The Ladies' Home Journal 1890-01: Vol 7 Iss 2

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— ’ TS? Le With Rev. T. DeWitt ‘Talmage’s New Department —— —__-———— SOSA E Z aS A — = AIS ADIES HOME J OURNAL PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1890. TEN CENTS A COPY x —— MA Wwe Ontents Kor January 1890. Vol, VIL. No. IL. Ascutney Street. Part Ill. - - Abruine 1). 0. Warirney. Illustrated by W. St. John Harper Christmas at Guttormson’s. KATHARINE B. Foot INustrated by W. L. Taylor 1890. (Poem.) - 2 2 - Lek C. Harpy If 1 Were a Man. - + -Knizancrn B. Cusrer. An Algerian Wedding Feast.- - - - - . es A Word For An Old Favorite. - henicia Hout, Doors and Windows. HELEN EverR?TSON SMitrH. Evil Speaking. (Poem.) Illustrated. Marcarrr EK. SANGSTER. Bonnie’s Prayer. (Poem.) - ANNA R. HENDERSON. What Is ‘‘Good Form.” - Mrs. F. M. Howarp. Phillida.—-Chapters VII-VIILI. Maup Howe. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Pierce. Maud Howe Elliott. A Sketch Editorial. An Editorial Change—Thoughts For The New Year—For Women of feisure--Woman and Dress—A Word To Our ‘Readers—“ The Bloomer Costume, A Letter from Mrs. Amelia Bloomer— Are Beautiful Women Happiest, By Anna Catharine Green Under My Study Lamp. .- T. DeWrrr Tarmacer, Dd. 2D Side Talks With Girls. Giving your Potograph Some Don'ts For Girls, By Eleanor Staats—That Black Cashmere Dress— When He Comes to See You A Savings Box For Girls—- Letters to Beth, No. I]., By Kate Tannatt Woods — Putting By The Odd Pennies. Books and Bookmakers. Some Bright New Books, By Annie R. Rameey—Louisa Alcott's Life and Letters—Will Carleton’s New Book--How a Novel is Written, By The Duchess--What The Pope Reads. Mid-Winter Gowns, Wraps, etc. Inexpensive Gowns For Winter. koma M. Hooper. Hints For Housekeepers. Children’s Page. (Illustrated. ) The Raindrop Story, Concluded, By Emily Meigs Ripley Mother’s Corner. (Illustrated. ) Nursing In Fevers, By Annie R. Ramsey—The Lovingest Face in The World, Illustrated, By Eben EF. Rexford— Baby's Winter Out ing, By Anna E. Watson. The Practical Housekeeper. Mrs. Louisa KNapr. 18 The Editor’s Greeting, By Mrs. Knapp —A Delicious Pudding— Black Cake—Some Economical Recipes--Snow Balls, By Anna Alerandes Cameron —How To Make a Good Yeust-—Some Holiday Goodies By Eliza R.Puarker— Answers To Queries, Seasonable Floral Hints—The Fancy Calladiums— Floral (Giossip Answers To Correspondents. Artistic Needlework. (Illustrated. Mary F. Knapp. Questions and Answers. Letters From Our Readers Le Owe” Wl eg: ’ a7 wf Ron — . V) Kx q NAN PAGE New Fashions. (lIllustrated.) Mrs. Joun W. BisHor. t2- I¢ Floral Department. (Illustrated.) - Kren Bh. Rexrorp. 20-21 O January! first of this new year, What scenes are hidden in thy coming hours? We greet thee with a mingled joy and fear, Knowing thou hast for us both thorns and flowers ; And as we blindly meet eaeh new born day, We ask for guidance o’er the untried way. Welcome, New Year! Faith bids each heart be strong, For God will order all that comes with thee. To Him we leave it, glad to march along, Feeling that what is best alone will be. And as we onward pass, kind wishes fall, That this may prove a happy year for all. DK ae Tp | Ss — a Fi aM

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THE GOLDEN RULE RY MKs. I M. HOWARD roiden and In no place rule more need ' mn th ning of childre Itisso easy to. forget were children once th management } ourselves W ofa child’s in experience—with all its keen appreciation of So hard to remember the joy and sorrow golden rule and do to them as we should have wished to be done by at their age I sometimes see children who are subjected to a constant pruning process It is, ‘ Don tdo that,’ and from morning until evening from the bottom of my heart I have still the memory of my own tive shrinking from the often repeated ings of a somewhat over careful *Don't be foolish,” *‘Don't be too and in consequence of which I grew ‘Don't ' and I pity them SECTS! warn mother, forward,’ up with an exaggerated sensitiveness which has never | been outgrown. A dread of inadvertently doing something foolish, or of appearing offi- cious or forward, checking innocent enjoy- ment, and giving me an awkward embarassed feeling in the presence of strangers. We grown people know how annoying it would be, had we a mentor to be constantly saying, “Don’t laugh so loud,”’ “Don't talk so much,” yet a child's feelings are just as tender a8 our own. It is especially cruel to punish or child for an accident. little girl who drops a choice dish, or tears her dress, is as sorry as we can be that the mis- chiefis done, but how often the mother scolds and frets, and sometimes sad to say adds blows to reproaches, and the sorrow is all turned to anger, and too often a habit of lying and deceit is formed, which no one is to blame for but the mother herself. scold a “You'll get a lickin’ for that,’’ says one boy | to another who has broken a glass water pitcher; “you'd better tell yer mammy the | dog jumped upon you an’ broke it.”’ | SKIN her said the first, “‘don’t f I can dodge it of self control, of the courtesy which obliged to show toward an elder rf accident, would heal a heart, and lasting in 1 the child's There isa point of ec think many mothers er families | where every penny must and every scrap of cloth be used to the best advantage, | and yet, even in this case, by a little manage- ment, may not each child wear out bis or her | without having the clothing of the next older made over for it, and when new is to be bought let the tinier ones have their share of new garments We all know that there is a new, fresh garment, which there is not in the made over article, and I sincerely pity the little girl who is always forced to appear in an older sister's made over clothing, and in dressing my own, I have religiously given each her own wardrobe, however small it might be, and by putting in a little extra) a) ket h my tellin me a an have i buen character Onomy ith There are count which [| clothes, charm in the | cloth to allow for letting down and out, I have | | new in her turn, and I cannot “Not much,” replies the other with a sad | face, ‘my mother never whips for an acci- dent, but I'd a most rather she would than to see her look so sorry. 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Copyrighted, 1889, by Cyrus H. K. Curris Vol. VII, No. 2. ASCUTNEY STREET. By Mrs. A. D. T. Wuitney PART III “QO, no; yes, | mean; J go out whenever | can. It is the dull time now. It is only when I am not occupied anywhere else Chere Jane stopped, as approaching too nearly detailed explanation which she was not at liberty to make, “| see,’ said Mrs. Sunderland gut she did not see; she only thought Mrs. Turnbull got sewing, and possibly other service, from Jane, at these intervals, in return for her board “J would like you to come here, if you would. I have needlework to put out; but I would rather take the needle woman in,—if it could be you. Shall we try each other for a fortnight? A month would be better, if I might ask for it.”’ “T thank you. You are very kind.” Jane answered with the same genuine, deliberate utterance of each separate word that we have noticed before to be her way. “I will come for the fortnight; and then—if it seems best itcan be the month,--the rest of it,--after ward. Did you mean to stay, or only by the days?” “And go back to Mrs. Turnbull for the nights? No, indeed. I want a little of your leisure, to put with mine and the children’s. Alice has taken such a--loving—to you, Miss Gregory.” Jane did not repeat her thanks. This could not be. thanked for in words. Had she got among the angels? But I think Mrs. Sunder- land understood her muteness _ At this moment the children came running in, followed by Aunty. Jane sat in the shadow, and they passed her, going to their mother “May Aunty light the moon?” they cried. Yes, Aunty might light the moon; the sky moon would not be lit to-night. Jane sat still, waiting to see what would come of that. A lamp, of course. she supposed; these children were so imaginative; nothing was in the or- dinary to them, \ match snapped and flickered; light of it Jane saw Aunty lift the top hemis- | phere of a great white globe that hung in the middle of the room over a table. The flame was touched to a lamp within the shade; the upper half replaced, and then was seen, hung bv delicate chains to a silver equatorial line, a fair, soft, planet-like thing, in pure glows and dusks of carven work on alabaster, that shed a tender radiance through all the room, and was itself an apparition of delight ito look at Jane uttereda low exclamation “Pretty, isn't it? It is the children’s moon I brought it from——Ah, yes, Alice;’’ she inter- rupted herself, opportunely “Your white queen is here; the looking-glass leads both , Ways,” They sat a little longer in the fairy light, Jane talking with the children; then they all jective. white | ENTERED AT THE PHILADELPHIA POST OFFICE AS SECON D-CLASS MATTER, PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1890. rejoined, with an indiscribable nasal contempt in the utterance of the first syllable of the ad- And I want it to look entirely differ- ent from what any part of it ever did before. That's the beauty of combinations. You can transmogrify, and not show the vamping up.”’ Mrs. Turnbull waived the fact that she her- self knew every shade of color and inch of trimming that her intimate friends had ever worn, and could trace them, with perfect ac- lenracy and unflagging interest, through all after adaptations; and that kindred methods made all women keen ‘But where are you | going next week?’’ she asked, curiously. Jane threw back her flood of fawn-brown hair upon her shoulders, and leaned over the | polonaise, examining something in its con-| struction. Mrs. Turnbull was easily diverted. | “What hair vou have got, Jane!’ she cried. Subscription One Dollar. Yearl Single Copies 10 Cents. by the | “Oh, I hate simple things!’ Mrs. Turnbull | denly reverted to her former subject. “What in the world am I to do for Tuesday? And where is it you are going on Thursday?” “Mrs. Sunderland wants me; and I promised,”’ It had to come. “Well, I must say!” ejaculated Mrs. Turn- bull. What she must say she did not proceed to. state. Perhaps it was not easy, in due or- der and force, to extemporize it. She gathered up her peacock and dove-colored stuffs, and went off to her own bedroom. On Monday night a little twisted note came over from Mrs. Sunderland to Jane. Alice broughtit; tothe front door this time; Mr.Turn- bull, smoking his cigar as he walked about have | among the little shrubberies in the front yard, took it from herat the gate. Mrs. Turnbull sat on the piazza, and said nothing. Children were such an entering wedge, she thought. Mrs. Sunderland was Jane Gregory's acquaintance; said good-night, for Aunty came for the little | “Now if I could match that color in a silk!! and Alice had on a plain gingham frock, and ~~ ones, and Jane rose to go. But it was settled in the moment on the porch, after the children were upstairs, that that day week should be the beginning of the fortnight. Mrs. Turnbull came into Jane's room just after the latter had taken down the fastenings of her hair, and stood brushing it before the glass. The lady had over her arm a polonaise of peacock-blue surah, and some breaths of dove-colored silk. “J just wanted you to look at this,” she said “IT guess we can make a combination with them, and I thought we'd take hold of it to morrow.’ And she went on with intricate sug- gestions of “letting in some side puffs, and putting on a plaiting, and tinishing with an edge of lace across the front, and a heading of some iridescent bead trimming.” “Pll begin, if you wish,” said Jane; ‘but I have a basque promished to Mrs. Storrie, and a week from to-day I am engaged for a fort- night. J will do all J] can.” “Q dear! and Mrs. Hilum’s lunch is Tues- day! The Flyes are there, from New York. I wanted it to wear!” “If it could be a little simpler,--I might itry; Ill finish the basque to-morrow, and there'll be Saturday and Monday. Maybe we need not alter it so much.” | brush quietly. | much as Mrs. Turnbull might speak of a bon- It isn’t caffiolay, nor old gold, nor furlmort; | but how it takes the light!”’ Jane stood back again, and resumed her “I like my hair,” she said; net that pleased her; and her fingers slipped | along its shining.length half caressingly. “Hair is such a beautiful thing.’ “How funny you are! even with a compli- ment. But you don't do anything with it!” “My hair? Tenjoy it. It is all my own.” “Of course. I can see that,”’ returned the accentuative lady, ‘‘when its all down.” Jane did not explain her different meaning. ‘But when it’s up,—it’s pretty, of course; but there’s no sort of effect to it. It would look like another thing, if you'd dress it—as I do. | My! if 1 had such hair!” Jane glanced at the reflection in the glass over her shoulder,—she would not have looked more directly,—of the mass of bang and finger-puffs and coroneted braid, and could not resist saying, “‘yes, it would be quite an- other thing. But I should need to be quite another person.” “Perhaps that’s it. It might not be so suit- | able. You're a very sensible girl, Jane, if you | are queer,’ Mrs. Turnbull answered serenely. | But took an agitated tone again as she sud- old fashioned white pinafore. This was the note: ‘Please come on Thursday at eight, precisely; have a reason; and fora reason, or a fancy, please come up the little outside staircase from the garden, at the very back and enter at the door you will find unfastened at the top. Yours truly M. G, SUNDERLAND.” Ateight o’clock on Thursday the children were at breakfast with their motherin the dining room on the other side; Aunty was busy attending upon them; Jane crossed the garden and went up the flight of steps that ran from the grass ground to a smal] square landing at the very end of the building above. A door here half glazed and screen- ing with white muslin led ber into a plain but éxquisitely dainty little room, a half square rectangle in shape, whose length took the whole cross dimension of this extended portion of the house. A white straw matting covered the floor; two soft white sheep skin foot rugs lay upon it,one by the bedside and one before the tiny fireplace in the outer wall, where stood a large, comfortable cane chair, with cushions covered with white dimity. A dressing-taple made of a packing-box and flounced with the like material,—a white pine bedstead with dimity spread and pillow-scarf,—a white pine washing-stand with rods above it plentifully hung with plain towels that shone with fine ironing and were precise in evenly creased folds,—nicely fitted fresh white window-blinds, these were the other furnish- ings. Holland shades of dark, cool green, between the white ones and the sashes, and three jacqueminot roses ina slender glass upon the dressing-table, were the only relievings of color. Over by the further window a light sewing-machine table was laced sidewise; a white cover laid over its working parts. Jane stood there, making just a correspond- ing bit of delicate tint and prevailing white- ness, in her cambric dress with its tiny pink sprigs far apart on a fair ground. She stood "on still, taking in the prettiness and sweet- ness all around her, when steps were heard coming along an inward passage-way; little, | hurried, eager ones, and others, as light, al- most as quick, but differently measured. Mrs. | Sunderland was speaking to the children. “No; you have never been here before; it has not been open. But now, you see the way; There is the looking-glass; You may knock three little knocks upon the door be- side it.”’ Three little single knocks sounded; then a very audible half whisper.—‘‘me, Mamma, too; let me;’’ and just as Jane had her hand on the knob there came three more, rather faster and lower down. She turned the latch, drew back herself as she gently swung the dour quite in against the wall, and Rick and Alice entered, curious, excited, delighted. Mrs. Sunderland stood in the doorway. Across the outer panels, now folded into the chamber, hung a large square mirror in a light frame “There, Alice!” said Mrs, Sunderland, ‘‘This is a nearer way. When the white queen is here, and would like to see you, there will be

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“> ns gs ag sce her, for it wasn’t a seeing hour, who would come in carriages, ex 2 the looking-glass, and you may knock. When you cannot come in, or she is not here, it will have disappeared, and the door will be fast. Thank you,” she said to Jane, “for playing into my little plan. I hope you won't object to what it leads to. The children have been getting very lonely. You must not let them come upon you too much; but when you can have them, the otker matters are quite second- ary, please understand.” “IT thank you, Mrs. Sunderland. I do un-| derstand; and IL am pleased, very much. am so glad to be in their little story. I’m sure it is in me to be fond of children, though I haven't had much chance to realize it. It has | been just as if they were birds; I always long | to get close to them and coax them into my | THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1890 . | . P . . » cept ov an errand; and the girl who got out} and the drivers, it's done. And then, where lyzed and withered in consequence of the wasn't a carriage-y looking person, either the men aren’t angels, it comes back upen “It may lead to a permanency,’ Mrs. Turn-| the women, and there are the poor unspeak- buli had said, ina slightly ill-used tone sarcasm. “She may take youin partnership.’ Jane Gregory knew very well that there would be more of this, in question and com ment, when she returned after the and that she should be continually fortnight; | provoked | vet; and they want of | ables !"’ “Still, as things are, we have got to work, or starve, or—come to the unspeakable.’ *Work,—yes; you're in the right line, my but the other two,—no ! there are homes more women in them dea: to mention some little quenching incidental, Daughters don'tstay; or if they do, it isn't circumstance; but now, and she was glad to much forhome, only for headquarters; liter- I have herown indignant pride for her new! ally, a place to put their heads in when they friend strengthened by her friend’s own frank | aren’t in their bonnets. They’ ve got the boom, word,—nothing could have drawn from her, | and they’re off for outside careers and causes. through provocation, artifice or surprise, any | This is where thechange and the compensa- least. betrayal. She would not have told Mrs. Turnbull that tion come in, and will keep the world round, after all. It's agame of puss-in-the-corners, hards; but I never expect they will let me/| while all of the furnishings of the little house | and the wise pussies will slip into the corners, catch them.”’ as regarded everybody, was absolutely timid | with the children of those who admitted her which had been observable in of the simplest, there were other things that}! had come invisibly in safe foldings and pack- | to no sort of personal relation with themselves; | ings, which gave marvelous tone and finish to} and more especially so, the more the little | people were fenced off by airs and costumes. She made the fences herself; she approached the home Ascutney Street knew nothing of; | thing in the new places,” things quite out of Ascutney Street experience | fully. or imagination. She would not have said the landing | by the firesides and the mending-baskets and The truth was, Jane, in her outside feeling from the wagons, or patent at windows, were | the cradles. You’re all wanted there, Jane Gregory, and you're not wanted in the crowd and hustle.”’ **! wonder if couldn't = do suid Jane, women some- thought- “Out there among the blizzards? why, them only to do that; afterward they were | that while “there was not a woolen carpet in| yes; and as fast as they get there, they do it; separated from her by her own handiwork | and devices. She knew it was an utterly senseless feeling; but it got the better of her, none the less. Mrs. Sunderland opened a deep draw in a wall-press beside the chimney, and showed | Jane a pile of nice white stuffs; flannels and cottons and cambrics and hamburg edgings; a basket upon a shelf above held threads and needles, buttons, tapes, and all such things. “I have set up this place for you; it was easy to fall in with Alice’s fancy; you have a white realm, you see; and as I wish you to take full authority here, it is well you are in- stalled as the white queen. There is nothing to manage children with like a little myth ot their own to handle them by.” Meanwhile Alice and Rick were reconnoi- tring eagerly. “Why didn’t you tel! us of this place before? We thought it was only a closet.” “Well, you see what the closet opens into, now the time has come. It was full,” she ex- plained to Jane, “of trunks and bundles and all sorts of unbestowed lumber, until within a week. And [I discovered it would make such a nice little sewing-room.”’ **Mamma!”’ cried Alice, finding and opening the door upon the outside landing. Why! turning round and round in bewildered rec- ognition; “we have played up and down these steps, and they didn’t go anywhere but to the platform. Where was this door?’’ Mrs. Sunderland came out and pulled across the entrance a sliding shutter that filled up with a flat board surface from floor to eave the space between the upright beams that served as doorposts. “That shuts it in; safe from cold weather, or tramps,” she said. “Mamma! it is magnificent! It is a story- book thing! I’m so happy!” and Alice danced up and down in ecstasy. “T thought it would please you, some day,” said her mother. “I kept the secret tll 1 knew just what to do with it.” Was all this for only two weeks,—or for a month, even? It felt to Jane like a new be- ginning of something that was to go on into a quite different life for always. Already her changes from house to house, her dreary in- tervals at Mrs. Turnbull’s, seemed long ago. There was a place here made for her; a thought for her in everything about it. Work? Was that what she had come for? Perhaps. Per- haps it would be for work that she should come to paradise. But in paradise work takes other character and name. Some word sweeter than “‘pleasure’’ would stand for it in the new language. I do not mean to detail every little thing that had todo with Jane’s fortnight here; but this way in which it began was such a pretty way of its own thatit needs be repre- sented as it was presented to her; it opens and indicates the whole spirit and expression of that which followed and surrounded — her through the days. “One thing I will say to you,’’ Mrs. Sunder- land’began, as they sat down together over a basket of work. “You will know just what I mean,—and don’t mean. Whatever there is here which you may notice behind my little looking-glass, unexpected or otherwise, please don’t be—provoked—into explaining, in my behalf, I'd rather not be explained, if I can- not explain myself. Character is like the sv- lar system. It has nothing to do but togoon. People will only understand what they come to, iF all the secrets otthe universe were chis- elled out upon the rocks,’ which was perhaps a rather stately way of putting it, but Mis- tress Margaret Sunderland could be stately sometimes. “O, I quite know,” Jane answered. “It's just as true of a little bit of moss asit is of a ae pa Sothese two met each other, and tted to each other’s thought. If Jane ever did make common talk of any- thing, she would not for the world have made common talk of the things she saw and was of for the time in Mrs. Sunderland’s ousehold. The delicate refinement of all, and the generosity that took her into it, gave it a sanctity . “T suppose she’s got more than she can fin- ish,” Mrs. Turnbull had suggested, asa final solution of the problem. This wasat once a clinching of a certain theory that chiefly through Mrs. Turnbull's observations had sprang up in Ascutney Street, and a disposal the contradiction to it which had at first seemed involved in Mrs. Sunderland's em- t ofa seamstress. The theory was Mrs. Sunderland “took in work” herself. ‘The coming and going of certain parcels had looked like it; and then there was a particular carriage came now andthen of a morn- ae early. m which either the man who drove, or a very inconspicuous little fem- in og dress who sometimes ighted, carried in a basket. ‘It the house,” there were rugs of indescribable softness and richness in the bed rooms. a su- verb tiger skin with ivory claws stretched out before the settee-like sofa of wicker work in one parlor, and that in the other was a bear- skin like a snow-drift. She might not have been able to state that a great beautiful eteh- ing ofa Mandonna upon one wall was an Overbeck; or a painting of a tiny, lovely bit of wood-glade, with two rabbits alert and listen- ing, with slender, erected ears that seemed to say “hark!” like uplifted fingers,—whence you felt at once the gesture of the uplifted finger musthave somehow grown,—and quiv- ering with the spring that was presently to take them flashing away into a thicket from some as yet far-off alarm, was a real Landseer. She would not have told of the children’s “moon,” or the fair, white sculpture of the Persephone that rested on the only bit of vel- vet or fine upholstery stuffin the room, a gar- net-covered bracket; she would not have counted as upholstery atable-coveror two that were like woven pictures; nor spoken of the books that filled from floor to ceiling a plain set of dark-stained shelves. Of the life they lived there, it would have been of no use to speak; people must live a piece of such to know it. The very questions of the children were of a range and realm that the mere good-clothes-wearing, scrupulous- card-leaving, lunch-spreading and lunch-eat- ing round had never touched; that it was too busy with its own laborious following and striving to reach up to. They played out whole fairy-tales in the white room and the rooms adjoining, which were the children’s fortheir sieep and sport; and the long L-passage and the outer platform with the garden stairs leading to the shade and pleasantness of the small but pretty grounds, served them for space and scenery enough. Mrs. Sunderland wasas happy and as earnest as Alice and Rick; she said sheliked them to live out their little imaginations, and represent in action what had so pleased them in fancy. Tothem it was realization: and to realize one’s ideals, even if beginning only with nursery fables, was the way to live. It | the women’s part of it, and that way has to be often, to be sure, a piece of the men's; but for the first clearing, the very roughest, the men generally go ahead alone. After the families begin, there begin to be pussy corners, you know, too; even in log cabins.”’ “IT don’t see how the families do begin,” said Jane. , “A few go in families at the start, of course; some leave their families in the old places for a while, and fetch them when they’ ve chopped the woods alittle, or ploughed up a bit of wrairie; and then there are the towns that are laid out and settled up all up in the lump. like the sentences children read without speli- ing. I never considered it very systematic- ally; but that’s the way we hear aboutit. And —Q, the railroads, of course; they are like rockets with lines to them fired off from point to point over the breaks and chasms, and bridg- ing the way for thecrowd, that will go winerever it sees a bridge. © yes; settling the country is done by the big job, now, but it doesn’t make new country into old home, for all that; and it’s hard for a long time for a man like— Han- sel.” Mrs. Sunderland felt a sudden little twich when she came to the name that had been so quick upon her lips. She had nearly said something else, and then it oc- curred to her that she would not. Not at all inany wild, remote, impossible reference to Jane; such neverentered her sensible head; only as it concerned herself. Something in- clined her, in the attitude things had taken with herin Ascutney Street, not to make manifest even to Jane, quite yet, the least bit of her personal and social links; names and relationships open up a good deal, “Stnder- land’ might happen to be anybody's name; but if the whole of Doctor Hansel’s, and its connection with herself, were as this and that mental before set together, they would, to a great many peo- | ple, give the key to the whole story which she meant for a while to have the fun of keep- ing toherself. Notone of these small Ascut- ney Street men of the modern little multitud- inous business world, but would have heard, at least traditionally, of the stately old cramp and useless tying down. I knew I was right at the start, and in the leading motive to do something at my end that should respond to what brave old Rick was doing at his, and so the sooner, perhaps, make the two ends meet again. I knewI was rightin leas- ing Bay Hill, and getting out of the expenses there; it was no use for Rick to say ‘you can remain as you are; I don’t see any need to al ter things essentially for you here; when I knew the money it would take would be just so much out of what he was going ofl to the opposite meridian to get together again and make up his losses with; just so much time lengthened out,—days for dollars,—in our separation. Forthe way of living in volves so much,—more than just the house- keeping accounts from month to month; it settles the whole principle of plan and = caleu- lation and neeessity in the general and for the future. [ knew he would not come back un- til he could feel he need never go again; and | wanted—in case of disappointment or break in health. er any trouble here apart from mon- ey, in which we must have each other, that there should be a kind of living established and proved that he could come right back to. I wanted tofind out that we might do® with- out paraphernalia. Besides all this,I had a curiosity. I wanted to take the chance to dip a whileinto a different piece of the story; to get near to something simpler,—something more primitive and neighborly. I thought I should like to live in a quiet little country street, with people who did not ride in their own Carriages, or give grand receptions, but knew each other's little ins and outs, and were — especially sympathetic with the outs. There's just where I missed it. They don't. [ plunged myself, unbidden and without introduction, right into the midst of the fiercest kind of an aristocracy; aristocracy, I was going to say, in the making; only J fan- cy itis not precisely the genuine process. It israther aristocracy in the potential; and which takes upon itself the indicative. Do you believe, they wouldia't let me in? ve been here six months, and not a creature has called upon me. They look at me over the fences, and spy me out and guess at me, and decide that am not their sort, and that the bars are not to be let down. So I have hid- den myself up more than ever. And the fun of it—is even beyond what the experiment would have been! L never guessed before how easy it was to hide and be forgotten. Why, you have only to slip out of your place fora moment, with whatever slight pretext, and—provided you have done nothing to bring the police after you,—there aren’t half a dozen persons to bother about you, or care whether youever turn up or not, till you | | choose to put yourself in evidence once more. ‘Out of town’ is all there needs to be said aboutit. ‘Gone a journey,’—it doesn’t mat- | ter whether five miles or five thousand, since | you're off, and people have turned round to would lead to actualization of theories per- mercantile firm of Griffith and Sunderland, | haps, in after times, remain useless day-dreams forever. which otherwise might | that was great on the wharf and the exchange, For this | long before Ascutney street was even a cross very reason she but slightly approved of ex-| footpath over the country fields, or ever an hibited theatricals: these were formalizing less of the thing than the shadow; they beguiled into self-consciousness; whereas the genuine “hourly” omnibus plodded from that pre- cinct to the city., And nobody who knew by the merest hearsay of present general society, “be-ing,’’ as the children called it, their favor- | but could tell vou that the Griffiths and Sun- ite characters, and the ‘“‘doing’’ of their deeds, was a self-surrender to that which they ar- dently delighted in and admired. With all their pretty make-believes, Jane thought there were never little people so hon- estly and simply real, as the two little Sunder- lands. “The great mistake in all living,” said Mrs. Sunderland to her, ‘is the keeping of two sep- arate selves: one that would be, and one that is. There isalways some way of uniting the two.”’ “Do you think so ?” asked Jane, surprised. “There is something that is stronger than would or will, I'm afraid. Must treads both down.” ) “Make must serve your own turn, then,’ said Mrs. Sunderland.” “Men may do that,” said Jane, meekly. “They make the world suit them, or turn it upside down. Girls have a hard time.” “Are you there, litthe one?’ asked Mrs. Sunderland, with a laugh. ‘Better steer round that snag; let the iron double-bows run against that.—My dear !"’ she broke forth in fresh, serious earnest, boys have a hard time! They’re getting so dreadfully shoved aside. They’re pushed away from behind the counters, and out of the professions. I think it’s a great shame. Why, a young man can’t marry, nowadays; until some young woman, I suppose, has laid up a prudent competence, enough to support a husband and comes and asks him. And by the time they mightcome, they know better; there isn’t any motive. A man can't make a home, while the woman does the other thing! I’ve a feeling on this subject, Jane; I’ve got kins- men,—and friendsmen,—and I know how horrid it is for them. They would want nice wives, of course; and they—well—there’s poorold Hans gone out west, away from everybody he likes and belongs to, to ride round among the ranches, and get caught in the blizzards;—why don’t these enterpris- ing women do that, if they’re so equal to everything? Men have to take the rough, it seems, and make the places, and women are to come in as fast as they’re smoothed out and fill all up, and drive on the poor fellows that ought to be some of the hus- bands, to more wilderness, like the hunted aborigines !"’ ‘Women can't all marry,” said Jane, “No, of course they can’t. under such cir- cumstances. It’s because the men can’t. | ” nd al bers ot fine washing, even, who knew ?” ‘id the Ascutney Street e. “It wasn’t don’t say its all their doing,—just in this way; but that’s part of it; and between the dolls derlands had so married back and forth in two or three generations, besides reaching matri- monially into other strong parallels, that these stood as at the head ofa list, the very mention of any single family of which suggested a wholeclan and history of social power, hav- ing its roots in at least three great metropoli- tan centres. Itdid not matter in individual cases, whether the money power were there or not; of coursemany a young Griffith or Sunderland had his own way to make, as Margaret said; and probably it came all the harder upon them in the matter of starting new centres and planting new homes. All this parenthesisis ours; it was but a flash in Margaret Sunderland’s mind as she spoke. “Is it Doctor Hansel who is the children’s uncle Hans ?”’ Jane asked quite innocently. “They call him so,”’ answered the duplicit Margaret. GRETEL TO HANSEL. “You need not thank meso meekly, dear old Hans, for my tumultuous letter-writing to you; itis my only safety valve. But then you always were my steam-escape, you know, —the only one I can puff off all my half-con- densed sublimations to. nobody seems to realize,—as we always did, since the days we travelled off to the old witch fairy’s sugarcandy-and-gingerbread — house together,—that all we do in this world, is to live out some fable or other; and that “only a fable’ means only a thing factable. You needn’t laugh at my English words or my Latin derivation. I’ve looked it out and don’t care. It’s allone in creation—to speak and to do. You were half right and two thirds wrong—and that also is an anti-com- mon-sense possibility—in shaking your head at my experiment in coming here to Ascut- ney Street, and trying life alongside a _ differ- ent row of people from those I had been ac- customed to, and who, I insist upon it, had a most limiting and repressing influence upon one whole side of me that was getting para- When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria How queer it is that | the next thing. IL would have gone out west with you, if that hadn’t been too really a wild notion with the children; but here, only as far west as Chesterbury. lam just as secure. Even if 1 run up against anybody in a town shop, I need only say, ‘down from the coun- try on an errand or two,’ and they let me go again, both out of sight and out of mind, with the most Barkis-y willingness! 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— JANUARY, 1890 CHRISTMAS AT GUTTORM- SON’S. By KaTHARINeE B. Foot CHAPTER II. “T have got a house,” said Gustave. ‘Will you go, Jorgina? It is on an island —it is nine miles from land. Dere is a ’otel dere, and in summer oh so many people and flowers, Jor- gina, dere was loads—loads. It is rent free, and in winter I can fish for pollock for the} salmon factory down to Buritan’s Boint—dere is one dere too—and for cod, and in summer 1 can fish and sail boats for cie ‘otel.”’ Jorgina was stunned. “A house —-rent free?’ she said. ‘Vat is de matter wid it?” “Vell now!” said Gustave with an impatient cluck of his tongue, “I dell you I ‘ave a ‘ouse un’ all you say, ‘vat is de matter wid it?’ Dere isn’d noding de matter wid it—dat’s wat I dell you; id’s a nice ’ouse, an’ cause dey want a nice man dey ask me if I'd dake it,—-an’ I said I yould if my vife vould, and now dat's vat] vant to know—vill you or yon’t you? Oh de vimmen-—-de vimmen—de man yat onderstands vat de yoman vill kick at de nex dime—vell he’s—he's—vell dere ain't noding too smart for him,’ and Gustave raised his hands in despair, cap in one of them, and then went to twirling it again. “Vell, but, Gustave,” began his wife ‘Now vait I dell you all about it. You THE LADIES’ and all their worldiy goods were on board a | fishing schooner bound for the island. All the Guttormsons save Hjalmar, the eld- est of the children. Jorgina cried so when she | spoke to Miss Grace about Hjalmar’s losing all his schooling, that Miss Grace said, “Well HOME JOURNAL. remember dat, Jorgina!’’ and then he was off. Jorgina sat and sobted on the doorstep and nursed her baby and felt utterly miserable. “Oh, de men—dey don’d know,” she said to | herself. ‘How can I efer run round dis ’ouse |in de col’ vinter?—Oh, dear me!" and she don’t cry, Mrs. Guttormson; we'll see what | drew a long sigh. can be done.”’ And so it was arranged a few days later that Hjalmar should stay at the doctor's and go to school and work in the stable and chop wood and make fires and run errands. Mrs. Guttormson was very thankful, but she cried all the same, as they sailed away from the wharf at Portside. It was a brilliant, clear day in the last week in August. They left Portside early in the morning, and with a fair wind they anchored in the little cove on the island where their new home was. about half past four in the afternoon. Jorgina’s heart sank within her as she looked at her future home. They had dropped anchor in a very tiny cove, just large enough to give safe harbor to Captain Wilder's fishing schooner, in which he had brought them and all their belongings. The anchor was scarcely dropped when he cried, “Step lively now—step lively! Every- thin’s got to be clean out o’ this craft before | dark,” and the boat was at once alongside |and she had scarcely time to think what she was doing before she found herself ashore and the four children scampering off in as | many directions. She stood on a small slope |of rocks, with some patches of grass growing ‘hetween, above her was a gentle rise of rocks Ny oye: Nop. 7 Just then she heard voices, and looking up, saw a girl with a bright. fresh face, and a bas- ket in her hand, coming towards her over the rocks. *‘How do you do?” she said. ‘Don't get up. please,’’-—for Jorgina made an effort to rise. |*T saw aschooner coming round from the pi- | azza, and Mr. Henry said hé was sure it was | the one you were on, and so | came over and brought some lunch. I knew you'd be fam- ished and would want to stay here until dark to get settied.”’ And as she spoke the girl seated herself on a rock, and called, “Children, come here; I'm sure you're hungry,”’ and they came quickly |enough, like a brood of chickens. | “Here, Mrs. Thompson.” said the girl, “you help yourself,’ and she held out the basket, and when she had taken one of the delicate sandwiches, “Now,children, sit down here,and | I'll give you some.”” They were soon establish- ed on rocks with their hands and mouths full. | “Now,” said the girl, “my name is Jessy, land I thought you'd be a little lonely, and so I came over. Now you musn’t ery,” as Jor- gina’s eyes moistened again: “it may seem a little lonely at first, but Mr. Henry is so kind he keeps the hotel, you know, over the hill; | 3 “All my own?” said Gustave. ‘‘I can’d belief it. “You may believe it.” said Miss Jessy langhing. “Here, young Viking,’’ and she | gave a peach to Alfred, aged five, to repress his warlike descent upon Ingolf, aged three, who was eating the last of his cake. ‘Dose chillun is allus fightin’, said Gus- tave. “I don’ know who dey ged’s it vrom— | dey don’ ged it vrom me anyhow.” | Miss Jessy langhed and looked at Jorgina, | who laughed too. That night two people sat alone near the end of the long piazza. Here come the Thompsons,” ly; it was Miss Jessy. | One boy was crying; the father was in front | with another, who was remarking scornfully, |‘ You baby, vat for you ky?” “Ah, I recognize the voice of the Viking,” | said Miss Jessy softly, ‘and his name is Al- fred.” The family strayed along the piazza, the ' mother carrying the baby, two little ones | dragging on her skirts, Wilhelm sobbing and muttering walking alone, and Gustave and Alfred looking in at the windows of the mu- sic room as they passed. ‘ “Dear me!"’ said a girl's voice. ‘“‘What an existence to live here all winter—oh horrors! all the time,—I'd rather die.” “Yet we expect these people to be truly grateful for what we wouldn't accept,” said said one soft- Miss Jessy. mion RH. Ng * lee Thi rllia.' Midi 1 aT TN Wate remember dem Bernsteins what Mina, dat fh iy \ AOE and grass. Their “Truly this is a queer world.” On the way over to the little house next morning Jor- gina sat down to rest in a covered pavil- lion on the highest point on the island, which was directly on their way. The sun was half an hour high on a clear day, and touched with gold- en light the red roofs of hotel and cottages. It senta rosy gleam , across the water to where the main land lay a line of bluish gray. Across the calm water fell the reflection of the boats moored near the steamer’s dock, the waves broke with a gentle swash upon the rocks and the little gardens about the cottages were brilliant with many colors and all of the most brilliant kind. Yet Jorgina sighed and the tears filled her eyes; the rocks were so bare and so gray ana so cold—the little house below her looked gray and chilly, for the sun had not touched it. There were no trees, not even scrub pines, only here and there patches of grass and occasionally * some spears of golden rod, huckleberry bushes in plenty and poison ivy every where, Which flourished in a dread luxuriance. Behind, before, all around her lay the ocean, broken, it is true, towards house was the only one/ it's really only a very little way, and the Bern. , the east and south by two or three islands, girl you know, have used to stay vid?" “Oh yes.” said Mrs. Guttormson, “dey vas nice ys “Oh you hold on,” said Gustave. “Dey va nice people, dey lifed in dat house vat Mr. Henry say I can have, ‘cause he like Norwe gian peoples—an’ de Bernsteins is gone west Now vat you say?” “Oh Gustave,” said bis wife. “I know now all ‘bout it—it is feery lonely dere,—dere is no odder voman on dat islandall vinder and dere is no neiwhbors any time—it is all alone by it self, an’ de shore is nine miles away.’ “Don’ dell me dat,’ said Gustave, imya tiently. “Didn'd J see de house an’ it is rend free—an’ you know, Jorgina. I earn all last year yust one hunderd and dirty five dollar an’ wid eight moufs to feed an’ de fuel aw nine dollars a mont house rend—you know Jargina, | couldn’d sdand it. FT eould vust starve, an’ you and dem babies doo. “But,” began Jorgina. “Ah, vaid bud one moment,” said Gustave “J forged one ting,” and he paused dramatical ly, to give his sentence due effect. “Ef we go dere, Jorgina, I ged sdeady vork —an’ I go no more to de Banks.” Jorgina’s eyes lighted. “No more to de yanks?” she said. ‘You mean it. Gustave? no more, neyer any more to de Banks—on’y off shore?” “On’y off shore,” said Gustave impressively. “Den I vill go,”’ said Jorgina solemnly. “I vill go anyveres to go avay vrom dem dread- ful Banks.” “You is de one voman dat has got sense,” said Gustave. ‘Is id a good house?” said Jorgina. “Vell,” said her husband, ‘id's a good ‘ouse ‘nuff—id’s up an’ down sdairs.”’ He said it a little doubtfully. “Dere’s a garret, Jorgina.”’ “Vell, I don’d mind de up an’ sdairs—if id's varm;—it vill be lonely, Gus- tave,.” “Bud, Jorgina,”’ he said persuasively, “I'll be ’ome efery night—dink ou’ dot.” »She did think of it, and to such purpose that the last week in August the Guttormsons down | | visible on that island-——a queer weather-beaten itthe house looking three stories high from where she stood, with a gleam of red curtains in three windows, one in each story. A door Was Opposite to her looking towards the wa ter. and Jorgina, baby in arms, toiled up the hill. The key was in the door, and she turned itand went into a tiny little entry, and from it a small room; from that a dooropened, This goes up stairs,” she thought. and opened it. but only a closet was there, and no stairs As she stood bewildered, Gustave camexup with a big bundle, which he dropped on the! floor, and said Well, Jorgina, ain’d it bretty nice “But vere are de stairs?” she asked i dere’s a door up sdairs, ouse? *Dere ain’ d none and a door down sdairs, an’ you go round oudside; an’ dis is on’y de kitchen, Jorgina Come round an’ see.’ So. with baby Olga crying on her arm, she went stumbling after Gustave up a crooked, stony little path, over two steep rocks, and there, round the corner, was the other door which opened on the side of the hill. The key was in that door too, and there too, Was atiny entry and one room of good size, and a closet off that and a bedroom, and above all a little garret with a window at eith er end. The sun shone in at one window in the garret and one in the closet, and little red cur tains were hung at each window. | *‘Now he is near settin’—see!”’ “Yes,” said Jorgina; and then she sat down on the outside step, her baby in her arms, and | burst out erying. “Now vat is de madder?” said Gustave im- patiently. “De men is vaitin’. Dell me quick.” “]T can’t run around de house in de cold, cold | winter, an’ it is up stairs we shall all have to | be.”’ , | That made Gustave cross, and he said, | «Vell now, Jorgina, I din’d dell you dat de ‘ouse was de king’s balace—id is no rend, now “De sun shines here all day,” said Gustave. | “Oh, dear me! Whatshall Ido?” she sobbed. steins were very happy here.’ “But they wasn’t on’y one yvoman and chil dun.” said Jorgina plaintively,. “No,” said Miss Jessy, “there were three of them, but there was only one child, and you'll be busy. you know.” “Yes,’’ said Jorgina. “We saw your husband when he was here on the yacht, and he told us all about being a Jonah over in Portside. and she laughed merrily. Such nonsense! on two of which were buildings, one a large hotel already closed and looking desolate enough, and that house was the only one vis ible from Jorgina’s windows. “! could bear it,” she thought, “I could be happy if I had Inga and the mother here, and now we are none of us happy. We are all of us lonely; they are too.”’ (Continued next month.) Just then Gustave came round the house with a table on his head and the legs in the air. He put it down when he saw the lady. “Ah, Captain Thompson.” she said, ‘ you are here, and I’ve come over to welcome you and to give you a piece of good news, In the first place Mr. Henry said you must all of you come over to the hotel to-night and get your supper and sleep there, becamse you can't get your beds up, it’s su late,’ and she seemed a little nervous, “and Captain Thomp- son, we've made up a little purse for you to vet your boat, you knuow’'--she didn’t say she had earned it for them by giving a reading “and the money isin the safe atthe hotel--it's sixty dollars.”’ “Sixty dollars?’ ness!’ “You see,” said Miss Jessy, “you must have a boat, and Mr. Henry said he told you he'd lend you one, but it’s nicer to have your own, you know.” “My own?” said Gustave, ‘Bud how vill I efer bay back dot money?”’ “Why, it’s yours,” said Miss Jessy, smiling, i“all yourown and Mrs. Thompson's now. -it lisn’t to be paid back at all.” Gustave stared. “My own?” he said. “You mean you gif it to me?” “Yes,” said Miss Jessy. “It is a present from us to help you along at first.”’ “Oh! said Gustave. “I don’d dumble do it at all!’ and he scratched his head in a_be- | wildered way. | “J do,” said Jorgina. ‘It is to give us a stard | here.” ‘sO said Gustave. “My good ’ ' wonderingly. 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1890. By Ler C. Harpy. With song’and laughter welcome to our lands The youngest born of Time—the glad New Year! The people of the earth with outstretched hands And eager hearts, give greeting ; Shall dim his birth! He King Clothed in a royal garb of hope and love, While in his train fast follows each rare thing Which dowers man with happiness—to prove That life is bright and joyous, true and goud Despite the storms which oft disturb its flood not one tear comes to us a Then Bells, chime merrily—ring him in chee; ily, He is blithesome and bonnie and dear , And while ye are pealing our hearts will be feeling That the hearts of our loved ones are near. Ring in the North—and summon ye forth The friend by his deeds confessed ; Ring in the South—-for the sweet mouth Of the woman we love the best. Ring in the East—and the New Year's feast Shall make the land its own ; Ring in the West—the Pacific's breast Re-echoes each joyous tone! warm -e@- IF I WERE A MAN. By Evizapetu B, Currer. I have been asked to join the recent discus- sion on what women would do if they were men. For my part, there are many things ! In the first place, I would be fair and square with my wife and start out by telling her enough of my circumstances to enable her to gauge Ter domestic and personai eee by my income. I would be patient with her and teach her to manage an allowance. With- out doubt, ifa man marries a girl for whom everything has been bought cannot expect a financier all in a,minute. I know a woman who fel] short in making her allowance answer, ‘alth6ugh she had fixed the sum herself’, first one year and then another, She announced to her liege in tell- ing him this fact that “there was danger ahead, a strike was imminent.”’ The man said that every one in these days of anarchy ought to protect themselves against the rising of the masses, even when the first signs were dis- covered in one small woman. ‘The third year after the increase, the Madame was trium- phant and even bonght her husband a pres- ent, the pleasure of which was not marred by the fact that she had been obliged to go to him for the money. The papers announce an embezzlement and facetiously call out “where is the woman ?” But these occasions where men appropriate other people’s re ! would not be half so frequent—that is, where crime is committed to obtain money to meet the extrayagant de- mands of a wife,—if there were only more fair- ness on the part of husbands to their better halves. A woman is agood dealof a failure who will not be willing to retrench if her hus- band reposes sufficient confidence in her to explain reasons for economy. Again, ifI werea man [ would not risk the ee of women by ignorance ot things Ler strength renders it often a physical impos- sibility to undertake. Ifmy parents had pre- ven my learning to swim, to ride, to drive, to firea gun, I would not rest until I had achieved those necessary accomplishments, evenin matureryears. I knowaman who is way up near the head in literary life who confessed that he was afraid of the water to- day as he wasin boyhood but he had been fig sony, ees dread all his life, compelling him- self to battle with the waves whenever he was in their vicinity; for he wasintensely ashamed of the weakness and believed that no man had a Hy to live who would not possess him- self of this and kindred manly arts. It is as much a part of a man’s duty to learn how to swim that he may rescue lives, to know and be fearless with a horse that he may save imperilled people, or should the bridleor lines be in his own hands, to conquer and control a stubborn or frightened beast, as it is to speak the truth, or be honest in his avocations. In our law-abiding land the use of pistols is rare- ly n , but I would not rest until I knew how to load and manage a weapon and prac- tice at a mark enough at least to ‘‘hit the side ofabarn’ inthe words of the old saying. When that rare occasion does come where the accurate shot from a pistol is the only possi- ble aliernative, the admiringeyes of women ought to be enough to reward a man for havy- ing made himself fami.iar with fire arms. Ifmen only knew how we women admire them when do something which nerve and render ita physical impossibil- ity for us, there would be fewer of them who these qualifications for ouradmiration. , too, ifI were a man I would cry. After having won the right to tears by a cour- successful, self-reliant life, and thereby myself of the accusation of weakness, I would boldly unfurl alarge sized handker- chief whenever I felt a coming moisture in my eyes at the play, or listening to music, or to an eloquent sermon; reading a touching oe Neolinc csight. Instead of sniffing, look = the ceiling, winking very G4 to ce t eee Soe sags drops, wou m nm er- chief and bo-hoo.” . A sensible woman is not prodigal of her tears. Sheshedsthem in public only when ifsodely 0 feamat onto chakeea te Oar or public opinion 8 h, it does not follow’ that cael | wildly into this privilege bs whey contend, that whenever previously, he} THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. tears. Itis written that “tears are what prayers are toa woman” and thereby we infer that they are too sacred, too holy for every day use, but | would see the pathetic places in the play responded to by a coura- geous display of something tangible to cry on instead of staunching the flow, which is so creditable to a tender heart, by gloves, by sur- reptitious movements of the fingers, or accu- rate imprinting of the cane in the midst of a globule that threatens to spatterthe breast of a manly coat. I know a manly man who is under process of reconstruction regarding the briny drops that he has exercised his ingenuity over for years. Atonetime he casually folded his programme and carelessly held it to his cheek or mildly staunched the flow of tears by mov- ing the paper up and down, as if inafit of dis- traction. The result was, when he turned to go home, two deep black furrows made by printers ink, extended from his eyes to his mouth, Then the women with him—women who had faced sorrows, troubles, .anxieties, and believed in the relief of tears—said ‘In mercy's name, do ery with a handkerchief in- stead of a programme after this.” The bravest, the most distinguished, the most brilliant men I have ever known have shed tears,and I know that tender hearted women honor them for it and thoroughly be- lievein the equal distribution of this hitherto one-sided privilege. Once more, if | were a man | would not be afraid to be seen carrying bundles. He is mistaken ifhe thinks his manliness is affect- ed, or that the women who pass him will hon- or him less, Every one honors his fearlessness in trying to grasp the hardest object to hold, a round toa man box made glossy and slippery by the highly | polished pasteboard of which it is made. It is | true the system of delivery from shops and the messenger boy have done away with the! |constantly recurring necessity for carrying bundles, but there are exigencies such as | when a train is to be caught, or the Madame | wants to wear something that won't go by, | the night delivery or some other unforseen | circumstance, where a man can confer great | | pleasure on his wife by taking a box or parcel | himself. Thesuburban husband is on the high road | to perfection in this respect. If one chances to wait atrain at the grand central or a boat at the ferry, watch the miles of married men that rush forward to the ticket office and few there are who do not embrace something fem- inine in the way of a box, bundle or parcel. There is no mistaking that these traps are for the women athome. Ifthe papers that en-| close them are not emblazoned with the shop keeper’s name, there is a suspicious shaping to the package that proclaims that it is not for men’s use, As this army of bread win- ners troop by in the station or ferry house, I send a flock of blessings out hopingthat they willlight on the heads of those men who, having been obliged to take their the country for economical living, are going te reward their lonely day by some little tok- en of their appreciation or bring home the bundle of goods which their generous purse | had allowed the wife to buy. And, lastly, if [ werea man I would keep holidays with my wife. The anniversary of my marriage would besuch a marked event she should imagine another wedding day with its festivities had occurred. A man of refined tastes must be pretty poor ifhecannot oncea year mark that happy oom in his life by a bunch of flowers. If he rhymes, he can tell her in verse what he told her in prose the first wedding day. Perhaps | if he fights forthe leisure time long in advance, | he can get a whole day to go off with his wife | for a yearly weeding trip. The grind of life is| too severe not to render it necessary for men and women to strive to let in alittle extrasun- | shine onthe sombre path by marking the | birthdays and the anniversaries, and thus en- | couraging those amenities that all so soon dr | unless closely watched. “eo | AN ALGERIAN WEDDING FEAST. | A marriage celebration in Algeria is an in- teresting relic of ancient customs. The bride- groom goes to bring the bride, and the guests assembled outside the house will wait for his coming. Soon the sound of pipes is heard coming from the summit of some neighbor- ing hill, and the marriage procession ap- proaches the bridegroom’s house. The pipers always come first in the procession, then the bride muffled up in a veil, riding a mule led by herlover. Then comes a bevy of gorgeous- |ly dressed damsels, sparkling with silver or- | raments, after which the friends of the bride follow. The procession stops in front of the bridegroom’s house, and the girl's friends line both sides of the pathway. The pipers march off on one side, while the bridegroom lifts the irl from the mule and holds her in his arms. he gir’ls friends thereupon throw earth, at the bridegroom when he hurries forward and car- ries her over the threshold of his house. Those about the door beat him with olive- branches, amid much laughter. In the even- ing, on such occasions, the pipers and drum- mers are called in, and the women dance, two at a time, facing each other; nor does a couple desist until, panting and exhausted, they step aside to make room for another. The dance has great energy of movement, though the steps are small and changes of position slight, the dancers only circlin vouns ¢ seusatonaliy. But they swing their ies about with an astonishing energy and suppleness. As leaves flutter pefore the gale, so do they vibrate to the music; they shake; they shiver and trem- ble; they extend quivering arms, wave veils, and their minds seem lost in the abandon and frenzy of the dance, while the other women, looking on, encourage by their high, piercing, trilling cries, which add to the noise of the a and drums. ‘o the traveller, the scene is one not alone wives to} A WORD FOR AN OLD FAVORITE. By Fexuicta Hovt, In conversation with an old Yorkshiremarn this morning, he madea proposition of which I deprecated the wisdom, and his reply, set me thinking: ‘You know it would be progress. Even the humblest have caught the spirit of the age and they with their betters cry on- ward! even if we leave the good, nay; the best, behind us, it is nothing so we progress. The substance which filled us with good, morally and physically, has no longer a claim; it is the fashion to catch at straws, though they prove the veriest chaff. The solid silver teapots and spoons, the rich old mahogany, daily waxed | and rubbed, with the stiff brocades of our grandmother's time, have given place to the Gorham plate, machine-made furniture and the flimsy silk of to-day,—the to-day in which we have little time to ponder over a three- volume novel, or any novel in which the writer uses his pen with a gentle dalliance, that shows he loves his hero, his heroine and his reader. sion and distress told us in a few words with the rapidity of a type-writer, or else a simoon of immorality that stuns while it fascinates. So it has come to pass that our dear old friend Charles Dickens has been relegated to the back shelf in ouy library, and the world is fast for- | getting how, in past years, it wept with little | Nell or laughed with Pickwick. David Copper- field and Dora, Traddles and his “dearest girl,” are no longer interesting lovers, Dombey and Son have passed with the ashes of “Cleo- patia,”’ otherwise Mrs.Skewton. Little Dorrit and the Marshalsea scarce hold a niche in our remembrance. Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit all belong to the procession of the departed; so too Bleak House giving us that wonderful resumé of the Lord Chancellor's court and all the poor wretches in Chancery, Sir Leicester Dedlock, baronet, My Lady so bored and so haughty and so un- fortunate, Dame Durden so cheery, Mr. Jarndyce even “‘with the wind in the east’ better than most men, dear little willing Charley and most detestable Mr. Smallweed, aey) oe “a moving on,” Laddie Jelly and ier Prince Turveydrop and scores of others introduced to us between the same covers, and with whom we would linger for the sake of auld lang syne. But it is the purpose of this paper to speak particularly of what may be denominated, in many respects, the master- piece of Dickens, that marvelous book called, “A Tale of Two Cities.” From title page to the last concluding words:— “It is a far, far better thing than I do, than I have ever done,’’—our interest is held un- flagging, and as we part with the inhabitants of those cities and the writer who so graphic- ally pictures to us their lives and their deaths, we wonder did not some feeling come to him that he had here given us his very best, and in “Twenty-three’s” soul he had put his own experience. Dickens is here so admirably displayed; we are comfortably seated in old Bngland, Lon- don, and its busy quiet is around us, as we listen for the echoing ever-passing foot- steps in the old hose at Soho Square, Charles Darnay and his Lucie bear us company, while their little Lucie peeps over the shoulder of good Mr. Lorry, the staunch adherent of the English banking house of Tellison’s. In a moment the scene changes, we are across the channel, St. Antoine and it’s horrors fill our affrighted senses, we flee to the country where we find ‘‘every blade of grass, every green leaf _and every blade of grain wasas shrivelled’’ and as poor as the miserable people; whom Mon- seigneur “had squeezed and wrung.” We ride on that wonderful ride with ‘‘the accursed | with his face thrown up to the sky and his | head hanging down, who swung by the chain of the shoe—the drag of Monseigneur’’ of high breeding. We reach his magnificent | mansion, we sitat his table and waten him agree are | opped in matrimonial experience, | as he raises his glass of Bordeaux to his lips, —see him put it down, ask calmly—always | | calmly—for Monseigneur there is no cause to ' of interest but full of a weird and strange fas- cination that absorbs the mind and attention. hurry,—‘What is that?’ and on the com- mand to open the blinds we listen with bated breath, expecting to hear Gaspard cry out “in his earthly voice, ‘Dead,’ and see him dragged in by the scurf of the neck and killed as he deserved, for interrupting the repast of Mon- seigneur. We go to the voluptuous bed-room of Mon- sier the Marquis, we see him with a long sigh compose himself to sleep, we see the | stone faces on the outer walls stare blindly at the black night, we go to the little burial place “‘with its heaps of poor grass;"’ the figure of the cross hangs still there, the taxers and the taxed are asleep; are we also guilty that we make no outcry? Dawn comes, surely that face nearest the window has changed, it “seems to assume a horror-stricken gaze,”’ our pulses quicken as “with the winds of the earth, now with the birds of the air,” then with the mender of the roads, lastly with , Monsieur Gabelle, we mount and gallop back to the fine bed-chamber and gaze with eyes | almost as eager as those of “the rats of the village,” on the stone face so “lately added to the chateau as it lay on the pillow of Monsieur the Marquis, like a fine mask, suddenly startled, made angry and — Driven home into the heart of the stone figure at- tached toit was a knife. Round its hilt was a frill of paper on which was scrawled, ‘Drive him fast tohistomb. This from Jacques.”’ Back to St. Antoine to see Madame Defarge still knitting and “seeing nothing.”’ Home again to old England where we find Lucie ‘tin her sweet compassion,’’ growing tenderer and stronger each year, faithful in herduties, most faithful to that wonderful man her father, Dr. Manette, scmetime shoemaker ofthe Bastile, known as one hundred and five, North Tower. There is so much that is fine and really grand in this work of Dickens, that I wince at my own temerity asI turn page after page and find so much that calls for praise. 1 won- der; I say, at myself, that I dare attempt to point out even a few of its merits, but I take courageas I reflect that Dickens has been the spoil of the common people; itis they who Now we require a cyclone of pas- | The remarkable versatility of JANUARY, 1890 now say: “he is old, he is verbose he will not live.”’ Thescholar has no time to attend him his clearness is beneath his notice; better Browning's obscurity or Saltus’ opium-ravings, if we need novels. Se we sometimes hear, as I did very lately,a gentleman of some culti vation get up before a large body of intelli- gent people and lament ‘“‘that Dickens wasted his time in writing novels.” Is there no real tragedy in the chapter called “The Sea Still Rises?’ No drama in “A Hand at Cards?’ No gruesome comedy in the society of La Force where, waiting for the axe, they find heart to play “some games at forfeits?’ or with the wood sawyer at his little St. Guillotine.” “I call myself Samon, see here again, Loo, Loo, Loo. And off her head comes. - Now a child Tickle, tickle. And off its head comes ?”’ Is there anyone in all this great nineteenth | Century that can read, with unstirred pulses of the black prison of the “Conciérgerie” and the “Fifty-two who roll on the life tide of | the city to the boundless everlasting sea.”’ | Ofthose “Fifty-two,” our own dear Sidney | Carton, not yet noticed but most dearly be- | loved, held in tenderest reverence despite his | appelation of “Jackal’’ and being the “‘vilest |and most unpromising of men,’’ beautified by the greatest illaminator, Love, for “greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”’ Yes, dear Carton, the resurrection and the | Life, I feel await such as you, as with aching | heart I witness you doing yourself to death in that cell of the Conciérgerie. Now I cannot re- strain the falling tears asI look upon you in that hateful tumbrel, “your brave hand holding the work-worn, hunger worn young fingers of the poor little weak seamstress,’ who dies patiently for the great republic of France; and as I see you kiss her lips and she kisses you, as you solemnly bless each other, I fain would fallon my knees and hide my face as La Guillotine “licks up the wine of life’ which flows from hearts such as yours and hers. Who beside Dickens has painted the deviltry ofthe French revolution in such vivid colors? His characters are not puppets worked by strings, but living human beings; he held his masterly pen at such an angle that they step off the book and live in our lives, eat with us, walk in the streets at our side, liedown with us at night and accompany us even to dream- land. Here is no bungler at his trade, he wrote of what he knew, “Humanity and its attributes;”’ he kept his finger on its great, throbbing pulse, noted its variation and gave us the result. He spoke of virtue to extol it and vice to deplore it; he hunted abuses out of sight. He is humorous and pathetic on the same page; he has cheered the weary hearted. He has gone into lonely households and made them laugh with Pick wick, and he has lingered at hospital cots until the patient has been encouraged with the thought that the day of unskillful saw-bones is over. He has made us cry and he has made us laugh, and shall we now ungratefully forget him because he is a generation behind us? If he had given us but the one book, “A Tale of Two Cities,” he would deserve by the reading world to be cherished as a thrilling narrator, dramatist and true artist. = SELF-AC SEU gHARTSHORN S sHADEROLLERS) Beware of Imitations. NOTIC AUTOGRAPH OF | — cee anaes awe ELEGANT HOUSE PLANTS. 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JANUARY, 1890 DOORS AND WINDOWS By HELEN Evertson SMITH In going about the newer parts of our cities, especially in New York or Brooklyn, one is struck with wonder at the strangeness of modern taste in many matters, but particu- larly at that displayed in doors and windows. The age of Queen Anne was doubtless a_ glo- rious one for literature or science, but that old lady was herself of a very mediocre ca- libre and the style of architecture which is known by her name must have suited her to a dot! Certainly the small rooms, low ceil- ings, dark passage ways, dwarf like doors, und depressed windows would never have suited the magnificent tastes and large ideas of Queen Elizabeth. In the narrow confines of city lots we can-, not build the grand houses of Queen Eliza- beth’s time, but there are some features of the Elizabethan architecture which we could adapt and add much to the live-ableness of our houses. Because we have to accept the limits of a flat only 16 feet and 8 inches wide, avery common width in New York City, where three houses are often put upon two city lots of the regulation size, like so many volumes in a book-case—it does not follow that windows and doors must be cor- respondingly cramped. Where the house is of necessity narrow, there need be only enough of its front and rear walls to form substantial | supports for the doors and windows, and the! appearance ofthe exterior will be improved, and the comfort and cheerfulness of the inte- riorbe vastly increased, There is, no doubt, a quaintness and coziness of effect as we en tera room with small-joined. deep-seated win- dows, and low doors; but this effect wears off very quickly, while the vexation of having to | meet a frowning, sham port-cullis when en- tering the house, of finding one’s out-look broken by the many bars of sash when seek- ing to gaze beyond one’s prison walls, and of having the rooms darkened by the smaliness ofthe windows, will remain and_ steadily grow. There is no genuine beauty without litness, and whilethe so-called Queen Anne| doors and windows may be suitable for pris- ons, they are not fitted to make a dwelling ac- cessible and cheerful. j Not long since, a contractor discovered | what—in his opinion—-was an error in the plans by which he had agreed to erect a cel tain house. It was specified that the street and yard doors should have four and one half feet openings; the interior doors were to have three feet, three and one half feet, and four feet openings respectively, according to loca tion and uses; the narrowest being for closets, the second width for the smaller, and the third width forthe larger rooms. This was entirely contrary to the contractor's ideas, and he coolly proceeded upon the assumption that the architect had committed an error, and that noone would notice if he made the doors after his own notions. Accordingly the cas- ings were all set when the owner and archi- tect came on a tourof inspection, and the al- teration was promptly discovered, “But,” pleaded the contractor, “If [ made the doors and windows as wide us you have em marked, they’d be out of all proportion, tov big for the house.” “Tf these narrow slits are to the house,” said the disgusted owner rapping the posts with his cane, “then I'm out of proportion myself, for I could hardly get through some of these doors without turning side-ways.”’ “And,” continued the dismayed contractor, “And—besides—I should have to get such doors as you want made to order, and that would cost a good deal more than to get them of the usual sizes.’ There was the secretof it. But if one is able to build him a house, his estimates of cost should provide for commodious doors. In this case the contractor was obliged to take out and replace his casings and adhere to the plan. Care should be taken that doors open in the right direction and have free space to swing without clashing ayainst or barring some other door. We know a house—planned by an architect of some celebrity—-where, in passing from the lady’s morning-room to the kitchen on the same floor, it was necessary to gothrough a little hall with a linen closet on one side, and through the dining room passing by the china closet. The morning room door could not open unless the lin- en closet door was shut; the door from the passage into the dining room could not be opened until that from the morning room had been closed; then, if the china closet happened to be in use, its door was found across the opening of the other, or if that were ‘pushed to, it was sheer good luck if it did not clash against some one opening the kitchen door. More than one tray full of china, in the hands of a maid bringing them into the dining room, has been wrecked in this manner. Re-hang- ing some of the doors obviated a part of the difticulties in this instance, but some were so situated that re-hanging would not improve the condition. The situation of interior doors may seem to be a smal] matter, but itis the little annoy- ances of every day recurrance that wear upon nerves and patience the most. A pointof no slight importance is to so piace the doors of bed rooms that, when open, they may afford a clear draft of air through the rooms without exposing to general view the occupants of the beds. In cases of illness it is very desirableto be able to secure this draft, but neither wise nor agreeable for the invalid to be exposed to currents of air or to the gaze of passers by the open door. This point can be secured by adopting the plan— nearly universal in French houses—of having the doors of all bed rooms placed near the corners of the rooms. Thus where there are two adjoining bed-rooms each may have a hall door placed near a corner of a room, while the communicating door between the two rooms shall be at thatend of the parti-! tion wall which is nearest the hall. Winvows are truly the eyes of the house and | as essential as its foundation walls. And they "9 go yarasty gion a THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. 5 WHAT IS “GOOD FORM.” By Mrs. F. M. Howarp. A paragraph in a recent issue of a suciety paper declared, thet “Senator Blank poured his tea into his saucer to cool before drinking. No gentleman would be guilty of such an act.” Such a paragraph gives rise to the query, “What constitutes the gentleman?’ The mere knowledge and observance of the minute de- tails massed under the title of “good form,” or has the title a broader and better significance? | Where do these thousand and one details of | good torm originate? | We have no imperial court to set our fash- ions in arbitrary lines—to dictate to us how | we shall eat our bread and butter—at just the angle it is good form to carry our fork—to tell usthat it is vulgar to handle one article of food with the fingers, but the height of gentility to use them in eating something else. | Is it not a fact that what is good form in | Boston may be very bad form indeed in some 7 ii | other city, and the etiquette which obtains By MarGaret KE. SANGSTER, - one year may be away behind the times the | y } G | next? When this is true is it not a folly to be so , eT ; strenuously particular in regard to these non- it was hardly a word, it was hardly a glance; 'twas a lifting of the brows, cantiale’ : It only told that | knew, somewhat,— it were safer not to tell! | Some of us have too much of real life to oc- Could I help the thought that barbed and thrust, like a poisoned arrow flew, | UPy our hands, head, and heart, to devote . ; ’ _ ite . ; | much time to keeping up with the frivolous in In the wake of my word, my look, my glance; until my enemy fell. | life. It is probable that the misguided senator, who made such a fatal blunder in good form, | Was an earnest man, with the interests of his state at teart, and a busy round of duties | awaiting him, and without a thought of the | heinous offense he was committing against | society, placed convenience before ceremony, and subjected himself to a newspaper para- It were nobler perhaps to have hidden the evi! out of my sight, Nobler to put my petty pique, and my envy under a ban. But who in the name of goodness, expects what is noble in spite, The spite of a girl, when another girl has stolen from her a man! Yes, | know I have made much mischief; I know and I do not care; graph. [ hate her with all my heart, and hate is the mother of death; | Again, -~, ene: the —— yo — — be oR aes fa: ng nr - alee By Deeg: ; ass more seriously upon the good form o And if the ill that I’ve sown, like the thistle-seed scatter and bloom ; | Sodnene and real gentlemanliness in noticing Can I help it, who breathed the lie, that was false and light as a breath | the matter than his victim did upon the rules | of = : = nee : ; : . . ° « sho i y sense Ce - Who fancies that sin repents, that a conscience awakes to hurt? | due comdenmans tt ican pth be confessed that there is very much that is finical and unnecessary quoted as “good | form,”’ and a person should be allowed the ex- 'ercise of his own taste and good sense in ob- serving them, without incurring the verdict “no lady” or ‘no gentleman,” if one chances to violate one of these multitudinous rules of propriety. One of the most perfect gentlemen I ever met, a man who made an elysian home for his wifeand children through his exceeding | kindness and thoughtfulness, whose guests went away charmed by his delicate attentions jand the broad culture of his mind and heart, | this gentleman in the best and truest sense ot \the word, had most shocking table habits, Pu jand I doubt not would have cooled his tea in , nsebaaaede : = —_* his saucer without a prick of conscience, had it been convenient or necessary to do so, | Weare returning to the old fashions by de- are something more. Windows form the a house with windows precisely like those in bo gee tye a tageick 3 the eg ape meth- principal decoration of the exterior of a dwell- | John of turneveledts prison at the Hague. Cr ved ‘cane — s mig it re . ge eg ing house, and either make or mar its beau- | Behind its narrow, grating-like sashes, set | Whe — the — ss of —— st les. ty. Noother architectural feature, however | deeply in the stone walls, its owner—if he be| | Wien Srancemnor rer set her table with the beautiful in itself, can do away with the fac-| not a dwarf—will have to bend low. to bring —— — the pile of snowy potatoes and tory-like effect of long rows of narrow win-| his eyes on a level with the top of the narrow 4: Magi les, oe cream biscuit, dows. From the interior theireffect is gloomy | row of tiny panes; and so deep is the + sell a int hh ML rg ni . aed sees ane = — po and stifling; from the exterior it isexasperating | brasure that he can only look straight before | * m4 itn aay hn agpelnnng olor, Snneratanes because there can exist no possible reason for| him, A view which will present to him—and | 7” iM: y 1 ater ‘ 7 Sow See Cope Jane the deformity; where there is space for two| we shall wonder if a little later, the sight do | J ! aren lover over US with a crumb brush narrow windows there is space for one wide | not arouse his envy the cheerful front of a | ant he Pony keep hp waiting 20 long between one; and one of the latter is worth four of the | large studio-building, into whose broad and | + omy that one misses half the enjoyment of former, both for looks and for utility. | lofty windows pour Hoods of light deftly tem-| the meal in the tediousness of serving It. For looks—as any one can see who will! pered at the changing will of the occupants, ' It ay Snewer for state Coraasone, but fur take the trouble to compare the generous, full | The one abode will be dingy. gloomy, prison- | ome life is ne home-like simplicity far more lighted windows of a building erected for| like. The other is broad, free, healthful, cheer- enjoyable, whether or not in strictly “good offices or studios, with the front of one of the | ful. By the way—may not the proverbial cheer- — i - ambitious apartment houses which now | fulness of artists be attributable in part to the) >i ae ee as Home-makers teach our abound in our cities, showing its monotouous | flood of light and air coming through their deren see: i while it is right and prop- rows of slit-like apertures lined with narrow | beautiful windows ? The French—confessedly | ©T oh nape Ny re rules of etiquette so far as is strips of buff or blue linen, harshly contrast- the gayest of nations—never build narrow or ep inf wil —_ a slavish observance, and ing with the red brick or brown stone. low windows. Brom the time when houses | Pa ing an undue value upon them, that the For utility—because no matter how small | ceased to be fortresses, they have built none but term “lady,” or “gentleman,” has a broader, our rooms may be we want to secure two, windows as large as their space will permit. “—e dude ine than mere external graces’ things for them: abundance of light and space | Their windows open always to the floor, In abl ‘_ one we —— 7 expert in fashion- to conveniently place our necessary furniture, our climate this is not always desirable, but | #)M sigheawns i . i deepest study his little oui ten anne gain both advantages in a | care should be taken never to have the sills —— is capa ) e of mut we do vot wish our small room with narrow windows. Where| more than 22 inches from the floor, A ane gp toturn on" from the man of cul there is but one of these the room is dark and | greater height cuts off the outlook from those | ure = good sense, because he Is not versed cheerless. Where there are two of them it is| who are not close beside the window, in society forms, and under the mistaken im- I tell you, I did the thing, and IT am not sorry—yet, Some day, I may wish in vain, that I'd held my peace to-day. Some night, | may wake and weep, and be grieved that I can’t forget. often necessary to close one window in order to batt ap eereday athe go a ake a «nace 7 » esse i: iece ‘ur i- -* * “ : s oo “ . » mon a space for some essential piece of furni BONNIE'S PRAYER. 2 is & happy feature of the age that our “© oo oe . ‘ . C. — - eae an |girls are coming to a higher standard of In parlors, dining-rooms and libraries there | thought and feeling than ever before can be no objections and there are good | BY ANNA R. HENDERSON, , | Life is becoming more and more of a real )and earnest existence to uhem, and girls in | our colleges, girls in the higher grades of in- dustrial work, and girls evenin the professions which have so long been closed against them. proclaim the fact that the days of feminine __, uselessness are over, and that a woman may how we all pine forthe sun to look broadly | But she said one night, this quaint little elf, | cultivate every faculty of her heart and head. - ed ape Paap ape } » with his cheery “Pve a wish, my Mamma so good and true, | and utilize the same witb her hands, without i. and vivify the whole house with his cheery Let me kneel by the bedside, all by myself, | sacrificing in the least her title to ladyship. ace ! ‘ ’ aye as big f s ys Two windows of each three feet wide in the | And make my prayers, as the big folks do. openings, and of proportionate height, may | admit as much air and light as one window reasons in favor of one or two sides of the room being almost all windows, What can | Seeue ttle Ronnie, four year old: be more gay or beautiful than windows from _ : ~ ge Sed f ea cadnney ix Jivht feet in width and extending nearly | Phoughtful as child of her age could be; ends cs. chore * ‘ ; . ~ | Said her prayers as her mother told from floor to ceiling, looking out over lawns Nightly kneeling cositiie leant tren. and flowers to lake or distant hills? Even in| * tala the city where one cares little to look out, By Mrs. E. E. FAIRCHILD 40 Berkeley St., Boston. So all were quiet as mice could be b hil, PB . i : . oe | anw ass. Selection of materials, of double the size. but the outlook will be W hile bonnie robed in her night gown matching goods, bargains in trade brok ! nnot come so broadly in white, yo mpage Mn Bo r , » SI cannot come s H } : ence — unli —un- yroken, the in 3 | Stole on tip toe, and bent her knee e — unlimited resou un and the general effect is far fromthe same. In . : ‘ : ; j in | i d he ravers that night. out of town can rely u fect our old city style of two narrow windows in | All alone for her prayers that nigh BY MAIL. betineton semeaananiiene. > Dt fr s as ¢ ary to try to} eager - — the parlor fronts, it w ° ‘ v pepe ° Y y to } Only a moment the wee head bowed, HAND SEWED CUSTOM MADE remedy the defect of a band of dark wall run- "j he face came up with a smile most Ladies Best Kid Button Shoes, ning up between the two shafts of light, by Then the face came uy a . Widths from AA toK, All sizes, broad or questionable references. Ladies ; Som ee , wi s. This fair narrow toe, Patent Leather Ti placing a mirror het pe bra the indow - Thi While the other children laughed aloud Plain toe. Common sense or Opera last, was an effect in the right direction, but was | ie the Other ha: : PRICK #3.88. This Shoe is Sold At the wondrous shortness of Bonnie's Elsewhere at #5. Send 17c for not so successful us is one broad window. age. Will send by express C. O. D. if | ay Not so commonplace and factory-like, but as | prayer. _ is sont with os, Gbece ex- ; gg ee — Se ‘hanged or money refun 5 ugly, and even more gloomy, are the some ly een @ tthe Gash of Gitnes FAVORITE, PIKE A CO., 45 times broad. but always low and small paned | Then came a : iy i to 49 Randolph Ktrcet, . , ¢ , vn * Ove e radiant face so small, Jhicago . Ye refer windows of the unhappy Queen Anne and) yver thi ‘tle k of i tn eae to Armour & Co., Chicago, other non-deseript sorts which modern taste | “I couldn't think of much to say, is seeking to adapt to modern uses, Old| 50 I said ‘Lord keep me,’ and that was all #10042 Hour made selling New Nickel Plat! J Broom Holders. Sample and terms 6c castles or even the houses of an old world city | T. M. GANDY,Chester, Conn. strect may be beautiful or picturesque in the | Papa kissed her and gravely smiled; Patent THOMAS P. BIMBON, Washington, Di ' midst of their own or of kindred surronnd- “That was the best of prayers, my dear; No atty’s fee until Patent obtained ings, and sume of their features are well worth | It was all you needed to say, my child, Write for Inventor's guide. ag our copying, but not their windows. There You could ask no more, if you prayed * FREE rasan 2s aaa is now in course of erection in New York City year. U. 8. CARD O0., CADIZ, ©

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SSE ee ee een ee oo 8 PHILLiDA. By Maup Ho CHAPTER VII “In the midnight of U lock I renounce the da In the ring of thy rose ps, my heart forgets to pray Sir John | The journey was at lust over drove directly to tie lrevelyn’s house aly was shown into the empty drawing-room. Ie heard Rosamond’s first light foot-fall on the tair, he heard her hesitate a moment in the hall outside, and then the door opened and she stood before him. In an instant he was at her side, with her hands clasped in his, her eyes looking into his. He was wondering if he had remembered her features exactly She was all in white, with a red rose in hes he stooped, kissed the glowing rose, and looked silently into her eyes. He could not speak Che joy and pain moving within him were stronger than any words he knew with which to give them utterance. It was enough to look at her, and know that all this loveliness was his. Something like a prayer went up from his heart, a prayer that he might be made more worthy of the priceless treasure which would so soon be his. Rosamond was also silent. She had nothing to say to her lover on their marriage eve Her thouglits were busy with the happy girl life, now almost at an end. She was to be separated from all those she had ever loved. Mother—father she might never see them again Rosamond had not yet reached that period when freedom becomes loneliness, independ ence an oppressive burthen; she was still in the full tide of her triumphant loveliness, and no instinct save that of prudence, led her mat riage-wards. She had never longed for that abiding lovewhich outiasts fading and romantic aflinities; she still found lib- erty very sweet. She leaned back regretful towards the happy past, and shrank uneasily from the future. She felt an undefined fear, “a terror of what to-morrow might hold for her,—only perfect love casteth out fear. The vow that she must make came coldly to her mind, she must swear in the name of the Most High to love, honor and obey this man of whom she knew so little, and who knew even less of her. Could she keep that solemn covenant? She meant to, of a surety. He was so kind, so fervent, he loved her so reve: ently-—-so passionately. She honored, sli would obey him, but the love which mack him on their marriage eve speechless and ra diant, found no response in her nature. She felt that she must tell him, she turned towards him ready to confess her lovelessness, she opened her lips to speak, but in that moment footsteps were heard in the hall, and after a discreet delay at the threshold, her mother bustled into the room. breast: sisters beauties, The dawn of the marriage day was welcome to Mrs. Trevelyn. The little lady told her black ayah that she had not closed an eye, and that the night was the worst she had ever massed since the time when her punkah walla iad a fit and ceased from punkah-wallaing forevermore. ‘Her bright eyes were less beady than usual and wore a softened look. Now that it was too late to draw back, she indulged herself in some anxious thoughts about Ros- amond’s future happiness. She knew full well the risk her daughter was taking. “Well marriage is a lottery at best,’”’ she said to the dusky hand-maid who was arranging her bristly brown hair. Theayah bowed a grave acquiescence. She was a patient and long suffering listener to her mistress’s endless chatter. “Any girl might think she had won a prize in Sir John, he is so hand some, sO generous, so desperately in love with her. I am sure she will be happy.” “Allah in his mercy grant it!” said the wo- man, General Trevelyn’s brother, a mild, meek mannered man,came to consult Mrs. Trevely n about the speech he had composed for tli wedding breakfast. He was to give the bride away, and the responsibility of his position made him very pale and nervous. In Rosamond's room, the bridesmaids were admiring the presents, each other's dresses, and the lockets Sir John had sent them, tiny miniatures of Rosamond set in brilliants. | Rosamond sat before her mirror clasping the famous Lawton pearls about her long, fair neck. She was very pale and statuesque in her white dress, and she gave her last direc- tion in her usual methodical fashion. “Loosen the straps on my travelling-bag, Mary, they are too tightly pulled. Be sure that mamma's bonnet is straight. Please tell Thomas that the champagne must not be too much eee Sir John did not like it the other night.” Here her mother bustled into the room, “I do hope Clara will get the ring in the cake, mamma. Can’t you give a hint to some- body about it?’ In these last supreme moments of her maiden life her mind was full of oddly- assorted thoughts. “Do you remember old Mr. Poslethwaite’s funeral, mamma?” “Of course Ido. Wouldn’t your veil be a little more becoming, farther forward?” “I think not. I was just wondering if the THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. ‘It’s not so very late, is it? was dream Ing By way of doing something original, as if you had not been dreaming for the last three months. Armydis, did you hear what Mrs. Ackers said yesterday about the reality never coming to our expectation? Yes, | heard her say something of the sort It's all bosh. I have dreamed about the woman I should marry all my life, and I ney er imagined anything so beautiful derful as Rosamond “Dear old boy, she is very lovely. I think she is very good.’ (00d? She's an anype |! hero of the day from his tub ‘I have ordered breakfast served in your sitting-roam. I thought you would enjoy your last bachelor meal alone with me. The hotel IS full of people we know. Archie Northbridge arrived last night, Silverton and the Montfords came this morning ‘Mave the Brandyces come yet?” I doubt if he comes at all; she is expected by the next train. I say, Jack, how do you Suppose the Senorita feels to-day? ‘Poor little Teresita { had forgotten her SO Wor spluttered the her very existence,” said the bridegroom elect | remorsefully. “Forgotten all about her, had you?” con- tinued the best man. “Well, I paid her the attention of sending her an invitation to your | | wedding. I thought it the least thing we could do.” | “IT ought to have written to her. Whata selfish creature IT am. I have thought of nothing but Rosamond and myself.” At the breakfast table Sir John found his| l|mail. Among the other letters was a small | | rose-colored billet addressed in a foreign hand and bearing the Seville postmark. It was from | the Senorita. She thanked him for the honor he had done her in inviting her to be present ( Vs d | at his nuptials, and regretted that it was im-| light of it shone in his tender eyes. the | possible for her to accept the polite invitation. The note closed with many wishes for My | Lord’s happiness and prosperity. ‘lhe simple | dignity of this letter touched the young man | as no reproach or satire could have done. The | only indication of emotion was in the tremu- |lous handwriting. He handed it to Armydis | with a sigh. | A cloud already marred the beauty of the | organist would strike up God Save the Queen, | day he had looked forward to as the happiest | as he did then. awful it was?’’ Here Rosamond’s bouquet was brought in, 4 loose bunch of white roses, with a spray of nb Between the leaves was a tiny note con- ning the words “T attach myself or die.”’ The tears came to Mrs. Trevelyn’s eyes, when Rosamond handed her the slip of pa- pee. She smoothed it out, and put it away in er daughter's jewel case. I marriage. Armydis found him lying with his head pillowed on his arm, the sunlight ee e€ up, mion,” cried Armydis. “Pleasant sort of bridegroom you are. Bup- pose I hadn’t called you at all?” Don’t you remember how \in his life. Poor, poor little Teresita! He sighed as he buttered his roll. Conscience accused him. | ‘Until I was surer of my own feelings, | ' ought never to haye trifled with hers.” anity defended. “How could I help it? his fate, his fancy must rove. was: little harm done.” After all there A few secret hand | Untila man meets | chime. | silent prosecutior He ave another deep Sigh Come, old man this sort of thing w never do. Remember, this is your weddi! morning.” Armydis was looking at him « riously, sympathetically I wish that letter had not come to-day I don't want to have to think about any on¢ but—Rosamond, Take warning by me. You have always been a great deal better fi than I—keep your love in one great so lump, and give it all to the woman you marry. Then you may not feel on your wed ding day as unworthy as I do on mine You couldn't help it. Ever since I can remember people have been falling in love with you, | ama very different sort of perso: A carriage stopped before Whe inn door, and Armydis walked to the window “It's Mrs. Brandyce. Archie Northbridye with her; he must have gone to the station to meet her “[ had rather they had not come at all said Sir John Poor things! I only want happy people to be with us to-day. ‘The time came to start for the church. In the vestry they found the rector and Wellin; ton Blake getting into his surplice. The tour men shook hands all round, “Have you got the ring safe, my boy?” whispered Blake. “Don’t be nervous. Speak up hke « man. You are as white as card board.” At the first notes of the marriage hymn the | door of the vestry opened and the bridegroom and his friend made their way to the altar. | Sir John’s heart kept time with the beautiful, ! passionate music, the perfume of the flowers almost intoxicated him, his senses reeled and | he grasped the rail of the chancel for support. Now the music, which had been soft and subdued, swelled into a triumphant pean, the | deep melody steadied his half-fainting spirit, | the fervent love and happiness that were be- | fore him swept over him in a warm tide, the | strength of it filled him with a great pride, | and he stood erect and joyous as the tall bride came rustling down the aisle towards him with the port of an empress. He hears the words of the service and makes his responses mechanically. In a maze the register is signed and he and Rosamond walk togethe1 down the rose-strewn aisle'to the porch. He sees his mother’s face wet with tears,and Mrs. Trevelyn’s brisk and smiling, Pattie nods gayly to him, and in one of the last pews he sees Esther kneeling with clasped hands and bowed head. Near the door a man is leaning against a pillar with a stern, pale faee, his eyes are fixed on Rosamond; it is Terris. The belis ring out a merry marriage somebody puts Rosamond into the carriage, presses his hand, blesses him, and pushes him pressures, a ribbon stolen from her dark hair|'n after her. There is a bewildering sea of and that one long kiss in the moment when | kindly faces smiling at them, and then in a wton slept soundly the night before ' they loitered behind the others in the moonlit | little there is only one face near him. the face ‘garden. Not much for him to have taken | of a fair woman whose eyes look shyly and from her, few men would have been content | with so little—and he had meant only the best towards her! But conscience was not so easily half affrightedly into his. “Ts it true, Rosamond? And Rosamond says, Are you my wife?” “Yes, dear, it is to be hoodwinked, and went on with the true.” There is a carriage with white horses, | JANUARY, 1890 I f ‘ v ty I} ‘ , Lhere more | ‘ 1 the \ | herein to spend an! ir i pit afternoon, than the Piazza of Saint pring Marco, at Venice. ie square in front of ! ju Cathedral is surrounded on three sides by most enticing shops in the orld, presided over by the most eloquent of shopkeepers The in pr inlou ourist wit the meayre jet ter of credit, may pass unscathed through the fherce cont 1 of Par shopping, he may f escape the cl] hit of thre Roman Ant ptiuy Deut he i be cu ht ofa surety, i the ire of the I Venetians. The pout er the traveller be, the more trashy and use less are the gewvaws for which he exchanye his good gold piece » bardly earned, seo painfully hoarded At sunset the Piazza is full of people the tubles outside the cafi ire all occupied, and a motley crowd surges merrily up and down the ~quare, keeping step with the music of the band. The rays of the setting sun touch inte a brighter gold the four bronze horses over the door of Saint Mark d vild the waters of the fountain in the Piazzetta, where the water carriers are forever coming and going. One of these, a tall young virl, with a lithe, full figure, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, under Which her plaited hair falls below her waist passes two English gentlemen who are loiter- Ing aboutthe square. On her shoulders she wears a saddle, into which is fitted a long pole, from cither end of which hat t pail of water The girl makes a pretty gesture of recognition to one of the gentlemen, whosays plea intiv to her (sood evening i child mary you always ha e good luck And may the mother of orphans guard youin the night and d answers the girl, ‘Is she one of your model Arimydis?” asks hiscompanion of the young man who spoke tothe water-carrie) “No, she is the te of my gondolier. I bought them both halfia dozen years ago Bought then Yes, they had been sold by their relations to a Vagrant musician, who beat them when he was drink, and st ed themwhen he wa sober Marietta wa i ttle creature then and Checo a half-starved boy of twelve.’ What a fellow vou are Armydi \fter buying them what wus the next step? said Jolin Lawton, looking she passed out of sivlit. “| gave them to my good old landlady, who put them to school. For the last two years they have supported themselves.” “And before that you supportea them?” “At about half the expense of keeping your after the young girl a dogs at home. Living is very cheap here The two men “oon after this took ther places atone of the café tables, and ordered some beer. The ever-shifting crowd in the plazza passes before them, picturesque ana animated. Here are a couple of young Ven tian dandies walking arm in arm, this mutual support being rendered almost necessary hy the high heels of the tight little patent leather boots, in which they pattel unsteadily about over the bronud flag-stones: behind these walk swift and silent two Sisters of Charity, bound on some errand of mercy. They wear ashen with the thrice- gray robes girded at the I glitters a cola knotted cord: on the breast cross, their faces are set in f white linen, The humpbacked ndied fruits limps by, carrying a great tray cove red with nuts, oranges, prunes and raisins Here and there a woman with the red goid) hair ‘Titian loved to paint passe and proves to us that neither the imagination of the painter, nor the mellowing touch of Time, but Nature herself, gave those wonderful colors of the Bella of Tiziano. The military element is net missing, but parades in the persous of two elderly officers with tight coats and enormous stomachs, who pace slowly by, their hands clasped behind their backs in a pathetic en- deayor to try and balance things. They stare every modest woman out of countenance and make audible comments on the personal ap vender ot | pearance of all the young ladies they meet The warm toned beggar, and the seller ot matches, add a spice of dirt and brimstone to the scene, and overhead the white doves fly and wheel, and come circling down to earth with low, contented cries, to pick up the corn which is scattered daily for them in the Pi AZZA,. When they have finished their beer, the two men leave the piazza, encountering on thei way a phalanx of British tourists, clad in Continued on opposite page. iid | t = VE 7 44 CHERRY PECTORAL, THE VOICE, when hoarse and husky from overstrain or irritation of the vocal organs, is improved and strengthened by the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Clergy- men, Singers, Actors, and Public Speakers find great relief in the use of this prep- aration. A specific for throat affections. It relieves Croup and Whooping Cough, and is indispensable in every household. 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JANUARY, 1890 PHILLIDA. | water, and they went down stairs together | and joined Armydis in the garden. Continued from opposite page The years had brought many lessons to the young husband, sweet and bitter. In the first gray linen travelling gear. and armed with | months of their marriage, the happiness of umbrellas and mackintoshes, in spite of the | livingalwaysat Rosamond’s side sufticed him. unchanging clearness of the weathe Her beauty, her dainty ways, ber maidenly “T wish they wouldn't,” said John Lawton, |innocence, her large store of world wisdom, irritably. “Why can’t they stay home? were all wonderful and new to him. He “My dear fellow, why should they? lived in the atmosphere that surrounded her, “Il like my countrywomen at home, but wrapping it about him like a cloak, careless 1 4 somehow they « of Venice. on’t seem to udd to the charm | of all else in the world. Everything that she THE LADIES’ HOME ) JOURNAL. 7

not enough for him to know that she cared more for him than for any one, nor that if his image was not in the inner shrine of her heart there was no other there. With a patience that was almost pathetic, John Lawton set about winning his wife's affection. By giving her his every thought, by lavishing upon her the whole wealth of his affection, he thought to buy her love. He laid his whole life at her feet, sacrificing every pleasure in which she could not share with a passionate delight in the sacrifice. | that gift of language and facility of expression which some writers acquire only after long and laborious effort. It cannot be said of her that ‘‘she lisped in numbers,’’ since she has never written in verse, save with one or two exceptions. But the poetry of her prose is one of its greatest charms, imaging as it does, the poetry of her nature. Indeed she is one of those people who do not believe in the prosy side of life—because they do not and cannot see it. Romantic, generous and high-spirited Rosamond | herself, she sees now the joyous, nbw the trag- — women ought never to go | did seemed to him worthy of observation, to | did not care for hunting, her husband sold | ic side of life; but its pettiness, its prosaic de- out of England, there ought to be a law about | the very plaiting of her wealth of hair. He) his hunters and never rode to cover once that | tails—of these she does not like to think,and it it i studied her attire to learn what became her | season; driving with her to all the meets, and | must be confessed that she finds those people “Inconsistent! best, he submitted as what strong man has not. seeing the start without one word of regret | tiresome who dwell everlastingly among the secause I have brought Rosamond and my | done, to the tyranny of Omphale, and left his | that he and Tasso were not among the jolly commonplaces—who like to linger in the ruts mother here?— Well, they are different some- | lion’s skin and club, for her loom and distaff. | crew of riders. Rosamond disliked dogs, and | of every-day life. how.” The dinner was a panda one, but pleasant; Ali, Lawton’s satiny dachshund, which vo It must not be supposed, however, that ‘The reverend gentleman who is the hus- | with the home talk which the arrival of Ar-| been his very shadow, was given to Armydis.| Maud Howe Elliott is one of those literary band and father of those ladies thinks the! mydis stimulated. He brought the last news! Rosamond was not musical, and her husband | women who are wanting in practical quali- same of them, I suppose. By the way, while | from London. and a packet of bon-bons from neglected his singing: his mother missed his| ties. From her father, Dr. Samuel Gridley 1 was sketching in Saint Mark’s yesterday [| Paris, Lady Lawton was very tired, she had} sweet, high voice ringing through the house. | Howe, the eminent philanthropist, she inher- noticed him kneeling before the high altar been “doing” the churches and picture gal- |The pleasant evenings when they used to | ited in full measure, his remarkable executive with a black book bearing a gold cross on its | leries all day, and Rosamond, as Pattie Ack-| study much good music together, were very | ability, and power of organization, as well as hack, clasped in his hands. He read in the | ers had said about her when she first came to| rare now. Whist took the place of music, | that indomitable will and force of character book, and then raised his eyes to Heaven in| Lawton Hall, “had no conversation.”’ and Pole was quoted instead of Schuman. | which enabled him to unlock the imprisoned prayer, as I supposed. [ happened to pass be hind him a little later, and found that the cover of the book of prayer contained a copy of Murray’s guide book, with the aid of which he was making out the of the dome By this time the y had reached their gondola ‘You will dis?” “Yes, | am anxious to hear how your mother and Esther fared in their sight-seeing.” When they reached the hotel where the Lawtons were staying, John went directly to his wife’s room, leaving Armydis to smoke a cigarette in the garden. Four years have passed that bright marriage morn, when Rosamond Trevelyn put off her maiden state, for the untried life of wifehood, years which have brought their les-

mosaics 7 young men dine with us, of course, Army- since sons of love, of grief. of passion, and of pain. Her husband is no flatterer when he says to her ‘Rosamond, you are more beautiful than ever.”’ young people With youth The outward life of the two has run along smoothly enough, beanty, health and wealth to their dower, it seemed to those who saw them, that the per fection of human happiness must be theirs \ son was born to them, and with the advent | of the child there came to Rosamond Lawton the first passion that had ever compelled her to forget herself, for another. She had been a fairly good wife, but until the Lawton’s child was first laid upon her breast, she had no thought of love for her husband. Then a reflected love fell upon him, and as her child’s father, he began to have a certain share day when John asked mother?” “Did you have a good day, ir John, after a long pause in the conversa- tion. “Ves. but Esther is such an absurd creature I shall not take her with me of her affection. Her life at Lawton Hall had ‘* haw mone attacks anon Hg na ts?” . d ore ; ac ’ *PApPIsSts!s been a very pleasant one. She had gained : ; I pay} “No, but she won't look at the pictures, and much more by her marriage than she had an- vt ir ticipated, a high position, a luxurious home, stalks by all the statues with her eyes on the und 4a charming and devoted companion ground. Tf you try to interest her in any of = eee : Pins ‘ " . he ines > SPOS thy ‘re ‘ ” 2 | whose forethought anticipated her lightest the things one sees, why there sa lecture on fancy. The wheels of her existence ran more heathen idolatry at ouce. She's an incorrigi- wer fie : - sia ble Presbyterian.” easily and quietly than ever before. It was so , restful There wan nothing more to be Rosamond laughed softly, and asked Army- ptt iy I for | ar aakeiinied ten dis how the weather had been in’ England. {ri S . She Was } : - shee 8 aca " her place in the world, and she filled it to the Armydis gave ae? graphic an account of the , nas =e weather as he could, and svon after the ladies best of her ability, by Jooking as handsome, allt Gl tennis and being as good-natured as she could, ‘ orig , . R “ , : Did you see Northbridge about the shoot- With the birth of her child, came the first |. ; ; err : -,." : > ing?’ asked Lawton, after closing the door great feeling of her life Phe passion of ina behind his ~ pl : ternity was the only one she had yet telt. |’ Nr 'y ] re t heard then? Above the throne where herse/f had ever ~ . Oe) saene eee oe awees . rier nd gf gg > thenskiix th hild had What? [have heard nothing from him » ic ow Mouy ! iii hil . : : . since we left thy ites and established itself ; , a ouee — 1, a ge =e “Well the thing we all foresaw has hap- sovercig : - ee ned Sir John found Rosam md sitting with her ” vou meat Mi; Brandvce? baby in herarms. She held up her finger to deghe peecak ger sea , : him asa sign that the child was asleep. He Yes, London was ringing with different i asip li . ‘ WAS ¢ ‘ID - * ° t k a low stool at her feet and sat t : ' versions of the affair, but there is no doubt on H OV ston t ti “i ‘ t ‘ ; ieee, “ec teapot eel te me MO”) hat Mrs. Brandyce has left her husband. ment looking up into her face, She was more he * wen ler j he lived with the : » only der is. she . , beautiful than ever, as he often told her, het ph isee, _ ; eves were deeper and more tender, tl other brute so long. love had i fig A ‘the - aig hich hel “If he hadn't taken to beating her, she ove ha anstignyre , “OW ‘ A ; a es nea , i > , r — would never have left him, In my opinion, mice heen So statuesque and eripts ars enillt “6 ~ : Son as re Presently the child awoke, and Rosamond xaid Armydis A saw Simm pom h her arm busied herself in stilling its erie he seemed | 22° when he was putting her into her car- s]e arse ~ } u nb , shes ““ ” . : re, Se at she almost screamed, ty have forgotten her husband's presence. | “#8 » that she almost sere um d.” His nerves were jarred by the noi and hie Poor woman—poor Archie! Where have Ss 3 4S sre jarrea Dy) 2 Oise, all it | ) 1} wr ¢ called the nurse from the inner room. At "7 Co hod knows: they went away on. hi ° ‘ ( ’ ~. *\) y 3 ‘ ‘ ty) times he almost hated the helpless infant over — agp = : ; ACTit whom Rosamond would bend for hours : , . . “ot it «le sus ose their life will be? crooning and prattling in the divine mother What do you ot at, agp "a 7 any Nonsense He was ]eé ilo s desperately je il Heaven knows How can t are “ any Ls ¢ f his own a Whi n thie = r ql al happiness for either of them! sighed Army- ous Oo Ss owl ; ° 1c 1c ' Thine . : : di taken away the little Robert, Rosamond no . > : ; > . mm MS allair Kee Yr, Mary "% ticed the roses which her husband had He felt the sad affair keenly, Mary Be - brought | dyce was one of the people he knee best in CHE Se ye i 2 ire! Where did t] the world, and Archie Northbridge wus very WwW move iw i Pe: wre if tfit \ ‘ . . eu ‘ th the cousins come from? They seat} like England. ar a deg a pI) “T sent to Florence for athe mi, th ire the What else could have happened contin SC 2] 8) ) 0 ‘nn, they ¢ ; } an . ‘ . Ht . ‘ . ”? same as those you like best at home ane nig } Mersin pee Airing __ i « body besides himself and Rosamond; bauble on her round wrist, and held out her “ae "he is ' ad first met he had hardly . ° ° ° . S| > ey li rs i i ‘ ‘ pense od gg MO ee en ne At ey | thought of anything outside of their lives. It prin ort - le = e em “ al- |) ad taken him a yea! nearly to find out that nost sadly— iis at least, is all my own. ; Rosamond loved him neitherin the degree nor She drew down his golden head, and kissed 7 } } kind inwhich he loved her. With this knowl- “— lightly 1 ae ] “es a I j edge came lis ¢ xplanation of the fact. sé . > « , ov sis for vol - > P 2 4s course it is, silly boy. is 18 for yout “Women.” he said to himself, “are colder remembering what day it is.’ “This” rarely happened, he could remember and more cautious than yer es They yield uP . . L- 3 . the treasure of their love slowly, little by lit- ae unasked kiss that ne a pt n a. tle, one day she will give me all that I have rOur years ayo 0-aay 1iOoW shor ] all 5 seems! Why we are old married people al given he a 1} - trait. and counted ready,’ said Rosamond, fingering her new ee ae ee ae } -s “d jewel. “How does this unfasten, John? every estimable quality he og cane ngs Hy “Try and see if you can take it off.’ miser col ints his gol 1. : = r He : ace’ a “No, there's some trick ora lock. Al | Ww plicity, justice, purity, - those Fit » 6) . in keep it on ‘all the time?” _ hers, if there was no impulse, no - rosi y “Yes, it’s a sort of ornamenta) handcuff. 1| 22 ™agnanimity In he r, a beg me have the key safe on my watch chain. I that it was because’ ae "ies S es a at life. should rather like vou to wear it always, if developed by her narrow, formal society They were latent must grow, together with the unselfishness, the self-abnegation of ’ ° a9) and you don’t mind? “Mind? My de: at’s the way t \ . a x, Ming (My dear, thats not the way to pat|y great love. In good time these would be bee n long or short to you, John?” ; iis. as well as her beauty and me —_-. He did not answer al nud, but he said to |} Many men would have been satisfied with the himself “A lifetime!’ He put the roses in frank friendship she accorded him, but it was

Rosamond played a remarkable game for a woman, and all] people like to do | the thing that they can do well. mind of Laura Bridgman. Mrs. Elliott also possesses a feminine and She | practical talent, which is supposed to be high- was very good, she was very practical, | ly valued by the sterner sex—she has a nat- but she was hopelessly prosaic. In their | tiral taste for cooking, which has been devel- reading he submitted | oped by practice at cooking-class and at home his taste to hers, and|—and when she finds time and inclination to dry and instructive | descend to the kitchen, the result is eminently satisfactory to her guests and her family. | The most notable enterprise, of a public | character, in which she has engaged hitherto, was the Centennial Exposition at New Or- leans, where she presided over the literary de- partment for women, both ably and accepta- bly. Mrs. Elliott has travelled extensively, both in Europe and on this continent. When only seventeen years of age, she visited San Domin- go, Cuba, and our own south in company with her parents. A few years later she ac- ‘companied her mother on a two years’ tour | through Europe and the east—Palestine and | Egypt being included in the trip, as well as |‘lurkey and Greece. Her own beauty and | charm, added to the literary and social pres- tige of her mother, gave the young girl un- usual opportunities and advantages, both in- tellectual and social. She saw not only the fashionable world of England and many parts of the continent, but the literary and intellect- ual world as well. Her visit to England was one continued fete, but while it interested and amused her, to see the city and country life of the English aristocracy, she valued more than all these purely social experiences, the meet- ing with so many distinguished literary men. But the life of a mere society butterfly could histories crowded poetry and romance to the wall. Rosamond rarely read to herself, and when her husband read aloud to hershe liked to feel that she was adding tangibleand statistic- al facts to the sum of her knowledge. When pet long satisfy the earnest spirit of Maud the time of her trial came, Rosamond’s hus-| OWe. Keenty as she enjoyed social ile, she band never left her side, his tenderness and | Und, after a few years, that a life of amuse-

ment was neither profitable nor enjoyable. skill, his strength and cheerfulnesss made her | © ; : Bis f She wisely concluded that in Society, we cling to him through the first days of weak- ness. Lawton, whose whole sympathy was must find not a life occupation, but a pleasant with Rosamond, showed little interest in his | '!#xation after more earnest work. Bhe now son and heir. but to Rosamond the whole turned her attention towards Art, but soon world was as naught compared to the red and | CMe to the conclusion that her artistic, tal- | vigorous new-born atom of humanity, It) ¢®¢s did not warrant her making this her life ‘seemed to Lawton that he was of even less “—- ‘il and brusl ‘ere, graduall importance than before, beside the new and daisies Poids Sr | bupen pee) PA ptm y absorbing affection. The hope that he had thrown asic a for the pen, ane be ker SOFVing | halfeonsciously lived in, that this great new the usual apprenticeship of newspaper writ- ing, Mrs. Elliott published her first novel— together - ae . F “A Newport Aquarelle. rhe following sum- bond would bind them more close ly than before faded away. Poor Rosamond! Everything that was de- ™er she visited her aunt, Mrs. Mailliard, at lightful in life had come to her so easily, that her ‘ alifornia Ranche, and the result of she believed, if she thought about it at al], | ‘is western trip, was her second story, “The ’ ‘, > art >. . »?? oY or , o * that to be handsome and daintily dressed, was | 5!" Rosario Rane he. Her third novel, “At lenough to kee p, as it had been to win, her alanta in the South,” was written as a conse- husband’s affection A successful belle and ase A “Pes se bmg Ones eran wuity, an adored wife, an idolized daughter, | @XpostGoen. | She has also published @ num pee now a proud and happy mother! Pros ber of short stories, mn |perity had been wrapped about her from But while the essential nobility and poetry ae birth, likea warm garment. She knew ?! her character, are mirrored forth in her as little of grief as Marie Antoinette knew Writings, there is a charm in her personality too subtle—and too many-sided to be appreci- ated by those who have not actually seen and known her. By turns grave and gay, now discussing some vital problem with deep earn- estness, now full of quaint humorand funny sayings--but always generous, helpful, sym- pathetic and full of energy she is, like her of hunger, Parisians cat cake, when she asked why the famishing who clamored for bread, did not -*- MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT. A Sketch of the Author of ‘‘Phillida.” yy

, iad ‘shed mother (Mrs, Julia Ward ‘Howe) a charming We so often read about distingtis 1ed peo- | tyne of a descendant of the old lle Aon pone ple who were prodigies of learning in their) * early childhood and youth, that it is agreea- . ae - ble—by way of contrast—to be able to say 4 M AU |) HOW Pe S NOVELS. Maud Howe Elliott that she was not at ¢ studious as a child, and hated some of hen A NEWPORT AQUARELLE, lessons cordially. She would declare that A breezy, bright and clever story of fashionable Newport life, ¢ loth, $1.00; paper 50 cents. “Greenleaf was an old fool, his arithmetic ute ter nonsense, and the answers all wrong!?| THE SAN ROSARIO RANCH. The boldness, the originality of these remarks A good, warm love story of California life. Cloth +f: ; : , . $1.25! paper 50 cents, greatly horrified her teacher—and yet it was c evident that the child who dared impugn the ATALANTA IN THE SOUTH. A romance Southern characters, Send for our Catalogue. of price by the publishers. ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. of Southe rn life, a Northern and Cloth $1.2 Mailed — on receipt sacred character of that only absolute image of human intellectual perfection—the arithmet ician—-such a child had thoughts of her own, if she did not always possess patience sufficient to enable her to follow those of her master. In short, the little girl was backward in her If 80, and desire fashionable P . 4 writir “ape a Sona studies, not from any lack of cleverness OF ae srices. alk your stationer for tellizence, but rather from asort of iy. devel | oston Linen bi of disposition which made her early deve oston Bond, opment slow in certain directions. or Bunker Hill Linen. If he does not keep them send us 3 two-vent stamps for our |complete samples Of paper representing over 250 varle- etoe ye h we sell by the pound. MUEL WARD oy Pe at Franklin Street, Bost Boston. SYMPHONION. : : ’ thich the little girl Latest novelty in Muste boxes with changable stee certain French lessons, which t 1€ little ZiT] | Hates by means of which thousands of pieces can be said she couldn’t and wouldn’t learn, and) played. Catalogue free. Fred, H. Sander, Im- yet when, a few years later, Mrs. Elliott went | porter, Boston, Mass. __ to Europe, she learned with great ease and BRIGHT AND FAST quickness, to speak the different languages of the countries which she visited. Red, As a little girl, she showed evidence ofa 8 ek ING & CO.. Foxcroft, Maine. aging ‘ t iginal stories ively Snageesen peels Bn ge Z EVOTIONAL and Christmas Ribbon Books and which she wrote as compositions, were con- Dwoveities. Lady Agents wanted. Send for Catalogues sidered quite remarkable by her teacher, the | and terms to: IBBOTSON BROS., Richfield, Spa., N.Y. Thus, she did not speak until she was two 3 years old—and just when her mother began to wonder whether the child ever would talk the little Maud made her début in the English Postage is 16 cts. per 4 lamguage, with nothing less than an entire Express often cheaper.’ sentence, There were some dreadful tragedies over

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AN EDITORIAL CHANGE. With this issue of The Lavies’ Home Jour- NAL, the editorial management of the period- ical passes from the hands of Mrs, Loutsa | Karr to those of Mr. Epwarp W. Box. The retirement of Mrs. Knapp is rendered necessary by increasing domestic duties, in- compatible with the editorial demands of a growing publication. While her direct edito- | rial connection will be severed, her hearty in- | terest and sympathy in all that appertains to the success of the JourRNAL dimmed. Mrs. Knapp has been prevailed upon to)| continue her successful management of “The | Practical Housekeeper” department, and this | feature will henceforth be under ber direct | personal supervision. Enabled to concentrate her undivided attention to this department, it is safe to predict for it the most unqualified success. In the capacity of Mr. Bok to continue the work so auspiciously begun and carried out | under Mrs. Knapp’s direction. the manage- | ment has every confidence. appreciation of the needs of a representative woman's periodical, a tried experience, and the liveliest sympathy with everything ss pertaining to the elevation and instruction of womankind, Mr. Bok enters upon his duties | thoroughly equipped for the position. In the general policy of Tue Lapies’ Home| JournwaL no changes will be effected. The, thorough approval constantly evidenced by our readers indicates that the present lines’ followed are satisfactory to them. The new editorial management will, there- | fore, devote its attention more to the improve- | ment of established lines, so that each depart. ment of the magazine may prove, even more than now, a distinct and valuable feature in itself. These improvements, and new attrac- tions, wi'! make themselves manifest in due time. | Tue Curtis Pusitsnine Company. er ae Special To Philadelphia Subscribers. By arrangements , we shall hereafter deliver al ‘copies of Ts Fem Home Journa to Iphia subscribers by special carriers. By a ruling of the Govern- ment, we have heretofore heen compelled to charge Philadelphia subscribers extra. post e of 36 cents. This is now done away with, the Journat subscribers in Ph Henceforth have their brought to their homes, for OnE DoLLAR A and no extra f kind. e special carrier system institited

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| open to much discussion, but that is not the With the fullest * phia | Then, work hard, earnest and incessent Don't consider anything beneath you. Be patient, honest and pleasant in manner. Treat all persons alike, high or low, Have a smile for all: a pleasant word for! everybody. Success may not come at first, but it will not be far off, and when it does come it will be the sweeter for its delay. —_—— . - FOR WOMEN OF LEISURE. In these days there is much done for the amelioration of woman's sufferings and wrongs, as inflicted on her by the “sterner sex,’ and all honor to thoseymen and women, who strive daily to make the path of a fellow being more easy to tread. But there are certain wrongs to which one woman is subjected by other women, which we think might be greatly modified. That a woman would deliberately inflict a wrong upon a “sister” is hardly to be imag- ined. Wecan only suppose, therefore, that the two things of which we are about to speak | are the outgrowth rather of thoughtlessness | than carelessness of another's comfort, or of evil design. First, we have the question of street car crowding. Whether it is or is not the legiti- | mate and proper thing fora man to give up his seat to a standing woman, is a question view which we wish to present in the present article. The tired shoppers and the tired work- ing-girls go home in the same cars. Could not | the shoppers manage to go homesay a half hour earlier, and leave the vacant or. vacated seats to the tired work-women? A lady on one of our city lines was heard to | remark the other day, “Ll am late to-night. | usually make an earlier car than this. For, while I cannot stand, I exceedingly dislike to have any one give me a seat, for, probably, the man who gives it is as tired as I, who | have only been shopping. I think all shop- pers should try to get home and out of the way of those who cannot choose their own time.” All honor to the woman who takes this view and lives up to it. She shows a thoughtfulness for the well-fare of others that is well worthy emulation. The next subject in question, is the time of shopping. Surely those who haveall day to | do it in, can find some other time than just that which a working woman find be- tween twelve and one, after a hastily swal- lowed luncheon. to make some purchases at the only time of day that is her own, and she will be balked at levery turn by crowds of women who could as | her character. | will easily select some other time of day as the one , hour between twelve and one. ing girl from purchasing some really neces- sary article are merely “looking,’’ with a view to “seeing what there is.”’ It seems as if there might be a radical change made in some way. Does it savor of tyranny and dictation? By no means! are only suggesting one means by which the condition of the many young women obliged to earn their bread, may be very materially al- In many cases | the very women who are keeping the work- | We WOMAN AND DRESS Reforms in womans apparel are being again discussed in a pending series of lectures and public interest is once more awakened in this oft-mooted question. That some of the present styles of dress adopted by American women are, to some extent, physically injuri- ous and inconsistent with good taste, can scarcely be denied. But the radical reforms suggested, as, for example, the substitution of the trousers for the petticoat. and similar de- partures from modern customs, are not des- tined to bring about the looked-for result. Any desirable reform in the apparel of women must come gradually, and radical suggestions, as the one above indicated, tend only to post- pone the final result. To advise a young wo- man to dress herself with any such serious de- parture from the prevailing fashion of her day and class is to ask her to incur a penalty that would invariably follow such an innovation, God has implanted in the minds of all, but especially in the female breast, the love of beauty, and one way that this feeling finds expression is in the matter of dress and per- sonal adornment. tis a duty which every woman owes to herself, to her family and to society to dress tastefully, and as well as her means will allow. It is woman’s instinet to admire pretty dresses, and it is right that she should. The great danger lies in the fact that too many of our women make the matter of dress almost their soleaimin life, and every moment is absorbed in following the dictates of Fashion. It is then that dress becomes a dangerous ruling passion. The comparison of women to flowers ap- plies with special force to this question of dress. In their apparel and adornments wo- men express their natures as do the flowers in their petals and colors. Allow a woman her freedoin in dress, and she never fails to ex- press her true character. Shemay clothe her- iself with the costliest of French silks,she may adorn herself with the most expensive of | laces, her jewels may be of the most brilliant description,—yet, withal, the woman stands revealed, and a simple glance reveals to you The absence of a true and re fined taste cannot be compensated by the pos session of the most princely trousseau. Mind measures gold, but gold cannot measure mind. An important factor in this question of dress reform will be a more thorough recogni tion, on the part of our women, of the beauty Which always accompanies simplcity. Fe- male loveliness never appears to such good advantage as when set off by simplicity of dress. The loveliest types of womanhood are invariably those clothed in apparel charming in its simplicity. Modesty in dress, when ac- | companied with that taste which every culti- vated woman possesses, is always pleasing to theeye. The women of ancient Greece were noted for their simple attirement, yet what women have ever so completely excited the | admiration of the world? And what is true of the women of that period can be equally true of the women of the present day. No country on God's footstool boasts of such a wealth of beautiful womanhood as America, and nonation has, therefore, a better or grander opportunity for demonstrating to the world What is most becoming in woman's apparel, Hundreds of women are like the daisies and violets of the fields in that they never look better or exhale a more beneficial influence than when dressed in a morning gown. Silks and satins often make an unwholesome trans- formation of the woman whose beauty of face and figure is never more striking than when they have the accompaniments of a neat-fit- ting dress of modest material. In this matter of woman's dress, then, when we sum it all up, the fact is plain that, as the love of dress is inherent in all true women, it | would be as unwise as it would be useless to strive against it by any radical sugyestiveness | of reform. Our reformers will do better if they devote all their energies toward cultivat- ing in our women a better appreciation of sim- plicity in dress, Such a suggestion will meet with speedier recognition, and in dune time will this problem of feminine dress reach its proper solution. The nineteenth century will then not close upon a race of overdressed wo- men in America, as some prophesy, but rather upon a race of common-sense women who have become convinced that outward adornment is not made beautiful in propor- tion to its expensiveness, but charming only as it is noted for its simplicity and refinement of taste. -e- A WORD TO OUR READERS. In all business offices, there arises a neces- sity for what may seem an_uncalled-for amount of correspondence. This chiefly arises from an indefiniteness upon the part of correspondents, Owing to a lack of knowledge of business methods. We presume that this class of troubles is more to be found in the offices of publishing houses, than in almost Leta working-woman try | any other business, for many reasons which it would be unnecessary to state here. For the benefit of the subseribers to the JouRNAL, we would like to give a little infor- mation, which, if followed out closely, would aid us very materially in transacting business with them, and would so facilitate matters that perhaps one writing would suffice. In sneoen heel to us, give the following in- formation clearly, distinctly, and in as few words as possible--the amount of money sent—in what form the money was sent-- date, place and state—article desired. If for _ subscribers, give the names and addresses | leviated by a little thought, or perhaps sacri- | fice, on the part of their more fortunate sisters. And last but not least, let us consider the luncheon hour. This in almost all large es- tablishments, is from twelve to one. the shoppers just as convediently take some Cannot . res if possible enclose yellow slip from iast paper —and by a/l means, sign your name, town and state in full. Frequently it is necessary to write a sepa- rate letter for each of the above items, before we obtain all the desired information. The yellow slip isa very important factorix our cor- idence. Whenit is impossible to for- other hour in the restaurants, and thus give | ward one of these, by all means, and_ without the working woman time to be waited on and

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JANUARY, 1890 “THE BLOOMER COSTUME A Letter From Amelia Bloomer fhe following letter from Mrs. Amelia Bloomer whose name became world-famous years age in connection with what was known as the’ Bloomer Costume,”’ will havea keen de gree of interest to thousands of our readers Many will likewise be pleased to learn that the lady is still living, contrary to accepted belief, and in the enjoyment of good health at her home in Council Bluffs, lowa. This let ter, recently written, is now produced in print for the first time : ‘Counct, Buurrs, lowa, AvGustr 21, 1880 My DearsSir: Thardly know how to write about the ‘costume’ gssociated with my name. But I was not its inventoror originator as is so generally believed. In March, [851, Elizabeth Smith Miller, daughter of Hon, Gerritt Smith, of VPeter- boro, N. Y., visited her cousin, Elizabeth Cady Staunton, at Seneca Falls, N.Y... which was then my home and where | was publishing “The Lily,” and where Mrs. Stanton also re- sided. Mrs. Miller came to us in ashort skirt and full Turkish trousers, a style of dress she had been wearing sometwo months The matter of woman's dress having been just previously discussed in ‘The Lily,’ Mrs. Miller's appearance led Mrs. Stanton to at once adopt the style, and J) very soon fol- lowed, Mrs, Stanton introducing it to the Sen- eca Falls public two or three days in advance ofme, In the next number of my paper following my adoption of the dress (April, 1851), ] wrote an article announcing to my readers that | had donned the style to which their attention had been called in previous numbers. The New York Trihune and made it known to its thousands of readers that I had donned a short skirt and trousers, and from this it went from paper to paper throughout this country and) countries abroad, [ found myself noticed and pictured in many papers, at home and abroad. | was praised and censured, glorified and ridiculed, until Pstood in amazement atthe furor | had wrought by my pen while sitting quietly in my little office at home attending to my du tes noticed my article, Suffice it that it was the press at large that got up all the exeitement and that named the dress. J never called it the = ‘Bloomer Costume. With me, it was always the short dress and trousers. It consisted of a skirt shortened to a few inches below the knee and the substitution of trousers made of the same material as the dress. In other re- spects, the dress was the same as worn by all women, At the outset, the trousers were full and baggy, but we improved upon them by making them narrower and gathered at the ankle, and finally by making entirely plain and straight, falling to the like the trousers of men, To some extent, IJ adopted abroad, but not largely, or, matter, at home. There were — individu- als here and there who gladly threw. off the burden ofheavy skirts and adopted the short ones, but soon both press and people turned upon it their ridicule and censure, and women had not the strength of principle to withstand the criticism, and so returned to their drag gling skirts. For myself, | wore the short dress and no others, at home and everywhere, for six or seven years, long after Mrs. Stanton, Lucy Stone, and others had abandoned it Lucy Stone wore the dress several years, tray eled and lectured in it, and was married in it [think. None of us ever lectured on the dress question, orin any way introduced it into our lectures, Weonly wore it because we found it comfortable, convenient, safe and tidy—with no thought of introducing a fash ion, but with the wish that every woman would throw offthe burden of clothes that was dragging her life out. This dress question has been of secondary importance with me, and it is not for that 1 wish to be remembered. As vou will from what | have written above, a wrong im pression prevails in regard to my part in that matter. I was not its originator. | adopted the style and made it known to the publie The press did the rest, lam not lecturing at all these last few years. A throat difficulty and my seventy years have compelled me to retire from active participa- tion in works for the advancement of woman. Respectfully Yours, AMELIA BLOOMER. shoe think the style was for that <ee {Mrs. Bloomer was born at) Homer, Cort land Co., New York, May 27, 1818, and is therefore in her 72nd year.] Eprror. ee ARE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN HAPPIEST ? In my life | have known many women well. Among them is a fair majority of what the truly appreciative would call happy, tor which fact I thank God, as it has helped = me to take, on the whole, a hopeful view of life, as well as of human nature. Now, are these women, blessed as many of them are with de voted husbands, cheerful homes, cultivated society, and leisure for the exercise of any special talent they may beautiful women ? With one or two exceptions , No. Indeed, more than a few of them are positively plain, if feature only is considered, while from the rest I can single out but two or three whose faces and figures conform to any of the recognized standards of physical perfection. But they are loved, they are honored, they are deferred to. While not eliciting the admira tion of every passer-by, they have acquired through the force, the sweetness, or original itv of their character, the appreciation of those whose appreciation confers honor and happi- ness, and, consequently, their days pass in an atmosphere of peace and good-will which is as far above the delirious admiration accorded ‘tothe simply beautiful, as the placid shining of the sunbeam is to the phenominal blaze of | an evanescent flame. ' ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. p SSCSS,

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THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. wil! vibrate with sweetest tintinabulation | alley and street, re-echo with Christmas bells, | and the greetings of the New Year. days of congratulation. tidings of great joy that shall be to all people.” Let the bells ring at the birth of Jesus! Mary watching, the camels moaning, the shepherds rousing up, the angels hovering, all Bethle- hem stirring. What a night! Out of its black wing is plucked the pen from which to write the sweetest songs of earth and the rich- est doxologies of heaven. Let camel or ox

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WY, ’ / hLDA. tev Part. ) or Y = — ~~ 241 7 ST yvdlbs GD tRetl 2a @ To Lo Ma ah lie. Ke tg TC ee, , " at 7 Ly. Ov~euw re pitliro frCan— Ls Loin yi r Le AK jah Prrthon, tel v0 * MED | never write or speak to woman but, kindness, my mind wanders off to one model—the aged | then only. one, who twenty-four years age, we put away Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, for the resurrection. thrones of dominion do not stir my soul About eighty years ago, and just’ before) much as the thought of home. Once there, their marriage day, my father and mother) let earthly sorrows howl like storms and roll stood up in the old meeting-house at Somer- like seas. Home! ville, New Jersey, and took upon them the, pires wither. Home! Letthe world die in vows of the Christian. Through a long life of, earthquake struggle, and be buried amid pro viseissitude my moilier lived harmlessly and | cession of planets and dirge of atmospheres. usefully, and came to her end * vee No| Home! Let everlasting ages roll in’ irresist- child of want ever came to her door afitt was: tle sweep. Home! No sorrow, turned empty away. Noone in sorrow came! No tears, “SX? death. But home, sweet home, io her but was comforted. No one asked her! beautiful home, tye! 4sting home, home with the way to be saved but she pointed him ; to each other, home with antecadeus with _— the cross, ” When the angel of life came to a . One night, lying on my lounge when eee J ¢ tv’ 4 Gr Cuw~ , a Le ea €. A ae then | will forget thee—then, and ' neighbor's dwelling she was there to rejoice at sO Let thrones rot and em-| happiest of all New Years. No crying. |

stabled that night in Bethlehem, after the bur- den-bearing of the day, stand and look at Him who is to carry the burdens of the world. | Put back the straw and hear the first ery of | him who is come to assuage the lamentation of all ages. Christmas bells ring out the peace of na- tions! We want on our standards less of the lion and eagle and more of the dove. Let all the cannon be dismounted, and the war-horses change their gorgeous caparisons for ee harness. Let us have fewer bullets and more |bread. Life istoo precious to dash it out against brick casements. ‘The first ‘Peace So- ciety” was born in the clouds, aud its resolu- tion was passed unanimously by angelic voic- es, “Peace on earth, good-will to men.”

Christmas bells ring in family reunions! The rail-trains crowded with children coming home. The poultry, fed as never since they were born, stand wondering at the farmer's generosity. The markets are fullof massacred barnyards. The great table will be spread and crowded with two, or three, or four gener- atic 8. Plant the fork astride the breast-bone, and with skillful twist that we could never learn, give to all the hungry lookers-on a spec- }imen of holiday anatomy. Mary is disposed ‘to soar, give her the wing. The boy is fond of music, give him the drum-stick. ©The min- | ister is dining with you, give him the parson’s jnose. May the joy reach from grandfather, who is so direfully old he can hardly find his | way to the plate, down to the baby in the | high chair, with one smart pullof the table- cloth upsetting the gravy into the cranberry. | Send from your table, a liberal portion to the table of the poor, some of the white meat as well as the took not confining your generos- ity to gizzards and scraps. Do not, as in |

punctuated with the roar of the cathedral tow- | wherever these words may be read er, the jingle ofthe lighter metal submerged | don’t, I implore you, hold out the cup to by the overmastering boom. Cavern and hill, | young people who may visit you on New after, that The days of joy have come, days of reunion, | curses upon your I “Behold I bring you | cup that started him on his downward ca- 9

Oh, woman ! in whatever condition in life, you, the fear’s Day. Be careful, lest some day years same soul return to you, heaping ur head for handing to him the reer. a Devote these December, January and Feb- ruary evenings to high pursuits, innocent amusements, intelligent socialities. and Christ- ian attainments. Do not waste this winter. We shall soon have seen the last snow- shower, and have passed up into the compan- ionship of Him whose raiment is exceeding white assnow. To the right-hearted the win- ter-nights ofearth will soon endin the June morning of heaven. The riverof God from under the Throne never freezes over. The fo liage of Life's fair tree is never frost-bitten. The festivitiesand hilarities and family gath- erings of Christmas times on earth will give way to the larger reunions and the brighter lights and the gladder scenes and the sweeter garlands and the richer feastings of the great holiday of heaven. pase _— a Dr. TALMAGE also writes: “The Christian Herald hes for many years had full permission to publish my sermons. I shall continue to revise them for this paper, which is growing with miraculous rapidity in circulation, influ- ence and moral power.’ Published at 71 & 73 Bible House, New York, Subscription price, $1.50, or for sale by all newsdealers price 4 cents. DELICIOUS NEW PERFUME RAB APPLE BLOSSOMS. ( REGISTERED.) Chief among the fashionable scents of the season is Crab Apple Blossoms, a delicate perfume of ” the highest quality and* fragrance. Court Journal,— London.

| | Inder the title of Crab Apple Blossoms the Crown Perfumer Co. jare now selling one of the most mann Mee Cra “App Speen delightful perfumes ever uced. Keak sen It Senile one of all the sweet 177 New, cri * | Scents of the country. une y’s Pictortal—London:

some families, keep a plate and chair forthose | who are dead and gone. Your holiday feast would be but poor fare for them: they are at a better banquet in the skies. Let the whole world be full of chime and carol. Let bells, silverand brazen, take their sweetest voice, ai.d all the towers of Christen- dom rain music. Wewish all our friends of THe Laptes’ |Home JournaLa Merry Christmas and the Let them hang up | their stockings; andif Santa Csaus has any }room for us in his sleigh, we will get in and ride down their chimney, upsetting all over | the hearth a thousand good wishes.

And now a closing word to parents of young men and women, The winter months are especially trying to the moral character of our young people, be- wese some of their homes in winter are pecu- INVIGORATING LAVENDER SALTS. (REGISTERED) Our readers who are in the habit of purchasing that delicious | perfume,Crab Apple Blossoms of the Crown Perfumery Co. should also procure a bottle o | their celebrated Invigorati Lavender Salts. Nomorerapl or pleasant cure for a headache is possible. While leaving the bottle open for a few minutes, permits a most agreeable odor to escape, which purifies and_ re- freshes the air most perceptibly, Le Follet.— Paris. CROWN PERFUMERY CO.,

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ig pean aga i: me ‘ae : ; Very en OO ya rr young folks eer “8 tarting ——— ! immortal spirit. When | tired, my children all around me in full romp | liarly unattractive. In Primi r Setanl | N. B.—Put up in sizes, 1 0z., 2 0z., 3 0z., and 4 7s ange i B A eat 7 — tothat dwelling and hilarity and laughter, half awake and } can sit on the porch or steps, or cull 444s. gio 0? SBT Y, MASSEY & CO.. of New York, or | : —- wre to robe the departed for the “> asleep, I —— this dream: I was in| forthe mantel yase,and the evenings are so | 02., CABWaZ ">delphia, will mail a Bijou ) al. a far country {was not Persia, althonyl We had often heard her, when leading fam- | more than oriental luxuries crowned the. cit- ily prayers in the absence of my father, say :|ies. It was not the although tropics, more “QO Lord, }ask not for my children wealth or) than tropical fruitfulness tilled the yardens, | honor, but J do ask that they may all I I cd tth be the | It was not Italy, although more than Italian subjects of Thy comforting grace!’ Her) softness tilled the air. And |) wandered eleven children brought into the kingdom of around looking for thorns and nettles, but | Giod, she had but one more wish, and that was, found that none of them grew there and | that she might see her long-absent missionary | saw the sun rise and | watched to nee it set son; and when the ship from China anchored but it set not. And T saw people in holiday in New York Harbor, and the long-absent one | attire. and | said ; “When will they put off passed over the threshold of his paternal this and put on workmen's garb, and again home, she said: “Now, Lord, lettest Thou delve in the mine, or swelter at ‘the forge ?” thy servant depart in peace, for my eves have but they never put off the holiday attire, — , seen thy salvation.” And I wandered in the suburbs of the city rhe prayer "as soon answered to find the piace where the dead sleep, and 1 looked all along the line of the beautiful hills. It was an autumnal day when we gathered | the place where the dead might most bliss- irom afar, and found only the house from) fully sleep, and | saw towers and castles, but Which the soul had fled forever. She looked not a mausoleum, or a monument, ora white very natura, the hands very muchas when. slab was to be seen, And I went Jinto the they were employed in kindness forthe chil-) chapel of the great town, and I said: “Where dren. Whatever else we forget, we never for- do the poor worship? and where are the vet the look of mother’s hands. As we stood) benches on which they sit?’ and the answer by the casket. we couldnot help but say: was made me, “We have no poor in’ this ‘Poesn’t she look beautiful?” It wasacloud- country.” less day when, with heavy hearts, we carried And then I wandered out to find the hovels her out to the last resting place. The withered of the destitude, and LT found mansions of am- | Short that soon after the lamps are lighted | they feel like retiring. Parents do not take jenough pains to make these long winter eye- nings attractive. Itis strange that old people | know so little about young people. | Manyofyou have the means-why don't }you buy them a violin ora picture? or have your daughter cultured in music until she ean 1¢lp to make home attractive? There are ten thousand ways of lighting up the domes- tic circle, It requires no large income, no big house, no rich wardrobe, no chased silver, no gorgeous upholstery, but a parental heart awake to its duty. Havea doleful- home and your children will not stay in it, though you block op the door with Bibles, and tie fast them a million catechisms. [said to a once: “This is a beautiful tree in front of! your house.” He answered with a whine: “Yes but it will fade.’ I saidto him: “You have a beautiful garden.” He replied : “Yes, | to | man | ! but it will perish.’ | found out afterward that his son was a vayabond, and I> was not surprised at it. You cannot groan men into decency, but you can groan them outof it. To all young people who read these words, take it as the counsel of a friend when I bid

leaves crumbled under hoof and wheel as we) ber and ivory and gold, but not a tear could [| passed, and the sun shone on the Raritan) see, not a sigh could I hear, and I was bewil- | Ziver until it looked like fire; but more callin; dered and I sat down under the branches of a| and beautiful and radiant was the setting sun | great tree, and J said, “Where aml? and| of that aged pilgrim’s life. No more toil, no| whence comes all this scene? And then out more tears, no more sickness, no more death. | from among the leaves and up the Howery Dear mother! Beautiful mother ! jpaths and across the bright streams there | “Sweet is the slumber beneath the sod, jcame a beautiful group thronging all about While the pure spirit rests with God.” | me, and as I saw them come I thought I knew | With such a mother as an example, is it) their step, and asthey shouted [ thought I strange that I should always have cherished knew their voices but they were so gloriously the most exalted estimate of woman aud wo-/| arrayed in apparel, such as I had never before mankind ? witnessed, that I bowed as stranger to strang- ne er. But when again they clapped theirhands | My mind also runs back to one of the best and shouted “Welcome welcome!” the | of early homes. Prayer like a roof over it. mystery all vanished, and I found that time} Peace, like an atmosphere in it. Parents, | had gone and eternity had come, and we were | personifications of faith in trial and comfort all together again in our new home in heaven. | in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly | And I looked around and I said, “Are we! home long ago crumbled intodust. But shall all here?” and the voices of many genera- I ever forget that earthly home? Yes, when, ations responded, “All here! And while the flower, forgets the sun that warmed it. tears of gladness were raining down our! Yes, when the mariner forgets the star that cheeks, and the branches of the Lebanon ced- | vuided him, Yes, when love has gone out on | ars were clapping their hands, and the tow-| the heart’s altar, and memory has emptied its ers of the great city were chiming their wel- urn into forgetfulness. Then, the home of come, we all together began to leap and shout my childhood, I will forget thee ; the family | and sing : ‘Home, home, home, home !" altar of a father’s importunity and a mother's ene tenderness, the voices of affection, the funer-, The old sexton of the village church is about als of our dead, futher and mother with inter- | to put his hand on the rope of the bell. The locked arms like intertwining branches of | cylinder of the chime ofthe city belfry is be- trees making « perpetual arbor of peace and’ ing readjusted. All around the world the air

you be cautious where you spend these winter evenings. Thank God that you have lived to see the glad winter days in which your childs hood is made cheerful by the faces ot father or mother, brothers or sisters, to wish you at | this season a ‘Merry Christmas” or a “Happy New Year.” Let no one tempt you to swerve | from any principle which you have fixed for yourself. On New Year's Day, especially, be careful of the cup which upon any other day of the year you would studiously avoid. ‘I have seen respectable young men of the best families, intoxicated on New Year's Day. The excuse they gave me for their inebriation was that the ladies insisted upon their taking the wine-cup. I know ofan instance where the delicate hand of woman kindled a young man’s taste for strong drink who, after many years, when the attractions of that holiday | scene were all forgotten, crouched, in her | rags and her desolation and woe in a New York tenement house, under the uplifted hand | of the drunken monster who, on that New Year's evening so long ago, took the glass from her hand. But a few days thereafter, the woman, burdened with grief and sick at heart from the cruelties suffered, stood on the abut- ment of a bridge on a moonlight night and wondered if down under the water beneath her there was not some quiet place for a bro- ken heart. With a wild leap, she sprang into the icy surface, and all was over !

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Root ie 10 THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. LETTERS TO BETH No. I School Girl Friendship My Dear Grrl I promised to answer your questions con- cerning Girl Friendship and at the outset, | find myself overwhelmed by a large supply of experiences, not all my own, however. There seems to be a kind of free-masonry JANUARY, 1890 Witty speeches and helpfulness, will always remain with us, although we may never meet ayvaili Morbid views of separation should not darken bright hours of communion. rherefore, dear Beth, | say to you, make friends everywhere, choose wisely and hold fast the good, prove true as steel yourself, and ‘ yrriore all petty je alousness, the sea, orin your own home it is grand inheritance which has fallen to you, the birthright of an \merican woman. See all GIVING YOUR PHOTOGRAPH. Learn to say no. ‘There is in that little, There word much that will protect you from evil] you are only tongues. Learn to think that your face is too} who have got sacred to decorate the apartment of Tom, Dick or Harry, no matter if each one of the | stars that you three is one of the pleasantest fellows in the ; cashmere and world. When the sun imprinted, in black | delicate color, and white, just how sweet and how dainty | have to be dye« you look, it did not mean that the picture | may say about should have incense in the shape of tobacco become smoke, or dubious praise in the form of a dis cussion of your points rendered to it. Give away your picture with discretion. Remem- ber that some day will come along Prince Charming, who will have a right, the right owned by the master of the heart, to ask for the counterfeit presentment of yourself after | your plaits ratl would in a di you might as for it Worth's | Was in straight he knows that he is going to have the real | except to a tape just above the knees. girl for his own. is no use looking unhappy about it to fix over their black cash.nere dresses to wear another! a dyed frock will gather more threads | se}ool, in one half hour than the best carpet sweeper | cipline which aids in forming character, do is to make a Think how mortified you! want to spoil the whole skirt fasten the lower| same dress-maker. and even had between the young people and ’ é V Z i myse é , ; 1} ; peo} selt and J i you can, enjoy all you can, and may you ever : iver would not for the world abuse the confi- And that THAT BLACK CASHMERE DRESS. dence they honor me with, unless by per ‘Pr , ds! ip is a shel i ' oer ae mendsilp is a sheltering tree, You ask me why school virl friends ; are frequently disappointing, and also, what one among many of the girls! js the best course for a young girl to pursue Kate TANNATY Woops. “ee . PUTTING BY THE ODD PENNIES. when she enters college or travels about to see Winter. Thank the} the world ? . . ’ a, \ small Satsuma jar, that stands on the desk were pace “5 to get a black Phis isa large subject with limited space | ofa busy woman deat on tha aol pennies, or “ Sto , 4 — pony ee for areply, but I will suggest a few things. | what she calls “the une xpected money” that which, to be made over, woul ¢ . ees | ‘ ody “pete ; 1eXp \ t Poo much stre ould not be laid upon the | found are loose in pockets, or bureau drawers i and no matter What the dyer disappointments occasioned by the lack ol the beautiful black that it will) faithfulness on the part of your mates in It isa portion of the necessary dis Phere will ne ver beenough money in itto found a he orto build a home for insane dogs, i] vays enough to send a posy toa sick friend, a paper to somebody way off little reading matter can be gotten, or poitia but there is iy. While it is being fixed up You remember my dear, how well make it smart, so choose! you became with Jennie Davis. She was‘the | to buy a souvenir for a birthday, Once started latest model, Your material | sweetest, dearest girl in the world.’ Ny day | and we Il managed tl ; “ae is lik he ‘dow: widths, so all that you have to) passed without your meeting, and servants in) cruse “never empty ; ine oud proton Ph pang infatuated Wwihiere kilt vkirt of them, having ses “ ” ‘ ; adh cael deed, Mianesandl dent both houses were sorely taxed to keep up tents except when you are taking stock with a er wide and not fastened down | your correspondence You read. together, purchase in view Counting seems to break It you! studied together, rode, walked employed the the spell. Pennies are gregarious —and where ° P : Phe : ; ; | your note!) one goes another wants ‘ \ would be if he should discover that the giv- part to a lining, which is a way incompetent| paper and envelopes made for you. Some- Sot thom wena gee br = rs tion Gavine ing away of your photograph has been almost dressmakers have. ; pens on cae ine nee - Instead, if a success is de-| times when that dear mother of yours was ill sired, let the lining of the skirt join at the top| [left her in the care of a nurse while you and, except where they are sewed at the sj cnt hours with Jennie. You first asked if sees your face looking over the mantel-shelf pocket, at no place else. Now for your Worth| there was anything vou could do but. the in Dick’s room—Dick whom he knows to be a| bodice: Fit your black cashmere as if you | question was presented With an appeal avy braggart, and a man for whom he has the ut- | were going to have a postilion basque, and you | youdo not need me. Mamma ‘de im i ‘ il gx most contempt! Then just learn to say no.| know you can make black cashmere fit as if, | out for a walk with Jennie ” Any uw selfish Don’t display your photographs to your men | just before putting it on, you were the whitest | mother would naturally dislike. tu de ‘ive . friends, and you will not have this unpleasant | of wax and had been melted and poured into| beloved child of a simple fr gprtioting task; but if you should do it, and have not) it. The stylish air is given especially by the | quently consent wan siwent although you the courage to say the little monosyllable, be | sleeves, which are large, full, very high on the| might have brightened a weary hour. ‘I he wise and refer them to papa. shoulders, and of Scotch plaid, one of the} thing happened which is sure to happen whet blue and greens being the prettiest. A n y 3 oa as general as the invitations to your New Year's party. Think how he will feel if he pleasure, conse- ~ pede ry a. + al resi one neglects even the simplest duty. You . of plaid is set in and broad revers of plaid are| were punished. Jennie grew indiffere ter , | : t i q Uy rent after , ~] - . > 4 Dae > 1a > = - | . « . * SOME DON'TS FOR GIRLS. jon each side of it. By the bye, these revers | a summer at Newport and in timeso neglected — should be very wide at the shoulders and then | you, that your kind heart was sorely wound By ELEANOR KE. STAATS vrow extremely narrow at the Wilst, su that | ed and you turned to the patient devoted , the first look very broad and the last as small | mother for comfort and sympathy } as possible. Have a collar of either blue or You were very brave and sweet green velvet for only a small bit is required | about it as I well know, yet the for it. Don't encourage young men to call upon tempered you who frequent liquor saloons, billiard par- it is girlish yrief ors, Or pool rooms. Save a piece of your plaid for a bon-| made you more womanly and taught you to Don’t notice men who stare at you on the | B¢t #nd let the decoration be a large black vel-| choose your friends for their wearing, true, streets, even if it is a well-bred stare, Doubt- | vet bow. You see you won't have to spend | qualities, rather than their thin’ pretty faces, less they think themselves irrecistible and you | much money, and if you want to give the} fine forms, and showy qualities; it also taught very mueh impressed with their appearance, | #™p o! Worth to your suit, all you have to} you that in all the wide world there is no Don’t stand at street corners talking to do is to take a belt out of a frock that once | friend like a loving mother. young men, though they are acquaintances. came from the famous dressmaker and which} [remember you calling yourself a “stupid Don't consider it a sign of your popularity bears the fac-simile of his name as he writes| booby” for neglecting her, or seeming to, and to be accompanied by several escorts whenever | | and put it in your new bodice. Its an al-| how quickly she answered you with thos you take your walks abroad. allowable and a feminine deception, It don’t} droll lines of John Gay's Don’t accept promiscuous invitations, It | "ke your dress look a bit prettier, but if it “Where yet was ever fopnd a mother cared cheapens you, and may draw you into a adds to your comfort it has done its duty, Who'd give her booby for another ?” circle of acquaintances you will regret having eden - After Jennie, came other friends, but expe formed. i pai B - WHEN HE COMES TO SEE YOU. rience had taught you to look below the oe Don*t sanction wine drinking when out to} : 3 face. ; parties or weddings. Your simple act of de When your sweetheart comes to see you,| [know many women who still entertain clining the proffered glass may act as a check dow’t be foolish enough to confine your sweet-| the fondest regard for old) schoolmates upon your companion. Tacit disapproval ness to him alone. ive him in where all of| friendship worthy of the name’ will always sometimes does more good than the most elo the rest of the hu: .hold are. Let the talk | survive shocks, separations and mariy trials. quent temperance lecture. ,and the chatter and the music and the play-| The friend who in the language of the time Don’t marry a drinking man. If the sweet- | 1" of games be in the home circle. Then the} “throws you over” or “drops you,” was never heart will not give up the dangerous habit, it few minutes that he gets with you by your-| entitled. io the enduring term which should is very certain the husband will not. — = — all the more delightful, and he} meaty“, union for all time. Friend and Don't allow men to be familiar with you, to will think you the ms joving little creature | Friendship mean so much to me, that [find : » nel th the work Men are much more observant youre they are credited with being, and the man worth having as a husband is the one who will appreciate your love for those of| your own people and will see that as you use slang or doubtful expressions in your presence, n ADDON t res temo , Don t make ADI Ot ents with men, either frp * i het tou 0's fridfia’s home, in the Park, or at any place but your father’s house. words inadequate to express my scorn for any disloyalty. An eminent Ainerican woman says, “she would not give a cent for any friend who would not weigh a ton behind herback,” | | while Dryden wrote Box and just see how they will gather in Vallambrosa will be as nothing compared to them. leaves (— 7 Colgate & Co’s Sachet Powders Paris, 188g. GOLD MEDAL If you cannot obtain our Powders send 25 cents in stamps to §5 John Street, New York, and we will mail you a bottle of one of the following odors, sufficient to perfume several holiday presents: Cashmere Bouquet, Helio trope, Caprice, Jockey Club, Violet and White Rose. Put up in tightly stoppered 1 oz, bottles, which keeps the perfume fresh as that of a blooming flower. - the | make a small part in one home, you are be- coming adapted for the central figure in an- other Don't expect to have exclusive use of parlor for yourself and callers. Others of the family have the same rights as yourself, and | - pd ’ . your conversation can and ought not tobe of | Never say that you don’t expect a man to so private a nature that the presence of a| marry yom whole family. It's vulgar. third person is felt to be a restraint. |do. ‘That is, if you are a good daughter and a Don't rebel if the visits of a certain gentle- | loving sister. You want him to be one with You |} “And O defend | Against yourjudgment, yourdeparted friend.” | It is the office of friendship to love su wise ily and well that all differences of opinion and taste should be mere spots on the sun, When Shakespeare wrote that—‘A friend) 34 should bear a friend’s infirmities’ he grasped | 7 HAVE YOU CATARRH? ARE YOU GOING INTO CONSUMPTION? Do You Have Asthma? uw a By means of the Pittow- ili. INaALeR, Sufferers in every part of the land have been the inner meaning of the word friend. | The unformed school girl man are disagreeable to your mother, and she | YO" in sympathy and in affection, and as you : ’ A ’ , does not quite | saysso. She knows best, and can see faults take his name, so you assume responsibilities | quite | and deficiencies that your youth and inexpe- | as far as his people are concerned. Y ou, two, know herself, how then, can she be wise in rience would never discover. | are the most to each other—your love fi r each | knowing others ’ JItisa sud hour when her Don’t attempt to copy the manners and should be the greatest, but you cannot isolate | truthful, trusting nature receives a shock, but | dress of your brothers. Nothing so unsexes a | yourselves and insist that you have no duties | if the pain is temporary, the lesson should be | woman as masculine ways. | outside your own home. If you do this you | permanent. Don’t use loud tones in talking, nor call | become narrow and selfish, and you are quite| [can never quite conceal Iny own tears men by their last names without the usual | too nice a girl for that. So remember when | when a gushing, affectionate, high spirited prefix. Men may treat you as a good com- he comes, this bridegroom of yours, that his | girl comes to me with her young heart pierced rade, but they very rarely marry such girls. | heart is bound the tighter to you if the ribbon | by the blow ofa treacherous friend. It mat- Don't be deceived that men want to raise a used to hold it has written upon it in golden ters not that [see beyond into the peaceful family of Amazons. Remember that while letters “Love and consideration for those at | regions of a better and nobler love Which is men apparently have more license than wo- | home. sure to be hers if she is true to herself. Her men, stillthey expect their wives to be like | pain is my pain also, for J too have tasted the Cesar’s wife, “beyond reproach.” | bitter waters. If all young girls were angels, -e- A SAVINGS BOX FOR GIRLS. Don't be ashamed to help mother with the | ; | we could not keep them with us, and this housework. A practical knowledge of bread| It need not be a box at all; it may be a silk thought.makes us tolerant concerning their shortcomings. The giddy, gushing period never comes to some and to most it Soon passes. I wish we could have more young girls, live g, cooking, and the general manage- | bag, or a big-welled ink stand, or it may be a ment of a house is worth more than a smat-, Satsuma jar. But have it. Then, when the tering of music or painting. To know how to| day is done and the purse is being looked “get’’ sponge for bread is an accomplishment over, count out the pennies and spare some to > - ae : : that no girl need despise, and the kneading of the savings box. My dear girl, it is your in- ly, radiant, energetic, spirited, loving girls, and it is grand exercise. dependence. The pennies, half dimes and fewer young ladies who talk of their beaux, ’tset your mind too much on dress. | dimes count up, and then when you want to| dresses, and the surface shows of society. While it is your duty to look your very best| surprise mother with a birthday gift, when Our Clubs and Unions and Literary Socie- with the means at your command, it is wrong | you want to go on a frolic,or when you would to give so much time and thought to the | like to have a good photograph, a really good adornment of your person, while your mind | one to give somebody who is very fond of you, is starving for want of proper food. You need | the money saved is that brought forth. Just not be a blue stocking, but a good healthy | try going without a few things—a car-fare now | course of reading and thinking is splendid | and then, some candies, or the very latest in | for your mental powers. collars, and dedicate the ducats to the box. ‘t eome down to breakfast in a soiled | You will be amazed to see how they accum- | , slovenly shoes, “bang” done up in| mulate. And best ofall, thesaving habit will papers, and bac« hair in a cracker Lect come to you. That dves not mean lack of of your head. You will never see| generosity, it means thought for the future. any one better to dress for than those in the | Some masculine philosopher said women only ( circle. — the ones to be cheered n to save money when they had passed by your sweet, wholesome appearance, and |thity, but if that is true, it is because the Savings Box idea was not taught from youth up. but let us still retain the younger ones who | will not scorn a venuine, healthy romp, so conducive to good building and future brain | work, Now, forthe second part of your question. No, I do not believe in “entering college with a great determination tokeep aloft from the students and live a secluded life devoted ex- clusively to books.”? Every human soul needs companionship, especially the young. | should advise you to treat all with politeness and observe closely before admitting any one within the heart’s palace. If friends proves | false, it injures them more than you. Let a their depravity only intensify your sincerity ; : : . and loyalty toothers, Dr. Johnson thought “Side Talks With Girls” will be made the strangers. a word, girls, try to be trae women, and gain an influence which, a ill shed its fi a me will s ts fragranc Seah whom you may be brought in i> = Ssongnene, r corns of o most clever | yecome happy in each other's society.” : writers who fully understand:-the needs of| {[ must beg to disagree with him as to the parent: neventer be » regular | young women will specially contribute to this| friends we meet and make while traveling. JOURNAL. feature of the Journat in future numbers. The memory of their faces, their kind acts, ties are developing grand young women with | high aims and purposes and stores of wisdom, | , t . it the worst condition of man’s destiny, that | brightest department for girls ever sustained | persons are so often torn asunder just as they cured of the ab and many who were for years afflicted are now strong and well, The PritLow-INHALEK = js apparently only a pillow, = but from liquid medicines that are harmless (tar, carbolic acid, iodine, etc.) itgives if anatmosphere which you breathe a// night (or about eight hours), whilst taking ordinary rest in sleep. There are no pipes or tubes, as the medicine is contained in concealed reservoirs,and the healing atmosphere arising from it envelops the head. It is perfectly simple in its workings, and can be used by a child with absolute healing vapor continuously and at a time when ordina BRONCHITIS. 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——— | HOW A NOVEL IS WRITTEN. The characters in my novels: you ask how | I conceive them? Once the plot is rescued | from the misty depths of the mind, the char- lacters come and range themselves readily ;enough. A scene, we will say, suggests itself |}—a garden, a flower show, a ball-room, what | you will—and two people in it. A young man ) and woman for choice. They are always young with me, for that matter, for what, under the heaven we are promised, is so altogether per- fect as youth! If any one of you, dear read- ers, is as bad a sleeper as I am, you will un- derstand how thoughts swarm at midnight. Busy, bustling, stinging bees, they forbid the needed rest, and, thronging the idle brain, compel attention. Here in the silent hours the ghosts called characters walk, smiling, bowing, nodding, pirouetting, going like marionetts through all their paces. At night I have had my gayest thoughts, at night my saddest. All things seem open then to that giant, Imagination. Here, lying in the dark, with as yet no glimmer of the coming dawn,

SOME BRIGHT NEW BOOKS. The appearance of Crawford's latest novel “Sant? Ilario” caused a sensation among the critics—not from its merits which, great as they ure, were entirely overlooked because | the critics were busy over Crawford’s startling | announcement that “without a single excep- | tion every foreigner, poet or prose-writer, who | has treated of these people (the Italians) has more or less grossly misunderstood them, That is a sweeping statement, when it is con- sidered that few men of the highest genius in our century have not at one time, or another, set down Upon paper their several estimates of the Italian race.” Then he goes on to expati- ate Upon the necessity of being Italian-born an i bred in order to understand these people in general, and their ideas of veracity in par- ticular, After reading * Sant’? Dario” carefully, | can see in these sentences nothing but Crawford's instinctive apology for a book in which all the characters—from boot-blacks to Cardinals, from fishwives to Princesses, /ie—there is no} ventler word for it—upon each and every oc- casion There is not, so far as I can remember, a single situation in the book which does not find its rafson Petre has been told n some falsehood that Corona, the heroine, who in “sSarcienesca’ was one ofthe noblest figures in modern fiction —even Corona, tells one lie, and the other characters stop at nothing. You hecome so saturated with this Casy, irrespon- sible condition of conscience, that you are | sturtled, when Fanstina, whose friends are in- | venting a falsehood to shield her, asks naively *Why not tell the simple truth?” and you all must join in the chorus of indignation which greets so unheard of a proceeding! Crawford says this is Italy as he knows it but some of us still hing the fond delusion that there are a few truthful Italians in spite of ‘Sant’ Mario.” The book is a sequel to “Sara- cinesca” and many of the same figures reap- pear in it. Taken together the two works constitute Crawford's best effort, but “Sant Harte’ is distinctly inferior to its predecessor in dramatic power—the story does not tell it self with the same breathless interest, nor is the character study so keen and true, although in this matter much puore is attempted, Cer lain parts of the book reveal the master, all those scenes, for instance, whieh deal with the murder of Prince Montevarchi, the story of the moral and pliysical degeneration of the murderer and his final confession—that these situations are not over-done is the proof of Crawford's genius which stands the test in spite of the too rapid work with which the vifted author is wasting himself. Since his first success no year has passed without add ing one book and often two to his list. I do Lot believe any man can write so much and so rapidly without showing the strain thereof “Passe Rose” has already been mentioned in these columns, but T wish to speak in detail of this most charming of Prof. Hardy's works. To tell you the story would be to spoil the book for you; suffice it to say that it is a tale of pure romance dealing with the fortunes of a dancing virl in the times of Charle Magne. The book has a swing and a rush in its style a sense of the picturesque which is a delight, and the lovely face of Passe Rose herself seems to yleam from every pape and inipress you so strongly with its beauty that you never lose the consciousness of it throughout the book. I can think of no similar effect in fiction except in Thackeray's Beatrice whose beauty takes the same haunting possession of you, like a force from whose power you never again are absolutely free. Henrik Ibsen was also spoken of in this col- umn, but since then one of his plays has been acted in this City of Brotherly Love; while in London his worship has become a popular “fad.” A London correspondent of one of our papers gives a lengthy account of him, which, when condensed, tells us that he has spent the last twenty-five years in wandering over Europe, seeking no society, owning no home, claiming no friendship. His life is un- eventful except for his wriungs which are al-| ways and intentionally bits of autobiography set forth with a deeply earnest purpose. He had a most unhappy youth—struggling with poverty, stifling his aspirations by writing trage- dies in his leisure from the work of a chem- ist’s apprentice. After years of this discipline, he found a way open to him for the pursuit | of his studies, but, not liking the course pre- scribed for him at his University, he read by himself. He finally accepted a place in Ole Bull's theatre in Beyen, from which time he had been more or less a playwright and has come to be one of the interesting and inspir- ing figures in our literary world. I find that great interest is taken in plays for private theatricals, and for this purpose recommend most heartily a little book of comedies called “‘To-night at Eight’’ by Fan- nie Aynear Matthews. There are twenty-two plays in the volume, all merry and bright and |stories. The pictures of Italian landscape are | that, while it is interesting, teaches the lesson no faintest light to show where the closed cur- entirely appropriate for parlor performance. tains join, too indolent to rise and light the ‘Two Coronets” is the title of Mary Agnes lamp, too sleepy to put one’s foot out of the Tineker’s new boox It is vabliched on well-warmed bed, praying fruitlessly for that . nm. ‘ . an " "vas . ks ‘ . a Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and is well received sleep that will not come— it is at such mo by those who like Miss Tincker’s intense | '@e™* 45 these that my mind lays hold of the . i’ rE | novel now in hand, and works away at it with tne os netase ond her leek color is teak and | *, VO eee which the natural desire for faithful ’ : sleep hopelessly makes battle. Among the many books Jaid on my desk in Red ee ee ar, oe the last month is one I wish to recommend as P , en iii a : : hi : of great value to all would-be literati It is tangent. Scene follows scene, one touching

ee - Ape : , the other; the character unconsciously falls in- *The Trade of Authorship” by Wolstan Dixey. oe ee rts bey siplecyengageces fz y fi ; . : - “abe Se, ; ‘| to shape; the villian takes a rudy hue; the No more useful guide for feet new to the dusty elie o White cole: as for the leeeinn aths of authorship could be found, And Mr.| U@T@ Gens a w iite robe; as for the heroine, papal ple sense Ae a *) | Who shall say what dyes from Olympia are Dixey’s pleasant bright style makes his whole- cet predentin wmnae See a : : not hers? A conversation suggests itself, an some advice remembered and useful, though act thrusts itself into notice. Lightest of none the less hard to follow. No one can wake} *) =e . : “6° ee : ek i ¢ ee ie ...| Skeletons all these must necessarily be, yet you write well, if you will not of yourself give! ev make up eventually the big whole, and the necessary toil : ains; but Mr. Dixey|.: . : oa Bee he pert “7 ry sgh eg apl i em from the brain wanderings of one wakeful pong Bases: deaye Bon Bg Range dae es nisht three or four chapters are created for : 2° : “ie the next morning’s work. As for the work 4 vive ( t sg Mary |. : 4 1 a Fig rah yey Bacay gy itself, mine is perhaps strangely done, for “% : ; ae ; ae often I have written the last chapter first, and light be the hands « very chil e|. 4 mgs De tn th hands of every ‘hil lin th founded my whole story on the one episode land. TheScribners however, have issued such : : a small edition that! fancy it will be difficult | !#t it contained , sae 1 . HE Ducness, to obtain a copy, but if the demand is great the supply will surely increase. If publish- — ers know you want a book you are very sure} WHAT THE POPE READS. to get it

Annikz R. Ramsey. ' ; e+ Pope Leo the XI1Ith is probably the hard- : : somal est worked man in Europe. Those who have LOUISA ALCOTT'S Lvs AND LETTERS. | seen the successor of Peter the Fisherman ae ee ee r , within the last few weeks, say that he has aged Every girl who has laughed and cried with rapidly, that his eyes are sunken, that his eT » y > ” , ae : ire Ve —— 7? ¥ . Pe , ’ 7 Little oe = = who a admired doe *| skin is sallow, and that he looks very feeble. spot meg & sweet a “9 Aon ience and |", recent visitorto the Vatican, however, says Amy's eauty, must peal i, ie life of P Louisa that the Pope is no worse to-day than he has Alcott by her friend Mrs. Cheney. It isa book been for a year or two, except ; perhaps that } t ‘ ; 2 ‘ { “3 he occupies most of his nights in reading in- of life-duty, and not only shows what duty | pelt fr net va é . is, but makes it beautiful, Louisa Alcott, sd After Mr. Gladstone, heis the most vigorous originator of Joe, not only wrote harrowing | man of his age ofthe day. The routine of his alee sewe auc P ashe ‘ +o > . a —— pecs +s tules, sewed, taught, and wa hed and ironed, | work would kill an ordinary man. There is because it had to be done, but did it’ for those | no detail too small for him to pass over, and of ry ‘it. = and — oo oy to a. | from daybreak untilafter midnight he devotes rw . oy hat r o os sigs “es - hay pet ” | his time to the church and literature. Those the work that lies before us, but to doit witha | who surround him know when he is particu- merry heart and a bright face, makes that | Jarly tired or worn out, forthen hetakes down Which is right, sublime. Whether it was to} ’ we ‘ . ur \ P “F y > ‘ ict “vy | . . t . Lf ® fe eth ag . yee 7 ginny ome de 7 a | of a schoolgirl enjoying her first novel. Of all or beth, tosend Amy to the drawihpg-schoot, | + “<< Dante i BP ’s favorita s to help father out of debt, or best of all. to! the authors, Dante is the Pon favorite, and ; | ‘ aie te’ Wee Blagg has been remarked that in physique he is calae b — — a Be ; age ' la + | not unlike the accepted idea of that great Ital A ‘ «is . “y “] sister i ¢ r ri. sce a ag | fe moc nyt I : , seni oe fhe "lian. He reads Dante for pleasure, but for Were PERO Y sae SECM BUM Or Bvodness aller! keeping himself well informed on all that is reading how this one life was lived and, as the * . | (hn ahamaale 4 ie ie 8 ; see sibs é : appening out of the church as well as in it, willing worker achieved what she desired, to | he reads not only American books. but news see them out of debt and Marmee in comfort, | pers aad mameines ond t may surprise one is better for knowing that there are noble | ae hen sendionn re ance that he is well in- women enough to work and give for dear} wed on all the topies of ‘the day, political, love's sake, To-day your daughter and mine] pojjgious and social. He has taken’a deep in- will gain by the life of Louisa Alcott B00 | terest in the cause of labor in the United daughter and good sister, deeming no work | States, and reads everything bearing on that too small and valuing at its worth each bit of subject which comes to hand. Once a week a money, for it meant help for the helpless. Tt) yar) selected bundle of American new spapers is a wonderful story this life—it teaches in the ix sent to the Vatican, and the Pope and those way we would wish, that the child who} 4). surround him know not cnly what is honors the father and mother will have long going on in the United States, but they are days — the _— 7 — half ma familiar with the calibre and character of the Joe's days here Jasted half a century and) jen who make laws and enforce them. It i then she joined Marmee, Beth, Amy and John so in England also. In addition to his corre- in the land where there is no more night and spondence in the British Empire, he follows God shall wipe away all tears. with eager interest the reports in the various | newspapers, not only of the doings of Parlia- 4ment, but of royalty as well, the progress of l the chureéh, and the cause of labor. Mueh the It is the touch of human nature which per-!same plan is followed in Germany; in fact vades the poetry of Will Carleton that brings | from every corner of the world each week is his words so close tothe popular heart. While} sent to the Holy Father newspapers, books other poets appeal to the intellect to secure) and mayazines containing important discus impression, Mr. Carleton directs his verse to| sions. <A great many of these are filed away the emotions. It is as easy to shed tears with | for future reference L -e- WILL CARLETON'’'S NEW BOOK. himasit isto join in his merry touches. The books that interest Leo the most are Whether he is pathetic or humorous, you feel | those of a religious, political and philosoph that the poet isever sincere and whole-souled | jca] nature. He cares nothing for fiction and in his sentiments. These characteristics mark | rarely spends an hour in glancing at novels, all his previous books, and they are visible on | but if he should like to read novels, or in fact every page of his new book “City Legends,” | books of any kind, he has onjy to walk into just issued by the Harpers. It isan evening’s | the magnificent library attached to the Vati- enjoyment to follow Mr. Carleton through | can, for there is not a mail arriving in) Rome the seven divisions, or “chains’’ as he calls) that does not bring books of all sorts of types them—of this latest collection of his poems.| from all sorts of authors and publishers. A He glides easily from one topic to another, all! great many of these the Pope never sees, and in a connected vein, yet almost every poem is| many of them are sent to the cardinals who different from its predecessor in theme and | surround him for an opinion of their merits | subject-matter. He is never for a moment! or demerits. But it may be said, taking it all | dull, carrying the reader’s interest along so} in all, that the Pope has as wide a field to se- skillfully that one reaches unawares the! ject from, if not wider than any man in Eu- middle of the book with the most agreeable | rope, and he resembles Mr. Gladstone in this, rapidity. For readers of the Lavies’ Home| that he is quite willing to spend an hour or JouRNAL, the book possesses a pleasant inter-| more wlth a magazine or book, if, in the end, est in that they will find therein several ofthe, he can find something that is worth remem- delightful poems by Mr. Carleton recently | bering. He has a wonderful memory, and published in these pages. There are likewise | although his eyes are dimmed and his hand poems how printed for the first time, and trembles, he is still as vigorous mentally as he these vive a fresh interest to the collection. | was when he was elected to succeed Pius the It iseasy to recommend this book to our read-|1Xth. He speaks a half dozen ; languages, ers. It isas healthful as atonic, as beneficial | and converses fiuently | in Italian, _Latin, as many a good sermon, while it combines | French, German or English, and so it is little entertainment with instruction, Will Carle-| or no trouble for him to read and keep up | ton’s poetry has ever had a stimulating in-| with current topics of interest not only in fluence, and of none cf his recent works is | Europe but in America, Australia, India, Chi- this more true than of ‘City Legends.” na and Japan as well.

la volume of Dante and reads with the avidity | II

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fay; a band ofthe fur finishes the: are gathered to a deep | this season. velvet, and finished = tintings, or of soft, light bro- | THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. ! | caded cloth, and lined with pale pink, yeilow | green, or blue satin, or with ermine or Nor wegian eider duck fur rhe trimming is of Magvar galloon,—a kind of metallic canvas worked with gold or silverand colored beads or a border of white Chinese lamb with deep collar to match, or there is about the neck and down the fronts a band of Paraguay an ostrich feather trimming in the natural color, than which nothing is so soft, fluffy and becoming. Shoulder capes for opera wear fare also made of these delicate, fluffy feathers \ handsome cloak in Eiffel red royale has i Russian collar and deep cuffs of Isabelle bear fur; above the collar is a high plastron of Eiffel red velvet embroidered in gold Jackets are mostly in plain cuirass form,embroid- ered and edged with fur with a Valois collar of the fur or of the embroidered cloth with fur band inside fhe natural gray curly astrachan is new this season and is very effective in trimming jackets of light cloth, which almost invari- to match, some jackets lave vest and heavy brocade or matelussé, or have vests of embroidered velvet and deep cuffs of the same to finish the large vevet sleeves, Jackets in handsome bro caded cloaking stufls have sleeves and vest of sealskin and some of plain cloth have astrachan vest and sleeves. For slender young ladies nothing is prettier for mid winter wear than a plain, elegantly fitted = sealskin cuirass with Valois collar of the same. soas are still worn by those who have them, but no one thinks of buying a new one. Collars and col larettes take their place. The influence ot the great World’s Fair with all of its a attractions and \ is seen in the fashions as n well as other things, and es- | pecially in the names given to costumes and their com ponent parts, We have had everything Kiffel ad vwauseum, and now wraps, gowns and hats avs Toreadors are conspicuous, It is doubtful if the cruel spectacle to be seen at the Courses de Taureaux could be found sufficiently attractive in this civilized day and age were it not forthe picturesque costumes of the toreadors, This costume, modified and adapted by Fe- lix, is the ambition of some of our belles at present. One worn by a lovely blonde was of pale gray amazon, the back plain princesse, the front skirt and bodice in one piece fastened under the arm and slightly draped at sides: over this was a regular foreadors jacket, with- out sleeves, of violet prelat (pontitical) velvet embroidered in gray and gold; a little triangu lar mut! of the embroidered velvet, with a trimming of ostrich feathers, and a toreador hat of gray felt’ faced with the violet velvet and with a panache of gray tipsat one side completed the costume. These jackets are for sale in velvet and cloth of every shade, embroidered in yold or silver ACCESSOTICS —" ® or silks, and are a feature of indoor toilettes There are many charming devices for vary- ing indoor toilettes, and a lady with ordinary taste and ingenuity can always look pictur- esque and well-dressed at small expense if ably have a toque and muff sleeves of she be the happy possessor of a plain black Sicillienne or Bengaline gown end of variety in house jackets Joshua collars in Phere is no there are Sir embroidered velvet, there are Charles X collars, and fichus in a variety of shapes of real Irish and Brussels lace and of sheer muslins, there are waiscoats of « rep and mousseline de soie, besides the many varie ties of collars and corselets with cuffs to match in silk passementeries. Almost any kind of waist drapery of whatever material is pictur- esqyue and becoming if properly adjusted ‘They are held in place by fancy pins or by noeuds of ribbon of a becoming tint. A pansy house jacket is made of purple vel vetand mauve surah; there is a corselet of the velvet over the full blouse of surah formed of long points that are sewed together at bottom for shoul three inches, to give the proper cuirass curve over the hips, above the waist | line they flare according tothe proportions of the figure; a Vandyked collar of the velvet | finishes the neck, and the high-shouldered | sleeves are of the velyet,reaching below the el- bow, where they are slightly turned back above a full puff of the mauve surah. 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Re beg tone ) JANUARY, 1890 THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. 13 NEW FASHIONS. | The Louis XI and Dick Whittington are similar in shape. Scotch plaid velvet bows, Concluded from opposite page and wings ornament these, also choux of vel- vet in two colors, or of crepe lisse, or torsades A lovely evening dress for a young lady is of bright colored or plaided surah held by of pale pink crepe de Chine; the skirt draperies skewers of amber or tortoise shell with fancy | ure caught up very artistically overthe bottom! heads uf the bodice so as to appear all in one piece; bor- The ONE OUT OF THOUSANDS. THE NATIONAL CLOAK Co., MInotT, N. DAK., Nov. 4th 1889, DEAR Sirs: The coat arrived Nov. 2d. Am very much pleased with it. Fits splendidly. Will remember you in the future. Accept my sincere thanks for your speedy attention. Yours v | ery iy { Mars. 5. D. MCGAHAN. We cut and make to order and sell a handsome Ladies’ or Misses’ Jacket $3.25; Misses’ Newmarket $4.12; Ladies’ Ulster or Newmarket $6.25; Ladies’ lan 96.75: Fur Trimmed Newmarket $8.28; pretty Child’s Coat $3.15; Plush Cape Wrap $10.95; Plush Modjeska $14.75; Plush Sacque $16.50. We also make higher qualities up to the very best. Our new Fall and Winter Catalogue contains illustrations. descriptions and prices of all the latest Styles in Ladies’ and Misses’ Cloaks and Wraps in both Cloth and Plush; also a complete line of Childrens’ Cloaks and Gretchens. We will mail it w you together with a 48-inch linen tape measure, complete measurement blanks (which insure a perfect fit), and a splendid collectiun of more than FORTY SAMPLES of the Cloths and Plushes of which we make the Garments, to select from, if you en : close four cents in stamps to prepay postage. You may select from our Catalogue, No. 256.—English Seal Plush any style of Garment you preter and we will make it to your measure in any of the Jacket lined with quilted satin. Cloths or plushes of which we send samples. Made of X Plush $15.95; made ease » 4 4 y of XX Plush, $15.98 made of Please mention the LApTES’ HomM& JouRNAL. ' XXX Plush, $15.90. THE NATIONAL CLOAK CO., 21 WOOSTER, ST., NEW YORK CITY. WHY YOU SHOULD WEAR ral Beading HELMBOLD’S | Glengarry cap is natty looking STEVENS DRESS SILKS | Jelly of Glycerine and Roses BECAUSE THEY ARE i ; _ ENDORSED BY The purest and best Manufactured. — "*""!s- Nevada, Fanny Davenport, Adelaide Kistort, THEY ARE The Silks that have no equal. The Silks for which people pay for Samples. The Silks that Sell everywhere strictly on their merits. ’ that are now worn inevery | The Silks county of the United States. | 4 that are the first and | h e Sj | k S only choice of every lady who has ever worn them, | a that please you | better and leave | from $8.00 to $15.00 in your pocket for every Dress pattern bought. The Silks" thou- sand highly flattering testimonials have been re- ecived from the wearers during the past two years WHEN YOU WANT A SILK DRESS Send us sc. in stamps stating whether you most desire Black or Colored Silks and we will send is a TS # ROSES. UGGIS , CONTINENTAL HOTEL, #=—Beware of imitations. LDR Gentlemen use it after shaving. ®@ a. L. HELMBOLD, DRUGGIST : 2 a a £ I S 8 @ E 3 2 s AL HELMBOLD'’'S LADIES-YOU WANT HELMBOLD’S JELLY OF GLYCERINE AND ROSES PHILADELPHIA. For Chapped Hands, Lips, Sunburn, etc. AN EXQUISITE TOILET ARTICL ot a paler shade edged on both sides witha bor-| a brim projecting in front formed of three Sos Fe 7S Oe ee ee. | der of shaded pink rose petals strung to-' large box plaits of velvet, there is a cap crown gether. }of the material of the gown; a band Borders of ostrich feather trimming about!) of fur or roll of velvet surrounds the the neck of decollete gowns, with tufts of os-| crown, and there is a bunch of ostrich trich tips on the shoulders, is the most be-| tips at the back curling forward over the coming and elegant garniture ever introduced, | crown. Others are made entirely of velvet, Evening gowns are laced in the back again, | a full puff around the edge, a full cap crown butthe lacing is generally concealed under | with a bandeaus of jet between and a bunch NTS-YOU NEED IT APTER SHAVING. E you a splendid line to make your selection from. | Es CHAS, A. STEVENS & BROS., 3 69 State St., Chicago, T. St —— . - | 7 ’ 3 USE BROOK’S COTTON | gs Suits all Machine and Hand Sewing. 3 H . . The Cheapest Because it is the Best, es dering the silk petticoat and the V-shaped neck, ; worn with suits of Seotch plaid. (ilace 200 yds 45 cents per dozen. Se and forming the sleeve, isa pufting of crepe lisse| A pretty cap to be worn with a suit has | Soft Binish 200 yds 40 cents per dozen. eS 3 o ELLY OF GLYCERINE >. - Ss & ) I oS s oe 5 = — So ry 5 Co > 3 > .~ & 8s 3 & =x wm § a = 3 a J LADIES’ __ Only $2.00. fa Retail Everywhere for $3.00. Sizes 244 to 7, D and E Widths. G Vailed to any address on receipt of 25c. in stamps, . A “Sage i - 5 SUBSTITUTES ARE TO BE AVOIDED. tie folds andhdraperies ot ti atthe, bav ta gee oe pee Nate rnce | NUMITITUTHA AWE TO WH AVOTDH For practical gowns there is a new cloth Dainty little evening hats are made of Irish United States Supply Co., Box 3348, Boston, Mass. called flanelle moultonnee, very soft and | lace and velvet; they are entirely crown Buy the Original. downy on one side. Some are in stripes in | less, or rather top-less, and the high coiffure LADIES CAN DO THEIR SHOPPING ] - —————— Pee the tartan colors on dark brown, dark blue, protrudes above them. in PESEE.A ee ne he oy h — the city. TRUSSES, ELASTIC STOCKI NGS, olive, ete. These are plainly made, the front Write for circular, ina Chestnut St. Philadelphia Abdominal es oe Etc, _ Please send for of both skirt and bodice being bias. For - | descriptive Price List. , AL a vaee. & slight figures the waist is round, with a belt, | | BHO., 9468 N. Sth St., is collar and cuffs: of velvet embroidered in t. SANTA CLAUS gold. Madder red striped with black has The Braid that is known the world around. trimmings of black velvet. These come also with woven borders, and some are reversible, plain on one side and checked on the other. We give two graceful models of promenade JS THE BEST | te ae pd sem co sage a Christmas gift for a bright boy or girl. Mir braid, 1e@ Other is in beige cloth with a} SS vest of chamois cloth opening over a full plas- | ¥ ca Wi — % ONLY THE yt he aapeliy no f acme * sistent seine ty tad a . i wanta herewithal but do not know you do, ee our adv. In November tasue this Contribute to its pages. Among the good things for tron; the draperies are held by choux of the al”? WHEREWITHAL O©O.,, Girard Building, Philadelphia “880 Ware the absorbing serial stories : cloth finished with pampilles of silk in the | — — ~ q Tw » ic Malcolm centers. The Two Wooleys, By Richard Th . ( ati cirts P » new Paris! WHAT | y) Johnston 1¢ foundation skirts of the new Paris The White Wolf, By Edward 8, Ellis. - the fro ~ pt tly pom Peon he -* TO WEAR. ‘ I ittle Southern ‘Women. By Rose W. Fry 1¢ front one slightly gored at top, the sides | tijustrated catalogue of Ladies’ Unde We : , ise Sto ; are entire widths gored gradually from the pers, and Rich Holiday Goods, for Ge, (stuny S HEARS Re A Blind Hunt, By Louise Stockton, : SC IS SORS R E = Isrepresented In the following titles: South Amer- P » hack a single wi apy NEW STYLES. LOW PRICES. E bottom, and the back a single width. Very | , aaress Mahler Bros., Mi & #4 6th Ave., New York | TRAVEL AND ADVENTUR heavy cloth gowns have two very small reeds, | ’ ous , i y jean Folk, By William Fleroy Curtis; B of WILL STAY M EM- Borneo, By David Ker; Trips in t just enough to hold them out slightly. Silks Cc SHAYNE | GUT ts | C. « 5| The initdnood in China, By and cachemeres have no improvers. By Dr. F. L, Oswald; - B E R Frank G. Carpenter: Tales of the Sea, By 8. G. The new illustrated young folk’s weekly Extremes meet in the costumes of the sea- son, especially in the designs of the bodice EASIEST THE NAME o-oo are only afew of the attractions. The ; 7 mm? saver ai . P . . ct : » by . tistsas J. Carter Beard, portion of the gown; severe plainne 3S and Manufacturer, offers at retai!, OF ANY . ot. Pay pictures will be by cum a8 =. oe Se most elaborate and artistic draping. Gowns liad bate . \ ry MADE. M omen Si “5 Kuan, Jt etc, SANTA CLAUS ta of cachemere, chuddah, and India camel's ates styles in. London P : . INSIST ON og ; YOUR STORE- skin Sacques, with loops and KEEPER PRO- bars or buttons. A garment CURING THEM always fashionable Prices For YOu. BEAUTIFUL, INTERESTING, PRACTICAL. iF NOT K EPT BY And full of common sense, presented in the mostattrac- - ~- live way. Children of all sorts and all ages like it and STORES SEND an betler Mr Henly, Tn oul wed cocatton Tn ¢ ve r s) re « . ist ), CTH 1¢ io . “ $I.FOR BIN Uf Oe Te an a yee will receive the paper FULLNICKELPLATED = inti! Saneary tnt, 1801, for $1.60. \PAIR BY MAIL. VOU HAVE'NT SEEN IT? M gence, Then send for free sample copy to the SANTA CLAUS CO., LIMITED, ‘eoper Union, 1118 Market St, & Tremont Place, & Cooper Union, ttt isdelphia.” Hooton. ’ AGENTS WANTED ias'scnas" getnewsue” SANTA CLAUS the handsomest, cheapest and = yy uvenile mag- The trimming often consists of nothing but es: = a ; A . | : oe ee aoe a, vy azine. Liberal terms. wid ff silk cords around and across the crown, fin- iB HO TO FIT A full information to the SANTA CLAavs co. black athe ends with large silk pompons in| BBE Seymour CuTLERY Co. HOLYOKE.MASS. pita., 1113 Market St, Philadelphia, hair are sometimes made with a bodice and yigot sleeves of velvet, either black or self col- or, over which the wool goods is draped, the edges being finished with a tiny passemente- rie in arabesque design and in color to match the velvet. The Spanish bolero or toreador hat and the buffalo Bill are new shapes in round hats; the former is in velvet or felt, moleskin felt, or in silk like a gentleman’s high hat. The shape | is something like a straight brimmed turban | with the brim wider and the turned-up edge narrower. dressed and dyed Alaska Seal from S165 to S225: 37 to do inches long. 124 West 42d St. 10% Prince St., New York. Iiustrated Fashion Book mailed free to out-of-town buyers. SS ' 7” ?- Z . pe ‘i: black, orange or scarlet; sometimes it = ro-| Peep PRESERVE YOUR MUSIC BY USING THE Landen visable settes or choux of velyet in Manola yellow,| Yea eg mmr EE om Dorero red or black, and again it is bunches | | Zuee | SHAN NON SHEET MUSIC BINDER. } | Ve . on . * ° “Fe, ° ee , AiéZ | sinds «ac jece IndependenUy 80 ial it can be re | var : " ‘ of — a pos al = de ig ; g Biz © anaed Fan Binder without mutilating it or disar- } MP The Buffalo Bill is a low-crowned, broad- Ze : Full directions how to properly fit a | ranging the others. Opens as well as if regularly - oe wher ps kid glove, (i!lustrated) Matled FRE 2 bound whether partly or entirely filled. Tort musie | Y obined. Fits size Cult, brimmed soft felt hat in beige or mastic col- any Spool. Sample 15e : 3 . . to every lady who will send her address | easily repaired and bound by our appliances accom | Jusr Our. , yo : ors, With embroidery in chenille around the | and mention this paper. Together with | panying each binder. For descriptive circular and | yo sae aw aes aban weed brim, which is gracefully turned up at the our illustrated price list of prices apply to or address, Aa «gems madly yy left side; a long, sweeping plume surrounds the crown and there is a panache of tips in front. The “Ruy Blas’ is a favorite model for a toque, and consists of folds of velvet laid, ontic 5 paper. A. W. SAWYER, Providence, H. L. All Kinds of Gloves OFFICE SPECIALTY MFG. CO., | Searerees oe pod — - ? 18 South 3rd St., Philadelphia, STAMPS see care, SU bh Treen, i 40) the most complete GLOVE CATALOGUE | -—— - --- ‘ ywnia, Peru, U.8. .O, 4 ever issued by any American House. '$ A MONTH AND BOARD PAID | War, etc. only 2Scts, 100 Ass’t. .Mexico, Cyprus, 4 Save money and wear better gloves, | or highest commission and 80 DAYWS8 i Guiana, Trinidad, etc., only 10cts. 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ASK FOR ite pattern for jet bandeaus, and is always ef- irculars of Mrs. Plesher’s Ladies pl sit Bi i ' FREE sizes sins FREE. Plesher @ Co.Cin'ti,O. | MANUFACTURED BY THE YPSILANTI DRESS STAY M’F’G CO., YPSILANTI, MICH Ad

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14 INEXPENSIVE GOW NS FORWINTER. By Emma M. Hoorer If one can spend 3500 a year on dress it is possible to look well and appropriateiy attired without the wearisome pros and cons of what to buy, but when the personal allowance is only $100 or $150, careful buying is necessary in order to appear suitably dressed, especially ifone is a young lady or matron fond of society, and not anxious to look shabby in the midstof more fortunate women. ‘To dress in- | expensively you can not indulge in novelties that come and vo in lightning flashes. Select stylish and becoming colors in plain or mod estly striped woolen goods, and as far as practical do not make up new gowns in com binations, as when they are re-made during the second season a contrasting goods will be necessary to eke out the old material. Now it is fashionable to combine black velvet, silk or silk cord passementrie with any color of woolen or silk materials, which gives one the chance of remodeling half worn dresses at a moderate outlay, and the long straight effects preferred for skirts requires much less material than the elaborate drap eries of yore. Seven yards of 42-inch goods will now suffice for a stylish costume having | a princess back and draped front, or eight | yards will fashion into a basque and trimamed skirt. | box and Needleworker full of good things, the De cember Housewife if a paper replete with holiday ? cheer, making one of the finest onl y JANUARY, 1890

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rs JANUARY, 1890 THE RAINDROP'’S STORY. (CONCLD DED, ) By Emity Meres RIPLey. * Ah povera picciola!”’ (poor little one) said Charney. “Why must thou be born in a| prison place? Was there no room for thee in all the wide, free earth among thy fellows?”’ Then, noticing me, he said: “And how cume this pretty dewdrop to find you out so | soon? Did it think the little prison flower | might be thirsty? Blessed watchfulness! | What can I do to show my gratitude?”’ } I wanted to speak and say, “Believe on | Him who sent me,” but was obliged to be mute, and only glanced upwards,as if to point out the source from whence [ came; but he | didn’t “see the point,” as they say, and I had to conclude that my eye is not so expressive us it feels! It was sweet to hear him talk to his little | guest, and I always came in for my share of the praise too, and while it was pleasant to be noticed, | would rather have had him look through me and recognize my Creator and his. How bitterly lonely he must have been, I knew from the delight with which he threw his whole life into this new interest. You will find it hard to understand how he could be so absorbed in it from the first, unless you remember that it brought him hope of escape from insanity, by the interest he knew he should take in watching its growth. And he was not disappointed. No leaf nor tendril so little as to escape his eager eye—they were ushered into the world with as much ceremony and admiration as any century plant ever bloomed out upon! The progress it made he calied “the daily miracle of my Picciola,’’ But this was not all of Picciolato him. It spoke to him of the hidden things of life—of the mystery of Heaven and Earth, for a knowledge of which his whole soul was now athirst. He had come to this prison, proud of his much learning, but he had been walled in alone with it long enough to find how little he knew afterall, when he could not answer one of the questions that he was incesantly asking himself about “the wonderful work- ings of Chance.” Ah, well might the blessed Saviour exalt the wisdom of these little ones that believe in Him as far above that of the Seribes and Phar- isees who deny His existance In the afternoon hour Charney always found new beauties unfolded since the morn- ing visit gynd yvradually, as the comfortable love of this little life took possession of his heart, the misery of his captivity ceased to be. | Picciola had “taken his captivity captive’; is it any wonder that he loved her? He left her at the end of each visit with his blessing on her head, and the sharp eye of the little dewdrop keeper could see that the bless- ing grew daily stronger in the grace of God. All that he held dear tohim was within that enclosure, and all that ministered to that life had anew beauty for him. He watched Pie- ola from his iron-barred window with as deep love as ever mother watched her baby in its cradle, and when the sunshine was pour- | ing its life into her he often looked up and | exclaimed, “blessed be thou, sunlight, forthy eare over my little one!’ And when the rains came and did their part for her, he blessed the clouds for sending them. At first he seemed to think the sun got up in the morning only to see and help Picciola, and the stars came out, only to “sit up at them till they seemed to be looking after the little life that was such a blessing to him. Many a night he sat for hours at his win dow, unmindful of the iron bars, with his eyes and heart travelling back and forth from the narrow, stone-girt garden, where grew his “tree of life,’ as he called it, to the boundless sky garden. Something whispered to him that his love for the lowly one was teaching him of a Tree of Life Eternal that lived be- yond the stars—lived in the lightof the Son of tighteousness. Shut in ashe was with his meditations and his only love, which depended for its life on the regular return of daylight and darkness, it is no wonder that their coming and going be- gan to have a new importance for him. He would say, “Suppose the sun should not rise for a week! —Picciola would bleach white and die. Oh, merciful powers, forbid!’? Then would come the question, “From whence | comes the power that lifts its mighty fire up so high into the sky that it can see and glow upon my Picciola?’’ As he watched the bud- ding and development of each leaf and traced the tiny veins that had each their own place in every leaf or tendril, he kept continually ae how and from where they all came there, Picciola answered his questions in her own | quiet way, but in her quiet way she was speaking a mighty truth. One evening as he bade her good night, he said, ‘You don’t tell me from whence you come;—be that as it’ he would wish that even as Picciola had been ' have comforted her in trouble sometimes, as may, you have been a messenger of joy to me, mavourneen,”’ When he reached his room, his eves fell on | the words, ‘Chance, though blind, is the only author of creation”; he took a piece of char- | coal and wrote, at the end of the line, “‘per- | haps.” In his dreams, that night, Picciola seemed to be always sayingto him, “If I am a mes- senger, I must have been sent by some one. In whose name do I come? In whose name do I bring you joy?” In the morning he knelt before her as usual | to examine her beauty, and he said, “‘ Answer thine own questions. my beloved, and tell me in whose name you come to bless my life.”’ Picciola only shook her head in the breezes, and her little keeper saw that at the same time she shook his faith in his old idea that blind chance had sent her to him. I trembled for joy and nearly fell off, and he noticed me and said, “Hold fast, little dewdrop! Why, Picciola! are you trying to shake off your faithful littie friend? Not one morning has it failed to be here since you came. You can ill afford to throw away such a necessary little safeguard. Where does the dewdrop get its heart, so loving, that it comes from the free blue sky to this prison-yard every night to take care of you? In whose name does it come?” If I had had a voice then, | would have said, “T baptize in the name of God the Father, Maker of Heaven and Earth.” One morning in June, Picciola had a surprise for her slave, the Couit of Charney—a little bud that foretold a flower, and when it bloomed! I can never forget his ecstasies! Why, you have never felt anything like his delight since your baby brother | within. THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. tS born again from her duil little seed life, he | Picciola has me. When I get a pretty bonnet, might live again the Eternal life promised by | I shall trim it with Picciola blossoms!” Jesus of Nazareth. Then he would say, “But The little girl laughed merrily at the idea of who is He? Monsieur in a bonnet and said he had better “Behold the Lamb of God that taketn away | let his wife wear it. the sin of the world,” answered the voice “T have no wife,” said he. “Well, it’s easy enough to get one; they are He became ill from the darkness and damp- | very plenty,” said little Miss Wiseacre. ness of his room, and Ludovic had permis-| ‘Not here,’”’ he answered. sion to let him stay in the open air as much| “Oh yes, of course gore mt as he desired, so, all day, and sometimes all| hoping to remedy this unluc Then, y speech, she | night, he remained in thecourtyard to be with | said, “It is a pity I am not old enough to wear Picciola. But she directed” his thoughts as | long dresses, may be I could be your wife. high above herself as the heavens are higher | Would I suit you?” than the earth, and hour after hour, day after The Prisoner laughed, and said with a day, he sat, or lay, on a cot beside his silent | blush that I thought had better be on the lit- teacher, learning from her to be humble, and | tle girl's cheek. “No doubt Madamoiselle from the Divine spirit of truth and love, to be | would suit me better than I should her.”’ hopeful, that he, ‘the chief of sinners,” | “Oh no, I guess not. I am often a very might, through faith, repentance and confes- | naughty little girl, my big brothers and sis- sion of sins, yet have the peace of God in his | ters say, (and I do have the wors? luck, break- heart. At first his prayer had been that of | ing dishes and things, sure enough.)—I think the doubter, “Oh God, if there be a God, save | I am not too good for even a prisoner.’ my soul, if | have a soul,’’ but the Heavenly | By this time the Officer and his wife came Father never yet turned a deaf ear to even | over to talk with the captive, and the little such a half believing prayer as that, from a | girl's chatter subsided. heart so wholly in earnest, and more and| They had known the Count of Charney in more every day, as he plead for peace, it was | former days and having heard the sad_story given to him, | of his prison life from Ludovic, guessed that One day an Officer of the Government came | he had become a better man since coming tothe Fortress with his wife and little child, here. and while they talked with Ludovic, their They expressed sympathy for him, and ; Jooking into the lady’s gentle face, he said,“*Nay Madame, rather congrat- ulate me that I came where I learned to know Ciod and his goodness to even such as I.” Tears filled her eyes and she said, “If you have found our Redeem- er here, then, truly, this has been the best part of your life, and I hope you may soon come back to the world and redeem some of the time you lost.”’ , He shook his head and said he supposed he must end his days in this prison. She said, “Oh no, I hope for better things than that for you, and wherever you live, 1 trust that we may be counted among your friends.” She held out her hand to him, and he hesitated to take it, saying some- thing about his unwor- thiness to, till she said, “If Monsieur has found acceptance with our Heavenly Father, he is daughter and the Prisoner, surely worthy to take the hand of any fellow made friends with each other. | sinner who is saved by the same grace.” She asked him dozens of| Then he took her hand and kissed it, with questions,—in bunches, of} a reverence and gallantry that bespoke the two or three in a breath truly Christian gentleman. about his prison life, and| They all talked for quite a long time, the listened, in open-eyed won- | Officer meanwhile secretly resolving in his der, to all he told her of the! heart to do all he could to secure the prison- comfort he found in Pieciola! er’s pardon, He was a man of much influ- and all that she was teach-| ence, and his wife one of the many loving ing him. | friends of the Empress Josephine. He loved the child for her| When they arose to go, the lady asked if sympathy and for the admi-| there was anything she might send him that ration she showed for his} would be a comfort to him. precious plant. When she He said, “I have come to believe that the moved her little hand around | Bible is the light of the world. And above umong the leaves, with that| everything else I want a copy of it.” She caressing tenderness that | gladly promised it. only the children use, Char-| After they were gone the Prisoner sa. with ney felt that she had added | his head bowed in his bands for a long, long yet another charm to their| While, heedless of the passage of time, and the beauty, and breaking off the | Stars came out,the moon came up,the dew came only full-blown flower that | down, and the night came all around him. remained, he offered it to her Dreary us he felt his position was, he knew saying, “Picciola sends one| that possessing this, he held the greatest treas- blossom to France to die in | ure of life. freedom.” ’ ees + a ¢ The child understood, more | You know it is such a favorite old plan for than he thought, of the sae- | Stories to wind up at a wedding, that if there had been two Picciolas, or two prisoners, or rifice he had made, and the two jailers, I should manage to make them tears rushed into her pretty |or sister was born—unless it was the time |} your very own pet cat had a kitten! jut Raindrop will not attempt to tell you adv 3 at | all it remembers of the Prisoner and his little night’? with her! He had never cared for | friend, lest it should entirely go dry before it had finished. Itisalong story and told in different ways, how the captive from merely seeking diversion in caring for Pieciola, be | came through her a seeker after God and_ his righteousness. I leave you to fancy how he lgradually came around to believe the same | power that made Picciola in her every day different perfections, must be the same that | rolls the stars along and the same that made him and was now devawing him heavenward |by putting it into his heart to pray for and hail the holy light in his soul. As the first blossoms of her little flower faded away and, in due time, became hardened into their seed- hood, he wondered much how so lovely a fife as his Picciola could come from such a tiny seed, even after it had died in the earth. */Tou can this be?” he would say, over and over again. “Who brings it again to its ylorified life? ”’ Then always spoke the Spirit of Trath in his heart the same answer. “Jam the fesur rection and the Life. he that believeth in we, though he were dead. yet shall he live, and who soever liveth and believeth in me shall never dice helievest thou this?’ Oh how these words rang in his ears—whether asleep or awake he al ways seemed to hear them. In his early life the Count of Charny had been a student of the Bible, but only to scoff at it, and now its sacred words came back to him with a blessed- ness that was heaven-born. When he thought on the possibilities of another life after this, fall in love with each other, and bring about as lively a wedding as might be in jail! But with only one of each, even the sharp eye of taindrop cannot see how it conld be done friends, | will mean you too,” without making a terrible “ fizzle’ of it. She told him it was her eighth birthday and And so, let us feel as happy-as we ought, she liked the present he had given her more) when I tell you that one morning Ludovie than any she had had, Then she said, | came to the prisoner with his face aglow with “Were you ever as young as eight? I ‘spect’ joy and handed him a folded paper, saying, you're about a hundred now.” “Glad news for Monsieur!—At last, at last it ~ We laughed and said, ‘Not unless T have) has come!” become so since last autumn when L came to Ludovic had been quietly working for this, eyes, as she said “I will keep it always, and when I pray God to bless all my prison—I was twenty-seven then.” but the prisoner knew nothing of it. “Only twenty-seven, going on twenty- He opened it, wondering what it could be, eight!” she exclaimed. your hair so white ?” “J have been lonesome and a sinner,” said “Why, what makes | and read the official order for his release from | Fenestrella! He arose and took one step towards Picci he. _| ola, but he was not yet strong enough to bear “Are you lonesome and a sinner now?” | even so glad a shock as this, and he fainted— she asked, falling forward upon the little plant, breaking Not lonesome, since Picciola came, but 4) her slender stem off close to the ground. sinner, though, I begin to hope, a saved sin- Ludovic laid him gently upon the cot, put ner,” water on his face, and presently he revived, “Oh yes, I know what you mean, saved by But nothing could revive Picciola. Ludovie Jesus our Saviour. Mamma says he will save saw what had happened and fearing to have the wickedest person in the world, if he wants | the prisoner see it while he was still so weak, and asks Him to. Are you the wickedest’ he raised him in his great, strong arms and person in the world?” carried him out of the court-yard, saying, “fam afraid so, little one.” ; “Monsieur will breathe better, out here in the “I don’t believe you are, You seem entire- air of Freedom!” ly fame tome. I don't see why they fasten Thus for a little while Picciola was left you up in this place. Whosent you here, there. At first I was greatly grieved to see anyhow?” my little charge lying dead, but I reflected “The Emperor.” that her mission was ended—she and I had ‘Well, my Papa knows him, and when we helped save a man from madness and his soul get home, Iam just going to tell him to take from death, so she was ready to return to the you out of here, and if he won't do it I will earth and I tothe clouds. 1 stayed with her ask the Empress to doit. She is lovely, and as long as the sunshine would permit me,and oh! she wears the prettiest bonnet I e—ver felt glad to be taken away before the prisoner saw! white, with violets on it. Everybody --1 mean the Count of Charney—should come knows how fond she is of violets.” and see her sorry plight. so I floated off, hap- The Prisoner smiled and said, **Maybe they | py in having been useful, and blest with a conscience as clear as a~- Dewdrop,

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ee na wig a ; me, - eG oz - : att te * ola 2 ee ry Le 16 ASCUTNEY STREET. By Mrs. A. D. T. Wuiryey (Continued from page 2. Do you know, Hansel, why the knight’s move is the most puissant on the chessboard ? It is the move of courtesy and valor; so it car- ries strength and privilege. The mightiest majesty cannot budge at all, of course; except wo edge itself froma threatened intrusion; the castles,—-the great solid established powers and orders,—go up and down their perpen- diculars and horizontals, and bear tremend- ously on whetever is precisely in their way; the bishops—and other clergy—slide on their peculiar diagonals, seeming to avoid the rigid- ities of rank, but maintaining their own; the queen,—ah !*she indeed may vary with the subtle dominance of the suave oblique, the dignified limit of the direct, but her weakness is that she cannot, after all, for whatever emergency, break out of range or confuse her lines. See what the knight—the free noble— does! Healone leaps the boundary! He only can take two steps on his own road and one off at the same time upon the path of his neighbor; or one step off from self and the conventional and two alongside in fellowship upon the next parallel. Over heads, across barriers, he springs and alights as he will, and as he is wanted. It ‘s he who solves the prob- lemsand defies the hindrances; and he never jumbles up the game, either. Hansel,—chess would be awfully stupid if it were not for the knight's move ! I only meant to write you a ‘light running domestic’; but you and I always do get into) the reasons ofthings. What lam explaining and prefacing is that Ihave taken a sort of| knight's jump myselfinto a next row, and| found what I should not have got precisely | if I had held on to my own particular square, | or file of squares, forever. I have made} friends with a most charming little pawn, and | am gently escorting her forward, or planning | to do so, step by step, out of a block she got in- | to, without a safe orworth while move for her in any direction. And you know there is this about a pawn,—she may, under special protection, and by gently wise progression, come eventually to queen! I never thought until this minute, whata pretty thing it is| that the only piece that has the very elements | of the royal move in its own small, unpre-| tending, faithful, patient advances, is the} pawn ! I haven't any special scheme for her; I do not mean to put schemes into her head,—or| even «tscontents; [ have simply got her into} my home, in herown humble capacity and | use, and further into my heart than she imag- | ines. I do not mean to let her go again care- lessly; and I feel somehow sure that there is | something for her in the world that maybe | can help her reach. She wouldn’t care to be a queen; and I don't mean place and station for her when I think of possible change; but some little rule and realm that every woman likes, —at least some little freedom and fullness of existence,—that | feel like demanding for her, and wringing out of circumstance. These As- cutney Street people have so looked down up- on her! I mean just one household of them who have had her services,—for her board, | believe,—and have kept her presence with them disguised or suppressed, because they knew Ascutney Street would look down ! Probably I should not have told you all this, but that I have had literally nothing else to tell of late, or to interest myself about, be- yond the children’s pranks; and it was a wank of theirs, indeed, that brought Jane 1ere. She has won her way with them; Alice came upon her, as she called it, ‘through the looking-glass;’ which really meant, I had rea- son to suspect, a trespass across garden bounds into my disdainful neighbor's premises; and the child has named her, —the coincidence with what [ have been saying just strikes me as I write it,—her white queen. Maybe I have left you to suppose that I have wrapped my enthusiasm about some or- dinary unbred girl at coarse service, and am trying my wand upon her, by way of turning a Cinderella into a princess, and making a coach out ofa pumpkin for her to ride in. ‘Altro!’ if sweet, high womanliness means that, my little seamstress is a lady. She's a different ‘speshoo,’ as old Dobson used to say to us in her descriptive comments on Austra- lian natural history. Do not think, either, that I am uncomfortable here, or desolate, or repenting my bargain. I have got more ex- rience, and some better things, than I came ‘or;the house and garden are pretty and nice; the | children are happy; for they fetched their fairy- | land,with them; Dineoess comes to see me, on her way toand from the trains, where she leaves or meets her husband, and brings me apricots and roses and grapes from Edgemere: | I have Rick and you to write to; and | don't | even contemn,—I only watch,as a specimen | in the grub condition,—Ascutmey Street. Now I want another long letter from the | wilds; I don’t care if it isn’t a ranch country, | or mines and gulches, or a tornado track; all | these things are west ofthe Mississippi, and so | are you; and I’m only gradually getting able | to sort you out and set you apart. Has your) old Swedish woman learned to pronounce her | J’s or got her tongue round all the consonants in the ‘Griffith’ yet? or does she still despair of that, and call, you ‘Dhocdhor Yan,’ and she make yam, and yems, and yonny- cake for you, and-open yars of yinyer, when the yudye rides over at teatime? And did her currant yelly yell? I’m very peaceful about your having her, dear old Hans; and the phu- tograph of the little long, low house is lovely, the natural park-line surroundings of soft sweeping turf and the far shadows among the groups of lordly old black walnuts! Sun- ny water is a picture and a poem, in the very puny og I can't trust altogether to that for you; I do hate to think of those long 2 to the farms, and the winter storms, ' road to the fort, and only ‘ and her boy Bap for you to | tor Hansel should make that knight's move THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. —— HANSEL TO GRETEL. Don’t worry, littlke woman, about what I have to come home to, when you keep me company yourself with such budgets as that I have just spent half my evening with. And a3 to what | go out to. you simply can't think what the glorious difference is between a rush over the prairie with a fairly beaten bridle- path to follow, or even a scramble down the blul! and a transit by the cable ferry to the opposite scramble up again,—and the tame ways of crowded civilization, hanging on to straps in horse cars, timing trains, or driv- ing along macadamized thoroughfares in a continuous procession that never passes a given point in any number of hours together Why, I never got out, before, in all my life, until I came here! and I think I am like the genie that got out of the bottle. Now | have fairly stretched myself, I don’t believe I shall ever get back again,—to Stay, at any rate. The joke of your supposing that going to Ascutney Street,—the last little adaptation of Queen-Anne-to-the-million in pretentious de mand and supply for modern measures and patterns of living, would bring you into sume sweet, arcadian simplicity ! of course the simplicity all went there with yourself, like the children’s fairyland, and was speedily dis- enchanted into a very disgusted enlighten ment. lam glad, however, that you are not wholly disheartened or desvlate; you would | be pretty sure to be preventing somebody else from being so wherever you were. As to your chess parable, | can adda similitude to those you have ingeniously fitted. Does it oc- cur to you what the doubled pieces mean ? ‘hat there is a king's side and a queen’s side to the affairs of life? Yours is the feminine chivalry; the knight’s move with che woman- ly power; there remains to be made a rein- forcing of the position by the K. Kt., and | where is he, to S on your part for your white | vawn ? If you can bring him forward, my ody. I think you may have done your work. But these little pawns with the queen's im- pulse in them have a hard time getting across the board, even among their friends. I have | |caught glimpses ofsuch in my ways among all sorts; and I know justthe kind or ‘sweet, high womanliness’ without its fair chance that youmean. And yet,—you women of the | officer, and one was a young lady’s. | have sounded small; the distance was hardly appreciable, in such contrast, between the light conversation of the upper deck and the chaff and chuckle of the rowst-abouts down below. There were two pretty young women on board, but there wasn't any “H'm! nonsense '’ Margaret interpolated. The next words really were “white queen “An incident happened one day, however which reminded me of a glimpse I did once get—"’ “h’m,—h m,—!I believe ve lost my place,’ said Mistress Margaret, glancilig on and returning, ‘al, here it is .”.’—‘steaming up finely along an open runof deep water, mak the best time we could to reach the furthest point of our trip before night. There was a fresh wind, almost directly in our faces; we were on deck, enjoying the exhilaration of progress after so much dawdling; when tor an instant the breeze rose to a gust, and two hats went off, whirling down and across stream, and finally lodging among the weeds and osiers of a broad marsh. One belonged to an was a good deal of fun, of course; the girl was | very pretty, and her hair got loose and flew picturesquely about her face; she behaved nicely enough, but rather as if she enjoyed it; and afterward there was some to-do about turning a spare soft felt ofthe Major's, with twisting and ribboning, into a feminine head- gear, that was successfully effected and the thing sported with the least little air of pleased distinguishment, during the rest of the voyage.—I 1] tell Alice of the other thing— like and unlike—that Isaw once. It was a great deal harder for the girl, forit was on a railroad train, full of passengers, going into the city. The hat blew off'as she stood upon the platform, just as the curs left a way sta- tion; she had togo into the carriage and sit down, bareheaded; and she did it just as simp- ly and as quietly as if--she had had a _ half yard’s height of bows and plumes overhead to keep her in countenance, instead of only some light, beautiful rolls of sunny-colored | hair, and a few soft, wavy tips or short locks that touched her forehead and temples the fringy edgesof a little bird’s She looked troubled, but she did not that appear, very much. She never glanced to see who noticed her, or how, but slipped There | like | feathers. | let even | JANUARY, 1890 away from her again into forgetfulness. Something more positive belonged to her, and yet what more of it should she ever know She knew too much on her side. little Jane Gregory; to this Doctor Hansel,--how well she recollected the mere title by which he had been hailed in her hearing,--it was al! vague and unassociated. She had lent a touch to his mental picture of an ideal; he: heart swelled that she could have done that but his ideal and herself.--if she could dare to think of them together, how was it likely that ever for another instant they should « exist to him ? Mrs. Sunderland went on, resuming rather hastily her reading; Jane recollected after ward in some mysterious way, what now fel simply on her outward was listening to such things ! “Rick would have enjoyed secing the snag- boats that we visited at their work; great, two beaked, clumsy things that would puff and steam down upon a tree-trunk sticking out of water, catch it between their iron jaws like a bootjack, and yank it up, and haul it on board for firewood. Once, we got caught on a sandbar; it was toward the last of our down trip; stayed there a day and ahalf; the roustabouts went off up- shore and brought pecan nuts. It looked se- rious about getting off; the major was anxious to get back to headquarters, and some of us were ina hurry; we began to think of having j the yawl and rowing down to a railway land |ing: when at noon the second day a funny | thing happened,--I’ll leave the moral to you | Gretel;- another steamboat came down rivei, | full head; a little river craft, drawing much |less water than we. She saw our predica- | ment as soon as she rounded the bend in the | deep water above; we were justin the cdge of | the channel; the little wretch thought to give | us the go-by with a flourish. On she came, full rush, whooping; depth and width enough for her apparently; but behold you, the heave and swell she brought with her rolled beau- tifully under our keel, lifted us up and carried us sweeping over, while in our very wake she drifted exactly into our old place, and stuck | there fast. As we steamed away, roustabouts |shouting and whistle screaming, they were ear. Inwardly, she strange, bewildering step above.—are you always willing to make | into the first seat and tied ascarf over her | getting poles in rig on board the other for real room for them, a place beside you that would need no patronage? I wonder what you would say to me, for instance, Gretel, if] head. Somebody told the conductor, and the hat was telegraphed back for, and sent on in- to town not many minutes later. I hap- were to take a knight’s jump somewhere, | pened to be near her when she recovered it and lead a little white pawn toward the front ? When Margaret got thus far in Doctor Han- sel’s letter, Lam bound to say she made a| long pause and catechized herself, and I am | and putit on; and | charming an could be. “Do you think you take that in, Alice,—the Saw how wonderfuily unaffected inconspicuousness 2 . > “spangh &™ , 3 4 alj ?”’ ‘ aret. as afraid she did not come out trom the catechiz- | /#st long words and all?” Margaret asked. ing quite satisfied with the lesser self: to | which the nobler put the test questions. Lam | afraid that she was not quite ready that Doc- | “At any rate,”’ she said, taking up the letter | from her lap with a long breath, “he is away out there. One need not trouble about it yet awhile. Hewon t pick up ared pawn,—nor a black one. He’s a white knight.” She did not fancy the white pawns were especially plenty at Sunny water. The rest of the letter she ward te Rick and Alice; gory heard it. “LT would like to have had you and the chil- dren with me up the river on a holiday I have just had. I don’t often go out of instant reach ot my work; but Il had no_ especial cases, and there is a good fellow out here on a prospect for a practice whom I have half a mind to go shares with myself, in a cirenit 1 | can hardly swing round to now, and that will double up its time. Anyhow, | took this run, went up on one of the government boats with an inspect- ing party under Major Griggs. There were read aloud after- and Jane Gre- population in ten years’ | half a dozen pleasant men, and two or three | ladies. We went where the Indian summer comes from. All alongthe river lands was that lovely haze like gold mist, and the trees and creepers were just beginning to kindle up. You haveno idea how a creeper does grow, whenit has only one thing to cling to. If | were a _ versifier, ] would save that to make a poemof. But the poem was there, with a thousand others. You will see a tall elm, with atrunk columnas round as a fair Doric, running straight up all by itself sixty feet before itthrows out its tent of boughs, and a vine starting at its roots has laid every shoot and leaf close down upon the bark, knowing right well there is nothing else near to fling out for; and so climbing and clinging and facing itself all the time toward the light, it has fitted a perfect, unbroken mosaic of fo- liage to thetree-pillar. Above, where it gets to the branches, the streamers and festoons have their way, and the whole splendid thing is alive with breath and motéon in the high blue air. The colors breaking out here and there on single leaf or tips and clusters, are like jewels among green enamel. Fancy the whole tree incrusted, as it will be soon. with such a fretwork of gems, and then imagine a colon- nade of such trees just far enough from each other to keep their single perfection, and you have one of the variety of pictures that this up-river, lazy stroll in shallow, uncertain waters, gave and suggested to us, with suffi- cient lingering before each point to make it thoroughly a study and posession. The soli- tude of these river stretches between the towns is wonderful. The channel changes make the farm borders so uncertainon the water- lines, that a man may have acres of planta- tion one year that are all under the river next; and of course they build their houses away back in safer places. You see nothing ot habi- tation; when the boat wants fresh eggs or but- | ter, a yawl is sent off to a men go up country a mile or more for a sup- ply. Fancy the sunsets in this width of still. ness, when the haz pink; and the twilights and the moonlight nights! I know it; there’s where the ro- mance might come in. But somehow, I think romance Would have interrupted. Chatter » home to ! did, often. I think almost any kind of talk, measured against that grand quietness, would landing, and the | air turns crimson and_ with a certain odd intonation, as again in her reading. “Yes, 1 do, mamma,” Alice answered, posi- tively. “I like that girl, and I don’t wonder it took very particular words to tell what Uncle Hans thought about it. I think Uncle Hans is very noticing, don't you ?” Jane Gregory sat perfectly motionless in a window-seat. The lamp by which Mrs. Sunderland was reading did not shine upon her, forthe curtain fel: partly between. A slow surge and swell of intense surprise and feeling had passed over her; she could not have moved or spoken, yet she thrilled from head to foot. It had come close to her again, that piece of her story; it had joined to it something incredible; it had so augmented and weighted itself that it could never drift she paused | working off. ‘“They’ll do well enough,’ ) the major, nonchalantly. ‘Small enough to |swim anywhere.’ Suggesting that as a timely | aphorism, I'll shut up.” | “I’m so glad I wasn’t on board that mean little steamboat!” Rick exclaimed, as_ his mother stopped. “Rick thinks he really was on the other, with Uncle Hans,” Alice remarked, superior | ly. “Mamma, what is an aphorism ?” | “A pithy saying; something said in a few words that means « great deal.” | “I think Uncle Hans is a pretty pithy man, | sometimes,’ was Alice’s meditative comment, |as she buttoned her doll’s nightgown | “Areyou tired?” Mrs. Sunderland |turning to Jane. FF ae | “On the contrary—I was thinking Jane replied, gathering herself back slowly,” what a different thing living is-- live peo- | ple.” | “Ascutney Street folks ?” “Live and lively may be quite distinct,” said Jane. “Are you two talking aphorisms?’ in quired Miss Alice. (To be Continued.) asked, among 5 P04. W i: wards—their work grows harder.2\y~—,- Pearline makes life easier and cleaner. Washing and cleaning done with Pearline has about enough work to make it good exercise—but enough to tire the body or ruffle the temper. Not ours, but the word of millions who use it as to whether it hurts the hands, clothes or paint— probably your neighbors can tell all about PEARLINE. Send it back What a Difference | between the WOMAN who is wedded to old-fashioned ideas and she who is bright enough to appreciate a new one. Every- body is striving to get something to make life easier—often it’s right beside them— those who are bright enough toembrace it get the benefits, those who don’t go back- in it not the you Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you, ‘‘this is as good as” or ‘‘ the same as Pearline.” FALSE—Pearline is never peddled, and if your grocer IT’S sends you something in place of Pearline, the honest thing to do is—send it back, 167 JAMES PYLE. New York. to tell what makes the Chair rock. Upholstered in Plush, Leather, or Wilton Rugs. Manufactured by serve one THE MOST WONDERFUL CHAIR IN THE WORLD. THE RIP VAN WINKLE RECLINING ROCKER. You can sit in the Chair with your feet on the foot-rest and rock yourself, and it is impossible for a beholder As an Invalid’sChair, 4 person can recline the back by quarter inches until he lies straight or horizontally and without taking his weight from the back of the Chair in the least, and Can Rock as well Lying Down as Sitting Up. It has 200 changes of position, and sells for $20. Send 2 cent stamp for beautifully iliustrated catalogue in colors.” MAKES AN ELEGANT WEDDING OR HOLIDAY PRESENT. Makes (5 Epoase of Furniture. said. CORN GIANT CORN EILLER cures .ard or soft. 25c. by mail, H, A, MINEB, Maldon, Mass. LEWIS, Catskill, N. Y. ‘ BILE FRINGE, PHOTO. CARDS &c.. 20 New Songs, 1 pack Escors | Cards, | ch Love Cards. 876 Richa Kacy Jokes. Tricks,Games, @New ple of (genuine) Cards tow eBOWs cake co., Cabis, Ohio

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a JANUARY, 1890 —— — —— a Sa THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. full into the face of the patient or into his food. | As sleeves are rarely made so that they may be rolled back, an over-sleeve of gray linen should be worn reaching to the elbow and fastened there with an elastic band. If you | do not happen to have any of these over-| sleeves, there are the Japanese straw cufs— | | ugly but useful, at 6 cents a pair, and you can | find rubber sleeves, uglier still at 25 cents a| | pair. The dress for the night should be almost the | same as for the day during that long period of unceasing care, but you may find it a relief to take off your corsets tor an hour or two, put- | ting on a warm double wrapper, and to re- place your shoes by a pair of warm felt slip- pers with felt soles. Always keep a wrap within reach so as to | provide further against the deadly chill of the j early morning and the wrap should be some- thing with sleeves. Not a shawl to slip off with every move- ‘ ment. One precaution is necessary, even with SOY or a patient who is apparently unconscious. NURSING IN FEVERS. Never perform any toilet operations or make = ; any change in your dress within the range of By Annie R. Ramsey BABY’S WINTER OUTING. Facts for Mothers of Small Children. “The melancholy days have come, the sad- dest of the year.’ To many a child this is literally true, for it means confinement to the house, for many months; or else the taking out at long intervals that a cold if not more serious illness, is almost certain to follow. A child of ordinary vitality can safely be taken out all the year around, (excepting perhaps a dozen of the most inclement days), after it is six months old, provided proper pre- cautions are taken. Four things are essential. That the child be taken out daily. That its stays out doors be of short duration, from tive to thirty minutes at atime accord- ing to the severity of the weather. That it be perfectly warm before going out and that the carriage and wraps are warm. And that its little feet be “toasted” upon its return, As Soon as the childis old enough, from two years old and upwards, a few minutes exercise Hints on Night-Nursiug For night-nursing some special directions are needed. In severe cases you will have a light all night and this light should be a} lamp—for the gas we burn consumes the oxy- | ven in the air very rapidly—while a lamp does not; but the lamp must be well cared for, kept scrupulously clean and filled and the wick turned up sufficiently to make a clear, brill. | lant Hame—otherwise the lamp will “smell” and the room be filled with the odor of kero- | sene which is much worse for the patient than | the oxygen-eating gas. The lamp will surely | smell ifany of the oil is left onthe metal} which becoming heated, slowly cooks the fluid and gives rise to the disagreeable odor. A “hooded lamp” is excellent for the sick room—the cover entirely protects the patient's eyes while the light can be thrown with great | brilliancy upon any desired part of the room, | the clock face for instance, which you will | need as a constant reminder of your duties. sut besides this clock you should have a watch with a second hand, for by this only, can you accurately count the pulse and = respi ration The thermmometer of the room should be in the light too, for it needs careful watching, as | it has a way of dropping towards 2 or 3 o'clock of a winter's morning, and this is the very time the nurse wants to avoid for her | patient and for herself any chance of a chill Itisa curious but well known fact that twice a day human vitality seems to have a low-tide this occurs between two and five in| the afternoon—and between two and five in the early morning—and it is at these times of reduced vitality that your patient is most apt to slip away from your love and care. This is very especially the case in those dreary hours just before dawn, when a penetrating chill seems to benumb the nurse's faculties or when her tired eyes are most tempted to close, but remember always that this is also your pa tient’s hour of danger and you must keep awake and on the qui vive for change in) him and a possible collapse. Po help you in this, I strongly urge you to] have night luncheons. Just before the family oes to rest have prepared and placed on the table by the door, a tray on which has been arranged a couple of sandwiches, some fruit, not oranges), a cupful of coffee or milk, tea, | heef-tea, cocoa or soup, With asmall sauce-pan | in which to warm it, so that at 2 o’clock or thereabouts, you can have the benefit of some- thing hot to tide you over the evil hours, Do not allow yourself anything in the nature of liquor -this isa fatal habit and one so easily acquired that the strongest protest is all too | weak —even tea is too stimulating for some | nurses, and | do not advise it unless all of the other beverages suggested are unpalatable or impossible to prepare easily, Never take your luncheon in the sightof your patient nor let him know that any such | ceremony is going on; be very particular about this with a convalescent who is often so ab- normally hungry that the sight or smell of food is almost maddening. For this reason oranges are excluded from the list of fruits the aromatic odor is so lasting and penetrat- ing that you are at once betrayed by it. About the nurse’s dress. This should be as simple as possible but al- ways perfectly neat and entirely removed from the slouchy style adopted by nurses of| his vision. [ remember once that | stooped the Fairy Lamp persuasion. That type with! to unfasten my shoe, when my patient cried | | i i ' } | Thelov ‘T love you, mamma,’’ my ‘‘T love you lots,’’ with a ¢ its bed-gowns, short skirts and big slippers | out in great alarm and her weak heart began | has died out—nurses now find that they ean) a most dangerous fluttering I could not use a broad-soled, low-heeled shoe with yvreat- | guess the cause of the fright but she told me er comfort than a slipper affords; as the shoe) the next day that when I stooped, it seemed Met a We litthe one said, As close to my heart crept her golden head. lasp and kiss. ‘The best of all mammas my mamuina is.”’ **And I think,’’ said she, looking up in my eyes With a glance that was tender and grave and wise, ‘That you’ve got just the lovingest face. ‘Pm glad you’re my mamma, I /ove you so.’ cp, CD, ’ What was the praise of the world to me ‘To the love of the little one throned on my knee? And this was my prayer as I kissed the eyes That were smiling up at me, pansy-wise, ‘*May the face of thy mother forever be The “‘lovingest’’ face in the world to thee.’ ’ out ofdoors is more beneficial than a ride in a carriage or sleigh. 17 And winter flannels once put on are to re- main on, wholly regardless of the changes of the atmosphere. Where such rule prevails a still greater folly is often found. And a law as irrevocable as that of the Medes and Persians is abided by even unto death viz: “All heating stoves or other apparatus for making people comfort- able during the chilly days of spring, summer, and autumn are to be banished from the house, before spring house cleaning, and not again under any circumstances, to be replaced until two weeks before Thanksgiving. A mother’s insane adherance to such a folly has cost many achild’s life. The child shivers over its breakfast, shivers after its breakfast, and keeps on shivering until the sun has warmed the atmosphere outside though very little inside, then a coat is put on and the little one romping in the sun grows warm, perhaps perspires freely when coming into dinner, the coat is removed, andin the cold dining room the perspiration induced by exercises is suddenly pears ma 9 and disease follows. Ifthe house must be kept cold, wear the coat or better still flannel skirt, when in the house and take it off while out in the sun, resuming it immediately upon entering again. But as we value the health and happiness of our families, let us have a bright, cheerful fire in stove or grate, during the chilly days of the beautiful autumn, and recognize no season of the year as the time when baby must be housed in. Anna E, Watson. With a little inducementa very youny child will learn to snew ball, build snow houses, dig jand roll in the soft clean substance, but a I child will not ordinarily play much alone. VICTORY | ON VICTORY !! THE GRAND PRIZE (which overshadows Gold and other Medals) has been awarded to NESTLE’S MILK FOOD AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 18869. On no other infants food has 'such distinction been conferred. | Millions of mothers in America will join with the medical profession in say- ‘ing this is a just and well merited award. Thos. Leeming & Co., Sole Agents, New York. HEALTH — no BEAUTY are desirable in every woman, but many girls ruin their beauty by wearing bad TFET corsete.- - BE SURE TO BUY FERRIS SENSE ET Monin nee for Hose sup’ Tape-fastened But- tons—won't pull of. Cord-Edge Button Holes--won't wear ov! FIT ALL AGES- Infants to Adulte. Sold by Leading RETAILERS every where. Send for Circular, \\\ FERRIS BROS., Y, Manufacturers, ul 341 BROAOWAY. NEW YORE Ash EL Pate xcetienee MT = HIATT eee ttt OLESALE WE! TO THE LADIES. A good wife, daughter or sister is always on the outlook for any article that will save the money and temper of her gentlemen relatives, and by so doing, she is very apt to increase her own supply of pin-money. Collars and cuffs are among the greatest sources of annoyance jand expense. They wear out quickly, cheap |linen won't jast, every washing brings even | the best piece nearer to its end. Collars and | cuffs made of LINENE, while neat and stylish | Save this trouble and expense. If you can't | purchase them at your dealers, send six cents supports the ankle and the muscles of the foot vou do not tire so soon-——but beware of a squeaking shoe! (to her disordered fancy) as if I were plung- ing head first down an abyss I never quite approve of a nurse who lies Somebody must play with it and keep it in When vou first begin your nursing, select a down during the night. If the case is des- half worn dress, take off the overskirt if pos-| perate, you will not bave much chance to do sible. but at any rate it must be shorn of all) so, but all fevers need such incessant watch- uperfluous trimmings, frills and furbelows. | ing, that it is not wise to risk the struggle for If there are any ribbon ends to dangle in the anap. Take a comfortable chair and sit up patient’s face or tickle bis hands while you) and keep awake at all hazards. As the patient are administering food or medicine, they must | requires less care, you may have a light story be cut off and the only ornament permissible | or a bit of fancy work to beguile the tedium is the brooch at the throat. lof that solemn, peculiar stillness, but if you Woolen dresses of dark color are best in| lie down, ten chances to one you Jose yourself winter, but summer patients enjoy the sight | and sleep past the time of the next dose. of the nurses plain, fresh muslin. Many But on the other hand when your turn to mothers of large flocks keep a dress of blue}! rest comes, resign your case entirely to the Hannel, loose waist, loose sleeves buttoned at | nurse who follows you: go into a room far the wrist and plain round skirt. Such a dress! enough from the patient to be perfectly quiet, is invaluable in times of stress and is always | undress thoroughly. put on your night clothes good as a morning dress where young children | and sleep and rest as a conscientious duty. require much of the mother’s attention. | In other words work with all your might An apron is an indispensible. It should | and main when you are working and rest with reach to the hem of the skirt and be wide} all your might and main when you are resting. enough to almost meet behind. It should aioe a have a large bib which is to be fastened on the | 5 hest by safety pins. A working apron forthe; A corps of famous and practical writers most soiling part of nursing can be kept at | are now engaged upon contributions to “The hand. This should be made with long sleeves | Mother's Corner” of the JournaL. It is the and high neck, and it is well to keep the hair | intention of the managemeut to make this de- covered with a net or so smooth and tight | partment one of the brightest and most help- that no wandering hair can by any possibility ful in the magazine, motion or it will soon become cold. To avoid getting the stocking and skirts wet “trouser leggins’ should be worn, and should be large enough to draw on over the skirts, making the little chap look like a genuine | Msquimaux, who, when tlie coat 1s put on is restored to an American citizen again. Unless seriously ill, a little run on the porch should be indulged in, that the system may be kept accustomed to the air, to prevent taking cold when able to resume the usual outing. In many cases a severe cold taken in the full confines a little one to the house so long, that any subsequent exposure during the winter is almost sure to renew the sickness. This cold is often due to neglect in putting on the heavy underclothing and winter wraps in season. Although the thermometer may indicate a mild day, there is often a damp penetrating wind which produces a chill, unless the person is thoroughly protected. Fall weather is usually very changeable, and the costume suitable to one day is fre- quently entirely unsuited to the day following. Great care should be exercised in this regard. In some families the law is: “Winter flannels once taken off are to re main off.”’ | for a sample set of coilars and cuffs, with illus | trated catalogue free, and you will quickly see their advantages. 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Bi? ; pao, B just before you pour the cake in the, 18 THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. SOME ECONOMICAL RECIPES Gathered From the Experiences of Practical Housekeepers. \ GOOD PLAIN CAKI | One evy Lecupol white sugar, | cup of sweet milk, (water may be used if preferred) butte: | size of an egy, | pint oftlour into which has heen well sifted 2 teaspoonfuls Royal Baking Powder Work well together the butter }sugar and yolk of eggs until foamy, then add ithe milk and flour, and lastly the beaten white of the evg. G f In another column will be found the an- SPICED PUDDING One cup of molasses, 4 cup brown sugar, |4 cup of butter, 2 eggs, 4 cup stoned raisins | 4 teaspoonful cloves, Cinnamon and nutmeg I small teaspoonful soda dissolved im 4 cup warm water, and flour enough to make still as common gingerbread. Pour into a mould and steam two hours A BAUCE FOR PUDDING Epirep wy Mrs. Lovisa KNaprp One cup of white sugar, I scant half cup of butter, 1 egg, melt the butter and = = suyar over tea-kettle and beat well Break in the egg and beat very hard five minut Then add one tablespoonful each of vinegar and raspberry jelly TO MY READERS AND FRIENDS. nouncement of my retirement from the edi ay A BEEF OMELET torship of Tue “Lavtes’ Home Jounnat Three pounds beef chopped fine suet of size of an egg, 5 eggs, yolks and whites anxiety in providing copy at stated periods, | beaten separately, tea cup sweet milk, six ; ’ rolled fine, For the past, two years the nervous strain and | and the constantly growing demands for ad- | CT kers, [soda or milk crackers ditional brain labor have been such that it celery seed, to taste. 1 prefer the celery seed, seemed necessary, in justice to iny home and | and shake in less than a half a teaspoonful, family, that I should limit myself to such} If onion or sage is used, be very sparing of it, : : las you want the omelet to have just a suggestion of the flavor of either of these. Mix and preparation that the JouRNAL demands all ingredients well, adding whites of eggs Butter a deep pan and pour in the mestic needs of the JourNnaL sisters, I shall | omelet evenly. Invert a pan over itand bake lan houror hourand a half. This is nice, hot ' jand with vegetables and a nice pudding, “Practical Housekeeping’? department. It is | makes a most acceptable dinner. When cold, the intention of the management to improve} slice thin with a very sharp knife, arrange on a platter with quarters of lemon. If these are not at hand, put the vinegar cruet on the table or pickles and ask the good man to try your new relish. If you can serve lettuce also, so much the better. And T will give a receipt for salad dressing which IT have used myselt and can recommend as good work only as can have the thorough oversight With a particularly strong love for the do-| last. continue to personally conduct and edit the and strengthen in every possible way all de- partments of the JournaL, and to the attain- ment of that end I propose to make the ‘ Prac- tical Housekeeper’ one of, if not the great at tractions for the half million women who read these columns. 2 ‘din th ficiency of this| A GOOD SALAD DRESSING ul Cé great aid in the eficiency oO 11S . " Youcan grea y ‘ Ta | Yolks of two eggs beaten thoroughly, one department by coming into more cordial re- | . . . * 6 | ° , lations with the editor by your offerings of| white sugar, two teaspoonfuls prepared friendly criticism and helps, and furnishing mustard, one tablespoonful butter, 5 . . : lthe mixture four tablespoons of best vinegar, such matter as may, in your judgment, prove | P . — hs : mé y, my 5 ’ | put dressing in a bowl, set in a kettle of hot peculiarly adapted to this work. water, and stir constantly till it thickens; set The editor particularly requests the Jour- | away and when cool it 1s ready for ase. Mrs. F. W. G. VIRGINIA CARAMEL PIES. NAL sisters having anything specially choice in cookery. new in dainties or desserts, or what is unique and original in other lines of do- mestic economy, to forward them to be | Rub the preserves through shared with our large family of practical | a sieve, then add the butter slightly melted We mean to have the best ob-| #0 the beaten yolks of the eggs and half a tainabl tt 1 illing t . | tablespoonful of vanilla and one cup of sugar. ainable matter, and are WANs WO pay #006) Beat well and put into pans which have been prices for the best that is to be had. For this|lined with a nice puff paste. Put into the department address all communications to joven and when done, cover with a meringue Mrs. Louisa Knapp, | made of the white of eggs and one cup sugar, Jane Tue LApies’ Home Journatn, Se AN Rye te V eiteree. PHILADELPHIA, Penna. Please do not enclose to me subscriptions, or address to me letters of any kind except those relating to this “Practical Housekeep- ing” department. } | . . . | Take six egys, two coffee Cups damson pre- | | of a cup of butter. housekeepers. slightly browned. The above proportions will make four ordi- nary sized pic :. They ure better eaten warm and will keep some time and bear warming over very well Mrs. J. J. L. Stevens. SWEET BREAD GLACE, 7 Put into a puna sliced onion, sliced carrot, and a bay leaf, and Jay the sweet breads on A DELICIOUS PUDDING. top of the vegetables, and season with salt and HE ingredients for this are | half cover the sweet breads, and baste the top one pound of flour, one! Of the same with butter, Cook in a moderate pound of butter, one dozen | even until all the stock has became absorbed eggs, and one pint of sweet | Serve with mushroom sauce to be made as cream. Sift and dry the| follows : flour, cream the butter. |} Onecan mushrooms; one jigver sherry, two Beat the eggs separately, | tablespoonfuls of flour, juice of one lemon, very light and add them to) one tablespoonful Worcestershire sauce, two the butter alternately with cuptuls of bouillon or water. Melt the butter the flour as for pound cake, | but do not burn it, then mix flour with it and Flavor with lemon or nutmeg and last of all | #dd the bouillon, lemon juice and worcester- add one pint of rich sweet cream. shire sauce and strain. Finally add mush- Have a linen pudding bag scalded and well | rooms either sliced or whole, floured and pour in the pudding. Tie it up,| ==" em . allowing room for swelling, and plunge it in- to boiling water. Use a pudding mould if you have one. Boil for three hours and then serve hot to be eaten with the following sauce: ~ One pound of fresh butter and three quar- ePRICe-, 9; S ters of a pound of fine white sugar creamed C rm FA AA ever you have flavored the pudding. This together until light and flavored with what- pudding may be varied by “7 one pound t of stoned and chopped raisins. is delicious 4 AK\ by 5 Pown FR either way. MOST PERFECT MADE. NEW YORK’S GREAT CHEMIST. , This is to certify that I have analyzed Dr. Price's ASH and dry one pound of Cream Baking Powder. I find it composed of pure “ ateriais, compounded on correct scientific principles currants. tone and ' hop The ingredients are accurately and sclontifically pee. mae pee en raisins. Slice portioned. Hence, bread or biscuits prepared with it and cut in its, two un are better suited for digestion. of citron, blanch an po % 1, OGDEN DOREMUS, M. D., LL. D, of, Chemistry and Toxicology i » Ne ror two pounds of almonds. Beat Bellevue Hospital Medical’ « voles, Prof. se rately the yolks and Chemistry and Physics in the College whites of ai xteen eggs of the City of New York. Cream together one und 7 of fresh butter and one Sift and warm Sip pound of ater and mix FLEISCHMANN’S VEGETABLE Y F AST COMPRESSED into it two tablespoonfuls of finely pounded HAS NO EQUAL BLACK CAKE. and sifted mixed spices, cloves, allspice, cin- namon and mace. Add the eae yolkto the sugar and butter} then add al tely the flour and egg | *. Mix the onds and fruit Bake slowly and be sure that it is per- y done before removing from theoven. , piece of | level teaspoonful of salt, one of pepper, two of | set them all in a large pan and put in a mod- erately heated oven. | before they are done cover them with buttered paper. They should be removed from the oven as soon as perfectly done and when per- fectly cold iced smoothly and carefully. tablespoonful salt, pepper, sage, onion or | Stir in | serves, two cups of white sugar and two thirds | Put back into | | the oven a few minutes until the meringue is | | } | | |pepper. Put enough stock into the pan to! nately to the creamed sugar and butter. lemon Mix the cocoanut, citron and al monds ready your pans nicely greased with fresh butter from which the salt has been washed. cious and very dainty. , | $8.50 Cash. We have handreds of other Seta vliin and decorated. a cool place, it will keep six months or more. | JANUARY, 1890 SNOW BALLS. YURKISH FIG PAST! Two pounds sugar, add to it 2 quarts of NE pound of soft white sugar | water. and fota teaspoonful of dissolved cit- creamed light with one pound | ric acid; put this on the fire and when it of sweet fresh butter. Six-| reaches a boil add toit one pint of corn starch teen egg whites beaten light. | dissolved in a little water, now add whatever One pound of flour sifted|colorand flavor desired (it is usually white several times and warmed. | and cook stirring all the time, until, by test One pound of almonds) jing it in cold water (that is taking a small blanched and sliced up, one | quantity out of the batch in a spoon and put- pound of citron cut up into | ting it into the water) it leaves the spoon on small pieces and one pound cooling; then pour itinto a well greased pan, if grated cocoanut. spread about an inch thick, and set away un- Add the flour and egg white alter- til next day; it may then be removed from the pan, cut into squares, and rolled in powdered A. Wa» 4 GOOD CHOCOLATE RECIPE, Three-fourths of a cake of chocolate, 1 quart of cold water, 1 quart of sweet rich milk, suga to taste. Grate or scrape the chocolate and mix with the water thoroughly and smoothly; then sweeten and allowit to boil until it becomes quite athick paste. Boil the milk separately, and stir it into the chocolate mixture, and cook a few minutes longer. Elavor with the grated rinds of two fresh sugar thoroughly and stir in well. Have Fill them to within half an inch of the top, If browning too rapidly To make boiled icing take one pound of loaf sugar, one gill and a half of water, and let it boil gently until it will pull in threads from . s the spoon. Have ready ‘the whites of three | here are eggs well beaten. Pour the syrup into abow! and stir it briskly until it begins to look milky, then gradually add the egg whites Beat the icing until very light and thick, but | not too thick to spread nicely. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. 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20 Epirep spy Espen E. Rexrorp. TO CORRES?PON DENTS. All inquiries about and their culture will be cheerfully answered to hestofmy ability in the columns of the Lapip’ Home JOURNAL when they are of general interest. Those of a personal character, and nof of general in terest, will be answered by mail-—provided a stamped envelope is sent for reply; and not otherwise. If an immediate reply is desired, it can only be obtained by mall, as the matter for the pages is made up several weeks in advance of date, and any reply which comes through the paper will necessarily be delayed. In asking questions about plants which you have failed to grow successfully, tell what kind of culture you have given them, and this will often enable the editor to get at the difficulty, and give you the information you re flowers the quire, Send all letters direct to the address given below, | and not to the office of publication. SHIOUTON, W Is. EBEN E. REXFORD. SEASONABLE HINTS. At this season of the year plants will not be making much growth; they will be getting ready for growth a little later on. It is well to anticipate this by putting them in the best possible condition to make that growth as ef fective as — when it begins. Keep the soil stirred about the plant. This allows the air to enter it and keeps it sweet and fresh much longer than will be the case where it is | allowed to crust or harden over in manner as to keep out the air. It also keeps weeds from growing, tosay nothing of the better appearance it gives a collection to have it clean and neat. To the lover of there is always something attractive in the appearance of well-stirred, clean soil, probably because he knows that ina very great) meas ure success depends on it, and he takes an active interest in everything which is conduc ive to the well-being of his plants. A_ real flower-lover enjoys going into the garden in spring and digging among the beds long be fore a flower thinks of showing itself. One of the best tools to use among plants is an old-fashioned two-tined fork. It stirs the soil to about the right depth and can be used among the tender roots without in- juring them. It is more effective than any of the “‘weeders’’ advertised. Turn your plants at least once a week. The sun is not strong enough to draw them much at this season, but by turning them you give all sides a chance to get a little benefit from it. Later on, as the “days begin to lengthen and the sun begins to strengthen,” it will be nee- such a Hhowers your | | essary to turn them often, for then they be making new growth which, being tender, will be easily drawn to the light.* I often yet lettersin which the question is askedif it in- jures plants to turn them. “A friend tells me they will not blossom if they are moved,” a correspondent writes. Nonsense. ‘hey will bloom just as well if you turn them twice a day, and = can’t have good, symmetrical plants unless they are turned frequently. Care must be exercised at this season about watering. I think more plants are lostin win- ter from overwatering than from any cause. They require but very little now. They are not in active growth, therefore the roots are not taking up much moisture from the soil, and on account of lack of strong sun- shine, the evaporation from the soil is’ slight. Make it a rule to water only when the surface of the soil has a dry look and adhere to this rule “through thick and thin,” and you will not have a sour, heavy soil in which roots will become diseased. But if you go on watering your plants just as you did in the summer, as somany do, the year through, you will find that many of them will begin to have a sickly look; the leaves will turn yellow drop, and the buds, if there are any, will blast, and some kinds, like the Chinese Primrose, will rot off close to the soil. Examine the will | | with Cannas and similar other | | | THE LADIES’ know which turn the spider lurks, for he is sharp enough to that the leaf acts as a sort of umbrella shelters him from moisture. But plant over on its side and throw the water well up among the foliage and do this twice or three times a week and the spider will con- | clude that it has come time for him to emi- grate, and pretty soon you will find that he has zone sutdon tthink he has gone to stay if there is a chance fer him to re-estab.ish himself. He will soon come back if you re- lax your fight against him. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, they tell us, and it is al- so the price of freedom from.insects on house plants. Ifthe mealy bug or scale attacks any of your plants, apply the kerosene emulsion spoken of in a late number of the Journal I hope you have provided plenty of fresh svil for use in potting such plants as may re quire it. I depend more on rich, fresh earth for strong and heafthy growth than I do on fertilizers. If you do notcare to entirely re-! pot the plant, remove as much soil as possible from the top and replace with fresh earth. Most plants will be greatly benefited by doing | this, and it is much easier than re-potting. . The Fancy Caladiums. A correspondent asks about these plants and wants the difference between them and the ordinary Caladium used in- tropical dening explained. The ordinary Caladium,—C. has gigantic foliage. fur- esculentum, It is often three or four FANCY CALADIUMS, feet longand a foot and a half across, thrown up on a stout leaf stalk, several leaves being produced from the crown of the plant. [tis no? particularly beautiful, but on account of its inassiveness, it is extremely useful in pro- ducing tropical effects, especially when mixed plants having fine. large foliage. The fancy Caladiums are most delicate in habit of growth. In fact, none of them have very large foliage, but it is wonderfully beau- tiful. Some are green, veined with purest white, giving a lace like effect as the veins | cross and recross each other. Others have pink veinings, while some have blotches of pink or crimson scattered irregularly over the leaf, looking exactly as if some one had splashed paint over them. Fn some, pink, white, pale yellow and pure green are curi- ously mingled in veinings, blotchings and splashes, The effect of a group ofthem, when well-grown, is exquisite, and we huve few and | More effective plants for summer use. No! conservatory or greenhouse should be without them. They take the place of flowers. In every way they are more delicate than soil in a pot in which a plant has died, and | the ordinary variety grown out of doors in ten times out of a dozen you will find it sour, soggy, wet, with decayed roots all through it. pen een | is this: While a plant is standing still it cannot take care of much food or water, elements of plant growth. Give too much of either and it is gorged, and a sort of dyspepsia is produced which results in disease or death. Fertilizers should never be given when a plant is trying to rest, for they excite premature growth, which is always dangerous to -_ plant. Itis the same with water, It is only a in large quantities when the plant, by development of new branches, is in a condition to make use of it. Keep the dead leaves picked off. They do not look well, and they injure the plants to a great.extent if allowed to remain on and among them. Gather them and burn them. It is a good plan to go over your plants this month and remove all insects. This should be done before they begin to grow, for when the new growth comes, the insects, if allowed to remain, will be ready to attack it, and of course, being tender, they can injure it much more than they can the old and hardened —- Shower such plants as you find in- ted with the aphis with an infusion of Sul- pho-Tobacco-soap. If one application doves not kill them, try another, and if that isn’t sufficient to drive them away, give a third. at them till they are routed. For red- , depend wholly on water, thrown all over the plant. Too many shower their plants in a superficial way. They throw the water over the plant, but little of it reaches the portions where it is most required,—the underside of the leaves. There is where the } | | ture they are worthless. | | | | summer. They are not able to stand strong sunshine, and wind soon mars the beauty of the leaf. They must be kept in the house, or some sheltered place. For out-door cul- The bulbs are small. A six or eight inch pot is quite large enough for most specimens, as they do not have many roots. They delight in a soil of turf chopped | fineand mixed with leafmold and sand. They must have good drainage. If that is given, there is but little danger of overwatering them, but unlessit is provided, they decay quite easily. Care naust be taken to shower them daily, as the red spider attacks them in a dry air and soon injures them so much that the foliage turns yellow and drops. Asa bulb | does not produce agreat many leaves, it is quite an object to retain all that are produced as long as possible. In fall when the foliage ripens and dies away, the bulbs can be taken out of the soil, wrapped in paper, and stored away in some dry, warm piace till March or April, when they should be potted and started | into growth. They are extremely effective plants to use as table ornaments. Few are more suitable for this purpose. A group of them, with Ferns or similar plants to hide the pots con- taining them, will make a magnificent deco- ration for the center of a table, especially if arranged in a pyramidal form. } * - Flower Gossip. Mrs. F. M. C. writes as follows lv - iChrysanthemum. It was an old plant, given | set stakes in the center of each HOME JOURNAL. me last fall. ter, and in the spring took one of the many little sprouts coming from the roots. It was about two inches long with a little piece of root attached. Iputitin asmall pot and it went on growing as if nothing had happened toit. When it was four inches tall I nipped off the top and allowed four branches to grow breaking off all others as they When these four branches were four inches long, I pinched the ends oft them, and let four branches grow on the tips of them, thus securing sixteen branches. When these were about eight inches long I pinched the ends off. after) which I let all the branches grow. It is now the most beautiful plant of its kind that I ever saw It is twenty-seven inches tall from the top of the pot and fills a space about as wide, and is perfectly round and symmetrical, It is appeared vyrowilng in a seven inch pot I have been particular to water it thoroughly every day, and have given it guano water twice a week. It is now just coming into bud. How badly it did want to throw up branches from the roots, but 1 kept them all broken off. It looks like a littletree. I grew itin a third story window in the city | whereit isso hard to grow nice plant: Tl have five windows full of plants, and all have done well, MyGeraniums look better than any [ have ever seen anywhere, all green, well- | branched from the round up, and full of blos- | soms all summer long. L have iron bars screwed to the sides of the window and bent in shape to hang below, and form a support forashelf whichis just low enough below the | sill to bring all the pots even with the bottom | of the window, so that nothing shows from the room but the plants. It hus been a deal of trouble to keep insects down but I have succeeded well by | sprinkling every even- | ing and using Sulpho Tobacco soap once a} week.— Enclosed I send you asample of mate- | rial used in tying up branches 1 thought it might be useful to suggest it to the read- | ers of the LApres’ Home | JouRNAL who are inter ested and engaged in Horiculture, [tis much preferable to cotton string, being soft, and as it is so dark in color that it not show among the branches, A few cents worth will Jast a long time.’ The material referred | to isordinary zephyr,” with which almost! every woman is well acquainted, It is, as this correspondent says, much preferable to ordinary string, as it does not injure the branches by cutting in- to them. The above letter is just the kind [dike to re- ceive, because it explains so clearly how the writer went to work to accomplish a definite | plan. It contains thesecret of growing the | Chrysanthemum in it, so far as training is concerned, [think she would have had a finer plant if she had shifted it from time to time until it was ina tenortwelve inch pot. A large plantin aseyen inch pot will have somewhat cramped roots, and a Chrysanthe- mum, to bein the best possible condition, | must have a good deal of root-room, If those who have “leggy,” spindling Chrysanthemums | will make a note of what this writer says and , practice her plan next season, I am quite sure they will be benefited by it. Nothing is easier to grow in fine shape than this plant, if intel- ligently treated, and no plant grows in more unsatisfactory shape if not treated as it ought to be. The following notes from ygarden-work of the past season will be found instructive as | well as pleasant reading: “[ think J never saw finer Gladioli than | 1 had the presert fall. They were planted in | a soil make quite rich with old manure from | the barn-yard. We got that which had lain | till it was black. It was in condition to crum- | ble easily, and we worked it into the soil until it was impossible to tell where soil began and manure left off. We planted them about six inches deep, and put five or six bulbs in each “hill.” As soon asthe stalks appeared, we buneh. and bought the does kept each stalk tied up well. I | cheap seedling collection, and am quite sure! qa " - - THE STORRS & PLANTS. | FLORAL GUIDE POR 14590. the Pioneer Seed Catologue of America. contains complete list of Vegeta | bles, Flowers, Bulbs, Potatoes and Small Fruits, with descriptions and prices. | so satisfactory last year. | kept itina cool place all Wili- | JANUARY, 1890 that I had sume zs tine specimems as one of my rich neighbors had who bought some of the fancy varieties and paid more for one bulb of them than I did for all I had. She ad mitted this when she came to visit my gar den. I think Ihad at least a dozen different kindsand colors. Some bulbs sent up five flow- er stalks, and on one I counted twenty-eight blossoms. JI would never plant the bulbs singly asso many do. I remembered what you said about groupingthem and followed your advice, and am well pleased with the re- sult. I have about four times as many bulbs now as I had in thespring. I do not think it possible to tind a more satisfactory flower for ; the garden.. Next spring I shall plant at in- tervals, hoping in that way to extend the sea- son of bloom.” The Gladiolus is, as this correspondent suys, one of the most satisfactory of all gar- den flowers, and especially so for the amateur, as it will grow in a!most any soil if it is made mellow at planting time and weeds are kept down through the seasop, The cheap seed ling collections are very satisfactory. The winciple object in getting the choice named Puls is that when you do that you know just what color you are getting, and that is some- times necessary in carrying out a plan in Which color-schemes are involved. Miss ©. B. D. writes :— “T wish you could see my Oleander with a blue Morning Glory clambering up it, and half covering the plant with its vines and Howers. The plant came up in the tub, and | let it grow not expecting it to amount to much, But it has been “a thing of beauty” all summer long, and bids fair to keep on through the winter. The contrast between the pink flowers of the Oleander and the rich blue of the Morning Glories is exquisite. 1 cut off the seed as soon as J see it is forming, and once in @ month or two I cut off the ends of the branchesof the vine, and soon new branches start and very soon they bear flow ers. | counted thirty-six flowers at one time. I shall try to keep it growing and blooming through the winter.” Being an annual, I think the old vine will | be pretty well used up by the end of the sea- son. JF would plantsome seed and start a new one. Answers to Correspondents Mrs. G. HL ldo not think it worth while to try to carry plants of double Petunia or Verbena through the winter. They will not do well in the cellar, and the air of the sitting room is too dry for them. They will | he quite sure to become attacked by red spi- der. Being really annuals, they have but little vitality left after having bloomed through the summer. If you see fitto try it, I would advise taking cuttings and = starting young plants. . . . Fdo not think it at all difficult to grow the annual Larkspur from seed, if the seed is good. Indeed, it often comes up in the garden bed from seed which was scattered there the previous season. I cannot say what the matter is with your Tritoma. If it is a strong root and stands in a well-drained place it ought to bloom. Mrs. (. H. G. :—I think almost any dealer in plants will be able to send you Speciosa Fuchsia, as it is one ofthe old) stand-bys in that family of plants. M.S. :—I would notthrow the Lily away, but put it in some corner where itcan be left to think overits obstinacy without interfering with other plants. Perhaps it will think bet- ter of its conduct and give you some flowers by and by. SEEDS “Feesice EV ARES Nv THE N RARES E Send ten cents for our illustrated catalogue of about 150 pages, containing a certificate good fo ten cents in seeds, ete, Or se! abridged catalogue and price-list free. 36 years. 24 greenhouses. 700 acres ICK’S SEEDS THE pesi SEEDS are those put up by D.M.FERRY&CO. Who are the largest Seedsmen in the world, D. M. Ferry & Co’s Illustrated, Descriptive and Priced ED ANNUAY for 1890 will be mailed FREE to all ap- plicants, and to last season’s customers, It is better than ever. 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JANUARY, 1890 EpiItep BY Espen E. Rexrorp. Answers to Correspondents. F. C. :—Plant sent, Sedum variegatum. Mis small white worms in soil about roots of pot plants is to apply lime-water. Take of fresh lime as large as a teacup put it in a pailful of water. If good, a piece | Can’t and | That depends largely on treatment. it will! soon dissolve, or, more strictly speaking, break | north, up into small particles from which there will | THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. | center of the pot will become so matted with these roots that it is with difficulty that water | penetrates it, and the result is, often, that the roots which require moisture most get the jleast. It is a good plan to have the soil high- + |er about the edge of the pot than in the cen-| ter, so that the water which you apply will run towards the centre rather than away from it. Old root-bound plants often drop their leaves and refuse to bloom. This can be rem- | edied by re-potting, taking careto cut away all the decayed roots. The Heliotrope is quite susceptible to gas, either from coal fires or that used in illuminating, and often drops its leaves because there is too much of it in the air. It will seldom bloom well in rooms | where there is much of it. It isa plant that | loves a good deal of strong sunshine and heat, and must have both in considerable quantities | to do well. | Annie :—The Rubra Begonia likes a mix- |ture of loam, turfy matter and sand better [than too much clear manure. If yours is | blooming it can hardly be expected to make s H. C. :—The best way to destroy the |a strong growth at same time. Mrs. E.N. M. :—Leaf sent. Bryophillum. say when you may expect flowers. MS. 8. :—Boursault Rose not hardy at Miss P. N. L. :—No florist can tell you the be a deposit of sediment in the bottom of the! name ofa plant of which you know nothing vessel. As soon as thissediment settles, the water will be clear above. Pour this off and apply to the soil, giving enough to thoroughly saturate it. This will generally kill the worms or drive them out through the hole in the bottom of the pot. Sometimes it will be necessary to repeat the application. If the worms come to the surface, remove them. This solution is more effective than anything else I have ever tried, and if not made too strong the most delicate plant will not be in- jured by it. Indeed, most plants seem to be benefited by it, as there is an element of plant food in lime. [have but little faith in the remedies usually prescribed for the expulsion of worms from the soil. | but 4 popular name, as that name is quite | likely to be local in its use. I have seen a half dozen plants called Parlor Ivy in differ- ent localities and no two were alike. If you | want a plant named be sure to send leaf. F.C, :—If you had read the JourRNAL carefully you would have seen the article in which I answered the very same questions which you ask. Before asking questions, be surethat they have not been already an- | Swered. If an article contains the informa- tion you are in search of, why should you | want an answer personally? Space and time aretoo limited to admit of answering ques- | tions twice when once will do as well, and a Some of them, it is| general answer is justas good as one given true, will kill the worms, but they often kill | directly to you, if it covers the whole ground, the plants, too. Lime water prepared as directed can kept in bottles tightly stopped for use in ter, as required. Mrs. F. B. W. :—I am sorry that I am not able to give you the address asked for. I am in receipt of so many letters that I find it im- possible to preserve them all, andas soon as answered they are put into the waste-basket. I will give your name and address, and_per- haps Mrs, Frances A. Dorsey, whose address win- you ask for will see it and write you. It Mrs. 1). sees this will she favor Fanny B. Willis, 1622 8. Third St., Waco, Tex. with the re- quired information ? Mrs. 8. P. H.:—You are right in’ thinking that the insect with which your Hoya is in- fested is mealy bug. Some get rid of him by spraying with diluted alcohol, applied with an atomiser. [prefer to use the kerosene emulsion recently spoken of in this paper. you have but few plants you might remove the insects by using a camel-hair brush, such as artists use, brushing them away from the axils of the leaves where they like to congre- gate. Buttheemulsion is surest and most effective and most easily aenes. J. B. P. :—I do not think bulbs taken from the ground where they have been growing all through the season would be so for winter culture as those which you cause the latter are generally prepared for this use, and are therefore stronger and surer to bloom, I hardly think Sweet Peas would bloom well in sitting room temperature, but Morning Glories will do very well in a cool window, and the seed of them should be planted at once. If they bloom be sure to re- move all flowers 9s soon as they fade to pre- vent the formation of seed, which seriously interferes with the production of flowers after the first crop. Mrs. C. L. C. :—I think your Rose must have been a grafted one, and that the graft died, after which shoots were sent up from the stock on which the graft was set. This stock is generally Manetti, a class of Roses which make vigorous growth of branch but seldom bloom. Being easily procured and quite hardy, and strong, it is used to graft choice kinds on. If you know your Rose to be a grafted one, you must be sure to keep all suckers sentup from below the junction of graft and stock removed. C.S. H. :—The Lily requires a rich soil well drained, and should be planted about six in- ches deep. The best manure for Lilies is from the cow-yard, and only that which has lain long enough to become black and friable should be used. It is betterto put clear sand immediately about the bulb, and around that, the soil in which the manure has been mixed. A sunny place is not so desirable as a half shady one. The plants may do as well in full sunshine, but the flowers will not last so long. If you can give it a location in which it gets the morning sun and is sheltered in the after- noon, do so. Cover to depth of at least a foot in fall, with leaves or litter, and do not re- move this in spring till the ground begins to get somewhat warm. A great deal of injury is done to bulbs by uncovering too early. Lilies as a class dond&t start so early so the spring-flowering bulbs, so it is not as neces- sary to uncover them before the latter part of April or first of May. Mrs. M. W. C. :—I do not understand why your old Heliotrope has never bloomed. | find this one of the easiest of all plants to grow satisfactorily. With me it is almost al- ways in bloom, and it giyes profuse crops of flowers. I give it a soil composed of loam, turfy matter and old manure in equal parts, with sand enough mixed in to make the com- post friable. or four inch pots and leave them in them till the soil becomes filled with roots, Then I shift to six inch, and later on to eight inch, shifting as soon as the roots form a_net-work about the soil next the pot. This plant soon fills the soil with fine roots, and unless extra eare is taken in watering, the portion in the If be | satisfactory bloom can | ers. buy of florists at very reasonable prices, be- | Cacti in | which the article referred to did fully. Mrs. M. C. B. :—Passiflora Constance Elliot blooms abundantly with me, and makes a rampant growth; so much so that half the glass on the greenhouse roof was taken up by the plant which had to be cut back in order to give other plants achance. It has very strong roots, and I do not wonder that you had no flowers from your plant if you only gave it a two quart pot to growin. It is not an easy plant to winter in the cellar, because it is of too soft a nature. Only such plants as are half shrubby in character, or wholly so, do well in cellar. I would advise taking a cut- ting from the old plant and trying to keep it im the sitting room window till next spring. Then give a rich soil and a good sized pot, and shift as the old pot becomes filled with roots, giving weak manure water to encourage strong growth. In this way you may be able to secure flowers late in the season. All the Passifloras are properly greenhouse plants, as they require a longer season than they can secure if planted out in spring. Mrs. C. 8. E. :—I think the answer to M. C. B. will meet your case. P. Princeps is a winter bloomer in the greenhouse, as are all the varieties of this family,—in fact what may be called an ie pencesnt 1er, as it will seldom be without flow- Will Mrs. F. H. K. who wrote about Flower-Gossip column of October number of this paper send her address to Liz zie A. Boyd, Landon, Ontario, Canada ? Kk. L. D. :—Latana Borbonica requires a deep pot, rather than one very large across its top. It is the habit of this class of plants to send their roots down rather than out, there- fore they must have pots or boxes especially prepared for them, if you want to grow them to the best advantage. I have my Palms growing in boxes about three feet deep, and perhaps sixteen or eighteen inches square at top, and a foot at bottom. Give a soil com- posed of loam, sand, and leaf-mold, and water well, but be sure to give good drainage so that stagnant water will not work injury at the} roots. Shower the foliage at least once a week. Giveasomewhat shady place. None| of the palms require or like a full exposure to} the sun. Indeed, entire shade is preferable. | If you do not wash the stalk oncein a while with soapsuds, the scale will be pretty sure to| trouble it. Incase you find this insect al: | ready established, take a rather stiff brush and scrub the stalks well, with soapsuds;~ after which wash off with clean water, using a sponge to apply it. L. Borbonica is not a tall | grower, but spreads well over the pot. Sie- | forthia elegans is a fine variety, having very ‘long leaves, thrown well above the pot. | | Phoenix reclinata has a habit which partakes | | somewhat of the leading characteristics of the| two sorts named, being a spreading plant and standing up more than L. Borbonios. Its fo- liage is shorter than that of the 8. elegans, | and stiffer, but divided much the same. It is| probably the best kind for house culture, being able to stand more abuse and neglect than either of the others. Gas will ware these plants, but they will stand as much of it as any plants which you can select. Mrs. A. K. D.:—Your query came too late} to be answered seasonably through the col- | ums of the Jovrnat. Bear in mind that it} will be at least three months before ae can | get a reply through that channel, anc always | send an addressed and stamped envelope if! you want an answer promptly. | Mrs. W. C. J.:—All kinds of Roses can be} propagated from seed, “( C, C.:—Cobeas and other flowers of that | class can be grown from cuttings or seed. If) wanted forsummer use, sOW seed in March, Mrs. I pot the young plants in three | or take cuttings then from old plants, choos- ing strong and healthy branches which have not made much growth. Insert in sand which | should be kept wet and warm. I do not know where you can buy the seed but presiume Dreer or Henderson can get it for you if they do not have it in stock. Mrs. C. B.:—I have never from double Petunias to pro known cuttings luce single flow-’ ers, supposing that they came true, which is not the case with seedlings. Are you sure |that the cuttings producing single flowers |came from the original plant bearing double flowers? E. D. C.:—Mignonette can be grown in the | house but it will require a great deal of care | to keep it in good condition. It will be pretty sure to be attacked with the red spider. It should not be given a rich soil if cultivated in | pots. | Miss B.:—It may be cheaper to grow some kinds of plants from seed saved from your garden, but I have always found it more sat- |isfactory to purchase young plants of choice | kinds from florists who make a specialty of | growing seed in the best manner possible. B. A. B.:—It is net often that worms attack plants in the greenhouse, but when they do they make sad work among the plants in a short time, because they generally do a good | deal before being discovered. Yast winter I | hoticed that something was eating the leaves of Primula Obconica and some of the Begonias. I watche‘ for the trespasser for some time be- fare I discovered him. I! think he must have hidden himself in the soil when not at work, as lam sure he was not among the leaves very much by daytime. When at last found he proved to be a worm or slug about an inch long, dark greenish-brownin color. I picked him off and killed him, hoping that he was the last of his race, but soon holes in the leaves of other plants showed that I had a new pest to war against. It was almost im- ssible to hunt for the mischief-makers with 10pe of success among a greenhouse full of plants, and I concluded to try kerosene emul- sion on them. I prepared the emulsion and turned the pots on their sides so that I could be sure of getting at the underside of every leaf, and syringed them thoroughly. In this way I succeeded in getting rid of most of them, but occasional depredations would show that some had escaped my efforts at extermin- ation. Having to remove the plants from the reenhouse last summer in erder to have new snches, piping and other improvements put in, I took pains to go over each plant as it was conten out, with the emulsion, and after that I saw no signs of the enemy. I did not | try hellebore or slug shot, because it is much more difficult to get to all parts of a plant with powder than with a liquid. So many references have been made in this column to the “kerosene emutsion’’ above re- ferred to, that I have been requested by many new subscribers to give full instructions for preparing it. I take two Ps refined oil and one part slightly sour mil I put these into a watering-pot and churn them together with a syringe until they unite, which they will do after a little if the milk is of the popes degree of acidity and the agitation is rapid enough, forming a white substance like butter, This can be put into glass cans with air-tight cov- |ers and kept for use as required. When ap- plication is to be made to infested plants, use one part of this butter and fifteen parts clear water. Stir well before applying to your jlants. I have never known the emulsion to injure the most delicate plant when prepared in this way, and it has quite strength enough to kill all insects with which it comes in con- tact. It is a soveriegn remedy for the mealy | bug and scale. When made as directed it will |not be necessary to wash it off with clear water after allowing it to remain Gn the plants for a time, as we are obliged to do with Fir Tree Oil, which is not so effectual, and is quite |as expensive, and often difficult to obtain. If the emulsion is used on plants in the sitting- 2 I room, care must be taken to keep it away from windows or wall-paper, as the oil will leave its mark on them, { would suggest that those who haye, or ex- pect to have, use for a thoroughly reliable and easily prepared insectide should cut this out and paste it in their scrap-book for handy ref- erence. It is useful in spring among the Roses to keep down the slug. Be sure to get the proportions correct. trifle too much oil makes the preparation so strong that it will kill the leaves cf soft plants, as I once proved. After that I was careful to keep to directions, and had no more trouble. Mrs. F. 8. 8.:—The editor of this depart- ment is the author of the poems you ask about. N. O. A.:—The plant of which you send branch is “ay Berberry, a very pret- ty shrub for the lawn, especially if set near a shrub having light colored foliage, by which strong contrast of colors can be secured. One of the best kinds to plant with it is Weigelia aurea, having leaves of a rich golden green. Miss D.:—I1 believe I obvi’ a correspond- ent to not use tea and coffee grounds on her plants, in a late number of the JournaL. You pony overlooked it. I can see no possible enefit to be derived from them if the soil is good, and the plant is kept well watered. The decaying vegetable matter may have some slight value as plant-food, and they might act as a mulch, perhaps, but the trouble is that they will be sure to breed worms from which it will be difficult to rid the plants. Rely on some other kind of fertilizer. Miss C. J.:—‘*Will you tell me if Hermocal- lis flava is hardy in central New York, also the Japonica? Will the latter thrive in a moist, shady situation? What kind of soil suits it best? Is the Tritoma a desirable flower, and how long does it remain in blpom? I have a Cactus which is five years old. It ought to have bloomed at two years, but has never had a bud. It grows well and looks thrifty. Have it in light, sandy soil, and water sparingly except at growing season. Can you tell me what the trouble is? Before closing this letter, I wantto tell youabout my Pansies. I have four plantsin a box. They have thirty large blossoms. One flower has six and another seven petals. Who can beat that? I enjoy the “Talks about Flowers’’ more than anything else in the JouRNAL.” I think the Hermocallis is considered per- | fectly hardy in your latitude. I would ad- | vise covering itto the depth of a foot with | leaves at coming of cold weather, I do not understand what plant you refer to as Japon- |ica. We have so many plants from Japan which are popularly called Japonicas by those who select the easiet part of the name, regard- less of the fact that it is the least important part, that great confusion exists, and a “Japon- ica’ may be anything from a Camellia to an Anemone. I venture the ‘“‘zuess’’ that the Ja- ponica she asks about is Anemone Japonica of the catalouges, a fall-flowering plant, white and red. The white variety is catalogued as alba, the red as rubus. If this guess of mine is correct she need have no doubts about the hardiness of her plant. I do not find it very particular about locoation. I would prefer to give it a well-drained place, however. The Tritoma is a very showy flower, and quite de- | sirable for planting in conspicuous places, It continues in bloom for some weeks. I am not able to tell you why your Cactus does not bloom, or what can be done to it to force it into flowering. You seem to have given it proper treatment. | Grand Surprise i n store for all who use the Deliciously Flavored and Perfect Liquid Dentifrice, FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION RELATING TO THIS PLEASING AND VALUABLE SURPRISE, SEND NAME AND ADDRESS, WITH RE- QUEST FOR "GIFT CIR CULAR," TO E. W. 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NEEDLE DEPARTMENT OF ARTISTIC WORK. All communcations conceroing fancy work should be mailed dir toM. F. KNAPP, Editor Fancywork Department, 20 Linden &t South Boston, Mass Do NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, send Subscriptions t atove addres Terms Used in Knitting. K—Kait plain. P—Parl, or as itis sometimes called or K 2 tog—Narrow, by knitting? together. Over- thread over the needle before inserting in the next stitch. This makes s loop which is always to be considered a stitch, in the succeeding ows or rounds. Tw—Twist stitch. Insert the needle in the back of he stitch to be knitted, and knit as usual. Si—Slip a stitch from he left hand to the right hand needle without kuitting it Bi and K—Slip and bind—slip one stitch, knit the next ; passed the slip one over it, exactly as in binding off a piece of work of the end. *in Seam. N Throw the dicates a repetition, and is used merely to save words Si, i,k! p 1, repeat from *3 times’’ would be equivalen aying *ll, ki, p i,—stl, ki, p lll, k1,p). Tog means together Terms in Crochet. Ch—Chalin; a straight series of loops, each drawn with the through the preceding one. 8! —— stitch; put the work, thread over the hook, draw it through the hook put the needle through the work, draw the thread through the work, and the stitch on the needle. De—double crochet; baving the stitch oo the needle, put the needle through the work, and draw a stitch through, making two on the needl« Take up the thread again, and draw it through both stitches. Te or tr—Treble Crochet; having a a stiteh on the needle, take up the thread as if for a stiteh, put the needle throug the work, and draw the thread through, making taree on the needle. Take up the thread and draw through two, then take up the thread and draw it through the two remaining; 8 t« Short Treble Crochet; like treble, that when the three «titehes are on the needle, instead of drawing the thread through two stitches twice, it is drawn through all three at once. Lte Long Treble Crochet; like treble, except that the thread is thrown twice over the needle before inserting the the latter in the work The stitches are worked off two atatime, asintreble. Extra Long Stitch—T wine the cotten three times round the needle, work, as the treble stitch, bringing the cotton through two loops four times, P or pleot; made by working three chain, and one single crochet in first stijch of the chain hook except _ . 7 = Crocheted Mittens. Materials—Two ounces of cashmere wool and crochet hook medium size. First make a chain of 52 stitches. This will fit a lady who wears 64 gloves. Join the ends of ch, crochet two rows plain single cro- chet—without putting wool over—on the 35d row, exactly opposite the starting point, wid en, by crocheting 2 stitches in one, then | plain, widen again, rest of row plain 4th row—Pfain, single crochet. 5th row— Widen opposite first widening in 3d row, crochet 3 plain, widen, rest plain 6th row—Plain. 7th row—Widen opposite the starting point, as before, crochet 5 plain between widenings, | thus continue, every other row plain, and every other widening twice, increasing num ber of plain stitches between by 2 every time, until the number of rows is 25, and number of stitches between the widenings, is 2%. Join the mitten where the last two widen- | ings occur, by drawing the wool oncethrough on the hook. Crochet the rest of the mitten plain, until it reaches the end of the little fin ger. Narrow at each side, by skipping 1 st drawing wool tightly, so as to notleavea hole. Narrow only twice in first row, then one row plain. Twicein next row. After that, shape to the hand, by narrowing more frequently in a row, until it is almost completed. ‘Then narrow every few stitches. When reduced to an opening not larger than the end of a finger, take a large needle, turn the mitten, and finish off neatly, by drawing up the remaining stitches and fastening firmly. Join on wool again at the opening left for the thumb, shape it as to the size of the thumb, fastening it as before. This makes a strong mitten that will last several seasons. The wrist may be finished off with a cro cheted ruffle, or the mitten may be com- menced with « knitted wristlet, (2 plain, and 2 purl) two or threeinches long, binding off, then crocheting the first row of mitten into the wristlet. Three rows of feather stitch in a contrasting | color in silk, down the back, anda tiny bow of ribbon on each wrist, is an improvement, and adds greatly to the looks. Mra. J. W. A. ~@t — Pansy Penwiper. Cut five petals—the upper two of purple velvet—the lower three of heavy yellow or | lavender satin, and work a buttonhote stitch | around all with same color of silk floss. | |

Tack the five together in the centre like a| , and finish off with stitches, in heavy | white floss, after the design. Cut two peices | of chamois skin the exact size and tack all to- gether through the middle. Variety may be obtained by taking different colors for petals. If a needle book is more desirable cut out two | or a of felt or flannel for the backs and them at the top between the two petals, and fasten with a bow of narrow green satin rivbon. These are nice little things to make for a fair and asmall tray full of differ- ent colored ones makes a pretty ae — shook through | stitch on the | Se—single Crochet; having a stitch on the needle (or hook) | THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL. Square for Tidy Macremé twine No. 8 Make a chain of 8 stitches, join ) Ist row--2 dc in each st, making 16, join 2d row-—f h 7, skip] st. ldcin top of next st, *ch 5. skip 1 st, 1dcin next st, repeat from star 5 times, ch 5, join in 2d stof ch 7 You should have 8 holes. xd row Ch 4, 1 d cin first hole, ch 5, 1 s« in Ist st of samech 5, (this makes a picot make 2 more picots in same Ist st of ch 5, ch 4,1 scin top of next dc, repeat from star 7 times (only put 1 d cin next hole instead of first hole) join, work up the first ch 4, in s 3 So under e it over and under the picots where it is joined, | °° | » cecal wo é Wimen. You now have 8| Fringe ends of rib | sma seallops; 1 t cinte, ch 2,1te int ¢, ch haere 2,lteinte,ch2,1lteinte, shell in shell, finish row like others. This makes one large scallop. Next row like 3d, so on, until you come to! the end of 24th row, when you commence the | second scallop by making ch &, then continue| same as first scallop. crossing it in the centre. On, * Wide Knotted Lace. Crochet cotton No. 60 Make ach or 47. Ist row—-1 t cin 6th st of ch, ch 2, 1 te in Sth st, ch 2,1 t cin 10th st of ch, 3te in 13th st ofch, ch 1, 83t cin same, 1s ¢ in 16th, draw . out the st which is on the needle about a Loop Knitting. quarter of an inch, put thread over, draw it through, (same as ch st). Now put the hook between the two threads of the long stitch Mrs. Lapp. (Requested. ) This knitting leaves loops on one side. Cast up any number of stitches, Always knit the first stitch. draw it through both stitches on the hook, — |St row “Knit across plain. ; , This completes one knot. Draw out the st|_ 24 row—Put the needle in the stitch as if, now on the hook, and make another knot. | ¥0™ Were going to knit it, instead wind the Fasten with sl st in 22d st of ch, 3te in 25th wool over the needle, round two fingers three st of ch, ch 1, 3t cin same, 1s cin 28th st of ch. Draw out the st and make a knot, draw out st, and make another knot, Ilse in 34th| st, 3tec in 37th st, ch 1,3teinsame,1t e in| 40th st of ch, ch 2, 1 t ¢ in 42d st of ch, ch 2,1 tein 44th, ch 2, 1 t ¢ at end of row. 2d row--Ch 5. 1 tcinte,ch2,1te in te, ch 2,1 tein next tc, *3 te underch 1, ch 1, 3tcin same, (this makes a shell) 1s cin top of last t c in shell, make a knot, i sc in mid- dle of knot in ist row, make a knot, sl stin top of Ist t cof shell, repeat from star, shell in shell, lt cin te, ch 2,1 tcin nextte.ch 2,1! t cin next te, ch 2,1t cin 3dst ofch at end - of row. ; ; ‘times; the third time bring the wool up and | 3d row—Ch 5, ltcinte, ch 2,1tcin next round the right-hand needle, then knit the| tc, ch 2,1 t cinnexttc, shell in shell, sl st in \stitch, which will have the appearance of | top of last st of shell, make a knot, make an- three in one. Put the left-hand needle back ' f 4 Yo ~*~ plea

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Any question of help or interest to women from our readers will be cheerful- inly and briefly. Don’t use unnecessary words: editors The right to answer or reject any question is reserved by the editor: | Answers cannot be promised for any special issue. _If “A Distracted Mother,” from Newark, New Jersey, will send us her full name and address, with stamped envelope for reply, we will be glad to communicate with her, but we cannot do so through the columns of the JOURNAL. ELEANOR Morris. The dentifrice, the for- mula for which was furnished by Laurie MacHenry in our issue of January, 1888, is as follows: Powdered Borax-—-1 oz. Precipitated Chalk—2 ozs. Powdered Castile Soap—1 oz He recommends that no flayor, such as tea- berry, ete., be added. Mrs. H. If. ArkKansaw, Wisconsin. To use gold or bronze in china painting, treat it as you would a color, but insist that extreme care be exercised in firing such pieces as are gilded. Often the very finest china painting is ruined by careless or injudicions firing. L. M. Z. The half dollar coins which are of any especial yalue are the issues of 1794, 1796, 1797, 1801, 1802, 1815, 1836 (reeded or unlettered edge), 1838 (with an ©O over the date) and 1852. Mrs. K. R. For information regarding the taking out of a patent, write to the Patent Office at Washington. Mrs. Leuven Leperer, Pittville, Pa. The most efficacious, and at the same time, most simple remedy for frosted feet is the follow- ing. Soak the feet in water as near boiling point ascan be borne. The water can be used much hotter if the feet are dipped quickly and taken out instantly, until they have become entirely accustomed to the heat. Hot water should be added from time to time, the tem- perature being kept as high as possible for about twenty minutes. Take the feet from the water, and, having partially dried them, rub thoroughly with kerosene oil. This pro- cess, repeated three successive nights, will af- ford the greatest relief, and,in most cases,effect a permanent cure, “Eventyy,” a young mother, is entirely right in her protest against the mothers who turn from them their questioning children. Children, doubtless, do ask very many silly questions that were better unasked, but| only by constant, daily contact with older and more experienced minds, may the little ones learn to form for themselves a clear judgment. So, while the silly questioning should be discour- aged in the firmest but kindliest way (the child being given meanwhile distinctly to un- derstand just why the mother is unwilling to take her time to reply) there is no time lost in answering an earnest “why?" and parents will be more than repaid for the trouble and in- convenience of themoment, in the dawning and growing intelligence which will, if: prop- erly directed, so soon learn to make observa tion do the work of questioning. Denia. To remove ink from paper, if not of too long standing, wet a teaspoonful of chloride of lime with just sufficient water to cover it. Pat (not rub) the spot gently for a few moments, using a soft cloth, wet with the mixture, and the ink will slowly disappear. If one application is not sufficient, try a sec- ond. Gertrepe. The very best thing you can juse on your chapped hands is Lanoline, which can be purchased of any druggist in any desired quantity. Itis the oil extracted from Jamb’s wool, and is the only known oil with which water may be thoroughly and readily incorporated, It should be applied while the hands are vet wet after a thorough washing. Should the Lanoline prove too stiff when purchased, rub it up with a little water, using a broad knife for the purpose. Mrs. R. Y.J. To prevent baby’s flannels from shrinking, wash themin cold soap suds. To prevent them from growing hard with fre- quent washings, after the flannels are entirely clean, rinse in water in which there is a little soup. If you desire something specially nice and fine for baby’s wear, you will find cream- colored all-wool albatross very satisfactory. Mrs. ©. V. Lemon juice squeezed upon your spots of iron-rust, with salt plentifully sprinkled over it, will probably remove all traces of the unsightly spots on your white dress gut if you would cover the nails in vour closet with little muslin bags, or pieces of glove kid (old glove-tingers are as good as anything) you will probably never again ex- perience this difficulty. Younc Hovusexeerer. If you will put about a tablespoonful of fine coal-ashes into your water-bottles, fill the bottles about one- fourth fall of water, and give a thorough shak- ing, keeping your hand meanwhile tight over the mouth, we think you wi!l have no diffi- culty in getting them entirely clean. After this is done,wash inside and out with electro silicon, and they will shine like soap-bubbles. Erato. Wordsworth was, in connection with his two friends, Southey and Coleridge. the originator of the “Lake School of Poetry. It was so styled because they dwelt together in the lake district of Westmoreland and Cum herland. The association consisted. we be- lieve, of seven in all, but the three mentioned were the originators ' They will be given as quéekly after receipt as possible. Rena. Ordinary sticking plaster is an ex- | cellent remedy for corns. It keeps the surface soft, and prevents that rubbing which is the immediate cause of corns. Mrs. 0. L. D. You are not lazy because you do not feel like standing to do all your work. No matter what any one says, save yourself by sitting down whenever you can. | We know ofone housekeeper whose Labend | had constructed for her,a special chair for bak- ing days. It was ofsuch a height that she could sit at the table, and mould her bread or roll her dough, with ease. He likewise had a foot-rest attached, so that she might at the same time-rest her feet firmly. And, sitting on that chair, she for years constructed all the bread and pastry that the house needed. It took her no longer, and was quite as good as if she had stood up to make it and had wearied herself almost to death in the operation. Mepicus. It would seem wise for you to have your eyes examined. Frequently the most distressing and persistent headaches MONEY : 5 s«dor WOMEN. ao ie } Money can be earned to & Ae dress yourself and your €f “45 children in fashionable o& A’ clothing without asking 2 +42 your husband for what he 27 BP can not afford,— by doing 2) Of) a little pleasant work at 9%) [3 your own home for the 3 iS Lapies’ Home JourRNAL. 9 6 You can aid your husband Be in paying off a mortgage, Gi v4s refurnish your rooms, or @ , p start housekeeping. We 2 $9) offer profitable employ- 2) “f) ment to women, and want 95 “5 to correspond with such as ae 3, desire to make money. As « ‘) Curtis Pustisuinc Co., Or WS Philadelphia, Pa. a 6 CRGGRIE OER OE OERODIGX EX OEY OG RO GRAIG) ~~ -, GOO DOS OOS OOS CAQOVDOIDOIIO IDOI) AEECH ee" Pl LLO"S arise from a want of correct vision, a peculiar- ity which glasses will quickly regulate. It is impossible to give any exact advice upon sub- jects which properly belong to the province ' ofthe family physician. Mrs. W. R. F. It is a very common thing for young housekeepers to scorch their linen when learning to iron. Do not be discour- aged. Wax yourirons thoroughly and keep them in adry place. This will prevent their sticking. If you find a scorched place, expose it to the hottest raysof the sun. It will be obliterated in a short time. Mrs. THaxrer. To prevent your glass jars from cracking when putting in hot liquid, stand a tablespoon up in them. There is a prevailing idea that this process has some- thing to do with electricity, but the true solu- tion is that the spoon absorbs some of the heat and also carries some of it out into the open air. Jennie B. One of the best methods of cleaning hair brushes, is to put a full tea- | spoonful of household ammonia intoa basin of warm water. Dip the bristles in and rub briskly with the hand, or better still, with an- other brush. When thoroughly cleansed put in the sun to dry bristle-side up. Two brush- es may be thus readily cleansed at once. Mrs. L. B. A. A very excellent substitute for the wicker clothes-hamper may be made | at a mere nominal expense, from a barrel, Cover an ordinary flour barrel with gay chintz or cretonne, folding in the material evenly at top and bottom of the barrel. The head should then be covered smoothly upon both sides, (as pocket pin-cushions are made) an: finished with a ruffle about three inches wide. This ruffle falls over the side of the barrel. There may be sewed into the middle of this ' cover, a loop of gay tape or braid, with which to remove it. A harrel of this kindis also a very handy re ceptacle for scraps of dress-goods and mus- lins. Neviit Bb, It stands to reason that no cos- metic or hair bleacher can be “perfectly harm- less.” Anything which is used to turn the course Of healthy nature, must of necessity | work harm. To destroy the pigment in the hair, or the healthy condition of the skin, is to disturb its functional workings, and must, | slowly and imperceptibly it is true, surely | work evil. Instead of putting something on your face to close the pores, strive to keep them thoroughly open, by cleanliness and ex- ercise. And by all means, after having given it all needed care, let your hair remain its nat- ural color. More than one man and woman is now suffering paralysis from the effect of lotions used upon the hair, either for dyeing or bleaching purposes. Mrs. J.T. B. All purely personal ques- tions should be accompanied by a stamped envelope, as we cannot undertake to answer | them through the columns of the JOURNAL, | anxious as we ure to please our correspond- ents. CareruL Mornen. Just as soon as possible, | it is well to accustom your baby to eat from a | spoon, or drink from a cup, instead of using | the bottle. The necessity of absolute purity in relation to baby’s bottles makes their care sometimes quite a burden Seamstress. To make over your blue cash- | mere for your little daughter, buy suffieient blue and red striped woolen goods of some | kind (matching the blue in the skirt) and make a blouse waist, making sailor-collar and cuffs of the plain goods. If you should add two or three rows of fancy braid upon the skirt, the same color as the red in waist, it would be quite an addition, but it is not nec- essary. Mrs. J. Y. Yes, strabismus (cross-eye) is often entirely cured by the wearing of glasses, | § and without any operation whatever. The trouble is caused by difference of focus in the | two eyes. One eye does not see as well as the | other, and, by a curious provision of nature, endeavors to get out of the way of the good eye, us the occulists explainit. But corrective | viasses obviate this difficulty in most cases | sooner or later and the deformity is removed. | *400 For Bilious and nervous Disorders, such as Wind and Pain | in the Stomach SICK HEADACHE, Giddiness, Fulness, | and Swelling after Meals, Dizziness and Drowsiness, Cold | Chills, Flushings of Heat. Loss of Appetite, Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Dis- turbed Sleep, Fightful Dreams, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, &c. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES, This is no | fietion. 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The old style mantel lambrequin which hung straight down from the edge of the mantel, has given place to those in the cut. and is stamped for embroidery in tinsel, We send a small cord and tassels for The one we offer is made of EMBROIDERY ful of all embroidery materials, in either Garnet or Olive. with the artistic drapery, as illustrated PLusH, the most beauti- It is 60 inches long, applique or other styles of embroidery. looping up or draping. It will be sent as a premium in accordance with the offer above, or sent postpaid for $1.75, Silk Bolting Cloth. TABLE on | Sent postpaid for a club of 5 yearly sub- scribers at $1.00; or, for 4 subscribers and 25 cents; or, for 3 subscribers and 50 cents. Price, $1,50 postpaid.

These searfs measure 24x54 inches. ‘They are stamped on both ends ready for working in Filo-Floss. We carry the materials in stock, cut the scarf and do our own stamping. The designs (one of which we show) are conventional in character. ‘They are all new and are original productions of our own designers. We have facili ties for furnishing this class of goods at the very lowest prices. Our price for these scarfs Is $1.50 postpaid. ‘The same are sold in this city stamped to order for $2.00. _ “4

For the benefit of those of our subseribers who are interested in Embroidery, we have published a most interesting and somewhat unique article on Art Needlework and the most popular forms of Fancy work Plain and practical advice is offered, as to the suitability of design and character of work; the artistic blending of colors and the selection of matenals. Stitches which are difficult of explanation are illustrated, It is altogether very chatty, readable and instruc- tive. Ladies who are doing Silk Embroidery in tended for Christmas gifts. would do well to send for this Art Needlework Supplement, which contains our price list of Silks and Stamped Linen goods. Senda? cent stamp for postage and we will mail you one. Curtis Puuiisnine Co, ‘ Philadelphia ‘considerably below the price charged in the Art stores for a similar article. have ever offered. 72 inches long, 15 | Should you wish to cover the shelf also, with the same material, we can furnish the Damask border, knotted fringe, drawn and knotted insertion at plush to match the lambrequin at 75 cents per yard. A very elegant linen and entirely | LINEN DOYLIES. We offer One Dozen of these Doylies for the names of 4 yearly subscribers at $1.00; or, 3 subscribers and 25 cents. Postage and packing 5 cents additional.

They are of linen of a beautiful qual- }ity hemstitched with one-inch hem. | They are stamped with designs for em- | broidering. ‘The prettiest, most delicate | things imaginable—just the thing to set | off a handsome finger bowl. | ‘These we send for only 4 subseribers at $1.00 each per year; or 3 subserib ers and 25 cents; or, 2 subscribers and 50 cents. © Postage and packing 5 cents additional. We will sell them for $1.25 per dozen and pay the postage. ; We will if desired, dozen of the Doylies for 2 subscribers at $1.00 each per year. THE LATEST! THE FOUNTAIN TOP. Sent Postpaid as a premium for a club of 2 yearly subscribers at $1.00 each.

Made of solid metal. cided novelty in its way. to play a jet of water while spinning, This is a de- (juaranteed to a height of 3 feet. Every one per. fect. ‘They will please every purchaser. Price, 50 cents, postpaid.

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JACK HORNER PIES For children parties, there is nothing which gives so much pleasure as the Jack Horner pies rhe directions for making which are as follows : First, decide how many boys and how many girls there will be, then buy a corres ponding number of small toys or gifts of any kind. Wrap them neatly in white paper, and tie with colored cord, and to each attach a very narrow ribbon 10 inches long, letting white ribbon indicate which are for the boys and a color indicates for girls them in a tin cakepan (12) a pan twelve (12 two and a half inches deep will answer, if the toys or favors are smal! Over this stretch two thickness of tissue paper and tie it down against the sides of the pan, first drawing the ribbons up through it so they will lie on top Use a steel crochet hook for this. Crimp two sheets of paper, by drawing it rene 4 the hands lengthwise until it is finely crimped, then open it slightly. Cut three pieces three (3) anc a half inches wide, cross wise of the crimp, then paste one edge on the top edge of the pan, and over the top covering of paper tissue then draw it down over the side of the pan, and paste the othe? edge on the bottom. Then! cover the bottom with thick white paper. Cut the rest of the crimped paper in strips about two (2) inches wide when opened, and length- wise of the crimp, and fringe it by clipping closely, leaving small edge for joining. Paste this fringe around the top edge of the pan to make a full frill. When finished it resembles a large iced cake It can be placed on the refreshment table or brought in and “served’’ while the children are still at their games. Let each child take held of a ribbon end, and at a given signal all pull at once. ‘To add to the significance of the name some older person may sing or repeat the little Jack Horner melody. With the understanding that the word pull shall be the signal (“pulled out a plum.) The hostess | cannot realize, until she shall have seen for| herself, how delighted the children will be, | and how they wilk wonder at so many “plumes” coming from so small a “pie The favors can be five (5) or (10) cent toys, or more expensive things, as the hostess purse and in- clination determine I have seen older people find quite as much amusement in them, and in these days when at every luncheon and dinner party there are favors furnished for each guest, this makes a novel and amusing way to distribute them. Our gentlemen in New York used them at two gentlemen's dinner parties, having them filled with costly favors For those who do not care to take the) trouble to make them, I would say they can be had in any size at Prussell’s Broadway | near 2ist, St, New York, or almost any first class caterers in that city. And in ordering it is best to state how many boysand how many | girls, and about the age, to insure getting | suitable favors. Mrs. ©. E. Auuis. BONED WITH BALL'S Warranted not to break or roll up with ONE YEAR'S WEAR if they do we will cheerfully return the money paid for}! them, if the pias is not Satisfactory in all respects After Three Weeks Ware, | It may be “eturn? to usand ot G eres ma CHICAGO CORSET COMP’Y, Chicago and New Vork. FO 0 &sustainlifewheneverything else fails, 4 sizes 35 cts. up. FROM YOUR OWN PANTS "2: $3. $4. $5. SUITS from $12 up OVERCOATS from $11 up GUARANTEED A PERFECT FIT. ALL WOOL. LATE PATTERNS. and the Honest Fabrics of Thirty Years ago. We Make the Cloth ) We SA VE You We Take your Measure ) Three Profits We Make the Pants and gunrantee Better (:armerts than the same money wil] buy elsewhere. eae ocan sendy do 5 is because (instead of eo ouring ote a ts wool and sousert it into the Ponts ro wens. ~~ ing ru d t sent free. "We refer to Seventh’ Nat’ 1 ‘Ban % Phiiada. Established 1826, DELAWARE WOOLEN MILLS Office—N.W. Cor. Fourth & Market Sts., Philadelphi» BARRY'S Will be found (ny aluable for ho lera infantum an got r Complaints, oMtidren oradults, Itis noia melicine butwillbe retained MADE TO ORDEA c. ARBLI SH, 180 2! Tricopherous i, ae} =| Eg THE HAIR An elegant dressing 977) removes all impuri- | ties from the scalp | prevents baldness cad gray hair, and causes he hair to grow Thick, Soft and Beautiful. Price 50 cents. All Druggist«. BARCLAY & Cv., New York or gir Place ' Fora party of twelve, inches in diameter and KABO_ exquisitely perfumed, | | adistinction. “ATS obtained the only awarded solely for toilet SOAP in competi- tion with all the world. Tlighest possible BANNER NO. 519. LAMP «« Paris Exposition, 1889. 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Greatest inducement THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA €0O., P. 0, Box 289. 31 and 33 Vesey St., N. 9 —— MASS “= ae isthe only w ringer whic h does not have a @ the crank attached to either roll, é t& ait constructed in this way to save Tabor. It is warranted against defects, requires nooll and never ruste. CS Oe NERC, e TEST * % Seti 00 PTANO for. 2000.5 ay A 100.5 ” ORGAN for 850.2. Ss x gt NEW $7 RCAN FOR $37.0. o* Any ORCAN or PIANO on Your Own Tesmss . THE oa THE THE iw j i JemPire TO Empire ES hsitins F : White Kubber Rolls, Warranted. Sam C) ple Wrincers ae nt at wholesale price == from factory. Hardware Dealers se}! it. WRINGER, It is the only purchase nts wanted gear Wringer made. ie Empire Wringer Co., Auburn,N.Y.