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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-02-06, Page 31'1 'll)lei,veigaa t,'hfi "De, you mean to say that reason ought to have nothing to do with lover "1 don't say anything about 'ought; bd. I think reason has very little to-do with it." "'.Chen the less one has to do with loan tit" better." "Yes, petoape, if one could choose; but out. eau't, you know." "Some ean." "You think you can, Of pours(' you may bo right; 1 don't know, But I don't think such a nice wonm't1 as you are, and romantic, tau, will he able to get through life without -loving. Have you rend Alfred de Musset'o lines on 18 Weld: an ivho died without having loved?- -Elle est morte Lana avoir vee', llcat main rat tunnbc le divre Dane Iequel elle n' Hen lit.'" :Yea, that is very pretty- " having :lived oho is dead, Prom her hand Cho book has fallen Front which she has nothing read: But 1 shouldn't go to De Musset for a eta.udurd of conduct" : "No, you may not go to him to find out what one ought to do; but you might do worse than go to hint to Iind one what one does,," "Oh; you wicked playactresst What would grandma say 0 ahs could hoar Yet?" "She would be very inch shocked; of cootie. 13ut she had road and thought over the utatter we are discussing long before she met your grandfather." "Then you really tht,lk, llilda, that I "hail 1808 Illy 11811)1 aurae day -1, who have waived at the age of fuiir-and- twenty,'retaining the Intl pussesai011 of all my faculties)" "ilut are you sure you have never been in love -lost your stead -whatever you like to call it -already? Perhaps you won't confess to me." "Ica, 118oul1, it 1 had anything to confess. But 1 am ashamed to gay that my attachment to bin, Glyn, which you despise, is the nearest approaoh to that love you say 1 must fuel that .1 have ever 1)0.11 for any /11011. And now, you see, 1 ani going to settle (lova to matri- mony,0o that u1y chance of it romance is over. For 1 hope even you, with your alarming code, will' allow that f° shall be safe then." "Seriously, I Hill not sure about that. It 1 were -a man, 1 should feel 8efer in natrying a girl like me, who had Bowe ' the wild mats ,of her affections, as it were, than in marrying a girl like you, who hos never Lr+sd anybody and whoa(' capabilities' heave therefore never Leen somd0d. Of course La man, in marrying Ion, can pride himself on being your that love; but in marrying me he might feel a great deal surer of being the last" "1 shall tell David what you say, and est: him if he feels nervous." "I don't think he need feel no," "Not after all your Complaints of my 'tepid affection' for him,'and your warn- ings about the 'unsound capabilities' of told women?" "No, 1 believe this Mr. Glyn is so sweet -tempered and handsome and good that you will really, love slim after you are married to hint: 1 believe yon have a nature not easily kindled; I won't be- lieve you have nS warmth in you at all." That is what they all tell me, 11)0)11)11."said Doris, slowly -"all but David, that fa to say; he makes no com- plaints of use in any Ivey. And if. I tum warm enough to please him,•what more can 1 want?" "Nothing, indeed," said Hilda, looking at her narrowly. "And who are the "all of them" who complain of your cold nese!" "Oh. the other men who have Wanted. to marry' me -and my money!" 50id i)orie, in rather 0 hard tone. "But why do you sneer, 0s if it were impossible for diene to care for' you 7alrself apart from your money? And; however devotedly a mart aright love you, he (0aldn't be quite indifferent to the fact that you were rich" "David (s," said lloris, turning round quickly, with a gleam of pride and plea - elm in her eyes. "My stoney absolutely stood in the way of his proposing to me, not through hie diffidence, but his dis- taste for the responsibility of being rich " "Oh, he is perfect, of course!" said Hilda, rather impatiently. "1 expect you were rather lard on the poor led lows who hadn't arrived at such a sub- lime pitch of disinterestedness." "Now you are sneering; a minute ego---" "No, I'm not, I wanted to know how you penetrated 'the sordid Motives of your other admirers, arid in what way you dismissed them." "Dismissed them! I didn't dismiss many, and 1 didn't care enough about them to Care what their motives were, I have had but very fete down. eight orop n 1 sola not more than two distinct offers of marriage, I think, You see, a elan can't ask ,you to be his wife unless you have 'given hitt some sort of encouragement, If he is not an absolute idiot." "I think it is very good of you, with your opportunities and advantages, not to flirt more than you do. Whys Ivith very little trouble, vo0 might have half the men in town at your teeth" "Anil all the women in town about my ears. I haven't the courage to main- tain such }t position as that, even if I had the inclination. You know 1 am called a coquette now, because 1 feel bound to be civil to eve ylndy-cit least, ettrytmly 1 don't dislike in return for the 000111ion most people pay oto. 1 sometimes think, if I were, not so well off, 1 night play at being a Title cruel note and then, for my own atnuoement; but, placed as I am, if I were to encour- age a' poor roan -one of those charming dcttiulentale, for instance, who always flirt snore pleasantly than anybody elite -aro then throw him over, as other girls do, without feeling, that they have done 00y groat harts, why, in me it would be worse than cruel -it would be meat! 'You always seem to'be thinking none of your stoney than of yourself, It seems to be an absolute burden. to you." I- "It ids, in twine respects, People will do 01)01/ mrap.things for the sake of People you never believed capable ofsie- eeit, said Doris, with warmth, "11 is a very' painful 0101 humiliating thing to find out that the attentions, even of a person who was indifferent to you, were really directed(' not to you, but to your fortune," really directed n Doris?" asked Hi "Yes. I will then I don't thin surprised by .what the strained wa money matters. of every year at ma11181)1, at my where 1 was bot Whit we were ars, the Bryan at Bowness, and WN% riding and fishing together. low slaying wits about With Mari nice girl, two or Iam, 1101atall pretty, good - of to you, but to your Ida, much interested. tell you about it, and k you o111 be so much 'I 0043 700 .consider y in 1810011 I look at You know I spend part Ambleside with grand - mamma, Delhi Lodge, 'n4 We11, 10801 autumn, there, some friends of ts, had taken a house Of course we were al- driuing and rowing and There was a young fel- 1 them 801)0 was nlw070 Marion Bryant, who is a very' three years older than but very good- natgred. Soon after my appearance there, he transferred his attentions to roe, and devoted himself to me with an utter disregard of everybody else, which made us all laugh.. Marion took his de- sertion very good-humoredly, and every- body semod to think It very natural, and nobody thought .00riouely about it. He wets about two 'years younger than .l; but he was so very boyish and had such bad,, 'spoiled .manners, that he seemed a great deal younger, and we all treated 11110 as if he had Leen about, fifteen. He seined 00 'heodetrong and thoughtless and made love to 1110 in such a silly candid, sehoolhoy sort of fashion, that never for a moment suspected his dis intocstedness or believed that he thought about me seriously at al. Ile took pesses0ion of me, and laughed at my jokes, and- tookuly snubs, uud my W." gots c 1 beauot utifully toga. mesa ether; oiled 4iaud, when ha made love to me, I laughed, he lett, off, and just followed my lead in everything. Then he went away suddenly, and 1 rather missed him at lira( -h0 used to laugh so heartily; but 0hn'e people came, and I soon forgot all about the boy, Then, when we came back to town, I stat him again one day the l:ryants', and he worked his way rutted to me and tried to pick up our acquaintance ,just where it had dropped. Of course that was out of the question; 1L, boy was nothing to ane -if he had been, 1 should have been hurt and un- lutppy at his abrupt disappearance from Pow -nese without saying goodbye to mo. As it was, I was obliged to snub him; and the lad, who has no more char - 0)1.') than a child, 1800 BO utterly crest- fallen 011 subdued under' my rebuke that, when I met him again, I-waa oblig• cd to be very kind ,td him, for he shrunk away from me ,just like- a dog that has beet, whipped." "Then you did coquette with him 10 "I did not mean to; butt a word, eith- er kind or unkind, has so much more ef- feet upon hie' weak 'excitable, nature than it would have had upon any other man. It seemed absurd to think of him as a man:, he was a great overgrown spoiled boy."' "\'het tens he likes" "lie was a great big broach -shouldered fellow -uncouth, the men culled him - with pretty vacant gray eyes and such lovely teeth; his face I should have call- ed lutu1000te if it had only expressed anything. But be had 0 low forehand, to "how he hadn't any brains, rand a Mouth like a woman's." ,llilda gave a glome at the photograph l hid- ing 0 14 which had been displaced from B ing place un the mantel-pice0• and lay now of a chair. Doris did not notice the look, and continued: "Then he began to try' to talk seri. o'crly to me whenever we mot. I always stopped him and laughed at him; but sometimes that mode hint cross fur about a minute and 0 half, for he hadn't noted at once that the young wife looked •sett; uaudsonlc and happy. A drive 0f lew minutes brought them to r;rirb'i�b. ° It watt 0. two -storeyed white bouae, juts king out here and there with rooms add - d wncrercr tiny were wanted, until the ori11811 scheme of areal- , velure had intim entirety lost sight of, and preaentang plenty of vari- ety in the tsay of root, slates, and tiles of different,ehapes covering the mitt:Mid, tugs. 1,1)1811 WC 00 of various, heighle, and l]iilAnti cti bid.) E tLU PINK PILLS. This Tonic is Necessary for Their l'roper Development and to Insure tleattb and Strength. 'here aro throughout Canada thou- ovel-grown, some with 10)', burn' r,ttli ;4110d0 and tiotuutads of young girls fruitless froitdrees; wh11e the trout 111111 who ;ire. in a position approaching a de loft. Lido of the house, which had weal cline. The cmnploxion x polo or sallow; eft a.B ori;pnalfy built, were sw'et with Appetite 11cldo. A short walk, or going thickly groaning :,mall red route and with i upsuhir0, leaves them breathless and with ltent'y clue.tera of oleeatis 011)1 10'114ul a violently palpitating heart, 1171(10011es trails of jasmine. and dizziness often add to their misery. The hlvw lu0irw passed under lane pcir' Doctors call this anaemia -which, in t.ico, where Doris' pug received thein a'tttt common English, means. poor blood. the languidly' anittesc:etiding retogniti0n 'There is just one sure and eertail of well -fad, patted old age, 111000gh t110 0)104) 100 this 0)0111)10-00, Willeteis' low, wide, carpeted hall, and between Pink fills, These fills make new, heavy thawinm(nerve square cool00010 roo)0mto wheey drthe Jutygrtaafter•, and bring,a glow of health to pule fates. 0 rich, red blood, strengthen every noon gun never penetrated, . Do not waste time mrd money export• k of 00 Donis had indulged in no lre,a a delay mottling • atm' other medicines, Do not iginality here; it was 8 pleaaaut romp 401Ly treatment flout you are in n hope furnished in the modern manner, with }eau decline. Got Dr. Williams' Pink Pills out bright colors or gilding, with plenty at once and see how speedily they 'will of Iwuka papers lying about, and n restore your health and strength, Here faint smelland of tobaoco telling la10 at is the proof: lairs. Joseph E. Lepage, easy-going good nature on the part of st, Jerome, Que., says: "My daughter Ole mistress of the house, which 1108 10 Emilia began to lose her health at the the elder Indy as the distant sound of age of thirteen years, She suffered front battle is suppc.etl to '.r chaget' headaches and dizziness, Her appetite! "Why, my dear 0001s"-to-withthe a (10)11141 was poor. She was pale and apparently incredulous little anoff--"surely you do bloodless. She had no strength and could o not allow your husband to emoke in neither study nm' do any work, Due- t he uo-the drawing -rooms" tore' medicine failed to cure her, and 1 • "Olt, yet, David smokes everywhere, thought she was going into a decline. She grnndmmnnntl Alen do now, you know, was in this condition for several 01onths, And , even if they did not, I should have when 0 neighbor advised the use of De to relax all rules in favor of his ciy0r0; 'Williams' Pink Pills, and I decided to he nevHappy unleng." :it was not lung until Nothis inger Inas thatn rhsso he diacmvcuyissmoki that an imquotcment was noticed, `and the give them a trial, her grnudson-in-law had another wife continued use of the pills for a month or wr ttvn in Cho Iudkground could bare mo')) cmnpletely cured her, and she lawe,a1 1)101 in ter oyes as this tmimis- 111(0 since enjoyed the hest of health, 1 akin did; she pursed up her,llps, but feel sure that 1)r. Williams' Pink Pills said 110 more, like a w•isr lady, and with- trill cure 007 cash of this kind;' Onit more comment, allowed Doris to Dr. Willinnu(' fink fills. 18111 cure lents her to 11 seat by the door which all troubles due to poor and watery opened on to the lawn. She had o:m1e blood, such as ritetanttisn, sointim), character enough to sulk consistently. with wards of wanting. with a bale 'then he talked to me about his expecte- t indigestion, p-at.a0l paralysis, St. Vitus Holm in n tea which led tic to believe needed by thus wile whoc010fort and counsel too, .4,0,11,1hey 1(r ,Mutes, and the ailments that make the } :,, 1111"1101"1 11/1 lives of so many women miserable, Sold he was very well off. 1 wag never un- 50 hr +:rhe whale d}before th° medicine dealers, or by mail at hind to juin, l never took him seriously, entefd ofethei hotoerey-moon• 110a1 lls by 011 oris was as 50 cents 0 box or six boxes for $2.50, and I never for a moment gave him smiling as the morn. was pissing her, from the Dr. 1Villians' M4)dicime Co., valise to think, if 110 had been not so temporary widowhoodin perfect peace, 1001k1111e. 0111. very 0)1)7, add 1 eared about him.,Lod 881.8 1001ting lovely and 10dinnt 0s About that thinDavid Glyn was intro- she hod never looked inh(gir111and. duced to me, and this silly boy lead to be The elder ]adc'e doubt and fears were snubbed again for showing annoyance be, for tlta 010ment Det at rest; nail, when 0ause 1 Beek', admiringly of Linn. Then tsa tats brought in, and the ,young 0910 one Dight, at 0 dunce, Denis trent on, hed brought her fruit gathered by her hesitatingly, in a lowed' 'raise, "Gusts 011.1) hands, and lens Bitting on a foot - lost his head, and when he had taken me 01uu1 nt her fool in a cahasing aatti- into the cous0rvatoy after a waltz, 0110 11)40 not 1(0001 181111 Doric, Airs. T:dge- I had sat down and leaned my head back ek,lnbe ?aid kindly amongst, the flowers in. that (Leitcioe "You 8e0111 very happy, my dear." half-wea'ines you feel when you have been dancing and yen still hear the nitr- ide, and the light is soft and th0 flowers ane sweet, he euddeni7 threw himself be- side me and flung Itis arm round me, amt; if it had not been for the sound of the wises of two other people who were just coming m, ht would havekiss' d t11e.' • .."And what then"- asked Hilda, breathlessly., "Of course, he started up, and want out, and 1 free 1087 angry, very mush offend- ed, nod would not speak to 11in1 again that night,' And next day they told me that- he'8)s'deeply ih debt and had no expectations atall worth opeaking of, and that he had been told that nothing but a good 'marriage could put hi m straight. It would have made no dif- ference to me if the headstrong boy had been a millionaire; but I was very much disgusted to think I had been deceived; for 1 had not for one moment thought his childish Ittteutiols interested." "1)o yott know 1 think you treated him very ball " "1 can't agree with you. A few days afterward I accepted David Glyn, and (tussle had the shocking! ybad taste to insult hitt. Of course, David treated his petulant insolence beautifully, and was quite' sorry for him, even when 1 told him the boy had only wanted my money. '`ow. doyott undetstend my feeling about it?" 'Note I understand two things. Ma}' 1 any them ? One le that you were a great deal to hard atp0n the -boy, as yell call hint; the other in that you wore a rent deal yea ren being in love with that 1 unlucky Ouesie than you have ever been 'Vitt) ➢ir. The front door bell twig as Doric rose from her seat, laughing, , llihlJ, you will rend everything tiling Dy the no responsive pleasure -she was shoked, light of your iumg)00t10n, and not 1'' sonndalized, This calm oneut-1 miss): e that of comma 8euae. That is David's war 0f looking at a 8811) (10 in voice." the very glow of tine homy -moon The bright color had come into her seemed. to ler n(he,otit 11 Bch, diaLoli- f ce at the sound. col. Doris' anhn demeanor through1nt Inwhat.t e 1ouf tt nhtlion with her engagement olio bud p nu ad Ind db. 1Toot Cnsoi,v Badlllidagup ,118 is lin+ mid -blooded tic phoo,rr phr 1111 rpt uu'e of 1lie pos0111l lit of her g, t - •'0h, 'pool D115sbr 01111 010) whor, lta tilt' tired or her hnshuut and of his is! David hes no reason to bo j00lous of getting tired of her tuts flirt cin(g him," adswered Doris, Io two tonnsI t 111011- breeding, r. t too f tt little n suppose 1 s this b modern fashion. tt o 1 C'lIa1P7.'Aai iII, able tray of looking marriage, Doris?" S16004400({44"0"04000600.4034148 N1rit`sir:g baby? (0' (h) 4 It's a heavy strain on mother. 3 nourish/Tient for two. 4)r system is called d u os to supply l 1 4 Some form of noutishrlerrt the t will easilytakenb ' .enotlser'sste system, 43 be up y y is needed. 4 . Sd071`1 J Emulsion contains the 4 greatest possible amount cf r.ourish• 4 ment in Easily digested form. ' 0 . r';, Mother and baby are wonderfully helped by its use. AU. DRUGGISTS: 50e. AND $$1.08004100090000044 0 ii. C � cas: fkR�) l, "I ole as happy as the day is long, just, ns they say in children's story- books, gr mlinanma. 1 hat nothing to wish fou," "What, takes I)011d away from you:' 1 "O1y, 1111 old friend of leis, whom he hasn't seen for years, is in Paris for a few days just before starting for Am- erica, David eald'ho wished he cettld see him. and f asked hint why he didn't go. So be went. He will be back to•morl"iw•," "It 5001118 a very, trifling cause to Caste a husband away nom hie newly married wife." "Do yon think so --to nee n 101011d he may not 10100 another (lance of meet- ing for years, It was 1 w'ho suggested his going." "'Then why didn't he take you with hfm 1"' "Yes, of ('01)18e it would be if I (mold- n't see hint at any other time, But, as it. woe, I though 1 should like better ibe piquancy of a parting and the delight of welcoming him back. And, for a siert. stay and a rapid journey like that, I think it Hurst be pleasanter for a mint to be alone; a woman is only in the way." „Yom' husband told you you would h' in Iia way?" cried Mrs. Eolge00nibe, in horror. "No, no, gr'andmamma, of onurse he didn't!" laughed Doris. "And he never will have to tell me anything of that sort, even when we are old married peo- ple 011 have got brawl of each other, la - (1)1100 1 think I shall always have the sense to find it'out for myself. We have begun oust married life on common-sense, principles, you see., and it ianswers vert well so far. I love Him tetter every day and f think he would tell 7011 001111th„0ag, 11! the same ggrt about me.” Let Mrs. l?dgecnnlbe gave the (,lender white fingers that crept round her own Nine weeks had 1/00111 ride •Doti; 1 d etemte listened to the reprn,ri.e- and ,a'uin„0 of the young actress, 1Llda \\')ren, 11011 she had now settled down to 'matrimony in, her 08111 riverside Mame, h'airleigh, on the honks of the Thanes. The hoicymon was nearly over, and her hu0b001 was away from her for the first time ainde their marriage, Old Mrs. Isdgecombe, to whom she had writ - tela two days before, announcing that she would be alone on this clay, had taken the opportunity to cone down and find outh010 the young couple were getting ready with 0age adyice totter grand- lsnghter as to the proper management f a, husband. with keenly criticaleyes For sliortc0mtngs in the newly establish- , t1, <1 p Id. t'„rv' bad q.:, ,.' , ty ponies in her own little carriage to her granilnother, '1 ,1 al' tt heard anything like it before! It sounds very elver and very shrewd to be talk- ing already about the tie when you won't he quite so young end so handsome and lovely as you are 11010; and of course I know quite well that married people can't be so enthusiastic about each other when they have grown old and 0ellisl) ns they are when they are in their bloom. But I do think I like the old simple fashion of talk better, when a young wife used to think her love was strong enough to keep them always young, and the young husband, even if .he know better, at least said nothing about it and tried to think so too," Doris felt remorseful for her frail:• 11015 181100 eche saw how deeply her words had pained her grandmother; and she said quickly: "It is only a new% way of talking, granny, dear; we feel just the same ets you and grandpapa (lid when you were first married; only just now it is the fashion to be cynical and to hide one's feelings away as if one were ashamed of them." "But you need not surly, try to Hide them away from me. And I don't think you could, my deur, if they were as strong ns )'OU say, however, T suppose 1 must: be content with what you 'hoose to show me. When is this new -fashioned husband 01' yours coming back, or d&ea it depend on what attractions he eau find in PariB whether be leave you to %pond the rest of your honeymoon alone 4)r not 1" ITB be continued.) A SAFE MEDICINE New Volume of Anecdotes Concerning Famous English Men and Women of Present and Recent Past. (By 0. W. 1:. Russell.) Any one who dotal not know lir. G. W. E. Lusenot f l' "turmoil, Ike aman, ni l�thoughd l an sun, a 11, therr. a wl ers lr.MusHe Le 11,0 (fust twinning high chase gossip that England has any ufag inyears, 11191.lgamroulle nu-vaoldingentle- man. lie 1p more like Mr. Birr80, but atilt 1181 enough like that delightful antbur to make the comparison striking. This year we have "I. 1'UCLOOTFUt GID” 0101'1NCEs,” (0'. 1'. Dutton & Co.) As 1 harm said )!r, Russell's 0008 is full of anecdo0aa. Take the chapter on political women, for example: Everyone 11 UM, about the beautiful Georgktna, Ouohess o1• Devon- alire, and the dairyman whom she bribed with a kiss W vote for her friend, Chw'les James Fox; and even more heroic woo the conduct of lire, Beaumont of Breton, long one of the Whig queens of the west riding, 'I'o her at the aisle of a hard Mount con- test a wlrepulltng tory said 111 triumph. "Well, its all right for us. Ton thousand guineas go down to Yorkshire t0 ,01000 by o sure hand," "Tine duce they du!" ()x- i:Mimed this intrepid woman; and that, night the bearer of the guineas was stopped by a seeming highwayman on Cha Groat North road and relieved of his burden, which was aualtod to the service of the bluff and.. blue. queen Victoria, "by far the most ,enure SAM powerful p00011 an among Bullet wo- men." had no sympathy with 9000001 wo- men or women's rights. In 1870 a young matron, who bore a name highly honored In Enaitsh history, suddenly became coneplcuous on political platforms, and the spectacle of her performances' pro- duced this remarkable protest: "The queen Is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or-wrno to join in chock- ing 0,1s mod, wicket folly of women's rights, withall its attendant horrors, on which her poor, feeble 000 10 bent, forgetting every 00)00: 0f • wom01,13 feeling anti propriety. Lady — ought to get a good 10(01)0)010)1. Is a subleol which makes the quem Ski furi- ous She cermet 0001011) herself," 'Phis outbreak from 000(11:7 usually male' and self-contained showsw deeply the felt en ((118 001)01100 Among political wives (to wheat Mt. flue. sell devotes a chapter) may be rnentlonod Mn,. Gladstone, alp old ago Mr. Gladstone said to n friend, "My wife hos known every politica/ secret I have over had, and has never Je- trayed my confidence." Onlookers often Pound a5 pecuilar 0010ym081 to '00 0,0,0 hm- ,ehllo she woe being "pmup001 t' Cho 8,01)0 woe 130 childlike and bland; the look of in- nocence, so 000ny and conttucIo;; the dis- comfiture of the pumper 00 palpable and complete." 01 Lady Salisbury as 01 poll:Mel wife Mr. Russel) siva: Indy Salisbury was a political wife m ane 00000 of the term which did not 0)ply In Mrs, Gladstone'; 0000. Sho placed groat re - Mum: on social methods; and, reinforced by the splendor of Hatfield and the .capacious- neew of Arlington Street, she made great play with Invttation0 to her parties, Inviting some and excluding others, and treating the whole 0usines5 of entertainment as a system of p0011001 rewards and punishments. When v4) consider the 10)100nce Lady Salisbury exercised -directly on her husband, indir- ectly on his party, and through her sone on the present controversloo-ono cannot retuso her a high place among political wives, and yet I believe it t8 true that she shrank so Instinctively from public apponeanoe' that sho could scarcely muster resolutionto say "1 thnnit y00 for your gift," or "I declare. this. hall open." As n reSIleal wife Lady Beaconsfield was a succors, but principally for her "pod caro of her husband. Of hint she said to friend once: "Dizzy Ins the most wonderful moral 8000870 In the world, but nn pnysical,eetlr' age, When Ie 0005 his shower bath bs`Vo. always t0 pull th0 180ing. Glndstono'e views 00 000100001 pro par- ticularly Interoeting at the prrsent thio: Towards the end of the summer Gladstone, now mut of office and presumably looking to a return, spoke to iso with serious. :eon - cern about the growth of socialist- Ideas In the liberal party, 'T110E0 WNW were: just then g01110ned into vigorous lite by Mr, Cbam- beriten's admirable nnanitestoec. In: the course of our convereatton, Gladstone de- clared himself vehemently hostile to social- ism 10 any sense of the word. When I awned whether by "socialism" he meant the sotto doing for the Individual wbat he ought to do for himself, or the state taking private property for national pn0pasee, he replied, with fndeocrlbable emphasis: "I mons both; hot I reserve my worst Billingsgate for the Iatici." FOR ALL CHILDREN. 911 so-called "soothing" syrups and most of the powders advertised to cure u the ailuonts of babies and young chil- dren contain poisonous opiates, and an overdose may kill the cluld. Baby's Own Tablets are absolutely safe. You have the guarantee of a Government analyst to the truth of this statement, Good for the new born babe and the well grown child The Tablets positively cure such ailments o-0 colic, sour stomach, indigestion, constipation, diarrhoea and teething troubles. They also cure simple fiver. brealf up colds, prevent croups:old destroy worms.• Ittr mother who laws Every used this medic uc ptciees it highly. Sold by medieiuc dealers or by mail at 0 Dr. •Williams' r 1-t the 11 , - n box from 1 u cy e nt s '.M!'ahcine Cu Brockville Ont, Things Worth Knowing. Those who have waxed floors in their dwellings know, according to Luloor, and Out, how invaluable turpentine 18 in cleating them. With sandpaper, or steel wool, dipped in tltrpentiue, the blackeot coatinng, which ie apt to aecmmllatet in winter on waxed floors not frequently polished, can be easily and quickly re- moved; and a washing with turpentine does much to brighten up any waxed floor, preparatory to the 'application of a light fresh coat of wax and polishing with the weighted brush. As with all other painters' materials, however, tur- pentine ie shamefully adulterated, and care must be taken to get only the Lest and purest from some thoroughly red I able dealer. The usual adulterant is jcheap benzine, and as benzine terns I good floor wax a dirty white, 111rri'ntine so adulterated has an injurious effect ou the floor.' The floor "waxes" made with tallow show less effect from adulterated turpentine, but the wise householder will use only those floor waxes which are made with bees' wax and turpentine, with a little paraflin, but no. tallowy. Soap bark is an effective cleaner of woolen skirts and moil's clothes, n0 it is a quick eradicator of grease and dirt. Om min Lark , worth u 1 s, ("4)C fig •enty v rt { t c a4) t 1 pour over it n quart of 1)uiliug water, steep it gently over a fire for two hours, keeping Out hent lots so that the water p h though w ` IlIl will net Loll a a}. Then B11 a piece of cheesecloth and It 1s ready to use. Any ripping apart of garments that needs to be (roue, should be done before the cleansing mato*: taio'5 place, ` h the garments carefully first, thin apply the liquid with a voolla t cloth ping religiously over every (pot, 11110 should be dune with care, using es pec 111 diligence vvitl the soiled spots, Atter sponging rinse jq a(nmonfa wot.or,,, and before the , "t1.,leu;hl dried, press it jfe t !)1 , dn]tr (lo$ (Taroato Suturally Night.) Theso who know Cart, John Sullivan, the ancientmariner who a c utrod so mo political. rattle a few years ago, r0a aizet 0) net unit one OY the bravest saliors Un the great laces, tut n droll and waggish rain under Ids saturnine lmpect It will be remembered stud slut gravely. "At ally rote, I never __,_---_ tiesoLea his ire. 1, the 1(0001010, founder- - _ ' ' (NI In a gale 1 t the western bap last autumn Le, 1tt n sentliniChis crew sway on the Ste least, awns to the cabin tap which was wash - 0d adrift , nd wa' finally driven on to shore idler the malt with the crew had foundered ,n the dtr0ne,0, 'pats action at his has been accounted one of the West eroditable In the olinsis of late .ailing, and his subsequent shape cane of the 0,10)1 miraculous, A few lays after th0 wreck an old acquaintance clot. him told warmly congratutnted him on Lie Iro,'rootton of his lite, The ca,:catn th0011,1 him and then e- 1arlcl "Sac, i. 415. fellow Sheard you've got up at hr ti:y )(oil is no kind of a ree01' What', the matter with him'," -well, the day after 1'd bier '1 meld the lakefor hours he ordbrea) boll their-debnking water!" "By the way, 1r" oskrd the 109)).-, 't my n oil1 tin, like to ha, w, -CO" "Very lititeh. Indeed' t nli,.. Dr. Angel Money: There are Some toner names in 1r01ia, A- witness in n recent case at Melbourne` responded to the crier's call, ' I ily �1''niry, in Spite of Iter forbidding sttrl7., Pe she seemed, 01100 111(5 to Cho VI, to t' a very Mee and amiable a lady. For many years the most dilate Ids nh801)1011 on 5110107 '0011 A Dr. Ansel Stoney. One of his patients, 're ' late Sir Henry fakes, six times "rime *.tinist'r. 11510 to snv that it wa,u lir only name in the lrorbl 1101 tom• 0111,1 men, wlle had oiiontly 18,1'",) Niter" the 10108)in1 11' the terrestrial,* forty minutes, t •- r`'hl 11001',