hod led the way into the draw- ing roots, A charming room," declares the new. comer, briskly, with a• swift but comprehen- sive glance round her, " But what ghastly furniture! We must turn it all out of doors or else relegate it to the garrets, and go' something ltghc—;esthetic—satisfying, eh ?" with an airy wave of her hand. Indeed, all her ways seem to be specially airy. "That's the prelude to turning, us out of doors," whispers Meg, gloomily, into An- gelica's ear. "\Well, nothing like knowing the worst at once !" •` What's outside ?" asks Mrs. Daryl, pushing wide a whulow•curtain, and gazing into the still darkness of the spring night. " The garden," "Ah ! I wish I could see that !" cries she, eagerly, She seems thoroughly untir- ing and full of vivacity, " Is it too dark, Billy ?" Much too dark and too chilly, besides," returns he, " How careful he is of her I" says Peter, its a moody aside. " Seems to me she's as strong as a—" He is evidently on the point of saying " a horhise," but some innate breeding forbids m, So she is," whispers Margery back, who, perhaps, understands hint. And, indeed, there is something suggestive of strong and perfeet health in Mrs. Daryl's stnall elastic frame, and fair face and eager eyes. •• It is rather late for the children to be up," nays Margery, addressing her new sister, " I think I will take then away now, and give them their tea- Billy can show you everything " with a faint smile. " Of course. If they want to go," says Mem Billy, cheerfully. 'But perhaps they'd like a (holiday front their bode in honor of me. Would you, spites 2" But the mites are too impressed by the solemnity of the oc0aeion to do aught but hang their heads and behave abominably. "Just like tri -bred little brats," declares Margery, afterwards, with an acaess of wrath that descends upon the luckless twins, •" All ! well, no doubt they are tired," says Mrs. Billy, genially, and so Margery oarriee off the disgraced babies to their tea in the school room, where they are speedily joined by Angelica, Dick, and Peter, " What idiot said brides were ahy?" de- mands Dick presently. "Of all the effron• tery, the coolness, the—" ti "albs is just what .l said she should be." " Sho isn't in the least whet I thought site would be," says Margery, "she—she's worse, Did you hear her remark about the hall?" ' And abort the furniture?" " I suppose she'll give us a week's grace," says Peter, thoughtfully. " And then— where aro we to go 2" "Alt 1 you aro here, then 1" cries a gay voice. The door is pushed open, and Mrs. Daryl enters as titottgh certain of a welcome. " They told me I should find you in this room,' continues she, entering as composed• ly as though she had been an inmate of the house all her life, " Tins is a very nnoomfo•tabls place for you,'' declares Margery, rising pale and nn. smiling from behind the teapot, " Let lee tttlte you to the library. I have ordered ten to be served there for you and Billy,' " That's the tea down there, isn't it," nodding her head at the elderly teapot $o well known to the twins. " Yes—but in the library—" " I know. I've been there. And very cozy it looked, but not so cozy a5 this. I think old school -roans the best bits of a hoose, don't you ? And I should like some of your tea, and so would Bully." She's evidently determiner) we sha'n't have even this poor room to ourselves," mutters Dick, indignantly. " All or none is her motto. Anything so indecent—All this pesterse at bonhommio is amen dodgo to prove that she is mistress of everything. That all the rooms belong to her." " Well, so they do—so they do 1" returns Angelica, with a fine justice. Teen her feelings grow too much for her. " But of all the mean actions—"shosays, tears risiug to her dovelike eyes, " There were (hot cakes in tho library," says Mrs, Daryl, who lune seated hereelf at the table, and is plainly waiting for her tea. "Couldn't we have them in hero? Ian certain the children would like then. ]gift" She pulls May toward her. hat little May is not proof against this premia• fig surer, "I should," she says, shyly. She 15 staring at Mrs. Silly with her finger in her mouth, so does 1000 see the concentrated gle nest of wrath showered upon her by the entire family. "(food ohiltl1" laitglls lira, Daryl, AL dile moment Billy orossus the three - hold, " (filly, tide little sister Wants the (tot calces in the library," says )tie wife, looking up at him. And after half an (tour or so Blanotto end May are et last dimissed for the night with as many stumps on their clonse,t:nue Iva size will permit. The new'rnmors follow them very chertly —M1rs, Thiry' keying etbed . molas:ed to a 0111111 settee of fatigue.- She bids them all a,aoasm%,® n w3331313.n mrmwm,n3.3 lood•night in an airy, 011505y lashiett, and eaves the room, in spite of the tired Sousa. tion 00 which she has aoknow'ledged, in a breezy energetio fashion, euggetire of a mina that governs the slight body and is not easily to be old/deed. Aa aha goes the storm b,u•ste. "Well I" says Peter, when the last er,nna of their footsteps had reused upon the air, " well! I never 1' He might have said more. He could Clever have said anything that conveys sit expressively to his listeners the real state of his feelings, "It isn't well. It is ill, retorts Mara gery. "It—it is diegraceful. She is de. ternlined to sit upon 05. "She'll have something to do, then, that's one comfort," e.colaims Angelica, hysteri• mthly. "And elm can't do it all at once either, there's such a lot of us." "Don't be a fool," says Peter, who 15 in no hunter fur jokes, "Peter, don't be rude to Angelica," in. terposeslla•gery, indignantly, whose nerves are by this so highly strung that she feels It a necessity' to t carrel with somebody, " Who's rude?" demands Peter. " I only advised her gently not to jeat on soleinn subjects," " Very gently L You told her not to be a fool," Wel{ 1 Would you have me tell her to be afoot? You're all fools together, it strikes ate, There isn't a grain of sense in any girl horn." "I say, look here 1 Have it out to.mor• row, you two," cries Dick, "but let us discuss the new madame now, es she no doubt is discussing ns at this moment." "That is most unfavorably." "She is eo dunbt abusing us like a pick• pocket," mutters Peter, dejectedly. "She is arranging with Billy for our im• mediote•lismissal, with a character, having paid all wages due," " Perhaps, after all, we weree t very nine to her," says Angelina, doubtfully, What's the good of being nice? In books they always do the correct thing, at first and get kicked out afterward for their ):airs. I've read a lot about people•in•law. We have done the incorrect thing, and we shall be kicked out, too, but we shall carry our self•respect with u5." " That's shout all," puts in Dick, grim- ly. "She is—didn't any one think her eyes lovely?" hazards Angelica. "And het halide very small? Small as Muriel's." "y No, no," declares :Margery, shortly. Come, let us ge to bed and forget our misfortunes for a time if we can," Meantime another scene is taking 1111000 in the room over their heads. " After all, Billy," says alrs. Daryl, w ith a jolly little laugh as she closes the bedroom door firmly behind her, "you wee wrong. They didn't fall in love with me at first sight. Yon are a false prophet." 'They—they were a little queer, eh ?" returns Billy, thoughtfully. " I noticed it, But you mustn't nand that, you know. It'll wear off, and—when they oome to know you and understand you, there won't be a ditli- oulty anywhere," "It to natural, I suppose," muses firs. Daryl, gravely. "They mast look upon me as a female Jacob. A supplanter, a usurper." " They mustn't be allowed to harbor that thought," says her husband, turning quick. 1y toward Ther; "you are mistress here. The house is yours." Some sudden remembrance checks him here, and drives the color to his cheek. "A barren possession," be says, laying his kindly brown hand on hers. "I wish there was' something in it worth your accep. tance." It seems to me there is a good deal in i1" A second little laugh breaks from her. Daryl looks at her anxiously, "Too much, you thinly perhaps?" he says a quick shade falling into his eyes. For just the moment it takes her to read his thoughts she does not answer him, then: "So that is what yott are thinking?" she decides, at last. Have I deserved it, Billy ?" 1 telt you, you are wrong—all wrong. The very spirit they displayed warmed my heart to themes no silly untried tenderness would have done. Had they thrown themselves into my arms, and affected a sudden love forme, I should have been troublesome perhaps," with alittle grimace ; "but 11015 I Why they seem to be real grit all through, and I'll stand to them for it, and make thein all like me, before I'm done with them." • "That's my dear girl," says lir. Daryl, "How they withdrew from me 1 Did you notioe that boy with the big eyes? How distrustfully he let them rest on me? I shall take him for a ride tomorrow, and bring him home my slave," "They will be all your slaves in a month or so," "A month 1" Mrs. Billy gazes at him earnestly as one might who is filled with surprise. "How you underrate my abilities," she Says at last, gayly, "Be warned in time. Before to•ntorrow night I shall be not only tolerated, but warmly acoepted by every member of this house. hold!' (TO nx c00'rIx0r;n.) Some of the Oddities of Distinguished hien. Confucius, it is said, was passionately fond of watermelon seeds, Satnnel Rieltnrdson wrote his novel while attired in a fall dress suit. alark Twain is fond of cats, and has one named Satan, another called Sin, Samuel Clarke was fond of robust exer• else, and was sometimes then jumniag over his chairs and tables. Herrick, the poet, was fond of pigs se pets, and taught one to follow him about and to drink beer out of a mug. Handel used, when travelling, to order dinner for three, or, if hungry, for dve,and then eat the whole himself, Cardinal Richelieu hated children and loved oats. When he died hue favorite An. gora pat refused to eat and soon perished. Philip, the Duke of Burgundy, spent much time in contriving trapdoors itt his house and grounds to souse unwary Strang• ers in water beneath. Next to money,Rembraodtloved nothing so well as his monkey. He shed tears when the ane diet}, and painted a portrait of his pet frmn memory, Jtttitts Caesar was ashamed of his bald head and when it beeeme shiny he constantly 'wore a laurel wreath. The soldierly Duke d'Epernay became Mak for hours if he saw a hare and dune kept his bed for n week because one leaped nth trim. Cowper loved pate and had at one time five rabbits, three hares, two guinea pigs, a magpie, a fay, a starling, two canary birds, two doge, a "retired cat, and a arluirrel, 115108lay took his Sunday dinner alerts at a collie Runge, After dinner he woaia httll,i a pyramid of wino glasses, wltict, us• nilly toppled over. He would Day for the broke!: ,dabs and go, HOUSEHOLD, 01 Eothex. "oh t mother, 1 want my bonnet limit" Alt hat has lo.,0 a string 1' "Must Ibe Bobby Barnes's hmsol-' • I s zls vola• pat), wing 1" "Say. will vnu make us chicken pie 1„ "Somebody's hid my •au t e 1" "See what an ugly rent,mamma; 1 toren it on the galea, " "O! mother,:Muni WI, coming In, A'II It (toll, and users, and bred; ('an the have nevem muinatte tonight, Amt send the bo3', to bud 1" " Hoar mother, luny 1 hear Soar shawl/ nu going reg a drive, If I'harley should propose, 'soma, May I ask lith, In at tiro 1" " O 1 mother, send those ehildt'en out, They make such fearful dirt 1 1','es gofurt 1113 las'srrmon troll along, A ' \fiat. iv tilts 1' And can't you herr to mind that cup 01 sarong tea for my beetd ; And mux n Cita• Itght rolls eotl hioko 1 You know 1 irate cold blend," O! mother, mother, shonln you cease One little hoar the tore 'Pict t ,l,o ' iw day, your ,tf le,' 3.0ar, Pbr lbs deny brood you bee', 10 scents the wheels or tufo must slop, itioh ntotlter.loro 1 1t sprung=, A free, sweet fountain; and 10 lends 'rhe mouunone-0 duty wrings. 1CsTnta.b: •l 1 todhsox. Renewing Old Ohairs- Here is an old set of caro -seated chairs very much the worse for timer and notal all ornamental to the canto. The cants aro split and broken, and the comfort of the chair is also gone. It will hardly pay to take them to a cabinet-maker to have them resented ; besides, they amt be very nicely done at hone. Take some stroug pieces of bagging or burlaps, out two pieces to fit the chair and long enough to wrap about the rounds that usually hold the canoe or splints. Thread a darning-neetllo with double twine and sew them on strong, turning a hem on the upper cocas it is sew. ed to place. When neailyifittedstuff with Excelsior, shavings or line hay, or they can be cushioned with layers of old bedquitts, cut to fit and basted together. Spread on smoothly and cover with some pretty ear• pet or woolen goods. Cover the edge with gimp to match the uuelion, and tots down closely with silver or gold -headed nails. The gimp and nails can be procured at the furniture dealers. When the chairs are done and,revarnished they Will be found to be handsomer and more comfortable than when new. THE LITTLE 51009e. Is there a very homely little racking. ehafr in the house, hander{ clown front Master Tom to alias I lossy? If so, I can assure you she does not think it pretty. But it can be . made so with very little trouble. Take a piece of coarse sandpaper and rub it until the wood is smooth and clean. Then paint it a rich ot•eam color and make a nice cushion, to fit thosoat, filled with feathers or cotton batting. Cover this with some soft baby blue goods and tie at each side with pink ribbons or cord. Now make a little roll cushion for a head -rest and cover with the same. Draw each end rip tightly and finish off with pink cord and tassels, which should also hold it to 'the chair -back. Women in Public Positions. I have read and beard debated so much the advisability of our girls entering public life, placing themselves before the public in a clerical or like position. For like ovary other subject worthy of attention, it is open for debate. The objection is raised " that in•ooning in contact with the world in general, with out the protection afforded them in their own homes, they learn too much of life as it fa, and thus destroy their trusting simpli- city, that indescribable charm." I will ad. mit that as one becomes better acquainted with the world and its transactions, it must follow, as in the case of the lapidiat, while he does not believe that every atone that glitters is a faultless diamond, does he value a real diamond any the less because of the knowledge ? Ah, no, I believe that a noble minded, well educated woman loses none of those qualities that Clod gave, and intended sheshould use for the upbuilding of that .brightest refuge of moukind, hone. Mather, when her time comes to exert bey sovereign sway over a man's heart and 'come, she is better fitter( to cope with those adversities that will cone intoeveryotle's life, and can sympathize more readily with others than if she had retained her childhood's simplicity and the belief that the world contains only liappmess in which aIimy sportat pleasure, 'then again I hear it said "she becomes bold and loses }ler womanly .modesty ;" at that I most emphatically demur, Because she can talk to men without blushing do you think she would forgive or forget eta nn• courteous action toward her? No 1 but in the majority of cases she will never have the cause, for there is • an undisputable stamp on a lady's face that compels and re. eaves deference frotn even the lowest of mankind, As the eye is the window of the soul, so is a woman's chars .cterstamped nn• deniably upon her face ; the world contains few men, that, without provocation would bring blushes of indignation to it. A young girl of good old family, well educated and refined, having been trained front earliest childhood by oareful hands, completes her education in school and come back to her }some in the ({awning of woman- hood, fresh, Wright and " needy." After a time she finds papa's purse is not as well filled as it should be, and that uncomplain- ingly he and mother are denying themselves comforts that their precious child may not be denied those things which have become necessitates to her. Then there are two paths open to her. Shalt she continue to receive means from the indulgent father and require mother to wear her woe dress and bonnet until Mrs, 'Irnndy wonders why the beautiful Miss L, 'e mother can be such a fright, or, I am sorry to say, in sheer desperation or from a sense of ditty to her parents, accept a man in marriage, whom she is not sure that through live she can trust, honor and love. Is that young ladv any the less noble be• cause the fits hersel@ for and occupies are. nnulerative position ? and by viewing human nature;ntore closely, learns to distinguish the real front the counterfeit? Will she not make as good, even a better wife, by knowing the worth of money and realizing the ditliouttiee her husband must en0onnter while winning home and luxury for her? Will she he as reckless ht buying that do•lilllatrss ?d"arling of a bonnet, only fifteen :The time has come when woman should - be something more than 0 pretty bird wait. ing to he put in a gilded cage and merely ,a useless ornament. She has the power to be Useful and ornamental a,e well. Ulm first aim of written slumlrl be to cultivate, as far as {I lies in their power, the, talentsd h (sod given I them, whets that is acootrplished, if they feel that they eau lighten others' hnrtiono by earning their 0010 utnney, in part or wholly, the examen" will mot berm dour - The i. standard of worr.ouiy Dimity will ant fainly never ice lowered by work.. 1� PIlhl 128, 18613 "moo, i In the >iitohen. The best bread boar,( is a plain piece of oilcloth with a hole in IL to hang up by, The dough will not stick to this, and It fa eleatleod by simply wiping oil'. CANNED l'Atrrit11n.n.-1'lean the part. . ridges and split them in two, Placa them in a pan, the outside uppermost, and leak'. Baste with melted butter, 'l'he partridges can be baked either in the oven or on top of the stove, coveted with a second part, if hate in the afternoon and the oven is poor. VAnt1A DAv.IxA 15 5 dish of which "good, Health ' tells t For one quart of :doh milk take four tablespoonfuls of farina, and cook in n double boiler one hour, Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and when it 10 slightly cooled, pour it over thin slices of banana. Serve without dressing, either warm nr cold, Those who are fond of anice, pungent hit of green salad in winter, are advised to try young mustard, Take a shallow cigar box, 0r pot, and 1i11 it with earth with a little clean stand on top, and sow some mustard seed quite thickly on it ; anoisten the whole and put It in a warm place, In two or throe days the seeds will have germinated, and in a few days more the seedlings will be big enough to cut and eat. Between sowing and eating should be ten days, and - one eats keep up as chatty successions as desired. l I a s, sen Cl t ars.—Rub half a pound of but • ter in a pound and a half of flour ; mix in half a potted of brown auger rolled free from lumps. Add n tablespoonful of powdered ginger,a teaspoonful of powdered oinnanoa and to teaspoonful of powdered oloves. 611x well, altd stir in a pint. of Now Orleans or West India molasses, and the grated peel of a large lemon. Add a small teaspoonful of braking socia dissolved In tepid water, Stir very hard with a wooden epee'', and molt enough sifted flour to Hake it stiff :ling: to roll out ]toll very thio, and ant jag_,ing iron into strips one inch wide r inches long. !lake in a modern`?e These will keep indeflnitoly in adry ' A2aplisle-Tree Fiat ll.t',.t8vmrr.—Desir. in.; in tple syrup fur our hattor•cultes when the more 95105 too remote to furnish our need at short notice, we prepared the tad lowing substitute, svhlchwta, muanimottely elected to a high poai lieu in the bill of fare. A pound of brown sugar wa0 dissolved it, the least water possible, barely enough to keep the sugar front sticking fast to the • porcelain lined kettle. It was then boiled one minute, removed from the fire, poa•c,i into a syrup cup, three drops of extract r,f vanilla added,and behold! nectar, honey,1105 staple syrup could excel our " lucent sirup tiset with" vanilla. Oh'spen Attor.T,.tKPI. —\lake the crust of a full pint of flour, one and one half tea Spoonfuls baking powder, half a teaspoonful salt; sift and mix with it to tablespoonful butter, and milk to make a dough ,just stiff enough to roll. Halve it, and roll out to fit a deep tin ; spread a little butler ever the top ; then roll the other half, and lay over the first and bake. While baking, prepays the following: Drain the liquot' from a quart of oysters ; place this liquor with one and oee•hali. pints of milk in a saucepan, bring to a boil, then add a little thickening, a tablespoonful of butter, with salt and pepper to taste. Put the oysters in, anti as soon as it boils up thoroughly, split the cake crusts apart, pour in the oys- ters, and serve at once. The delicacy of the dish depends on eating it at once before the tinder crust becomes soaked. Dr•,Lrrruus CHOPUL.1pm, CARAMELS.—Tire secret of success with these caramels is to boil to the right thickness, and the length of time required to bring them to this point depende on the quality of the sugar used. Fifteen minutes of hard boiling will usually be ewflioient. Six tablespoonfuls of butter, three pounds of light brown sugar, one cup of milk, one cake of Baker's chocolate broken into small pieces, one and one -halt teaspoonfuls of vanilla flavoring to be added after taking frons the stove. A half cup of cream may be used for half the amount of butter. Boil until thick, stirringconatsntly after the boiling begins. Flavor, pour into buttered pans, and when cool cheek with a sharp knife into squares. If properly made the caratnels should break apart like maple sugar, Why Beat Eggs ? Since the introduction baking powder, it has never been necessary to beat eggs. Let your materials be good, and after rubbing the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs, milk, seasoning and sifted flour, with bakiog•powder, and spend the energy y t: would have wasted on the eggs in thorough- ly beating the cake as a whole ; then if your material was good, your cake, no matter what its name is, will be good also, and if you grease your pans with sweet lard in- stead of butter, and line with paper, your cake will Dome out whole, no matter (tow doh it may be. Beating eggs is a snpertluoue • labor handed down by,conservative women si"oe the days when cakes were "lightened" with seleratus, ammonia, or beaten eggs alone. Furthermore, in all cakes made with butter, which are to hove a distinct color and flavor, se fruit, coffee, ginger, chocolate, cochineal, porlc•eake and cook tea, eggs are unnecessary. They are needed le cakes made with no shortening, or to which we wish to give the oolor or flavor of eggs, as sponge gold, and Dream cakes, and doughnuts. Let nus have rnoreoonfidenee leo our baking•powder." I have trusted it, lo 1 these many years, and it has not failed me. Eyota's Pretty Lamplighters. The young women of Eyota, Minn., are taking care of the street lamps of that town. Each lamp has been assigned to a young lady, who keeps it filled with oil, lights it at dusk, and gets out of bed too late in the morning to extinguish it at dawn. This arrangement has been brought about by an anti•Ligror crusade, The women wanted the saloons of l'lyota closed, and the liquor men said it didn't make an iota of difference to them, but they hated to see the town invoked with Cimmerian gloom every night, and this would be cute case if the saloon license money, which wan used for street lighting, was diverted from the town treasury. Thereupon the women said they would look after the street lamps themselves, anti they are doing it so well that btyota be a brighter place by night now than ever before. The young men of 1lyota must feel Ione• some without their cusbeunary nips" and "nightcaps," but the pretty lamplighters 0115110 to more than atone for the loss of the other exhilarants. One would think that any young mon who was death sure that he had a heart and enjoyed ton oeoasienai flitter of it would be willing to forego a, few beers or two or three fingers of • tans;lc'foot for the bewildering pleasure of sp s.eeloo.airn.. poresEyota belle shite up a tromp rant scratch to match cu Ent- . the solo of Iles '' a• 1 ar• ,'. u:can b use 1 n„ a 0 used l ns 0 garnish in, sot;jmi, amid they loos. Very pretty