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1-10U8EROLD,
Their Training,
It is roma 10 tiovoto tho mpav,, undm. Llao
1100,1 to the mord trebling of children, Ind
this month it In my p111 j, to have mome.
thing to Ray abetit thew physical training.
I hail o 1110$1 interest:Mg /Mat tha
day with a phymcian about children '8
Nitta. I fe 18 0 mon 00110 11103 oL 10111.<1 1110
nee of water a great malty years and fvoin
being a medleal :preemie ler of the
sellout" he has beeome 11 hydroputhist auil
gained a moat enviable reputation for his
knowledge and 812111.
There hi always danger of becoming what
is lutown am " aresilk" if you have a great
deal to say 012 0110 subjeet, but there io ab•
solute need of oraiike of a moderate sort.
Mothers do not know half enmesh abou1 the
U80 of water, that is certain. They might
become eranke on that subject with great
credit to themselves,
An intantte 1.111111 18 000 of tlin events of
the day. A mallet: will usuithy give it
even if proseing dui lee put it off until late
in the afternoon. Of 00110s0 With a 11'ell-
191/01111t'd nursery the bath will be given
in the inorning eiet iti a regular time, The
physician already alluded to relvius having
the water it which beby 11. 8, 01 bathed
1(1,11001 01 blood heat, that is 05 0 Fah., and
it should remain at the stone temperature
for some days.
Gradually the hath ehould be made cooler
until it is lthout. 111 (0 Fah., although the
temper:tient of the child ought to vegetate
this 11: eertnin degree. 1:or instance, a
nervously organized 11018111 should have its
bath hi water not, lower than 87, 0 Fah. Let
it le mentioued here aml -now that a bath
tub thermoincter is an indispensable article
in 0 well -regulated. household. Such thee.
inometere are made very inexpensively and
aro invaluable. :Many women rely on their
own hands 1,0 determiue the heat, but there
as little depondauw to be placed on this
method.
When a child gots to be a year or two old,
a bath twice a week will be all that is neces-
sary for cleanliness. 1 have often heard a
grown person say, " I cannot live without
m y cold bath every tnerniug." To some in -
di victuals the shock is beneficial, but to
ot hers it is detrimental. People forgot that
000 are not all made with the same organi.
21 atiens mud that Water has an almost medi-
c inal influence upon us.
11 18 a great thing when a mother finds
out what is best for ho' ohililven in the way
of baths'for she will bo able to spare them
many coIds.
11 11, daily bath is kept up it should
bo taken very quit:lily, and at &temperature
of between tiO 0 and itti 0. This bath will
make the skin meet and tvill be the preven.
tive against cold already ment killed. It is
the opinion of my medical faced 11101 110
one, either child 00 adult, should subject
the skin 10 great friction by the use of
coarse towels, gloves, oto., the reaction
should be produced against it by the watev
itself.
A good temperature for a, child's both for
(1100,01111808 18 ir2 0, 11 may be of five or ten
minutes du ra t 1011, 1111(1,10 fear need be dread.
ed of e, col,l atterward if the ordinary pre-
eantions are taken. People have not till
luxurious 0011V01111.11 COS for takitig baths,
bul due consideration should be given to
arrangements for them of some kind in
many household.
His Clhildren Interestink
After dinner had been finished the WO.
man of fashion seated herself comfortably in
tin easy ahair and said :
" Well, we will have a quiet evening."
"No one expected ?" asked her husband.
" Not a soul," replied the wife. "Every
one h at the Brown's and 1 sent regrets,
you know.
" Where are the children 1" he asked.
" Up 8111210 10 the numory," she replied,
languidly,
" like to see them," he replied. "Sup-
pose we lot them come down."
" 0 dear, no," she exclaimed. "They're
not dressed to come clown emirs. 'flhey
have their nursery clothes on, you know,
and they'd want to play here and get
every thing topsy-turvy. 11 wouldn't do at
" But no one is expected," he protested.
" Yes dear but some one might drop in,
and, besides, WO mustn't get them in the
habit of coming down hero when they aro
not properly dressed and prepared to be-
have themselves ris well-trained children
should."
" When they are on parade," he suggest-
ed.
"Joseph 1" she said sharply, " don't
talk like that ! They have 8 lurse and n.,
room to themselves, and you certainly can't
expect me to lot them wine down here ex-
cept when they have boon properly attired.
Besides, they enjoy themselves more in the
nUrerry."
"I presume they do," lie said quietly,
"1! you had seen what 101100 to -day", she
went on, "you would understand. I called
on little Mrs. Fernwood and when I went
in the floor of the library was just covered
with blocks and toys, and, her two children
were playing thew on the floor. Why, she
had to have the folding -doors shut when she
came into the reoeption•reom, and then
some of the blocks and toys were left on
our side of the door and we could hear the
children laughing and talking all the while
I was there. Why 11 1001(1.01--"
"It must have looked like a home and
not one of the parlors ofto fashionable hotel
he interrupted, as he gob up from his chair,
"Perhaps she wont a little too much to one
extreme, but it is better than going too
much to"—)'Io noticed the glitter n his
wife's oye and stopped. "Never mind", he
said, "I am going to the nursery."
Half an hour later when his wife sent for
him to see 0 caller the servant found hitn
sitting on the floor building block•houses,
)Say Iitn engaged", he said ; " and toll
her confidentially", he added, "that we've
got a couple of mighty bright and interest-
ing children. I never bad a chance to find
it out before, and maybe she doesn't know
it.
---
Toed. for Invalids,
01(01)1, —Roll a few butter crackers, and
sprinkle slowly into boiling water, etitning
constantly till about the right consisteuey.
Add a little swoot tnilk or cream, ealt and
a dash of pepper.
GauttfAm elstims—One pint of milk and
tho eamo ot water. When juin; ready to
boil, stir in two spoonfuls of sifted graham
:flour, mado smooth With a little cold watets
Lot it boil slowly for at least two hours,
skimming olf any amino particlee of flour
that may rise. Season with pepper and wilt,
and add more milk when serval. Sorvo
hot with oyster orackers•
TOAST.-11rown well a slieo of broad on
both sides, 000 into blooks 01 inoli square
and place on bot plate. Have ready some
Mewed tomatoes, sensoned svith salt, popper
and a little hatter. Dip carefully over the
toast, leaving the brown squares visible,
Beer Tit.--(hlgood loan beef 1111,0 01100110
and place in a fruit cant dry. Sorow down
the Dover, plane in a kettle of cold water,
and boil till 11115 juices of 11110 110111 010 021'
treated. Tide will be Wong enough to
dilute with hot water. Seeson, and stroln
0 not perfectly clear.
—Mood Housekeeping,
Shin of Veal Stew.
Use a 'shirt of veal weighing about fivo
pounds, two tablespoonfuls each of mineal
opium 0.101e11 and ettlery, 01)0 1>11>1 of potato
0111100, tWo pints and it half of boiling water,
two gen, 00118 1/41J10110011fuls of flour, three
tablespoodula 01 Mato: 00 pork fat, three
teaspouefuls of Sal1, anti one.third of a tea -
spin -Intel of pepper.
Have the elan cut in three parte. Wash
it, and out the meat from the hones ; then
cut it into eubes of good size. Put the but-
ter in the ntewpan with the minced yoga,
tables, and cook slowly for ten minutes.
Telco out the vegetables and put in the
meat, 00 which should bo uprini,lod the salt,
pepper and flour. Stir over the lire until
the meat browns, then add the water,
and stir until the stow boils. Slcim well,
Ilion arid the coolcoll vegetables. Cover
the stewpan and Bet, bank where the eon -
tents will only 10;111(1e at one side for throe
hours. Al the and of that time add the
potatoes, draw the stewpan to a hotter
part of the stove and cook for half au hour
longer,
If dumplings be liked, mix together 111000
gills of !lour, a heaping teaspoonful of bak-
ing powder, Mille teaspoonful of salt and
half a teaspoonful of sugar. Rub through
051000 mei 0001 0011,11 a gill of sweet milk,
Draw the stewpan forward where the Mew
will boil rapidly and drop 1110 (1011> in it by
dessert-speofels. Cover for nine minutes.
Serve the stew on a warm platter 001111 1110
dumplings arranged 10,101001 the border.
The slumbone ran be covered with water
and boiled for five or six hours for alight
stock. If there be other bones or bas of
tough meat ib will be well to put them with
the veal bones.
ABOUT JEWELS,
Stories of Diamond Mines lit South
Working by electricity in the desert of
Africa, with power 1 urnished by coal cost-
ing 860 a ton, was the novel subject discuss-
ed yesterday at The Leland by George D.
Longstreet, au English mining engineer.
During a long residence in South Africa,
Mr. Longstreet traveled as far into the in.
terior as Livingstone did, visiting a nember
of places which have never been seen by a
dozen white men, and in many regions found
that he Wail the first white man the natives
bad 00011.
"The ontrol of the diamond mines by
the Rothschilds," soul Mr. Longstreet, "is
entirely due to the overcapitalizatiou of the
original companies. Some of them 00000
utyitalizod as high as $:25,000,000. They are
now Ihniting tho production of gems te 11,0
demand. Diamonds will novor go down 10
price, and the daye of romance in South
Attica diamond mining are past forever. In
early days the mines were divided into little
• "otments of thirty feet square, ancl each of
1, se was sold to a corporation for $100,000
eat sum for a little land scarcely largo
(mon h to pnt a shanty on. I have soon
wovking for one company and in ono mine
MS minty 00 1(1,000 naked Zulus, whose work,
oddly enough, was carried on by electric
light within a year after it WU invented.
In those days our chief difficulty was to
prevent the thefts of tho workmen. We
had an observer for every five 118,1, 0001 yet
the beggars Managed 1.0 steal large numbers
of diamonds. 'nese Zulus are limn thieves.
All the talcs of Rider Haggard,: whom I
knew in South Africa, 1 have heard otten
front the lips of the Zulus.
" Tho nunes aro four 11 ,1011,00, the Kim.
hurley mine proper being but one of them,
it is 700 feet deep, aed the 10,000 num nt
work in it look like mere pigmies. it was
originally all eue hill formed by Shine to•
gentle voleanic action from below. Long he -
fore tho chimney was dug a few diamonds
were washed from this hill iuto the streams
where they were discovered. Al Kimberley
the diamonds were embedded in a strange,
hard mud, which had to be blasted with
dynamite before it conld be brought up. It
had to remain a year before the preeious
stones could be secured. We could not use
crushing maehines, for they would mush the
daimonde.
A very complete, and doubtless an eye-
opening diamond exhibit, will be made by
Cape Colony, South Africa, at the World's
Fair. The exhibit will include 10,000 carats
of uncut stones, a large quatitity of very flue
cut and polished ones, together with ell that
is necessary+ to show the process of mining
and washing. For this it will be necessary
to transport to Chicago 100 tons of pulverizs
ed blue earth, fifty tons of unpulvorized
earth, and a complete washing machine,
which will be operated by natives. The ex-
hibit will also include a unique collection of
orocidolite, special diamondiferous products,
ostrich feathers, fleeces, eta. It is reported
that a Bushman and Hottentot in native
dress will accompany the exhibit.
The Desolation of Babylon.
*Isaiah 1(I1I. 19, 20, 21, 22.
"As the Lord on Gomorrah and Sodom did
frown,
And 0101101800 but a waste in that beautiful
When 6110 11a11800 01 his wrath from the heavens
came down,
.And their homes were consumed end the
wicked were slain.
"Ryon thus shalt bo," spoke the prophet o
old,
"To the glare of kingdoms—to Babylon's
crown:
Whore the 01101110e0 oily its botuttios unfold,
0101 00011 shall be 100110 those gates of re-
nown.
"And the Arab shall pitch not hie tent even
there;
Even there 0111111 50 told 0! Ithe shepherd be
fotind:
The wild boasts of the desert shall make It their
And their houses with oreaturesehall doleful
resound.
"Prom the towers whore gardens suspended in
bloom,
There tho night's lonely .bird in their bosoms
shall dwoll;
And where monarchs hold feasts in their ban -
insetting -room
There the satyrs shall &moo like the demons
001 1011,
"The wild boasts 01 1110 islands shall ory in
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THE MAIDS, tho mistress ; or may make it ...video, 1 hat ;v. 11 /1,. 1e1111/0111 1. Blvd/ lel' 11140 Charge of
lier most suitable plata+ ht the tteullet.y. For e. rt :tingi 10, and 0 is 0+3. Ittnitions to follow
1101 11011 part I should eoneider that t heir au tar, helpins t heal in every way elle
181" and 100.11110111 1410110 1.gi00 winium 122111
00 ;MIR Nit k, 0.4X0y,
1Vhatover la to ho dono ! I can't got a
seryant for love or for money l'
'I hat is the feminine wail going up from
our Immite, rising high above the demand
for " woman's rigida," and dimwning the
voice of mirth within our walls 1
I speak of the tuiddleocracy as thus cool.
phileing. If the energetic wife of a trades.
man ean't lind drudgemfall.woric to ta.
Mid, elms -knowing how ts, do it sets to
work herself, and "gets throngh" tounehow.
And tut for Milfuly, she doea not trounle her -
Half on the 'subject ; for she 104 14 sedate,
welkslucated, handsomely -paid housekeep-
er to take all bother about the servants on
her owu shoulders,
liut the otruggling professional man's
wife, who has to defer so intuth to appear -
males, and consider her husbandtt purse at
the same limo ; and the wealthy businelts
inan's wife, 10110 lilcus to have every 11( 1(11
" so niee ." the delicate lady, who requires
the aid of' strong, faithful hands in her do-
mestic duties ; the bride who is as Ines peri.
eed ill housekeeping am her own drat baby;
the overwrought mothers of big tuna' fanu.
lies,— thiss aro the 000111011 who feel so
intensely the "servant difficulty," whose
groans on the subjeet weeld ova anything
leas hard than n. mart led mau's heart, and
who aro wonderiag if Otero ever tan be a
way out of their trouble.
Personally I have not had much ex.
perinea regarding ivhat called " bail
servants." Once or twice 1 have had to do
with 0 Kitchen Horror t but, though the
demotic tornado raised by suchen one was
direful enough, there always seemed to me
so much 01 1110 ludicrous eletnent in it that
I was able to laugh through it eventually.
The lame excuses, the clumsy attempts at
concealment of fraud, the clever lies, and
unstudied dramatic action, the truly " nat.
ural " sins of an unsatisfactovy maid -see -
vont are an interesting study If we look
at them from &certain point. Unfortunately
a martyred mistress eanuot often bring the
requieite philosophy to bear candy on the
subject when she discovers that her " Real
Treasure " of maid has been wearing her
linen, presenting.parcels of her tert to area
visitors, entertatning disreputable men in
the baok.kitehen, bullying her little chit.
dren, flirting with the gentlemen of the
family, end initiating the " growing girls "
in the science of midges Ladies are
more liable to " fly out " than to phdoso•
phize in such cirentustances ; though that
aerial expansion of one's temper never int.
proves the maid, and is distinctly injurious
to the mistress.
It is Wally horrible to do with bad ser•
vents, but when it COMM: to having to do
With none, despair must lm the result.
Not to be had for love or money
I ant certain sure you've tried for money,
madame ; but 000 yow certain you have
tried for love 1
In my dealing's with the maids have not
found love fail as a rule. Exceptions there
have been, es must be ; but on the W11010 I
have found it a satisfactory plan to win a
servant's heart before trying to teach her
to adopt my tnethods. As for the money
plan—you cannot bribe 0108101 to be faith.
fel or remain in your serviee by 11 raise of
wages." She will take your money and stay
for a time, but you will not feel secure of
her, and she will assuredly depart tamer or
later but if you have attached her to you
personally it will require a very strong mo.
tive indeed to induce her to leave you.
That Is experieuce. There is a great
deal of grumbling that the present•rlay
higher education has made the class frmn
whence we draw our domestic servants
" take notions " about the performance of
menial dtities ; and teaches them to despise
the position of a servant.
As far as I eau see, I believe that ia a
mistake. The result of edtuation has rather
tended in another way. It has lifted tho
maids to a eertain equality in many respects
801111 the mistresses ; and that lifting process
has naturally taught the girls to believe that
they wield a power of their 0W11,, and arc
not to be "put upon " any longer. (For
" put upon " they assuredly wore in 1110811
oases.)
When oni! servants could scarcely road,
tual eurtainly could not tell you what the
value of 711.8. of meet was, supposing the
price to be 1 per lb. ; when Omit: letters
home were written as if a spider had boon
dipped in the ink and set to clean himself
on sheet of paper ; when they would as
soon have 511 (100011 at, the head of your table
as have taken a bath in you] house 1—in
those barboroes, not all bad, old days it was
not wonderful that the mistress regarded
her benighted maid as fashioned of another
kind of flesh and blood ; and the maid felt
a sort of awe for the lady who weld speak
foreign tongues, and evoke marvellous mel-
ody from wonderful instruments with the
tallest fuel softest of fingers.
In receiving abettor education, however,
the maid has lost that awe which things un.
known aro apt to : more than that,
she has discovered that her skin may be as
fair, and her fingers as shapely, as those of
the lady in the drawing -room. She puts
gloves on her hands, therefore, when she
does reeler work, she walks erect, she roads
books, she does her spiriting gently, and
knows that she is as attmetive, in the eyes
of 01011 115 her inIstress, tool may make as
good lb marriage as her mistress
Unfortunately, the mistresses havo re-
mained blind to the revelation which has
taken plane, and aontinue to treat their
doinestios as if they were still that Ignorant
"lower" class.
By the way, madame, can you tell me
what you mean by " lower class 1" Is it
status, Or With, Or brai00, ov money that
makes you the superior of your maid
In this democratic age of oure, one be-
comes a little conftmed on fetch Mee distill°.
blots ; Mit I hope We ate all clear that the
mere possession of money does not create
that finest thing on earth—a real lady,
Well then, is it birth? Surely not, for if
that were so, tho Highland lass that waits
behind Lady Cockaigne's chair could show
a much older, much more respectable fam-
ily tree, than hor ladyship's.
Status The lines on which the geadient
rem hoe Majesty's throne to the seamen.
er'swhool-barrow)is cons( meted (80 80 fine.
7 drawn, and touch each other so closely,
hat one cannot doB1to 111001. To•dtty the
other nosy consider hev children'e govor.
ees an inferior, end the governess may
ok upon the housemaid as of a lower
ass ; but to.morrow a awn of
allfr racieZ,
heel may reverse the msitions of
A bank goes smash an( the mother comes
"down in the world " so far, that she has
to take in washing. A relative loaves the
honstemaid a le aoy, and she drives in her
And the firttgcins inhabit the worts 01 111011' (1
king,'
Thus the prophet predicts, and tho prophecy
falls. ,
For the Leta 101110 prophet 11001 woken this s
thing.
0,In the Gospels, 0e0 Saviour is represented
as frequently recalling the prophecies of Isait ,
oh, and certainty nowhere in the Ifible do wo 10
find Christ soelearly foretold. au in Natoli Lilt, el
His prediction likewise 01 1110 Desolation of w
Babylon WM MA as clear, and tho prophecy
soon AMMO. Itead Isaiah XIII,
ot,t0o1C, B, A.
"Oho mi.__
ingratittide,
Oh, heavens 1" ho exolaimed, " this is n
mere than atm boar, Dolvm throbbing
heart, clown 1 I return hereto after a three 01
years' imprisonment for bridal wife.beating, p
and how an/ 0000iYM? I am ordered to s
leavo home by the:wry woman on Whose p
account I suffered incarceration, 011, this te,
is too 11100111 my pout heart Will break," In
wn earriage. las the change of status
tole the mistress her maid's inferior?
13rains—by which wo mean education, I
tppotio—v,01 not determine woman's
lace on the social ladder more than statue,
We may canal:ado that "elass" is only
rovod by an indefinable eomothing per.
ining to personality that may show the
aid as flt to grate th drawing -room tto
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TOLD 02 _Wi_LO GEESE.
"place;" and if a ittabl's appearance alai A youlig girl belonging to thin Bociety had 1,1,1. Liu, „iji„, 11,13,„ the „„j„,, „f (1„, „mu
As tt tratntwC:Sn'oUtis't.si:Ir.n.g* $10110,..01.11,norlite „to
worth were unimpottehable I slortild Molt , Imet, re,oto tot mkt] to 0 0.41111 1 1011. (MI the warted Inany !leeks of wild (........so from the
111010 iter 110 an eq1111.1. I 0011e11'' 'Ii'l ll"' :7 '1 "2,,,, ((1)' 1 llic' "thlt,"4" grain fields and meadows near the tr0,4,
How emu 0413 03111 1100 10 give one tender thought the maid sauey, and the maid The theike dul tett vontain many Iiirde--no
young children te the care of women whine thought ili" IllistfeeKtlattelutt• 'rbeY aid 11"1 more than thirty or feet y were Aeon et 033014
wt3 oonsi dor itiferiors 2 Our xi uree,inaitls lit, and Illingu 14,000 of ton at Si Xeti and sevens but ;marls/ a tlit rd of the fields had wild
0101,111 1,110 Inhulti 141111 1110.1.111004 of the 1 1 1 1 le bet warm them ore many daye, Thou 111 : geeee in them. The eight of these atarted
ones as nmeh 110 100 110/ 1,1Ier0101.0, 13003,0.11 Mk' 110,43 Najd, "1 think yon had better ue., : Lb, mei, (11 Ow sin„li i ng „„ , pal. , (('11! a onQ
of inveighing against the higher education the hid w'm eionn t .0 I • sl 1
of servants, we might to be thankful tha1
such a reit:mug influenin has been brought
to -bear upon that, Mesa-
'Ilu 1 edneation or no education I emi't
gss-0110101,800t;a0L141010w,uirtdioinh'atViift'stgl'i't. etfiks',1,yzn'i'idl'13,111.:::1- The' girl waited uPon her ladV.gletruian surface of the water for miles, Thereat
, , mad, 0110 then it rose and spread ill'or the
thing, and I don't /110011 to insinuate that and bad n01110 coliV00aLL1011 WW1 1100, L110 1.0. d tick il 111111 geese canto by the thott•and and
yon are a bail !nista:Hs, but 1 van% help so) t be i eg that silk: ‘1,1eitt,i1,1„11:ti,le,...101,0,,,,,h,e,0.,i1tii,:hitur,s,ns(, 1. LI!,,,..11;totti,,,t,,,:isasalgs,1,,,,,,,,trii,i,viattsksint,,,,,w,,zi,,yat,11-11:1, ,i,,,,i.gmattr;
thinking that it mnst be your 0Wi; (wilt "fike i; 101n11,"
very notch if you can't find riultahle demob. temper?, 14. hell 1116 ZniAl'eSS Lagged, lite . unequalled, Another had beeu a 1011,4 the
:
Ger/. 1 dull't say how yon 11101 11 fault, Mel 11114id. WW1 8110111, W111.111 Was delightful, streams of North Cmoline, where the uweet
I. do not. presume to legislate Payout. house. C.71trietts to know vehat adviee had been , . ; . . . 1 '
.11 the eaf8 shoot.
01'1° t" yo 1"'W:Ou ""ghl to 11"", One trdd of 0 corn laden selesni,:r that
for certainly I will not stand mach Inore woe eunk near the ielimds tit the haul of
trout rot, am) you know if I met, give you! Laic, ;suss. 1,4 „,"
other tmed tl "
010
14. chartm,ter You wid 11.11eadilY Pt an' , lit it 121181 1110 hatches OtY the rediooner; he
hold; but I am mute sure if you change
your method of managing your turritis for a
metlasl more in keeping with the ideas, itspi•
re dol..% and conditions of ouv .selvancte
age, yee will find plenty of "real treasuree,"
as our grandinotheri; did.
In these 01,1 kindly dines servants were
ravely changed. They beaten, members: ef
tho family into whit+ they "look serviee."
!Chey had LI1011. /MCI 141, &A WO all 104 00; they
wore often very troublesome, and presumed
on the patienee of their employers; hitt they
loved. and laithfully served those who had
00 0111>1 (l 1011( (1111 0011(01 112(12 110,11
given that, 11101 wrought such a change, 1110 iLinng 1111111 Rome rift or obstruction gathers
11w1Y,011"1, o,,,1 hy, " 1, v",Y ,141,11,1 1" ' them and thus forms a 1,21! for w1;1011 the
seo Dint y011 have been otting moan outlet' w11.1 ge,so //arc Ole greateta ia.,11:0, llad
ninee you went, to that 1,.d y. hat did ; had an end 01 01,1(11 shooting thon from the
11110 say to yoa
bank.. A third Mid followed the Atlantic
" See said," was the les id's reply, " that ',a:a from Chine/Ai:ague Island to Cape
ory'Yie: 0 had .01110 cr.ss Uinta theM 1111110080, and had & Atery te toll "1 11111 way
18111o1, 1.1.•-y lout to hoar wi th olttionce, mot the gunnel:a there rear floelis of wild geese
1 WaS 1 ennui/10r yon C10014. for 1100 08 deeoys ; how thoy nuke blinds
'1 ...• girl left ti•at house itexi day. , 1 by digging holes in the sand denes elong
I a1 . rtahl h, re are uot loans' 11151(1" shore and set out the decoys by driving
who ro,e.v., essgting mistress as their stakes ie ehoal water and.fa,tening 100533
00,03, 14(11 01 I1 111 many (0,,,l1 house: to (etch stake by 001(1,11 ati sa, another
story was that of a man who had been along
the upper waters of tl:e Snake Itiver rn
Idaho and Wyoming, where wild fold
abound, His had been a liveried journey,
and there were neither decoys nor Winds,
o 1 1ig11 1
8110W11 personal interest in thmwho Molee
e, el wo ts 11,r /Imam. y domestie,f to he a
mei; 1,1 1(0 :anal magnitude. I wish I knew
how to comfort them 1
eared for them, and sympathissl in all their
gelds and sorr, n o. They made the interests
of their masters 2:u-drow1; and, though those
masters had to "put up" with a great deal,
they received atuple comptusation in the
loyalty of their domestics.
Why do we have so little of that kind of
thing now? Is the fault altogether an the
side of those "upsetting girls" who "think
themselves as good" as you?
Don htless they aro far from what they
should bo in some respects. They do not
im00(10001111,01d that "the highest are those who
serve;" but do you make the hard lessons of
tl
a
life more plain to them by your "walk 1.11
conversation, as it allbots your Matrons t
thern?
Why do mistresses forget that the prett
young girl le the kitchen has the same kin
01 1101(1(2, the same kind et life to lead, 111
sumo hopes as the pretty young girl in th
drawing-rooml Why is the one sllowe
every facility for meeting eligible 111011, an
of exhibiting her gracee, while the other
rebuked if she is detected chatting for ha
a minute with a masculine mend? Th
daughter and the maid -servant are equally
(or should be) in charge of the lady of di
house, end it is her duty to watch over th:
one as well as over the other.
" And I do that," says madame. But
oh, dear -a -me, what a difference between
your loving, patient watchfulness over Miss
Ethel and the suspicious, grudging espion-
age which you bestow on Maggie, 10101011101
Of course, no one expects you to brood
over any girl as you do over your Own
daughter ; but there need not be such a Wide
difference as 1110,0-0 indicated.
I declare to you, madame, that I do not
in the least wonder that Alaggie resents
your surveillance, deceives you, and evades
your orders. I think if I were in her plaoe
I would do tho same thing,
Well, now, you admit—nay, you avow it
vehemently—that you don't know what is
to he done; you can't get good servants;
you find even bud ones difficult to procure ;
and you are not able to say why the matter
has reaohed such 18 climax of ravelment 1
If you are e. helpless woman with fixed
MOCK regarding the lower classes, I shonld
advise your sending for some of the " heath-
en 0111,100 " to do your house work. They
are very clever (I speak of Chinese 771( n) at
cooking and clear-titarching, and all manner
of tnaid-servants' work. They are extreme-
ly civil, and quiet, and servile, which inakes
a oenvenient cloak for a hetip of eascality ;
but you may be don't 10111,1 what your ser-
vant prwate mm
orals ay be as long as they
don't collide with your OWL!, and you ge1.
your domestic serviee properly performed ?
But yon have some brains and good in
tuitions. 'You will not harbour the sug-
gestion of bringing foreigners to your aid,
but you will try to do your maid's duties
yourself, and then diseover how much you
"pa upon" hor. After that you will learn
to be patient with her—perhaps you will ro.
vert to some of your grandmother's "Ways"
and interest yourself iu your maid's life out
side of her duty to you. Possibly you may
then discover that her feelings—nay, even
her thoughts—are remarkably kb to your
own. Some days when you are ill, and
able scarcely to turn on your pillowshe will
deftly raise your head on her arm, and
bathe your aching brow as tenderly as if
she were your lady -daughter. Then you
will give hero grateful caress, and after
that you will think less about her belonging
to the lower class; and she :tell] yield you a
service moro truo and respeotful than any
which you could have won through stand-
ing on a false dignity,
And, suppose on 00100 other day she
smashes a porcelain toy of gteat yahoo; or
tells a fib to screen some stnall omission.; will
you forgot her loyal service, her unwearied
tentlance, and undo by harsh Nvorils and im.
patient action the oorcls which mutual need
and mutual sympathy have made strong be-
tween mistress and maid? All, have not
your MO daughters been as careless, as
foolish as 0110, yet you forgave, and it made
no difference? Surely you will give to yonr
maid of the erutnbs from the children'e
table. You will Bud yourself the richer for
it eventually,
It; has boon suggested that we should
establish training homes for domestic
servants, but I do not sea haw such in.
stitutio81110(10015 are to be of use except for such
girls as have no homes, or belong to the
lapsed masses.
The greater timber of our servants come
from the eenntry, and the homes of work'
111(1 men. Thaw p01011120 would not, and
could not, send the girls to training homes,
therefore they must be wholly uninstructed
whou they come to us, 11 111011' mothers were
unable to temli them how to " cook the hit,
and mond the slit." Suppose, madame, that
you had been broughtM up poor man's
dwelling, and know nothing of tho 11000 of
fruit plates, jelly -moulds, fish -forks, 1120.Wouldn't you be rather bewildered and
clumsy in dealing with those unfamiliar
articles when first introduced to them
Don't you. think it would take 18 long time
to teach you not to got "1,1111001' when
deputed to take charge of objects now and
stranoe ? Por certain you would be as
stupid as Maggie in like eiremnstances.
1711011001 training a, servant can 11800 (if her
mother was ineapable) is the patient, cheer-
ful direetion of an efficient unstrems, who is
alive to the foot 111011 100 maid is her
t'
miIterot.mo heard a capital story touching on
Olio snhjeott, and as I believe 11 105 never
been " print," I give it hero.
There is a seelety a hulks who interest
themselves in servant girls, procuring good
phew; for them, watching 0V00' 111011 morals,
and adviaing them on subjoots spiritual ItS
AT WAS, WITH SAVAGES.
Englund nod 00(1100)'00(1100)' and Their Cant
polans in Asia t1111,1Attlee.
Grave news has been received at Calcutta
from the Lusitai 0011011')', The rebellious
Lwiliais hoe,: made (8 sudden raid in the
rear of tIle British column, and have attack-
ed the tea estate of Boorooncherm The
manager and his family succeeded in drew,
mo 111)11 escape, but thirty-eight coolies
employed on the estate were killed and sev-
eral others have been carried off by the
enemy am p11400010.ners. The revolt is apreading
Y1 and strong reinforcements have been sent to
' aid the tamps now operating against the
° enemy. The trouble grew Otto! the refusal
0, of the natives to obey certain orders of the
British political oiliest!. The Cachet. front-
ior is now cordoned with British troops. A
• strong lie -lion mine has been dispatched to
act in 001,00,1 0011)1 tho Ind an•Burmese force
on the ot ter aolo of the Lushal Hills.
This it; 011111 of the uprising in upper
Burnish, v,:here England los to face not only
Outwits, but organized forees of natives. A
vast conepiraey, in foot, 0111 0(1010 throughout
Lipper burniah, and the i1111110100rsinn of the
Lushais into Assam shown that the rebels
am exceedingly daring. The Mullah; made
a raid upon the tea garden of Boorooncherm
only three weeks ago when fifty coolies were
killed or wounded and thirteen were carried
ofr by the tribesmen. The uprising extends
all through the country to Mandalay, the
capital ol Burmah,
02110121(1012111.1COAST.
Advices front Lagoa, capital of the British
th
colony of at name on the slave coast of
West Africa, report a serious state of affairs
there. For thirty years past the trade of
Lagos to and from the interior of Africa has
been interrupted and in many instauces
stopped by the King of Jebu, one of the
interior countries of the colony of Lagos.
The John tribe holcl a very important
geographical poaition, their country form-
ing a frontier along the lagoon giving access
to the ports of Ligon. The Main roads,
form a very large portion of the rich hinter -
laud of Yoruba, pass through Jelm, and the
kinglevied heavy toll upon all produce
passing through this country, 01111, more.
over, compelled the Yorubas to sell to him,
thus acting as middleman to the traders of
Lagos.
It now appears that the Jelms, who are
ttethig in concert with the Egbas, have
broken tho treaty, and their combined
forces threnten to attack Lagos and the
Britieh settlement on the (fold Coast.
Trade is completelysuspended and there is
considerable uneasiness in Lagos. What
with the troubles between France and
Dahomey and the now threatened rising
against the British, the outlook in Upper
Guinea is not very promising.
The French newspapers demand that the
present 0 trapnign against Dahomey
directed to effect the complete subjugation
of thus at country, and thrender further
notion by the French unnecessary. They
declare that 18001111)81(10 11101 (1000 not effect
this end will be worse than useless, and
that in a few years the Dahotneyans will
again make trouble for the French, unless
the power of 11011 1110(1 for mischief is utter-
ly broken. King Bohanzin, they say, hav-
ing been 0,111001,011in Paris, Itnows the re.
sources of France, but this Mot has not de-
terred him from acting in a most arrogant
manner, and indulging in nany threats
apinst the French. The time hae now
come, the inipere declare, to break his power
and teaoh hun that Freneh rights must be
respeuted. 71 10 judged, by the tone of the
articles, that it 15 1108100(1 that a Frenoli pro-
tectorate be established in Dahomey. The
Cabinet hoe finally decided upon extensive
operations in Dahomey, which will be in-
truated to the Minister of Marino,
The 'Clute Shopman.
A highly respectable firm of sills mercers,
of which the principal was a Quaker, when
engaging salesmen instructed thorn to
engage in no sale which could not be sup.
ported by Holy Writ,
The day after ho had engaged anew sales-
man, a lady entere11 the shop for the purpose
of buying some silk for a dress.
The polite shopman showed her a sample
a151. per yard, which was sectrufully reject.
eclae not good enough ; sh0 wanted a better
one, so he took this baok and brought
011011180, 00111011 was also rejected. The shop -
man said he had a very high-elass 01111, but
he was afraid 1111011 1110 expense would be too
great, but with her permission he would
show it to her.
He then fetche,1 the high-class silk, 0011 1011
gavo every satisfeetiou, and o dross piece
Was ordered frotn it,
After the lady had loft the shop the sales-
man Wan severely intetrogated by his
Quaker master as to how he could support,
by a quotation froin Scripture, the sttle of a
is. silk for Itis. per yard, knowing full well
that tha piece he had sold to her Wan 1110
identical piece which he ehowed her link
The 81111(10108man replied that he had kept
his 01,801015ees instructions fully before111,1,
and as this was the first time the lady had
ever enteveil the shop, the sale was (swami
by the passage, "She was a stranger and I
took her ht."
_ --
Au unusually great amount of lace is used
on all bridal gowns ;11 present, and large
pulling:a of tulle are also Seen 011 etteh
dresses.
Grenadines aro again say popular, and
have in a g: :stt teatime° euperseded black
lace,
le lmalk the geese and shoot
them with a rifle at very hag raage—such
long range, indeed, us to 011utte the surprise
of the vast f the party. There WalS a short
interval after be had wased talking when
nothing was said and then the train con-
ductor, who hod been a listener, remarked
that he had had an odd experience with
wild geese in the Inchon Territory.
" It was down near Ft. Gibson," he said.
"You know the Cherokees are pretty well
civilized, down that way; they have fine
farms in the bottom lands along the
branches of the Arkansas River, in the
spring and again in the fall the country is
alive with all kinds of wild fowl ; in fact,
both ducks and geese can ln found there
till winter. It WM along in the hater part
of April when I was there and everything
was bright and green. The geese had near-
ly all gone, but I had never kille,l a goose,
and so the squaw man with whom I was
stopping agreed to put me where I could
get one provided I could kill it at long
range with a rifle, as this gentlemen WAS
telling of doing west of the Rockiett and
providing, further, 118 110 put it, that "you
ain't skcered of rattlers."
" That remark about rattlers mole me
rub my chin reflectively for a moment, for
there are ram tlesuakes so large in the Indian
Territory that you would not believe me
were 1 to give you the figures. I have seen
them myself that were eight feet long, and
there is a skin of one at the boys' school in
Tahlequah that meassres either ten or
twelve feet, I'vo forgotten which. How-
ever, 08 I was saying, I was dead set
to kill a goose, and so the next morn-
ing before daylight my man took me out
to a field of young wheat not far from the
house and put 1110 111 a bit of brush that had
grown up about a stump in one corner. He
said the geese would be there by the time
I could see to shoot, though they hail
been shot at so much they were likely t0.
settle dr:ten near the middle of the field
where all was clear. Then he went away.
"I sat there tor a while watching the sky.
very carefully,and then began to get sleepy.
I wasn't used to getting up so early,,
you know, and pretty soon I dozed off and,
forgot, all about geese and snakes mut every-
thing else. The emit I knew I awoke with
a jerk, and there, sure enough, a good
hundred yards—yes, a hundred and twenty -
live yards --,away was a flock of geese pull-
ing np the wheat and having lots of fun..
But just as I 0005 getting my rifle into posi-
tion to shoot, a, movement beside a little
stump about forty or fifty steps away at-
tracted my eye. There were some dead
weeds and a bit of brush by the stump, and.
something was behind this, I co-si,1 see a:
long neck and a flat head raised now andi
then just as o goo&C might raise its head
look around when feeding, and then down
it would go as if for more whoa% it was
just breaking day, and I couldn't see very
well, but I took it for granted that this
wns 0 goose feeding by itself. Of course
Pd forgotten all itbout the rattle/TA° I con-
cluded I'd just wait 011)1111110 for 01 is single
fellow to work out from behind the dead
weeds. He was so °lose I felt sure I could,
bag hint easily.
" After watching him may be dye min-
utes 1 SaW that he didn't seem to move a
peg. There he stayed, raising his head and
looking out 01 1110 flock and ducking it down
again twenty times a minute. That struok
me VA mighty queer, but while I was study-
ing on it 1 110110801 that the flock out in the
field were waddling in toward that little
stump. I suppose you've heard about snakes
harming birds ; I had, too, Mit I never
thought of that while I watched the geese
working along toward that stump, In fact
I began to think if I nould only be patient
I'd get two of the geese in range and kill
'eni both at ono shot. So I just kept per -
featly still and held my rifle on the chap
behind the little stump until—you will
hardly believe it, but it's true—that flock
got olear over by the stump, and the lead-
er stopped right behind the little clump
with his head up. Just then the head that
had been behind the stump rose up and an-
other goose from the flock waddled into
range beyond. The sight made my eyes a
little iniaty but I blazed away.
"There watt a tremendous flopping be-
hind the little stump and a greater one 37*
the air as the flock got away. I jumped up
in a hurry and rushed over. There lay one
goose shot through the neck, and beyond
another with his bock broke. I thought it
was a right good shot with a rifle m the
gray of dawn."
Hero the oonduotor got up and ;darte(1
out of the door,
"Hold on ; how about that =Ike 7".
asked the man who had killed (10008 11)
Idaho.
" What snake 2" said the conductor,
didn't say there was a, snake, That was tb,
goose behin,1 the little stump, but I missed
him clean."
A silkworm's thread is ono -thousandth
part of an inch thick.
1011 1,1111 that would be at quiet take hooa
1101(0 provoke men in power.
In olden tittles, tvheti every prat of the
body load its priee, the board was 0,11110(1 at
"200.—a lat.go sum for the time --while the
0814 of a leg was only eatimated al P2s.
17000.100011 ealin flowers, in lilac blossom
and other small varieties, aro instil() in the
closely.olustored pompon style,