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THE SPRING FARM.
By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes.
Author of " Tempest and Sunshine," " Lena
Jiivers," etc., etc.
Copyright, 1887, by Daniel Holmks. (All rights re-sesvedj.
CHAPTER V.
MISS. RAYNOR.
About a mile from Laurel Hill, a little villagein
Richland, was an emiuence, or plateau, from the
top of which one could see for miles the rich, well
cultivated farms in which the town abounded,
the wooded hills and the deep gorges all slanting
down to a common centre, the pretty little lake,
lying as In the bottom of a basin, with its clear
waters sparkling in the sunshine. And here, just
on the top of the plateau, where the view was the
finest, an eccentric old bachelor, Paul Raynor,
had a few years before our story opens, built him
self a home after his owu pecnllar ideas of archi
tecture, but which, when finished and furnished,
was a most delightful place, especially in the
summer wheu the flowers and shrubs, of which
there was a great profusion, were iu blossom, and
the wide lawn in front of the house was like a
piece of velvet. Here for two years Paul Raynor
had lived quite en prince, and then, sickening
with what be knew to be a fatal disease, be hud
sent for bis Invalid sister Grace, who came and
stayed witli him to the last, finding after he was•lead that all his lirr^"tjw. b" ' been loft to hes,
witli a request that sns 'voulW make tho CV*' s,
as the pluee was caned, ter uanie lor a portioO of
the time at least. And so, though city bred and !
city born, Grace had staid on for nearly a year,
leading a lonely life, for she knew but few of her
neigliuorB, while her crippled condition prevented
her from mingling at all iu the society she was
so well fitted to adorn. As the reader will have
guessed Grace Raynor was the girl, .or rather
woman, for she w is over thirty now, to whom
Max Gordon had devoted the years of his early
manhood, in the vain hope that sometime she
would be cured and become his wife. A few days
before the one appointed for her bridal she had
been thrown from her horse and had injured her
spine so badly that for months she suffered such
agony that her beautiful hair turned white; then
the paiuceasedsuddenly, but left her no power to
move her lower limbs, and she had never walked
since and never would. But through all the long
years Max had clung to her with a devotion born
first of his intense love for her and later of his
sense of honor which would make him loyal to
her even to the grave. Kuowing how domestic
he was in his tastes and how happy he "would be
with wife and children Grace had insisted that
he should leave her and seek some other love.
But his answer was always the same. "No,
Grace, I am bound to you just as strongly as if
the clergyman had made us one, and will marry
you any day you will say the word. Your lame
ness is nothing so long as your soul is left un
touched, and your face, too," he would some
times add, kissing fondly the lovely face which,
with each year, seemed to grow lovlier, and from
which the snowy hair did not in the least de
tract.But Grace knew better than to inflict herself
upon him, and held fast to her resolve, even
while her whole being went out to him with an
intense longing for his constant love and com
panionship. Especially was this the case at the
Cedars, where she found herself very lonely, not
withstanding the beauty of the place and its sit-
her fearful pain. And now when at last he came
and put bis arms around her and took her face
between his hands and looked fondly into it as he
questioned her of her health she felt that he was
unchanged, and thanked her Father for it. He
was delighted with ever thing, and sat by her uu
til after lunch, which was served on the piazza,
and asked her of her life there and the people in
the neighborhood and finally if she knew of a
Capt. Ailing.
"Capt. Ailing," she replied; "Why, yes. He
lives on a farm about two miles from here and
we buy our honey from him. A very respecta- 1
ble man,I think,although I have no acquaintance
with the family. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, nothing; only there was a girl on the
train with me who told me she was his niece,"
"If he asks me again, shall I refuse?" she said
to herself on the Septembermorniug when Maude
Graham was alighting from the dusty stage at
Oak Corners, two miles away, and the carriage
she had sent for Max was only an hour behind.
How pretty she was iu the dainty white dress,
with a shawl of scarlet wool wrapped around her.
as she sat in her wheel chair on the broad piazza,
which commanded a view of the distant lake and
the green hills beyond. Not fresh and bright and
glowing as Maude, who was like an opening rose
with the early dew upon it, but more like a pale
water lily just beginning to droop, though very
sweet and lovely still. There was a faint tinge
of color in her cheek as she leaned her head
against the cushions oi her chair and wondered
ifshe should fiud Max the same ardent lover as
ever, ready to take her to his arms at any cost, or
had he, during the past year, seen some other face
fairer and younger than her own.
"I shall know in a moment if he Is changed
ever so little," she thought, and although she
did notmcau to be selfish, and would at any mo
ment have giveu him up and made no sign, there
was a throb of pain iu her heart as she tried to
think what Hie would be without Max to love
her. "I should die," 6lie whispered, "and, please
God, I shall die before many years and leave my
bov free."
He was her boy still, just as young and hand-
BOme as be had been thirteen years ago, when he
lifted her so tenderly from the grouud and she
felt his tears upon her forehead as she writhed In
for her and helped her to grapes, and after din
ner wheeled her for an hour on the broad plateau,
stooping over her once and caressing her white
hair, which he told her was very becoming, and
saying no more of the girl seen In church that
morning. The Alllngs had been late and the rec
tor was reading the first lesson when they came
in, father and mother and two healthy buxom
girls, followed by Maude, who, in ber black dress,
looked taller and slimmer than he had thought
her In the car, and prettier, too, with the bril
liant color on her cheeks and the sparkle in the
eyes which met bis with such glad surprise in them
that he fet something stir in his heart different
from anything he had felt since he and Grace
were young. The Aliings occupied a pew in front
of him and on the side, so that he eould look at
Max answered indifferently, with a vigorous puff
at his cigar, which Grace always insisted he
should smoke In her presence. "She was very
pretty anil very young. I should like to see her
again," he added, more to himself than to Grace,
who, without knowing why, felt suddenly as if a
cloud had crept across her sky.
Jealousy had no part in Grace's nature, nor
was she jealous of this young, pretty girl whom
Max would like to see again, and to prove
that she was not she asked many questions about
her and said she would try ana find out who she
was, and that she presumed she had come to at
tend the weddiug of Capt. Alling's daughter,
who was soon to be married. This seemed very
probable and no more was said of Maude until
the afternoon of the day following, which was
Sunday. Then, after Max returned from church
and they were seated at dinner he said abruptly,
"I saw her again."
"Saw whom?" Grace asked, and he replied,
"My little girl of the train. She was atchureh
with her uncle's family. A rather ordinary lot I
thought them, but she looked as swee t as a June
pink. You know they are my favorite flowers."
"Yes," Grace answered slowly, while again a
breath of cold air seemed to blow over her and
make her draw herj shawl more closely around
her.
But Max did Dot suspect It, and pared a peach
and study Maude's face, which he did far more
than he listened to the sermon. And she knew
he was looking at her, too, and always blushed
when she met his earnest gaze. As they were
leaving the church he managed to get near her,
and said, "I hope you are quite well after your
long journey, Miss .""Graham,'' she answerd Involuntarily, but so
low that he only caught the first syllable and
thought that she said Grey.
She was Miss Grey, then, and with this bit of
Information lie was obliged to be content. Twice
during the week he rode past the Ailing house,
hoping to 6ee the eyes which had flashed so bright
ly upon him on the porch of the church, and nev
er dreamingof the hot tears of homesickness they
were weeping in the log school house of the Bush
district, where poor Maude was so desolate and
lonely. If he had, he might, perhaps, have gone
there and tried to comfort her. so great was he
interested In her, and so much was she in his
mind.He staid at the Cedars several days and then
finding it a little tiresome said good- bye to Grace
and went hi3 way again, leaving with her a vague
consciousness that something had come between
them; a shadow no larger than a man's hand, it
is true, but still a shadow, and as she watched
him goiug down the walk she whispered sadly,
"Max Is slipping from me."
CHAPTER VI.
THE SCHOOL MISTRESS
The setting sun of a raw January afternoon was
shining into the dingy school room where Maude
sat by the iron rusted box stove, with her feet on
the hearth, reading a note which had been brought
to her just before the close of school by a man
who had been to the Post Office in the Tillage at
the foot of tbe Lake. It was nearly four mouths
since she first crossed the threshold of the log
school bouse, taking In at a glance tbe whole
dreariness of her surroundings and feeling for
the moment that she could not endure It. But
she was somewhat accustomed to It now, and not
half so much afraid of the tall girls and boys, her
scholars, as she had been at first, while the latter
were wholly devoted to her and not a little proud
of their"young school ma'am," as they called her.
Every body was kind to ber, and she Had not
found "boarding round" so very dread I nl after all
forthe fatted calf was always killed for her. and
tbe best dishes brought out, while It was seldom
that she was called upon to share ber sleeping
room with more than one member of the family.
And still there was ever present with her a long
ing for ber mother and for Johnnie and a life
morecongenial to her tastes. Dreaming was out
of the question now, and tbe book which was to
make her famous and buy back the old home
seemed very far in the future. Just bow large
a portion of her thoughts was given to Max Gor
don it was difficult to say. She bad felt a thrill
of joy when she saw hint in church, ami a
proud, loo, it may be, of bis notice of her,
minutely her cousins had questioned her with
was. A relative most likely of Miss Raynor,
whose pew he sat, they concluded, and they t
their cousin of the lady at the Cedars, Grace Ray
nor, who could not walk a step, but was wheeled
in a chair, sometimes by a maid and sometimes
by a man. The lady par excellence of the neigh
borhood she seemed to be, and Maude found her
self greatly Interested In her and in everything
pertaining to her. Twice she had been through
the grounds, which were opcu to the public, and
bad seen Grace both times In the distance, once
sitting in her chair upon the piazza, and once
being wheeled !n the woods by her man servant
Tom. Bnt beyond this she bad not advanced,
and nothing could be farther from her thoughts
thau the idea that 6he would ever be anything to
the lady of the Cedars. Max Gordon's letter nud
beeu forwarded to her from Merrivale, but had
created no suspicion in her mind that be and
her friend of the train were one. She had
thought it a little strange that be should have
been in Cauandaigua the very day tbatshe arrived
there, and wished" she might have seen blm„ but
the truth never dawned upon her until sometime
in December, when her mother wrote to her that
be had called to see them, expressing much re-
wet at Maude's absence, and when told where
she was and when she went, exclaiming with en
ergy, as he sprang to his feet, "Why, madam,
your daughter was with me in the train.—a little
blue eyeu, brown haired girl in black, who said
she was Capt. Alling's niece."
"He seemed greatly excited," Mrs. Graham
wrote, "and regretted that he did not know who
you were. He got an idea somehow that your
name was Grey, and said he received your letter
with you asleep beside him. He is a splendid
looking man, with the pleasantest eyes and the
kindest voice I ever heard or saw."
"Ye-cs," Maude said slowly, as she recalled
tbe voice which bad spoken so kindly to ber and
tho eyes which had looked so pleasastly into her
own. "And that was Max Gordon 1 He was go
ing to the Cedars, and Miss Rayuor is the girl for
whom he has lived single all these years. Oh-h !"
She was conscious of a vague regret that her
?trangerfrlend,wasthebetrothedhusbandofGrace
Raynor, who, at that very time, was thinking of
her and fighting down a feeling as near to jeal
ously as it was possible for ber to harbor. In the
same mail with Maude's letter from her mother
there had come to the Cedars one from Max, who
said that he had discovered who was his compag-
non da voyage."She is teaching somewhere In your town," he
wrote, "and I judge Is not very happy there.
Can't you do something for her, Grace? It has
occurred to me that to have a girl like her about
you would do you a great deal of good. We are
both getting on in years, and need something
young to keep us from growing old, and you
might make her your companion. She Is very
prettv, with a soft cultivated voice, and must be
a good reader. Think of it, and If you decide to
do it, inquire for her at Capt Alling's. Her name
is Maude Graham. "Yours lovingly,"Max." •
This was Max'6 letter, which Grace read as she
sat in her cozy sitting room with every luxury
around her which money could buy, from the hot
house roses on the stand beside her to the costly
rug on which her chair was standing iu the ruddy
glow of the cheerful grate tire. And as she read
it she felt again the cold breath which had swept
over her when Max was telling her of the young
girl who had Interested him so much. And in a
way Grace, too, had Interested herself. In I ~
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aud through her maid bad ascertained who she
was and that she was teaching in the southern
part of the town. And there her interest had
ceased. Bat It revived again on the receipt of
Max's letter and she said, "1 must see this girl
tirst and know what she is like. A woman can
judge a woman better than a man, but I wish Max
bad not said what he did about our growiug
old. Am I greatly changed, 1 wonder?"
Shecould manage her chair herself in the house,
and wheeling it before a long mirror, she leaned
eagerly forward and examined l he face reflected
there. A pale, sweet face, framed iu masses of
suow white hair, which rather added to Its
youthful appearance than detracted from it, al
though she did not think so. She had been so
proud of her golden hair, and the bitterest tears
she had ever shed bad been for the change in it.
"It's my hair," she whispered sadly,—"hair
which belongs to a woman of sixty, rather than
thirty-three, and there Is a tired look about my
eves and moutb. Yes, I am growing old, oh,
Max ," and the slender fingers were pressed
over the be.iutifill blue eyes, where the tears came
so fast;—"Yes, I'll see the girl," she said, "aud
If I like her face, I'll take her to please him."
She knew there was to be an illumination on
Christmas Eve in the church on Laurel Hill aud
that Maude Graham was to siug a Christmas au-
tbem alone.
I'll go, aud hear, and see," she decided, and
when the evening came Gmce was there In the
Raynorpew listening while MaudeGraham sang,
her brlgnt face glowing with excitement aud her
full, rich voice rising Higher and higher, clearer
and clearer, until It filled the church as it had
never been rilled before, aud thrilled every nerve
of the womau watching her so intently .
"Yes, she is pretty and good, too; I cannot be
deceived in that face," she said to herself, and
when, after the services were over and Maude
came up the aisle past the pew where she was sit
ting, she put out her hand and said, "Come here,
my dear, aud let me thank you lor the pleasure
you have given me. You have a wondurl ul voice
and sometime you mustcome and sing to me. I
am Miss Raynor, and you are MaudeGraham."
This w is their introduction to each other, and
that ulght Maude dreamed of the lovely face which
had smiled upon her, and the voice, the saddest
and sweetest she had ever heard, wbicu had spok
en so kindly to her.
Two weeks afterwards Grace's note was brought
to her and she read ltwith her teetupon the stove
hearth and the low January sun shining in upou
her.
Miss Raynor wanted her for a companion and
friend, to read aud sing to and soothe her in the
hours of languor and depression, which were
many.
"Iamlonely," she wrote, "and, as you know,
wholly incapacitated from mingling with the
world, and I want some onewith me different
from my maid. Will you come to me, Miss Gra
ham) I will try to make youhappy,If money is any
object I will give you twice as much as you are
now receiving, whatever that may be. Think of
it aud let meTiuow vour decision soon.
"Yours very truly,
"Grace Raynor."
"Oh," Maude cried. "Eight dollars a week and
a home at the Cedars, instead of four dollar a
week and boarding around. Of course I will eo,
though not till mv present eucraEement expires.This will not be until sometime in March," and
she began to wonder if she could endure it so loug
and, now that the pressure was lifting, how she
had ever born it at all.
But whatevermay be the nature of our surround
ings time passes quickly, and leaves behind a
sense of nearly as much pleasure as pain, and
when at last the closing day of school came, it
was with genuine feelings of regret that Maude
said good-bye to the pupils she had learned to
love and the patrons who had been so kind to
her.
(To be Continued.)
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fFOR THE Ladies' Hums .1 or una I,.
ALL THE YEAR ROUND IN THE HOME.
BY CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK.
WINTER EVENINGS.
With the first of January comes the settling
down in earnest to fie Winter's duties. Up to
Christmas, there has been a certain vague unrest,
owing to the near approach of the holidays, with
their countless diversions. There have been pres
ents to make, and festivities to arrange, and the
thought of the firi and recreation ahead lias had an
effect upon even thesteadiest heads. This feeling,
that their elders have in a slight measure, Is in
tensified with the children. With all, there is a
decided sensation of flatness when the New Year
has been fairly rung in. The long weeks that
must Intervene between this and Easter stretch
out before one like an arid plain. It is no wonder
if the transition from the holiday gayety and ex
citement to the hum-drum work-a-day world,
both the younger ones and the "grown-ups,"
shouldmanifestthe reaction in depression audoc-
casional crossness.
The best remedy for these complaints may be
found in that panacea for most mental Ills and
not a few physical ones—steady and systematic
work. The prescription may seem severe at theoutlet, but it seldom fails to accomplish a cure.
Tuere is n itbiug like a regularhabit of employ
ment for miking the dayB fly swiftly and cheer
fully, and it is the only thing that never palls
upon one. Pleasures become stale and even weari
some after a while, but a strong interest in any
occupation will generally insure continued good
spirits to a well manor woman. It goes without
saying that recreations must be iuterpersed here
:ind there. But If theold proverb holds good that
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,"
the c mtrary is equally true.
Children, however, cannot be expected to take
this view of the matt r. To them, amusement
appears the chief end aud aim of existence and a
"good time" is their supreme desire. They have
to be trained in the habits of system and to learn
that pleasure is all the srreater when it Is the ex
ception and not the rule of life. That they may
leiim this more qulcklv, the parents should share
ill their occupations, feeling aud showing a vivid
Interest in everything that concerns their child
ren's home and school duties. The best educated
men and women arc those whose home influence
has supplemented what is taught in school, in
stead of counteracting it. The responsibilities
of parents arcnot shifted when they have put their
boysand girls In the charge of experienced teach
ers and supplied all the necessary manuals of
study. The nomeihing that is still lacking can
only he found in the ready home sympathy that
must await the child in all its worries and joys.
The hard lesson becomes easier by the aid of a
few helpful v.ords from the father or mother, and
the incentive to diligence is higher when the
child knows that improvement brings pleasure,
and negligence, pain to the home circle.
In those happy households whose members
may spend the evenings together, the family slt-
tiug room should always be bright and cheery.
One or two lamps with strong light should be
provided, and two or three tables for study and
work. Each one should have his own chair
or corner. If the lessons can be learned
earlier in the day, so much the better, but If not,
a "silent study Hour" should be observed, as it
is in the large boarding schools. The father and
mother should be ready tooffera low voiced ex
planation of a knotty point, or an occasional help
over the hard placcs ln the paths of the little stu
dents. This mnst be done with judgment, not
giving the scholar so much aid that be is not
obliged to use his own wits, and yet making the
oltcn luvolved phraseology of text hooks clearer
to the puzzled childish brain. Too many lessons
are acquired by rote, parrot like, the words con
veying uo real meaning to the learner. Even the
dryest tasks may be made interesting by a few
words of comment here and there that will
breathe life into the dr , facts.
The study time over, there maybe a pleasant
hour of reading aloud. There is no better way
than this of making children familiar with good
literature. The trashy, sensational stuff that is
sown broadcast over the land does a mighty
work in corrupting cot only the moral instincts
but also the literary tastes of the youth of the
present day. Parents should always Insist that
their children read uo book i except those the fa
ther or mother has personally examined and
found desirable. There is plenty of good and In
teresting literature published every vcar that,
children mav read with profit and delight. Such
works aathoseof Elbridge S. Brooks, or "Histor
ic Boys " and "Historic Girls;" as Edward
Everett Hale's "Family Flights;" as the Bod ley
books; as the stories from Virgil ; Irom Herodo
tus aud from Homer; as Hawthorne'6 "Wonder
Book"and "Tanglewood Tales;" as MissYouge's
Young Folks Histories, and dozens of others
give instruction in mythology, history and travel
iusuch aclianning manner that the child gains
information without being aware of it. Nor need
they be limited to what are known as children's
books. With a little skill in selection most of
Dickens' masterpieces may be read aloud to
them. They can hear near! v all of "David Cop-
perfleld," "Old Curiosity Shop," "The Tale of
Two Cities," "Great Expectations," "Pickwick-
Papers," and the Christmas Books;" parts ol
"Dombey and Son," "Our Mutual Friend,"
"Nicholas Nickleby," aud many of his shorter
sketches; Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales,"Irv-
iug's stories. Cooper's "LeatherstockingScrles,"
scenes fruin Shakespereand hits from many Eng
lish and American poets. The Iliad, the Odyssey,
and the Encid read aloud by someone who un
derstands how to skip judiciously will impart a
knowledge of the classic epics atid a taste for
them. The elder children may take their turn in
the reading and thus gain practice in that most
rare and delightful accomplishment.
The Angers need not be idle while the reading
is in progress. The sewing and mending will be
doue more readily fortbe p.easant accompaniment
that, tends to divert the miud from the tedlous-
uess of the bandijrork. The old fashlo.n of Instructing girls In every variety of mcudiug, from
laving a patch by the t bread to durningstockln£s,
arid teaching them how to make thelrbwn under
clothing hasof late fallen sadly lutodisuse.Theplea
urged that girls have so much more studying to
do now than was formerly required of them can
hardly bold good while the same 6chool girls find
abundant leisure for parties, theatre-going and
fancy work. Each girl should be expected to do
all her own mending and lend a hand in aiding
her mother with the household sewing. The child
may rebel against it at first, but sbc will be grate
ful for the training and skill in her after life.The
ability to darn linen anil stockings, to patch gar
ments neatly, to hem, fell and overcast, to cut
aud make her own underclothing and even to al
ter her owndresses will not fail to be of real val
ue when the girl is a woman with a home of her
own. Tho cheapness o f ready made garments in
large city shops will prove of little use to her if
her lot should be cast in the far West or South or
even iu remote country tow ns in the East. And
with all the alleged advantages of ready made
clothing, the fact remains that good materia],
made up at home,costs le.-s in the beginning and
wears better in the end than auy shop work.
There are uo raw edges, skimped seams aud
botched hems on these.
While boys are usually exempted from a share
in what is known as "woman's work," there is
no reason why they should not be taught a little
use of feminine implements. One need not go bo
far as to teach them to knit stockings, in the Ger
man fashion, but it would be a blessing to many
a man if he possessed enough facility with a nee
dle to enable him to sew on a button without per
forating his thumb adozen times in the courseof
the operation, to repair a rip that would otherwise
grow with as'oundingrapiditv.orto mend a sock
in some other 6tyle than by tying a string around
the liole and pounding the lump thus made flat
enough to allow of the stocking being worn.
Apart from this, boys often have some occupa
tion such as drawing or wood carving that will
keep their fingers out of mischief. This is the
time for cutting marked extracts from papers,
pasting scrap books or mourning postage stamps
dried leaves and flowers, or photographs. There
is almost always something that can be found to
do, if it is nothing more than winding yarn or
worsted.
Every evening need not he passed in this man
ner. The variety of a little music, ol a few games
in which all can join, of charades gotten up on
the spur of the moment, of a candy pull, of im
promptu little suppers of apples, nuts and pop
corn, will break up the monotony that is always
to be avoided. By studying such ways and means,
the long Winter evenings may be made delight
ful and the home fireside rendered so attractive
that neither boys nor girls will feel tempted to
leave it in search of less wholesome pleasures.
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CONCERNING SOME PITFALLS IN THEWAY OF HOME LIFE IN AMERICA.
The principle obstacles in the way of home life,
will be found, upon investigation, to be placed
there in cities, from among people in the middle
rank in lilc, and—I shame to say it—by women.
We will therefore first consider the race traits
belonging to this class and condition. The Mid
dle Class in America, more even than in any
other country, is the one which forms national
characteristics and upon which the welfare and
safety of the State principally depend. It is a
significant aud ugly fact, that among the girls of
this order, the stiougestfeellcg against "binding
themselves down" to house aud home-keeping
exists. In the upper walks of life there is a tacit
understanding of the requirements of station, or
an enforced regard for the rules regulating en
tertainments aud hospitality, which pushes the
newly-wedded pair, perforce, into a house of
their own. Among the lowerrauks, povertydoes
the same kiudly work of "ranging" its married
sons and daughters in the rooms of its tenement
bouses, no matter how small or how straightened
the beginning may be. But the middle class is
free from both species of pressure.
Let us see bow this happens. According to the
traditions of custom, while the youug man has
been provided with a trade or profession, the
young woman must be bred in idleness. No
definite or useful employment of time has been
marked out for her; and a system which would
be considered suicidal if applied to the sons of a
family is pursued almost universally in regard to
the daughters. Even if this same want of appli
cation aud waste of time is to be found In other
parts of the world, it is much more glaring aud
dangerous here, since, according to our rules of
society, leisure is not hedged about with equal
watcluulness and care. The youug girl of the
old world Is surrounded by precautions. She
docs not leave the school-room, or the safe seclu
sion of the home, except under the guidance of
mother orgoveruess, until a reasonable maturity
has tempered inexperience with sense. Up to
that lime, she has been fostered in regular habits
both of mind and body. Our pretty delicate
young creature is allowed to mix, from the be
ginning, the dissipation of danciug parties,
theatres, aud fashionable calls, with the rigor of
mental discipline, until her frail frame begius to
show the wear and tear of nervous excitement.
Upon her early emancipation Irom school, mat
ters become even worse. Tlieu begin the loug,
idle, days; the purposeless promenades through
streets always more than sufficiently full of
temptation for the unoccupied miud; the silly
faucy work which makes pretence of occupation
for listless hands; the poor, showy accomplish
ment, poorly acquired and badly practiced ; and
the light reading of foolish stories. This last is
sometimes a greater evil than the reading of
a vicious book would be; for while the latter
mlghtsting into autagonisin some latent senseof
modesty and rightniindedness, the former in
sidiously breaks down every barrier of pure taste
aud leaves the » ay open for wickedness to enter
unchallenged. In tblsway, another fundamental
principle of healthy social life is violated ; which
declares that every advantage shared by the in
dividual shall be paid for in honesty and honor
by some return iu kind.This pernicious idleness Is the hot-bed which
recruits the racks of "anxious and aimless"
young women, who look forward to matrimony
as their only hope of continuing the indolence
they have growu to love, and who are ready to
enter upon what should be the holiest covenant,
withjno higher thought than the mercenary de
sire for a fixed position and income. No cravlug
for love, or companionship, or intimate friend
ship; no fond conception of unselfish devotion,
which shall shareln struggle and victory, softens
their hardened hearts, ft is all a matter of specu
lation or foresight. Even the sweet confidences
which Sliuuid make the days of courtship happy,
are changed to ungenerous plans and bartering*
which shall still further pander to self-indulgence.
Asarulc, thcyoungmiu lslikeclay in the bandsof
the potter. Instinct leads him to desire the
founding of a home and of family ties; but so
many motives of interest, of economy, aud of
ease[ are placed before him that he wavers and
compromises. The boarding-house, or the hotel
shall be the refuge for the first few years; the
uest-buildlng shall commence later on. It is the
old story of Adam and Eve. The woman tempts
him and he doth eat the bitter fruit of the tree of
knowledge.Alas I he little dreams that he can never enter
paradise, after having once left It. The first
fatal mistake was in placing the idea of happiness
outside the home circle in the beginning, and
making the paltry pleasures of unearned leisure
preferable to the honorable, care-won joys of the
fireside. From that time the wrong direction has
been taken. The self-denial which should help
to make home lovely and life nobler, the pure
liappiuei-s of bearing and rearing children, are
thrust into the background as unpleasant and
unpopular things, to be hated, to be dreaded, aud
to be keptawayaslongaspossible. If by chance,
V>me unwelcome little li e shall have meanwhile
struggled iutoexistence, inspiteof well-laid plan
and wise forecasting of events, it is received with
resentment, with ill-will, or at best with poorly-
dirguiscd annoyance. Tho tender heart and
loving arms which God has intended 6hall be the
first cradle of the infant, are wanting; and
though, later on, love and pride break through
the unnatural barriers imposed upou them, the
cloud never entirely lifts tram the child's inner
consciousness. Before even it was born into the
joys and fears of this mortal world, while yet iu
that state of intimate relationship which exists
between mother and offspring, it has felt the in
fluence of her w ant of sympathy and spirit of
rebellion; and this distortion of Its moral nature
has prepared It, In turn, for the same abominable
weakness of moral sense in the future.
Mary Elizabeth Blake.
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JANUARY, 1888.3THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
[ For The IjAdies' jiomb Journal.]
MARY J. HOLMES.
America's Moat Popular Woinuii Novelist.Her Winning Personality, Charming Homeand Iiife as a literary Worker, Devoted Wife
and Social Favorite.
Mary J. Holmes Is the author of some twenty-
six widely read, distinctively American and phe
nomenally popular novels. From the time when
"Tempest and Sunshfne," '"The English Or
phans" and "Lena Rivers" appeared, she has
been an Indefatigable worker, and has sent forth
the numerous stories which are so well known,
with a rapidity of production only perhaps
equalled by Sir Walter Scott, who threw off one
book a year until the novelswhich fill along shelf
were comDleted, andhe oeaaedfrom sheerfatitrue.
Mrs. Holmes' stories are of a domestic character,
and whila not so intense as if more highly sea
soned with sensationalism, are of a liealtliy moral
tone, and, as their history proves, of abiding in
terest to the reading public. Au estimate and
comparison from the statistics of a wholesale
book store which supplies the trade for all the up
per half of the Mississippi valley, shows that next
to E. P. Roe's works, Mrs. Holmes' novels are the
most popular of any American author. It is a
tact that more than one million copies of her
books have been sold, and that their popularity
shows no sign of waning. As testimony to this,
her publisher has recently brought out a paper
edition of "Tempest and Sunshine," of fifty
thousand copies, which is already sold and is to
be followed with similar enormous reproductions
of "The Euglish Orphans," aud "Lena Rivers."
Old Dr. Johuson once said: "What pleases
many, and pieaseslon" must possessscmie merit."
The question of Mrs. Holmes' right to an almost
unrival ed place among the writers of fiction was
long ago settled.
Mrs. Hoi mes' maiden name was Mary J. Hawes.
Like Mrs. Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke aud others of
our authors who have been particularly success
ful in deliueating home li e, Mrs. Holmes was of
New England birth and extraction. She was
horn at Brookfield, Massachusetts, aud was the
daughter of Preston Hawes.
Her father was a man of intellect and a pro
found thinker.
The Rev. Dr. Joel Hawes, one of the most
celebrated of New England divines, was her
father's older brother, aud Mrs. Holmes seems to
have largely partaken of the intellectual force;
faith in human nature and almost psychological
insight into the moving springs and desires of
the human heart, which were a family character
istic, and made her uncle's preaching so potent,
searching aud fruitful.
From her mother, she inherited the romance,
poetry, and love of the beautiful which round out
and adorn her character.
She is described a* a precocious and sensitive
child, more fond of her own companionship and
dreaming out the pictures and fancies that came
into her active mind, thau of associating witli
other children. Her imaglBation, the creative
faculty, was alive almost in infancy, aud at her
earliest remembrance her little brain was buzz
ing with the germs of what have since become
tier mental offspring. She went to school at three
years of age, and studied grammar at six! Imag
ine it, ye kindergarten-seeking mothers, who
would save your darlings from any abstract
mental effort I
But she had a head for mathematics as well as
letters, and although her slate was often written
close with the rhymes which would pop into her
volatile little he^d, she became so capable iu all
the common branches, that at the age of thirteen
she was installed as the youthful teacher of a
district school a few miles from home. Here she
had a varied experience as the little "school-
marm" with the big blue eyes and the golden
hair, at whom the older boys looked first with
contempt, aud later, with still more embar.issing
admiration and devotiou, aud the victim of the
now-many-years-otjsclete custom of "boarding
around."
She was possessed with an Inspiration to write,
and saw her first article in print at the age of
fifteen.
She was married when quite young to Mr.
Daniel Holmes, a young lawyer of Richmond,
New York. The uuiou, happily still unbroken,
has proveu an Ideal marriage. In the combined
affection and respect for each other, and the
mutual helpfulness and intellectual compaulou-
ship they enjoy, it reminds one forcibly of the
married life of Mr. and Mrs. Browning, Mr. and
Mrs. Holmes lived for a short time at Versailles,
and then removed their household gods to Brock-
port, now a flourishing manufacturing town of
51100 inhabitants, near Rochester.
Their home, called "The Brown Cottage," is au
unique, home-like, and in every way attractive
house, with unexpected juts, surprising balco
nies, cosy nooks, aud bright bay wiudowslookiug
out upon the lawus and letting a flood of sun
shine into the pleasant rooms.
The rooms are as far as possible from the con
ventional arrangement and delightful vistas open
away here and there, tempting the visitor to ac
cept the hospitality which invites perfect freedom
iu explorations. The attractive hall welcomes
tho visitor, the drawing-rooms, half shut away by
handsome portieres, disclose warmth and richness
ol color; the diulug-roum op. us into a conser
vatory with its wealth of leafage aud bright flow
ers, and everywhere are rare pictures, delicate
mosaics, pieces of statuary and rare china. These
are souvenirs lrom jouriieys in foreign lauds,
winters iu the south and summers in all sorts of
delightful resorts, for Mr. and Mrs. Holmes arc
great travelers. The library is aptly furnished
and very inviting lor a book-worm or art-lover.
In the upper hall, among unique furniture and
bric-a-brac are also some well-Bllcd book-cases;
and opening out of It, the pleasautest room iu
the house, is Mrs. Holmes' writing-room. She is
very regular iu her h.ibits, spending the morning
from uiue until twelve o'clock at her desk. She
is never so happy as whi n weaving her stories,
because, as she Ingenuously remarks, the men
and women iu her brain-world, never thwart her.
They always do as she wishes. She writes fluently,
in a large baud, which makes her manuscript look
like a legal document.
She is a communicant of the Episcopal church,
and willingly labors iu the cause of morality and
religion. She has charge of the childrens' Sun
day school, which, under her direction, is a most
attractive place. She Iras no children of her own,
! but is very fond of young people, especially girls,
\ often giving them parlor tal ks upon art and other
subjects connected with her foreign travels.
So she lives, gracefully combining domestic,
literary and social duties; by her systematic in
dustry finding time (slightly paiaphrasiug
Shakespeare's words), to
"Keep house and ply her books, welcome her
friends,
Visit her countrvmen."
Personally, Mrs. Holmes is a most winning,
even fascinating, woman. She is tall, with a
slight figure, which yet escapes thiuness, and her
movements are very gracelul. Her large blue
eyes shine forth intelligence and sympathy, her
h'air is abundant and of a dark brown color, aud
her voice in speaking is rich and full, quite Eng
lish iu tone and Inflection, aud in charming con
trast to the harsh feminine voice which is au
American characteristic much to be deprecated.
Mrs. Holmes has au avcrsiou to personal n -
toriety to a degree which few authors feel. She
lias a shrinking lrom the public discussion of her
private affairs, and the attention which the men-
tiou of her name calls forth which is as rare as it
is admirable aud truly womanly.
She has never permitted the newspaper noto
riety which so often in the case of writers runs
ahead of their honest reputation.
A few facts in Mrs. Holmes' literary history
will, I am sure, be of iuterest to the readers of
this sketch which the exigencies ofspace reduce
to a mere outliuc.
"Tempest and Sunshine" was written in 1854.
Good novels, and especially good American nov
els, were scarcer then than now. It was only
three years since Mrs. Stowe's great work, "Un
cle Tom's Cabiu" had sprung forth, armed with
the right and impelled with its imprisoned fire of
inspiration, and awakened a universal iulerestiu
southern life. Mrs. Holmes' storv of the livesof
the two beautiful daughters of a Kentucky plan
ter, with Its thrilling action and life-like pictures
of a slave-holder's home was eagerly welcomed,
aud in au lucredibly short time was in the hands
of delighted readers all over the country. In Its
conception, characterizations and denouments,
"Tempest and Sunshine" is olten pronouueed
the most artistic of any of Mrs. Holmes' w orks.
Certain it is that, the browu and blonde lashes
of all the Impressionable girls of thirty years ago
were wet with tears of sympathy for poor, dark-
browed Julia, whose tempe8tuousspiritall events
seemed to conspire to arouse in unlovely pas
sions, ami the childish delicacy and purity of
"Sunshine" who, however, woji less sympathy
from the readers, because she seemed to have ail
the blessings of life. That it wonderfully main
tains Its hold upon popular favor the facts before
given attest.
One year later came forth the story of "The
Euglish Orphans," like t,.e first novel, published
by D. Appleton & Co. It was warmly praised by
the critics, and received from the North American
Review, (than which there was then no higher
literary authority), the following notice: "We
have not seeu Mrs. Holmes' previous novel, but
with this we are charmed. * * The pathetic
element which runs through a large portion of
the story is highly wrought, yet stops short of
mawkishness, and would coustraiu even reluc
tant sympathy as far as it goes. The comic veiu
is worked with equal success aud equal modera
tion. The characterization is exquisite, especially
as far as itcoucerns rural and village life, of
which there are some pictures that deserve to be
hungup iu perpetual memory of types of hu
manity fast becoming extinct through the agency
of steam and telegraph. » * * Moreover, the
story tuus gracefully constructed and written,
involves without parading, and inculcates with
out obtruding, not only pure Christian morality
iu general, but with especial point and power the
depeudeuce of true success on character and of
true respectability on merit, and the absurdity
of the plutocratic notious which In some quarters
arc beginning to deform American society."
In 1856 was published another story called
"Homestead on The Hillside," which found a
ready market, for the author of two successful
novels now received the grateful assurance that
her work bad touched the hearts of the reading
public and found the appreciation which is such
a rich reward and inspiration.
Iu 1S57 appeared "Lena Rivers," the third
popular success achieved by the author In four
years, and the name became a household word
wherever a story of domestic life, pure lovely
heroines honorable and tender-hearted heroes
and the final justification of the right, could ob
tain a hearing.
Each epoch has its vintage with a bouquet so
delicate as not generally to bear transportation
lrom one decade to another, but many of the
rapidly growing army of dissenters from the
spindling intellectuality and the dull dead level
of polished frivolity and cynical iguobility of the
modern school of fiction, will continue to believe
that the novel fulfills its highest mission, when
without any obtrusive moralend in view, it still
strengthens faith in the heroic possibilities of
human nature, and paints flesh and blood men
and women, whoflnd that meauncssdoes not pay
and goodness will be rewarded, even if It is done
in the aesthetically condemned melodramatic
way. While a story with a rampant purpose Is
confessedly an inartistic production, mere
amusement, a pleasing invention to kill time, is
uot a high aim for a novel. Mrs. Holmes, while
avoiding Cnaryhdls, has cleverly steered clear of
Scylla, aud has re-embodied in her stories much
of the beauty of ideal home life which Is uowhere
realized asin New England, aud the fast anchor
age and enforced seclusion ol couutry life.
For more than twenty years Mrs. Holmes'
bix>ks were published bv G. W. Carleton, with
whom and his wife she had au intimate triein!-
ship. That she has made a great financial suc
cess of her work, goes without saying. For
many years all of her stories appeared first iu
the Neie York Weekly, to which, (until the death
of the editors) she was bound by contract. For
several of them she has received as high as six
thousand dollars, relainiug the copyright, Mr.
Carleton afterwards bringing them out iu book
form, to meet with an enormous sale.
Where all are so popular it would be invidious
to make comparisons, but with the ones mcn-
tlonet', "Queenie Hetherton," dedicated to her
frieiio Mrs. Julie P. Smltli, of Hartiord, Connec
ticut, (a successful author now deceased) ;
"Mildred," inscribed to Mrs. G. W. Carleton,
"her of the starry eyes aud nut brown hair;"
"Rose Mather," which was a Btory of the war,
breathing patriotism and pity on every page, and
"Hugh Worthiugton," a story of Kjiitucky life
which comes up to the war, are pfrbape most
general favorites. The new story, "Gretchen,"
proves very taking, as might be confidently ex
pected of anything from her pen. Mr. aud Mrs.
Holmes contemplate spending another year
abroad, starting in the spring, when they will
travel during the summer in Norway and Sweden,
and live the following winter iu Egypt. The
Carleton's arc now sojourningon the Continent,
where Mr. aud Mrs. Holmes expect to join them
during the season.
Those who are following with eager Interest
the story, "Spring Farm," now running in The
Ladies' Home Jouknal will, I hope, find their
enthusiasm augmented, and their respect and
admiration increased, if it were possible, by this
sketch of the author.
Flobine Thayer McCkat.
h on the ladies' Home journal.]
OLD-FASHIONED MANSERS AND NEW.
BY KATE UPSON CLARK.
As the pendulum swings back and forth, so
fluctuate our manuers and customs. Very likely
the present era of what may be called informality,
may be succeeded by one of ultra conventionali
ty. Still, to some of us, that Is not a disagreea
ble prospect. It seems to those who happen to be
subjected, just now to the 6way of the "society
girl," that almost any manners would be better
than those which are now in vogue.
Mrs. Whitney says in one of her stories, that
since the sewing-machine aud other "labor-sav
ing' ' contrivances have been invented, there is
really no saving of labor at all; that we are now
"whizzed to death with work," instead of being,
as in the old times, quietly and peaceably tired
out.It seems as though all our modes of living had
kept pace with the machines. Certainly, the
'noisy, undignified and offensive manners of
some supposably well-taught young womeu now
adays bear to the old-fashioned ways a similar
correspondence.
A half-century ago, the chief branches taught
young girls In the better chtss of boarding-schools
were manners, and, as they were called, the ac
complishments. We have all heard our mothers
and grandmothers tell of the change that took
place In girls who staid a year or two at such a
place. From being (what the girls, according to
these stories, always were, then ) shy and unform
ed young damsels, they came home self-pos
sessed, deliberate aud well-poised women. Cer-
taluly, they made grauu old dames, in their de
clining years, as we all know. We cannot help
wondering what kind of old ladies the "highty-
tighty" girls whom we are rearing nowadays will
make.Not that these girls are worse than their grand
mothers. It is not that. They are very likely
every whit as good-hearted, and there Is no doubt
that they are just as bright, and that they know
more about solid geometry and German Gram
mar; but their talk issoloudand slangy; their
feet are stretched out so far in company; they
yawn so freely and throw their arms about so wild
ly,—why are they pot more reposeful, and quiet,
more dignified !
We suspect that these manners may possibly
be the result of what is really a creditable desire.
The girls are becoming . so learned nowadays,
what with the universities and literary societies,
which are springing up everywhere, that they
have, possibly, a feeling that in order to seem
"jolly" and truly "feminine," they must dissem
ble alittle bit, and not scare the young men with
too strong au appearance of erudition and lofty
attainments. Their parents seem to uphold them
in this dissembling, if 6o It be, for thereis no in
dication that any great efforts are made on the
partof the elders to check the aggressive exuber
ance which characterizes the manners of their
young lady daughters.
When Evangeline had passed, it was said to be
"like the ceasing of exquisite music." When
one of our modern young ladies passes, with her
reeded cress, her spiral bustle, her clattery little
hlgh-hceled shoes, her bangles and bugles rat-
tliug, it is like the passiugof—shall we say Hi—
a circus procession. All of the old, charming
ideas of woman that we have had given us by the
poets,—and they are not such bud ideas,—vanish
at the souud. Can't women walk any more with
out toppling and tilting! Must they have noisy,
rattling clothes ou i Are these things to match
the fashionable manner, which, as we hme 6aid,
is noisy and "smart," and entirely lacking In
what usedto be called "refinement" aud "deli
cacy/"We do not ask for what Mrs. Browning calls
a nature in our girls "tamed aud grown domestic
like a baru-door fowl." No, let them be full of
spirits; aud let them learn, and wax proficient
in all that goes to make brains fine and hands
skillful; but with it all, we beg them to retain
enough of the old-fashioned womanliness to sit
quietly in company, especially iu strange com
pany; to learn to keep their bauds and feet still:
to understand that slang is not necessarily wit;
and to move about, enter a room or step into a
carriage with ease, moderation and dignity. If
you must bo dashing, dear girls, "dash" In your
bwu apartment. The' reposeof manner" which
you very likely sneer at as a relic of the days of
the sentimental heroine and the blue worsted
dog, is really a lovely thing in woman ; and, more
than all that. It typifies a mind aud heart which
are most truly attractive. You see, when the
trumpets blow for Alaric as well as Charlema
gne, It is difficult to distinguish between them;
and surely you would wish at all times toso com
port yourself that no one could regard you for
an instant with suspicion.It is said that now the class of women whom
good girls would care least to resemble are thequietest and best-behave.' in public. We beg that
tlie positions be reversed."Association with women," says Ottllle In her
diary, "i« the clement of good manners," but
Geethe wrote this some years ago. He would
hardly be able to say it afterspcndlng au hour in
watching almost any of the "well-bred" girls of
to-day.—•
WIVES' WAGES.
Some members of Sorosls have been arguing
that wives should receive regular wages for their
household labors aud responsibilities. Undoubt
edly the fair creatures richly deserve compensa
tion of the most generous sort. Nothiug can be
too good lor tliem. But we foresee boundless
possibilities of disagreement aud difficulty in any
schemeto adjust their remuneration on the colu,
hard, uuseutimental basis which is accepted iu
the ordinary business world. No laws laid dowm
by Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill would work
satislactorily in such matters as these. The
harsh, unsympathetic theories aud precepts of
political economy would be out of place here,
and the inexorable logic of the pitiless law of
supply aud demand must be rejected at once.
Couluyou expect the ardent young lover, who
burusto lay the whole world at the feel of the
incomparable object of his adoration, to calcu
late calmly the condition of the wife market,
and to try to balance the Inimitable treasury of
graces aud virtues which his Chloe possesses,
against the common currency of cold cash!
But it he were compelled to do it, if the system
whi^h Huds favor iu the eyes of some thoughts
less and giddy members of Sorosls should be
come the common law of society, think what
wou.d he the consequences to the unhappy young
men I Of course prospective mothers-in-lawwon ul conduct the negotiations, andln the flush
aud ardor of youthful passion the Impetuous Ro-
meos would be eug. rto concede everything. The
consequence would be that the rr le of wages for
the bride would be established on such a scale
that the bridegroom wouldspeedllybccome bank-
, rupt, aud iu penury aud disgrace would be
Lobilged to look lor the rest of his days for sup-
' port at the hands of the rapidly enriched partner
of his sorrows, who having earned her wealth by
her owu exertions would naturally look with
scorn i.ud contempt on the wretched being who
was uuable to emerge triumphantly from a brief
struggle between capital andlubor.
Even if there were uomothcr-lu law In the ease,
and the young lady'sexactlous at the outset of
married life were uot extravagant, in too many
homes bickerings would surely arise. After a
year or twothe husband would come home from
his day's duties with the latest quotation of wives'
wages", aud insist that he was paying more than
his income or the state of the market justified.
Resentment on the wife's part would inevitably
lullow, and the difference of opiulou might ulti
mately result in a strike or lock-out. It certain
ly would be difficult to find a satisfactory board
of arbitration to settle the dispute without viol
ence, for in a matter which touches so intimatelyhomes, hearths and pockets, neither party to the
controversy would he willing toaecept a decis
ion by outsiders. Wives' trade uuions would
spring up all over the land. Concerted attempts
to raise the scale of wages would set households
in an uproar all over the Uulon, and nurseries
and reception-rooms would be deserted by Sister
hoods of Locomotive Housekeepers, who would
go to and frostirriug up strife and dissension in
hitherto peaceful families. Dlrelul would be the
conclaves of discontented matrons aud woe and
anguish would fill the land. Marriage would go
out of fashion lu a generation or two and Soro
sls woTOTTTTUss away, consumed by the flames of
public indignat ion and wrath. This now happy
and flourishing Republic would be divided Into
two great hostile camps, one of trembling bache
lors shrinking from the hated bonds of wedlock,
and the other of fierce-eyed spinsters, resolute
to enchain the melancholy victims. Soon deso
lation would cover the earth as a garment.—New
York Tribune.
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THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
THE CHILDREN'S PAGE.
Nine little girls nil in a row I Evidently "having a (rood time" over something. What is it, do you suppose? Can you guess, children? We
we know Just what Is the matter with them. They are so pleased at the Idea of a "Children's Corner," that they are tairly "Jumping for Joy."can. ""e know Just what is the matter with them. Tiiey are so pieasea at tne mea oSo will you, when you see how we try to please the little ones from month to month
I For tho LADIES' HOHK JOURNAL.]
DUCE DAWSON'S BELT.
A Story for Girls.
BT AUGUSTA dc BOBSA.
Duce Dawson lost her belt.
That of itself was not such an importaut affair ;
the belt was merely an ordinary wide moroceo
one, and Duce had" lost many a one before, but
when it was the cause of her losing a dellgbtfui
visit, the matter really assumed a certain degre*
of importance.This was the way of It: A letter from Aunt
Roland had been received, and naturally bad
caused great excitement in the Dawsou family,
for Aunt Roland was their Great Mogul: She
was a widow, rich, childless, and lived in Boston,
three most important facts. She was on her way
South, and had written to her brother, Mr. Daw-
sou, that she should make tbem a little visit as
she passed through their city and perhaps ask
his permission to take with her on her trip, and
possibly "borrow for a year or more," one
of his daughters, the youngest she recollected
was her namesake, Ducelina, and she hoped she j ungraceful folds along the floor, the lace at ber
elded upon tbe bat and costume Duce should
wear when they went to the hotel to call, and she
knew Mrs. Bruce would exclaim at the likeness
Duce bore to berat that age, a bit of flattery that
always pleased her.To her surprise, however, Mrs. Bruce waived
ceremony and was ushered into Auut Roland's
sitting-room one mornlDg without waiting for a
formal "first call."
After warm greetings and final arrangements
for the journey, Mrs. Bruce exclaimed, 'And
now, my dear, let me see your pretty protege)"
With not a little fear lest her darling should
not be prepared to be presented thus unccrimo-
niously, Aunt Roland sent word for her two
nieces to come to her room.
They appeared directly; Annette exquisitely
neat and dainty In a pretty garnet morning dress
that fitted her fine figure to perfection. Her dark
hair smoothly rolled off her brow, and In her
hand a strip of embroidery. Altogether a pretty
picture of neatness and industry.
Behind her lounged Duce. Poor Duce ! She
had been reading on the bed ; there was a thou
sand wrinkles in her blue cashmere morning
robe; unbelted, the skirt hint; and trailed In
should like her for a protege,
This proposition, as well as the Invitation,
made a decided sensation. "Times" were very
"hard" in the Dawson family; the two elder
boys were off at college, and It took the greater
part of Mr. Dawson's income to keep them there,
and Bud bread and butter, to say nothing o:
bounets aud dresses for his two girls and wire at
home. Therefore, when Auut Roland hinted at
adopting one of the girls "for a year or mere"
the proposition received a warm welcome.
Mrs. Dawson cooked up from the letter, and
gazed admiringly at Duce's pretty face and
figure, aud thought with a grateful sigh that ber
girl really deserved to have all the pretty adorn
ments that would naturally follow Aunt Roland's
adoption. There was only one thing to be feared !
Ouce was a most careless anil untidy girl,Nut If it had be: i An="tte, Mr--. B^lnA i>»<\
itesignated, Mrs. Dawsou would have had no
qualms, for she, like her mother, was the very
personification of order and neatness, but Duce !
"At any rate," thought Mrs. Dawson, "Duce Is
very pretty, and Aunt Roland Is such a warm
admirer of beauty perhaps she will he blind to all
but her loveliness."Todoher justice, Mrs. Dawson had endeavored
to "bring up" both her daughters to habits of
methodical neatness, but Duce was Incorrigible.
Her things "never stayed put, like Annette's,"
6he would excuse herself in declaring, when ber
Mamma lifted her eyebrows and scolded Duce for
the whirlwind state of chaos her bureau drawers
and wardrobe were usually in.
"How can you expect to have pretty, fresh
ribbous and laces and skirts, Duce," she had ex
claimed that very morning In despair; "vou never
seem to think of smoothing out, or folding up, or
shaking, auythiug you take off. Aunt. Roland
will be shocked to find vou a sioveuly, careless
young lady, and depend upon it, she will not
desire such a companion for she Is fastidious to a
fault herself."Duce shrugged her plump shoulders, pulled her
twisted overskirt around straight, and thrust a
pin tnrough ber tangled curls, aud laughed out
irood-uaturedly.
"Ob, Mammadoar, please don't scold any more;
l'mgolugto turn over a uew leaf and blossom
Into such a prim little Quaker lady, that Aunt
Roland will fall in love with me at once."
Poor Duce! she did try; but, oh dearl it was
so much easier to just toss hat and gloves down
on to a chair, or over on to the piano, when she
came in from a walk; or jump out of a little flut
ter of lace and ruffles and leave them lying a
white pile on the floor all night. And everyone
knows, feathers and fringes aud ribbons and
ruffles, will not look pretty and fresh, very long,
if cured for in that manner..
Aunt Roland arrived in due season and "took"
to her niece Ducelina at once.
"She looks as you did at her age," said Mr.
Dawsou to his sister when he saw the admiration
In Mi s. Roland'B eyes.
"Yes, I believe she does, thank you," replied
Mrs. Roland, with a smile.
For a few days Duce was very particular and
nice in her toilettte, but before long she forgot
her new-made resolution, and a soiled collar,
rumpled overskirt, or frowsy head would cause
Aunt Roland to look quite shocked. She noticed,
too, that Annette was always watching her sister,
and putting a pin In here, or pulling a string off
there, and at last Auut Roland began to feel
qualms over the feasibility of selecting Duce as
her companion for the trip South—oras a protege
either.
Annette was always exquisitely neat In her dress
aud so orderly and methodical iu her ways—but
then Duce had such a sweet, coaxing way, one
could forgive her everything, and besides she was
so very pretty—audeveryone said looked bo "like
ber Aunt Roland 1" Mrs. Roland was quite torn
in her miud as to which of the gli Is she should
invite to accompany her, when a little thing de
ckled the matter.
One of her Boston friends, a >Jrs. Bruce, was to
join herju Philadelphia, and with a party of six,
start for the South. She was in daily expectancy-
of a note announcing her friend's arrival at the
Continental Hotel, aud Aunt Roland felt a secret
delight In anticipating the pride" and pleasure
with which she should Introduce Duce to h'er
friend as her pet and protege. She had even de-
throat was torn, her hair was onegolden, tangled
mass of bangs and braids, and her lips and checks
were daubed with chocolate caramels. She was
not an attractive picture.Aunt Roland bit her lip, but presented the
girls to her friend, who she felt was severely
criticizing Duce—as she borsclf would have done
lu her place.
Duce blushed, painfully conscious of her dis
grace; she had not understood there was a
stranger In her aunt's room. Thoroughly
ashamed, however, of her slovenly appearance,
she glanced down at her dress aud said In a dep
recatory tone, as she lifted the trailing folds of
her in ussy gown:
''I lost my belt, auntie."Mrs. Bruce chatted awhile with both girls, but
Duce was qniet and dull. She felt that she wasu'vler a clo'id. When Mrs ^ruoe bode go*->d-morning to her friend down stairs ••> the door,
she said:"The other one has the prettiest face Ducelina,
but I don't wonder that you have chosen the ex
quisitely neat and pretty-spoken little girl as your
companion aud protege. I envy you her company.
It's too bad, though, that she hasn't the beautiful
face of her slovenly sister; but of course you
never could put up with the companionship of a
slattern."Mrs. Roland did not correct her friend's mis
take. She corrected her oimi, and that day invi
ted Annette to be her companion lu her trip
South, and her protege for a year, adding severely,
"Perhaps at the end of that time, Duce may so far
have corrected or outgrown her untidy habits as to
warrant my inviting her to visit me. without my
having any fears of feeling ashamed of her care
less appearance."It utmost broke Duce's heart, but she could not
help feeling she deserved the reproof.
"It was all because 1 lost my belt, and looked
solaukyand horrid beside Annette's trim figure,"
she cried, v-ben her mother told her what Auut
Roland bad said.It served as a good lesson, however, for In the
year of her sister's absence she so assiduously
cultivated habits of order aud neatness, that
when Aunt Rolaud brought Annette home slit
discovered the change at ouce, and was so pleased,
she kept her word and took Duce back to Boston
with her, aud says she shall keep her uutil some
oue interferes.Duce is very well contented to make her home
with a kind, indulgent aunt. She talks some
times of her old, careless habits, and says she
hopes all the girls who hear her story, will profit
by the lesson she learned when she "lost her belt."
[Fob The Ladies' Home Journal]
MISS CYNTHY'8 VALENTINES.
•BT KATHARINE B. FOOT.
This was greeted with applause.
"Here's the jelly—don't tip it," said Kitty,
"and here's the verse that goes with It."
"Here's some fruit of the currant vine
Made into jelly—'tis better than wine,
And the boys and the girls are all sorry,
And make apolojorry,
And all will De your valentine
And hope the sun will ever shine."
"I never heard of "
"I know what you're going to say," said Kitty.
"I bad to make a word to go with sorry—I
couldn't find one. And I was bound to say we
were sorry, 'cause we are."
"Now there's only oue more basket—the flow
ers—and here's their verse,
•'Here's some flowers
To smell in the hours,
When you're alone,
When dead are these flowers,
There'll be summer showers,
And more in the garden be grown."
"That's sweet," said May Lewis.
"Now we're all reads," said Kitty, "and we've
got to be as still as mice. Hold Benny's nose so
Be can't bari^-^it's a mercy roosters don't crow
at night and the cat don't mew loud enough to
be heard. Now come, let's start."
"Oh, hold on," said Tom, "£ve got a basket."
So up he darted and in a minute down he came
with It. "What's in It I" they all asked.
"Look at that verse," said Tom wisely; "here,
I'll read it,—'Pickles from Tom Nichols.'"
"High old verse, that," said Bill Lewis. "Is It
pickles, though, honest?"
"You see," said Tom, "If it Isn't a pickle when
Miss Cynthy opens it I'll—well, I'll give In beat
en out"
Kitty made a sudden hurrv to open the door
and turn her face aside, and they all started.
Tom had Benny, Sam had the cat, Bill the chick
ens, aud the girls took the jelly, the flowers, and
Bill's valentine.
"I thought Ned Reed was coming," said Sam
to Tom as they started.
"Oh, he's got the colly bobbles In his right
leg," said Tom.
"Why Tom Nichols," said Kitty, "he's got a
sore throat—there's nothing the matter with his
lee."
"Hear her," said Tom, nudging Sam as they
started at last with subdued chuckles. It was a
particularly dark corner just around tbe corner
of Miss Cynthy's house. There was, as Kitty
bad said, a hall window there, where Miss Cvntby
always kept a lamp on a shelf; because Front
street was so dark, she said, and just bevond tbe
window tbe darkness seemed very dark by com
parison.
The children huddled together just there, and
Tom, who was first to leave Benny, crept care
fully up on the piazza, tied Benny's chain to the
door bell, and then gave It a violent pull, which
gave a wild clanging plainly heard outside, and
ran as fast as he could to a post of observation
across the street, where from behind the trunk of
a great elm be peeped out.
Presently the door opened cautiously, and Miss
Cynthy appeared, or rather her head did, looking
down at the sill, in search of the objectionable
valentine she felt she was sure to And.
Benny gave ashort, glad bark, for he decidedly
objected to being left alone, and jumped up
against tbe door. First Miss Cynthy started back
and then she said, "Why Benny Banks, what are
you doing here!"
Tl'^n she not*e«d *hnt he was tied, rudeaine
quite out and took the chain off, aud then she
said, "Why, vou'vegot a letter on—have you got
;l vaieiit he :" aud she led him iu and shut tbe
door. In a second all the children—Tom too-
pressed closely up to the window. They saw her
read the valentine, and then really and actually
take Kenny right np in her arms and hue him,
and then she went off down to the sitilng-room,
leading and calling him, where she passed out of
sight from the window.
"Now the kitten, quick," said Kitty. Tom left
that and he put the basket np on the door-sill,
and when Miss Cynthy opened it, which she did
very quickly.—almost too quickly—the busket
rolled to her feet. She read that verse too, by
the window, and tried to open tbe cover, but it
was tied on, and she carried the basket off.
The chickens were left next, and Bill had hard
work to get off lu time,—indeed sbe whs so quick
that he threw himself oS face down iu tbe snow
under the edge of the piazza in tbe deep shadow,
where Miss Cynthy couldn't see him, even when
she stepped fairly out of the door and looked
about.She looked surprised and delighted when she
read the verse, aud peeped into the basket, for
that cover was fastened with a hasp, and then she
sat down on the stairs, as if to wait and be sure
and catch the next ring.
"Oh dearl" 6aid Kitty, "I hope she isn't going
to stay there."Tbanks to Mrs. Nichols she didu't, for Kitty
heard her mother call her. "Miss Cynthy, come
iu here, please."When she was safely In the room again tbe
flowers were left, and after that the jelly, and
last of all Bill's valentine.For each Miss Cynthy had a broad smile of
welcome,—but Kitty was sure she had tears in
ber eyes, when she lifted the beautiful pot of
hyacinths out of the basket and took off the
paper that covered them.Bill's valentine sbe didn't open in the ball.
"I'm so sorry, girls," whispered Kitty. "I
wanted to see what sbe would do."
"Now," said Tom in a whisper, "for my grand
surprise—I'll leave that myself. I hope to pa
tience she'll open It In tbe ball."
"I guess somebody will be surprised," thought
Kitty laughing softly to herself. Well, it wan a
"Round the corner! Come In, everyone of
you," she called, and the others came shyly out
of tbe darkness and came up the steps. "Come
right straight In," said Miss Cynthy hospitably,
"Iwant to 6ee you all and thank you," and as
they trooped in and She shut the door she said,
looking at her basket, "and here's another pres
ent, 'Pickles from Tom Nichols.' I declare—
come right In here In the sitting room and we'll
all have some."
"Oh," groaned Tom to himself, "ain't I In for
it, just," while Sam gave him a poke in the back,
which added to bis anguish of spirit, because,
being on good behavior,—Indeed the very centre
of attention—he couldn't kick him back.
So into the sitting-room tbey all went, and
Miss Cynthy got a pair of scissors aud cut the j
strings.
Tom shut his eyes In his desperation ;—what
would his mother say! He wished himself a
thousand miles off. The next second he wished
himself ten thousand miles away, for Miss Cyn
thy Instead of the expected shriek said, "Oh, vou
dear boy 1" and she caught him by the shoulders
and gave bim a resounding kiss—two of 'em—
one on each cheek, before Tom had time to wink.
He fairly staggered, then he opened bis eyes
and stared. There were no wires. MissCynthy
was lifting a package which looked like a box of
candy out of the basket, and a piece of paper,
and she read aloud,
"Pickles from Tom Nichols,
Turn to candy mighty handy.
With good will our faces shine.
Take me for your valentine."
"I guess I will," said Miss Cynthy enthusias
tically, aud she looked as if she meditated an
other kiss. Tom got behind Sam Lyon very
suddenly.
"That's a lesson to me," said Miss Cynthy, "a
real lesson—I remember when I called Tom 'a
pickle of a boy,' and he's gone and given good
for evil in a lovely way, and I shan't iorget It."
Mrs. Nichols looked proud and pleased, Tom
sheepish, Kitty elated, and the other children,
Sam especially, rather mystified.
Suddenly Tom spoke. "MissCynthy," hesald,
"I'm awful glad you like the candy, and I'm
flad you've got it-but it wasn't me gave it toyou.
t wasn't my surprise at all—It's a great deal
nicer than my surprise—mine," he faltered a
little, "mine, wasn'ta good surprise at all, It was
a joke—you musu't praise me—I meant to plague
you," aud Torn fairly drew hie hand across Ills
eyes."
"Tom," said his mother, crossing over to him
and putting her hand on his shoulder, "that's
spoken like a man. Never mind, 'all's well that
ends well.'" Tom looked at Kitty, and she
smiled and shook her Lead.
"Well," said Miss Cynthy, "I like you better
than I ever did before, Tom,—you needn't mind
telling me any more,—It's all right, I was a cross
old thing—and you ain't a pickle at alMshake
hands on It," and she gave him her hand. As
Tom took it and shook it, he vowed he'd never
again play or try to play a practical joke, and he
almoKt kept his promise to himself.
Miss Cynthy's ccstacies really couldn't be de
scribed. Sbe couldn't decide which of the val
entines waB the nicest, and she said the "poetry
Is just splendid." Bill's valentine was a lovely
paper dove balanced on a green sprig and tremb
ling and quivering with every breath of air, aud
the card with It said, "One good turn deservesanother," aud Btil said, "Mother found out, Miss
Ci utby, and I'm ever so thankful to you."
Miss" Cyuthv patted bim on the shoulder. "I'm
glad I thought of it," sbe said.
After some of Miss Cynthy's famous ginger
bread bad been handed round and finished to a
crumb, they all said "Good-night" and left her
with her new pels. The cat would spit at Benny
who wanted to be friendly, so they bad to be shut
up separately, the cat in the kitchen and Benny
iu the sitting-room. The chickens were let
out In the wood-shed, and at once went to sleep
on the wood-pile, and Miss Cynthy went to bed
happy. "So different from last year," she said
to herself us she blew out the light. All the chil
dren went home happy and glad, Tom said as
soon as the others had left them and they were
safely In their own house. "Now, Kit, I know
vou're at the bottom of all this—how did you do
It?""Easy enough. When CoU6ln Ben was here
last summer he gave me an old skeleton key be
had and that opened tne door; and I wasn't
going to have Miss Cynthy's valentines spoiled,
aud so I put in the candy Aunt Margie sent me
from New York last week. It was so lucky I
hadn't eaten it," she 6aid reflectively, and then
she told Tom the whole story that we already
kuow.
Tom drew a long breath. "And you were be
hind the trunks the whole time' Well, I'll never
ay again "girls can't keep -secrets."
"I'm glad yc
'grand surprise."Miss Cynthy by that time was quite sure that
the children were keeping a watch upon her to
prevent her from catching them. So she on her
side began to plan. Taking a shawl which she
tied over her head, she very softly opened a Bide
door on the piazza which ran round two sides of
the bouse. Fortunately it opened without a
sound, and she shut it softly after her, and stole
to the corner of the house, where in the deep
shadow sbe waited and listened. Presently she
heard a sound, and craning her neck round tbe
corner, sbe saw a boy juBt about to put something
down on the door-step. Miss Cynthy was lithe
and active and strong, and in a second sbe had
Tom by the arm in such a tight grasp he couldn't
wrench himself away, and Miss Cynthy said,
"Now you're caught," and opened tbe front
door. The light shone out and Miss Cynthy said,
"Well, Tom Nichols, is It you who have been
giving me all these things?"
Tom was so utterly astonished that he could
only gasp, "Yes'm, some of 'em—the others are
lound the corner.""It was mean of him," be said afterwards,
"but he couldn't face the music all alone."
. ou thought of such a pleasant plan,
Kitty, "laid "Mrs. Nichols, and I'm glad that I
have a boy manly enough to do and say what you
did to-night, Tom."
That was all, but It was quite enough for both
Kitty and Tom. As for Miss Cynthy, the chil
dren of the neighborhood came by slow but sure
degrees to wonder how tbey ever had tbougbt
Miss Cynthy cross, and on the night before the
"dreadful Fourth" Miss Cynthia slept In peace,
for the boys decided unanimously that up on
Dowd's hill would be a much better place to fire
cauuon than on anybody's corner.
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JANUARY, 1888.THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
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INFANTILIS CONVULSIONS.
BT CHAS. N. COX, M. D., BROOKLYN.
Nature:—Every mother stands in dread of
Convulsions, and every uervoiiB symptom evinced
by the child, whether it be twitch of a muscle or
turning ol the eye is watched with greatest
anxiety.
Almost everyone has seen a child with a con
vulsion, or spasm as it is sometimes culled, at
some period or other, and its outward manifes
tations are so well known as scarcely to need de
scription here. A convulsion is characterized by
spasmodic movements, varying considerably in
severitv and extent; and as to the parts of the
body affected. They may be slight and confined
' to a few muscles, as to those of the face, hands
or feet. Convulsions of this degree are often
called ''inward convulsious." These spasmodic
movements may even be confined to one side of
the body; or more or less general. The severest
forms are generally accompanied or followed by
partial or complete loss of consciousness.
All of these various forms are but different
degrees of the same affection, varying with the
intensity of the cause or the nervous suscepti
bility 01 the little patient
Mortality:—Considering the vast number of
childreu who have convulsions at some time or
other, the numberof deaths which occur directly
from this cause, Is not great, and I think the
milder forms are not usually fraught with so
rhuch danger a? the anxious parents and friends
fear. Nevertheless they are not without danger,
and the more iutense forms are very often lol-
lowed by death, or serious after-effects upon the
nervous system.Causes:—The causes of convulsions are pre
disposing and exciting. Predisposition depends
upon heredity, temperament, nervous suscepti
bility and general condition of the child. The
Immediate or exciting cause is some irritation,
which may rest in the brain or spinal-cord or
some part of the body. A brain or spinal irrita
tion is obviously the most serious. It comes
strictly withiu the proviuce of the physician, and
will not be further discussed here.
As to an Irritation in other parts of the body,
it may be in the gum when a tooth is trying to
force its way through that structure; it may be
In the stomach or intestine when these organs
are struggling with the pulp of an orange, a
green apple, or some equally indigestible mate
rial; a pin-scratch which has irritated a nerve-
filament In the sKiu may be the source of irri
tation. In fine there is no part of the little body
which may not be the seat of irritation, causing
a convulsion.
Prevention :—The general health of the child
should be kept at as high a stundard as possible
to lessen the tendency to convulsions. It should
be kept out-of-doors most of the time iu pleasant
weather.
Everything tending to increase the nervous
susceptibility of the little one should be guarded
against. The vicious habit of frightening chil
dren into obedience which many nurses—and, I
am sorry to say, some parents—have, should be
absolutely interdicted. The nursing baby should,
if possible, have nothing but breast-milk. The
child which has been weaned should only be al
lowed the mostnutrltiousdlet, consisting mainly
of cow'b milk until two or three years old. It
should be remembered that a child is not capable
of digesting starchy food much before It is two
years of age. Two articles—bread and potatoes
—which are given too much to young children,
consist, for the most part, of starch. If the baby
suffers too much or too loug in cutting a tooth, a
.physician should be* sent for that lie may relieve
the pain; for, usidSf rora the unnecessary suffer
ing the little patient might otherwise undergo,
there may be danger of the irritation being suffi
cient lo cause convulsions.
Do not be led astray by the foolish prejudice
some people have against lancing the gum. When
this little operation is done in a proper manner
by the physiciau, it is never productive of harm.
Moreover it is unattended with pain. Indeed, I
have again and again, upon lancing the gum, seen
the little sufferer who had been crying for hours
before with pain, stop immediately and soon fall
into a geutle 6leep to recuperate the powers
which had been so heavily drawn upon by the
torturing tooth.Worms do not always seem to harm the child,
but they are intruders, and if they are beiug
passed,"especiallv if the child seems not well, the
physiciau should be consulted that they may be
gotten rid of.Treatment:—If a child falls into a convulsion
the Unit thing to be done Is to see that it does not
Injure its tongue by biting it. This may be pre
vented by gently Inserting asmall, fiat pine stick
between the teeth. The next thing is to induce
relaxation by placing the patient iu a hot-bath—
98 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit—the water to cover
the entire bodv except the head. Alio* this bath
to last 15 or 2<3 minutes and then wrap the child
iu a blanket, not stopping to use the towel.
The hot-bath w ill oft-times stop the convulsion
without further treatment. Buteven though the
danger seem over, it is generally better that a
doctor see the child, for this may be only a tem
porary lull. Some serious irritation may exist
which his skill will detect and enable him to re
move, which, if left alone, might soon cause
irreparable mischief.
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TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR.
Breaths.
Yes, breaths I DoD't turn away your face—I
know all about it,—yours "w a little heavy at
times &c. Ac."
1 have been noticing some things on this sub
ject for years, and I really believe that out of
every dozen women and misses in this country,
eleven and seven eights have breaths which arc
"off,"—perhaps just the least bit heavy, and per
haps the regular "knock you down" brand, but
at alt events not sweet.
Did youever notice a cow's breath! Why 1 re
member when I was a small lad in aprons, kneel
ing in front of "the Han ford heifer" one evening
in the milking yard (what a lov«ly old place that
was, and sucn a smooth close grass carpet there
beside the stone wall under the old "strawberry
apple tree,") watching to seewhat she was chew
ing so solemnly, when she lazily closed her eyes
a moment and breathed out a long full cyclone
(perhaps it was a sigh, but it really would have
started a wind mill) and I caught it full in the
face.
Why I remember it just as if it happened only
yesterday instead of fifty—yes as I was saying,
that breath jiTst smelled of new sweet milk,—I
have been reminded of it many times since by
smelling a baby's breath—now If you never had
the felicity of sitting in the grass before some
melancholy-faced, but sweet-breathed old cow,
you certainly have experienced that almost as
full pleasure of holding in your arms a soft, chub
by, clean, sweet baby boy. And don't vou know
how he kissed you right on the mouth } bow be
puffed his breath into your very nostrils! Hadit
been a young lady who was kissing you, she would
have reld her breath a moment, lest you should
discover the very thing about her, that you were
endeavoring to conceal from her about yourself.
But baby!—Bless your soul, what does he care.
With a breath as sweet as my herein-before-men
tioned (that's the way a lawyer would put It)
"Hanford heifer," he lets his breath go "where
It listetb, and you catcb the peifume thereof,
and you hug the little fellow closer, and think
Oh 1 that I had such a breath." Now I have tbe
assurance to assert that you can have such a
breath! "Just as sweet as a baby's." There Is
probably no good reason why your breath
should'nt be sweet unless you have some organic
or chronic disease, say consumption or catarrh or
bronchitis or a cancer, etc., etc.
Don't think for a moment it is all the matter
of the mouth and teeth,—why,—I'll tell you my
experience of last Sabbath evening—the incident
which led me to write this letter—and you will
understand better what I mean.
Well you seel weut to church—somethingquite
unusual of late, for we bare been having such a
siege of Typhoid and Malarial fevers thi< Summer
in our neighborhood,— (and that reminds me I
want to write a letter to you about Malaria as
soon as I get time—It is such a cursed fashiona
ble ailment and yet it is real too—)
Well, as I wassayingl wentto church last Sab
bath evening,—I found 1 could get away for an
hour, and besides it was a missionary meeting
and there was to be a noted D. D. lromtbe city
and they would pass the hat twice and all that
sort of thing you know, and so I went. Of course
the church was full, and of course the first hymn
was "From Greenland's ley Mountains,' and of
course the folks just shouted—why I think I
caught myself even, making a sort of sound, but
right in the pew behind me was a voice "that was
a voice. ' ' How that girl did sing—not an Intru
sive, over-prominent voice yon know, but such a
sweet, full, natural, bird-like song> and yet so
strong anrlsympathetlc that it seemed to tempt
all the other voices in the vicinity to join in with
it The owner of the voice stood in the pew be
hind meandjustat my leftband. I was real cu
rious to turn arounda moment justtoseewho it
was, although I was almostsure it was thatyoung
woman from Philadelphia who has been visiting
Nate Hawkin's girls for a week or so. Well the
next verse came "Whatthough the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylons' Isle,"
and visions of tropical scenes,—warm, perfume-
laden balmy air,—half-naked lazy negroes,—ham
mocks,—fruits,—cigarettes, and all that, were
meandering through my brain, and I was wonder
ing w hether I should put Five Dollars in the bat,
or save it for my long contemplated Winter visit
to Florida, when Shades of Lubln ! a waft of warm
breath caressed my left nostril that made me long
to stop living for a while—or at least to stop
smelling. Onions! No. Ouions would have
been a dream of delight in comparison, and
Limburger (that accomodating old cheese which
one can find in a dark cellar without a light) a
regular nosegay.
No, Dear friends, that breath was reeking with
odors from a dim pair of lungs, a dirty liver, an
entire outfit of dirty, neglected, uncared for in
ternal organs aud reminded me of nothing but a
super-aunuatedchim, aud thatabomlnableDreath
was the identical vehicle which carried that glor
ious voice, for I turned at once to discover the
cess-pool whence such noxious gasses emanated.
She had just opened her mouth to let out the
words "Aud only man is vile" (I agreed with her
so far as the breath is concerned) and I was sur
prised to see a set of white, strong regular teeth,
a pair of red lips, and in fact a fresh, inviting
clean lookiue mouth I The face was fair to look
at—a little sallow perhaps, and a litt le dark under
the eyes, but almost as iresh as the average, but
On my ! that breath 1
Now this is only one instance and I give it be
cause as I said, it started me on a train ef thought
which led to my writing this letter, but just think
for a moment, over your friends and acquain
tances, (commence with your self and your own
family) how many are there who have good, sweet
healthy, unobjectionable breaths! And then try
to believe mewhenl saythata bad breath is near
ly always the result of carelessness and culpable
neglect of the body— the inside of the body, and
you may have a breath like a baby if you wish.
Did it ever striKe you, that the internal organs
of the body needed care and attention just as
much as those which are exposed to view! Would
you think of letting your hands and feet, and
limbs, and face go for even forty-eight hours un
washed! Don't you know how you labor with
your arm-pits! and bow it does mortify you to
have anv odor of perspiration about your person !
Just here let me digress a little to give some ad
vice to any who are troubled with the "perspira
tion smell." I know some women In my prac
tice who have been tremendously annoyed by
this cause, aud no wonder, for It is disgusting es
pecially iu warm weather—no amount of soap
audwater Beems to help the matter, but should
any of my readers have experienced the same an
noyance, let me advise a remedy which I have
never known to fail. Instead of Boap,— (or In
addition to soitp), use Soap-bark—the same stuff
you use for cleaning silk etc.
Get ground Soap-bark(not powdered but coarse
Sound) put one pound in a quart of water and
11 down toa pint, then strain and bottle the
liquid for use. When bathing add two tablspoons-
fulof this liquid to about half a pint of water and
sponge the arm-pile etc well. It will make a fine
lather, remove every trace of odor, and is perfect
ly harmless.
Now to return to this breath business. I take
it for granted that you will keep your mouth and
teeth clean—even should your teeth be somewhat
decayed, keep them cleau, use a good big soft
brush, and ordinarily cold water. Of course not
cold or uncomfortably cold, but just so that
you can rinse out your mouth well without mak
ing your teeth "tingle." Castile soap Is the best
dentifrice i know of, and then about twice a
week use a tooth powder made of Powered Borax
1 oz, Precipitated Chalk 2 ozs, (don't let tbe
druggist give you Prepared chalk, it is 'often
used, but always contains little pieces o f grit)
Powdered Castile Soan 1 oz. I wouldn't put any
Wlntergreen or other flavor In, as the Borax will
leave toe mouth dellciously sweet Any good
druggist will put this up for you for say fifteen
cents for the four ounces. Use a wooden tooth
pick at least after every meal,—neverlet any little
particles of food remain between the teeth or in
the cavities of the teeth and gums. Now we
have tbe mcuth all right and we proceed to the
"lower regions."
Did you ever notice what a "knack" the air has
of picking up odors and carrying tbem along!
A June breeze comes to you loaded with the
scent of that tree load of apple-blossoms which It
passed "en route."
(To be continued.)
Editor L. H. Journal :—I wish I might impressupon the mothers, who turn their eyes to this
delightful Corner, the importance of having the
children do whatls best to be done, even though
the children themselves do not understand the
reason why it Is best
I am not agrandmother, by any means; neith
er am I tbe mother of a large family, but! do
own one small boy ; an d the lessons I have learned,
(and am still learning) about "men and things"
since became, would fill volumes almoBt without
number.
Sometimes he wishes to go out to play when he
bas a slight cold, and does not understand why
mother should say No.
"Tbe sun is shining, the yard is almost dry;
and, mother," he says, "I will puton my thick
sack aud my rubbers, and I know I shall not catch
any more cold." But mother, looking beyond
the present, sees a possibility of damp feet and
sore throat, so still say s "No, my boy, I want you
to stay in until the coldis better."
Do not let the children tease you Into yielding,
becanse afterwards you will be sure to sav, or
think, "I am 6orryIdid it"
Sometimes afterl have refused him something,
he has come to me with bis chubby checks all
stained with tears which have fallen in profusion,
and said, "Weill I guess mothers do know the
best and I am glad you kept me In, because I
might get tbe diphtheria then I would have to
stay in lor weeks and weeks, and I guess that
would be the worst"
It does me good, lean tell you; ai>d nays well
for all the hardship of refusing.
I have lived long enough to know that the child
ren like us very much better, even when they
grow away from the years and tbe stature of
childhood, if we have them do the things which
best, whether it pleases them or not.
7 have lived to bless tbe day,
I always did not have my way.
With this original, dreadful rhyme
I'll stop my pencil for this time.
Madame Isabel.
Ed. L. H. J. :—While perusing Mrs. Herrick's
experiences with nurse girls, I could not fail to
thlnkthat poverty, after all brought itsown com
pensation; fon most of the "Mothers Corner"
mothers,— (yes I dare.say ten to oni of them—)
are obliged from necessity, if not from choice, to
care for their own little ones; Hence they have
no fear of a lurking brandy, or laudanum bottle.
In a recent article on tbe care of children by
an eminent Western practitioner, I read the start
ling statement that city babies did not die be
cause of city air as people supposed : but because
of city care, or the lack of care, rather, which they
received, at the hands of their hired nurses. Mrs.
Herrick's experience corroborates his theory.
Who can for a moment expect a peevish babe to
getfrom an hireling just what Its little suffering
oody needs, only a mothers loving intuition can
give this. And this subtile recondite knowledge,
is, perchance, a sixth sense which God vouch
safes because of the babe.
Certain it Is that mothers of known poor judge
merit iu other matters possess this gift In a great
degree, and from their large experience they can
best instruct others.
The exact modus operandi of performing a task
can best be given by the one performing It. If
my babe were sick, and suffering, from whom
should I seek aid! From grandma B who has
"raised her ten children," earingherself 'or them,
or from Mrs.. G who has always kept nurs
es, and has such delicate children! Then dear
Journal sisters may we thank the Lord that the
hired girl question is our only bete noir. Aye I
let us rejoice with joy unspeakable that we are
too poor to keep nurses for our darlings.
Jack's Wifb.
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Terms Used in Knitting.
K—Knit plain. P—Purl, or as It Is sometimes called,learn K or K 2.tog—Narrow, by knitting 2 together.>ver—Throw the thread over the needle before Insert-ng In the next stitch. This makes a loop which 1?ilwavs to bo considered a stitch, In the succeeding•ows or rounds. Tw—Twist stitch. Insert the need en the back of the stitch to be knitted, andknltas usual,n—SUP a stitch from the left hand to the right handleedle wltboutknlttlnglt. 81 and B-Sllp and blnd-illnone stitch, knit the next; pass the slipped one overt. eractly as In binding off a piece of work at the end.• Indicates a repetition, and Is used merely to savewords "81 1, k 1. p 1, repeat from * 3 tlmes"--wou d beMulTalent to saying si f, k 1, p I.-sl I, k 1, p 1,-sl 1, a 1.
Ex Tog means together.
Terms in Crochet.
Ch-Chnln: a straight series of loops, each drawnwith the hook through the preceding one. 81 st—Slipstitch- put hook through the work, thread oyer thehook draw It through the stitch on the hook. 8 c—Single Crochet; having a stitch on the needle (orhook) put the needle through the work, draw thethread through the work, and the stitch on tho needle.De-double croch t; havlngtho stitch on the needle,nut the needle through the work, and draw a stitchthrough, making two on the needle. Take up thethread again, and draw it through both these stitches.W11 or Tr-Treble Crochet; having a stitch on theneedle tnkeupthe thread as If for a stitch, put theneed e through the work, and draw the thread through,mskln- three on 'he needle. Take up the thread anddraw t hrough two. then taAe up the thread and draw It£ro«£ theiwo remaining. 8 t c-Short Treb e Cr-i-chetnike treble, except that when thrwhree stitches:SS on the needle. Instead of drawing the threadthrough two stitches twice, it Is drawn through al 1 threeit once. L to-Long Treb e Crochet; like treble, ex-oeottnat the thread Is thrown twice over the needleSeiore inserting the latter In the work. The stitchesire worked off two at a time, as In treble. Extra LongStitch-Twine the cotton three times round the needle,work as the treble stitch, bringing the cotton throughtwo loops four times. P-or plcot; made by workingthree ohnin. and one single crochet in tlrst stitch of the
Antique Lace.
Make a chain of 21 stitches.
1st row—1 d c in seventh stitch of chaiu, ch 2,
1 d c in tenth, cli 2, 1 d cin thirteenth, ch 2, 1 dc
iu sixteenth, ch 2, group of 4 d c in last four
stitches of chain ; turn.
2d row—Ch 3, 3 d c in top of last d c of group,
cb 2, 4 d c under cb 2, catching 1 st, d c in -it h d
c of group, cli 2, 1 d c iu top of d c, cb 2, 1 d c iu
top of d c, cb 2, 1 d c, cb 2, 1 d c at end of row ;
turn.3d row—Chain 5, 1 d c in top of d c, ch 2, 1 dc,
ch 2, group of 4 d c, catching 4th d c iu 4tb d c of
previous group, cb 4, t c iu cli 2, ch 4, group of
4 d c between last two d c of group; turn.
4tb row—Chain 3, 3 d c in top of last d c of
group, cb 6, sc iu 5, 6, 7 stitches of t c, ch 6,
group of 4d c, catching 1st d c In last d c of
group, making 2 d c under ch 2, catching 4th dc
In top oi d c, ch 2, 1 d c in top of d c, cb 2, 1 d c
in 3d stitch oi chain Ave at end of row; turn.
Shell Pattern for Mittens.
Cast, up 14 stitches on two needles, and 21 ou
the third.1st row—Purl 2, k 1, over, k 1, over, k 1, over,
k 1, over, k 1, p 2, etc.
2d row—P 2, k 2, u 2, etc.3d row—P 2, s 1, k 1, (blud the slipped 1 over
the k 1), k 5, n, p2, etc.4bb row—P 2, slip 1, k 1, bind the slipped 1 over
the k 1, k 3, u, purl 2, etc.This makes a good-sized mitten In line yarn.
The inside oi bund can be knit plain or seamed.
I knit pl.iu. Four rows of shells and 3 of purl
for the buck of bund. Mus. J. Chidbey.
ok, Medina Co., Quo.
Will some oue tell me how to clean gentle
men's silk neckties I E. M. H.
Can any sister give directions for cockle-shell
•titcb in crochet? P. J. M.
"Subscriber" would like directions for crochet
ing a three-cornered shawl.
If "Mrs. P. H." will send her address and a
two-cent stamp to me, 1 will send her a nice pat
tern for bib, that we use and like very much.
Miss Susie "Haddex.
Rice Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich.
"I S. :"—Directions for "crochet shoulder
cape" were given in January numer of Journal,
1887. Perhaps you would only need ten points
in your cape, ornine might be large enough ;run
ribbon between the points. M.
Zouave Jacket.
I Engraved expressly for The Ladles' Home Journal.]
5th row—Chain 5, group of 4 d c, catching as
in previous groups, ch 8, 5 s c in 6tb, 7th, 8tli,
9th, 10th stitches of ch 0, ch 8, group of 4 d c in
lasteroup; turn.6th row—81 st bock 3 stitches, ch 3, 3 d c undej-
cb 8, ch 6, 8 s c in 8th, 9th, 10th stitches of ch 8,
ch 6, group of 4 d c under cb 8, ch 2, 1 d c in top
of d c, ch 2, 1 d c in 3d st of ch 5, at end of row ;
turn.7th row—Chain 5, 1 d c in top of d c, ch 2, 1 d
c in top of d c, ch 2. group of 4 d c under ch 4, 1
I I c in center s c of last row, ch 4, group of 4 u c
under ch 6; turn.8th row—SI st back 3 stifc lies, cb 3, 3 d cuuder
ch 4, cb 2, group of 4 d c under cb 4, ch 2, 1 d c
In top d c of group, cb 2, 1 d c, ch 2, 1 d c, cb 2,
I d c in 3d stitch of ch 5, at end of row; turn.
9th row—Chain 5, 1 d c in top of d c, ch 2, 1 d
c in d c, ch 2, 1 d c in d c. ch 2, 1 d c in d c, ch 2,
group of 4 d c in ch 2. This completes one star,
or spider. Commence for second star from
second row.D. C, put thread over the hook once.
T. C, thread over the hook twice. J. J. P
Sweet A'iolets.
A very pretty, easily made flower, Is our clue
Violet—a small group making a very pretty
Christmas token for mamma or sister. One sheet
of purp.ish-blue paper costing 5 cents, will make
dozens. The flower Is composed of five petals,
has a bunched-up appearance; it can be nicely
Imitated Iu all but the fragrauce. Should any
little sister desire to try this, and the Daisy
mention! d in September Journal, 1 will make a
Violet and Daisy, cut paper patterns of both, and
send correct shade of paper to practice with, if
they will send me address and ten cents. Have
any of you tried to cam the Tissue Paper Outfit
offered by the L. H. J. as a premium? I am sure
oue hour's work amoug the neighbors will secure
it. Try it. You will be delighted with It.
G. R. P.
Box 1200, New Brunswick, N. J.
more. Divide the stitches Id half, place one half
against the other, bind them off together, thus
forming the sole of the shoe. Iu dividing them,
care must be taken that the widcucd part be at
oue end of the needles. I have improved on this
by making a sole of Brussels caipet, lined with
flannel, nud bound with dress braid. They are
invaluable lor walkiug on Ice, aud very warm for
ridiug. E. R. F.
Woodbury, N. J.
Old Fashioned Shell Tidy.
Cast ou 74 stitcbes; seam back the first row.
2d row—Kuit 2, narrow 4 times, thread over
aud knit 1 until you have kuit 7 slitcbes and put
thread over 8 times. Instead of knitting the 8th
stitch, commence narrowiug, aud narrow 8 times,
then thread over and kuit 1 as belore, aud con
tinue until you get across. If you have done it
right, you will have four to narrow at last, and 2
stitches to knit plain, like the first edge. Then
scam back, kuit across plain seam back again,
making 3 times across, between each row of nar
rowing aud makiug stitches. Trim with edging,
or Iriuge. Mrs. E. 8. W.
Box 1157, Greenfield, Mass.
Match Receiver.
,ber Number
Oneanda-half or two skeins of Germantown
yarn,—according to 6ize—two boue knittingneedles. Cast up 40 stitches, knit plain garter from 3d rowstitch, (back and forth) a strip that will measure D C—Put thread over before '''^m
twice round the bust; sew tue ends together; \ the work, over draw through 2 stitches, over,
after it is doubled up and sewed at the eud, 6cw | draw it through I.
Narrow Crochet Edge in Novem'Corrected.
Chain of 9; turn.1st row—2 d e in 6th st of ch, ch 2. 2 d c in
same; this makes a shell, 1 d c In last st of ch.
2d row—Ch 3, shell In shell, ch 6, fasten with
slip st In loop made by turning at end of row.
3d row—12 s c under ch 6, shell in shell, 1 d c
at end of row.4th row—Ch 3, shell in shell, ch 6, fasten In the
little sp^co Ivtween shell nnd scallop, turn, make
6 s e under eh 6, ch 6, turn and fasten in middle
of scallop in 3d row; turn.5th row—Make 12 s c under ch 6. then finish
the half scallop with 6 s c, shell in shell, 1 d c at
end of row.6tb row—Ch 3, shell In shell, ch 6, fasten in
space between shell aud scallop, turn; repeat
hook In
Pansy Lace.
(Origiual).
Wind the thread ten times round a lead pencil,
slip off, and, without breaking, fill with 25 single
crochets; fasten together with a slip st, chain 5,
make 24 double crochets, with 2 ch between each
of them, (or 1 double crochet in top of every
other single crochet, with 2 ch between). Make
three of these rings, join them as in sample.
Make as manv of these "three rings" as required
for length oflace, and joiu the top ones together
all along in a row. Then begin at the last endof
the piece, ch 6, aud fasten iu topof every double
Spool cotton No. 10 : fine steel crochet hook.
Make a chain of 8 stitcbes; join.
1st row—Ch 3, 13 d c iu the ring, join in ch 3.
2d row—Ch 4, 1 d c in t p of first d c *ch 2, 1 d
c iu top of next d c; repeat from star until vou
have 13 holes, ch 2, fasten in secoud stitch of ch
4; tliis gives vou 14 holes.
3d row—Ch 2, 1 d c in first bole. *ch 3, 2 d c In
next hole, cb 3, 2 d c iu next bole; repeat Irom
star through the row, ch 3, and join iu ch 2 at be
ginning of row.
4th row—Ch 3, 8 d c In first hole, ch 1, 3 d c In
same bole; this makes a shell; make a shell in
each hole; you will have 14, Join in top of ch Sat
beginning of row. Repeat the 4th row 15 times,
aud you will have 16 rows of shells.
17th row—Work 10 d c In each shell, catch with
s c between the shells.
18th row—Work 1 sc In top of each d c. Run
a ribbon one-half an inch wide iu and out between
two rows of shells lengthwise, pass it across the
bottom, and up the other side between two rows
of shells to match. Tie a bow and suspend it by
tbe ribbon ; run a ribbon in and out below the
row of scallops at the top, and tie a bow with
very short ends. It gives a pretty finish. Set a
small glass tumbler in to bold the matches. If
you wish to make one oi silk, you ueed have only
10 shells round, therefore you will need but 9 d c
iu the rinir, instead of 18. M. F. K.
D. C.—Thread over before making the st.
Handsome Scrap Bag.
[Engraved Expressly for the Ladies' Home Jouwial.l
up the middle of one side, leaving an opening at
either end of the side, a quarter of tbe length of
the side, for armholes; crochet a scallop all
round it, also round the armholes; turn back at
the neck for a narrow collar; fasten in front
with a ribbon bow. This is merely to protect the
shoulders, and comfortable to wear under a
jacket. M. F. K.
Chamois Skin Shaving Case.
Materials: 2 pieces of pasteboard 6evcn and
one-half inches in diameter, cut round; sheet
wadding; o le-qu irter of a yard of Surah silk;
three-quarters of a yard of ribbon for bow ; two-
dozen bells, third "aud fourth sizes. Paint or
embroider one piece of the skin; cover the
rounds with a thin piece of tbe sheet wool, then
cover over with tbe chamois, drawn tight as you
would cover a pin ball. Line with the silk, finish
each piece and joiu at the top; sew a ring to hang
it up. and put the !>ow ou tbe embroidered side.
Sew the bells all round the front piece, (easy so
tbey will swing) a large one, then a small, and
so on. Fill with white tissue paper fastened in
by sewing a very narrow piece of ribbon (a half
yard) on the inside of the back piece, and t; '
it .u. Perfume it if you wish.
Crochet Macreme Waste Basket.
Make a chain of 6 stitches, Join, work seven
rows of 4 c, wideuiug occasionally to have the
round lay fiat, then work nine rows of single
crochet, then put 2 d c iu a st, ch 2. and 2 d c'in
same st, (this makes a shell) skip 3 stitches,
make a shell, skip 3 stitches, make a shell, ch 8,
skip 8 stitches; repeat from star seven times,
which finishes the row; work 16 rows more like
the last, stiffen same as cornucopia given in
November number of Journal. I formed mine
over a large milk can. One can shape them to
suit her fancy; put ribbon In and out the open
spaces, and a large bow on the front; a bunch of
cones, glided and bronzed, looks pretty on the
front; cover a round of pasteboard with felt, and
put it in the bottom Tor a lining.Single crochet:—Insert the hook through the
work, put thread over and draw it through, then
put thread over and draw it through the 2 stitcbes
on book.Double crochet:—Put thread over the hook
before putting it throuch the work, then thread
over, draw it through two stitches, thread over,
draw it through two. M. F. K.
[Engraved expressly for The Ladles' Home Journal.)
crochet round both top and bottom edge. Then
go round again with 8 ch caught iu the middle of
every 6 cb in the preceding row, with a purl of 4
ch between. Now the bottom edge Is finished.
Go across the top of the piece with 8 double cro
chet la top of every 8 ch In the last round. Turn
and couie back with ch 2, aud fasten with a slip
st in top of every third double crochet in the
preceding row. Turn again, put 1 double cro
chet In every 2 ch in the preceding row, with 2
ch between. M. S.
Spiral Hair Chain.
Take 16 Btrands, (25 hairs in each) using the
figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, place the figure 2 op
posite 1, aud 4 opposite 8; put 6 opposite 5, be
tween 4 and 2; put 7 half way between 1 and 4,
and 8 between 3 and 2; then place the strands
across the table, over the numbers, and com
mence braiding by taking figure 1 in the left
hand, figure 2 in the right, bring 1 round to 2, and
2 to 1 ; then 3 to 4, and 4 to 3; then 5 to 6, and 6
to 5; then 7 to 8, and 8 to 7. Commence at one
as before, push the braid together, boil it, and
dry. This will give a very pretty chain, and
cannot fail to give satisfaction., A. V. W.
Austin, Texas.
Baby's Crochet Bib.
[n answer to "Mrs. P. H.'s" request, I send a
pattern which has been used, and admired by
everyone who see6 them.The material can be of Finlayson, Bonsfield
& Co.'s real Scotch linen thread, No. 25, or
Morse & Kaley's knitting cotton, No. 14, with
spool cotton, No. 10. for the border. Makes
chain of 7 st and work back and forth in d c in
the back loop of stitch, increasing by crocheting
three stitcbes iu the middle stitch of each row.
Thi6 will have a ribbed effect and twice across
makes one ridge. Make 31 ridges.On 10 stitcbes, at each end, make 16 ridges, to
form the sleeve, ami fasten upon the bib, 4}$'
inches from the ends. Carry the poiut between
eacli sleeve over the front of bib, hrst crocheting
a border all around bibaud sleeveB. For border:
1st row—1 tr, 1 ch; repeat.2d row—2 tr, 2 ch. 2 tr all on 1 tr ; miss 1 tr,
and on next tr make a shell like first.
3d row—Shell (2 tr, 2 ch, 2 tr) under2ch of2d
row.4th row—1 d c under 2 ch, 6 tr under next 2ch ;
repeat.5th row—3 ch, 1 d c between each tr. Finish
off with bows ol ribbon on each sleeve and on the
point in front, and tie behind with ribbons s»ton
half an inch below the sleeve line. If any fur
ther information is desired address
Hattie Willard Wetmore.
Medium sized crochet hook and a ball of No. 10
knitting cotton. Ca6t a chain of 8. using 1 to
"turn" with, crochet the other 2 with Afghatst.
Widen at end of every row (that is, every other
row in Afghan st) till tbere are 25 or 26 sts; then
keep these straight along for 33 rows, theu nar
row, matching the widened end, narrowiug down
to 1 st. Make four of these pieces. Theu take
red worsted, and crochet iu single st all around
each piece, then a row of white yarn with thread
over, a row of red in single Bt, then lulsb with a
row of red with thread over, and a ch of 2 be
tween. Tliis makes 4 rows around each piece.
Work Initials or name iu one of tbe strips, and a
vine in the others with red wool. Fasten these
pieces together, bag fashion, sew on cords and
tassels to bang by, and cords and tassels at the
points where tlie pieces are joined. Anna.
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Noticing a request for directions for Polish
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them, and found tlicmsatlsfnctory. Takc4stecl
needles, number 4, four ounces of tapestry, or
yarn, used d ,uble, two colors. (I used German-
town yarn and liked it). Scarlet and Mack have
a pretty effect, forming a shoe and stocking on
the foot. Set up 34 stitches in the scarlet, on
each of three needles, knit 2 plain stitches ami
2 seam all round; continue ribbing 3 Inches in
depth. Begiu to widen once on each side of one
rib every other row ; the ribhlng must he contin
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[Fob The Ladies' Home Journal. J
INTERIOK DECORATION.
BT A. K. RAMSEY.
A favorite filling stitch is the French knot,
which is also used in regular embroidery in ways
where no other would 6uflice; as, ior instance,
in working the heart of wild roses, daisy centres,
the heads of stameus and pistils, or the black
berry and strawberry among fruits. The thread
is brought through to the sunace of the material
and held as if for a plain scallop stitch, then be
tween the point whence it Issued and the )K>int
where the thumb holds it, the strand is twisted
twice around the needle—so as to make a little
spiral. This must be done close to the design,
else the knot will hang too loose. The needle
point is next Inserted nearly, but not exactly, at
the place where the thread first came to the sur
face ; the thread passing down through the little
spiral, draws it into a compact hard knot, lying
close to the surface. For simple ornamental
tilling It is often wise to double the strand of silk,
or crewel, and not twist the thread around the
needle but once;
where a grainy-look
ing surface is needed
this method has deci
ded advantages, and
for beginners it is
also a quick way of
learning how to make
the knots firm and
even, and how to
leave the connecting
thread neither too
long nor too short.
Allied to tne French
knot is the old-fash
ioned 'bullion stitch,'
now so seldom used except in church embroid
eries. A long stitch is taken across the stuff,
(the length of the one needed in "bullion") the
needle passing underneath and coming te the
surface again in exactly the same place from
whicli the stitch started. The thread is twisted
around the needle ten or twelve times—just as
in the knot—the number of spirals being deter
mined by the length of the stitch first taken.
The needle Is drawn through the little roll ol
twists—this .being held firm and steady by the
thumb of the left Hand,— the point is inserted at
the other end of the But stitch, the long Hue of
twiBts being drawn to lie firmly on the material.
The stitches are worked as close together as pos
sible, and, if nicely doue, present an even suriace
01 fine ridges.
The buttonhole stitch taught in a former arti
cle has two varieties which are largely used in
covering a background, where cither the material
will not admit of darning, or, none of the darn
ing stitches give sufficient color to throw forward
the design. In the first of these, called "box
stitch" a row of ordiuary buttonhole is worked
across the material (of course, avoiding the de
sign) the thread being left rather loose. Below
it a second row is worked, but so arranged that
the vertical line of each Btitch in this row shall
start directly above the centre oi the horizontal
line of the stitch in the upper row—this pulls the
horizontal line down a vcrv little hut it serves to
make the work the six-sided box design, which it
becomes when this process is repeated again and
again, as in the illustration.
The second variation, called "brick stitch,"
changes the hexagons Into oblongs, or "bricks,"
by making the horizontal part of the stitch al
most twice as long as the vertical part, and draw
ing it too tight to allow it to sag, as in the box
stitch.
These make the last in the series of filling
stitches, aud next month's article can take up the
interesting subject of the vari- /'■
ous Persian and
Cretan stitches,
which defy the
efforts of all be
ginners to imi
tate or even un
ravel until their
simple secret is
louud out.
From Christ
mas to Lent is,
in most towns
and cities, the
season for social
gatherings of all
uescriptions. Of
late years the entertainments, in the average
home, have been becoming more frequent, and
more simple in character—we having copied, in
a distorted sort of a way, the Alternoon Tea of
our English cousins, and the eutertaimcnt of a
luncheon, a diuner, or at most a small supper
party is fast taking the place of the elaborate af-
lairsonce considered necessary if one "enter
tained" at all But, in proportion as the ceremony
and extent of these hospitalities have decreased,
the daintiness aud care lor table ornamentations
has increased, and this condition has extended
into the daily life as well, where the table and its
decorations, down to its commonest article, is
the thought of every woman of taste, the theme
of many volumes, the work sometimes of genuiue
artists. Who needs, uow-n-days, the suggestion
that a table-clotli should n«ver be laid over bare
boards, cut should always have a thick soft cloth
underneath it? This undercloth may be of heavy
woolen cloth or of the double-faced canton flannel
now so generally used for the purpose. The
woolen cloth is expeusive, but it is softer and
more pliable than the canton flannel, and if noth
ing else cau he afforded, it is possible to have an
old blanket thoroughly washed out aud sent to
the dyer's to be dipped a bright red. The red
ucdercloths) impart a warm, lovely glow to the
linen above it, but many housekeepers prefer the
white ones, slnco they are more readily washed,
and leave no stain on.' the upper cloth, if, by ac-
cldcut, a cup or glass is upset during a meal.
For dinner, the cloth is, de rigeur, plain white,
with no ornamentation but its own damask pat
tern and Its own quality— which Is the finest the
purse cau afford. The dinner napkins mutchthe
cloth in plaiuuess and any one who has ever used
the generous seven-eighth napkin will ever, wil
ling, return to the tiny squares which are some
times offered you.
For luncheon, the cloth may befringed, with a
border, in colors, either worked or woven round
it. Sometimes the whole cloth is embroidered
with a rambling design, with isolated figures;
but generally, the border is sufficient. Lunch
napkins may be small—though the large ones are
always preferable—and may be embroideredeven
When the cloth is plain. One of the prettiest
/((((((IKKHli
ways to decorate eit her cloth or napkin, is toout
line the design iu winch the damask pattern is
woven, by working around it iu outline stitch,
with filo-floss of two or more contrasting colors;
this is especially suited to a running design, hut
care must be taken to choose a pattern not too
Intricate for that makes the work almost impos
sible; on the other hand the Isolated figure is not
improved by such treatment. The tiuger-bowl
doyley is now a matter ot course and though it
is of no earthly use, except to multiply the small
cares of the housekeeper, yet it is one ol the del
icate touches which add much to the dainty ap
pearance of the dessert-table, and it looks as If
the doyley had come to stay.
It is usually made of fine sheer linen—the finer
the better, some workers preferring linen cam
bric—cut into a square of eight inches to a side,
aud cither hemmed, or fringed, to the aeptb oi
an inch all around.
Any amount, and almost any kind, of embroid
ery is used on the doylies—sometimes they arc
worked all over, sometimes with only a border,
and oftcuer still with a single bunch of fruit or a
spray of flowers; they are generally done in out
line "stitch, but often have the design regularly
filled with the genuine crewel stitch. Some of
them are masses of drawn work, while others
again have drawn work above the fringe only, or
around, and in, the deep hem—in lactone hardly
sees two sets o) doylies alike. Among the finest
shown are those of Bolting cloth, with an Inch
wide hem; on the centre part Is worked, in white
Blo-floss. a spray of flowers which seems to have
been carelessly thrown on the material, so care
lessly, indeed, that the blossoms and leaves run
out over the hem. The work is of course in half
solid outline, at least, though the full embroidery
is best, and, when finished, the thin doyley is laid
over a square of pink China silk (exactly the size
of the finished doyley) which has been previously
fringed to the depth of an inch on every edge.
Many ladies make their doylies of China, or
Suran silk, using many colors in the one s«t, but
taking care to have them all of the most delicate
shades. The silk doylies are embroidered too,
and quite as elaborately as those of linen, but the
gorgeous creations are not as artistically correct
as the plainer work, since they are too elaborate
for the purpose they were Intended to fill, and
merely suggest display.
One of the newest ornaments for the table is
the epergue cloth
—simply an em
broidered linen
some eighteen
inches square—
to be laid iu the
centre of the
table, under tbe
epergiie, or, if no
epergne is used,
under a vase of
Bowers . Here
the embroiderer
and the colorist
may revel iu
their work, for
no design Is too
elaborate , n o
color too rich
for this trifle,
whose purpose
it is to make a bright and glowlug centre to tbe
festive bourd—the design must be big, the color
mutt be gorgeous.
One of tbe loveliest of these cloths is stamped
with a pattern of interlacing orange sprays—
leaves and ripe fruit—iu a flat conventional de
sign. The leaves are worked iu half solid 6utline
with dark green filo-floss, the fruit with orange
color in chain stitch, starting iu the centre and
worked round and round to the outer edge, which
is strongly marked by a row of rope stitch in a
darker shade. The desigu Alls the linen almost
entirely, but wherever the background is exposed
It is tilled in with "box stitch," in pale sea green.
The epergne cloth is hemmed, or fringed, on each
side and may be_ further decorated by several
rows of drawn work. Sometimes mottoes are
seen meandering in and out among the designs,
such as
"The Ho6t Loves Best
A Cheerful Guest,"
or, "Go, Gather Ye Roses While Ye May;" but
these mottoes are not often prettily lettered and
therefore they destroy the artistic value of a
design.
For the tea-table a waiter, for the urn, cups and
other paraphernalia for tea-drinking, is no longer
used, and in its place is an oblong of fine liuen
37x20 inches. Unlike the epergne cloth, the tea-
cloth admits of but little decoration, and this
little is done in outline stitch with French work
ing cottons of red or blue; It is generally suffi
cient to" work a decorative border or perhaps a
spray of flowers across each end of the cloth, and
it is to be hoped that no one will use the design
of tea cups arranged as a border, with teapots
scattered, here and there, iu their midst. In the
similar cloths used under the meat dish the same
warning may be given in regard to the carving
knives and forks, which arc worked as if lying
around the edge. It is worth while to make these
cloths pretty, *and nothing short of a pretty,
graceful design, daintily worked, will do this—
knives and forks and cups do not admit of much
grace when treated conventionally for the em
broiderer.
In all this work on linen the fineness ot the
material must be insisted upon. Itis not enough
to go into a shop and buy some article already
stamped, but the .
worker should ill] IAnd for herself a >~ .1.1 JL-1A
flue, even linen,
and having cut
it to the required
size, by drawing
the threads to T
Beeure straight I
edges , should *-hem, • or fringe
it as desired—using, in either case, a small dainty
hemstitch to fasten the hem down, or, to over
cast the head of the fringe. II drawn work is to
be put on it should be done now, and, after all
this, the work is taken to be stamped in a desigu
the worker has herself chosen, and which she
embroiders Bmoothly and delicately. Then, and
only then, will she have a really lovely piece of
table decoration, and no one who has ever seen
such will care much for the articles which remind
onv of the work of some artists who are said to
"p:ilnt by the yard."
The silk used should be filo-floss— the imported
article made bv Pcarsall and marked Eastern Dye
is the very best in the market. It can be relied
on to wash if carefully handled, and has the ad
vantage of being spuu in longeven strands which
are easily separated into several threads but
which do not get rough in working as does filo
selle.
A new linen thread Is the Harris "silken flax."
It eomes iu all colors and has a bcautiiul silken
lustre. It is said to stand washing beautilully,
but it is almost loo new an article to have been
thoroughly tested. This, like tbe Pearsall's silk,
is imported, aud noneof the American imitat ions
cau equal them in beauty and durability. They
cost more but they are economical in the end,
since they so amply repay the labor which must,
in all cases, be bestowed upon hand work.
[Fob The Ladies' Home Journal.]
WRITING LETTERS.
How few people in this world are prompt In
their correspondence I How nearly universal, in
this matter, is procrastination,—with all its re
sultant disappointment and vexation; some
times even continued until a feeling of shame
determines the delinquent not to write atalll
It may profit us to consider a little in detail
the reasons of this too common failing; for per
haps it is due to causes which a lit tie thought
aud resolution may euable us to remove.
That one cause is in some cases lack of time Is
undoubtedly true; though not nearly sooiteu as
itis offered in excuse. For theoldsayiug"wbere's
a will there's a way" is as true of tluding time
to write as it is ol sundry aud various other du
ties, and many people waste more than the re
quisite time by their neglect of "odd momenta."
The real reason Is more often a curiously pre
valent dislike of this particular kind of work—iu
many persons a positive dread,—not often form
ulated" into words, but none the less real. In the
hope of overcoming this feillng let us trace its
origin and nature.
With some persons it is largely due to imper
fect education or lack of practice iu the several
kinds ot knowledge useful In writing: Iu the
meaning and proper use of words: grammar, or
correct construction ; rhetoric, or excellence of
style; and in the perplexities of Euglish orthogra
phy;—much less ollen in the mere art of lortuiug
the written letters. Except the last two, all these
kinds of knowledge are required iu conversation,
us well is in writing. In all, the study of good
text books aud ol correct' authors, conjoined
with practice, Is the best guide.
But often a more serious trouble than that of
coin position lies in the subject matter; the dif
ficulty is not so much how to write as what to
say.
Note that this difficulty should never arise in
business letters—iu which may be included such
social communications as invitations, accept
ances aud the like; lor in these the writer has a
specific subject, and, after due rcfiectiou there
on, has only to express as clearly and concisely
as possible, the facts, instructions or inquiries
which the occasion demands. It is therefore gen
erally in reference to letters of friendship that
people complain of not knowing what to say But
these same worthy people find no such dearth of
subjects when tuey can talk orally—face to face
—with their friends;—why then can they not al
most as easily write!
In most cases the cause is a false estimate of
propriety in letter writing,—the idea that In
writing one must mention only matters of great
er dignity or importance than in conversation.
But except remarks—ill-natured or otherwise—
about the sins or shortcomings of other folk,
which generally one should avoid whether writ-
or talking, aud except further matter^ for which
there is not time or which are too long or com
plicated for correspondence, anything about
which we should talk we may properly put into
our letters. And in fact, ai a rule, just in pro
portion as one's letters resemble tVe writer, and
seem almost to recall the very tones of his voice,
they are the more prized by the friends to whose
kindly indulgent consideration they are submit
ted. Therefore, as between friends, the first rule
tor fluent and pleasant writing is to write Just what
we should probably say, beginning with what
ever seems to us most interesting or important.
When, however, oue is not writing the first let
ter of a series but answering something pre v luusly
received, the rule just given may well be modi
fied by the excellent plan of replying first to all
matters in the letter received which need or invite attention, before introducing anything new.
It ought not to be necessary to add that tbe
best way of doing this—perhaps the only proper
way—is to spread open beside one's own paper
the letter to be auswered and then treat its sever
al topics in the order either of their occurrence
or logical sequence. But, evident as are the pro
priety and convenience of this method, clearly
many people need to have ltcalled to their notice;
lor how ot ten ou reading a letter do we look in
vain for even a reference to some ono or more
matters which we had mentioned aud thought of
much interest,—andhow often does this neghct,
aunoylngand wholly unnecessary, extend even
to cases where we had asked direct questions 1
Except, therefore, communications which have
certaluly nothing calling for response, preserve
each letter received, and, when time permits be
ginning a reply, open the letter so kept and treat
in turn each matter requiring or inviting com
ment; then add whatever else your fancy and
judgemeut suggest as appropriate.
Whether the Tetter when auswered should or
should not be preserved thereafter is one of tbe
hardest problems which arise to perplex us "in
this naughty world." and one about which the
f.resent instructor does not claim to offer any
ight. But letters which are to be preserved may
for greatest convenience be folded to a uniform
size aud marked at the top edge or corner in red
iuk with their writers' initials and the dates, also
if preferred, with two or threo words suggesting
their most important topics, and then filed away
with ribbons or rubber bauds.
The propriety of writing won Is bo often sug
gested by our friends, In postscripts and other
wise, that it needs not to be urged here. But
there ts another good counsel not often given,
with which our exhortations may properly be
ended. Take enough trouble to learn the time
of collection from the nearest post box, or tbe
other usual means of reaching the central office,
aud when a letter is finished do notunueccssarily
lose time in getting it into the mail. Inattention
to these details may cause a letter not to leave
its place of origin until Monday which by a little
care might have started the preceding Saturday.
Hills.
HOW TO CURL, OSTRICH PLUMES.
We have been asked many times for a method
of "home-curling" of ostrich feathers. We give
below one whicli was recently published in the
Yankee Blade:
Have ready some corn cobs and common salt,
and let tbe fire in tbe cook stove burn down un
til you have a good bed of coals; lay the cobs on
und sprinkle them with saltand shake the feat he]
in the smoke. Add cobs ami salt from time t<
time, ami be sure to shake the plume well, turning
every part in the smoke. The harder you shaM
the feather the better it will look. Be carefuj
to bold it farenough from the fire to keep it Iron
burning. The livelier the coals without blast
the better. I have tried to make this plain, j
thought my plumes completely spoiled till 1
tried this "method. 1 saw a milliner wash •
white plume once and re-curl it this way, and 1
looked as uice as new. She washed it in sudfl
and rinsed it in clear water, and Bhook it rigor
ously until about dry, and then shook it ovel
the smoke.
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Philadelphia, January, 1888.
Subscriptions must begin with the number currenthen subscription was received. We donotdate back,yen upon the most urgent request.
With the December number all subscriptions
eut iu upon our advertisement for 4 mouths tri-
1 subscribers ended. Now Is the time to renew
orone year. Please be sure to state when send
ng, whether your subscription is a renewal or
lot and thus save yourselves and us much trou-
ile at the end of another year.
When complaining of non-receipt of paper,
ilease state whether you are a yearly, a sis
nonths, or a trial subscriber. This will avoid the
lccesstty of our writing to you, to ask the ques-
ion, and we will be enabled to turn to the prop-
irbook at once, for reference, thus saving much
line and trouble on both sides.
How to talk well, and improve your grammar,
is clearly set forth in '-Ease In Conversation, or
Hints to the TJngrammatieal," written by Mrs.
Emma C. Hewitt, and published by the Curtis
Pub., Co., Phila. The price has been reduced to
35 cents. It is a most useful bookto any woman
desiring self improvement. Tells you how to
talk well iuSociety, howto acquire ease and cor
rect expression, and points out hundreds of Sn-
suspected' errors in everyday English.
It amazes us to sec reputable journals accept
ing advertisements which they must t«o» to be
fraudulent. It is their busituss to know whether
or not their subscribers are likely to be swindled
by their advertisers. They do know it, but they
can not resist the few dollars such advertising
brings In. If they do not know It, such editors
are not fit to conduct public Journals. It's eith
er knavery or luck of brains; there is posi
tively no excuse for them. Certain concerns in
Mass., and Conn., are advertising stamping out
fits at ridlcuously low prices. These outfits are
found to be utterly worthless. The complaints
that, come to us, tempt us to expose half a
dozen of these concerns. One iu particular, in
Conn,, advertising Itself as a "manufacturing
company," gives us more trouble than all the
reBt put together. The proprietors were notlong
ago arrested for using the mails for fraudulent
purposes, and fined J250 In the U. 8. Court at
Hartford, in addition to fines of $350 and costs
each, paid in a Boston Court. And yet In the
face of all this a big "woman-trap" may be found
Iu a half dozen reputable periodicals, thepropi ie-
tors of said Journals hiding themselves behind
a printed slip which bids their subscribers be
wary.Think ofitl the double dealingof It I for It cer
tainly amounts to no less, to induce a man to ad
vertise in one's columns, and then bid the ve y
people from whom he might hope for good re
sults, to be cautious about answering the adver
tisers.
We have our usual little sermon to preach this
month, but fromthe volume of letters lying be
fore us which might serve as texts, we shall se
lect only two or three.
Here is one lady who says, "I have discovered
that my papers have been going to some one else
and Bhe refuses to give them up."
Another, "No one pretends in this town to re
ceive a paper he subscribes for, for the mail car
riers refuse positively to deliver them. We all
go to the general office to get them. Every one
is complaining."
Another says, "Please tell me how you mail
your papers to this town. The postmaster says
it comes straight along, a few everyday. I feel
sure that it does not start that way from yourof-
flce." Thank you, madame, for your faith iu us.
It does not indeed.
But the crowning is a letter running thiR wise :
"1 received the card enclosed saying I refused
the papers. I have refused some papers, think
ing they were advertisements, I suppose the
'Journal' is one of them. My wife has been
complaing for several months of the non-arrlva!
of the paper. Please send her duplicates of the
five back numbers. / don't mean to tell her how
she lost them." How Is that for assurance, and
not one cent of money enclosed to pay for the
dupllcatets which he had refused.
We hope Bhe will find out how she has lost the
papers sometime, tin ugh we never told her.
As to the list of "not founds" who are soon dis
covered upou receipt of complaint, they are too
numerous to mention.
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Is offered for the largest number of six months
subscribers up to April 1st, 188S—every yearly
subscription to count as two six months sub
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list; $400 for the third largest; $350 and $300 for
the fourth and fifth largest Hats respectively,
and so on for the twenty largest lists. For full
particulars see the December number.
Now let our club raisers go to work In earnest,
and we shall soon have that million sub
scription list we have planned for. With increas
ing circulation we promise great Improvements.
We are planning an entire new dress of type, a
finer quality of paper, to enable us to use a much
finer grade of wood cutting, and to increase the
number of illustrations; engaging the very best
artists to be had In this country, and perfecting
plans for new departments, and series of arti
cles by the best known and most popular writers
in America.
OVER HALF A MILLION.
grown insensibly to ignore the difference In years
existing between them, thinking only of the
pleasure the friendship gives.
All this has done much to engender firmness
and steadiness of purpose in the young, while at
the same time It has brightened and made beau
tiful, the lives of those older, and has certainly-
been greatly to the advantage of all.
NOTICE TO CANADA SUBSCRIBERS.
We are obliged to make a discrimination in
regard to our Canada subscribers, when sending
premiums. Below is appened a list of the only
articles which we can send by mall. All other
premiums must go by express, and pass through
the custom-bouse at the expense of the receiver.
Rug-Maker, butter-knlie, sugaivshell, outfits,
tissue paper outfits, lace plus, color boxes, books.
A WEDDING OUTFIT.
We have printed 525,000 copies of the Sep
tember Ladies' Home Journal, 510,000 copies
each of the October and November Issues, and
700,000 copies of the December issue. 300,000
more copies of the December number will be
printed later on, to supply new subscriptions as
they may come in dating the next four or five
months ; also to supply newsdealers, and orders
for single copies in answer to our advertisements.
Every copy of the above-named September, Oc
tober and November issues has been mailed to a
bonajide paid-in-advance subscriber.
NOTICE TO TRIAL SUBSCRIBERS.
Owing to the immense demand, in answer to
our 4 mouths trial offer, we are entirely out of
September, October, and November issnes. We
shall therefore be obliged to give our later
subscribers on this offer, December, January,
February, and March.
NOTICE OF OVAL.
The publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal
has leased the new six-story building (with the
exception of the ground floor) at No. 435 Arch
street, Philadelphia, to accommodate the demand
for increased space in which to comfortably trans
act the greatly increased business of the Jour
nal.
For the past year, we have been obliged to
crowd an enormous business into a space entirely
Inadequate, for the reason that we could not find
just the building we needed, la a desirable lo
cality. We not only lacked store-room, but we
were obliged to run night bands, for want of
room to put on a proper force In the daytime.
With five floors (135 feet in length) we shall
have ample room In which to handle our half
million editions each month with comfort and
dispatch. The first floor is handsomely fitted up
in black walnut partitions, ana counters with
glass tops aniAra68 fittings, something after the
usual style adopted by banking Institutions, and
coutalns the general counting room, private of
fice of the proprietor, premium department, and
engravers rooms. The second floor is occupied
by the associate editor, and a force of sixty or
more clerks, who have chargcof the subscription
books. The entire third floor is given up to the
mailing department. The fourth floor is used
by the compositors and the accessories of a print
ing room; while the fifth floor will give us our
much-needed store-room. The building is en
tirely new, and modern in all conveniences, is
fitted up for our express purpose, and presents a
handsome and striking front of pressed brick,
with terra cotta trimmings and heavy cornices.
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One of our large cash prizes, given April 1st,
would enable any young lady to provide herself
with a first-class wedding outfit. It could be
easily earned within the next three months and
is well worth working for. If vou fail to secure
$500, there Is still a chance lor $450, $400, $350,
$300, and so on.
NOTICE TO PHILADELPHIA SUBSCRIB
ERS.
A discrimination in the rates of postage to city
subscribers, is made between weekly andmonthly
periodicals, to the great disadvantage of the
latter, for, while the weeklies can be mailed to
city subscribers for one cent per pound, month
lies cannot be mailed to city subscribers for less
than one ceut for each two ounces, except where
the subscribers go to the post-office for their mall.
This regulation REFERS OXL Ftosubserlbers
in the particular city in which the periodicals are
published. As the Journal In its present form,
weighs over two ounces, we, being located in
PHILADELPHIA are, therefore, obliged to
ask our Philadelphia subscribers twenty-four
cents extra, for postage, unless the paper is ad
dressed at the post-office to be called for, or to
any post-office box. REMEMBER, this refers
to Philadelphia subscribers ALONE, and to those
in no OTHER city.
PRIZE WINNERS.
To all our readers we extend
to call upon us In our new home.
I invitation
"OLD MAIDS."
Mr. Fink, in his late work on "Love," demon
strates, among other things, that the heroine of
the popular novel is no longer as young as she
once was.
Life, in fiction, with all Its exaggeration, is
but the exponent of the times after all. There
must be a certain amount of realism In it, in or
der that it may pay. Therefore, if society itself,
were not undergoing a change, we would not
find this same change In works which deal only
with fictitious characters.
It is gradually being conceded that a woman's
life is not lived out by the time she is twenty-
five. It is dawning upon the youthful mind,
that a woman may live to be thirty or even forty,
and still have the fire of romance burning In her
heart; and the school miss of sixteen more rare
ly sucars, when her aunt thirty-five dares to
think of marriage.
This change is due to pressure brought to bear
in two different directions: first—the re-Incor
poration into geneial use, of the good old-fash
ioned word "woman." There are no longer, as
there were fifteen or twenty years ago, "old
young girls ;" women, young and old are women.
A girl of eighteen is a girl, our. she is likewise a
young woman iu general estimation ; a woman
of twenty-five is the same.
But the most Important factor of the whole
matter—the one which really supercedes the in
troduction of the word woman as a primary
cause (the latter being in agreatmeasure the or
igin of the former) \b fashion. Not that it has
grown to bo "the fashion" to do thus or so, but
that fashion, as evinced iu dress, has done much
to produce this much-to-bc-desired result
There is no longer a distinct Hue between the
dress of the woman of twenty and that of the
woman of thirty; the dress of the woman of
sixty, without being "kittenish, "iu any degree,
may, with propriety, conform Iu a great measure
to that of the woman of twenty-five.
It has thuB grown Impossible for men and
women to decide at a first glance with any cer
tainty, upou the age of the woman whom they
are studying for their next novel. In truth, age
has gradually been forgotten in facts. The the
ory that to certain years alone, belongs romance,
has given place to the fact that It is to be found
lit all ages.
Likewise have the old and the young woman,
In the September, 1887 number of the Ladies'
Home Journal, we advertised the Journal for
the balance of the year, on receipt of only teu
cents, and offered six cash prizes for the largest
lists of trial subscriptions. $200 lu cash waB the
first prize, $150 the second, $100 the third, $75
the fourth, $50 the fifth, and $25 the sixth. The
following is a corrected list of the prize winners:
1st, Miss Agnes R. Pattou, Phila., Pa., 1231.
2d, Wm. L. Ripley, W. Medway, Mass., 1095.
3d, Victor Coffin, Charlotletowu, P.
E. L, Can.,
4th, S. T. Fairbanks, Weston Ohio,
5th, Mary H. Valentine, 136 Essex St;,
Bangor, Me.,
0th, Mrs. L. M. Jones, Blunt, Dak.,
Now who will secure the $500 cash prize for the
largest list of six months subscribers at 25 cents
each, up to April 1st, 1888? Probably very much
smaller clubs than the above will win our April
prizes.
965.
S03.
858.
095.
We are sorry to disappolntour readers by omitt
ing to publish this month, the continuation of
"Our New Minister," by Josiah Allen's Wife.
The author has been very Bick and unable to at
tend to any literary work. We hope, both for
the sake of the readers and that of the writer her
self, that she will soon be sufficiently restored to
health to resume her literary duties, and give us
her articles, in uninterrupted succession.
CORRESPENDENCE.
"Miss Jennie Phillips" :—Address, Ehrlch
Bros,. 8tb. Ave., and 24th. St., N. Y.
"Mrs. O. C. Aldrich" :—UBe Naptha for
cleaning your kid gloves. "Electro Silicon" for
your brass lamps.
"A New Subscriber. Perrio, N. M.":—
March 28, 1867, came on Tuesday, and April 26,
1860, also on Tuesday.
"Mrs. 8. J. Dodoe, Wheaton, Md.":—Con
sult our advertising columns for knitting and
embroidery silks.
2d. We don't know where you can get waste
cloth.
Please inform me where I can get a book of In
structions on wax work; also ou zephyr flowers.
Will "Bell Patterson" inform me in making a
bairchain wbetheror not she runs acord through
It! Sadie.
B. C. :—If you do not understand making
crazy shells, I will work a sample and mall to
you, on receipt of ten eents. M. F. K.
20 Linden St., South Boston, Mass.
"Ed. Ladies' Home Journal":—Mrs. A. R.
Calver can get "Waterproof Fibre Cloth," suit
able for hot-beds, cold-frames, pits, etc., by
sending to "0 8. Waterproofing Fibre Co., 56
South St., New York. They will send samples
upon application. Mrs. T. M. Paschal.
Castroville, Tex.
Blackstone, Mass., July 16, 1887.
Editor Ladies' Home Journal:—Please tell
me bow to clean paint brushes from the paint,
also how to keep paints moist, after being mixed I
They dry in twenty-four hours after they are
mixed, and I have to throw them away.
Your youthful reader, "M. L. B.
[Clean your paint brushes with turpentine.
Having done this, dip them iu gun oil aud brin<r
them to a good point. This Insures their keeping
a good shape much longer. You can immerse
your pallette in water, to keep your paints moist
—Ed. Jour.]
"Mrs. J. E. " Afton, N. Y. The hang
ings of Peacock-blue may be lined with a warm,
light, cafe au lait brown—which will accord well
with the rooms as described. The rich yellow
browns now so much in vogue would answer,
provided the browns already present were on
this tone. The lining may be of sateen In cotton
or wool. The edges should be finished by a heavy
cord of either blueorbrown and thecurtain hung
by rings over a brass or wooden pole over the
doors.
The square of felt may be stamped in a geo-
metical orflowcr, design and then worked in out
line stitch in silks or crewels of various harmon
izing colors, red, pale green, light blue, golden-
brown, yellow and pale pink. Do not be afraid
of having too much of the same color lu the
room. A. R. R.
Please tell me in your Journal, how to var
nish a cheap chromol 1 have mastic varnish,
but know not how to proceed.
Where can I procure samples of polished Ash
and Cherry such asareused in making furniture?
What shall I rub rose-wood with to restore the
polish without injury ?
Answers to these queries will be gratefully
welcome to a Southern Admibeh.
"J. E. M. "gives the following experience In
peanut raising:—
"I shelled the nuts, aud planted them two inch
es deep, two leet apart in the row s, aud the rows
four feet apart- it was the first day of May, the
soil was good rich soil aud slightly sandy", they
were plauted near the corn field and wereculti-
eated the same time as the corn, three times,
they were hoed twice. In October they were
turned up with a pitch fork and let lay in the
sun three days; theu I picked seven bushels of
nice nuts. We have raised a good m.my everv
year, unless the squirrels dig up the seed just af
ter they are planted.
"Editor Home Journal:"—Under the head
of "Correspondence" iu this mouth's Journal, I
see that "H. L." wants to know how to prevent
black ants irom getting Into her pantry.
I do not know how to prevent them from go
ing where they wantto go, but I do know what
will make them waut to stay away and if the tri
al of it gives her as much satisiactiou as it has
given me, I shall be very glad to have her aud
every one else, know about It.
Take asmall dish, a saucer or sauce platcwlll
do, and put luto it a small tablespooniul of su
gar, stir iutoit as much Tartar Emetic as will He
easily on a ten cent piece, just a good sized pow
der. Moisten slightly aud set the dish wheic It
will be convenient for the ants to find it. They do
not care to come hack for more. Mrs. L. W. S.
Editor Ladies' Home Journal:—In the June
number of your paper, which came into my
bands, I read an article on the "Kindergarten,"
which seemed to be the beginning of a series, and
which seemed to me, in Its directness, minute
ness, and the profound insight It showed luto
Froebel's system, as well as spirit, one of the
most useful things I had seen ; aud tbnueh I Was
not told the name of the author, I divined It,
having seeu her in her own kindergarten; and I
want to see the subsequent numbers. I also
showed It to a lady of Brookllne, Mass., who said
she should Immediately subscribe for yourpaper,
and I suppose she has done so ere this. The su
periority of this article to even the best I have
seen elsewhere iu the newspapers, consists in its
plain, practical character, showing what 1s to be
done. I think if the whole series continues lu
the strain of this one, it will be called for aB a
volume. Elizabeth A. Peabodt.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
"Editor Ladies' Home Journal:"—Trem
bling though I am as 1 remember the myraids of
letters that must of necessity fall iuto your waste
paper basket, still I feel impelled to add my tes
timony to the merits of your valuable paper.
It wasealled to my attention by a neighbor
and after once subscribing for it feel that we
cannot do without it. My children read it, and
my husband reads it, and all unite iu sounding
ItB praises. We enjoy especially the short sketch
es and portraits of the various noted writers and
think it a happy thought. Everybody is interest
ed in all that pert ains to the private life of these
famous personages.
I wIbIi to tell the housekeepers my method of
cleaning oil-cloth. I have a square under my
sitting-room stove, that I am using for the third
year and It has never been washed. It is worn
some, but looks very nice yet. I take an old
Turkish towel and a broom, and rub the cloth
briskly, this removes all the dirt and dust that
sticks to it, and itlooks as bright as new. I rub
the zinc the same way. Thi6 saves labor and the
oil-cloth wears longer. Try it sisters.
Eotpt.
"Ladies' Home Journal" :—Here are a few
hluts on Home decoration which may be of value
to your readers.
To make a lovely white and gold chair with
plush trimmings, take an old fashioned rocker
with rush or cane bottom and straight hack.
Cover with a coat of white lead and a good clear
varulsh, mixed. When thoroughly dry, take a
bowl and stir one half part plaster of parls and
oue half whiting together with water until thin
as syrup. With a large clear bristle brush go
thoroughly and rapidly over the entire chair.
When dry'this will have the appearance of white
enamel.The cauc portion of the chair must now be
treated to an application of brilliant gold paint.
The contrast is very pretty. The chair maybe
farther decorated by a cushion of blue or terri-
cottaplush.
To make a chair of antique appearance for Hall
orlibrary, secure an arm chair of substantial ap
pearance, with astralghtback if possible. Cover
with coat of the followlug composition. One
part of Lampblack, and one oi Burnt Sienna
mixed thoroughly with equal parts of varn isn and
turpentine. When thoroughly dry cover flat
wood work ou the back with Llncrusta Walton
glued on. Should the chair he straight back take
out the connecting slats and insert a board of the
proper size. After it is thoroughly secured by
nails or glue, apply a panel of Llncrusta Walton,
leaving a width of three inches all around. Ap
ply panel or 6quare of same design to seat. Now
for tne decoration. A ter painting the Llncrus
ta Walton like the chair, take brouze powder and
liquidize it by mixing with equal parts of Bal
sam of llr and turpentine. With the bronze go
over the raised portion of the Linerusta Walton,
let It dry, then varnish the whole chair with fur
niture varnish. This will trive an antique appear
ance to the combination. Ii desirable, the Lln
crusta Walton can be farther secured to the chair
with brass headed tacks. Which will addtothe
ornamentation.A decorative article has very recently been put
on the market, it is Jewel Stains applied to glass.
Willie recently In Chicago I purchased a box, and
now my Staiued glass windows are the admira
tion of all my neighbors. Jewel Staiu Is put up
lu bottles, arid packedsecurcly iu a box of cotton.
A circular of instruction accompanies each box.
This new material for home decoration is manu
factured lu Hastings, Nebraska, aud is sold in a
boxorslnele bottle. Ithluk the readers of the
"Home Journal" will welcome Jewel "Stain" as
being one of the most interesting as well as gratifying or home persults.
If the reader* like I will tell them how to make
an elegant home made side board aud some other
articles ef furniture, at some future time.
Iris.
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
THEPRACnCAL
HOME COOKING.
Original Recipes, Contributed by Journal
Sisters.
Apple Sauce.— (by request) Pare,core and cut
up two quarts or less of apples and add cold wa
ter enough to not quite cover tbem. When boiled
soft enough to mash with a wooden spoon, add
sugar to suit the taste, grated nntmeg may be
added or a little lemon juice, as you may prefer
for flavoring.
Lemon or Vanilla Ice Cream.—(By request)
One quart of cream, one pint of milk, one and a
half cups of sugar, flavor with large table Bpoon-
ful essence of lemon or vanilla. Beat the cream
to a froth, stir in the milk and sugar thoroughly,
flavor, freeze and pack lor two hours.
Mrs. Liucoln in her "Boston Cook book" tells
us that in preparing ice cream, it is very essen
tial to use the rlgut proportion of coarse rock
sail, to have the Ice finely crushed, and to beat
the mitxure thoroughly duriug the freezing.
The melted ice and salt should surrouud the can,
and should be drawn oil only as it floats the ice.
Use oue part salt to three or four parts ice. Put
in a layer of ice three Inches deep solidly packed,
then a measure of salt, alternately until the freez
er is full. When the cream U thoroughly cold
pour it into the can. Turn slowly at first and af
ter ten minutes more rapidly, till you can turn
uo longer. It usually takes about half an hour.
Remove the beater, scrape off the cream, and beat
and pack the cream closely In the can. Put a
rork into the opening In the cover, and lay the
cross-piece over to keep the can down in the ice.
Cover with a piece of old carpeting wet In the
salt and water.
PHILADELPHIA ICE CREAM.
2 quarts of cream ; If thick add
1 pint milk.
2 cups sugar
2table8poonfuls vanilla.
Scald the cream; melt the sugar in it, and fla
vor when cool. Freeze as above. The cream
should be very sweet and highly flavored, as both
sweetness and flavor are lessened by freezing.
To make it lighter and more delicate, whip the
cream until you have a quart of froth, and r.dd
the froth after the cream is partly frozen. Many
prefer to add the whites of eggs, beaten till foamy,
but not stiff. Use two, three or four eggs to each
quart of cream.
Orange Marmalade.—Take six oranges three
lemons 3 qts of water and six pounds of white
sugar; cut the rind of the fruit into quarters
peel it off, then cut it into dne chips as thin as
possible and divide the pulps Into small bits, re
moving carefully the seed which may be steeped
In part of the water that is to be used for the
marmalade; put the chips and pulp into a crock
and pour three quarts of boiling water over them
and stand over night, after which pour the
whole into a preserving kettle and boll until the
chips are tender, then add Bix pounds of sugar
slowly and boll the marmalade until it jellies;
this is delicious, I make double this quantity
every spring when the fruit is cheap. A.L.O.P.
Dear Slsters.—Here is a recipe for makiug
elderberry-wlue. Measure the berries and bruise
them, to every gallon adding one quartof boiling
water, let the mixture stand twenty four hours,
or longer, stirring occasionally. Then strain off
the liquor into a cask, to every gallon of liquor
adding 2 pounds of sugar, first dissolving the su
gar in hot water, or at least partially dissolving
it. Let it be until it Is through working, then
bung up, or bottle it. A half gallon of good whls-
kev to ten gallonsof the wine is an improvement.
Blackberry wine is made the same way, only
the whiskey is left out
Hoping this may be a help to some of the read
ers, lam Yours respectfully,
Constant Reader.
German Potato Salad.—Boll potatoes with
the skins on. When they are cool enough to
handle, pare them and slico very thin, sliceing
an onion with the potatoes; salt, pepper, and
vinegar to taste. Before serving, heat a little
meat f ryings In a skillet, pour the vinegar on it
and let it get hot; then pour it over the potatoes
and serve.
A Vert Good Wat To Use Up Cold Meats.—
Take cold beef, veal, chicken or any other meat,
the more variety the better. Hash It fine and
mix with two eggs, two crackers rolled fine, a lit
tle grated onion, mtlted butter, pepper and salt,
to taste, form in cakes and fry in butter or nice
drippings. Grated onion is nicer for hash than
chopped.
Breakfast Omelet.—Three eggs beaten very
light with one tableBpoonlul of flour, add 1 cup
ot milk, and turn iuto a well buttered cold spider.
Set on the stove where it will have an even steady
heat, but not to burn, and let it cook—perhaps
half an hour—or until the egg sets, which can be
told by trying with a knife as the custard be
comes firm, scutter the seasoniug salt, pepper,
a little chopped parsley, ham, or any seasoniug
you prefer, then Blip the knife rouud the edges
and turn one half the Omelet over the other, put
on a hot plate and serve at once.
Brows Bread.—1 cup molasses
1 teaspoouiul soda
beaten in the molasses,
2 eups grabam flour
3 cup3 yellow Indian meal,
4 cups sweet milk.
Steam 4 hours.This lsuot "Boston Brown bread, but 1 think It
is very nice. I read all the recipes In the Jour
nal with great pleasure, and try many of them
with good success. J. T. P.
Cream Batter Puddiso.—>^pt. sour cream
yi pt. sweet milk
pt. flour, 3 eggs, % teaspoonful soda, a little
salt, beat the whites and yolks separately, and
add whites last. Bake in a moderately hot oven
and to be eaten with butter and sugar or cream
and sugar.
Orange Cake.—5 eggs
3 cups sugar
% cup butter
1 cup sweet milk
4 cups flour
juice and a little grated rind ol oue orange.
Break the yolks of eggs In a large bowl, add
the sugar and butter and orange juice, and beat
with the hand until light and creamy, then add
milk, the whites of eggs which have been beaten
to stiff froth, and the flour into which has been
Bitted 1 teaspoonful soda and 2 of cream tartar.
Bake in 4 deep jelly cake pans.
Icing For Orange Cakb.— 1 cup granula
ted sugar,
1 white of egg
juice of one orange.
Putihe sugar on the Btove \njust enough water
to moisten It, (if you put on too much the icing
will be thin and run), let this boil till clear and
will spin a thread, have the white of egg beaten
and have some oue drip the sugar whileyou beat,
aud continue beating until it is thick and white,
then stir in orange juice, if It thins it too much,
beat in pulverized sutrar till thick enough.
This makes a very large and delicious cak
Chocolate Cake.—2 cups sugar
1 cup milk
J£ cup butter
4 eggs
3teaspoonfuls baking powder,
sifted into 3 cups flour.
Mix according to directions for Orange Cake.
Prepare icing as fororangu cake, insteud of us
ing orange juice, scrape down a quarter cake of
chocolate, put on the Btove until melted, then beat
into white Icing and you have a nice chocolate
cake. I also send a
Chocolate Caramel Cake.—1 cup suga
cup butter,
cup sweet milk,
2 eggs, 3 cups flour,
1 teaspoonlul soda dissolved in hot water, tuen
put on the stove one cup of milk and a half cup of
chocolate, stir till dissolved, then stir into it 1
cud sugar and the yolk of one erg which have
been beateu light, boll all together and wheu
cool flavor with vanilla. While this isoooling beat
up theflrst part of cake in the ordinary way, add
the cbocolote custard and bake in four jelly pans
Ice with white icing giveu for orange cake.
This is the most delicious chocolate cake one
can Imagine, but a little "harder to hit" than the
other one. Given In answer to "Charleston."
Let me know how you like them.
M. V. Shannon.
Editor Ladies' Home Journal:—In response
to "Charleston's" request for chocolate cake, I
send the following recipe :
1 lb pulverized sugar
% cup butter
1 cup sweet milk
whites of s eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoonful soda •
2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, mix soda and
cream of tartar in flour
After mixing add 4 tables poonfuls grated choc
olate to one third the batter. Can be baked In
three layers and iced, putting chocolate layer in
the middle, or made into a nice marble cake by
alternatlng putting spoonfuls of the dark and
light batter in large pan.
Perhaps some of your readers would like an
easy recipe for making blBcuits.
1 qt. sifted flour
2 heaplngtablespoonful s Royal baking powder
1 teaspoonful salt.
Mix powder and salt thoroughly in flour, then,
handling as little as possible, make Into a soft
dough with one pint rich sweet cream. Roll
about three fourths of an inch in thickness, bake
inaAofoven about ten minutes. I have used
this recipe for years and never failed In having
delicious biscuits. This recipe makes twenty bis
cuits. Jean Craig.
Editor Ladies' Home Journal:—Seeing In
the Journal a request for the recipe for making
Marsh Mallows, I will send it.
Dissolve 1 lb. clean gum Arabic in I qt. of wa
ter; strain, add 1 lb. granulated sugar, and place
over the fire stirring continually until the sugar
is dissolved, and the mixture has become the con
sistency of honey. .Next add gradually the whites
of 8 eggs well beaten, stirring the mixture all
the time until It loses its stickiness aud does not
adhere to the Sugars when touched. The mass
may now be pourad into long, shallow, tin pans,
dusted with starch, and when cool divided into
small squares. These squares may be covered
with a coating of chocolate, which makes them
verv nice.
To prepare the chocolate %ofacake of Baker's
sweetened chocolate, shave off fine and put it
into a bowl, 6et In bdlling water, to melt. As
soon as the chocolate Is sufflcieutly melted dip
the marsh mallows iuto the chocolate, giving
each square a coating of brown, using a fork in
handling them. If desired the marsh mallow
paste may be flavored with vanilla, or the paste
may be dlvidedinto two equal parts one half fla
vored vanilla and coated with chocolate and the
other flavored with lemon. E. D. B.
[For the ladies' Home journals
COOKING CLUBS AND CLASSICS.
BT CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK.
"How are cooking clubs organized, and what ,
book or books are best to use iu a cooking class?
Please reply through columns of Ladies' Home
Journal." Mrs. T. M. Kell.
The interest that has been taken of late years
in housewifery and especially in the culiuary art
has made cooking clubs aud classes very popular.
The cooking club, as it is generally known, con
sists of a certain number of women who band
themselves together to study and practice cook
ery. The members of such an association may
be" young girls or married women, anil it is some
times even composed of children. Their usual
custom is to meet at a stated period and prepare
a lunch or supper^each one taking charge of some
particular dish. When the repast is cooked, the
table is spread and the club devours the fruit of
their hands. Or, they prepare the viands at h ome
and bring them to the house of one of the mem
bers where they all feast together.
These bodies may be rendered the means of a
great deal of pleasant social intercourse. One
such organization to which the writer formerly
had the houor of belonging was known as "The
Salad Club" and bore for Its motto the quota
tion from Shakesphere, "My salad datB, when I
was green in judgment." The members met
once a fortnight, and did Dot pretend to confine
themselves to the making of salads, but their
"prentice hands tbey tried on" croquettes, rolls,
chops, chickens, oysters, blancmanges. Jellies,
cakes, creams and sweet dishes iuuumerable.
Once in a while young men were Invited to par
take of these delicacies and the meetings
were always delightful. Another Cooking Club,
more ambitious, engaged au old country farm
house for two or three weeks one Summer, and
provided with chaperones and cook books did all
their own work, that of the kitchen Included.
The chief fault in most of these clubs, so far
as practical benefit Is concerned, lies in the fact
that they devote their attentions rather too ex
clusively to fanevcookery, lusteadoi tothe'plain,
every-day food tbat every one should know how
to prepare to be well versed In housewifery. Most
cooking clubs give very little real instruction in
the proper methods of cooking steaks, roasts and
stews, soups and vegetables, or ordinary pud
dings and plain desserts.
Cooking classes are managed on a different
plan. For them skilled teachers must be pro
cured. These usually deliver a series of demon
stration lectures, in which they not only give di
rections for the cooking of various dishes, but
also carry out their own precepts iu the sight of
the audience.
The pupils buy tickets for the course and at
tend the lectures armed with notebooks and pen
cils, with which to take down the words of wis
dom as they flow irom the lips of the instructress.
A regular bill of fare is announced for each les
son and the fees are not heavy. Sucbawell known
cordon bleu as Miss Parloa chargesonly fifty cents
a lecture to each student.
Both clubs and classes may be so conducted as
to confer subs'tautial good upon their members,
if practically managed. The best guides, are
standard cook-books, that contain clear straight
forward directions. There are many of these.
Among the number may be mentioned Mrs.
Rorer's "Philadelphia Cook Book," Marion Har-
land's "Common Sense Series," Mrs. Lincoln's
"Boston Cook Book," and Thomas J. Murray's
dainty little volumes, "The Book of Entrees,"
"Breaklast Dainties," "Puddings and Dainty
Desserts," "Fifty Soups" and "Fifty Salads."
The "Universal Cook Book," recently Issued,
also contains many excellent recipes. Any or all
of these books may be procured by sending the
money and order for them to any large book
store.
(For The Ladies' Home Journal.)
ABOUT OUK KITCHENS.
Among the thousand andone things required to
make home neat, tasteful aud baopy, Is a well
proportioned and arranged kitchen,
Some are so large and "sahara-like" that one Is
bewildered and lost in the "wilderness," called a
kitchen, where everything Is loBtand nothing can
be found : where the spider weaves his tiny home,
and the rats and mice forage unmolested; where
the servants, imagining their sins will not find
them out, construct great piles of clothing, brush
es aud brooms, to be put away when "I have
time." In others one cannot but feel "cribbed,
cramped, and confined," just to step Inside.
Nothing so disconcerts and discourages the new
wife as to be introduced into the "hovels"
called kitchens
Long dark kitchens are often found in city-
houses. These are to be disliked, owing to their
murky, dismal, and discouraging aspect. But
likes and dlslikesare usually controlled In build
ing by master builders, who too often arbitrarily
assure those who employ them, tbat a stairwav
cannot rise by easy ascent, with broad platforms
for resting places, or that a closet cannot be
made where one wants It; and although oue dors
not believe a word of it, yet being ignorant of
their art you cannot gainsay their statements.
Husband, when you build your hou6e,allow your
wife the privilege of planning the kitchen. A
long table closely fitted to the sink that no water
can drip between, Is much needed. It is better
to have It fastened permanently to the wall and
made as wide as the sink, thus forming a sort of
shel f on which to clean vegetables, dress meats,
poultry etc., by having it close to the Bink you
will be near cold and hotwater, and so save many
steps, leaving no excuse for not having things
properly cleaned aud attended to. By carelul
washing and cleaning It is very convenient to put
dishes on wheu washing and drying them. Then
when all are cleaned aud washed properly, they
can be placed In the receptacle with fewer steps
and consequently in a better condition. Under
this shelf or table, two drawers are needed, with
several compartmeuts—one for polishing materi
al, whiting, chamois-skins and all articles re
quired iu cleaning metal ware. While the sec
ond may be used for Btove polish, and all tbe nec
essary dishes used In keeping the stoves iu order.
A board over the sink, and extending from
thence the whole length of the room, aud between
two and three feet In width is much more eervlc-
able, and far neater than plastering or paper.
Nicely painted and grained, (oak color, we think
the best for kitchens) it is not easily defaced and
can be washed aud cleaned with ease. On the
upper portion of this board, hooks and galva
nized nails must be driven on which to hang the
basting spoons, ladles, skewers, cooking forks,
and spoons, chopping knives, cake turners, gravy
strainer, but dishcloths—never! A friend sug
gests tbat a shelf above this board, would often
be convenient but the great temptation it would
prove, to throw many things upon it, "just for a
moment," would tar over balance all good derived
from it.This table should be carried from the sink up
to the next wall, aud as uear the first wiudow or
the adjoining side as possible. There cannot be
too much light upon the sink or sink-table. In
the corner where this table and the board, above
mentioned, a case of small drawers set iu the
wall for salt, pepper and spices is very desirable.
This also saves many steps, being convenient to
tbe work for which such articles are used, aud
therefore more likely to insure neatness and
guard against loss or waste.This table and the drawers should be on the left
hand side of the range if the water back is placed
on that side. On the other side ot the range we
need to have nailed acleat, about live Inches wide,
and two and a half feet from the floor, supplied
with stroug nailBor hooks on which to haug hold
ers, pokers, tongB, fire shovel, &c If there is
space on tbat side, a closet large enough to hold
all the iron or tin-ware used in cooking—pots,
kettles, pans &c—is Importaut. In this closet
cleats are also needed, with hooks and nails on
which to hang frying pans, waffle-irons, etc.
Above these cleats a broad, smooth shelf is also I
needed, as being useful for smoothing irons, aud
starch kettles, unless one Is so fortunate as to
have a laundry separate from the kitchen.At the top and bottom of all doors to such clos I
ets there should be a narrow, sliding panel lor a
ventilator, to oe kept always open, excepting
when sweeping or building the fire, thus securing
a free circulation ol air, that the contents of the
closet may always be kept free from rust or
mould.
The kitchen should have plenty ofllglit and ven-t tT.it ion at all times, a transom is a very handy
thing tor all kitchens. However, the best mode
of ventilation for a kitchen would be to procure
a board lour inches wide, and as long as the
width of your wiudow and as thick as the sash.
Then raise the lower sash wnd place the Doard un
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the two sashes that cauuot be penetrated by the
elements. A kitchen should be ornamented by
a light colored paper, or white wall, thusgivlug
the room a home-like appearance and also help
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This gives but au imperfect idea of the most
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just opposite, under the "dresser," or kitchen
crockery closet; and be sure the ventilator be
made to the upper and lower part of the door, as
above mentioned, if the pot closet and "dresser"
must be combined.
The cook likes au open "dresser" to display her
tins and crockery to the best advantage. But do
not yield to that point, for if it is open, it will be
impossible to keep the dishes free from dust, wheu
sweeping. If possible have good sliding doors.
Adooron hinges is alwavs swinging, girls will
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es will b'c the result. Have your kitchen a model
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JANUARY, 1888.THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
[For the I.adiiw Home jofrnai..
FESTIVAL FASHIONS.
Stately Styles In Fur. For The Season OfSnow Storms. Toilettes For Mid-Winter Entertainments, Opera, Concerts, Receptions,Balls And Parties. Beautiful Materials For
Ijovely Evening Gowns. Novel Conceits InDress Ornamentation, And Charming Deco
rative Fancies.
BY MRS. JAS. H. LAMBERT.
The most decidedly elegant and expensive
wraps, presented for tlie glorious season of ice
and snow, aretbose of fur; not the harsh, heavy
fur of days of vore, but in the skins of baby ani-* -■ . ...,!..mals, so carefullycured, and exquisitely dressed,
that they are fine, so: t, and pliable as the richest
plush, hence, it is no longer necessary for the
garment of lurtobe cut iu the old lime regula
tion straight sacque form, lor the modern pre-
pured skins can be shaped to tit the figure, as
easily as other rich materials, and the only rea
son that the finest furs are not used as draperies,
is because of their high cost.Superb long cloaks, and elegant redlngotcsure
made of tuny seal skin, and these garments with
no trimming save the buttonsare valued at $500,
and $700, while the same garments finished with
a band of the finest sea otter cost at least $1000.
Exceedingly graceful visitcs and manteletsare
made of fur, in the same styles as those of plush
and other fabrics, and the mantles of fur have
the characteristic long fronts, and short back,
now to be noticed in all the new models. The
sleeves vary in shape; some mantles have the
comfortable allng sleeve, others have a shorter
and smaller sleeve, but the most elegant sleeve 1b
long and pointed, reaching to the edge of the
cloak skirt.Numbers of small mantles arc made In snblc,
sealskin, mluk, astrakan, beaver, blue aad black
fox, and also iu less costly furs than these.
Tight fitting jackets in seal-skin are popular, but
others equally stylish and reallv more comforta
ble, are the jackets with loose fronts, either sin
gle or double breasted, and tight fitting at the
back.Seal-skin mantelets, with pointed ends,trimmed
with beaver, and pelerine sleeves open nearly to
the shoulder in front, and alsotrimmed with bea
ver, are amongst the newest and most stylish
vetements of fur.Deep collars of fur, round or pointed at the
back, withlong narrow mantelet ends in front, or
finished off with boas, are novel and convenient
as they can be worn with any mantle.
Another fancy is to have the cape cut in the
shape of ahaliitskirt, with cords and gimp serv
ing for epaulettes, the cords being carried across
the frontand allowed to fall In a double chain.
The muff is generally of the same fur as the
mantle, however, many ladies like best to have a
muff made of velvet, plush or the dress material,
trimmed with fur. The novelty is a small muff,
with a carefully concealed pocket-book section,
or a purse.
FUR AND FEATHER TRIMMINGS.
Fur is certainly the most fashionable trim
ming for costumes, mantles and even robes aud
■tea-gowns. Chinchilla aud beaver, arc reserved
for bandsomo mantles, aud for dresses, which
have wide bands of fur round the edge and up
the sides of the skirt, and fur ornaments on the
corsage.A kind of fur fringe, with macarons and pen-
dauts, all made of fur, proves quite a novel and
effectivetrimmtngfor mantles, aud cloth redin-
gotes, made with bell-shaped sleeves and full
skirts open In front, are bordered and edged with
bands of fur in some cases, but the most stylish
vetementsare finished with ornaments made es
pecially toharmonlze with thegarments.
Among the specimen garments presented il
lustrative of various adaptations of lur, may be
noticed ablue velvet operacloak, lined through
out with ermine, and a saphire blue velvet gown
with trimmings of the darkest sable, while a love
ly tea-gown in a neutral shade, Is exquisitely
garnished with bandsof grebe.Velutina In white orcream color, forms a most
dainty evening dress, which Is beautifully
trimmed with chinchilla fur, creating effective,
soft andpleasing contrast. Another fur-trimmed
robe is in moire shot with green and coral fin
ished with broad bands of beaver.
The newest trimming for wedding gowns Is a
broad fringeformed of ostrich tips, some of which
turn downwards, and others are placed in a hor
izontal position. This method of decoration is
wonderfully effective upon Priestley's new silk
warp Henriettaln cream, but decidedly the most
unique and beautiful gown made this season is
of the silk warp Henrietta trimmed lavishly with
Impian feathers, the metallic greens, browns,
bluca, and gold showing brilliantly upon the
dainty background of this high art material.
Another feather trimmed specimen is a long
cloak of ruby velvet, Intended for carriage or
evening wear. The s'.eeve pieces of this wrap
are covered with French knots In black silk,
creating a frise appearance, while the back and
fronts are trimmed with the black braid guipure
now so fashionable. This cloak has all its edges
bordered with bands of black ostrich feather-
flues, which trim beautifully.A charming opera set, consisting of mantle
and capote, has just been completed for one of
our society ladies. The mantle Ib made of pink
tinged lawn colored plush, lined with silk in
rather a lighter shade of the same color, and
trimmed with bands of beaver. This wrap Is
adorned with epaulettes of gold passementerie,
forming long bretelles poiutcd at the back. The
cunningly set sleeves nre gathered in tothe wrists,
and the whole cloak Is most becoming.The little bonnet accompanying this mantle is
entirely novel iu shape and make up. It is of
Slush of the same pinkish fawn tone, richly em-
ellished with gold embroidery. The sides of
the bounet are lolUed back, so as to form a close-
tittiugcoil, a few folds of China crepe foim a
border in lront of creamy pinkish fawn color,
while at the side is a large cluster of spray feath
ers in various shades of subdued beaver brown.
For information thanks are due Sharpless
Brothers, Philadelphia, and C. C. Shayue, New
York.
ODD COLORS AND NEW MATERIALS.
The newest and really the most Uncommon
hues are those termed the feather and furcofors,
which are illustrated in plain thick silks, surahs,
and soft woolen goids, Henrietta aud Nun's
veiling, plush, veiVct and velutiua. Some oi
these delicate shades are known as blue fox, gol
den beaver, king-Usher blue, grebe,—a pale grey
flecked with silver—ibis pink, colibri red,like the
breast featbersof aru by throated humming bird,
aud bird of paradise" feather yellow, with a
smoke pearl dove grey.Green Issaid to be one of the most popular
I colors, but like heliotrope, green must be iu cer
tain shades to be becoming, the very light, aud
very dark tones being really the safest for bru-
uette or blonde. Amoug the new greens is
Ocean, an indefinite, dull blue green, etincella,
a stllllighter shade,, aud undine is auothergreeu
tone.Plush is unusually popular this winter, and as
Itcouies iu many of the light colors, It is used
tocotnbine with other fabrics, the plush form
ing the flatdecorative portions, panels, piastrous,
vests, collars, and parements. Seal brown aud
seal plush, are alike iu shading, but the seal
plush of the best grade is often mistaken for the
real seal fur, while seal brown plush Is more
silky in appearance.The materials with the velvet pire, are said to
be more enduring than plush, the sun ace threads
being shorter, they do not getso deeply pressed
down as those with the louger nap oi plush.
Velutlna, the new velvet pile fabric, has been
brought out In black, aud all the rich day aud
eveulug colors, Including the beaver browns,
with a beautiful bronze, aud any quantity of new
and antique blues, also Sultan, ruby and cardi
nal.
Velutina although but lately introduced has
already been included iu the list of standard fab
rics, to do service In lieu of the more frail silk
velvet, which Velutiua so closely resembles,
wheu a fabric is required to form costumes and
dresses, that are to be subjected to harsh usage.
Besides being handsome, aud spend id wearing,
Velutina has the ineritof costing less thau auy
of the reliable materials used this winter for
dresses or for fancy work.Justhereit may be well to hint that while our
models o I costumes and dresses are the produc
thuis of thu most noted artists in Europe and
America, such as Rcdfern, Worth, and Pingat, it
is by no means uecessary forour patrons to make
the garments iu the materials spoken of, which
are generally high class andbigh priced, for exam
ple, an imported dress in navy blue Lyons silk
velvet, for a Miss of fifteen, cost $75.. This cos
tume was made with plain full skirt, falling in
folds at the back, and a short aproa. in front, the
basque had full plastron front, and curled leaf
back skirt. Velutina was found in the Very
same shade, ten yards cost $15, and a good art
istic neat sewing dressmaker reproduced to vel
vet suit and furnished the lining* lor $10. The
neck and sleeves were edged with narrow white
plcot edged ribbon, ending in rosettes, hence,
the entire cost of a lovely costume was only
$25.One of the prettiest wedding gowns worn this
season was made after adrcssof Sicilienne gar
nished with orange blossoms, that cost $150 to
import. The copy robe was of cream Bilk-warp
Henrietta—varnished board brand, at $2.00 a
yard—witli its draperies fringed with sprays of
orange buds and blossoms, knotted into thegoods.
The entire cost of this dress, makiug and trim
ming included, was less than $50.8tTll another of our described models inexpen
sive faille Francaise, with plush embossed fabric
for combination, was prettily duplicated in a
cheaper faille Francaise at $lT25 a yard, and the
$1.00 a yard stamped brocade, which the lady
rendered most effective by outlining the lloral de
signs with embroidery silks, and gold and silver
tinsel threads, creating beautiful result by add
ing In the flower centers a few steel cut crystal,
and Incandescent beads. This dresswas made at
home, and the cost of all materials was $30.
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EXQUISITE EVENING GOWNS.
For elegant evening robes a most beautiful
fabric Is a heavy silk, with cream ground, coy-
ered with boquets ofsmall flowers, worked lu
metallic threaus, of tne natural but subdued tone
of the flowers, with tasselsof tine metal beads de
pending all over. In daylight the tones are soil
and dainty, but it is wheu worn beneath the gas
or electric lights, that its glimmering brightness
is realized.Clinging, soft materials are largely in demand
for eveuiug wear, because they drape more artis
tically thau the heavier fabrics, and the beauty
aud style of a dress now depends much upon
the drapery. As an example, a dress with illk
foundation shows cream crepe dc Chitic lalllng
carelessly, but always gracclully about the
skirt, while the bodice is crossed "from the left
shoulder by a breadth of the stu£t,which seemed
to lose itself iu the side folds. The sleeves are
formed of a series of puffs tothe elbow. Such a
dress is simple, becoming, aud comparatively in
expensive.One of the so-called aesthetic dresses for au ev
ening party is made of white Indian muslin
striped vriib lace insertions, and a gold braid
threaded down each insertion. Over this a Greek
bodice and tuuic edged all round with lace lu-
ertion, threaded wlthgold braid, are worn, be
ing secured at waist line by a gold band.Gold c I asps are on the shoulder, gold bracelets
above aud below elbow, aud a gold dog collar
round neck, add to the effect of the dress, and
the hair of the wearer is to be arranged a la
Diana, with a gold cbain colled twice arouud
the head.A handsome black dress for evening wear is
made of point d' esprit, with the edge of the
skirt embroidered rouud, and festooned instead
of being hemmed. Under this Is a skirt of black
satin edged all round with a deep flouuee of the
same tulie alsoembroideredaud festooned round
the edge. A full bodice has satin bows on one
shoulder, aud satin sash sound the waist, which
sash slightly loop3 up the akirtououeside.
This dress made in black tulle, or any plain
black material, and trimmed withstars aud cres
cents of silver will be beautiful for "Night" to
wear to a fancy dresa ball. Ifmadein colorsor
cream it la lovely foraoeiables, oraiiy evcuiiigeu-
tei tatuments. An exquisiteconcert toilette shows
a tunic of pale blue silk poplin with loose panels,
edged round with large pearls, and opening over
askirt formed of white lace flouuees. Under bod
ice of white lace, woru beneath a swiss bodice of
the blue poplin.One of Worth's church dresses is of silver-grey
moire, over a skirt of silver-grey satin pe-
kin; the wrap to wear with thisdress isa Main-
teuon scarf mantilla of moire .velvet bordered
with grey feathers.An exquisite theatre dress of pansy faille Fran
chise just iroin Paris, is open iu front to show a
tablicr of ivory satin which is morvellously and
exquisitely embroidered with fine beads. The
long-waisted Anne of Austria corsage opens in
the same way over a bead embroidered ivory
plastron.Entirely new is an elegant dinner or reception
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the medium-priced just nowHabit Cloth, Hue, warm, llgf
Onh
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THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
Festival Fashions.
{Concludedfrom opposite page.) •
The waist coat is al6o of puffed tulle, on the left
Bide is a large bouquet of roses aud maiden-hair
fern, worn at the waist, as brides wear their bri
dal bouquet.The newest stockings to wear with tea gowns
are blueshotwith red, lnopeu-workstiipes,6taud-
iag up in relief, running up the foot to the ankle
and then crossing the leg horizontally. These
stockings also come in other color combinations.
The novelties in Jersey underwear are delic ate,
warm, light Inwefght, and as elastic as the most
refined modern conscience. What more can a
fashionable woman ask for? For Information
thanks are due John Wanamaker, Lewis 8. Cox,
and Straw-bridge & Clothier, Philadelphia, Pa.
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eay, our correspondence Is notcoufiued to out-of-
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from city friends asking where they shall go to
find certain lines of goods desired, or mentioned
in our fashion articles.Quite anumberof Pbilada. housekeepers who
appear to be of the good old stay-at-home kind,
which we greatlv admire, but do not care to emu
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which questions can hardly be answered in tbe
brief space granted, therefore we respectfully
suggest a visit to John Wanumaker's store, where
one side of the immense building presents a per
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other articles In china, in high art pottery, curi
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the most delicate creations for the table, aud for
beautifying the home. Considerable space is
given to tbe odd and practical articles in glass,
and a most tempting display of beautiful articles
of silverware, merits and attracts attention. La
dies whocannot visit this house and wish to know
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silverware, can write for catalogue of such arti
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John Wanamaker's, Philadelphia, Pa.In other of our city stores great preparations
have been made for the festival season. Lewis S.
Cox of 1220 Chestnut street, has just issued a
price list of new Box Elastic Robes, suitable and
elegant presents lor ladies. He has also opened
a large assortment of handsome wraps, costumes,
jerseys, and jersey underwear, In most desirable
qualities at reasonable prices.Tbe lightest, the easiest, the most graceful,
and the most stylish skirt supporters, arc the
Health Braided Wire Torsion Spring Bustles,
made by Weston & Wells, of Philadelpfila. These
bustles- have been generally accepted by fashion- 1
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these very uecessary dress accessories, which are
now sold at greatly reduced prices. The new
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The Ladies' Home Journal.The dally sales of special bargains at Sharpless
Brothers will continue until after the holidays.
Out-of-town buyers will find the suggestive price
list of articles suitable for Christmas and New
Year's presents, valuable aid in making their se
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12 JANUAftV, 1666.THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
[For The Ladies' Home Jocthnai,]
TALKS ABOUT FLOWERS.
BY EBEN E. HEXFORD.
Some Good Old-Fashioned Flowers.
I am glnd to see the growing Interest in old-
fashioned flowers. Glad because it shows a ten
dency to discard the much-prai6cd but little-
meritorious sorts lately grown because they were
"new," or "fori'ign, 11 and a return to old favor
ites, and it indicates ao advance in taste, and
shows that many of our amateur flower-jrowers
are Inclined to cultivate whatever is worth culti
vating without regard to its antecedents. Time
was,—and not so verv long ago,—when to sav
that a flower was "old-fashioned" was to banish
it from most gardens. I have never had much
patience with those who claimed to he lovers of
beauty and could see nothing beautiful in a
flower that did not come from other lands, or was
not something that ''everybody could not have."
Beauty is everybody's property, andnoone ought
to try to make it exclusive. If 1 have a hue flower,
I want others who love flowers to have one like
it, and enjoy it with me. If my neighbor does
not want it simply because I have it, I suspect
that he docs not care for it as a flower, aud I
cannot help feeling that he cares more for being
"in the fashion" than he does for beautiful thing6
Because of the beauty there is In them. With
him, to be in fashion is to have something other
brown when seen in the sunshine, and their tex
ture is such as to make the name of velvet very
appropriate. By all means have some Marigolds.
One of my first memories goes back to the
Sweet Peas that grew year after year in the gar
den by the house where I was boru. In those
days you would find these flowers in every garden.
But for a time they were lost sight of almost
wholly. I remember of writiugahout them some
years ago, aud I said: "Some time there will come
a reaction among those who grow flowers, similar
to that which sets so many wild over old china
and bric-a-brac geuerally,aud then the Marigolds
aud Larkspurs, the Gillyflowers and Sweet Peas
of old times will regaiu the popularity which
ought never to have been lost, aud you will find
them lu the gardens from which they have b»en
banished, and Angelica will say, as she does to
day, over a Queen Auue cabinet or an old carved
chair, 'How lovely 1 I never knew tue, were so
fine. They are ever so much nicer than modern
ones, areu'ttbey !', audshewillgather Pinks aud
Hollyhocks to put in the cracked chiua pitcher
that has becu hunted out from its loug repose in
the attic where grandmother consigned it to ob
livion, as she supposed, when its day of useful
ness seemed over. Speed the day wbea grand
mother's flowers shall be as highly prized as her
discarded china." Aud what 1 wrote then Is a
prophecy which is being fulfilled. And those old
flowers are "coming to the front" again, and—it
is well.
Sweet Peas should have a corner to themselves
to be most effective. A coruerin which they can
he sown as early in.thc spring as possible. Api il
is not too early for t hem. Frost does not injure
them. They must beput at leastflveinchesdeep,
in onlur to let them send their roots down well,
below the dry upper soil, and they should be
sowed quite thickly. As soon as they begin to
show an inclination to climb, give them some
brush to cling to, if it happens to be at hand, or
easily procurable. It doesn't matter if it hasn't
a very attractive appearance when first stuck in
the rows. The Sweet Peas will see that it is cov
ered by midsummer, and nothing else suits them
quite so well as a support, as brush. They will
cling to it as if they had an especial liking lor it,
—as I think they have,—and do better with it for
a trellis than they will on a fancy one of painted
wood and wire You willhave a hedge of beauty
when the butterfly blossoms come. And so sweet !
MARIGOLD.
people do not have, and in proportion as a flower
becomes common, his ad.niralion for it grows
less. Tnisis all wrong, and indicates a luck of
love forflowerslorthemselves. If real merit had
been the standard by which flowers were Judged,
for some years back, many kinds which grew in
our grandmothers' gardens would have never
been thrust into obscurity, but would have held
their own with any of the new ones, as they are
fully able to do, when they are judged according
to the standard of beauty.
Among the old flowers which rejoice in a res
toration to popular favor, the Marigold stands
well towards the head of the list.
The fashionable "craze" for vivid yellows has
had something to do with this, for many like to
have the same colors in their garden that they
have in their clothing. But this flower has
enough merit aside from this coincidence ot
color, to make It deserving of a place in any gar-
deu. I have always admired a rich yellow, aud
have written a good deal about the fine effects
to be obtained by its use in the garden, or iu bo-
quets. It tones up all other colors, and bright
ens them, as sunshine does a shadowed room. It
is sunshine materialized, and whoever would
produce strikingcombin itiousof color, and bring
out each one most forcibly, must use yellow in
order to accomplish this result. I am forciblv
imuressed with this fact, by visitiug my conser
vatory, and taking note of a group of Chrysan
themums in one comer of it. Most of ths vari
eties placed there are of the inaroou aud dull
crimson sorts. The effect is much the same as
that produced by a cloudy day. I put a pot o
yellow ones among the darker colors, andlo,—a
miracle 1 The group becomes glorified. The one
thing lacking has been supplied. The rich beauty
of the dark colors is enhanced, and brought out
vividly by the contrast, and no other color could
do this so Well as yellow. White would have
helpe.l to lighten the heavy effect of too much
dark color, but it would not have had that sug
gestion of warmth and brightness which was
Deeded.
Wherever a brave show of Intense yellow Is re
quired, then, I would advise the use of Marigolds.
They arc easily grown, comparatively hardy,
bloom during the entire season very profusely,
and by a selection of varieties you can combine
several shades of this color in a manner to pro
duce a very pleasing effect. The "velvet" sorts
are exceedingly rich in color, being a deep gold-
I Iu all the garden you can flud nothing sweeter.
Ifyouwaut flowers for the vases iu the parlor
you can always get a supply, after June, aud up
to the coming of Irost, lrom the Sweet Peas. In
using them for boquels I prefer, always, to keep
them »y themselves. They require a tall and
slender vase, aud the steins should be cut long
enough to let the flowers stand up well above the
top of the vase, and droopabout to suit thelrowu
wayward, but always artistic, fancies. They
know how to arrange themselves graceTully, anil
it is always best to give them the cuauceto do it.
The prettiest ones, to me, are the pale rose
colored ones. But all are pretty.
And another good old flower is the Morning
Glory. Talk of your Moon Flowers, with their
pallid beauty. They never had half the charm
about them that the purple and blue and pink
and white Morning Glories have, on a summer
day, when the carlv sun coaxes the fragile petals
to unclose be. ore the dew has dried on them. It
has always been a fancy of mine that all Morning
Glories were white, ouceupon a time, but a rain
bow got tangled among them in some mysterious
lashlou, and sonieof them caughtits vivid colors,
and have held them fast ever siuce. 1 never see
them without thinking of that line of Tennysou's
about
"The horns of elfland, faintly blowing."
If, as the poets tell us,—and it seems to me
they ought to know, if anybody,—the fairies play
midnight music on flower trumpets, these must
be the flowers they choose for their sweetest
"concourse of sweet sounds."
Planted by a perch, or beneath a window, they
soon >wver a large space with luxuriant growth,
reaching up to a height of ten or twelve feet, if
strings are given them toclimb on. If you want
a screen, or someting tocoveran unsightly fence,
or an old stump, vou can select nothing better
than this flower. For cutting it Is worthless, be
cause It Is of such delicate and fragile texture
that a slight touch Injures it, and it soon wilts
and withers if taken from the parent vine. To
be enjoyed to the utmost, it should be planted
close to the house.—about the porch and veranda,
and the windows of the rooms mo-t used, where
the beautiful flowers can look in with theirchcery
good-morning to you, at the very peep of day.
I always feel safe in advising the amateur flor
ist to try his skill, or lackof it, perhaps, on the
Abutilon. We have no flower of easier cultiva
tion. I do not except the Geranium, in making
this statement. It will grow uudcr most unfav
orable circumstances, but of course I do not ad
vise any one to Belect it 6ffoH.sc it will aland abuxe,
for I want everyone who tries to grow a flower to
give it as good care as possible, even if it will do
comparatively well without it. 1 advise it be
cause I know that it will give pleasure, and that
caring for It will help the amateui to learu many
things which will be of benefit to him in culti
vating other and more exacting plants, which he
could not grow well at first. 8ome experience
with the more robuBt flowers will enable one to
take iu hand some of the more delicate sorts,
with good show of success, but without some
previous experience in floriculture, lie would not
be likely to do much with them. One must work
his way along gradually in floriculture, and he
should begin with such kinds as do not require
such care as he is not able to give at first. By
selecting the sturdy sorts, aud studying them, he
gains by degrees the knowledge requisite to a
successful cultivation of ail other kinds.
The abutilon is always a pretty plaut. Its fo
liage is attractive enough, in Itself, to make it an
ornament to auy window. Large, abundant,
bright lu color, and easily kept clean, it gives a
cheerful look to the room. No insect attacks it
If other plants arc at band. Itsefdom becomes
sickly. And niue months out of tho twelve it
will be in bloom. Its flowers are a'ways bell-
shaped, pendulous, aud borne on loug, "slender
stems which throwtbeinoutwcllfromthe leaves.
There are mauy varieties, in several colors.
Some arc orange veined with crimson. Others
are pure white. Tboclear yellowsare very pretty,
aud one of the*dark purplish maroon sorts should
be iucludcd in all large collections. But the
prettiest of all, to mc, is JtotaeJIorum. It is a
rich shade of pink, veined with darker color. It
is a most profuse bloomer, and makes a very at
tractive shrub, if given proper training. In order
to make any Abutilon compact and bushy, it is
necessary that a good deal of pinching should be
done while the plant Is small and voting. Nip
out the top when you want it to branch, and
when other shoots start, nip them off, aud keep
up this treatment until you have as many
branches started as you think will be needed to
make the plant what you want it to be. If you
waut it to be a miniature tree, let it grow in a
straight stem to the height of two or three feet,and then begin the pinching-in process. Allow
no branches to start below the place where you
want the head of the tree to form, and secure as
many branches there as you think necessary to
make It compact and bushy. The more branches
you have, the more flowering surface there will
be. It will grow in any good soil. I generally
give mine precisely the same earth to grow in
that is given Geraniums, and from their vigorous
and healthy appearance thev arc well suited with
it.
If I were asked to name three of the best vari
eties of this popular flower, the list would be this :
Rosaeflorum, pink.
Snowstorm, pure white.
Laura Powell, soft lemon yellow.
ANSWERS TO Ql'EKIES.
"Occident" wants to know how to grow Ma-
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great propensity for drying out, though she gives
ft plenty of water, seemingly. Perhaps- tho soil
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any great length of time. Mix some loam with
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THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
[For the Ladies' Home jocttNAL.]
UPON ETIQUETTE AND GOOD
MANNERS.
BI MRS. S. O. JOHNSON.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
1st. When a visitor rises to take leave, the
hostess should also rise, and say, "Good morn
ing, or good evening. 1 am always happy to see
you." And the visitor can say, "Tliauk you, I
hope you will tome to see me soon." One cannot
give exact directions of "what shall be said and
! done" as it depends upon the intimacy that ex
ists between the parties. Your good sense will
direct you what to say.2d. Address your letter to the editor of the
paper, and at the head of the sheet, write in full
thedepartmcutat which you desire youruuestious
to be received and answered. Giveyourfull name,
and direct to what name or initial you desire the
answer to be given.Inquisitor :-lst. The correct way to help a lady
mount a horse, is to have the lady stand beside
thesaddlewtth her right hand on the pommel,
and her left hand on tue geutlemau's rigut shoul
der. She theu puts her Telt foot into his hand,
and with his assistance springs upon the horse.
To dismouut, the lady puts her left hand upon
the gentleman's right shoulder, takes her loot
out of the stirrup; aud he puts his hands under
her arms, and lilts her down.2d. Stand at the left hand of the lady, and
give your right hand to assist her into the car
riage. To assist a lady to step out of a carriage,
offer your right hand for her support.
3d. When passing your plate to be helped a
second time, at table, lay the knife aud fork at
the left hand side.4th. If you are a guest atthe table you should
not fold up your napkin, but leave it beside your
Pl5th. Messrs Harper's Brothers publish a book
upon "Decorum and Good Manners," by Mrs. E.
W. Sherwood, that is highly recommeuded.
Mrs. R. F.lst. We have not published such an ar
ticle as you allude to, in "The Ladies' Home
Journal.2d. White or buff table cloths, bordered with
colors, and Daplvins to match are used for the
breakfast table. White double damask for the
dinner table, with napkins to match, and red, or
colored plaid table cloths, with or without fringe
for supper. For breakfast and tea, tray cloths
are employed to protectthe tablecloth, aud mats
are used a"t evcrv meal.Nettie. 1st. When children of the age of thir
teen meet on the street, there need be no strict
etiquette concerning whether the boy or the girl
speaks first.2nd. If a girl of that age wishes to send a boy
a birthday gift, there is no rule of etiquette to
prevent her doing so, but she should consult her
mother's wishes in the matter, aud be guided by
them. A book, some handkerchiefs with his ini
tials embroidered on them, a whisk broom case,
or any thing of her own work, applicable to a
boy's needs would be approDriate.8d. A skating bag is made of heavy drilling,
or awning cloth and cut the length of the skates
with plenty of margin to turn in, and run in a
casing for a drawing string. Consult The Work
Table Dep't for directions for crocheting an af-
ghan.Also the Fashion Dep't formaking wash dress
es. Simple skirts with a deep hem, and three or
five tucks above it, and ayoke waist with gathered
fronts and hack, aud a wide belt, is a neat style
for cotton dresses. To mingle check ami plain
cloth, mak« the lower skirt of plain goods,and the
collar, cuffs and vest, and the over skirt, waist
and sleeves of the checked material.
"Mabelle Marsley":—It is impossible to ans
wer questions under two months, if they are sent
the last days of the month. Thus, your questions
were written Julv 80th. when the AugustiNo.of the
Ladies' Home Journal was already Issued and
the September No. ready for the press, so they
could not be answered in Sept. No.A gentleman should carry his hat In his hand
when he enters a lady's parlor,aud the lady should
not offer to take it from him any more than
he should offer to take her fan, or handkerchief.
If he wears a top coat, she should ask him to lay
it aside, and let hiin throw it over a chair, or place
it upon the piano, and if he likes, put his hat upon
1L If she prefers shi) can say, "won't you put
your coat Into the next room?" Thatis if she ob
jects to its remaining in the parlor, as you state
you do."N. J. L. K.";—1st. When paying ceremo
nious visits you should give your card to the ser
vant, who opens the door, to carry to her mistress,
and she will afterwards place it in the card bas
ket, which is usually kept upon a small table in
the front hall.2d. When a lady has set apart a special day of
the week Hi-ou which to receive the visits ot her
friends, itis not customary tooffer refreshments.
3d. The Chicago ttre occurred upon the 9th.
of October, 1871."Retta" :—1st. It does not matter upon which
side of her escort a lady sits at table. The gen
tleman will draw out a chair for the lady, if a
waiter is not in attendance to do it, aud take the
next seat himself.2d. In passing through a crowd or in any place
where there is only room for one per»ou to pass
the gentleman will precede the lady."C. A. C.":—Better wait awhile before you
write for the return of your letters, something
uniorseen may have occurred."M. L. B.":—lu talking to your friends about
your married daughters, unless there is great in
timacy betweeu you, give ibein their married ti
tle i e whatever their husbacds' names may be.
"A New Subscriber" :—1st. Iuvltatlous to
a wedding In a church, and the receptiou at the
house are not answered nowadays. If you ac
cept you leave your card on a plate placed fur the
purpose at the eutranee of the house. If you
decline, you call within a week, aud also leave a
C*2d! A lady can attend a wedding alone, if she
has uo escort.4th. When wedding cards arc received you
6hould call on the reception day, or if you live
at another town, you should send your card In
an envelope upon a reception day. Or if you
prefer you can let the Invitation remain unac
knowledged until your wedding comes to pass,
then send your cards to the parties. We do not
answer questions in this Dep't, through the mail.
"Miss C. Nlldt" :—It may not be Improper for a
young worn m to correspond with her gentlemen
friends, but it is unwise. Unless she is engaged
to marry a young man, a young womau should
be very careful what she writes to him; aud it Is
far better not to write at all, but if the parties
•re very wellknow to each other perhaps uo harm
may arise from the correspondence.'T)alBy 3." :—1st. No gentleman would claim
a good night kiss from a young lady whom he es
corts home. And if he should take offence at be
ing refused, so much the better for the young
lady.2d. A gentleman asks a lady to dance In these
words, "Alap I have the pleasure ot the next
waltz for quadrilie) I" If he desires to escort her
home, he should say; "May I be your escort to
night?" or "May I have the pleasure of walking
home with you I" The young lady will of course
receive such invitations courteously, and if 6he
likes, accepts them with thanks, or if she has a
prior invitation she can say, "Thank you, but I
amengagedfor thlsdauce, or "Thank you, Mr.—
has offered to be my escort this evening."
8d. The lady will stand within the door until
the carriage is announced.4lh, If the lady does not desire to be assisted
to or from a carriage she need not be. but It iB
the usual custom for the geutleman to offer his
arm, and forthc lady to accept it.
"A. B.":—1st. Ii) leaving a house where you
have been paying a visit, you should shake hands
with all the ladies if they offer their hands. And
if one, who is a guest, is to leave town before
yon call again, you should express your regrets
at her departure, In cordial terms, ^nd the lady
will probably offer herhand in bidding you adieu.
2d. Eitherexuression, "goodnight," or "go„d
evening," is correct.3d. when calling on ladiesin other towns, wait
for them to offer to shake hands, both in enterng
and leaving the room. It is a woman's preroga
tive to shake hands with gentlemen or not, as she
pleases.4th. A gentleman should leave a visltingcard
when be calls upon a lady, either by handing it
to the servant who opens the door or by placing
it upon a plate in the hull left there for that pur
pose. He should also enclose his card with any
Christmas offering that he may Bend to lady
friends. When Introduced to gentleman, and be
coming friendly with them he can offer to ex
change cards.5th. In retiring from a large party It Is suffi
cient to bow politely when expressing the pleas
ure you have received. Aud if the hostess or
host offer the hand, shake it cordially, but not too
roughly.6 tli. In walking with a lady in a large city If
the gentleman keeps on the outside, it is a pro
tection to her against the crowd, but in small
townslt matterslittle on which side he walks.
"M. G. G.":—It Is Impossible to answer ques
tions In this department the ensuing month, as
the Journal is alw ays printed a month or six
weeks in advauce. Will refer you to previous ar
ticles printed u|>on "Wedding Etiquette," which
gave full details.1st. The bridesmaids congratulate the bride
and groom after the parents.2d- 1 1 is not necessary for the bridesmaids to
dress in trained skirts because the bride's dress
is cut en train.3d. If the bridesmaids' dresses arc white, they
should wear white slippers and gloves. If
pluk, blue, or yellow, the slippers and gloves
should match the dress. <»- .4th. The first bridesmaid and "best man" cu
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iPor the Ladies' Home Juuioai.j
HINTS ON MONEY MAKING.
BT ELLA HODMAN CHURCH.
First, she wondered if she dared to do it, and
next she wondered if itcould be carried through.
She had read of an lgnoraut little colored girl
who, in order to help a sIck mistress, went
around begging bits of silk and ribbon, and then
hired women capable of making thi-m up into at
tractive forms, but whose orders were few and
far between, to do the work for her.They were glad, poor things ! to do it for very
little, and they did it well; the articles were tak
ing, and the fancy stores pud f.ur prices for them.
Little Miss Africa had certainly displayed an ad
mirable bead for business: now how could her
impecunious white sister utilize this ideal
She turned and twisted it in all possible direc
tions,—saying once or twice, "I've got it.'" when
she had not got it at all,—until finally It arranged
Itself satisfactorily. Why had not she thought
sooner of that visit to P , and the charming
state of destitution Into which that respectable
town was plunged in the way of entjrtaluineutst
There was much substantial wealth in P- ,
a great deal ot comfort, and not a little old fogy-
Ism. Tucked down among tho hills, aud rather
off from the great centres, it was a charming,
picturesque, and eminently healthful place of
residence ; the inhabitants lived to be fabulously
old, and this was probably, in some measure,
owinglotUeirneverbeiugexcited. They seldom
went from home, yet tho doings ol the great
world came to thein through the medium of pa
pers and magazines; aud this made them capa
ble ol appreciating beauty and pleasantness wnen
it was brought to them.P was really virgin soil; almost the only
dissipation being an occasional "Fair," where
commonplace articles that every oae made were
offered for sate, audcaka so well known that it
did not need to be labelled with the doner's name.
Every one in P went to these Fairs, because
there was uothing else to go to; and a respecta
ble sum of money was usually raised for the
'cause,' whatever it might happen to be. A
Drinking Fountain was the latest 'fad —not so
much, perhaps, in the way of offcrlug refresh
ment to man and beast, as to be a sort of poem
in stone at the upper end of the town, draped
with vines and blooming plants and suggesting
the old English custom of Well-dressing at Wit-
tuuttde.All these thoughts flashed through Medora's
brain with great rapidity; and she promptly de
cided to make an attack upon P through
this vulnerable point, the Drinking Fountain.
She sat down at her desk, and seizing her strong
est weapon, wrote au eight-page letter to her
friend atP——, In which sho set forth the ad
vantages of her scheme— to herself,—promised
ten per cent of the profits to the Drinking Foun
tain—aud claimed Mrs. F—-'b co-operation and
substantial aid.On the first reading of this epistle, the recip
ient was vastly amused at 'Meflora's latest.' For
that impecunious person had been struggling
with original ideas for a somewhat lengthy peri
od of time—the result of these contests having
thus far proved the reverse of cxhllaratory ; yet
she always came so gallantly to tho field again, inthat shining armor of buoyant hopefulness, that
her friends and well-wishers, although prepared
forthe worst, could notqulto subdue a faintex-
pectatiou that adverse fate might bo vanquished
in some oue of these endless encounters. The
present scheme had more to recommend It, more
balance as it were, than Medora's usual flights;
and Mrs. F , after some reflection, took it in
hand with great earnestness.The originator of the plan for charming money
outof the poekets ot the unsuspecting inhabi
tants of P seemed to have unfolded a pair
of wings, which oore her here and there and every
where at once. Sho found herself in odd places
sometimes, and made mental rjotes 'or future
reference; and thedensestupidlty of workers in
receiving ideas that were at all oue of the beaten
track simply amazed her. In return, they looked
upon her somewhatosa bundleof explosive ideas
that wero more startling than pleasant. They
were willing, however, to take her money, and to
execute her work without understanding it.
Mrs. F was a leader society atP ,
and she usually persuaded society to fall iu with
her plans. Like a wise woman, she began pres
ent operations with tho young lady clement, -
which almost invariably has things its own way ;
and to this portion oi the community, the idea
otan entertainment was wonderfully alluring.
There were so few entertainments in P that
a novel species of Bazaar seemed a perfect wind
fall. It was to be held, tooon the first day, or
rather night, ot December, just the time
when people begintothinkseriouslyof Curisttnas
presents; and tho Season itself would be repre
sented In such an uuusual way, with other de
lights too numerous to mention, that it almost
took their breath, away to think ol it. But all
were bound over to secrecy, and the secret was
wonderfully well kept.The matrons and older people were pleased be
cause they were not asked to do any work for this
very original affair,and the compounding of those
venerable cakesand antique delicacies was an item
not to be desired; considering this, it was real
ly liberal to promise ten percent of the profits for
the Drinking Fountain. But housekeeping P
generously offered its spoons and china to grace
the festal board that would be spread for every
one'seutertainmeut ;andil graciously approved of
charging twenty-live cents for a ticket of admis
sion.No one seemed quite to know what it was all
about, nor what would evcutually become of the
other ninety cents on the dollar; but Mrs. F
eloquently described thecntertainmcutasa 'coin-
■ postte' affair, and said that it was on the plan of
a Women?I Exchange 'with variations.' As few
of her hearers knew what a Woman's Exchange
was, they received this statement with an air of
being qu ite at home in the matter, and Mrs. F
was not called upon for any further eulighten-
ment.Shc volunteered the fact,however,that many
the articles for sale would be the work of reduced
ladles with gifted needles, and brushes; aud that
the refreshments would be 60methiugqultediller-
ent from those usually seen In P —.Medora, too, who was favorably remembered,
would be there to help with the entertainment
which she had suggested herself, and many of
whose friends were contributing articles lor the
sale, as they needed the money which it was
hoped to realize. Among these friends, whom
our financier had much on her mind, were one or
two arti9ts of admirable powers but little origi
nality, who faithfully carried out her designs,—
and the results were particularly effective.On the whole, P approved, and looked
forward to the eventful evening of December the
first with pleased expectancy; while 'the Hall,'
where all extra doings of a secular character
went on, was thoroughly renovated aud adorned.
The Committee sat with closed doors', and care
fully wrapped aud boxed goods that were con
stantly arriving yielded nothing to the closest
outside scrutiny. Wild stories were spread, but
no truth leaked out; aud the bewildering surprise
of the opening that took place at the appointed
time was not weakened by previous expectation.
By seven o'clock, an eager mob had gathered
around the door; and as December chose to ap
pear, thatscason, iu a guise ill-befitting her age,—
having wrapped herself around witu a solt, Lazy
atmosphere better suited to September, summer,
—blue skies, aud geutly running brooks, with a
corouent of 6tiU green willow-leaves, smiling and
simpering like Juue herself—an original incarna
tion of W inter that greeted them soon after en
tering, roused the wildest enthusiasm.
There are people who are good for nothing but
to look pietty, yet they do this so admirably that
they seem to have furnished their excuse for be
ing; and the golden-haired, blue-eyed damsel,
who had beeti selected 17 Medora's artistic eye to
represent Winter belonged to this class. She
looked too ilkeonc of Tennyson's dreamy maid
ens out of his Idyls and her canton-flannel robe
might have becu 'white samite,' cut square in
the neck with a bordering of silver braid around
the square. After being introduced iuto it, she
was dabbled over with mucilage and peppered
with glass and mica. This gave hera very frosty
appcaraucc, which her necklace of filagree silver
did not dispel. Her flowing hair was ornamented
with glass beads tied ouat Intervals for snow-
crystals ; and her cap of steel-blue velvet had sil
ver stars dotted over it.
WlNTKR'smanner wasfreezing,—the result of
careful training, as In private life, she was rather
given to a chronic giggle ; and she dispensed Ice
cream and frosted cake without tho slightest ap
proach to a thaw. Many people took more of
these commodities than was good for tnem, prin
cipally to have the opportunity of gaziugunre-
proved at Winter,—whose cash-box grew heav
ier aud heavier. But the sunshine of prosperity ]
did not melt her iu the least; aud although her
role was a silent one, she carried it out admira
bly.
There were other attractions as the spectator
advanced; and at the opposite end of the long
apartment, a model of the Drinking Fountain
that was to be, looked wonderfully natural in
paste-board and brown muslin, with vines, plants,
etc., to deepen the illusion. But besides being a
Driuking Fountain, itwasalso a Lemonade Well,
—with a little Kate Greeuaway boy aud girl on
either side to dispeuse the popular beverage.
Every one seemed resolved to do all the eating
and drinking that presented Itself ; and coppers
and nickels poured so steadily into the well as to
threaten the necessity of calling for an extra bar
rel ortwo of lemonade.
The wares displayed down the length of the
room were handsome, cheap and in exquisite
taste ; everything being arranged artistically, and
setoff against a suitable background. Some few
cravings of human nature, and especially female
nature, which are seldom gratified, had been ful
ly catered to; and among these a weakness for
shoe-bags, and various conveniences, was promi
nently recoguized. With the wretched little clos
ets that prevailed nt P , these and other re
ceptacles forthe disposition of small belongings
were an actual necessity ; and the eageruess with
which they were appropriated was a flattering
tribute to Medora's discernment. They were not
only useful, however, butabsolutcly pretty, rich-
looking cretonnes being used in their manufac
ture, and the prevailing color perfectly matched
in worsted braid for binding.
Some handsome ottomans were made of boxes
with hinged lids, affording an admirable recepta
cle for magazines and papers, or pieces of Work,
—according to the character of the room iu which
they were used ; and the brass-headed nails with
which they were finished gave them quite an ele
gant appearance. A few wall-cabinets wero much
admired aud quickly purchased—being the work
of ayouug German who did it weir and very
cheaply. Small tables, too, that proved very pop
ular, were turned out by the same skillful bauds.
Truly had the affair been called 'composite.'
and somebody said that it was like a very small
Centennial. There was a Japanese Department,
which encroached on its Chinese, Indian, and
other Oriental neighbors, with a broadness which
rose superior to uutlonal lines; and this was pre
sided over by Mr. Yo Wing, a young Chiuese gen
tleman of great promise, whoran away from home
at a tender age, and was now striving to raise
the wherewithal to run back again. The same
good taste In the selection of articles prevailed
here as elsewhere; and while there "vas nothing
extravagant In price, everything was good of its
kind. The most popular feature was some very
questionable Turkish candy; deftly made on a
certain oil-stove In a certain third-story back
room, and compounded of honey, sugar, rose-
water, and fragmentary almonds. But, like the
wonderful remedies of a medicinal character,
'children cried for it,'—while their elders were
not above coufessine a predilection for this for
eign sweetmeat. So, Mr. Yo Wing smiled con
tinuously, aud distributed endless packages of
'deliirht' to old aud young.
A Targe table was given up entirely to child
ren's toys, books, games, etc; aud these bad all
been selected by a 'master miud,' and bought at
the lowest wholesale prices. The Lilliputians
fairly swarmed in P ; and it was said that
on bright days, the side-walks presented au
unbroken line of baby-carriages. Mindful,
therefore, of this important element, Medoracol-
locteda solid phalanx of temptations which no
parent with half a heart could resist, and stromcd
slender purses with a variety of cheap but
fascinating noise produces, aud active dolls and
animals that only required to be seen to be ap
preciated.A small adjacent table, like an annex, was con
stantly surrounded by an amused and admiriug
crowd : for here were displayed dolls' garments
of every description, in grown-up fashion, with a
regular 'opening' of Paris millinery. This table
had been entirely supplied by a partial invalid,
whose wouderfully skillful fingers fashioned the
small garmentssobeautifully forall sortsof dolls,
that scarcely a child iu the place who could get
to the Bazaar atall, went away without carrying
one of them with her.There was also an apron table; and this was
pronounced 'perfectly bewitching.' One of the
prettiest girls, left, after the snow-maiden had
becnselected, was attired in one of the prettiest
aprons prominently marked 'For Sale,'—and this
apron was a poem. It waft made of cream-white
surah, and painted with Wild Roses, that wreath
ed themselves in and out with beautiful prodi
gality. A practical lady 'didn't believe it would
wash,'—which raised a perfect shout, aud seemed
on a par with doubting if the wearer would accom
plish much with the scrubbiug-brush. The price
was ten dollars; aud in a very short time, the
magic word, 'Sold' replaced the announcement
'For Sale.'Many of the aprons were very original in de
sign aud extremely pretty in effect; some were
painted, some were outlined in embroidery silk,
some were cheaply and daintily put together of
muslin, lace, and ribbons. Numerous were the
work-aprons, with their turned-up receptacles
for implements and materials; and numerous
were the candidates for aprons of every degree.
These dress-preservers were fashionable as well
as useful; and then, as people said, 'they made
such nice presents.'
A central point of attraction was a circular-
shaped counter, on which were displayed rucli-
ing of every degree aud denomination, laces,
silk bandkcrchlels, and all kinds of ornamental
'finishings,' perfumery, toilet arteiles, etc.
Quantities of these things were sold ; and as,
contrary to the usual custom, gentlemen's Bmall-
artieh'8al80 were provided,—not forgetting fine
handkerchiefs, sleeve-buttons, etc., the lair
sales-womau was kept busy.
A good selection of books for old and young,
with a view to the Holidays, with photograjih
Albums, and etchings and lithographs in simple
frames, received a lull share of attention: and a
chubby-lookiug boy had been furnished with a
pairofgreengogglesand apretcrnaturally solemn
expression, and stationed under a stuffed owl, to
dispense these wares in an appropriate manuer.
The whole thing seemed a sort ot Joke on a gi
gantic scale, and people were put lntoa good hu
mor by these devices for their amusement.
A portion of the long hall was partially cur
tained off for a refreshment room ; and to and
from this most attractive retreat flowed asteady
stream of hungry and satisfied humanity. There
were few homes in P where the last meal,
whether called 'tea' or 'supper,' wasserved, that
evening; aud full justice was accordingly done
to the excellent viands provided. The first act
of those who passed the canton-flannel portals
was to stare hard at the artistic table decora
tions; and the next, to join In the game of 'Puss-
in-thc-corner' for a seat.The central ornament, which every one pro
nounced 'beautiful,' was a round sugar-box cov
ered with brown muslin, and then massed with
trailing vines of Ivy and Tradcscantha; outof
this rose a solid mass of pink and white Chrysan
themums, pink, white, and green, being the pre
vailing colors of the table. The pink and white
Chrysanthemums were two pots of growing
plants lent for the occasion by Mrs. F , ana
their natural blossoms were so skillfully supple
mented with artificial ones, that the addition was
not suspected. To carry out the character of De
cember, frosting was used lavishly, and mica and
pounded glass glittered wherever they were not
likely to come In contact with the viands. Ice
cream and jellies were made pink and green with
raspberry Jam and spinach; and the layer-cakes
were beautiful In the three colors.Several delightful dishes were presented at
this feast which had never been seen in P
before; and thcRe secured a ready sale forthe
small receipt-book provided at twenty-five cents.
Tho coffee was like nectar, and this was made by
a peculiar process,—that was, at the same time,
economical.People stayed until a late hour, and over two-
thirds of the articles displayed were s, 'd. As
those not expressly manufactured to order, had
been taken conditionally, on a very liberal com
mission, they were easily returned; aud very few
things could be called an actual loss. When
everything was accounted for, andevery bill paid
—including ten per cent for the Drinking Foun
tain—Medora found herself in possession of the
comfortable sum of $230.43. She had also the
pleasure of knowing that she had. given work to
those who needed it, aud that the fragments of
the refreshment-table hud furnished unwonted
feasts where comfort, setting aside luxury, was
very much of a stranger. She thought that, cn
the whole, her scheme bad paid.
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[Fob the la diics' Homi Journal].
THK KINDEKGAKTEN.
BY ANNA W. BAKNAKD.
(Copyright, 1887, by Anna W. Barnard. All rights re
served).
Except during the hours uf sleep, the bands of
very young children are in coustaut motion ; to
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members is therefore, contrary to nature. In all
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ing when buildiug with his cubes, yet hour by
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soul, and one day will astound the observer by-
some result he has worked out unaided. In daily
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true, who shall say that Trutli and Right will not
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equal number and weight of parts, and in the
number of points and angles. The contrast be
tween the twogifts is in the form of their parts.
The surfaces of the cubes are equal, of the ob
longs, unequal; the surfaces of the cubes arc
square, of the oblongs, oblong. The edges of
the cubes are of equal length, of the oblongs of
unequal length. A small cube compared with
an oblong, is half as long, twice as thick, and the
same in width. One rube and one oblong,
though unlike in form arc equal in solid con
tents. Two cubes united by any two of their
sides, and two oblougsunited hytheirloug, wide
sides, are the same in form, and equal in solid
contents ; but two oblongs united by their short,
narrow sides, or by their long, narrow sides, are
unlike iu form andequal In sol id contents totwo
united cubes. The oblong, like the cube, has
eight corners, 6ix sides, aud twelve edges, but
Its edges are of three different lengths, and Itssides are of three different sizes. Its sides are
symmetrically arranged iu pairs; viz., two long,
wide, or upper aud lower sides,—two long, nar
row, or right and left sides, and two short, nar
row, or front and back sides; the sides of each
pair being equal and opposite to each other.
The third aud fourthgifts arealikeln material,
bulk, weight, and number of parts, sides, edges,
points ana angles, and are both used to give
Ideas of divisibility. While the third gift eau be
divided into halves in all of its dimensions, the
fourth elft can be divided into halves in only-
two of its dimensions, butthehalvesof both gifts
may be divided into fourths, aud the fourths
into eighths. The fourth gift is divided once
vertically, and three times horizontally into
eight equal parts or eighths.As the children play with the whole cube, they
soon find out that though of the same size and
number of parts as the third gift, these parts are
very different in lorm. Separatingthecubciuto
halves, fourths aud eighths, they find out that
each one of the latter is an oblong. They learn
that the part is smaller than the whole, and the
whole larger than the part. On account of the
oblong form of the parts, the fourth gift gives
greater variety in bulldingthan was possible with
the third, aud hence is preferred by the children,
who are taught by itsuse to notice differences in
the length, breadth and height of objects. They
love to measure and count the oblongs, or
"bricks," as they call them, and chat together
merrily about their material, color, form, size,
weight, and uumber of sides, edges and corners,
' and compare and contrast them with the small
cubes of the third gift. They find out that
though unlike in form, the solid contents of the
small cube and the brick are equal. They meas
ure the two together and find that the brick is
twice as long, naif as thick, aud of the samel
width as the cube. They learn which are the
two largest, and which the two smallest sides of
the brick, and that there is yet another pair of
sides larger than the smallest, and smaller than
the largest. The fourth gilt leads to a more
thorough knowledge of form and number, be
cause t lie whole appears as a cube, and the parts
SS planes.Iu the same order as before, the boxes are dis
tributed, and removed from the cubes. When
the gift as a whole has been compared with the
preceding one, it is placed so that the children
can see on the top side of it a vertical cut, which
they call an -'up to down" cut. Looking at the
front side of the cube they see three horizontal
cuts, or as they say, three cuts from ' right to
left, and front to hack," aud one cut from "up
to down." By experiment they fiud that this
may "stand," "sit" or "lie" in relation to the
position of another brick. The terms "stand,"■sit" and "lie" are used by the kiudergartner In
all directed work with this gilt.The children learn the law of equilibrium by
balancing a brick with its largest side on the
smallest side of another brick. They are di
rected to let the bricks "stand," (or touch the
table by their short, narrow sides,) a short dis
tance apart, in rows from right to left, aud at a
given signal each child pushes the brick at his
right or left hand against the one nearest to it,
when all the bricks go down simultaneously,
giving a pretty examplo of continuous motion,
and while the little ones are in bighglee over the
effect of "justone little touch," the lookers-on
are led to thiukhow easily human action for good
or ill is propagated, for 60closelv are we bound
together, that no one of us can lower our stand
ard of action, without affecting directly or Indi
rectly our neighbors, neither can we aspire alter
goodness and truth without in a degree lifting
others up with us. The best way to help each
other is "to be inwardly good and true."From the building of simple forms with the
third gift, the children proceed to build with the
fourth more difficult ones, bridges, houses,
monuments, etc. A time is recalled when after
having built by direction several of the latter,
the children were askedto build something with
out direction, the only condition required being
that all the eight blocks w ere to be used in each
representation. Every child made the attempt.
Some of the designs were very creditable, iu one
instance a small grave was represented, w ith a
cross at the bead. One boy said he had seen
"George Washington's monument, which wa6
very high," and gravely stated that it was so
named because "Washington had jumped from
the top of it, end killed himself I" It was diffi
cult to banish the notion from his mind owing to
thestroug impression earlier received. In the
conversation accompanying the work, a great
variety of opinion was offered, and many origin
al ideas were expressed which would have doue
credit to more mature speakers. In seeking to
impressuponthe children the true use and meun
iugof monuments, the second gift, (sphere, cube
and cylinder) was brought into requisition and
translormed into a model of Froebel's monu
ment. On alludingto his favorite motto, "Come
let us live with our children I" Inscribed on the
cube which forms the base of the monument,
bright-eyed Nellie, who was deeply impressed
with the words, kept repeating with strong em
phasis, "Oh, I want ymi to say thai again, Miss
B. I want you to say that again!" Itisremark-
able that the simplest facts told the children
about Froebel have power to awaken interest
when everything else falls, and no one having
heard that childish conversation, could ever
again think monuments necessary to preserve the
memory of the dead, but would realize t hat if the
life be good and true as was Froebel's, it must
be remembered. "Who needs a monument to
keep him in memory, does not deserve one."
The children ask, "Who made the bricks?"
and a conversation goes on In which all join, as
to the differeut kinds of woods, where wood
comes from, how these bricks are made, and what
other things are made of wood. Information
may al60 be given in regard to real bricks, how
they are made, and for what used, and when clay
day- conies, it is afresh delight to make bricks
out of clay, which may either be dried in brick
form, or developed into other objects and baked
or burned.Forms of life, knowledge and beauty are made
in much greater number aud variety with this
gift than with the third, and for this reason it Is
a greater favorite with the children. In building
forms of life it is necessary to start upon a firm
foundation, just as when wc build a real house
we must not "build upon the sand," hut must
have a solid basis, aud carefully lay the stones
one upou another to preserve the proper balance.1 ,„„!,„ f„r„,„,l
Every soul Is conscious of its own divine right
of Recognition, but to how lew is it accorded!
How many walk the earth to-day uucounseled,
unfriended and alone ! Wc are meant to be
helpers aud ministers unto one another; instead
of this, do we not often hinder?
The result of a true kindergarten training in
childor adult, isa spiritof helpl ulucss and kindly-
thought for others. Each member of the minia
ture society early learns toreTrain from actsthat
will make others unhappy. "In all his work, and
all his play," he grows accustomed to act on the
principle that it is better to give up his own
wishes than by gaining them to Interfere with
the rights of others. If he sees a little com
panlou in trouble, the thought uppermost in his
mind is. to do something to comfort him. When
engaged in this blessed ministry, expressions
come and goon these young and tender faces
akin toangelie. There is nothing more touching
than to sec the watchful care over the younger
children by the older ones. Many a heart of
rock has been smitten till It sent its crystal drops
to eyes that beheld this heavenly sight.
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THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
[For i ho Ladies' Home Journal.]
STEPMOTHERS—FBOM THE STEP-MOTH
ERS' STANDPOINT.
The office of stepmothers, as well as their char
acter, being manifestly much misunderstood,
and the class at all times subject to unjust asper
sion, duty to my order Impels mu to seek a hear
ing in its defence.
Individual attacks may safely be left to rest
upou iudividual merits, when the deserving
sometimes obtain reluctant justice from honest
and careful observers, but even those same just
persons are apt to sit In severe judgment upou
stepmothers generally, admitting those who
have commanded their approbation to be out
"the exceptions that prove the rule." I hold
that the imputation is unjust. The wrong doing
of the minority attracting most attention has
given a false character to the order with which
they are identified, while the well doing of the
majority passes unnoted. The same principle is
Involved In the parable of "The Prodigal Son,"
who has forages been a bold feature in scriptu
ral teaching while the son who remained at home
attending to his legitimate business is entirely
lost sight of.
The truth Is that the mischievous little word
step is largely responsible for the injustice that Is
visited upon us; it runs like a discordant note
through all that transpires in the household
where It has obtained. Like a two-edged sword it
cuts both ways, and operates quite as much to
the injury of one party as to tnat of the other.
It is ap instrument which the spirit of evil uses
most effectually through the agency of outsiders,
to workout his" purposes in the destruction of
Homes, which in their per ectiou are symbols of
Heaven.
1 must admit that there are many stepmothers
seemingly unworthy of defence," but circum
stances are so often responsible when the blame
rests on the iudividual, and there Is so much in
every case that does not appear at all, that even
for them 1 would beg more consideration before
they are uttterly condemned.
There Is ofteu little or no encouragement to
do right, and in many cases the best efforts in
that direction are thwarted by tljpse who are
most ready to convict the stepmother.
It is a palpable fact that all mothers are not
kind or faithful to their trust, while motherhood
stands for all that is beautiful and good, yet even
those who strive to do a mother's part, without
the aid oi natural incentives, are powerless to
win for their class the recognition of any merit.
Very few women marry, or arc expected to
marry, from humane or missionary motives and
those who marry widowers with children may be
supposed to be much the same as others. The
man she marries is naturally at that period tht
object of her chief interest and the prevailing
thought is, or should be, how to make the rest of
his life happy. If his home includes children, or
any other members for whose welfare he is re
sponsible, a true wife is ready to share the re
sponsibility and to aid him in doing his duty.
Farther than that when called to the unenviable
office she rarely feels impelled to any special con
secration of herself. But an All Wise Creator
has so constituted us that our hearts follow our
works, and therefore if we strive to do good to
any one, some degree of affection for that person
is quite sure to follow. In this direction is found
the only reward vouchsafed to the conscientious
stepmother.
Whether the stepmother comes Into her new
sphere a stranger or otherwise, the relationship
Is a new one, and if there should have chanced to
have been previous attachment between her and
the children she Is expected to mother, it will
nevertheless need to be adjusted upou a new
basis. If this could be done at once with the
father's help, in a wise and kindly spirit, without
reference to outside opinions or interference, the
way would be opened for the stepmother to do
her duty and lu so doing to win also the affec
tions of those for whom she is expected to do as
nearly as possible what a mother would.
Instead, however, of any such a just and com
mon sense provision at the outset, the father and
the stepmother with mutual confidence, that
without being misplaced, Is without knowledge
of the power of circumstances to warp their best
intentions, enter upou the new life with as little
apprehension as if there were no children In the
case.
Owing partly to unjust public sentiment and
still more to a feeling of resentment on the part
of the departed wife's friends and relations who
persist in viewing the stepmother as an usurper
of the rights of one who has been removed by a
decree that will in time summon each one of us,
and who lias left to some one her unfinished
work, she meets a grudging welcome if any. Is
it fair that any one who attempts to gather up
the ends and do the work as best 6he can, should
be met with suspicion or resentment at the out
set? Yet this is the natural inheritance of the step
mother; uotonly are the children's minds pois
oned with a sickly sentimcntof aloyalty to their
own mother that demands at lea6t the withholding
of their affections from any one occupying the
place she ouce filled, but they are also taught to
suspect the stepmother of a purpose to supplant
them in their father's affections. In view of
these, and the many other obstacles to be over
come, the wouderisthat any woman attains to a
respectable standard of excellence to the voca
tion. The stepmother Is clearly human and has
like other wives to learn her way to real wife
hood: the husband is as yet a problem to be
solved a» well as his children. It belongs with
human frailty to be selfi6h In our love, and who
can wholly condemn the stepmother "If to her
lot this female error falls?" So constituted, she
overcomes much inner willingness to try toenter
into his feelings sympathetically with regard to
his children. They mayor may not be lovable
children; because they are, by common consent,
classed among the martyrs it does not follow
that they are saints, uur that they are such as the
stepmother could love under other conditions
It may, however, be assumed that they are much
the 6ame as other children, making some allow
ance for the unrestrained period which usually
ante-dates the new era, and for the prejudicial
influence so o:ten exerted at such times, by
those who have views in regard to the father not
consistent witli his final selection.
When it is the stepmother's good fortune to
find the children up to the common standard In
good qualities, ana free from prejudice, if she
has any reasonable qualifications for the work
she has undertaken, there is a fair chance to
do herself credit, and to gain the respect and af
fections of ,fcer stepchildren.
It is not possible, however, to force even ourown affections, they will not go where there is
nothing to rest upon. This is where the born
mothei has the advantage; there is an instinct
independent of deserts that is not vouchsafed
to the best willed stepmother, and moreover the
mother recognizes in her children traits inherited
from herselfwhich, although ugly, she may have
succeeded in overcoming, and therefore hopes
for like happy results in her child's case, or else
the fellow feeling may make her see it lu less re-
pellant light.
The stepmother is dealing with a naturecast in
a different mould from her owu, and can not be
expected to understand its propensity to good or
evil as the mother may; sue lias to grope her
way at every point ; and alas ! how often, uuaided
by the only one who might possibly better under
stand the children, if so minded.
This brings me to a point w hich I desire to
make as strong as I can, because I believe it to
be at the bottom of most of the incompatibility
of the step relationship. The responsibility lies
at the door ol the father, who in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred shirks It; not, I believe,
from indifference to the welfare of either wife or
children, but from sheer cowardice or Indolence.
In the first place he seeks his help meet with more
regard to personal qualification than to fitness
for the duties he expects her to assume, and he
often seeks such help when his home would be
better without any foreign element. I hold that
a man deserving of the name, who has had one
good and faithful wife, and who leaves him
children that are llkaly to be able to continue to
make his home at all what she would have
wished, owes it to her and tht devotion which
may have cost her life, to bear the bereavement
as best he can ; and rather to devote himself to
making his home what it should be, assisting the
daughters, if there are auy, to carry out their
mother's plans, than to seek solace for himself
first and trust to Providence in behalf of his
family.
Doubtless he takes some pains to persuade him
self that he is seeking the childrens' good, and
indeed such may sometimes be the case, but,
alas, we are such self deceivers, and so It oftener
happens that if the children are the better for the
stepmother, it is more due to an overruling
Provideuce than the father's painstaking.
He is miserable and lonely, and very likely
finds domestic matters too troublesome, there
fore turns toa woman for comfort and help. I
am not disposed to blame him for this, if he has
honestly tried to get along without sucn help ; it
is olteu the best aud possibly the only thing he
can do.
Having taken this step so important to him
self his family and lastly, but not leastly, to his
new wife, he seems to think lie has accomplished
"The whole duty of man," he is therefore to fold
his hands and find everything moving along of
its own volition as smoothly as If nature had
shaped it all and assumes that the elements be
has thus rudely thrown together must needs
harmonize. Thus is the stepmother, who finds
herself a stranger to her surroundings, left to
adapt herself to the situation, which we all know
to bo full of pitfalls and thorns, with no help or
support beyond the assurance of her husband's
confiding affection. That is of course a good
thing, and all Important, to stand upon, but her
head, hands and feet all require his help. He
forgets that she is to be his help meet—and as
sumes thatshe is to do without help, all that he
found impossible to do by himself w ith his fath
erly affection and authority to sustain him.
Sometimes this course may be better than if
he were to attempt to shape things aud make a
botch of it, but his eyeB and ears should be open
to see, without complaint for any one, when It is
wise to use his Influence or authority to prevent
Injustice or unpleasantness. "The wisdom of
the serpent and harmlessness of the dove" are re
quired to bring and keep domestic matters in
shape during this period of re-adjustment. A
word fitly spoken, to encourage or restrain, to
indicate the right or to guard against mistakes,
if it emenates from the one whose author!tv and
good will all parties recognize, accomplishes
more than months of patient toil on the part of
the hampered stepmother; yet notwithstanding
the husband andfathcr Is vested with full auth
ority and holds unquestioned the hearts of all
parties, and is also hedged by the sympathy of
friends and relations, lie usually occupies liter
ally a position of armed neutrality. With all the
requisite weapons in hand he holds himself aloof
during the struggle, uuless compelled to inter
fere. Alas, it is then too late to avoid wounds
that leave their scars as loug as life lasts. No
matter how thoroughly such wounds may be
healed there will ever remaiu a clouded memory
of painful experiences that might so easily have
been avoided If the husband knew and did his
duty.
It is fair to suppose that the average step
mother has sufficient regard for her husband and
for publlcoplnion to say nothing of self respect,
to wish to do her duty to the children ; and when
there are little helpless ones who appeal to the
mother Instinct, rarely wanting lu women of
every* class, she will, uuless absolutely bad
hearted, adopt them heartily. There is in such
cases nothing impossible to overcome, aud any
oncwitli a faculty for getting along with children
may become as nearly as possible a real mother
to them, and If other'children follow, she Is even
more likely to do so; when the true mother feel
ing is once 6tirred it iuclines one to be tender
towards all babyhood aud especially to the
motherless. Another feature in the case is, that
if the stepchildren are small, the step between
them aud those that arrive later is not so palpa
ble and may be lost sight of by outsiders whose
alertness to discover deficiencies are ever keen.
If they forget it the childreu may never know of
its existence. In such cases the father Is justifi
able in leaviDg the stepmother to work out her
owu salvai ion, only taking care that she need not
unnecessarily sacrifice herself. If ever a man is
called upon to provide liberally according to his
means, it is when the young or inexperienced
stepmother is striving to do a mother's part by
his cnildren. The wish to dress and keep them
nicely is an outward and visible expression of an
inward grace—that deserves encouragement—
and she should not need to deprive bet self, as she
too often does, to accomplish it.
If there is a natural defect that is strictly mas
culine, it is the assumption of autocracy in
money matters, and when there is interwoven
with it a thread of meanness it is first observed
in the disposition to require the wife to ask for
everything 6he needs, and becomes more offen
sively apparent when he quest ons her needs or
her judgment. These things are sufficient to
wreck the matrimonial craft when it holds only
the one broed, but when that is doubled and the
wife has at any rate to call to her aid all the
christian graces in the calendar, this indignity
ought to be spared her. A man has no right to
expect to lessen his expenses by adding to his
family, and if he can trust his home treasures to
his wife, he ought to be able to trust herwlth the
means to take proper care of them. Money Is an
important factor in domestic affairs, and often
the cause for unpleasantness associated with the
step relation, therefore it is unwise to treat It
with as little consideration as people affect to do
in entering upou martial relationship.
There is altogether toomuchtakeuforgranted.
When the man gives no other assurance than
that embraced in the marriage ceremony, that he
is able to, and will properly, provide for Ids wife
and the children she may give him, and when the
ordinary conditions become complicated, as they
doifastepmother is brought in, presumably with
the same rights that fell to the first wife, the
necessity for asettlement of money affairs, in
disputably just, to all concerned, is so manifest
that the laws of every country, pcrmittlugsecoud
marriages, should demand it in order to protect
the wife and such children as there areor may be.
The wife is often the object of jealousy and
distrust, because of disputable interests, which
only the husband has the power to place beyond
dispute. If it is his intention to be just," the
time to prove it as at the outset; if he does not
regard justice let him then proclaim it, so that
the stepmother may be spared from shouldering
his sins of omission or commission, as the case
may be.
Sentiment and finances should each occupy
their own sphere in the domestic arena, if do
mestic felicity would be secured' And when
there are evidently separate interests, as in the
case of stepmother and stepchildren, it is unwise
to Ignore the fact, or to disregard it on the sup
position that it will draw lines that do not already
exist; on the coutrary the lines being already
there, proper division of iuterests Is the surest
way to avoid rocks. I shall ever maintain that
it requires only "a fair field and no favor" for
stepmothers to make a creditable record ; given
these, In time the stigma resting upon us as a
class will yield itself to common sense and com
mon justice. Hannah Steiger.
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JANUARY 18&8,THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
[For The laihes' homeHOW TO DRESS WELL ON A SMALLa ALLOWANCE.
It 18 a fortuuate tliiug for man; women that in
orderto dress well, it is not necessary to be rich.
Taste, comblued with a skillful use of the uee-
dle is of more aecouut thaD a heavy purse. "Not
every woman cau dress well with cveu reckless
expenditure, but a clever woman cau dress well
with intelligent economy and an artistic taste.
Those who are obliged to economize ought not
to purchase goods of a small retail dea]er.
In buying at country stores, one gets iabout forty cents worth ot goods for each dollar I
expended. While in buying of large dealers you
get your money's worth. The difference isnotsu
great on muslins, calicoes, and standard articles,
out on fiuo dress materials and all the class of
§odus that come under the head of notions, the
lfference isgrcat. Silk ruching that I am obliged
to pay seventy cents for here, I get for thii ty cents
in New York. A hair brush that I can get in
Chicago for ninety cents would cost me oue dol
lar sixty cents at our retail store in the village,
an all wool cashmere that I bought in Chicago
for Ave dollars sixty cents would have cost me fif
teen dollars here in the country.Shopping by mail is oue of the blessings of the
age tcrwomen who wish to dress well on a small
Income. Early in the season send to your near
est large city for an illustrated catalogue and
price list. With this open before you take a pen
cil and make a note of what you"want and what
you can afford. Just at this point it will be nec
essary to do a great deal of haid thinking. If
you have but ten dollars to expend, its outlay
will require as much again planning and con
triving as though you had twenty.Consider the place where you will wear your
dress oftenest, whether to church, visiting or at
home. If you can afford only cashmeredo not buy
acheap velvet in trying to ape a wealthier neigh
bor. It is much hettef to pitch yourscale of dress
low and have everything correspond, than to
strain aftera rich dress and 6poil the effect by
being obliged to wear something incongruous
and inferior with it.Having thought of all these things your next
step ts to send for Bamples from which you can
select exactly what you want.We cannot too strongly recommend you to get
the best materials you can procure the money to
buy. Not necessarily the highest priced goods
In the market, but the beBt of the kind which
you decide to get. It is better to purchase an all-
wool cashmere than a cheap silk. It is even bet
ter to have a French gingham than a cotton al
paca. It may be that you think you cannot af
ford a cashmere or flarinalat a dollar a yard, butioru a casuuiui^ .... — _ . ,decide to get you a couple of cheap dresses at
twenty-five cents per yard instead!Let us see if it will pay! In the first place
your cheap goods Is only a little more than half
as wide, therefore you will have to buy more
yards ; and every dress has to be lined and made,and It costsas much for lining and making an in •
ferior dress as it does one of the best quality.
The all-wool garment is worth more than half a
dozen cotton mixtures. It will wear longer, look
better and cost less than the two inferior dresses.
An all-wool cashmire is a good investment,
silk alpaca is also desirable as it will wear as
long, have a rich look and does not catch the
dust like cashmere. For summer church wear
silk grenadine cannot be surpassed and It is ex
ceedingly genteel. If, fcowever, a lady can have
but one "best dress" and wants a material that
will never be oat or taste nor out of season let her
buy a good dark silk. It makes a suitable church
dress, a suitable visiting dress and If properly re
lieved by lace and gems it makes a most appro
priate dress for an evening party.Do not spend much on trimmings. If you
have to decide between the quality of goods and
whether you shall have trimmings Ictthetrim-
mlngsgo. Use the dress material for trimming.
Always have rather more yards than you need for
a dress as it Is useful in making over.
Having obtained your goods, next procure a
good pattern. Butterick's areamongthe most re-
Hable.Two ladies, whose bustmeasurcisthesaine
can save money by buying patterns together; for
Instance one can send for a nice basque pattern
and the other for a Dolman, and exchange.
It a woman with one of Butterick's patterns
cannot cut and make a stylish costume she must
be very deficient in skill iudeed.
It has been well said that "the first step in the
direction of economy in dress must be taken with
needle, thread, tape measure and scissors in
hand." She who caunot cut and make her own
clothes wlllrequiro almost as much again money
for her wardrobe as the clever maiden who has
talent in her fingers.It is an incalculable benefit to be able to do
thines one'sself. If women would ouly develop
the talent and skill which He in their own I'm
S;ers we would notsee them paying three dollars
or a fichu that could be made at home for one
third that sum. We would not see them paying
extravagant prices for slippers simply because
they have pretty rosettes when they could make
rosettes for plainer slippers with their own deft
fingers. It is iudispenslble that a woman should
know how to make pretty neck wear; no one
thing makes more difference with the effect of a
costume than how the neck is dressed. As a mat
ter of economy however, linen collars should be
worn for every day, for shopping and travelling.
Ruching should only be worn for best and should
be of the best. Rich and delicate lace that will
do up, will last longer than a ruche.
A woman who can trim her owuuats and bon
nets will be able to save a great deal and may
have really elegant headgear if she avoids buying
cheap flowers and tinsel ornaments. Ostrich
plumes and tips and French flowers are true ec
onomy. Tawdry deceratious would barely get
through one season while a good plume with care
will last five years. Ifyou can have but one hat
It should match your handsomest costume for
church or visiting. A black hat can be worn
with any costume.A French writer says, "well 6hod and well
gloved is well dressed.'' And yet there are wom
en "who will go without a new pair of shoes that
they do need, to buy a ribbon which they do not
need," but a lady would not wear shabby shoes
for the sake of some needless ornament.
Gloves should be fitted to the hand and be of
excellent quality. A fifty cent glove Is a bad bar
gain, a rip in the glove should be mended as soon
as possible after it is discovered.
In order to dress with the utmost economy it
is best toselect standard print and gingham for
morning wear all the year round especially if one
has household duties to perform. Do not imagr„
Ine that by so doing you may not be well and be
comjngly dressed. A calico dress may be very
pretty if it ts, as it o'ught always to be, becom
ing in color ami graceful in outline. In that case
it is in better taste than a badly chosen, ill-fitting
silk.1 have In mind at this moment, a dark-haired,
dclicate-complexioued girl In a gray gingham
work dress. It is trimmed with navy blue; she
wears a cardinal bow at her throat. I have seen
the same girl in C06tly attire for church or call,
but I never saw her looking prettier than in this
inexpensive dress about her daily work. Thought
aud taste are required to make any dress charm
ing.It is advisable to buy one handsome and dura
ble garnieut each year instead of trying to get a
silk dres6 and velvet cloak at once. If you must
take some inferior quality in order to get both,
| take ouly one and wait tor the other. In a short
time you will have acquired an elegant wordrobe
w.hich a little additional outlay will suffice to keep
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i ff of shoes, a torn flounce, fastened up with pins,
are evidences of slovenliness of which no lady
would be gnilty. The time spent in keeping gar
ments in perfect order is well bestowed. It gives
the wearer a comfortable feeling of self-respect
aud makes the clothes last twice as long.In trying to dress well on a small allowance
there is nothing of more importance than to keep
in good condition every article of the wardrobe.
To do otherwise Is both shiftless and extravagant.
Often a dress which is good except for a soiled
front breadth and worn out elbows, is considered
past wearing and anew cheap dress is bought.
While a thorough renovating would have made
the old dress, which was of good material, more
lady-like than the shoddy new one.It is so seldom that women earn money that
they do not count their time as worth anything.
When they succeed in making a nicedreBS out of
an old oue they look upon their achievement as
clear gain. It is well to take sufflcent time to
make the dress over iuto as pretty acostume as
possible.Mrs. Beecher says: "If one understands how
to renovate aud re-model, there Is lar more genu
ine pleasure in using thatknowledge to coustruct
new out of old than can possibly be gained while
shoppiugon the most extravagant scale."Into so many homes comes "the necessity of
making ti little stretch agreat ways," that it may
be well to suggest the really appreciable amount
which may be saved on linings and facings, by
washing and starching old linings or other cotton
goods which maybe found in the house. Buttons
also which have served on oue dress may do for
the new oue if they were celected in the first place
for their durability and good quality. It is ec
onomy to buy a really good Bet of buttona.even if
a little higher priced, because they can be used
again and again. In this as in every thing else
'"buying cheaply to-day means spending to-mor
row."Patching and darning are of more importance
to a young woman of meagre means than paint
ing on velvet or embroidering. Aud yet how
many understandthe accomplishment who do not
understand the useful art. If cloth is mended in
the following manner It will scarely show that it
has been patched at all. Make the edges perfect
ly even and hold the two parts lengthwise on the
front finger of the left hand. Put the needle,
pointed from you through half the thickness of
the edge of one piece of cloth, then point it to
wards you and pass it iu a similar way through
the edge of the other piece. Draw the stitches
closely togetherwlthout bringing one edge over
theotner. Continue in this way taking a stitch
on alternate sides until done. Then damp and
press on the wrongside with a hot iron.A good rule about mending is to attend to ev
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advantage to buy goods out of season. For in-
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of a dozeu pairs of stockings, or only three cents
on each yard of muslin or embroidery it appears
but a trifle, yet this looking out for trifles, makes
the difference between thrift and unthrift
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JANUARY, 1888. 19THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
Special Premium Qffers of a few Splendid ^ardjf Plants.
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ROSE BARONESS ROTHSCHILD."
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ROSE GENERAL JACOUEMINOT."
Well known, indeed, is the grand old "General Jack," the finest crimson rose ever
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ROSE 'PAUL NEYRON."
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of fine texture. The color is deep, rich rose—a shade darker than Magna Charta. It is of
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ROSE "MAGNA CHARTA."
Our intention is to give in this premium list the best of each tint or color in the rose.
This grand rose, named in com
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has the grand June rose fragrance,
always admired, and the plant is
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These hardy roses will live out
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the earth for a foot around the
plants is also a good protection ;
evergreen boughs strewed around
the plants will also be beneficial.
All protection should be removed
"MAGNA CHARTA " K05B. Ul Spring, t
MOSS ROSES.
Who does not love the Moss Roses, with their lovely buds and handsome open flowers ?
No other roses are at once so
beautiful and hardy—none so
permanent in character and pa
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ROSE "MAD.
PLANTIER."
This white rose is a gem for
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growth and thorough hardiness.
It is very largely planted in cem
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form, rather flat ; they fairly
cover the plant in the spring,
and the bush is a lovely sight
when in bloom. The growth is
free, and the rose forms a splen
did hedge if well trained, or it Jmoss rose.
is very suitable for massing. Al
though this rose was grown in France in 1835, it has never yet been superseded.
ROSE, 4 PRINCE CAMILLE DE ROHAN."
" It looks as if the petals were cut from velvet," said a lady on seeing this exquisite 1
for the first time, and indeed the remark was justified by the richness of the flower, which
is of a most attractive dark crimson maroon color, with crimson shadings. The flowers
are of fine form, medium in size, and delightfully fragrant. The plant, while not robust in
growth, is free in bloom, and will delight every possessor.
ROSE MAD. CHARLES WOOD."
A rose to grow enthusiastic over for its many good qualities. It is of magnificent.forn
and appearance—large, full and double—and of rich bright red, without any of the " muddy '
color prominent in so many red and deep pink roses. The plant is of strong and free habit,
and when we say that it is the freest bloomer among the Hybrid Perpetual Roses, we add
its crowning merit.
JJROSE 1 BALTIMORE BELLE.
A hardy climbing rose of great beauty and merit. The flowers, which are of perfect
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making the plant a complete wreath of lovely creamy blush blossoms. The buds are very
pretty and of fine form, and are charming when cut or used in floral work. The plant is of
rapid climbing habit, with clean and neat foliage.
AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII.'I
This grand climber, a first cousin to the well known "Virginia Creeper," was intro
duced from Japan some years ago, but
in most sections its merits are not yet
known. It is a plant which grows in I
estimation upon acquaintance, and!
when it his attained strength always!
excites the greatest admiration of its ■
loveliness. It is thoroughly hardy, W
and clings tenaciously to any surface bgj
not so smooth as window glass—brick, H
stone, wood or iron, plain, painted or
whitewashed, will all alike be em- feft;
braced firmly by its beautiful tendrils. jj|
When fairly started it is of rapid and g
steady growth, and a peculiarity of
the vine is that the leaves are of
nearly even size, and of the richest tM
deep green, changing in autumn to j
gorgeous scarlet tints.
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SCRIBRLADOU
,ER'S LETTERS TO GUSTAVUS,PHUS AND JULIA, HIS WIFE.
SECOND SERIES. NO. V.
BY MBS. EMMA C. HEWITT.
When I was at your house last, Julia, I was
seriously alarmed about your health; you looked
so worn out, I said to myself, "That woman is
going to have a spell of sickness." I didn't say-
so to you, of course, because it is not my way to
tell people "how dreadful they look," for two
reasons: first, if they dou't like it, It Is unpleas
ant—second, if they do like it, and really "enj
poor health," then I dou't believe Inencouragiug
any such morbid propensities.
But as I was saying, while I thought you were
going to have a spell of sickness, I discovered that
you really were only going to halt a party. If
ever a woman looked more utterly wretched in
enjoying herself, I have never seen that woman.
What do you give parties for, anyway, Julia?
There now I I rather fancied you'd lay that to
Uustavus. "Well, Gustavus is fond of company,"
Is he? No doubt. But he wasn't fond of that
"party." He told me he hated such affairs. For
his part, he never could see the sense of collect
ing a lot of people around you, for many of whom
you cared nothing. And then you went to a lot
of trouble and expense, and It didn't pay any
way. "Mark my words, Cousin Scribbler," said
he, "Julia will have a spell of sickness." I
shouldn't wonder myself, if you had both the
party and the sickness. Now answer me again,
what do you give parties for, anyway, since it Is
proved that neither Gustavus nor yourself gets
any enjoyment out of them. Because you "must
return numberless little hospitalities, and It's
easier to lump them In this way and have It all
over with, at once." Well I that certainly is a
hospitable spirit! I hope your guests all under
stand that they are being "lumped;" being killed
off at "one fell swoop" as it were I
Why don't you have them more often and In
less numbers, and put a little more cheerfulness
iuto the operation, and get a little enjoymeutfor
yourselves out of itl "How?" Well, I'll tell
you. But first let me ask you a question. When
you give oneof these grand affairs of yours, don't
you ask a number of people to whom you are in
debted in no way, either by ties of kin, friend
ship or hospitality? "Yes, but when one gives a
large affair one must ask everyone." Ah! I
thought so! Consequently, forthesakeof some
thing, which you first called "Gustavus" I be
lieve, and afterwards "social duty," you kill
yourself getting up an entertainment for a quan
tity of people, to whom you really owe no social
duty at all, and whom you neither like nor ad
mire. Well! welll Consistency thou art a
jewel Indeed. What would I do? No! I
wouldn't neglect my social duties, but I'd man
age to have a good time entertaining my friends,
and it should not be an expensive business either.
I'd set apart one evening in the week and I'd
give my friends to understand that 1 was "at
home" on that evening, and glad to see them.
I'd have some simple thing prepared, like cake
and coffee; aud I know if you tried It two or
three times,you'd Dud that you had established a
social institution that would be of great benefit
to young housekeepers who desire "to entertain"
ve but little means to do It on. Why, one
;lne, from the way some people deport
, that the only way to enjoy ODesclf
\be miserable. Yes, you are right.
1 do like nice things, but I don't think "a good
time" depends upon the quantity one eats, al
ways. You "like the Idea?" Sodol. I've tried
it and speak whereof I know.
"But that's the way Gustavus talks, too," you
say, "and then he goes and brings some man
home to supper wheu I'm not prepared for him.
Aud he don't like it because / don't like the man
coming unexpectedly." Welll of course that is
unpleasant, aud 1 don't suppose, if Gustavus or
any other man should live to be a hundred, that
he'd ever see just why It vexes the soul of a
housekeeper with limited means, to have unex
pected company.
Now, take my word for it, you can soon sys
tematize even that. Gustavus is not an utterly
unreasonable creature. Give him one night In
the week to bring one or two friends, if he wants
to, and give him to understand that his friends
are welcome on that night, without any previous
notification from him. He may not bring them,
but he has the liberty of doing so. "But then
suppose he don't, then there's a lot of cooking
for nothing." Ah I there's where you make the
mistake. Now if 7wa6 doing it I wouldn't have
"a lot of cooking." Yes, I would have enough,
and more than enough, but I'd arrange it so that
the kind of thing I had could either be left over
raw, for the next day's consumption, (if not all
wanted) or could be cooked alter it was found to
be necessary. "What, for instance?" Lots of
things—chups, omelet, a second steak. O, there
are quantities of things if you only put your
mind to It. Depend upon it Julia, if you spent
as much time and mouey aud thought, "lu trying
to make "a good time," as you have in making
yourself miserable, it would be much better spent,
and the result would be much more satisfactory.
Your Cousin Scribbler.
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