Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — Page 6

™T' " 1711 mm 11 11 ' ■; ‘ "f lf Y " r - " A BALr BEAIDMXti. A wonder c«mr opt of the air from «fi<V; It was eoug. i »■;»•* beauty am) strength and Might, And it soared to a strain that was rayed like a star. Reviving old faiths in the triomph of Wght Over wrong and the trinmph of life over death; And it sank into the quavers of tenderness, too, As if the sweet singer scarce trusted the breath Of a love just awakened by one who might woo Her to give even life for himself, and would go Wheresoe'er he might lead, though he ‘led to the rack, f ' Or in silence heroic could nobly bestow AU the wealth of her heart and receive nothing back. la a spirit concealed in the song from afar? Is some mighty magician aj work, that wc hear * In its pure undulations the tones that nubar The gates of the soul? That the thrill in the ear Rends a thrill to the heart of such various scope, Though the words are all swallowed by - -apaoefr of-air?- ■ ■■■■■" *’■'' That meanings profound as the deepest _ __ jjrope For in language's letter seem symbolized there?

AUNT DERBY'S SHOP.

“She’s an old darling,” said Grace Craxall, “and 1 mean to help her all 1 can. I've got a beautiful recipe for chocolate eclairs, and on Friday evening 1 am going there to make up all that 1 can, so that the school children Will buy them on Saturday. I knowhow to make cinnamon apple tarts, too, and lemon drops and cocoanut balls,” ••Grace, I do believe you have taken leave, of your senses,” said Medora May. “One would think it was disgrace enough for Aunt Deborah—our own mother s sister--to open a horrid little huckster shop, without our mixing ourselves up in the affair.” “But Aunt Debby must live, you know,” said Grace, who was perched, kitten-fasbnm, on the window-sill, feeding Urn canary with bits of sparkling whiteSugarf Kli And Cousin Nixon couldn’t keep her any longer, and her eyes are, not strong enongh for fine needlework, and her education has not fitted her to be a teacher, and her poor old rheumatic bones keep her from going behind a counter or entering a factory. 1 suppose you wouldn’t be willing to have her come and live with you?” “I!” cried Medora. “Do you suppose 1 want to proclaim to the w’hole town that I have such a dilapidated old relative as that?” “I would take her quick enough,’’ said Grace, “if I didn’t board with Mrs. Howitt, and share the little upstairs kick room with the two children. .lust waif till I marry some rich man,” she added, with a saucy uplifting of her auburn brows, “and then see if 1 don’t furnish up a stately Apartment for Aunt Debby!” “Don't talk nonsense,” said Medora. acidly, “It’s very likely, isn't it, that, a factory girl like you is going to marry a rich man?” Grace Craxall laughed merrily. All through life she and her cousin, Medora May, had agreed to differ on most points. Grace, seeing no other career before her, had, on the death of her last surviving parent, cheerfully en* tered a faetevv, while Medora, taking her stand on the patform ofV fatefe gentility, had done line sewing and bilk embroidery on the sly to support herself, putting on all the airs of a young lady of fashion the while. And now Aunt Deborah May, to the infinite disgust of her aristocratically inclined niece, had actually opened a little lowwindowed shop in a shady street just out of the main thoroughfare, Medora despairingly expressed it, “gone into trade!” For Aunt Debby, in her bewildered loneliness, had scarcely known what to do till Grace Craxall came to the rescue with her hopeful courage and straightforward common sense. ,* “I’m so helpless,” sighed the poor old lady, “that I feel sometimes it •would be better if I were dead” “Now, Aunt Debby, that doesn’t sound a bit like you,” said Grace, cheerfully. “But what am I to do?’’ said Aunt Deborah. “What can you do?” said Grace. “1 don’t know as 1 am good for anything,” said the old lady, with a quiet tear or two. except to help around the house, and 1 ain’t-strong enough for regular hired help. Your uncle always used to say I was a master hand at making bread." . '■. “Then make it;” brightly interrupted Gnice.. ' — r “Eh?" said Aunt Debby. “There's a nice little store to let on Bay street,” went on Grace, “for $lO a month.” “But I haven’t got $lO a month,” feebly interrupted Aunt Debby. “I’ll lend it to you.” said Grace, “out | of the wages I have saved. And There's a pretty bedroom at the back of the shop and a clean, dry basement under it, where you can bake your bread. I know, for the sister of the lady where i board is looking for dress, making rooms and I heard her speaking about it,” “Do you mean to open a bakery?” said the bewildered aunt Debby. “Not exactly that,” explained Grace. “But if Mrs. Howitt or Mrs. Taylor, or any of the ladies around here, could get real home-made bread, such as you make, do you suppose they would put up with what they get at the baker shops? And you could easily get up a reputation on your raisin cakes, and fried crullers, and Hew England pumpkin pies. How couldn’t you?” Th old lady brightened up a little. “1 used to be pretty good at cook-

ing,” said she. "And if you think I could support myself”- - ] “l »itn sure of it!” cried cheerful | Grace. “And l’lhfgo there with you this very day to look at the place, and ■ will engage it for three months on trial. : And! can paint you a sign to ppt over ; your door, ‘Home-made Bread by Mrs. Deborah May!’ And I’ll hem you 1 some curtains and arrange the shelves ; in the low window! «1 almost wish ! I was going to be your, shop-girl,” she added merrily. “But 1 can help you in the evening, you know!" Grace Graxall’s prophecies proved correct. | Aunt Debby’s delicious home-made ’■ bread, whiter than |»owdered lilies, sweet as ambrosia, soon acquired a rei putation, and the old lady could scarcely bake it fast enough. People came half a dozen blocks to buy the ; yellow pumpkin pies and delicious apple tarts. Children brought their hoarded pennies to invest in chocolatq sweetmeats, vanilla caramels and cream cakes with puffy shells and dej licious centres of sweetness. The little money-drawer grew fat with coins and i Aunt Deeby’s dim eyes grew bright ; and hopeful again. | ; And one day Mr. Herbert Valance, I walking by with Medora May, stopped and looked in. j “Isn't that your cousin Grace,” said he, “behind the counter? Medora turned crimson with vexation. " •■My cousin Grace?” she said. “No,- ! indeed. Wi arc not in trade.’’ What possessed her to utter this de- | liberate falsehood Medora could not ■afterwards have told. Partly the ! sling of false shame, partly a disinclination for Mr. Herbert Valance to know that her relatives were, to .usd her expression, “not ladies and gentlemen.” Mr. Valance looked up at the sign ■ over the door. i “The name is May,” he remarked ! indifferently. i “Yes,” said Medora, angry at herj self for blushing so deeply, “but no relation to us.” Mr. Valance thought over the matter. | He afterwards met Miss May at a party given by a friend, where pretty : Grace Craxall was also present. He | had taken rather a fancy to the bright ! blue eyes and delicate bldride beauty of the former, llis home was solitary enough, now that his sisters had all J married and gone away, and perhaps ! a man might find a less attractive and | graceful wife than Medora May. But j he could not be mistaken, he thought in Grace Craxall's identity. And so the next evening, about the | same time, he sauntered into the shop, j Grace was behind the daintily clean 1 little counter, taking some newly made { maple caramels off the pan. She looked up witn a smile. “Good evening, Mr. Valance,” said she. “?o,” he thought, “1 wasn't mistaken after; all. * And the little blueeyed seraph is mortal enough to tell a falsehood, in spite of her angelic Appearance.” But he looked serenely at Grace. “1 didn’t know you were in trade,” said he. “Didn't you? Well,” retorted Grace, “I am mv aunt Deborah's shop girl at present. 1 always come here in the evenings to help her, because,” she j added, with a sweet shade of serious- : ness coming over her lace, “aunt was | old and poor and she didn't know how to maintain herself in independence; and, unfortunately, my wages at the factory are. not enough for both. So I advised fhbr to open, this business, and she did, and she’s doing well; and I she bakes the most delicious bread l and pies ate, so,”, with a I saucy twinkle* under her eyelashes, j “if you know of any customers, will you please recommend our firm?” “To be sure I shall,” he answered, in the same spirit. “And 1 am very glad Miss Craxall, to see that you are not ashamed of being a working girl.” “Of course I am not,” said Grace. “Why should 1 be?” “But your cousin Medora is.” Grace gave a little shrug of her shoulders. “Very likely,” said she. “Medora and I differ in many things.” Mr. Valance bought a pound of caramels and went away. “She is a beauty,” he said to himself.. “And she is a sensible beauty into the bargain. One of those rare creatures ! in our country—a thoroughly well balanced girl.” He must have been very well pleased with his purchase, for he came again the next evening, just in time to walk home with Grace Craxall. And they talked over Aunt 'Deborah’s affairs, and concluded, as (lour was low just then, it would be a favorable opporj tunity for the old lady to lay in her : winter stock through Mr. Valance, ! who was., acquainted with one of the great New York grain merchants. Only a-few weeks had elapsed when Medora M,;v was electrified to learn that her cousin Grace was engaged. ••To some master baker or ■journey.-. ! man confectioner, 1 suppose,” she-said contemptuously. ® ; “No,” said Grace, with eyes roguishly sparkling. “to Mr. Herbert Valance.’ i--*4f rifiin ludh if j| ~ said “Me?" dora. grow ing red then pale. “But it’s really so,” said Grace “And we are to be married in three months. And Aunt Debby is to come ana live with me as soon as she can dispose of-her business to advantage. And, dear Medora, I hope you will often come and visit me, too.” Medora May did not answer. She could not Bait in her secret heart she realized how infinitely more successful in life’s lists had been Grace’s true, frank honesty than her own subtle and devious course. Like many another, however, the lesson had come to her too late.„ A diamond-edged crescent showing in the concave the profile of the old man ifi the moon in red gold, is a noticeable novelty in scarfpins.

FOR THE LADIES.

Importing a Wife—Wife and Husband —Things Women Want to KnowGossip, Fashion Notes, Etc. . • y z. . - Human Love. There i« a story told In Eastern tents, when autumn nights g row cold, And round the fire the Mongol shepherds «»t, With grave responses listeiing unto lt> Once, on the errands of hr mercy bent, Buddha, the holy and benevolent, Met a fell monster, 'huge and fierce of look, i Whose awful voice the bills and forekts shook, “O, son of peace,’* ,The giant cried, “thy fate ....i. Is sealed at last, and love shall yield to hate.” The unarmed Buddh,-.. looking with no trace Of fear or anger, into the monster’s face, In pity said. “Even thee I love.” IjO! as he spoke the sky-ttll terror sank To hand-breadth size—the huge abhorrence shrank Into the form and fashion of a dove, And where the thunder of its rage was heard, ■ : IG.TiTTTr TIA ■ - ’Circling above him sweetly Bang the bird —, “Hate hath no charm for Love,” go ran the song, < ‘And peace; unweapoiied, conquers every wrong.” The henator’s Oaujrliter J’arrics a Voung Editor. Miss Dolph’s beauty has never been disputed, and she has been an acknowledgecTbeile in...ui_fieial society, where Mhere are always pretty ybliffg women each season. She lias been happy' in the number of friends, and has been termed a popular girl. Some of her girl friends have frankly expressed surprise because, as they said, she did Pot marry money or position. One young woman, more outspoken than the others in her set, exclaimed : “Oh, ■ Agnes, why do you marry a poor young journalist? AYhy don’t you wait and marry a Senator, somebody worth wldle?” Miss Dolph, though “fimishtd” in a fashionable New York school, still Holds to the breezy, Western prairie off-hand manner of the Oregonborn girl. “Marry a Senator!” she retorted, with vim in her voice. “Marry a man as old as my father, and one 1 don’t ; care for! You know Senators are old men, or most of them are. Young men don’t get in the Senate. When my father and mother were married he wasn’t a Senator. His chances were ino better then than Mr. Nixon’s-are now. Now, you may wait and marry :an old Senator if you want to. I'll take the poor young journalist now, and we will wait together for the Senj ate or any other good place we can get.” Then, in a graver tone, she added: “You see, Mattie, I care more for him than for money or position.” Few Washington journalists have married daughters of men in official life. Young men often called newsI paper men are too busy to give much time to society. As a rule they are not in the “set” of society men, and have no opportunity to meet society girls. Several years ago Howard Carrol married Miss Starin, whose father was a member of the House at the time. Later I. C. Crawford married ■ the daughter of Representative Joyce, ; of Vermont. Miss Joyce was a beauty, not unlike Miss Dolph in the style of being tall and a brunnette. As Mrs. Crawford she is still a line-looking woman, and clever, too. Miss Dolph has much independence and strength of character that wil| serve her well as r the , 'wife of a “poor young journalist.” Washing tun Letter. Wife and Husband. , ' P Wife (returning from church) —How beautifully the choir sang “Une More River to Cross!” Husband—Y“es, and that reminds me that I have an engagement in Hoboken this afternoon. —New York Sun. The following conversation was overheard by a Tid-Bit representative: Wife—John, I want seven dollars for a dog collar. Husband—Seven dollars! You must be crazy. All I pay for my collars is twenty ; five cents. Wife— Yes, John, but you're no dog.—Exchange. “James,” said a Michigan street wife to her husband, “what’s this anti-pov-erty association I read about in the newspapers?” “It’s a ’sociation to make ns poor folks rich.” “And what’ll happen to the folks that are rich now?” “They’ll all be made poor.” —Buffalo Courier. Vvife (indignantly—-Albert, here is a letter I found in your pocket It is signed Mabel, and is, I must confess, the most sickening missive I ever read. Oh. you horrid monster! 1 will tell mother all about it. Hubby—llut, my dear,' have you looked at the date? Wife—No. but I Wilt Why, it is dated Nov. 1. 188:3. Hubby (with a look of triumph) Yes, darling; one of the loving letters you wrote me before we were married.— Judge. Adrirf to Wives and Hn*rt>an:l9. Remember that you are married to a man, and not to a god: be prepared for imperfections. Don’t flatter yourself that you knowmore than your wife until you have got home from her funeral. Once in a while lgtyour husband have the last word; it will gratify him and be no particular loss to you. Don't try and fool your wife about drinking unless you happened to marry an idiot. Then it isn’t worth while to do so. ••. .A,.'.4-':■ Don’t be too friendly with your prospective son-in-law. Hetnay think you intend to live with him after he is married. .T-..-, ,• •- - to -A-,-, Never tell your wife how much betber some other women dresses unless “ A

you have more money than you know ' what td do with. Let him know more than you do once in a while; it keeps up his selfI respect, and you will be none the worse foradmitting that you are not actually infallible. Pastlilun \o!r«. Pongee is again a favorite summer material. i Scarf mantles are much favored for “dressy wear. Cashmere and silk make a favorite combination for dressts. Shirred and belted’ round waists are in fashion again for thin materials. Silk is again superseding woolen materials for rich visiting costumes. For midsummer house dresses the Scotch ginghams and plaids are used. Gimp and other faticy-woven dress trimmings are steadily growing in favor. * Ivory white satin and faille Fran- ! caise are equally favored for wedding dresses. Cottage shaped bonnets of smooth Milan' or lacellke "straw are worn by elderly ladie3. Children’s hats have very w ide brims, ! made wider in front and on the sides than in the back. Among revivals in dress goods is mousseline de laine -in combination with figured textures. The tailor-made costume is still favored l'or brides’ traveling dresses, but is much less severe than formerly. Very Ipw-cnt slipes are once more I favored for evening dress, and they haajr be black or match the dress- in color. , Tiling Women Want to know. Two hundred and sixty-two pairs of twins were born in Chicago during 18SI3. Queen Victoria is said to have astonished people at Aix-lee-Bains by i her do wdy appearance. The average age of European girls when they marry,-according to a Ger--1 man statistician, is twenty-six years, while that of men, is twenty-eight. •Recent statistics go to show that’ there are probably as many men in the world as there are women. In j Europe the women are in excess, but in India the preponderance is the ' other way, Susanna Salter is quoted as an illustration nf the possibilities for women in Kansas: She is the wife of a prosperous lawyer, the mother of four ■ lusty children,'-Mayor of the town of Argona, and only 27 years old. Two young belles appeared at a Boston dinner a few days ago with serpents apparently tattooed on their arms instead of bracelets and a circle I of strawberries and strawberry leaves ! round the neck, exquisitly done, both as to color an J drawing, and producing a striking effect. Though it resembled tattooing, it was, of course, some thin substance excellently painted, and made to adhere to the skin. (•ossip for the Ladies. A Welsh proverb mentions three things of short continuance—a lady's love, a chip lire, and brook Hood. Even English writers in English papers as* ert that the Americans are the best dressed.wbmea at tine Queen’s dniwifio^rpoms. Three Indies strolling in the woods near Mendocino. Cal.. jumped a deer and their dogs caught it and held it until they cut its throat. Breach-of promise suits are unknown :in Kansas. The girls out there do ! nothing on credit. They do not con- ! sider themselves engaged until they are married. The law of Wyoming allows women ito vote. It goes still further. It 1 especially provides that there shall be j no discrimination on account of sex in the pay for any kind of work. A London shopkeeper was recently fined under the new act of Parliament for keeping two of his girls at work for nniety-seven hours in a week—sixteen hours a day, that is, for six days running. I A girl living near Fargo, Dak., has had eighty offers of marriage. Four more girls have recently moved in, and the bachelors in that region will now have more chance to distribute their attentions. A discussion is at present going on in select circles as to which are the happier couples, those with children or those without. We unhesitatingly array ourselves on the side of the olive branch, says an exchange. A home without children is aicloister. Xovelties In Jewelry. Compass charms are in demand again for gentlemen: A small rustic branch twined with forget-me-nots tnakes a pretty pin. A fern leaf covered with a dew of clustered diamonds is one of the most graceful of pins. A coil “f hlaek oviili-Pii silver, with a diamond ia its center, is one of tiie newesrscarTplns. 'A silver handled riding whin, with .a. gay-colored lash," is :something that every fair equestrienne should have. Large opals in combination with diamonds and other stones are used in the gorgeous insect pins now so popular. A mosaic he"art pendant of forget-me-not pattern, lately seen, was suspended from a bow-knot of the same' style. Among seasonable novelties is 'tie strawberry pin,,of clustered rubies, the gold setting representing the seed) very faithfully. A very popular scarf or bonnet pin is the horse-shoe set with two rows of gems, one of rubies or sapphires, theother of diamonds. i ■ *

COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.

JUNK. O June! dellctone month rs June! When wind* and bird* all slug in tune; When in lhe meadow* ewarm the bee* And hnm iheir drowry eqelodiea While billagingtbe bullcrcnp. To More the golden honey qp; O Juue! the momh of blueet eklee, Sear to the pilgrim bntteifliee, _ , Who *eem gay-colored leaves artry, Piown down the tides of amber day; O.June!.the month of merry pong, Of rhndow brief, of sunshine long: All thing* on earth love you the beet— The bird who carol* near hi* neet; The wind that wakes and, singing, blows The sp ey perfume of the roseto • And hee, who sonnd* his muffled horn - To celebrate the diwy morn; And even ail the stars above -* - All night are happier for love; As if the mellow cotea of mirth Were wafted to them from the earth, O June! such moaic haunts your name; Witt yon the summer’s chorus came! —[Krank Dempster Sherman In St. Nicholas for Juue.j

PLANT LICE. The first plant lice that appear in spring are hatched from eggs laid the previous autumn, and are exclusively fi'i|iales. From these the species •is propagated throughout the season by what is known as asexual generation, the young being born alive through many successive generations, and without any pairing of the sexes. The males and perfect females—i. e., those capable of depositing fertile eggs, only appear late in the season. It is said that the male form of the cabbage.aphis lias not yet been discovered: Until quite recently the eggs of The hop aphis had not been found, but it is now thought that they, are deposited on the terminal twigtf bf plum trees, and several other species are believed to deposit their eggs on plants entirely distinct from the ones upon which they feed. 1 The peculiar,, viscid sweetish substance that sometimes appears on the leaves of pear and some other trees in -uunner, and which i.- known as ••honey dew,” is largely; if not entirely a secretion of the aphis. Ants are fond of this secretion, and hence are always found on plants infested with plant lice. Indeed, the latter are treated by the ants much as if they had been reduced to a stale of domestication. It is known that the ants frequently transport the. lice from place to plaee.-thatkthey-kiiovV how to cause them to yield their sweet secretion at will, and they are also thought to protect them from their insect enemies. They are called Rants’ cows.” Last year the damage by aphis to fruit growers and nurserymen in Western New York alone must certainly have amounted to hundreds of thousand if not to millions of dollars. But this is by lie means the only locality that suffered, nor is the past the only season in which cultivated plants have been injured by them. It is estimated that the injury to the hop crop of England in 1882, from the ’ aph-is, amounted to. $.8,000,000. The dreaded phylloxera of Europe, that has threatened to annihilate grape-growing in many localities, belongs to the family of plant lice, and there are many other injurious species. Perhaps no insect with which we have to contend is so difficult to battlesuccessfully in the open air. With nursery trees and herbaceous plants, kerdsene emulsions or solutions of whale-oil soap prove partially satisfactory. But the insects are so small and so numerous, that it is practically impossible to reach them till, and owing to their extremely rapid multiplication, the few that escape soon envelope the the plants anew. In the ease of large trees, their destruction becomes much more difficult. On the whole, the mastery of the aphis in the open air must be regarded as one of the unsolved problems in horticulture THE SHIPPING OKATE Those who grow produce for market do not need to be told of the importance of neat and proper packing to secure ready sales and best prices. The farmer sometimes has a crop, such as an unexpected crop ot early apples, that he would gladly turn into money, but he is not provided with baskets for for packing his fruit, and if sent in barrels the fruit would'arrive in bad order and bring low prices. To such the bushel crate comes as a ready resource. A bushel crate is easily made, and forms a neat and handy package for pearly all kinds of produce. To make a bushel crate there are required three pieces, each eight by fourteen inci.es, for the end and center piece: the strips or laths for the sides are two feet long. The width of these depends upon the article to be packed. Sixteen strips are commonly used, with spaces between for ventilation. Often The corners of the end and middle pieces are cut oil'; this makes the crate octagonal in shape, which is an advantage, as it allows of better ventilation when the crates are stacked together. In building the crates thetwo strips at the top are nailed down, to allow an opening thraugh which to fill it. In packing in crates, as in barrels, they are to be shaken to settle the contents, which should project slightly at the top to require some pressure to bring down the last slats, which serve as a cover, into place. Vegetables and •fruits should -always be jacked wjDv pressure, otherwise they become bruised and injured generally in transit. BAD ODORS IN MILK. When cows first get on full feed of grass at this season they are apt to scour, badly If shut up at night and milked in close stables night and morning their milk will absorb the odors from their manure and become Extremely offensive. If cooled as soon as possible aud exposed to the air the odors will disappear without being noticed. Ruto’milk that has td be carried to market or factories by milkmen is usually plaeeel at once in close cans. When these ore opened some hours later a strongly Offensive odor will pretty surely come from them. Not long ago I heard of a dairvman who secured a herd of Holstein cows on

account of their yield. “In this he was not disapjxnntcd. but the milk was extremely offensive so that his customers would not take it. He would have changed his valuable herd for much jioorer cows if Some one had not pointed out the cause of his trouble. It is best not to give green laxative food unac companied by other and more substantial diet, and especially in Summer cows should not be milked in close stables wherever it can be avoided. It is possible, and even probable, that the frequent complaints that ensilage jn Winter makes the milk taste bad is due to this cause. >- .» “CULTIVATING CQJtV. There :trc conditions of the ground which make the double diamond better for the early cultivation of corn than either the harrow or the cultivators. When the Spring is what we term “backward,” the weather being distinguished by rains, accompanied by low temperature the ground becomes cold and wet; then the soil should be thrown away from the Corn, leaving ridges to dry quickly and warm up in the sun. The plows may be run very close to the corn: I set them just six inches apart. As soon as the, ridges, are dry, especially if the Weather promises to be less rainy, the furrows should be closed and the ridges cut down with the cultivators or harrow, if the si/.c of the coni will permit, I am believer in level, rather riialiow culture for corn, have been converted from the ridge theory by severai years of experimenting. lam as decidedly of opinion that often ridge culture is the better, as I have pointed out. Our practices must vary with conditions. This applies with special force To the cultivation of corn, forduringitsseason the weather is so changeable that the conditions are not often the same six day in suee-.-ion. What is proper cultivation one d.-iy may, be wrong tin; next. W ben a man insists that either level culture or ridged culture is right under all conditions you may be sure that his prejudices reduce his corn crop. lIOWTO DRINK JIII.IC. Milk as taken is a fluid, but as soon as it meets the acid of the gastric juice i,t is changed to a soft, curdy, cher-c----like substance, and then must be digested, and the stomach is over-tasked if too much be taken at once. A large glass of milk swallowed suddenly will form in the stomach a lump of dense cheesy curd which may prove fatal to a weak stomach. Under the action of the stomach this cheesy mass will turn over and over like a heavy weight; and as the gastric juice can only attack its surface, it digests very slowly. But.the same milk taken very slowly, or with dry toast.* light rolls' or soft, dry porridge, forms a porous lump through which the gastric juice can easily pass, and which breaks up every time the -stomach turns it over. Milk should be slightly saltecl and eaten with hrpaib . stuff's or sipped by the spoonful. Cow's milk produces less heat than .human milk, a child would grow thin upon it imdvss a little sugar were added. Care of flowering- bulbs. After the spring bulbs have encourage'an abundant growth of leaves. Whert-the- foliage begins to fade, take up the bulbs and lay them in a cool and airy place to ripen. Carefully label each kind before storing until planting time in September. These bulbs will not give as large and fine (lowers in subsequent years as in the first. If not planted in the. show .beds again, set them in some convenient place where they may remain several years, to afford an abundance of cut flowers. The same may be done with.bulbs that have been forced to produce supplies of flowers in pots during winter. CURRENT NOTES. Not only does the linden tree produce honey in great,abundance, but its quality is regarded by many as equal, if not superior, to that yielded, by white clover. When a cow steps into the milk pail, remarks an exchange, she also stepsin-<-to the butter plate, and there is no get- • ting around it. Thin out instead of shortening in a tree when you transplant it. ” ‘lt is a mistake notion that it is the proper way to cut off the ends of all the limbs. * One thing seems to have been quite well demonstrated —that a larger quantity of potatoes, as well as potatoes of a better 'quality, ran lie raised with chemical fertilizers than with manure. Of the, newer hardy shrubs liydrangia paniculata gramlitlora is one of the fiuest. It is perfectly hardy, and produces immense panicles of white flowers in great profusion. It blooms in July or August,'and remains an of beauty until cut down by frost. The great improvement made by the hybridizer in the gladiolus within the past ten years are simply wonderful, and a few bulbs from a guod strainwill well repay a little trouble with beautifully shaded flowers. They last in bloom a long time, ■ Sponge cake—One teacup of powdered or fine white sugar, three eggs, o.'.eiourth of a teaspoon.„of soda, one-half teaspoon of. cream tartar, one teacup of flour: flavor with vanilla. ’ W well, pick off - • until you are. ready to eat them. They should then be shaken free of wet anil piled lightlyin a glass dish. Eat with salt. They lire a piquant appetizer ou sultry mornings and very, wholesome. - •' ~ ■■' ~~ -P Tulips are excellent for early spring flowers. The bulbs must be pbinted the previous fall and protected through the winter by a mulchingof leaves or course manure. The tulips in the various parks are a little backward this year. Some of the earlier varieties will be in bloom today, but the larger proportion will not be at their best for another week, when they will be well worth traveling miles to see.