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Folks say I've get -fora wife;
)nd•what folks sayis--gospel truth
Thistime. you bet your 'life.
$ eturah Brown, .she beats the wort$
`b - and pies ®n bakm read p ,
kit her best holt isBghtin' dirt
And circumvent -In -flies. "
Her temper is like her pie -crust, which
They're both uncommon short;
tho' I'm free-and-easy.like,
Sometimes shemakes me snort.
no sense i havin' thf
Mere ain't iii
r n8s
So darned all -$red neat,
Nor sayin' ev'ry time I step :
"Now, Zek'I wipe your feet."
I can't sit down in our best room,
It is so slick and spruce;
Fact is, 'most ever] thing we've go_t's
Too good for common use. -
Though next to godliness -the Book
Puts cleanliness, I'm bound
To say Kettirah's might apt
To run it in the ground
There ain't no use in kiokin_; Fm
Prepared to bear my cross.
Some day, perhaps, I'll wear my crown ;
• Keturah she can't?boss
Things around in heaven. An' since we're
told
That there no moth or rust
Comes to corrupt, I guess it's safe
To say there ain't no dust
But. oh, what will Keturah do
Within those pearly gates
If she no longer finds the dirt
That she so dearly hates 1
O'ershadowed heaven itself will bey.
Ingulfed in awful gloom,
When my Keturah enters in
And cannot use a broom.
JACK MOORES TEMPTATION
CHAPTER III.
Jack rose, still debating with himself as
to whether he should or should not allow
the temptation to overcome him ; then he
changed his coat, took his hat, and went
out into the street. The misdirected letter
-pour >>` niatake—nay uncle's. He
put -your letter into an envelope addressed
`to me, and mine into one addressed to
you." , -
He could'nt do better than address him-
self to me," commented the lawyer, draw-
ing np his stiff backbone.
• ` Did a letter intended for me come to
your address ? If so, it was sent to you by
mistake—by mistake,". roared Moore.
(" Deaf old idiot !" This. in 'a much lower
time.)
.
Deaf R I'm n
saidI was
D a not eaf. Who
deaf? rapped out Mr. Pouncemore glaring
at his visitor.—" Jackson ! Jackson !" he
called out.
The head -clerk answered his chief's sum-
mons with suspiciouscelerity. It was indeed
his habit to listen at the door of Mr.
Pouncemore's sanctum, that he might be at
hand to put matters straight when com-
plications arose between client and adviser.
Besides, Mr. Jackson derived a good deal of
malicious amusement from listening to the
game of cross-questions and crooked answers
which was so frequently played in Mr.
Pouncemore's private room.
This gentleman has come to complain of
some mistake about a letter he wrote to
me," said the lawyer with dignity.
" This morning I received a letter written
by my uncle, Mr. Tredinnick, to Mr.
Pouncemore— a letter which was unfortu-
nately put into the wrong envelope," ex-
plained Moore impatiently. (Here he held
out the letter in his hand to the clerk,) "I
opened and read it, for, as you see, it was
addressed to me."
The clerk took the Letter. " I understand.
I will explain the matter to Mr Pounce-
more."
ounce-
more."
Jackson, long accustomed to suit his
voice to his employer's tympanum, managed
to convey to him why Mr. Tredinnick's
nephew had called.
" Yes—yes ; I understand," Mr. Pounce -
more said, brightening. " Mr. Tredinnick
was in his breast -pocket ; he was making al has made a mistake --a mistake excusable
sort of compromise with himself ; he would at his age ; but," he added, staring at Jack
not destroy the letter, nor would he send through his gold -rimmed spectacles, " you
it on to its rightful destination. He have also made a mistake in supposingthst
weuld consider the matter further'during a letter intended for you reached me -I
the day. A City omnibus passed him, and think I am right—am I not Jackson?-- in
as the morning was fine, there were more saying that no misdirected letter carie to
outside than inside passengers. Jack hail- the office this morning ?" he added, turning
ed it, jumped in, and then suddenly a. sort to the head -clerk.
of electric shock went through him, which Jackson bowed deferentially, glancing
caused him momentarily to forget all about askance the while at the young man, who,
his uncle, the misdirected letter, and his in his opinion, was behaving in a most sin -
own alternate battlings against and parleys gular not to say suspicious manner.
with temptation. Font he found himself " Then," said Jack, rising, I must apolo-
seated opposite the young lady with the gise for my intrusion on your time. I ---I
may oyes, the young lady whose fare he thought it right to bring you the letter that
had paid some weeks ago. came into my hands under such—peculiar
Events were falling out strangely that circumstances with as little delay as pos..
morning For weeks he had been -watching sibie. The letter is now in your possession,
for a chance of seeing Miss Mirah Lester, so I have only to wish you good -morning."
in the hope that she might acknowledge " Good -morning," replied Mr, Pounce -
their informal acquaintance by at least a more, extending a formal hand for Jack to
bow and a smile. Now, on the very day shake. He was determined to show this
that had brought him face to face with bad-tempered young man what he thought
temptation, they met. Would she remem- of his ungrateful conduct towards his
ber him ? He looked across at her inquiring- uncle.
ly. She was reading but she seemed to Jack left the office with slow, heavy steps.
feel his earnest glance, for she suddenly He knew that he had elected to follow the
looked np, blushed, smiled divinely, and steep and thorny path ; that he lied mas-
then held out her hand. " I have so wish- tered and trampled under foot a great
ed to thank you again for your timely loan," temptation. But as he set his face towards
she said, "and to—to repay it.'' the great, purple, cress -crowned dome of
Jack was hardly conscious of the money St. Paul's, the inevitable reaction resulting
she gave him, for a sudden overpowing,sense from strong emotion set in, and a dull feel -
of shame and self-contempt seize_d.him. -He .mg of depression and hopelessness took
felt as if the steady, candid gaze of Mirah possession of him. He had done
Lester's gray eyes penetrated through the right but the consciousness that he
cloth of his coat to the letter in his breast- had acted as became an honest man did
pocket The touch of , her little gloved not at the moment brine, its own reward,
hand seemed to posses some magic power, to for when he reached his office, he received a
make him see -things in their true light and severe reprimand for his lapse from punctu-
rightly to estimate his own mental attitude. ality; and as he took his seat at his desk, no
He stammered out some entirely inane inspiriting hope of a happier future bright -
rejoinder. What would she think of him if cued the commonplace drudgery of the
she knew how near he had been to suppress- present.
ing and destroying a letter that had come The day passed, and he went home to his
into his hands by chance? which, therefore, lodgings thoroughly tired out. But next
should have been doubly sacred to any morning he rose early and walked down to
honourable,: man. How terribly base he Russell Square. The sight of the well re -
would seem in her eyes, if she guessed that membered house, even though he knew it to
he had coldly reckoned on the death of the be now tenanted by strangers. restored the
man who had filled a father's, place in his balance of his mind, and brought back some
measure of his former lightheartedness.
On reaching home that evening he found
a letter awaiting him, addressed in a lady's
handwriting. He tore it quickly open, and
read as follows :
life !
The young lady, being quite at a lose as
to the real cause of her fellow -traveller's
manifest agitation, imagined him to be the
victim of bashfulness. ' So she resumed her
book in happy ignorance of the violent revul-
sion of feeling she had roused in the breast of
the man opposite to her, and of the momen-
toua;result brought about by their meeting.
As on a former occasion, the young lady
got out at the corner of Wellington Street.
By that time -Jack had regained sufficient
self-possesion to be able to respond to her
parting "good -morning ;" then he, too,
alighted from the omnibus and bent his
steps towards Lincoln's Inn Fields. He had
quite made up his mind to aet fairly and
squarely in the matter of the mis-sent letter
But on arriving at Mr. Pouncemore's office,
he learnt that_the Iawyer was not expected
there until twelve o'clock. So fcr an hour
or more Jack paced round and round the
dingy garden honoured by the appellation -
of "Fields," think?ngof all that had happen-
ed, and all that he had been saved from,
during the past two hours.
When all the Church clocks in the neigh-
bourhood had lifted up their variously -toned
voices to announce the birth of another noon
Jack again` entered -the lawyer's office.
Mr. Pouncemore was a tall, thin old man,
nearer seventy than sixty, dressed in black
clothes of old-fashioned cut. His manners
were as much oat of date as his garments,
for he had an almost Grandisonian courtli-
ness of address; his bows were bows, not
the jerky nods, or careless touehil gs of hat -
brims, or snatchy doffings, peculiar to this
last quarter of the century.
• Mr.. Pouncemore was not, perhaps, quite
so keen of eye or so acute of brain as he had
been twenty- or even ten years ago. He
found it necessary to ruts his spectacles a
good deal, grumbling as he;did so at the
quali y; of a lens supplied by the opticians
of to- yre Ten_• years: ago $pentacles were
spectacles. - _ He was:a trifle deaf, and, not
liking totadmit the -fact, frequently made
cro ed::answers to remarks addressed to
and=nothing vexed' him more than that
a Client should manifest impatience at his
slowness of speech, or notice the difficulty
h in snixfipg .tl various " poli t a
r d'onncen me was, in f ct, =getting
He depended more an
[,a jt iung:121sn of c n ,
,
•
lit l► ethi tie:
Ilia:
des::
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afterwards discovered„ that directed
Mr. Poupcemore in the blotting book.
"And now 1 must give ilii Jock P en -
more a new set of instructions,' he finisned
with a smile that beautified his harsh .fea-
tures and shone like winter sunshine in his
faded eyes. "But the sight df you has put
new life into me, my boy, andI don't think
you'll have to pay your succession duty just
yet.—Oh, there's a ring at the bell.. My
reader and amanuensis, Jack, the kindest
and best of girls, who creams all the letters—mostf them -
at
and writes my
at .least. Not private ' instructions. to my
lawyer, of couree."
Just, then the door opened, and Thrupp
announced " Miss Lester." And to Jack's
utter delight and astonishment, in walked
the young lady with gray eyes=Micah
Lester, his good angel.
[THE END].
to:
The Use of Short Words.
We must not only' think in words, but
we must also try to use the best words, and
those which in speech will put what is in
our mind into the minds of others. This is
the great art which those must gain who
wish to teach in the school, the church, at
the bar, or through the press. To do this
in the right way they should use the short
words which we use in early life, and
which have the same sense to all classes of
men. The English of our Bible is good.
Now and then some long words are found,
and they always hurt the verses in which
you find them. Take that which says, " 0,
ye generation of vipers, who hath warned
you to flee from the wrath to come?" There
is one long word which should not be in it,
namely, "generation." In the old version
the old word " brood" is used. Read the
verse again with this term, and you will
feel its full force. "0, ye viper's brood,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath
to come ?" Crime sometimes does not look
like crime when it is set before us in the
many folds of a long word. When a man
steals, and we call it " defalcation," we are
at a loss to know if it is a blunder or a
crime. If he does not tell the truth, and we
are told that it is a case of " prevarication,"
it takes us some time to know just what we
should think of it. No man will ever cheat
himself into weong-doing, nor will he be at
a loss to judge of ethers, if he thinks and
speaks of acts in clear, crisp terms. It is a
good rule, if one is at a loss to know if an
act is right or wrong, to write it down in
short, straight-out English.
Bibliomaniacs are usually men. Women
have a rage for collecting old china, old lace,
fans, miniatures, and the rest, but not often
rare and curious books. There is, however,
one woman in New -York who journeyed to
Boston not long ago after a " fitst edition "
that was to be sold there. She did not get
it. It was a little book of not more than
thirty pages, a first edition of Edgar A.
Poe's writings, of which only two are known
to be in existence. The volume sold for
$1,850,which was a little above her figure.
" I wanted it badly," she confessed, " but I
had to limit my biddiug, and it was below
this sum."
This same woman has afortune tied up in
rare old books. " Why not ? she says.
" They constantly increase in value, and if
you know what to buy they are as safe as
peachblow vases. You can insure them
against fire, and it would take a very cul-
tured thief to know what volumes to carry
away. I find a wonderful fascination in the
pursuit of a treasure—this Poe edition, for
instance. The printer who got it out has
been traced, his descendants visited, and his
record searched. It is positive that only
two copies of the original edition are left.
No, old books are not forged," she finished
in answer to a question. "It has been tried,
but the deception is sure to be discovered.
The old paper and old type cannot be made
now."
THE BAY TREES,
WIMBLEDON, Nov. 20,188—.
MY DEAR BOY, —I have heard from Mr.
Pouncemore how you behaved with regard
to a letter I wrote to him, and which reach-
ed you by an accident, for whichI shall never
cease to thank God. If you will come down
here es early as you can to -morrow morn-
ing, I will explain how the mistake occur-
red.—Your affectionate uncle.
The letter was signed in rather shaky -
looking characters— EDWARD TaEDINNICK.
Jack read the letter with quickened
pulses and beaming eyes, wondered a little
who had acted as his uncle's amanuensis
then folded it up and put it in the pocket
where that other letter had lain, when truth
and honor and right feeling were weighing
in the balance agairst wealth and ease—and
dishonor—and the glance of a girl's candid
eyes had made the balance dip on the right
side.
Jack went down to Wimbledon by the
first train from Waterloo, and reached his
uncle's door by nine o'clock. The Bay Trees
was a pretty, snug -looking villa, standing
well back from the road behind the two big
trees which gave the house its name. As
Jack lifted the latch of tha white -painted
entrance gate, his heart beat fast with
mingled excitement and apprehension. The
door was opened by the old butler Thrupp.
" Why, good gracious me ! it's Master
Jack—well ! And I'm glad to see you back
again, sir."
"How is my uncle?" asked Jack
shame-facedly.
" Better, sir—much better. He cheered
up wonderful after Mr Pouncemore's visit
yesterday morning.—And now the sight of
you -will do him more good than alltthe
champagne and physic the doctor orders..-
Jack was ushered straight into 'his uncle s
presence. He paused for an instant on the
threshold of the room, for he was startled
'at the change two years had wrought in the
_ha1eelearty. old assn:= "Uncle !'" he cried
impulsively—" my dear, kind, old under
He stopped, fairly overcome, for the
Iib"sof hi cle'-e altered„ #acs:;anal the
'uncoil-id,otia.pathos of -the drooping figure
e,o%n f reside, unmanned flim.
Y: Taw!" The -old man rose, tottered to-
swards' him, and fell on' his deck R Ulf a
iiobbing-cry .of : "Jack, 'my `"boy, forgive
me• ` amaleo hard. Oh, my dear, dear
-boy, thankUod_ that He has brought you
Iiaci ledne at last
• - .1 •- •
When Mr. Tredinnick could command
sus voice, he told haw he bad made;the er-
ror-which hail led to their reconciliation.
E tl e" day when he wrote' his letter of in
_11>rto Mr. Pouncemore, he addressed
,envelope to Jack; meaning to enclose the
'rdy cheque ; but after doing -so, be
othat his cheque-book was empty, and
rected envelope had been left tri his
isg book. In the hurry •of the moment
thrust the'letter'tto'the lawyer into
cover addressed to Jack, leaving as he
Cholera "Spreading—Collapse' of A Sense-
less Charge.—
Apparently, however, the cholera will
very soon compel the undivided attention
of Western Europe. It now has a foothold
in both Odessa and Moscow, and in the
latter city reliance has thus far been placed
and
-solely on the big religious processions
a display through the streets of specially
sacred ikons. In both these places, and,
indeed, measurably throughout Russia, t
large proportion of the capable physicians
have been driven away because they were
Jews, and municipal organization :s in a
far lower and looser state than it was
twenty years ago. The plague practically
will meet no intelligent, effective resistance 1 stairs, and, seating himself in a paper chair,
anywhere east of the German frontier. read the paper news in the morning paper.
Paper Age.
The world has seen its iron age and its
brazen age, but this is the age of paper.
We are making so mary things of paper
that it will soon be true that without paper
there is nothing made. We live in paper
houses, wear paper clothing, and sit on
paper cushions in paper cars rolling, on paper
wheels. If we lived in Bergen, Norway, we
could go on Sundays to a paper church.
We do a good paper business over papers
counters, buying paper goods, paying for
them withpaper money, and deal in
a er
stocks on paper margins. We row paces
in paper boats for paper prizes. We go to
paper theatres where paper actors play to
paper audiences. As the age develops the
coming man will become more deeply en-
meshed in the paper net. He .will awake
in the morning and creep from under the
paper clothing of his paper bed., and put on his
paper dressing gown and. his paper slippers.
He wi]1 walk ever paper carpets, down paper
Here, however, every conceivable resource
of science will be marshaled against it, and
quite possibly its progress will be staved.
It makes one shudder, though, to think
what horrors this summary closing of the
gates in front and advent of a pestilence in
the rear will work in the already over-
crowded and pauperized and filthy Jewish
Pale.
The ignoble collapse of the latest attempt
to fasten the blood sacrifice upon the Jews
may have done some good, in Germany.
The trial at Xanten, a mediaeval little old
town in one of the most backward sections
of Germany, turned out like all others of
recent•years—that is to say, it showed that
the real murderer tried to shield himself
by inventing the charge against a Jew,
and it seems more than likely that the
original motive of the crime was to
get '"up this charge. It staggers the
imagination to try to grasp this extremity
of the anti-Semitic fervor, but we know it
has often gone these lengths in Hungary
and Galicia, and the experience now in
Xanten has shown that a vast majority of
the population is quite ready to believe in
the guilt of the accused Hebrew, though
there was not a scintilla of evidence against
him, and he proved an absolute alibi. Prob-
ably the peasantry of Middle Europe will
continue for generations to believe that the
Jews murder Christians for sacrificial pur-
poses, but the latest episode has given the
German Liberal press a most opportune
weapon in the fight against the new Juden-
hetze, which Bismarck and his group of
malcontents are striving to stir up.
The Little Things.
Veil cases are the latest things in fancy
work. They are made of silk or linen, faint-
ly perfumed, wrought more or less ornately
as the fancy pleases, and arranged on the
outlines of, the old handkerchief case. As
each bonnet and hat must have its veil or set
of veils, and as the life of the filiny trifles
which add so much to woman's toilet at best
is transitory, you may be stare that the veil
case, which you can pick up in the leisure of
summer days, will be very welcome to the
recipient of your choice when it is finished.
A famous Duchess in London recently
went through the ordeal of having a dress
made on her own figure. She stood for
three hours while the dressmakers wrought
fifty yardeef rare old lace, that could not
be cut, into a gown for a soiree, at the close
of which every stitch had to be carefully cut
and picked out before the lady could dis-
robe. The amount of torture that fair
woman will undergo in the name of vanity
would astonish the martyrs.
,Playing -Cards in 'Russia.
There is only one factory in Russia for the
manufacture of playing -cards. It has a
monopoly of the business and belongs to the
Foundling Hospital. It is figured that
there are 30,000,000 people in Russia who
play cards, and to supply the demand this
factory puts out 6,000,000 packs of cards
annually. In order to make this enormous
quantity of cards only 329 women, aged
from 15 to 20 years, and sixty -men are em-
ployed. And they are chosen amid the
sisters, wives, and daughters of the work-
men at the factory. Both exteriorly and
interiorly the factory is a model of cleanli-
ness. This is one of the essential conditions
of this branch of the production. All the
employes live at the factory and earn from
$5 to $15 a month. They work from 6 in
the morning to 6 o'clock at night, and are
allowed two hours a day for their meals.
Besides the ordinary playing -cards of differ-
ent qualities the factory produces• annually
120,000 peeks of figured cards for the Ger-
man colonies, besides 12,000 packs of minia-
ture playing -cards as toys. The annual
profit of the factory amounts to about 6800;-
000. The cardboard is supplied by the
Neva paper -mill
A New York Incident.
The New York Herald of Monday says :
—" After the singing of ' Throw Out the
Life Line,' by Mr. Stebbins, at the Conven-
tion, the first address of the afternoon was
announced. Ira D. Sanky was the speaker.
His subject was Christian Endeavor in Eng.
land," and he assured the convention that
the cause was making great headway all
over Great Britain. In the course of his
address, he remarked that bad Homestead,
Pa., had two or three Christian Endeavour
societies, with their brotherly influence,
the recent troubles there would never hav
occurred. He referred to the pleasant rela-
tions of England. and America, and said
that war between the two nations was for-
ever out of the question.
The Canadian delegates sprang to their
feet as Mr. Sankey sat down ndaeleetrified
the audience by striking up'j" Geri"Savethe
Queen." The Convention broke into cheer-
ing, and all the women in the house waved
their hankerchiefs. Whey theXCana'dians
were through the audience pr`oampti f cfintin=
ued the song, substituting the words of
" My Country, 'Tis of Thee." It was now.
Canada's"turn to,_eheer. and wave handker-
chiefs. She replied to " Arnerica." with
-" Blest Be the Tie That Binds," the whole
audience joined in and there -was another
scene of wild enthusiasm.
We thought we knew what a bureau is,
but the bureau of statistics seems to be all
tables.
Five years ago the Prince of Wales start-
ed a stud farm-atr` Volvertoi Eng., for the -
purpose of improving the breed of hackneys
and hunters,:'and has since spent a lot �of
money upon it. On Tuesday he held his first
biennial sale, and there was�a-great gather-
ing of aristocratic buyers despite the dis-
tractions of the general election. The Duke
of Portland bought several horses on behalf
of the Queen, and the: sale realized altogeth-
er £6655, a sum which was not itrge con-
sidering the number and. quality of -the ani-
malssold.
Fashion has decreed that the silk manu-
facturers shall have a chance of retrieving
their decayed fortunes and building up
colossal new ones this year, for we are to
wear silk costumes for walking, visiting,and
even everyday purposes, and every wool
and cotton gown with any pretensions
to elegance is covered with bands and bows
of silk ribbon.
Some of the new color combinations are
very crude and, like close harmonias in
color, require delicate manipulation. Fancy
cornflower, blue, heliotrope, and violet in
one bonnet ! Navy blue and green in more
or less vivid shades have been a favorite
combination through the spring and fre-
quently appearin summer costumes. Helio-
trope, pink and pale blue in combination
sounds trying, but the result is suggestive
of a slice taken boldly out of a rainbow.
Any woman in whom the dress instinct is
not entirely dormant can be her own millin-
erthis season, for the most startling of fly-
away bows, the daintiest of lace rosettes,
ribbon ruchings and lace thistles, besides
the great ' ariety of flowers, all may be pur-
chased ready fortrimming hats and bon-
nets.. A few fancy pins, a little knack at
producing effects, and the thing is done
without touching. a needle or wasting half
a day's pleasure.
The popularity of the ribbon streamer is
already on the wane. Not only has it been
appropriated by all sorts and conditions of
women to the verge of vulgarity, but the
ladies have discovered that a yard or more
of ribbon, with a high wind, is quite the
reverse of picturesque and approaches the
ridiculous.
A paper bell will call him to his breakfast,
cooked in a paper oven, served on paper
dishes, laid on a paper cloth on a paper
table. He will wipe his lips with a paper
napkin, and having put on his paper shoes,
paper hat and paper coat, and then taking
his paper stick (he has the choice of two
descriptions already), he will walk on a
paper pavement or ride in a paper car-
riage to his paper office. He will or-
ganize paper enterprises and make paper
profits. He will sail the ocean on paper
steamships and navigate the air in paper
balloons. He will smoke a paper cigar or
paper tobacco in a paper pipe, lighted with
a paper match. He will write with a paper
pencil, whittle paper sticks with a paper
knife, go fishing with a paper fishing -rod, a
paper line and a paper hook, and put his
catch in a paper basket. He will go shoot-
ing with a paper gun, loaded with paper
cartridges and will defend his country in
paper forts with paper cannon and paper
bombs. Having Lived his paper lite and
achieved a paper fame and paper wealth,he
will retire to paper leisure and die in paper
peace. There will be a paper funeral, at
which the mourners,dressed in paper crape,
will wipe their eyes with paper hand-
kerchiefs, and the preacher will preach in a
paper pulpit. He will lie in a paper coffin;
elsewhere in this paper it will be seen that
he has a chance of doing so already if he is a
paper—we mean pauper. He will be wrap-
ped in a paper shroud, his name will be en-
graved on a paper plate, and a paper hearse,
adorned with paper plumes, will carry him
to a paper -lined grave, over which will be
raised a paper monument.
For Revenge on The Prince.
How much truth there is in the fol-
lowing story it is impossible to say -
The Roumanian papers are, however,
giving the details without question.
They appear, at least, to be greatly
exercised over the method Mademoiselle
Helene Vacaresco is alleged to have adopted
to revenge herself upon the Prince of Rou-
mania. That high-spirited lady has in her
possession a large number of the love letters
of the Prince, and these, notwithstanding
the earnest solicitations of the Queen of
Roumania, she declines to part with—except
in the way that has approved itself to her
n•,ind In short every two or three days, it
is stated, Mdlle. Vacaresco addresses one
-of these epistles to Princess Marie of Edin-
burgh. The papers further allege that the
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are greatly
annoyed, and that the Bucharest authorities
have been asked to put a stop to the scandal.
A prosecution of Mdlle. Vacaresco is even
talked of.
Such a dainty gown is made of rose -pink
crepon, with a plain trained skirt exquisitely
cut and edged round the hemp with loops of
very, narrow black silk braid. The bodice
is of silk, one mass of tiny tucks, drawn
under a belt of rose -pink crepon, braided
with black passementerie. The very full
sleeves are of crepon, with a pointed cap of
black lace.
Breakfast jackets are made of flowered
delaines and nainsook, and trimmed with
Valenciennes lace and ribbons the exact
shade of the pattern.
A novel summer cloak to wear over a
silk dress is made entirely of black lace,
;nth large bishop sleeves and a ruffle of
hire a,r'the ,clerks It falls in loose folds, has
no lining, and reaches to the feet.
Eton' is to be the watchword of our
styles.Thereere Eton jackets, Eton collars,
andVten neckties. This title is bestowed on
every -coat whether it`be long or short, but
the real Eton jacket is one which does not
extend below the waist. It may terminate
an `fncleabove it, but -if it is a fractio ,ef an
Eton -jacket. One
inch below it is not an �
advantage of the Eton coat is that it looks
nearly as well over a plain waist as it does
over the silk blouses.
A favorite dish of the East Indies is an
ant mash. The insects are caught in pits
and mashed by handfuls like raisins.
At a committee meeting of the Oxford
University Boating Club it was decided to
intimate to Mr. J. Astley Cooper that the
0.11 B. C. was willing to accept achallenge
from an unbeaten Australian university
eight, the race with them to be rowed from
Putney to Itortlake, a few days after the
proposed race with Yale or Harvard in
September. Tho time of the year some-
what militates against an Australian visit,
though theproject is being seriously discuss-
ed in the colonies.
If 1 Should Die To -night.
If I should die to -night.
My friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid it in its resting place,
And deem that death had left it almost fair,
And laying snow-white flowers against my
hair
Would smooth it down, with tearful tender-
ness,
And fold my hands with lingering caress—
Poor hands, so empty and so cold to -night,
If.I should die tonight,
My friends would call to mind with loving
thought
Some kindly deed the icy hands had wrought,
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said,
Errands, on which the willing feet had sped ;
The memory of my selfishness and pride,
My hasty words would all be laid aside,
And so I should be loved and mourned to-
night.
If I should die to -night,
Even hearts estranged would turn once more
to pie,
Recalling other days remorsefully—
The eyes. which chide me with averted glance,
Would look upon me as of yore perchance
And soften in the old familiar way ;
For who could war with dumb unconscious
clay ?
So I might rest forgiven of all to -night.
0, friends! I pray to -night
Keep not your kissesformy dead, cold brow ;
The way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Think gently of me, I am travel worn,
My faltering feet are pierced with many a
thorn,
Forgive, Oh, hearts estranged, forgive, I plead ;
When dreamless rest is mine I shall not need
The tenderness for which 1 long to -night.
TO COOK PUD
I heard a woman
would not mind Ih-
one has to spend d
the pumpkin," at
my way ; after
that others m
twaT
ecru
h aided- by t ` ~�
do
n
m
self. - re it
-y P
ledge I just happ Y
is : Cut the pumpkin -in halves. ft7 ap out
all the seeds and set the halvee n a slow
oven, the rind of the pumpkin snaking the
pans- in which the pumpkin baked._
• not hurried, you will find th �e still be`quite
in to prevent
t
' the
um
's ui e in
u h mol t
enough � P
it from becoming dry. pWhen dote, slide
them carefully from the oven to a platter or
tray, and let them cool. W hen cool, peel
off the rind and roasted edges, and mash
with a wire potato masher. The pumpkin
is delightfully dry and has a nutty flavor, •
not to be surpassed, while the cooking is
absolutely no trouble at all. What is left
over can be pat into glass, self-sealing jars
while hot, and set in a cool, dark place for
another baking. Not the least little bit of
use in stewing pumpkin. Try this way.
SQUASH SOUFFLE.
" Oh dear ! company for dinner, and not
a vegetable in the house but squash, and --
no time to get any ! Some folks don't like
squash. John don't either." A neighbor
at kitchen door (to borrow some flour)
heard my lamentation: and said, "Just try
them on squash souffle." I did. They
didn't like squash, but they did like squash
souffle, and moreover, so did John. So far
those who do like it and those who don't
(particularly the dont's) here is the recipe:
One pint of mashed squash, one tablespoon-
ful of melted butter, one half cup of cream
or milk, pepper and salt to taste, and the
stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Bake in
a buttered dish, one half-hour in a hot
oven, and if you don't think it a rare bit of
"delicate feasting," I am mistaken.
DELICIOUS PEA SOUP.
Shell the peas and put into a saucepan to
boil. Put a few of the green hulls into a
muslin bag, tie and drop in with the peas,
boil fifteen minutes to extract the juices.
At the end of that time remove the bag,
press all the juice out and add the peas.
(Wash the bag and hang up for the next
time.) Then add to the peas a half -cup of
sweet milk, slightly thickened with flour,
salt and pepper, butter, and last but fat
from least, sugar to taste, or this may be
added at table to suit individual taste. This
soup is delicious.
An Actor's Opinion of Whisky..
One of the best and briefest temperance
lectures in print is that contained in a let-
ter now going the rounds of the news-
papers which on good authority is ascribed
to the late W. J. Florence, the popular and
witty actor :
" My Dear--
" One gallon - of whisky costs about $3,
and contains about 65 15 -cent drinks. Now
if you must drink buy a gallon, and snake
your wife the barkeeper. When you
are dry, give her 15 cents for a drink, and
when the whisky is gone she will have after
paying for it, $6.75 left, and every gallon
thereafter will yield the same profit. This
money she should put away, so that when
you have become an inebriate, unable to
support yourself, and shunned by every
respectable man, your wife may have money
enough to keep you until your time comes
to fill a drunkard's grave."
Divorce in Australia.
Divorce petitions in Victoria appear to
"...'f
be just twice as numerous in proportion to
the population as in the mother country, a
circumstance not surprising when the IIu�md-
erous grounds, on which divorce is gra
by the recent Act of the Victorian Legisla-
ture are taken into account. Generally
speaking the sexes are placethis
law
the
pretty much on an equality,though
case of adultery as regards the man, the of-
fence must have been repeated or commit-
ted in the conjugal residents, or coupled with
conduct or circumstances of aggravation.
Among the specified grounds of divorce
also are desertion of a wife for three years ;
habitual drur.kenness for three years on the
part of either husband or wife. In the hus-
band's case, however, the desertion must be
accompanied by cruelty or neglect to pro-
vide means of support. Conviction of seri-
ous crimes also constitutes a ground on cer-
tain conditions.
What Not to Do in the Sick Room.
Don't Tiptoe. A tiptoe will sometimes
cause more disturbance than a carefully;
quarely placed footfall. Don't Tiptoe.
Don't Whisper. A whisper will often
wake a light sleeper, when an ordinary voice
would not. Don't Whisper.
Don't Sniff or Sigh. Sniffs and Sighs may
better be indulged in the open air where a
gust of wind can blow them away. Don't
Sniff or Sigh.
Don't Handle Rattling Papers. The fold-
ing and unfolding of papers that "rattle" is
well calculated to "rattle" invalids, to sag
nothing of those who are strong and well,
Don't "Rattle."
Don't Shout or allow the voice to be kehn
ed on a high note. Shouting may be a ne-
cessity in connection with the treatment of
"beasts of burden," but should be counted
a luxury for indulgence only indoors, when
conversing with those who are "deal as a
post." Don't Shout.
I hear that Dr. Marble has invented a
school desk which is likely to be a boon to
weak children. Heretofore the unfortunate
scholar who was given a seat too high or
too low had no other recourse but to suffer,
and n -any cases of curvature of the spine
and other deformities were caused by un-
comfortable positions. With the new desk,
however, all is changed. Both the desk and
seat may be raised or lowered as the one
who occupies desires. As the desk is simple
in construction and inexpensive in building
it is likely to be generally adopted.
If choked, get upon all fours and cough.
For apoplexy raise the head and body ;
for fainting lay the person flat.
If an artery is cut compress above the
wound ; if a vein is cut compress below.
For slight burns dip the part in cold
water ; if the skin is destroyed cover with
varnish.
Remove matter from the ear with tepid
water ; never put a Bard instrument into
the ear.
In case of poisoning, excite vomiting by
tickling the throat or by warm water and
mustard.
For dust in the eyes avoid rubbing ; dash
water in them. Remove cinders, etc., with
the round point of a lead pencil.
Suck poisoned wounds, unless your mouth
is sore ; enlarge the wound or better, cut
out the part without delay ; hold the
wounded part as long as can be borne to a
hot coal or the end of a cigar.
Smother fire with carpets, etc. ; water
will often spread burning oil and increase
danger. Before passing through smoke take
a full breath and then stoop low, but if
carbonic acid gas is suspected walk erect.
Canary Diseases and Moulting -
The cause of most of the canary diseases
is a cold, and this is generally brought on by
hanging the bird in a very hot room or in a
draught of air caused by an open door or
window. For this cold give a paste made
of hard-boiled egg and one pulverized crack-
er, mixed together without water. Salt
pork cut into small pieces, sprinkled with
red pepper, is also very good as a cure.
If the bird breathes hard, caused by an
over -loaded stomach, give plantain and rape-
seed, moistened with water, as the sole
food.
For diarrhoea, a rusty nail places in the
drinking cup, or common chalk fastened
between the wires, with some broken pieces
scattered through the gravel, is excellent.
Costiveness is brought on by lack of some-
thing green, so give sweet apple, chickweed,
or any green food.
If your bird should have sore feet, wash
them hi warm -water, to which are added a
few drops of arnica. Give hirer plenty of
gravel to walk on, and keep his perches
clean. The sore feet result from too small
perches ; they should be half an inch i>'
diameter.
Canaries shed their feathers mostly in
September or October. They then need
special care, and should be kept in a warm
place out of draughts. If the tail and wive
feathers seem difficult for the bird to dro
pull them out one at a time. Your bird w
fully moult in from four to six weeks.
Gave Himself Away.—"He's a eeeskney,
that's what he is," said Mr. Newbresl.
" What makes you think so, Obadiah?*
" He said table d'hote instead of table de
hote. These cockne a aiway d:ocp their, lilt
Tell 'em in a minute."
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per tem
a f the u,
surnnte the ec
be centro eye. pr
sable in all l , _ fills
one nr t - r.
slovenly . • r
phere wl ... i. o
tiOII or some Ottle
rustics are against
country or town a
the part of the nu
A wise p} vsiCia
gQ33e Is a woman,
alert i^ all leer five
good sight, in ors
i ie slightest chant
a motion of the ey
and see in a mome
must have quick h
est wnisper of a w
have sensitive as
!'>elop may note the r
the skin and may
hot applications ti
is especially neccss
rect and agate ser,
may detect the sir
mosphere of the sit
be correct, in ord
food to see that it
good nurse should a
the best training s<
of lectures with ma
is a part -of the cr
A nurse has s
strength to endure
m he summer sea.
very ill a second n
to give the first o
rest. It is n great
to undertake the
she is willing and a
cal hardships of su
have no objections
ner ; she must have
someneas in her
woman is in no wa
great many women
aminations who do
quirernents, but th
fill nurses. The qu
second one. No ed
menta is required
bation. Neverthel'i
educated women f
fore the time of pr.
do not possess the
endurance and cos
women of more cul
The good nurse
woman of tact, in
linss_erhinas of her
tate him by martin
the most objection
creet nurse is that
room and hospit
patient. Like a wis
nurse says little an
Sum
Half the illness t
I think I can safelj
dieting taken at
people feeling weak
ing from those dil
malnutrition, such
obesity, or debility
be so if the person
requirements and tc
person would think
burning in his room
he would undoubtec
of it ; but many a n
self iulgIted if he w
Bible person, will
repletion foods th
which is to supply
haps I cannot do b
plain that the foods
to heat—that is, ke
body—are starches
those that more pa
nervous and muscul
mon and salts ; and
enc' to a prepared
these are, and also tl
ferout constituents
glance the reader wi
proportion of summa
of green vegetables,
white or lean meats,
rabbits, venison, fish
E. Yorke Davies. J
A Parent's Du
The body may be 1
machine, delicate enc
tare, made to run a
but liable by bad m
ranged and brought
tion. All continuou
Bion, however innoce
y lowed by retribution
len which ave. 7 u
work their brains
muscles ; of not a fe
ergy with anxiety, f
of many who overl
their physical being
peration depend on t
and rest. Even min
unfrequently allow
to end in a fatal men
final facts connected
physical transgressio
weaken the vital sta
sor's offspring.
The least a child
to, is a fair chance
the vital inheritance
vastly worse than to -
castral estate. We h
possession than a goo
itance of longevity; a
wended to us it is ge
terad, -more er less rem
it. Snch an inheritan
vigor, keeps its posse -
E every form of micro
needed recuperative e
makes life worth livin
renders old age green
up intellectual activit
f t Tumblety.
.;
Hemorrhages
Many children are
bleed, and in ordinary
interfered with or rhe.
nature's wise method 1
from an excessive pros
r, might otherwise ca
When, howevernthe h
land lasts so lore that i
n child, something shoal
he to check the flow. I
the application of cold,
'•` cold water, ice or bras
red most effective. If pos
ri arms raised above his
lminutes at a time. T
cause the bleeding/is
'=piece of lee wrapped in
-` f -qhs neck, and ancth.
� top of the nose tcraween
If the sae dos, r,otsto
It