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The Brussels Post, 1898-5-27, Page 6fit inalte(l�®a w�MWAIi>hvWINW wlev� • AtI �Y II,JTT E H OLD fleilMMa'riAM+MU4N1tNUVVNN4AJAN141MlIN4L+tAAA+4VtN THE VIOLET. Here she is again the dear, Sweetest vestal of the year, Ln her little purple !toad, Brightening the lonesome wood, it4fe who, something worn with care, Take the roma, find unaware. Joy that heartens, hope that thrills, Love our cup oC life that fills, Since in Spr'ing's remembered nooks Lifting felt familiar looks, Once again, with curtsying grace Ln the sante dear lowly place, Goal his manual sign has set ea the tender violet, HOW TO FRESHEN LAST SI3ASUN'S HAT. Many of us boyo hats left from last Mason, that are just as good as new except they are soiled. 'We will tell the economical young woman, how they +pray be made to look as well as ever, provided she is inclined to make the offer t. in the fleet place a white straw' hat Should. be well brushed and the stif- fening wire removed, says a writer in Boyce's Monthly. Then 'wash it over with a good suds made of clear we - ter and a white soap, scrub well with to nail brush. Then it should be rinsed by clipping it up and clown in a clear water. If any stains still remaitr. alit- tle lemon juice should be rubbed on the spot with the brush. If more convenient, a diluted solu- tion of oxalic acid may be used instead of the lemon, but: the greatest care should be taken to keep it out of the reach o£ children as It is deadly poison. After the eat has been dried in the open air it should be sponged over with the white of an egg well beaten up ; this will make the straw taut. and also complete the cleansing process. A large hat should be dried on a flat surface and sometimes have weights; books are good to press them in shape. To bleach straw there are several good methods that can be done at home with slight expense and trouble, The hat, after being scrubbed as directed above, should be suspended in a close barrel or box with burning sulphur. Cover the barrel and allow the bat to remain inside from one to two hours. Another way is to cover the hat over with a paste made of sulphur and sweet milk. It should be dried in the sun and rubbed off with a stiff brush, 1f the hat is very much stained lemon juice should be used instead of milk. In the same way a paste of corn meal and vinegar may be used with great satisfaction. WMr1?RLNG HOUSE PLANTS. I eau satisfied that .not one person en twenty is aware that too much wa- ter is more dangerous to the plants than too little, says a writer. Some gar- deners seem to bane the idea that to take a watering pot in hand to supply the .needs of plants is an easy duty, and that to give a dash here, and to soak the soil there, is all there is to the matter, One thing is to be observed: All plants under all circumstances, nor, indeed, the same plants under differ- ent circumstances, requite the same amount of water. Et is necessary, therefore, to study the nature and hab- its of kinds, so that each maty be treat- ed according to its needs. A vigorous blooming plant, say a fuchsia or ger- anium, might he said to represent the maximum ,need of water; the same when in a state of rest, in cool damp weather, the minimum requirement as to this. Therefore, to give exactly the same quantity of water in both condi- tions named, would be to cause harm by not giving enough water to some and too much to others. One safe rule is to wait until the ball of earth begins to get rather dry, and then to give enough eater to moisten the. soil through and through, '!'hen do not water again until the former state of dryness is reached, be that time six hours or six days. APIM PIES. Orange Pie.—Squeeze the juice from 2 large oranges, grate the thin yellow, mix together and save out 1 table- spoonful. Beat together 1-2 lb. of sug- ar and 1-4 Ib, of butter: add yolks of 6 eggs beaten dight and the orange juice. Stir in the whites of 4 eggs beaten to a froth and pour the mix- ture into pia plates, lined with puff. paste, Bake in a quick oven and when done spread with a meringue mule of tee 2 remaining egg whites 2 tablespoons powdered sugar. a pinch of soda and the tablespoon of eine. Brown In oven, This will make two plea, Apple Cream Ple,—One cup steamed apples, L cup sweet cream; sweeten to taste and favor with cinnamon end lemon. Beet to a smooth cream, place in a rich crust and bake in a quick oven. Put the whites of. 2 eggs and 1 epoottlul sugar, beaten to a suiff Lroth, on top meth a wet knife; return to oven a few moments until of a rich brown color. Cranberry Pte,—Line a pie dish with plain pastry, theft fill it with uncooked cranberries, add 1 cup molasses end 4 tablespoons sugar, Cover with an tip - pee cruet and bake in a quick oven for 30 minutes, Rice Pie, ---Boil 1.2 cup rice until tend- er, lifter which acld milk until it is a thin batter, the yolks Of 4 eggs and 4 tablespoons sager. Bake with one crust until brawn end spread over the top u frosting made by beating legate, 6r the whites. of 4 eggs, adding 0 table• spoons sug'r; flevor with lemon and putt In he ow fors minut w . THE . ,BRVSSWLS POST. MAY 27, /89B Putin Pin Pastry. -Out 1 one short- ening mato 3 oups flotyr; add 1 te41,- 8p0011 salt„ 1 teaspoon sugar and saP- flc'teitt sold stetter to moisten. 'turn out uu the board and roll from YOu. ready to use. It is much better if it Mande an the Ice over night. Quick Mince Pte.—Pare and chop 2 apples; add to them 2 broken crackers. 1 tablespoon vinegar attul 1 tablespoon sherry, 1-4 eup sugar and 1-2 cup chop- ped raisin. or ocean currents. Add the grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 teaspoon orange juice:. ]till this into a pie dish lined with plain paste; sewer and bake in a moderate oven Inc 30 minutes. Choeolrete Pie. --lake 11-2 coffee cups sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, ynllts of 3 eggs. 1 cup sweet milk, 2 coffee cepa flour and 1 teaspoon soda. For the fill - Mg: Whites of 3 eggs, Neaten stiff,t.heu add 112 raffee impar auger. 8 Melo- spoons grated chocolate. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat all together and spread between the oak), which has baked in' layers. Meese Fingers• -=fake some fine, ricbly-flavored cheese; cut it in pieces &bunt three inches long, and one inch wide ; season very lightly with salt and pepper, dip in salad oil, and leave to soak for half an barna•: teen dip each piece, or ringer. into a. rich batter and drop it into boiling lard; fry until a goldten-brown has been acquired, then drain carefully, sprinkle with finely - grated cheese, and serve en a folded uapkiu, garnished with sprigs of fried ptlrsley. Serve hot, 'Hominy Muffins.—Two cups of fine; hominy boiled and cold; beat it smooth, stir in three cups or sour milk, half a; bold and roll three 'times and CROP autumn, and during the summer a front tee depths of bus sea, a box, and rr HE ��� Lid �� ea the ty vax•y favorable to the gtwwtlt cleaning) it ascertained that it contain- JLW EEEYYY a of the plant.'1'he rases are Icnown to bo ed nearly 100ounee vials o atter 1 f tt f taniats as the ltr,sa Aiasehaba, a red roses, it t It was remembered that fifty ut•sixty years bafortee tun dost 1nineman bad Dern tvreokcd al t' t he point where the box was found. uud thebox !tad nn- dotthtedly formed a part of the cargo. The oil was uninjured by its Wag sub- mersion in sea -water, and the dredgere realized a fortune front n box a little more than 14 inches square. The value of lite annum yield of the Balkan rose Gathering' cr the ruse op la Southeast- ruga, awl are propagated by layering th ern Europe is now in Progress, and rises about 0 feet apart. In time years the shoots, the layers being placed in. in the regions where rosea are grown, the plants are in run bearing, and con- es a commercial product the rose bar•- tinue at their best Leer five years, long - vest is as much oc un event its alts er, wlwu the quality, 'its the quantity strawberry crap in someparts or Lhls' Ib the pttoduct begins to deteriorate, Y the p>lanls are up her country. 11 is estimated that from the set cut in tltelr rsotoeatedd, A Inc'and a got'row•ers middle of ,Bitty tcnlil the middle of July so manages his planting that fresh sup - over three-quarters of ti million of pen- Dues oC plums are continually eum.ing pie, meet! women end en, r si geoguently no +portion 01 itis y girls, ere em- I gtoten't goes 10 waste, played, in gutheriug the roses, and Owl 12o more charming spectacle is pre- fect than this flower, generally neaten_ stinted in the world than a Rouutetiau ed solely for its beauty, shnuhL h,p + rose clew during plotting season the azure sky above, the gray Balkans clos- ntenns of ends peals,'Luruish employ- ing the .northern laudscepe, the plain anent and Iu'cad to so many people is leading off to the Maritza toward the one of the most singular phenumene of south and thousands of Gomes covered our complicated civilization. The belle with rasp -bushes in Cull bloom. It is as though the ourl.h had suddenly burst in western mull vies acids a perfume, into blossom. Everywhere through the and the gazelle -eyed daughters of the' tields in swarms and armies are lbs Ganges, the jetty negro women of Eg- pickers, man, woman and uhilda•en, boys yet, the veiled wives of the tawny Ar- and girls, for the rose harvest must be quickly gathered, if et all, and the abs in Southern Algeria; Drench and population finds easy and well remutt- Spanish peasant beauties in Herault crated employment during the season. and Bouches-du-Rhone; Rattan girls aThetime of the harvest is 'tamed for Lombardy; needs not exactly of Ath- ens, but oP Greece andits isles; the wives of turbaned Turks, and shabby - capped Bulgarians, all contribute to fill the demand. The fair lady to whom the essence or .attar of roses is only a deliglttlul per- . fume has little idea of the labor neces- sary to produce it, of its importanco Ito the countries where it is made, or of the races of people who, through its eup of melted butter, ono and a half teaspoonful of salt, and two table- spoonfuls of white sugar; add three eggs well beaten, one scant teaspoon of soda dissolved in hot water, and one large cup of flour ; bake quickly. DEATH IN DISH-TOWBI,S. Dish -towels are an important item in most families. One may have cheap and woolly hand -towels, very ordinary sheets and pillow -cases, and many oth- er things of inferior quality, but the good housekeeper knows, to her sorrow, what cheap dish -towels mean. Their use entails almost double the labor re- quired if one has those of poor qual- ity. The lint and dust from cheap goods cover the china and glass, and I lodge in every nook and corner of ber longings. Round -thread Russia crash is far and away the best dish -toweling that one eau use. It absorbs water almost instantly, and can be used a Long time before becoming unavailable because too wet, -Who bus not worried with the ordinary checked glass -towel- ing in common use, rubbing and twist- ing and patting, trying to make it. absorb the water from the dishes white it is yet new? This sort of goods ac- quires value when it begins to grow old. Russia crash is in perfect coa- dition after the second or third tins of using, Dish -towels sbould be thor- oughly boiled whenever they are wash- ed. Mere welding does not answer the purpose. The intense heat of boiling • Ls absolutely necessary if one would have health and cleanliness in the kitchen. A merely scalded dish -towel is unfit for the use of any Christian woman. It takes more than just hot water to remove the. disease germs and impurities that may lodge in these do- mestic) necessities. Because a dish -cloth looks clean it does not in any sense follow that it is clean. Arany a fam- ily has bad its number reduced by death becaaise of the persistent refusal of the maids to boil the dish towels as they should be done and remove the incip- ient causes of disease. EXERCISE A BEAUTIFIER, Is physical beauty worth cultivat- ing0 Women say it. is. And men say it is worth while for women to cultivate it. Men have lived, and there may be a few living now, for whom beauty has no charms. However•, it is not a question of taste, but of health and vigor. Some deli- cate, sickly or nervous women are pretty, attractive and lovable, but. all healthy, vigorous, active women are handsome and cummend the attention of men. Proper physical culture adds great- ly to the attractiveness of women tut thi.t is a anal l matter as compared nee added 'usefulness. The land is becom- ing euxdened with men end tiumeu who are physically debilitated to such a degree that they are incapable of usefulness to the preeeru, meth less to coming generations, 11 has lung been conceded that school children should receive physical as well as mental culture, but it was thought that the former bare no sort of cute - verbal to the latter. Now the better class of edetates are coming to the oonolnsion that in point of value the y are math the same. Sy4temette exercise is good ler grow n penpie, lint it rarely overeomea the de- fects that (darted in childhood and which might, have been easily pre- vented by proper physical culture while at school, You acount, for persons being de- feclive iu intelligence. by saying Limy did not: receive proper or sufficient mental training while t hey were young. Many physical defects may be ac- counted for in the same tray, And now that impaired health is gen- eraly attributed to defective physical development, the necessity for physi- cal culture• appears all the more im- l.erative. Nor must we expect: rosette too soon, Children receiving such culture tve more or less evidence of being benefited, but not unlit they have be- come fully developer) will we be able to see the fell benefits. As well ex- pect; to are the pearl benefits arising from schnol )ducat inn before the ins divicittal has arrived at maturity. et is being .more and more generally conceded that a. healthy •body le ne-I ewers, to a 'healthy mend, The, average consumption of hear in Veatch is four steins e. dee for each man„ woman and oitti.d, I ,production contribute to ber pleasure. It is, however, but one illustration of the fact that no part of the world's inhabitants is indepeucient of the rest. Just as thousands of men and women in Sumatra and Borneo, in Ceylon and India, find the means of subsistence from the taste of the oivilizod r'aoos for pepper, so men and women earn bread in Asia and Afriea because in France, England and America, fashionable peo- ple have a taste for a rich perfume. The antiquity of the rose is so great that all account of its origin has been lest. It is not menbionod in the Bibli- cal writings earlier than the reign of Solomon, but the allusion to it then made is such as to indicate that the flower had already long been known, for the essence of roses was extensive- ly used in Jerusalem and Judea during the reign of the luxurious and much - married King. In Egypt the rose is depicted on a number of very early monuments, believed to dale from 3000 to 3500 B.C., and in the tomb of au Egyptian princess, disinterred a year ago, in Southern Egypt, several her- metically sealed vials were found, which, when opened, continued genu- ine attar of roses, so that the modern claims for the discovery of this deli- cious perfume are vain. Rose water, or the essenoe of roses, is mentioned by Homer in the "iniad;" Homer and Soloman were nearly contemporaneous. Both the Greeks and Hebrews probably borrowed the idea of its manufacture from the Egyptians, and these, for aught anybody can tell, may have had ib from the Indians or from the Chin- ese, for the letter claim for each of their discoveries and inventions a most marvelous, not to say incredible, anti- quity. The rose is one of those flow. ere which by the people of every land are taken for granted as so well known as to need no description and hardly mention, for it is a singular fact that every continent on the globe, with the solitary exception of Australia, pro- duces wild roses. Even the frozen re- gions of the north, where the summer lasts but two or three months, and is at best a season which may be describ- ed as very late in the fa11, produce their wild roses, and travellers through Greenland, Kamchatka and Northern Siberia found, in the proper season,' an abundance of blossoms, while the crews of whaling vessels which cull at Spitsbergen come off shore with bou- qusts of the native Spitzbergen rose. All wild roses are not of the sumo kind, for there are over, 1000 species of the wild rose known to botanists, and the varieties are innumerable. As a commercial product the rose is grown in many parts of the world. Not only in the neighborhood of Parts, but more extensively in the south of France roses are cultivated for the purpose of manufacturing the attar, a.ncl over 30.- 000,000 0:000,000 pounds of rose leaves are an- nually collected by the French for the purpose of making .rose water or the attar of rose. In Algiers and Tunis the ruse was formerly grown much more then at present, for the compet- ition of other places bas enema so sev- ere that the Algerians and Tunisians are now turning their attention to the geranium, whioh in that mild etiolate, producing its flower nearly all the year, is a more profitable crop, The \'allay of Damascus yields a fine cluai- icy of attar, and the vale of Cashmere has for ages been famous, not only for its roses, but also for the quality of its product. In Northern and Cen- tral. India rose water and attar are menufacl.ured. At Ghaipur, near Be - nares, there. are miles upon miles of rase gardens, really fields, in which the rose is'uultivated for the flowers,. In Italy and Sicily rose culture is prac- ticed for the sake of the product, and during the last twenty-five Sr thirty years the attar or essence of the rose has become one of the most important cotnmercial resources of Bulgaria. The rose fields of Routnelia ere found on the southern slopes of. the Balkans and the plains which demand to the River Maritza, :there: is a district in Roa- melbt over 120 miles long by forty in width, whioh by climate and soil, Is singularly well adapted to the produc- tion( of the rose, and almost tel whole of. this region is given up to roes Betels. The soil is a light loam, inclined to sandiness, the drainage is good, while the cold winds from Central Russia ere dsfleobed by the Balkans, that here act as a pr'oteating barrier against Ley blasts, To the south lie the Maditer- ranean and Aegean Seas, and the warm southern breeze, laden with moisture furaiehes abunclarlt rams in springand 400 or 100 miles in every direction, and whole families migrate from Bosnia, Servia, Northern .Bulgaria, Albania and even from Uremia, Roumania and Asia Minor to take part in gathering the roses. The harvest lasts, as already stated, about eight weeks, and inuring this tins any else who inn pick roses eau Lind a job in the Southern Balkaus. Coming from an directions, the plott- ers, of course, represent types of half a dozen races. There are Greek wo- men with jaunty. little caps. Albanian women with the head-dress peculiar to that region; Turkish women with nun- like hoods with a little slit Ln front, through which the black eyes of the harem beauty glitter; Roumanian anti Servian women, Bulgarian and Russian peasant girls, with every sort ofhead- dress, and in many instances omitting the heed -dress altogether. A11 are alike, however, in one respect, that they, during the season, decorate them- selves with roses. The Turkish women present a grotesque epperanoe, with clusters of roses pinned on their huge round hoods; the Greeks and Bulgar- ians make garlands for head, neck and waist. Everybody wears roses; oven the old Turk or Greek who manages the retorts makes himself beautiful with a boutonniere or a bunoh of roses fas- tened on his turban or boarskiu cap. Every picker Is equipped with a bas- ket holding about two bushels, for rose leaves are Light, and there is a consid- erable differentia in weight between two bushels of rose leaves and two bushels oil potatoes. When the baskets are full they are emptied into sacks, and as soon as possible these are transported be the houses and there converted into essence. Pioking begins at early dawn, when the dew is on the leaves, and is continued until 10 or Il o'clock, or dur- ing cloudy days, all day long. When the sun is shining brightly labor is discontinued towards noon, and recom- menced at 4 or 6, and then wore is car- ried on as long ars the pickaxe can see. Labor is paid for by the pound, and tally men are in attendance to weigh the bags, which are placed at the end of the rows, and when weighed and re- corded donkey power is used to convey them. to the central stations. Even the donkeys are not forgotten in the gen- eral desire to ornament every- thing and everybody with gar- lands during the rose season. and the patient asses present a singu- larly incongruous appearance as they trudge along under the huge sacks of rose leaves, the wooly necks of the bearer garlanded with roses, an occa- sional factious driver sometimes orna- nenting the ears and tail or the beast with large bunches of the flowers that in other cnuntrios are a Luxury. The factories where the attar of rose to nude are primitive, but quite suffi- cient for all practioal purposes. They ter are used and ten kilos oB roses, a kilogramme being 2.2 pounds, or about seventy-five quarts of water to 22 pounds of rose leaves. The process of distillation is carried on for an hour, when the flask which is used to receive the distilled product contains ten lit- ers of oil and condensed water; it is removed, the alembic us recharged, and are mere sheds; sometimes the walls are of brink, more frequently of stone occasionally of plank. On one side stand the retorts in rows, copper, alem- bics about 3 feet in height, with a brick furnace undernsabh. Each alembic has n capaoity of 110 liters, a liter being about a standard quart, but Vor a charge only seventy-five liters of wa- the primes begun anew, while the flask with the product is set aside; the at- tar of rose or oil want floats upon the surface is subsequently taken off by cooling and condensation. The quantity of the product as pro- portioned to the amount of rose leaves used varies considerably. Some kinds of roses produce the attar in meth greater abundance then others, the product also varying in diffcrentcoun- tries, and it has been round by. exper- ience that the season has much to do with the quantity of attar; a humid spring, with intervals of warm sun- shine, causing the petals to yield more liberally theist is the case in a dry hot season. In Bulgaria 3000 kilos of rose- leaves produce one kilogramme of the attar, and this is the yield of about one hectare, or two and ono -half acres, A kilogramme of attar is worth from 800 to 1.200 francs, say an average of 1000, and thus the Bulgarian realizes about 4100 an acre on his crop, a very fair return Inc'. the amount invested and the outlay, In France the pro- duction is about :the satne, or 3000 pounds of rose -leaves to a pound of at- tar, and it is computed that the leaves of 400,000 roses are necessary to produce 1 ounce of the oil, :fn Algeria the roses are meth less produobf'e, but in Cash- mere and: at Ghastlier it is estimated that from 1500 to 2000 pounds oB petals produce 1 ]:round of the essence, Only the red rose is used for manufaoturing the canines; the white, or yellow vari- etles, while fragrant to the nostrils, appearing ito lady the essential 011 which forms so valuable a product, It ie not generally known that the attar or otto of rose, net it is sometitnes called, is one of the most valuable and costly substances in the world. An ounce of the pure attar is worth from *100 to 8150, and when it is remember- ed that the market prloe er gold is only about ,420 an ouneo, some idea of the value of this marvolous oil nay be gained. A few years ago some dredgers Off Coney island brought up isle lot alone 'is about 4100.003 worth of attar, The Persians have a pretty legend to amount for the d.isnet'ery oC the, at- tar, according to whine, in the, year 1012' the Princess Neer Djihan, who was about to marry the Prince Djihnnguy'r, was walking with her afriuneod in cite or the galleries of the palm when she noticed that in the pools of rose water. furnished by the fountains in the pal - am, there were drops of a yellow 11 - geld. Shs ordered the attendants to culled the scattered globules with fea- thers, and when this was done, behold Lbe attar of roses, which, therefore, was called, in Persia, the attar Nour- Djihau-Djihnnguyr, which is well en- ough for the ease -laving Persians who have an abundance of leisure, but is rather lengthy for the Western world. Whether the name Ls responsible for the story, or the story for the name, matters not, but it is certain 'that rose water and the attar of rose was known in Persia long before the Prince and Princess with the unprononncable names walked through the galleries. The attar is taken by perfumers, who, finding it too strong to be used; to its pure state, since, thus employed, it causes headaches and sometimes nau- sea, " cut" it with alcohol and sell it in the toren of rose water. It is said that even in the countries where it is made, adulterations are practiced, for other oils bearing some resemblance to it: in odor are frequently mixed with It. Geranium oil, sandalwood oil, rho - deem and other volatile oils are said to be employed by dishonest dealers as adulterations, and fine olive oil, with a few drops of the attair of rose, is sometimes sold for the pure article. The genuine oil is so exceedingly pow- erful that when used to perfume hair oil, for example, one drop Is said to be sufficient to impart its character- istic odor to a pint. The romance of the rose does not extend to the attar, Much hard labor is necessary to collect the fragrant essence from the fragrant leaf, and no matter from what point of view it is contemplated, there is nothing romantio about work TEFF AWAKENING. The flowers have come—hod's barb- ingers of summer, , Yesterday the first) violet peeped above an aid sere leaf and locked about t'he woods. The violet did not shiver. It was warm and the sweet sunshine beamed radiantly into the face of the Blower ohild, all alone there in the great woods. "Tell me,' asked bhe Violet, with a tiny tenor in .its baby vaioe, "what was it that awakened me when I was so soundly sleeping? Tell me," "IL was 1," whispered the soft South Breeze. "Andwhy?" went on the Violet, "Became morning has come and all your neigdvbors none eriseu," answered bhe Breeze, "And I am flea last to open my eyes and welcome God's sunshine 1" discon- solately pleaded the Violet with mem- arias of other mornings when it lied been bhe fttret to greet the birth of may, Yes," went on the Breeze, "yon are the last this time." "Bet 1 do not shear my neighbors nor see them." The Violet oattld not believe in its own lateness, "12 you were to crawl from Lwneablt (hut old leaf," said the Breeze, "yoo would hoar and see them boo." And: bhe Violet dad, Over on bhe .lslt a Hyacinth had be- gun its deity (boil of making the world bright, and a Hepatica drooped its bead in prayer near by,, In its front yard beyond a tiny Cowslip played at chide and seeik with a baby blade of Grass (while a Ladies Slipper leaned against bhe scraggly leark of a bloated Oak and calmly surveyed the scans. Away to bhe left nodded the golden beads of a pair of Dandelion lavers who whisp- ered !bhe old, old'stery into melt other's ears wtheu the Cowslip was net look-, ing. The Violet was mal very tall but it clambered up to a speok of gravel, and as its deep sweet eyes -took in the scene, deeps of moishure appeared in them, The flower wept for joy, though List tears we know as dew. T am so glad„" The Violet nodded to the Lady Sleeper. "I am so glad Stat another day has come. And see The Lady Slipper Looked up. The sky was beautifully blue, and through the fantastic) traceries nI the banging vines and budding limbs, little , streams of Sunlight entered„ and fall- I ing upon the Violet's oyes turned the Whole forest, into one great rainbow, The Violet dried, its tears and emit- ed, "I am, out, so, so, glad," it said. '7.18 morning come at last, I ,lead slept so soundly and so long," And it, was morning—God's morning I of the flowers. Sprung, they sometimes nail it I EXPOSED 1HIS HAND, Mr, Rookinghttm—No, sir, L San not consent to let my daughter become the wife of, a moa who is so wild as you, are. Mr. Honeywell -How do you know I am wild, sir I Mr. Rockingham -01a, . that's 111 right, I get around among the folks a little myself occasionally, and hear these things from people who know all about it. Mr, Honeywell—Very well, I'll go and explain to Alice and her mother just how it ie. Mr. Rookinghaue—Say, hold on i My, boy, you own have her, It's all right, I was Daly bluffing you, NO ALLOWANCE, They say, Blakely, old man, that your wife has an independent fortune? !Chats right. its so oonfoupdedly independent Leat I can't got any of it, THE INVASION OF CN.B.AI, r 1 FEEDING AND CLOTHING OF AN ARMY IN WAR TIAla. Efaele seen U1.end>. 1> 'Phar care or nits hetdirrs In <ohs —Milalma lie recipe tot. I10114 aJade 114 In l'leeh uta, reed 0111 111111141uk.. ilreat care is being given to (Ile Beoiling, clothing, medical require- ntent.4 ttnl sanitary arrangements for the American artily that ei to invade Cuba, The Wend. has the reputation of being' rt hotbed of mLienla, where ew- er and other virulent diseases lie in wait for the unatctLimated. Experts in. the Bureau, of Subsistence of the Unit- ed Slates War Department believe that I:110 dangers from the oilman) of Cuba have been grossly exaggerated, 'The of- ficl>rs in charge of the American army of invasion will not permit their troupe to suffer from the exposure, neglect and privation which have caused the death of thousands of young Spanish recruits: The medical deportment of the ;may has also given much atte.n- tlou to the subject, and the troops who go to Culla will bo equipped to with- stand the climate. Spacial Milling ad- apted to the hot season of the tropics ' will be provided for every man in the service, These clothes will nut be made of canvas, but of new light material resembling the " khaki" worn by the !British troops In India. In design the entrorm will heve the appearance of e aboobing suit. The cap will be, of can- ' VAS end the shoes of Lan leather. Only the officers will wear hats, which will ala; turned up at the side like those of the Cubans aaa rasteued with a rosette. This untform will be decidedly light and admirably suited to the needs ' of the service. The poor Spanish soldiers ' owe their decimation er disease to the absolute lack of all these things. A line of communication with Key West will be maintained in ardor that FRESH SUPPL1LS for l the r ) a c a n eau be sent over at I Y times, Live cattle may be shipped to provide an ample quantity of fresh beta, as the department does not in- tend to let the men use salt meats more than is unavoidable. Preset bread will be baked for the army and an abundance of,fresh vegetables will be furnished from the gardens of the South. Very little canned stuff will be used. Provision will be made Cor boiling all water before it is used to drink, and no liquor will be allowed in the Damps, us it is said, the abstain- er from alcohol can best resist the dan- gers of the tropical swamps. Lime juice pickles and vinegur will be largely used. The medicalstaff will have sup- plies of condensed milk and extrnot of beef for the diet oC wounded men, and the Subsistence Bureau will sup- ply at cost pries a long list of extra articles. Officers or men will be able to purchase many luxuries without be- ing bled to death by the old-style " sut- ler.' Among the articles thus obtain- able will be evaporated apples, green corn, peas, peaches, oatmeal, sugar -our - ed ban, lard, sardines, condensed milk, smoked beef 'tongue, ginger cheese, mustard and red pepper. From the same sources they may also obtain brierwood pipes, chewing tobacco, smok- ing tobacco, glycerine toilet soap, pen- cils, pens, pen -holders, envelopes, note- paper, blank ink, shoe blacking, black- ing brushes, brooms, whisks, hairbrush- es, toothbrushes, fine-toothed combs, handkerchiefs, safety matches, shoe- strings, towels, tin handbasins, ran - openers, cotton thread, linen thread, needle books, needles, trousers buttons and metal polish for their equipments. Cornmeal and wheat, flour will be provided also, but no butter. This the men' will have only when they pair ob- tain it from the inhabitants, On the march the " travel ration," will be issued daily to groups of 100 men, This retain consists of 100 pounds of bread, 75 pounds of canned beef, 33 pounds of baked beans, 6 pounds of browned coffee, and 15 pounds of su- gar, ON THE FOURTH DAY each man will receive a pound of can- ned tomatoes, Whenever circumstances permit—that is, when not engaged. in actual. war—pepper, salt and cundles' will be supplies in addition to the above. Owing to the miserable roads of Cuba, the transportation of the wounded will present a serious problem. Ambul- ances or many kind of wheeled vehicles cannot be much used, so it will be ne- cessary to carry wounded mea On mule back or on band litters. Portable iia machines will be carried by the medi- cal staff, as ice is often and indispens- able requisite for sink and wounded man. By the use of this small and light apparatus, operated by animate, sufficient we can be made in any ori mete to provide for the sick and for several surgical operations. Groat acre will bs exercised with res- pect to the water used by the troops. Besides tenting it, all drinking water will be filtered through a germ -proof filter which has been adopted by the War Department. A. sufficient. num- ber of these filters will be oarried by the commissaries to provide abundance of pure water for the men whether in camp or on the awash. With all these precautions taken for the physical omufort and safety of the troops it is believed by the military authorities that the climate of Cuba will possess no terrors for them. \Yell fed, Suitably clothed and pro- vided with up-to-date arms and aocoq- trements, they will be toady for any teat to which they may be put. The housing of the men in oam.p will be also earerelly attended to, Each man tvill sleep it l>ammook raised off the ground,'and waterproof tents, will be supplied in sufficient quantities to shelter every man in the service. A WEAR:CSOINE PROBLEM. Fatigue—Mow, is your husband? ask- ed one of two women who bed met at the bargain counter, Very much run dpwn way the ans- wer, ' Perhap 'ho Werke too hard. Rin, he doesn't. Bet he loses sleep and wrecks his oonstieution trying to figure oat some way to lien without working et all, , t....,�_.4-'6'...0- —0-0—s 0..0.-0 Young Folks. ETU blL'S JAB'\YI';f:E PARTY. A. few weeks ago, Pellet Winton had 20 of her playmates to a "Japanese party," and they playedthe games the ehileiren to Japan play. They were asked to come at five, affil stay until nine o'clock, hlllel's Aunt. Hattie wrote the in- v1Latiuus. Thai' worn on oardboardout in lite shape of a fust, printed in gold ink, ana then decorated with queer looking boys and girls, The large parlors were decked with Japanese lanterns, umbrellas, and ornaments of all kinds. the vases fill- ed with bright flowers. and the fire- place covered with patenss. Ethel' felt very proud and happy to receive her friends in a oosteem made of flowered cation crepe. She had a wide sash around her waist, red and geld clip, bens on her feet, her hair brushed hack in it (:]tick roll on I.op of her head, and then fastened with lots end lots of fancy hair pins and wen fans. Soon they were all admiring the funny lan- terns on the wall; nous of thein had ever seen anything like them, They were lighted by long candles, and in- side, suspended over the flame, high up as possibles, was a windmill. At lea end of each arm were huge snakes, butterflies, birds end fishes. These wens constantly in motion, running around the light. What made theta move this wmy, they could not under- stand, nderstand, not even after Aunt Hattie ex- plained the lighted candles caused the ttinclmill to burn, thus making the fig- ures travel in a circle around the flame." The first game played, battledore and shuttlecock, is it favorite with Japanese children. But as it is more enjoyable whenplayed,in ten open err than in a warm room, Ethel and her friends were glad when Mr.. Winton offered to show (item how to play "catebing the snake's tail," which is really an amusement for bays, hut for all that, these little las- sies heartily enjoyed it. One player was selected to be a clincher, then the rest placed thetnsslvos in a row-, one behind the other, each put- Ling her hands on the shoulder of the one in front of her. The catcher was placed in front of the line, or the bead, as it was named, and when all wag ready, tried to catch "the snake's tall," or the last girl in the row, the others trying to defend her by twisting and turning, yet remembering to keep the line unbroken. When caught, slits be- came catcher, and the catcher took her plaice. The two games which followed were similar, but both so jolly that they wanted. to play them again and again. The first one was Yemen, moaning hand -ball, but was entirely different from any game of ball they had ever played. They formed a eirele and lethal. threw the ball perpendicular on the floor. As it rebounded, she struck it back with her open hand, doing this as often as she could without moving from her place. When it rebounded nearer to some other girl, as it soon did, it was her I urn to hit it in the seine way.. After a while one et i,be play- ers failed to make it rebound, and bad to leave the game. The last one left won, end received as a prize an odd Japanese toy. 'Then they played the next game. they seated themselves on the floor un- der the chandelier, from which was hung a son ball uredo of bright worst- , eds. One of the players gave the ball a push, and the one it came nearest I to gave a return push, and so on, keep - 1 ing it swinging back and forth in the photo; the object of the game being passplond the ring. The one who missed it and let it pass 1 hernot hatod1st to ishobp ayibeyng. The refreshments were served in the dining room. Above the table was a gay umbrella covered witb flowers and vines. Beside each plate was planed a tiny lantern of striped paper, filled with candy and tied with blue ribbon. They had cocoa, with whipped dream, sandwiches, olives, wafers, fancy cakes, eco oream misled to look like flowers, and which they all declared was "too pretty to eat." After supper had been disposed of, the evening was merrily ended by play- ing games; and the children went away thinking Japan must be a nice place to live, auyw'ay for the littler: CoBrs, ADViC.FI '1'0 BOYS, You are learning a trade. That la a good thing to have. It is better than gold. Brings always a premium. Bun to bring a premium, the trade must be perfect—no silver plabed affair•. When you go .to learn a. trade do so with determination to Will, Make up your mind what you will be, and be it. lintel -Mine in your own mind to be it good workman. Have pluck and ttn+bienee, Look out for the intermits t t to a o f your employer— thus you will learn to look out for your own. Do nob wait to be told se- erything. Remember, Act as though i you, wish to learn. 2,1 you have an er- ' rand to do, start off like tt boy with sortie life. Look about you, See how the iest norliman in the shop sloes, and copy after hbtn. Learn to do things well, 'Whatever is worth doing at uU is worth doing well, Never slight your work. Every job you do is a sign, If you have done one in ten minutes, see it you cannot do the next, in nine. Too many lays spoil a lifetime by not hav- ing patience. They work el; 1 trade until they see abut one -halt of els mye- terias and, then strike for higher wages. Ao't as it your o'tvn interest and the Interest of your employer were the same. Good mecha.nios are the props of society. They aro those who stiek 10 their trades antd they learn them, Pen. pie intonys speak well of a boywho minds his own business, who is willing to work and who 550015 disposed to be somebody in time. Learn the whole of your trade, , BRITISI3, PENALTY, A signalman on the British cruiser Ta rano onC u r � s h , u tram[ t g �a t SCatioe, bail been court-martialed for striking an officer and sentenced to three ,years' penal servitude nail dismissoca frau the atevic5.