Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1894 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, AVEDXESD AT MORNING, "MARCH 7. 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

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If ther rvas onq thing on Tvhloh we Lympets did prld ourselves It was on the family riam. From cur rarllpt childhood ri "were taught trt believe that a lympet was apart from and superior to all other men; as my dear father U5rd to say, there -were working people, gentry, nobility and r.ympets. The family held the ilrst place, in our estimations; w -were Lympets first, and Britons afterward. Not one' of us but gloried In his birth, and did his best to live up to our proud family motto. "Quod tangro te-neo." A for our btlief !a the grandeur of our name. It did not admit of argument. It was almost a rart of our religion, and. like the Chinese, we worshiped our ancestor?. Not that thy had done anything very. particular. The mere studnt of history has possibly never even heard of them; for none of them ever acquired vulgar fame. No violent partisans they. In the broils and turmoils, tin woes of parties and the feuds of factions, which marked the fetonny youth of England, they mixed but little. They played no prominent part for white rose or red ro?e, king or parliament. Stuart or C.uelph. They never attempted to ride a high horse, and as a result, through all the troubles they kept the family feat. In truth, a. I-ympot had too little to gain to peril his life and lands in any one's cause. ly birth ho was placed above ambition. Ileing already a limpet he could rise no higher, for. Ilk the Kohan. he could make the proud vaunt: "Tloi ne pui.s prince no daien-. LymH je suis." Therefore the Lympets generally held aloof, and when, as sometimes happened, they found themselves cmPolled to take t"iir stand with one party or the other, they acted with great discretion, and compromised themselves as little as possible. As an instance of LymPt tact in trying times. I may mention the career of the ixth Baron Rockbororugh. who acceded to the headship of our house in the last year of the great rebellion. This nobleman first served in Ireland under Cromwell, who rewarded him with a large grant of an-l in that country; next, he was created Viscount Cumberground in the peerage of Ireland by Charles II after the restoration, and finally he was advanced to the dignity of earl of .Kilpructor by William III. shortly after which ju?t recognition of his merits the good old man passed away, full of years and honors, leaving behind him a name which will ever be fondly chri?hed by his descendants. As a benefactor of his species I mean, of course, of the Lympets he must be placed high above ail our other ancestors, and se-. ' ond only to the founder of the family, Hugo de Lympet himself, who came over with the conqueror, and won the estates which remain in the possession of his descendants to this day. And herein lies the secret of our family greatness and our family pride. What a Lvmpet grasped at the time of the conquest, a Lympet holds la the present year of grace. For over Hejht hundred years we have remained firmly planted on the ground pained by our forefathers; and if we never availed ourselves of the opportunities by whkh other families raised themselves to dazzling hights of magnificence we also avoided the pitfalls which sooner or later swallowed up these same families and their followers. But though our horu-o has made no great fipure in Knglish history, I would not have you think that it has done the ttate no service. On the contrary, the younger scions of our stock have always displayed a commendable eacerness to serve the country in any department where the duties were light and the pay was fair. It is only when the law of primeugeniture is strictly observed tlvat Lympets are po.-sifclr; and when the law of primeogeniture is strictly observed superfluous sons can be ill-provided for. But the public service is. despite the proverb, an excellent inheritance, and one to which the junior Lympets considered they were justly entitled. I need hardly say that not one of them ever so far forgot himself as to stoop to trade; their sense of what was due to their name was too powerful to allow them to sink so far. Ho strong, indeed. was this feeling that the daughters of our house often preferred to pas-s their lives in single blessedness rather than change the dear old name of whieh they were so justly proud. Few farnil'es can boast so many old maids. The ritald have ventured to attribute this fact to the Lympet dowries, whih are unfortunately small, and to the Lympet m..nth, which is undeniably large, rather than to the Lympet pride. But how can such rude day sympathize with the noble spark which fires a Lympet" s breast? What can they know of the glorious associations which, endear the grand old name of Lympet to every member of that noble house? Unfortunately one cannot live 'U a name 8t It-ast. not forever, i lived on mine as long as it was possible. jut a time at last came whn I found that the Lympet name, highly as we rated it. was of little value on the back of a bill. Commercial peoplo hard, practical men lookc-d at It askance, and requested the additional security of some wretched Jones or Smith, who could not trace his pedigree beyond his grandfather. In short. I was becoming financially embarrased. and, what was worse, did nt know how to extricate myself. I had no occupation, r. profession. My father had designed tue frr the church, for he was the patron of a very snu living n his Irish property; but. alas! while I was st.111 at Fcho.il. the man Gladstone ame along with his ax and lopped the Irish church away like the diseased limb of a Hawarden oik. Thus prevented from serving: the church. I would have Ik-ch very willinar to scive the state, hut these are evil days f'" Lympets the system of competitive examination proved a barrier I was unable to furmonnt. and Kngland lost a valuable servant. As trade uas mt of the .piesti"n and the bar offered no owning, I d'-cided to adopt the career for whi h my talents best fitted me. and to do not hin? at all. And I did H in excellent, style, too. as a Lympet should; the honor rf hands. I can 35njre you. My allowance from my father, which was small for my lister had to be provided for, and Cumberground. my elder brother, was wickedly extravagant and a small private fortune whlh I had inherited from my morfher. I employed mainly s pocket-money; almost everything I obtained on ered. And so, throwing an occasional pop to Cerberus in the shape of a payment "on areount" to the more presina: of my creditors, and resorting to an elaborate py?tem of "ppr" when I was In want of readv money, I contrived to live In honorahle as for a good many years. Hut time bring1 al! thines to perfection and bills to maturity. Then they hare to be renewed, and a renewal bill is a redoubled difficulty. Livlne on paper I like skating on lee. pr long as It Is Stronar enough to bear you you can flourish about, cutting figures with the best, but If you overweight It It yuddenly gives way beneath your feet and you vanish out of right. Early last year certain unmistakable groans and cracks warned me that my footing was dangerous. Bill-discounters who had always smiled on me tgan to frown, every port brought letters requesting payment of little accounts, and tradesmen bs!firi my doors or lay In wait for me In the street. Altogether the outlook, was very black, or, at beat. dun-celoTed. Many a night I sat In my rooms gloomily smokIng my pine and reviewing the situation,

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but I could only see one way out of my difficulties. My debts were so large that I could never hope to pay them unaided. and where was that aid to come from? Not from my father, who had no money to" s;iarp. The Irish property of Kilproctor, from which the chief title of our house is derived, is situated in a particularly lawless corner f th country, the Inhabitants of which always had a rooted objection to paying anybody, and latterly under the land league they have evaded their legal obligations In the most shameles manner, so that most of them owe arrears of rent, which they can never hope and never intend to pay. In fact, th Kilproetor estates might as well be In Spain as in Ireland, for all the money my father gets out of them. No, it was useless to appeal to him, and equally so to apply to Cumberground. who was in debt himself. Obviously there was only one course to pursue; I should have to marry money. But it was necessary' first to catch my heiress. Luckily I knew where to lay my hand on two who. I flattered myself, were disposed to look kindly on me. I had been acquainted with them for about a year, and I had already paid them a certain amount of attention, for the idea of a wealthy marriage had always been more or less in my mind, though I had wished to defer the evil day as long as possible. One was a Miss Merrick, the other was a Miss Slugg. Both were young and lxth were wealthy, without encumbrances in the shape of fathers. It is true that their fortunes had been amassed in trade, but. after all. that was a trifling drawback. The Lympet pride lermitted me to spend the money which had been grubbed up by another; it merely forbade me to sp;il mv fingers in grubbing it up for myself. "The deceased Merrick and the deceased Slugg had grubbed to some purpose In their time, and their daughters were undoubtedly "catches." Which should I strive to land? Miss Merrick was the prettier of the two. but she was also the elder, and had more knowledge of the world, more suitors, and a better idea of her own value. I could see that she would require skilful handling, and perhaps more lime than I had at mv disposal. Miss Slugg. on the other hand, was very romantic, rather shy, and not particularly clever. She was not yet of ajre, and she had seen little of society of any sort. Her father dyin soon, after she left school, she had not entered the world till she was twenty: and her aunt, with whom she lived, had no very grand acquaintances. My rank was likely to stand me in better stead with her than with-Miss Merrick, who had more than one eldest son hovering in her train. Above all. Miss Slug:? posseted f loo.ooo. and Miss Merrick onlv fSO.OOrt. That settled It. As I had made up my mind to dispose of a share in the Lympet name, it was my obvious duty to get the highest available price for it. My honorable pride would not allow me to depreciate its value by taking S0.Oim) when I could eet 100,000. And so I decided on Miss Slugg. I need not dwell upon my courtship, the course of which was as smooth and untroubled as a canal's. It was also about as dull. For three months it flowed placidly on. and then I proposed and was accepted. But we kept our engagement secret, and I even persuaded Miss Slugg to consent to a private marriage. She had wondered at my request, and had made a few slight objections at first, but the Idea soon recommended itself to her. It would h,? so romantic, she declared. My reasons were not romantic, however. To be frank. I had seen too many marriages spoiled by tho meddling interference of lawyers and guardians to risk inviting it in my own oa-se. When 'Law comp in at the door. Love flies out at the window; sometimes it is even kicked out. I did not want any settlements made which inisrht interfere with my settlement with my creditors and my own settlement in life. Nor did I care to expose my most private affairs to the prying paze of an impertinent vulgarian. I refer to Miss Slugg's uncle, her father's younger brother. The two Sluggs had made their money together in some way connected with tallow have never cared to enter into the revolting details and I knew that he would be unwilling to let the fortune, which he had helped to make, pass entirely out of the family; for he had a cub of a son whom he hoped to see married to the heiress. I might count upon his opposition as certain, and my debts were heavy enough to make an excellent weapon in his hands. Perhaps he mipht at least persuade his niece to wak a little, and I could not afford to wait even a few months. My fortunes were desperate; the vultures were already circling round my head. And so I determined on a private marriace. and had induced Miss Slugg to consent to it. Our arrangements were simple enough. On the morning after her twenty-first birthday Miss Slug would leave her uncle's house quietly and renair to a church a few streets off. where Belinda, only daughter of the late Oliver Slugg, esrj.. would be united to the Hon. George Lympet, second son of the earl of Kilproetor. No cards. After the ceremony the happy pair would proceed to the resilience of the bride's uncle and receive his congratulations on thÄ auspicious event, prior to starting on their honeymoon. Thus all the loathsome preliminaries would be avoided, the sordid- inotiisition into ways and means, the distressing family dissensions, the degrading precautionary measure of settlements. On-the whole it was a clever little plan, and one which. I venture to think, reflects no small vredit un me. But I was too true a Lympet to take such a serious step without first seeking the sanction of the head of our house. Three days lefore the date fixed for our wedding I left London and traveled down to Rockboroueh Towers to beg my father's blessing and borrow a little money, which was even of more importance to me. The blessing was a luxury, but the money was a necessity. 1 had the marriag expenses and the rost of the honeymoon to provide for. I felt perhaps I was over-scrupulous that it would not be right to lxgin drawing on my wife's resources during a period supposed to bo dedicated to romance; that it was too early to commence the serious business of life. Therefore I had decided to ask my father for a loan, hoping that, when he perceived I was about to attain an honorable independence and was never likely to trouble him again, be would make me a present of the sum required. And as the event showed I was not mistaken. It was after dinner, when my siters had left us together oyer our wine, that I made my confession, and informed my father that I was about to marry Miss Slueg. the charming young heiress. He did not receive the news villi any enthusiasm. "Slugg!" he said, raising his eyebrows. "What a horrible name! lfo on earth did you manage to become acquainted with this younf persert who has the misfertun to be called Slugg?" "It Is her misfortune, as you say. sir." T replied evasively, "but not her fault. Think how terrible it must be to have to answer to th name of . Plupg. and pity her." "Of course I pity her." he said quietly, "but I really do not think I could bring mv-self to know any one called Slugg. Pah'." "I do not ask you to. rlr," I return-d. "I do not wlh you to receive Miss Slugg. but Mrs. Lympe. By marriage she will be Justly entitled to a name that king might envy." "Kxactly. And you propose to bestow this kingly name upon a Slugg. Really, old Simon, first earl, would turn In his grave could he hear you." "Judging by our revered ancestor's conduct in life." I remarked dryly, "he would be only too willing to turn in his gTave were anything to be gained by it. in this matter I am acting as he would do were h in my place." "Indeed?" said my father, looking reassured. "It Is not a foolish love affair, then?" "I am net eo much In love as to have

forgotten prudence. Love is said to be Mind;. my eyes arc open-" "And this Miss Slugg is really a prize worth winning?" "She has a heart of gold!" My father's face fell ennsideraMy. "And." I continued, "she has si hundred thousand pounds." My father brightened i:p at once. "Her parents are dead, and she lias no brothers or sisters." My father began to smile pleasantly. "Her only relatives are her uncle and his family, with whom I mean to quarr?I on our wedding day."" My father rubbed his hands together, and the smile broadened into benevolence. "Thus," x I concluded, "we will soon be able to forget that Fhe ever was a Slugg." "Your sisters will never let her forget it." observed my father. "Still, it is a comfort to reflect that we will not be continually reminded of the fact by the intrusion of Impossible relatives bearing that most impossible of names. On tho whole, you might have done much worse. A hundred thousand pounds, you say? Certainly the pill Is well glided." "And rills are only unpleasant when they are kept in the mouth too long." I added. "But the name of Slugg need never be in our mouths again after the marriage ceremony." "True, true." replied my father; "and certainly the sooner we forget it the better. The young lady should real'y be greatly obliged to you. Slugg! Ha. ha! I wonder how it feels to be called Slugg." . "'1 wonder." I said; and then we both laughed very heartily. After that I had no more trouble. Before we left the dining-room I had obtained his consent and a substantial check as a wedding present: and, possessed of his blessing and signature, I returned to London next day. The following morning Belinda and I were united. Everything wem off without .a hitch, exactly as we had planted it; and before the maiden had been missed from her uncle's house. t:ie wife had returned with her husband to announce the great news in person. Mr. Slugg was in his study when we arrived, and thither at once I repaired "to bard the lion in his den." while my wife sought the morning-room to make her peace with her aunt. Fur my own part. I was intent on war. I did not wish to be "on terms" with my wife's relations. I wanted to forget the very name cf Slugg. and I hoped that in his rage and disappointment. Belinda's uncle might use words so cutting as to er oom-ple-tely all ties between us. Mr. Slugg showed more self-c-ontrol than I had expected, however, for he received what must have been most unwelcome news with remarkable composure. He bowed to the inevitable and with more politeness than I had though' him -apable of. Being a business man, he probably looked at the matter from a business point of view. The mischief was done, and all he could say would not undo it; the strongest language in hi vocabulary would be cf no avail against the few words spoken by the clergyman a short half-hour before, and so he saved his breath. Nevertheless, lie surveyed nie with a very evil smile and there was a sad lack of sincerity about the tone in which he wished me joy. "But what of Belinda?" he concluded. "Surely I ought to be among the first to congratulate her on becoming Mrs. Slugg?" He laid a peculiar emphasis on th? word Slugg, which at once attracted my attention. "Pardon me." I interrupted; "it was a slip of the tongue, no doubt, but you have called my wife by a name which does not now belong to her. Your niece is no longer a Slugg: she has become a Lympet. No one whose privilege it is to be called Iympet wouH like to be called S anything else." "Am I to understand." he cried eagerlv, "that Belinda abandons the name of Slugg?" "Does It seem so strange?" I inquired. "I have always supposed that it was customary for a wife to adopt her husband's name when she married." "It is the rule." replied Mr. Slugg, slowly, "but there are exceptions. Husbands have been known to take their wives names for a consideration." "I would have you know, sir," I retorted, angrily, "that no Lympet would barter his name away for any consideration whatsoever!" "A noble sentiment!" cried Mr. Slugg. joyfully, looking like a miser who had just found sixpence. "A noble sentiment! You are right, sir. What is a paltry hundred thousand pounds compared to a name so anrient and so honorable!" A hundred thousand pounds! That was the exact amount of Belinda's fortune. What did the man mean by such a jiointed reference to it? "And 1 am ashamed to say that I took you for a fortune-hunter!" he continued excitedly. "You you who kick the dross away and say in effect. 'Let me keep the honored name of Lympet, I care not who his th? fortune!" " "l-;xeus me." I broke in hastily, "hut if you're talking about my wife"s fortune, I do care very much who has it. Hang it all. there's no mistake about that, is there?" "Surely. Mr. Lympet." said Mr. Slugg. calming down and beginning t look verj- anxious, "you are aware of the provisions of my brother's will? You must be. You discard the name of Slugg with your eyes open, is it not so? You know the consequences and are prepared to accept them? You would not hange the noble name of Lympet for thrice my niece's fortune? Of course n..t! 'Not for any consideration whatsoever.' I heard you say s." At his words a cold shiver ran down my back. I knew nothing about the deceased Slugg's will. My information concerning Belinda's fortune bad come to me on nmst excellent authority, and she herself had told me that she was at liberty to marry whom she pleased after her twenty-first birthday, but of the provisions of the will under which she inherited 1 was ignorant. Somehow I had never thought of driv-. ing down to Somerset house and inr specting the document. It was an oversight, and I began to fear a very serious one. "Look here. Mr. Slugg," I said, with a ghastly attempt at jocularity, "we'll discuss those provisions, if you plra.so. They're the proper food for a wfddlng breakfast.' "You know nothing about th will after all. then?" inquired Mr. Slugg, coldly. "I might have guessed It!" "Of course 1 know nothing, cxvept that under it my wife inherits a considerable fortune." "On conditons," murmured Mr. Slugg gently. "Conditions!" I echoed, "jiftin? uneasily in my .-eat. "And. pra,v. what are they? Nothing extra vagTit, 'nothing unreasonable, I trust?" "They seem to me fn he reasonable enough: but then." he udded with a. sneer, "I'm not a Lyinpet, "If they're reasonable. Yll comply with them," I said shortly. "Tri not a fool." "I thtnk I've a copy Fomewhere." observed Mr. SbiKg, rummaging in his drawers. "My brother was a very peculiar man. Mr. J,ympet. He hid risen from nothing, and he we-s prou I of t. He was also proud of his name. and rightly so. for it was ay, and still is a power in thr tallow candle line. It was hl.s chief r-rret that he had not a son to Inherit hrst fame, it pained him to think that 'on, his daughter's marriage th name of Shgg would no longer be associated with he fortune he had made, that It WOllId SOOn be forgotten the money came from a Slugg, and that his grandchildren might pass their lives in ease, and yet be ignorant of the very source from which their portions came. All thiP. I ay. pained him. H looked upon himsejf as the founder of a family." "Monstrous!" I ejaculated, "monstrous!" .. "And h did no want. his descendant to forget, their obligations. His best plan would have been to leave his money to his daughter on condition sha married her coisin. who some day will be head of the. bouse ie. helped to found, but be did prt wan, to fetter her choice, i think he was mistaken, but let that pass. We are considering what he actually did. not; what he ought to have done. To be brief, after sundry legacies, he left his fortune to his daughter on these condl-

ieas: It she married, her hue band y.as I

to take the name of Slugg. or the money passed to her next or kin save an allowance of five hundred a year for lifo " "What!" I yelled, starting to my feet. "Moreover," he continued, paying no attention to my outburst, "she cannot tourh hep capita.!. The full income is hers for life. but. hed she died unmarried, it would have passed to our fide of the family, as It will do should she die without iesue. Of course, any iiildren she mar have will inherit the whole fortune at her death, but they must kcT the name of Kluge." "I don't believe it!" I stammered, sinking back into my chair. "Here Is the copy," he replied, handing it to me. "You'll lind it all there, though possibly not in such plain Kngllsh." Alas! it was too true. Amid all the tangle of verbiage one fact stood distinctly out; the husband of Belinda would have to adopt her name or forfeit her fortune. What was I to do? Abandon the name of Lympet. which I loved, and assume the name of Sluge. which I loathed? Impossible! Yet what was the alternatives Genteel poverty. My pride pulled one way. my prudence the other; and prudence won. I had my wife to think of. I could not rob her of her fortune and drag her down from affluence to indigence for a mere sentiment, however noble. For her sake I resolved to subdue my pride and sacrifice my name. To parody C.ibbon. I sighed as a Lympet, 1 obeyed as a husband. "After all." I concluded, not knowing that I spoke aloud, "by the aid of a hyphen it may be made endurable. Lympet-Slugg! It "is at least uncommon." "If you look on the other page," broke in an unsympathetic voice, "you will see a clause which provides for any such attempt at evasion. In it the testator declares that he will have no tampering with the fine old Anglo-Saxon name of Shis?, that he will pot have It linked to a hyphen, and converted into a hybrid compound. The plain old-fashioned name of Slugg must not be spoiled by any unnecessary additions. My brother loved his name, you see. sir. and as I told vou. was uncommonly proud of it." "Confound his pride!" I cried, throwing dowu the will and stamping on it. "Come, come," said Mr. Slugg. "you n?ed not give way so. You are not compelled to take our name. Of course you mean to refuse! 'No one whose privilege it is to be called Lymp-'t would like to be called anything else!' ' Had I been wavering the man's gibes would have decided me. By accepting the name of Slugg I kept his hands from the fortune for which they were itching, and this knowledge considerably lessened the pain my decision cost me. "That will do." T said coldly. "I think there is nothing to detain us here longer. Let me go upstairs. No doubt you ?re anxious to congratulate your niece, Mrs. Mrs. Slusrg!" And that is how I came to be tailed Slugg. Ah. if I had known the contents of that abominable will when I made my choice between Miss Merrick and Miss Slugg. I would certainly have chosen Miss Merrick. It would have cost me 20.000. but the name of Lympet was well worth the sacrifice. As it is. I have won a fortune, but I have got to go through life ticketed with th? price I paid for it. Nor is that all. I have children, but I can take little interest in them, for they arc not Lympets. but Sluggs. My father is much annoyed with me. and can hardly bring himself to recognize a Slugg as a member of the family; Cumberground chaffs nie unmercifully, and my sisters call my wife "that creature," and compare me to Ksau. But perhaps my greatest cross is the prosperity of the Slugg candle hvsiness, which has become a tremendous concern. The hated name flames on every boarding, flaunts on the backs of novels and magazines, and his become familiar to every ear. And strangers and casual acquaintances will persist in mistaking me for a member of the firm! More than once 1 have overheard people describing me as "Slugg, the candleman. you know." in perfectly audible "asides." Even my friends do not spare me. for they have bestowed on me a nickname which, recalling as it does all I have lost, costs me a pang every time T hear it. They call me the late Mr. Lympet. All the Year Hound.

I'nrjcot Ilia Temporary anic. It is not an unusual thing for a man sojourning in a big city to come home to his hostelry so fatigued that he is not sure about his own name, hut a guest in tho Palmer house found himself in a stranger predicament than that. A well-dressed gentleman with a close cropped leard walked up to the cashier and asked fur his bill. He wanted to make a train in fifteen minutes. "What is the name?" asked the cashier. A startled look came on the riicfCs face, and mumbling some excuse for not answering the clerk's question he turned away and paced up and clown for a minute Or two. Then he rushed to the register and scanned Its pages eag-rl , but without any apparent relief. The hotel people began to regard him with supicion, but Mr. Townsend finally aproached him kindly and asked what was the matter. Then the guest con fessec. He said he had come to the hotel the day before and had registered under an assumed name. "There are some people." said he. "whom I did not want to know I was here, but I have forgotten the name I put on your registered." The books were overhauled, and the name was found In time to enable the man to reach his train. The name he hai used wa M. M. Short, hut he told no'oody hi real cognomen. Chicago Inter Ocean. F!tcW Cioods for Sprinte und Summer. ' As noted by Harper's Bazar, the first importations of fine black woolens for spring and summer wea- have smoother surfaces than those worn at present. Few diagonals or twills are shown ss yet. the preference being for repped grounds, basket weaving and granite or uneven surfaces. Many of these staffs are interwoven with silk, which appears in small dots that are raised to Imitate embroidery, or in clusters of flatter dots, or rows of spots, or pairs set diagonally, while others are geometrical designs of small involved squares which throw up the silk effectively. tJrosgraln silks, it is predicted, ar to be revived for the black dresses that are now so .fashionable. Those c-onimendcd by experienced modistes have even reps of medium size and arc of rich jet black, with the soft demiluster Lyons manufacturers know how lo impart. They give promise of wearing well without becoming "shiny." as they are of pure silk. Diinl'n for Hie Children. pon't eneouraee in a small child that for which you will punish him when older. Iontl trample metrci'.epply underfoot the wishes of a child, but respect them as far as possible. Don't punish children in anger, but lt them know that j ou dislike the task, but perform it for their good. Don't talk of a child's peculiarities before it never let It hear its beauty or uplines spoken of. The greatest charm of childhood Is its forgetfnlne?, of itself. Don't feel it beneath your dimity to give a child the reason for a refusal. If practicable so to do. If it is not. your former conduct should have inspired suen confidence oward you that he will cheerfully submit though he does not understand your motive. Good Housekeeping. Wedding Cards. Most of the wedding cards sent out are plain and simple in style, as a rule, there are not so many cards inclosed as formerly. Of course in ease of a largo wedding, where there. Is danger of a crjsh and where many outsiders would strive to force their way into the church from curiosity, a church card is indiapenslble. -' He Was Glad. Wife "Are you glad to see me back?" Husband "Indeed I am. I have bought you a new cook book, so that you can gel up a -grand supper to welcome yourself." N. Y. .Weekly.

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