HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-10-24, Page 2TEE BRUSSELS .POT,
Orr. 24, 1590.
STRANGELY WEDDED,
A Thrilling Story of Romance and Adventure.
CHAPTER 1X..
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Ill dao look Major llcunia 111.111 1101 t0
Cheri 1-y t':.,up from London,rearing
home in I M. ne=xt boisterous ;:oud svelte
posettdt suet brioginghis wife a pretty dia-
mond broa'Ih as an "tiering. Ile professed
himself thoroughly glad l0 he Route again
but otherwise did not tell Ethel much of
his movements except to mention casually
now and ; again some theatre to which he had
bean 0r kik nte pe0sou wheat ho had seem in
the Park „rat Ilurlinghan or St. Anne's.
"Jed how have on got on, Ethel?" he ,
asked. 'Rae Trevor been as good an his
word and molted after you?"
"Yes, I have seen a good Ileal of him,"
she answered.
"That's right. I want you to have a good
time, my dear," he said brusquely ;
bargain for is that you don't see too much of
hint, you know."
"I shall not do that,"
"I daresay not for your amusement—but
you'll have to be careful for your name,"
with a careless laugh.
"Cosmo," Ethel cried in an agony—
" don't
gony—"don't you care anything for me—not even
for my name, your name?"
"Of course 1 do, to be sure. I was aw-
fully fond of you when we were married,
awfully so. Only a man can't go on living
In paradise for ever, at least not with the
sane Eve, don't you knew—itstandsto =n-
oon sense that he cannot."
" 011 1 Cosnto,"
"\ly dear girl," said ho good-humouredly
—" isn't it much better to speak out plain-
ly" You never cared a brass farthing about
me --probably, if you had I should never
have married you —gad, I never wanted to
marry any other woman, give you my word.
But, as I say, ere can't go on for ever and I
don't want to shut you up like a nun because
I'm no longer as mad about you as I toss
four years ago—why, it wouldn't be reason,
and I hate mtreasouable people, they're so
deuced unpleasant and inconsequent, don't
you know. Besides, I can trust you—that's
the best of you proud, cold women, you
make very poor sort of sweethearts but you
make devilish good wives—one can always
trust you."
Mrs. Dennis turned away with a bitter
smile upon her lips, and the Major went off
to dress for dinner quite satisfied with his
own generosity and magnanimity towards
his wife.
"The best of you proud, cold 1001050, you
make very poor sort of sweethearts but you
stake devilish good wives "—she repeated
under her breath—"poor sort of sweetheart
—good wives—oh ! my God, 0 this man
could only look into my heart and see just
whatsort of a sweetheart I could be to some
men—to one man, at least. Oh ! Cosmo
Dennis, if only yon knew what a bad wife
you have, bad, bad in every thought and
wish if not in deed, if you only knew how
little she is able to trust herself 1"
She was standing at the window looking
ant over the tall white marguerites and the
showy red geraniums, over the hit of garden
and the low paling against which the wall-
flowers grew and the sweet pees were climb-
ing over the row of torts opposite to the (Us.
taut sky beyond. She looked, in her trail-
ing white tea -gown and with her shining
golden head, likeanlarguerite herself. How
young and lovely she was still, in years but
twenty-two, in looks a girl, and alas, in
hopelessness and pain of heart, she felt like
an old,old woman. Sho held her hands press -
ea hard together then, her blue eyes were
full of pain, her face was white and tired.
"It is so lard to hear," she said in the
same hurt tone, trader her breath—"to live
with hint who has long ago grown tired of
me, and to hove that other one—ah 1" she
broke off sharp and short for across the
open space between her window and the
opposite row of huts, she saw Jack Trevor
walk quickly by. He looked at her window
and seen her, saluted, with a gay gesture
Duda bright smile. She forced her hand to
reply and her lips into an answering smile,
and then she dropped back into the nearest
ohair, wishing wildly that she were dead
or that she had never been born into this
world of mistakes and weariness and suffer-
ing.
" ant safe enough," she told herself.
"He cores nothingabout me—Cosnto may
trnst me—I am Tack's old friend and plays
fellow- that is all."
She was still lying back in the big chair
when Major Dennis returned, wearing even-
ing clothes and a smart smoking jacket, a
quito gorgeous velvet affair with collars and
cliffs of superb embroidery. Returned him-
self about for her inspection.
"I invested in a new smoking•jacket
whilst I was up, he told her, "pretty, isn't
it ?"
"Quito resplendent," answered Ethel, her
eyes still filled with Jacks fair and cleanly
beauty'.
"So I thought, but Bennett, in Bond Street,
you know, says it'll soot tone down, Do you
think it will ?"
"How should I know. Bennett must be a
better judge than I."
"\Veil, M don't know about that," doubt-
fully.
"But he mile it, (lidn't h,'?" She was try.
be inter-
estedhard to force herself to seem to
iu his rune attire.
"Vaghe made it, supplied the velvet, of
course."
And not the embroidery?"
"Oh 1 the embroidery—no, I got that
elsewhere," he replied rather awkwardly.
Ethel rose froso her chair, a somewhat
satirical smile curling her lips. "I see,
The new Eve gave you the embroidery,"she
said scornfully, yet very quietly. " What a
pity to waste it down here—yon will take
all the bloom off it,
"Not at all—the bloom ought to be off,"
cried he, not sorry to find she hal accepted
the evidence of a new Eve—which, by the
bye, ire had not intended to let, slip to Iter --
so quietly,
I think on the whole that they got on
better that they had none for two years be-
im tho Major had exchanged into the 15th.
In rho old regiment Mrs. Dennis had often
been dull and in low spirits, she had been
left a good deal alone and Major Dennis had
never been able to go away for a few days
or ever a few hours without fooling more or
less of a brute towards ler. Now no man
in the world, I take it, linea to fool himself
a brute; so he was much inclined to accept
the existence of Jack Trevor, his wife's old
playfellow, as an entirely unmixed blessing.
They spent the evening very quietly --the
Major smoked a couple of mga'ettee, and
three letters ami talked to her
't two
wratr. W>
a little of What ho had done in London.
And all the time in Ethel's heart there was
raging a wild and Norco tumult, A.oryram.
up and would lordly he stilled, that her Iife
was harder to boar than it lead been before,
that the 11100kery of going on living like this
had 11 0.
001+ a very dell to iter•, tlntt x110'
1111,x• could 1)) 1 uhl 00e11110 it.
Yet Major Dennis su1'c."1 and chatted
complmently on, without e s'' piwirnl tleb
his wife sitting quietly sewie at a bit of
•
li tl•)ttitsl'it (111111,0.0-\vurk beside the table
Ih y r
where the lamp stood, W08 fueling any differ.
tut 1' what she Melted, without a snepte 11
that her exterior of ice eovered. in truth a
very ,,Lean of 11r', a mine might ex-
plode under lis feet at (Lily moment,
" By the bye, Ethel, is any'thieg Ong on
,lust 110\0?" he asked soddenly, 1011011 it was
getting towards bed. time.
"'Yliero is a gar,l'u p.trby aG I-Iighllight
to-n10rrOw,"she answered, thinking pleas-
antly of it because Jack 7.'re"or would bo
there—" and I believe we are all u, be ask-
ed to an informal supper afterwards,"
" Oh ! tot Highflight 1 Are you going 1"
").es, 1 have promised to go enol—' lt•II
agown on nl•-
a 1 gl have got
nety of
pose for it."
"Really. Well, will the dogcart do to
drive you over in ;•"
" Oh yes, perfectly," she replied,
Accordingly, the following afternoon alma
3 o'clock, the Major's very high dogcart with
its bright yellow wheels, came round to the
little gate of their hut, :\ rakish gray was
between the shafts, a regular flyer,- with
satin coat and restless heels. IIe showed u
great objection to settling down ism first hut
af101 a minute or two bre10111 himself into
to pose of a statue his head well in air and
his llaudsomo feet extended as far as pos-
sible.
Airs. Dennis ltd not keep him waiting
very long, indeed las the Motor opened the
front door, she cane out of her bedroom.
" Iloilo, is that the new frock?" he asked
—" let's have a look at you. 'Pon my word
it's very pretty—I fool pito proud of going
out with you."
"1 ant highly honoured," cried Ethel tari-
ng herself about—she was in high spirits
and his littlo compliment pleased her.
It was certainly a pretty gown, plain and
simple of soft creamy flannel with a smart
sailor hat bound with a 00101 t ribbon, on her
fair head. She carried over her arm a coat
of stone coloured clout with a coaclunan's
cape or rather set of capes. "Is it cold?" she
asked.
"Cold, no—you'll bo smothered if you wear
that thing," he answered,
"I shall be smothered in dust if I don't,"
she roplied—"but I 11)010 it will be onongh
to keep ale warns coating home. You know
it is twice as cold in that high trap as it is
in the victoria,"
A prettier or more winsome woman surely
no man ever helped into a high clog -cart, stud
Major Dennis swung himself into his place
beside her, feeling quite in a glow of satis-
faction.
Pon my word," his thoughts ran,
"there's nothing like a little outside interest
and attention for smartening a ma'ried
woman up. Why, I shall he falling in love
over again if I don't look out."
\Irs. Delmis cast a glance towards the
mess—yes, the conch was there already. The
Major saw her look, "Would you rather
have gone on the coach 3" he asked.
"Oh 1 I don't care 0,1011."
"Because you couldn't have had the box
seat and I've no idea of your sitting behind,
don't you know."
"011 I no. I like this much better," she
replied.
They swept through the gates as she spoke
and once on a bit of open toad the gray went
like steam towards the town,
"Don't go through the town at this pace,
will you Cosmo 3' she asked.
Major Dennis laughed—"I shall find my
self in the police -station if I ch.," he answer-
ed.
"I wonder if you would mind stopping at
Jefferson's for a minute—only for a minute?
I left my little spent bottle there to be re-
charged."
He raised no objeobion and when they
reached the narrow High Street, pulled up
the gray at the door of the chemists 51105.
"Is my little smelling -bottle ready?" Ethel
asked.
"Yes, Ma'am-" and away he ran into the
shop again to get it.
\'lat happened next was all over in an
instant and Ethel hardly knew hots it came
hmat returned with tho
about, but just as the n
neat little white parcel in this land and gave
it to Mrs. Dennis, the Major exclaimed—
"Damnation" under his breath and gave the
gray horse a cut with the whip such as sent
Ism off at a frantic) gallop along the narrow
street. Nor diel he moderate his pace until
they had got a good mile upon the road to-
wards High -flight when with some difficulty
his master pulled him up to a ,walk,
" What was tie natter ?" asked 11111015110
had been holding on to the silo of the trap
in 5hoer desperation, expecting every mo -
melt to be dashed to the stones.
" Nothing—nothing--I Mutt something
stung me," and he put op his hand to los
Heel(, as if to show that the mischief was
Plumed eluwln in Limo to help 1111. Dennis to
the gunnel, fru you pot well Y' the milted
(11 ail undertone,
"A little tired," into whispered hank,
"1,110 and speak to Airs, Petro and then
let nes get you it glass of wine or some boa;
Weil; you cold duving?„
"No, any coati is warm," eke liwwered,
"but the horse bolted an the l{iglltil lantana
never atopp011 for more than a mile and -•
an11----
"And frightened you 10 death—Poor lit.
t lo WOnlatl I Really,' he added, its he slip-
ped "9 1)01' coat, „1 5001111e• the Major likes
to drive 511011 t0 brute,'
"It 51(0111 the home '5hod t--1'esmntouch.
ed him with the whip and he wont bear the
whip 0t a11,"
"Why • lie goes like the wind,"
"1-.s 31id didn't do it o)3 purpose—something
startled him and he threw out leis arm and
—Oh, how do you do, Ml's, Petro? Whet
a lovely (hay you have for your party."
''So glad to see y0n," returned the Inustees
—"And, Mrs. Dennis, you will stay on to
supper, won't you?"
You are very kind—we shall be delight-
ed."
" Anil you, Mr. Trevor 3"
"I have been hoping• to be asked," he
said with a laugh. " 1 shall be only too
pleased."
Then otheruests streamed in and their
ltosteee's attention was taken away from
them. " Come and have some tea, said
Jack tenderly.
In truth 1he was somewhat frightened by
ler blanched face and drawn look. " You
;est have been terribly frightened, Ethel,"
ire said, es he found her a seat,
" I was—but 781101 be all right now," she
said trying to smile. " As I told you lho
other day, Jack, my nerves have all gone to
pieces. Cosmo says that his nerves have
gone too, so we shall be a pleasant couple by
and lin"
I Ho tau laughed as he went away at the idea
of enytiningbeing amiss with Major Dennis
nerves ; and in two minutes he 00010 back
with a glass of champagne and a plate of
straw -berries and cream. "Drink this all
I'll get you another—it will pick you up
butter than anything else," he Raid sitting
(down beside her.
"I'm afraid my, lamina would go after my
nerves," she returned smiling—bat she
drank half the champagne and ate the straw•
berries declaring herself better. "There, I
have finished it 1011. No, not a drop more.
Why, I should be mad to take more—I can
only just manage this. Now, put my
plate and glass do ten and let 05 o out into
the garden and see all the world,
j Jack was nothing loth, and together they
went out to see all the world, which
very soon resolved itself into a dim but
charming fernery where a most seductive
rustic seat invited trent to rest awhile and
study "all the world" in single specimens,
" 1\'ell," said Jack easily, stretching itis
longlegs out and sneaking in a thoroughly
happy and comfortable tone—" Well, and
what is the latest net's, Ethel?"
"The latest news, Jack," she answered—
" is that Major Dennis has more than a
thought of tahab he calls 'cutting the Service
I altogether.'"
Jack sat bolt upright in an instant,
" Cutting the Service, lie echoeel—" but
why? I thought he was so keen on soldier-
ing."
oldier-ing. So did I ?"
"And what would you do? Where would
you live?"
"I don't know. He talks of travelling
indefinitely," she answered.
" Without you?"
, "No—I should have Co go too," she re-
plied.
1 There was a moment's (lead sileuee, a
moment during which a new idea was born
in Jack Trevor's mild. "And you—you
would bo sorry to leave the—the regiment ?"
he asked in a curiously strained voce.
"I," she repeated—" I—yes, I should be
sorry," and then she turned her head away,
' but not before Jack Trevor had seen that
her eyes were filled with tears,
CHAPTER N.
MADEMOISELLE VALERIE.
0)00.
"Was it a wasp? Does it hurt ,111011 now ?"
she asked ;sheha,l never loved this titan, she
knew that he was tired of her, she guessed
that lie \tent after other gods—yet in ono
moment, she was all tenderness tor his sttp-
posetl bort.
He looked down into her at miens eyes with
a smile which but barely covered the fear
which still lingered in hie. "I'm afraid I
3-ighten your wits out of you every now and
then, Ethel," he said with a rough sort of
apology. ' Really, I'm awfully sorry—but
tho fact was I was startled and made a cut
at the horse without thinking what I was d0-
ing—old the brato resents being reminded
of the whip at all."
"Thou 7011 were not badly stung," aha
cried.
"No—a mere nothing ; a 1001' or two ago
I 01,ould not'0r have noticed it, 'Pon my
word I fuuay lay nerves nt'o go rig— ohall
have to cut tho Service and travel for a
�while."
"Aloe?" she asked seine abate a whim-
per, her lips had gone white, her 01105100
Iwore pale, her whole face seemed to have
grown drawn and Niggard in a montoltt,
' drawn and haggard mid old.
11Alone—of course not. I—but there,
,hat's the use of talking alma that I'
n
seedy, Out of sorts altogether, but I. sltall he
' all right after a bit, when 1 have got my
! nerves pulled together a little,"
Ile laughed as he spoke and began to talk
about other timings, once or twice looking
I back to 000 if the coach was in sight or not,
They were more than half way to Highfligllt
1 ore it appeared, however and the Major
: urged the war to put hie best log forward
5o that the otlsere might not overtake them,
By the lime they pulled pp at the portico
at11101110 L,
Majorr Deems was111t
0 wild-
caand moat boisterous spirits imaginable,
tin111101,dorhad not come hank to his wife's
' )s and her fare waspale and drawn still,
U1 wn
I The coach was but juotbahind, and Trevor
"Evils anticipated arc twice endured"
A fete days, however, went by and nothing
more was said of Major Deunis's possible in-
tention of leaving the Service. More than
once Jaok Trevor thought of it, thought of
it and distnissed the idea as a rtclictlloua one
I not worth troubling over. Yet ho could not
shut his eyes to this truth, that of late ito
had begun to regard his 'Major's wife in a
new light, Up to the present time, that is to
say during the few weeks that the Den111005
had been at Chertsey, he had looked upon
, her only as his old friend and playfellow, as
a new and charming interest in his existence
and had even spoken of her to Monty Carl-
ton—and much to that young man's disgust
—as the best einem he had ever had in all
Itis life.
He had been all along so sorry that her
husband was not more congenial to her and
he had felt the deepest commiseration for
the young healthy active nature that, from
almost the time of 111s fathev's ,Leath, had
evidently bean cramped and warped in every
way.
but nolo---•now w'1100 be was forced to see
all too plainly that she had practically no
hand in arranging the plan of their life, he
began to fuel IlNereutly towards her 1 He
began to feel indignation as well as pity 1
He had gathered that if tie Major chose to
throw ftp hit counmiSeiOn and take to a
wandering existence, Ethel would have no
power to Matence him otherwise, mud the
very thought of her being dragged abort
from one foreign hotel to another without a
child to comfort her, without it mother to
stand by her, or husband who would be
anything of acompanion to her, was enough
to madden him, And yet ho was so 11e15.
less, what could Jho do for Ther? Simply
nothing 1 She was Denuis's ,wife, and the
oldest of friends ca1an0t with reason or jus-
tioeintorfere between man and ,rife baring
no bettor excuse than the rads that there
was a llieparity of years between thele mud
that heir dispositions were nut congenial to
each other,
However, Major Dennis sooned to have
forgotten Ms suggestion and else 'n a ,nett.
surd to recover his geed sprits, at least
Monty Carlton complained to "Trevor with a
disdainful air of fretfulness oto day, " Real-
ly Dennis is getting positively bloated \vitht
twit '
311 3" said Julie, looking up 5ht11 ply,
I Carlton repeated his assertion, " The
bre Lc fired oft two stale oltl chestnuts G,tt of
tie Pink 'tun' this nroshiol— 0I0re them
half the fellows shrieked with delight
though they lad all read thorn in print
years ago. However, Dennis shot them Olf
with an am' as if ho had just made 'em and
as I said, six or 005015 idiots laughed."
"And you didn't ?" asked Trevor, wait•
ing,patiently for the end of bo hole yarn,
t' --,with ahprenre- 1li5gn5t- 1 1 i
wouldn't have moved a 5111501e of 1110 faeo if
my life itself had depended on my fining it,
i 'n
4nkhm'tla10 h at his k0g if they'd
Iw
Y
Why K 1
leen now, and I certainly wouldn't condo,
ace1111 to oven grin et enyllody's jokes that
wore years old,
0 not," commented
"N0' --I supe so a i, onmoita
Joel( rather abeaufly—" I am always Nod.
ing o \'s,•lf w meterin' why Dennis ever tries
to n)a: lok,at sill. It's not lIe0'ause he's
n genial sort of a elute 0'1 loves a hike 1, hit
11e ducsn't 1 As a general rule, if you tido
mance, Ito either deesn't 000 a joke Lir else ]to
laughs in the wrong pine,'
"1'11 tell you what 11 is," rejoined the
tither with pe'fest sot'inu'"•S a—" me soon its
I g01 my majority I shall 11(110."•
" 1 11 tell you Lit a word. Take 0 brute
like Dennis fol' instants,. 110'5 n 11))')'and
he hes to be Belem ,1 1, w'h0nc\e, ho elpoaes
to speak. Lel him tell ever snot (h•iveliing
tot in the form of a story and nine sltlLLtl-
terns mit of ten either list)')) with respectful
attention or applaud hila with u,lro:u'iol1s
hmglhkV. They've \•e got to poetically- it's
the right thing to do and they do it, 'You
1113' soul, it would he 0 goo. tiling for the
Service at lar di if 00.11 stoner otlicers 50(1'?
forbidden 10 tell stories of any kind at the
n>ese•tahle,"
"They couldn't be forbidden to air Iheir
opiniols," laughed Trevor, "and for my
part I'd rather have Dennis's stale chesnnts
that his 05 110)us, any day."
"My faith, yes," ejaculated 110111011
promptly.
lin }tly
And they woo troubled with a good manly
of Major Dennis'e stories (luring that week
et t c
mess—he seemed as if he dill not care
1
1
me
to go outside the Fifteenth lines 11111011, and
he spent a gond (teal of his spare 111110 in the
ante -roost. Not that he had much spate
time, far the regiment was in camp for work,
not for play, and neither ollioore nor men
led an idle life by any means. Major Donnie
for one, oomplainod bitterly of the fearful
amount of grind ho had to put in (I an using
his language now) and expressed an opinion
more than once that the game was not worth
the candle and that he should throw up the
sponge 1111 leave Her Majesty's Service to
take caro of itself.
" But not till you got the command,
Cosmo," Mrs, Dennis nut in one day when
be had been gutting up a special subject for
an instruction. t You know you have al-
ways had an ambition to have a command,"
' Yes—I know—but there's such a devil
of a lot of school -master's work now -a -days,"
he answered.
"011 1 you aro tired. Change your clothes
and go down to the town wall mo," she
urged. "I want some stamps and books,
and the walk will do its both gond."
But the Major was not to be drawn out of
his ill -temper.
"No, I can't walk down. I've been
standing about in the sun all day. I'm as
tired es a dog. I'll drive you down if you
like."
" Yes—if "I'd
have the victoria," she
replied, "I d rather not go in the 909-0101-1
if we have to stop at ally shops."
" Olt 1 nonsense—nonsense, I hate being
driven—anti I can't drive the victoria,
Can't you go without the?"
"No - -because I knowou're bored to
death here and want a change," she answer-
ed. "Besides—I dislike going about by
myself. Do come, Cosmo."
" You can take Trevor."
He spoke quite good-naturedly, but his
wife started and her face whitened a little,
"No, I want' you to go with ate," the urged,
"Do Cosmo—do go."
He looked a little surprised—and for the
clatter of that, well he night, for never be.
fore had Ethel spoken to hint in that tone.
"Of oom'sc 1'11 gn, if you wish it so much,"
he said, still with, the sante astonished look
on his fade—"but I do hate—look here --
I'11 take the brown horse in the dog -Dart,
will that do? He's as quiet as an old sheep,
and will wait like a rock as long as you
like."
"All right. I'll go and get ready ['tome."
She was quite joyous at thus hating won
her point, and was ready J.0 her neat stoue-
coloutod coat and white sailor hat long be-
fore the trap carne round to the door, She
went out and looked at her flowers, picking
off a leaf Isere and there, her heart hi quite
a glow of gratitude. For in truth Ethel
De1n110 hod come to that point in her life
when only this rough unsympathetic coarse -
minded man, who made it no secret that he
was tired of her, served to stand between
her end the temptation which comes sooner
or later to most women.
He came out just as to dog -cart was
brought round, a noticeable figure enough,
and as they passed through the little gate,
Jack Trevor came by and stopped to speak
to then, Ho was It fixture m the camp,
being orde•ly officer for tie day.
" leery jolly clay," lie said, cheerfully
"Aro you going far, Ethel?"
"Into the town—I suppose fora drive
afterwards," she answered.
In spite of herself the riche red x0000 began
to bloom out envy rut," he s n ion her ale cheeks, and a
y
J�
liht to steal into her eyes. Trevorlaughed
"
said,
as
ho helped her
I
into the high dog -carts. "You know One
never wants to go for 11 ride or a drive so
badly as when One is tied by the leg here
' • 3" added to the Major,
Is not ,illi, so, 511. 110 y
"Very nthelt so," answered the Major
with a great laugh, as he mounted into his
place and took the fetus.
Jack Trevor stood watching them until
the trap teas ottt of sight. Mind, he had
not yet acknowledged to -himself that his
feelings had altogether changed towards his
old playfellow—as yet he only believed that
ho was grieved and merry that she should
have seek a husband as the Major, he only
felt a mutinied sort of irritation whenever
he fon el himself in Major Dennis's pres-
ence ; he hardty realized that, his duty that
clay seemed more irksome than ever, the
square more dull than usual, 'himself more
weary.
Well, I suppose I mast bo off," be said
ns he turned on Ins heel with a sigh that ons
almost a groan. ]Iol1O, what's that 1" and
then he stooped clown and picked np from
the ground something lying almost at his
foot.
It\vas a lady's visiting -card, a card with
a mourning border and written. deem it in a
lbw Italian band--
" lfacle/noisrllr, Valerie." '
(To 1111111ONTTNI;En.)
Tho Cheerful Rout,
" I'hu world is over as wo tape it,
And life, dear child, is what we make it,"
Tints spoke a grandma bent 0111) care,
'1'o little Mabel, flushed and fair,
13101 Mabel took on heed that day
Of what she heard lice grandma say.
Years after when, 80 more a ohill,
Her path in life seemed dark and wild,
tack to her heart the memory cane
Of the quaint utterance of the dente 9
"The }world, dear child, is as we bake it,
And life, he sure, is what wo 1110100 it,"
She oioared bor brow, and smiling thought,
'Tis Avon as the good soul taught.
And half my woos, thus quiokly oared,
Tho other half may, be endured,
No more ltor heart it0 shadow wore i
She grew a littlo Child onto more,
A little child in lava and tryst,
world as w
a too must
tha, )
She took >
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In happy mood 3 and lo, it grow
Blight and brighter to her view.
She m clo of life es we, too Sllottld)
A joy n and to l all thipge were -good
WIRBLETS,
Tho ,1 own in Sebastopol have been ordered i
to leave the city'.
'111(1'0 is a movement 010 100t to°planta'
' Memo,
'
oniony of Japanese in
Mute, Patti will build a 0ynagogau at
Craig -y -nos, her residence in \\'ales.
Not \wbttsltili lg she (11Lseme, of 1\1es11rn,
Billion and C'Pr!en, 1110 'J'15l5'1'11/17 (rials
will be continued agaic51 the ot11cr 1101011-
'14
1115, k
llm'Nicholl, a 5011 11•0', 70 31'(011 of •
ago, 11,110acha)l lieudiet, , widow, aged ; 3,
w•1re mnts'ied at \100eler0, Cut, on Thurso
day night.
While drilling a blltslicg In Port I1u110, 00
511101,107, two workmen wove badly floured
by, tho unexpecLod0xploslon ofa dynamite
oat i, go,
f: unoureaux, charged with the 'murder of
31p111te, with whose wife he was euppos0(1
to be too intimate, was found not gnllly ou
Saturday afternoon.
LADIES' JOURNAL
1 a
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l)etit10i t
MCP- `amts
The Old Reliallle again to the
fore. A splendid list of
Rewards.
Don't Dela ! Send at Once 1
o y
Competition Number Twenty Six opens
now at the solid bation of thousands of the old
friosls and competitors in former contests.
The Editor of 71111 Lames' ,JOURNAL, has
nearly forty thousand testimonials as to the
fairness with which these Bible Conpebi-
toms have been coudacledl.
This competition is to be short 1111(1 de-
cisive, It will remain open only till the
15th day of December inclusive.
The qquestions are as follows :—Where in
the Bible are thefollowingwortls first found,
I Heat, 2 Roe 3 GARMENT.
To rho first person sending in tho correct
answer to these questions will be given num-
ber one of these rewards—tie Piano. To
the next person, the 9100.00 hl cash,
and so on t111 all those rewards are given
away.
710157 BEWA:RDS.
First ono, as Elegant Upright Piano by
celebrated Canadian Pim $500
Second ono, One Hundred ed Dollars in cash 100
Noxtllfteen,each a superbly bound 'leaoh-
or's 131b(o, $8 15
Next seven, Oath n Gentleman's Fino Gold
Open Face \\-etch good movement $00 420
Next eleven, each a Fino Quadruple Plato
Individual Salt and Pepper Cruet55
Next five, each a beautiful Quadruple Sil-
ver Plated Toa Service (1 pieces) $10210)
Next ono, Twenty Dollars In cash
Next five, an elegant China Dinner Sorvloo
of 101 plows
Next five, each a lino French China Tea 200
service of O8 pieces
Next seventeen, each a complete sot 51
O cage Elliot's works, bound in cloth,
5 vols., $15 75
Next seven, 088011 a Ladies' Fine 0olrl Open
Face or Hunting Case Watch, $00
MIDDLE REWARDS.
To the person sealing the m1(1(110 correct
answer of the whole competition front first to
last will bo divan the 11£11 dollars in cash. To
the sender of the next -correct
answer followingilowin
g
the middle 10111 boloan 0110 of the ten dollar
amounts, and soon till all the middle rewards'
are distributed.
First, Fifty dollars in cash
Next flvo,eaoh$10!11 inch 50
Noxi ,neo, 01)11 a fine Faintly Sowing
Next five, ouch a LadiesFino Gold
Watch, $50 ., 250
Next ten, onoh n Fino Trlple Silver
Ylatod Tea notal iia set 50
Next ores y -oto, need" set of Dickens'
Works, Beautifully bound in 010111,18
vola„ $20 420
Next ntc,an elegant China Dorno• Sorvloo
of 101 pieces by Powell Bishop &
Stonier, Ilarnloy, England 250
Next five, each a lino I'renoh China Tea
Service, of 08 gloms, specially import.
ad, $10 2200
Next seventeen, each a complete set of
George Eliot's ,works hound in cloth,
5 vols., $15 75
Next eighteen, each a handsome Silver
Plated Sugar Bowl, $5 00
Next five, eaoh a Ladies' lino Gold
250
watch, 900.
Next Ilety-flvo, each a handsome long
Silver Plated Button Hook 55
CONSOLATION B.EWARDS.
For these who aro too hate for any of the
above rewards the following special list is
offered, as fan' as they will go. '1 n the sender
of the last eorreot answer 00000 ed al Lonuuos'
.1011101A0 odlco postmarked 15111 December or
earnoo1 e given number of these con•
Halation 11 prpllze00 R, Co the next Co the last, member
two, and soon ill these rewards aro all given
0000.
First one, Ono Hundred Dollars in cash9100
Next eft0e1,e0ch asuperbly bound ehmily
Bible, benutifutly illustrated, usually
sold at $15 220
Next 8005,1, mein a Gentleman's Mr a Goll
Open Face O'atoh,good.movements S00 420
Next nineteen, each a Set of a Dozen 'Pea
1{nivos, heavily Mated, 910 100
Next live, each a Lalios'L'luo Cold Watch
$50250
Na.1Z104togan, onoh a Ladies' Fino Gold Gem las
$7.
Next forty- no, moll an Imitation Stool
Engraving, hose Bohheur's Horse Fair
82
Noah twonbv-uhle, each a Complete Set of
Dickens Works, Handsomely Bound
in 01011, l0 vols., $20 80
Next twenbv-one, ('0515 lL Flle Quadruple
PJatolndividual SaltandPopper Wad
new design 5
Next live each a beautiful hryuadruplo Sil-
ver Pottecl'1'00 Service II plocosl'(10200
Nexttwcnby• Ilv0, n'Peauhers' Pine, Noll
Bound lithlo w th concordance 100
leach permit competing crust send One
Dollar ,with their r(50er0, for one years
ubseriptioi to tho LAD/E8' JOURNAL. The
LADIES JOURNAL has been greatly enlarged
and improved and is in 01,017 way equal at
this price to any of the pubtioatons iosno,l
for lathes on lits continent. Yon, there-
fore, pay nothing at all for the privilege of
competing for these prices.
The priae0 will be distributed in time for
Christmas Presents to friends, if you wish
Lo use them in that way.
The distribution will 110, ill ale hands of
disinterested parties and the prizes given
striety,in tate order letters 014100 mt aha
Ln (UES' JOURNAL o1110e, ova
have received rowel de in previous coins
petitions, Address, Editor Lanais' Joni.
nal, '1'oronbn, Canada.
First Baby.—Fond mother to proud young
fadther. "Albert, dear, did you hear the 010001
Ids dear lltta eyes out last
darling, my y t
night'!' —Prowl Noting Father "I thought
I heard our angel twitter," Second Baby.—
Sho: "Albert, you unfeeling we, Leh, to tear
that child screeching alt night and mover
offer to tape hint P' --Ila t "Lot the little
demon howl I"
Mrs. IloN'stoiner (to her husband)—Whet
makes you scowl so, Abraham?
Mr. 1Iot1'steiner—I should think our sou
Isaac, now that ho IS a shudgc, would Rink
1110 shop.
What e
'i\ hat las ho done?
?
"V , the balmy Nays Shudgo iloff'tclllor
has !tatted town a dungen. Now leant -loo•
townish all 1 igh1 for the chiding pusine00,
but it's omit of bleu on fro pooch,
250
210
130
100
Sleep is Beauty's Agent,
40 31(011' .11050) 5)75 11)1110 "...Steyr), Mon -
Breit," when she lht owe betselt down on ,4
bank of (,"yen tissue paper Ina none too
550dee1 at tilittle, tta sound 51ce , J5 as good
as 10dinner." 1t is health 10101 beauty for
the body and the vent• boat. preservative of
youth, next to oontciate's]t• The iedustrial
giants of t hn family will scream laziness and
1101,.1-0' that they 1x,111,1 ,Ilea, lei (pull he dead
is a1lep. It in for f.1lc 01 mflh 1011000 111,.
11ut'dum of life, 1I has neither need 11011
lu;u 1'0'1 beauty, and i,t long (Le at vessel It all
,'1l,l (0auec 1,51 1t i, iln1,4te1'iILI whether the
Icing of the fi'ar111 g.'t, three u1- ten hours'
sleep. AV'moan 's mission is 111 (010511$ re. de-
pendenl 011 lento v, briglttursc ami freshness,
1101' duty Is largely that of the butterfly or
the flower. Itmatters vert' 11111(11 that site
be worthy of the queen's ,n 00'i , and to
squander her 110lical0 strength, to waste the
perfume of her young womanhood, 15 et form
of prodigality that she 10•£111'110. l3ro1.1ore,
fathom, 1111860.11111) and 80115 (10 not like to
1,111111i 't their idols in a state habitual bier.
htibleat
u x )00 1111111110 (1000 a great 11007
,11115 w•tLI 1101• right 1'0)1)1 about which llor
loft
IF
nothing.
Sunday is wall considered a 1101 of rest,
and if fail.' \'0111011 but kuoty it a sleep from
Saturday n 611I1SundaynLt 110011 will illsmooth
out eve• so many livas and cares of 1110
week, She will nose her coffee, to be sure,
lint there is more tonic in the test, even with
wakeful eyo5, than there is in a olein coffee
plantation• Not only do rho eyes brighten,
11111 the \wo,rnith of the flesh produoas a free
action of the glands, which awls as a sort of
lubricator 10101 imparts health and froslt«oss
to 011hin.
Th0anstete is the clearer metal vision
and the brushing away of the cobwebs of
Om trade that nothing in all the pharnna-
0 p vie can approach. The fair sluggard
may be peraeeuterl by envious and ancient
relatives and upbraided by spiritual teach•
ors, but all this can be endured in beauty's
name. A nap, superinduced by 0 steaming
hot bath, an bell on horseback, or 0 111.18k
svatk in the open air taken with the mouth
tightly closed and in a very light 000101110,
j1101 before going to a party or a dinner,
will give a woman a fcesbuoss of face and a
sprightliness of manner that will be at once
remarkable and captivating. Sleep is cheap.
It is also an invaluable agent of physical
(health, which is after all approtehal)le if
perfect beauty is not.
What Tears are Made Of.
It is said that people sometimes ,veep for
joy as well as for servo,,', but step cases aro
at least rare ; any way, there is not probab.
ly any difference in the material of the tears
so sited. They are both made of the same
stuff. The principal element in the composts
tion of EL tear, as may readily be supposed,
is water. Tho other elements aro salt, soda,
phosphate of lime, phosphate of soda and
nluc11s, each in small proportions. A dried
tear seen through 0 microscope of good aver-
age power presents a peculint• appearance.
The water, after evaporation, leaves behind
it the saline ingredients, which aninlgtunal e
mad form themselves into lengthened cross
lines, and look like a number of Itldnut0 lisp
bones. The tears are secreted in what are
celled the "lachrymal glands," situated
over time eyeball and underneath the lid.
The contents of these glands are carried
along and under the inner surfteo of the
eyelids by means of six or seven Seg' line
channels, and are discharged a little abs'e
the cartilago supporting the lid. The die
charge of tears from the lachrymal glands
is not occasional and accidental, as is com-
monly supposed, but continuous. It goes
of both day and night—though less abun-
dantly at. night—through the "conduits,"
and spreads equally, over the surface of the
lids. After serving its purpose the flow is
carried away by two lido drains, situated in
that corner of each eye nearest the nose—in-
to which they run—Ited called the " lachry-
mal points." The usefulness of this quiet
flow of tears to both man and beast is mani-
fest. There 0 such an immense quantity of
fine dust floating in the air and constantly
getting into the eyes that, but for it, they-
would
heywould soon become choked. Very little is
requisite to keep the ball free, and whou
some obnoxious substauco--woke, at insect
or the like, that affects the nerves—does
make its way in, an increased Now is pouted
out to swoop it away.
A Plea for Dirt Pies.
I avant to add my plea for the children in
favor of "dirt pies.' "Dirt pies" doesn't
moan simply (list pies ; it nlcaus making
atdeus aid mountains
g an c1
tunnels, and
haling too parties with a variety of goodies,
and playing store, and in fact giving the
most attplescope to tie baby imagination,
and passing long, delightful summer hours in
0101)1 81 diverting, innocent, 01111 health -giv-
ing of amusements. I always feel so sorry for
the poor little ono whose mother thinks so
much of his clothes tint she " draws the
lino at flirt pies." As for causing work, if
oto can't anvil much washing, make the
little ones 1101110 " digging aprons " o1' dresses
that can be donned or doffed in t0 minute,
anti you \vitt have less work titan in listen-
ing to their fretting and quarrelling, and
trying to provide other ouploynhonts for
them, As for ane, I never feel attsafer
about then, las regards both health and
11141.010 than when, dressed 1n their diggitlg
00stmnes and armed with shovel, spoon, and
tinware, they begin their ontslauglit upon
the pile of dirt, and I know that several
hours of leisure probably await 1110 bottom
they will tire of it. Of emote they will
conte in looking like ohimney-sweeps, and
almost have to bo put soaking before I stall
know them, but tho cleaning process won't
take long, and they do enjoy it so—and is
Guth nothing to a mother? Sono ,mothers
will saoritten lents of weariness to making
the children pretty dresses, whicin will
afford then very little pleasure, and be-
grudge the little trouble it takes to lot then,
lhtava 5,5011 a fund of joy as a snndpi!e. Isn't
there it little selfishness about 't'! Do wo
thtik as Lich of their onjoyneit us two do
of nue pride in their prettiness? They aro
always so contented, too, w'imen playing in
the dirt, 'There is no other One when they
aro hese fretful and quarrelsome, or happier
in molt other's company, and .I think it
holes to (nitfeate cheerflulness and content-
ment. '.There is absolutely nothing to be
brought op a1,gain, it except the small
amount of trouble it mites, and our selfish
pride in their white dresses ; so niy verdict
is unhesitatingly in its favor, 10' 1always
believe in granting 11, child a coveted onjoyy-
molt against Mills there 1S 110 valid ob-
jection,
It is not poverty so ni00h as pretence which
barrassoe a r1iued n100.
Resignation is the name of tha angel
which curries meet of our 50(Il's burden,
Believe that story false which onghtn not
to bo true.
S'0 ' ••
t pteism is a barren coast without ha'•
bor or lighthouse.
Corrupted frvellum aro the worst of slaves.
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