Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 June 1885 — Page 7

Tba Black Wheat Ily.

A very mi all and dangerous insect has been its appearance in wheat field* in various parts of the country. It has been •observed most numerously in Michigan and Ifow York. Prof. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural college, has examined the new pest under the microeoope and described it. One of hi* student*, P. Gfllett^ made some

drawings, from which illustrations hare go^oatot & It is quite .been taken. .. iticMh

FIG. FlO. 2. Fxo. 3.

TUmCTXD 8TRAW. ULBVJu TVTA. Fig. 1 shows a section of a wheat stalk -which the insect has attacked. The female lays her eyes near the Joints of the tender 'green stalk in May and June. The worms •hatch and sack the milky juices that should go to the making of the plump ripe grain

Consequently an imperfect or light wheat Bid follows. Where the eggs are deposited stalk becomes solid and brittle and easily. Between the joints it is 'withered and deformed. It crumbles in the threshing, and the pieces go through the machine with the wheat. 'The black points in the engraving are the fades where the developed fly comes out f'Tbe eggs are yellowish white. So are the wonru. They are very small, no more than ra tenth of an inch long, and have dark jaws. 'They are fully grown by fall. Then they go into the chrysalis or pupa state and remain till late in spring, coming out as flies and depositing e«gs in their turn in the wheat stal ks. The stalk solidifies where the bunches of eggs are laid. The worms attack the stalk in numbers of five to fifteen.

The pupa is shown in fig. 8. It is an ugly creature, found in wheat straw in the fall and winter. In autumn and winter it is white late in spring, just before it bursts into the fly. it is black. The markings on the side are the budding wings. The eggs are very small, no more than a hundredth •of an inch in length. A string-like appendage attaches them to the wheat stalk. They .are in bunches of saventy-flve to a hundred.

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Th® full-fled gel fly is very black in its body, and has four wings, two large and two •mall, as shown in the illustration. The body is covered with fine gray hairs, and the wings are veined with yellow. There is j»ot so much difference between the male jTtij female of this species as between those of some other flies. The female is about a tenth of an inch long, the male not quite so large. "33

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Both soxos have perfect and the

wings,

males are nearly as numerous as the females. The difference in shape appears in the picture. The female has a small, roundish, light-colored spot just back of the eyes, ."milch is either obscure or wanting in the male. The fly has eleven joint* The attacked wheat stem does not swell—only •solidifies.

Farmers will want to be on the lookout for this new pest Its learned name is isosoma nigrum, or black isosoma. The good done by "book farming" and agricultural colleges will at length begin to dawn upon the most benighted old hunks of a ruralist when the results of such work as this done by Prof. Cook begin to soak into his skulL Hie professor's suggestions for getting rid of the pest are as follows:

As the insects are in the straw from the date of cutting till the following May, it beoomes very apparent that by cutting the wheat high, in which case nearly all the insects will remain ix the stubble, and then burning the latter, all theee will be destroyed. In case there is much green vegetation, it would be better to out the stubble tow before burning. If short pieces of the -straw are found in the grain, these should be cleaned out and burned. From experiments made in the laboratory, by burying the straws in sand, and the insects still coming out, I doubt if plowing voider will prove a very thorough remedy. As theee have good, fully-developed wings, rotation of drops would not serve as well to protect •gainst this insect

Succotash the Tea* Koa»4 [American Alfrteulturtst.)

Farmers do not half improve their opportunities in supplying the luxuries of the table at oheap rates. We have too much salt pork and codfish, and during the winter a very narrow line of vegetables! outside of potatoes and beans. We have just risen from a -succotash dinner, served up the second day, and with the flavor of that savory dish upon the palate we are prepared to testify to its •xceUence, and to tell the whole host of

American readers just how to grow the corn and beans, and how to concoct the dish in faimnw and winter. For the corn, do not lose aday in securing the seed. Only two •varieties of sweet corn are absolutely necessary to secure a succession of green earshot their best condition from the last woek in July until frost stops growth. The earliest •com is the Marblsbead, a true sweet corn, «ara eight to ten indies long, and good enough to satisfy any one. The green ears •ell well in market and its earlinees makes it a desdra' v-. -t to cultivate for p-—«se, where a surplus for iy si lies. About three plantings of this, a week Mart, wilt bs uijugh, beginning the first of May. Theee ui give green ears throughthe month of August Then, forthe other kinds, there Is the old Btowetl Evergreen, introduced some thirty years ago, a short*jointed stalk and large-eared variety, vary juicy, and of excellent flavor, continuing in ite milky stats than the common sweet corn.

batter thsuor the StowelL Tbe soocnsrion can however, this has not been attended to, eat bs kept up with either of thsss varietiss grass from the lawn, eta, can bs put beplsntiin te too* twssnthaKIWI—ithsstject aocompUshsd.

about a week apart Ibot for the dose of the nnennn, running into October, and, in the shore towns, occasionally into November, plant the Marblehsad the first and second weeks in July. It is safe enough to plant a quarter of an acre of well manured land with this staple of succotash. This will give fresh ears in their best condition about three months in the year, furnish a large supply for drying. The condition of the corn when plucked for drying, and the drying process are important matters. Meet of the dried sweet corn offered for sale is cured when it has passed its milky stage, and has

moreBt(lrch thansugarin it

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gone out oi is. a is quite as im

portant to have fresh ears for drying as for the table. No vegetable is more damaged by long keeping than sweet corn. In the large city markets, where the ears are two or three days from the stalk, green corn is hardly worth eating. For drying, the ears should be taken from the stalk and the husks quickly removed, cooked in bofling water about fifteen minates, the grain cut from the eob, and dried upon cloths or netting in the sun. A shed roof or scaffold sloping to the sun makes a convenient plaos for curing dear, bright days should be choeen, when the oorn will have the benefit of the sun through the whole day. It will help the curing process to stir the oorn with a clean stick, or rake, several times a day. Gather up the cloths, with their contents, and carry under cover at night, or when showers come on. In about three days of clear weather the oorn will be fairly dry. Finish off in large iron pans upon the stove, or in the oven with the door open. This will expel the last of the moisture. The dried corn should be stored in paper bags or other receptacles where it will be dry and safe from moisture, mtoe and flies. When wanted for the lordly dish of succotash, the oorn, as well as the beans, should be soaked in lukewarm water over night In cooldng, stir the mixture faithfully to prevent burning at the bottom, which spoils the feast Tastes will differ about the sugar. If the corn has been dried in its best condition, most people will be satisfied with the natural flavor. The salt will come from a piece of salt pork, the sice adjusted to the dish. The I4ma bean, picked «nd dried while the pod is green, is the best for succotash then the mature Lima after that the Horticultural, or Scipio, or other good pole beans and last, the White Bush Kidney. With this stock in the storeroom sucootash can be enjoyed the year round.

Sweet

Potatoes.

This valuable edible is not grown to the extent it ought to be. The southern method of culture is usually considered the best. It is described as follows in The Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer: "I have made no failure in the last ten years in getting a good crop. Dry, sandy soil, with clay or gravely subsoil. Break 8 to 10 inches during winter. Use the following compost: 150 cart loads woods mold or fence scrapings, 15 bvAhels cotton seed, 300 pounds Carolina phosphate, and 20b pounds kainit. Lay off rows 8% feet wide, put compost in the drill, and run a small plow through compost in the drill, mixing it and the soil well Ridge with a good turning plow three or four furrows to the row, drag with light drag and plant on fresh made row plant as early in the season as possible, the sooner the better plaoe plants 20 inches apart in the drill. Cultivate twice with cotton plow. Clean out all grass and weeds, and hill up when vines reach the bottom of the ridge. Several times I have reached 400 bushels per acre, and made no failure. The quantity of compost above is for one acre."

In the north, at least in many parts, it is now about the time for setting out the sweet potato plants. Later in the season, when they roof at th* joints, a hefe'handle should be run under the vines to tear them loose. The Nansemond is recommended as the best Variety. IT5

I I I Fodder. »[American Dairyman,]

Mr. Geo. P. Lord, of Elgin, Ills., keeps 100 cows on 800 acres of land and has not used hay for several years. He thinks fodder corn is much die cheapest and best, when the fodder is made properly and well secured, so that each handful has a rich green color. Mr. Hoard, in his Dairyman, says he has seen a yield of ten tons of cured fodder to the acre. This is a wonderful yield, and we always found it, to our taste, as good as timothy hay for feeding cows, pound for pound. It has also been quite satisfactorily explained that sweet or sugar ©orb does not make as good, economical, Or even as sweet fodder, as the old horse tooth variety of southern origin, and who ever saw more than three tons of good timothy hay growing to the acre! We never had as good success in planting late as early. Corn is a semi-tropical plant, and wants plenty of time, in this climate, to catch a full stubmer's length of sun to come to its best quality, and lay up all the sugar and starch that it can accumulate, f" 1

A Strawberry Pest.

Growers of strawberries are considerably agitated ova: the depredations of a weevil, which has brought destruction to thousands of the vines on large farms. Prof. Riley, the entomologist of the agricultural department at Washington, will visiMBtaten Island saly to study the habits of the new pest, then try and suggest means for its suppression. The

strawberry weevil, as it is

called, threatens to put a stop to strawberry growing near New York unless speedily suppressed. It first appeared last year on Staten Island. It punctures the flower stem, and prevents the vino from fruiting. Later in the season the weevil destroys the entire plant The insect buries itself near the root and next year myriads of its progeny ap-

It has migrated across the Staten land sound and appeared in New Jersey, sing to destroy valuable acres of strawrry plants there. No one yet knows its correct name or its habit*.

Thing* to Do and to Know. Keep the weeds down. For choke tomatoes^ tie the plants up to stakes or trellises.

Now scatter a lot of sifted coal ashes over the roots of currants snd gooseberries. American agriculture 80 years henoe de-

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nds upon the training we now give our

Fetor Henderson saji that beans, peas, beets, cucumbers, corn, lettuce, etc., may yet be sown for succession crops this month.

The terrible suffering among the cattle of western ranchmen this past winter has set-} Thflr migl* have fUtad op tied it that the must have food and Such a mere little CTip, ..... shelter provided for them daring the cold And far want of a spoon I must drink it, months. But 'tis easy to pour—

In the winter straw or hay should have

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The Tobacco Chewer.

Do yon see this fellow!

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VKBT NASTY.

He is loaning against the wall of the grocery. Look at the puddle all around him on the sidewalk. See his dripping jaws. Look at his bedribbled shirt bosom, vest and trousers. The lady is trying to pass. She on a new dress, with clean white skirts. She holds up her dress in horror, and shies around that puddle as though it was smallpox, or a snake. She will be lucky if the fellow does not actually expectorate upon her beautiful silk dress.

He is a tobacco chewer. He travels on the cars sometimes. When he does so he splatters the floor within a yard around him. A bad smell comes up around the place. If you happen to look that way you get so sick you don't know what to do. Your lnsides roll as if you were seasick. You feel as though, if your dearest friend on earth chewed and spit tobacco, that you never want to come within a mile of him again- You remember that in traveling all through Europe you never saw a man chew tobacco or spit upon the floor, or anywhere else. Nobody but Americans spit incessantly. Boys, remember, it is not necessary at alL It is only a habit, and tha sickeningest habit Americans have. Don't get in the way of it if you want to be called a gentleman.

When the disgusting tobacco spitter comes to his journey's end he goes off and leaves his place empty. Decent people shun that seat as if it was a plague spot Ladies look at it, draw back their skirts, and look awfully sour. Good gracious 1 They'd rather stand for two or three hours than bring their pretty clothing in contact with that filth.

When this fellow was a boy he thought it was "smart" to learn to chew tobacco and squirt and expectorate all over creation. He thought it looked big and manly. Now that he is a man, he would almost give his head, sometimes, if he'd never learned. He cant expectorate in a parlor, in church or any place where nice people are, and he is in torment if he is not rolling his quid in his mouth, like a cow chewing her cud. He would give the world to quit it, but he can't If you ask him, and he gives you an honest answer, he will tell you so.

Boys, the only way is never to learn in the first place.

Humming Birds.,

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But in all her childhood the girl never found the nest of one. At last, after years had passed and the child was a grown woman, one day she found the humming bird's nest It was cuddled close in a cluster of honeysuckle, here as you see in the picture. She had hunted for it twenty years.

The nest is very small, no more than an across. It is often found under the leaves of an old apple tree. It is entirely covered with lichens, such as grow upon the rails of old fences. Thus hidden, it would not be apt to be found by the sharpest eye. The inside of the nest is built of soft fibres from plants. The most beautiful humming birds are found in South America. More tK.n 800 varieties of them are found there.

Costard aadeMostard.

Sugar-toothed Dick For dainties was sick,

Bo he slyly stole into the kitchen, Snatched a cup from the pantry And darted out quick, Unnoticed by mother or Qretcben.

Whispered be, "There's no cake. For to-morrow they bake, Bat this costard looks rich and delicious,

How theyll scold at the rata, •J: Or the mice or the cats, For me I dont think they're suspicion*

BarkI whosthatttthedoorr

A wothernfarnwr navi that pen stress the custard went down ere you'd think it is laid by farmers on providential calamities, but for his part ha satisfied these can bs With a shriek he sprang op overcome by proper cultivation and man- Tb the floor dashed the cop, ,,,, taring. Then lie bottled, tamhted, spluttered and

Poultry ratting In France is carried on by Mastered, women. They are experts in their traded TBI the aiy happy, healthy and mahs a good living. Brought the whole household in— TbeymrfMMsall^s world axospt the C& Hshwlwmlkmadacopfniof mnstanU Mas tn the art of raising capons. ,^ yrs :.

the roots strawberry winter, wy sBccmA'ibhers lb axtthmn, my thirds the end

TERES HAUTE SATURDAY iW_hJ]StTN"G MAIL

HONEYSUCKLE

VIST*.

Once there was a little girl who all through her childhood kept looking for a humming bird's net Every June when the bright^ wild, flitting creatures came she watched them day by day, and tried to follow them to their homes. Once she caught one of the birds, and examined him as if he had been a ahimng creature from another world. After looking at him carefully she let him go. He flew away to his gay, fluttering friends, frightened almost to death.

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WOMAN AND HOME.

A KENTUCKY BELLE'S TALK UPON LOVE-MAKINGL

A Brave little Woman—Holiday for the Wife—Washington Teas—A Cosy Corner—Baby's Growth—Tidbits of

Household Wisdom.

[Cor. Louisville Commercial.]

According to the professed belief of a noted belle of this city who is now a round and rosy matron with children at her knee, the poet's dreadful contingent need never bring misery to a lover's heart In other words, the man who loves in the right way can always "get her." "A soore of men made love to me,* said the excellent lady above referred to, "and any one of them might have had me If be had studied the art of love-making with the same care he would give any time to a game of chess. "I hold that love-making is an art There is no such thing as love at first sight Wa may admire each other in the beginning, but immediate affection is out of the question. First impressions, no matter how favorable, must be strengthened by artful cultivation. Then love oomee, and if the man who sues makes no mistake, he is sure to win, no matter what his condition may be. Of course he must talk well, drees respectably, and, above aU'wear clean linen and keep Ids face free from dirt If he does all this and suss judiciously no arrow of misfortune can keep the victor's wreath from off his crown. I might add that one of the requisites in personal appearance is dean teeth. A man may have a nose like a pumpkin, or a mouth like a mammoth cave, or eyes like a jay bird, a hand like a ham, or a foot as big as a canoe, and he can win, but if his teeth are not what a gentleman's teeth ought to be he will rue the day he gave his heart to a wellbred woman. He may be tall or short, stout or lean, with a voice like a fog-horn and a carriage as ungraceful as the amble of a camel, and he may yet win any woman in the world if he studies her with care and keeps his teeth dean. "More women are won by judicious flattery than by any other means, for every woman is more or less vain, and she is naturally fond of the man who finds her weakness and handles it with skilL Let a woman once imagine that she has pretty eyes, and if a man will tell her so constantly and artfully, she is certain to have a weakness for him, which may be easily fanned into aflame of love, and ardent love at that This is merely an example. "All women profess to hate men who are jealous, but in this they belie themselves extravagantly. No woman ever loved a man violently whom she was unable to infect with a sting of the green-eyed monster. It Is true that some women are fond of complacent, easy-going and impassionate men, but as a rule such fellows can never inspire the genuine emotion. It is your hot-headed, passionate and impulsive man who. can drive a woman to destruction.' All women are more or less sentimental, and so are all good men for that matter. Sentiment has nothing to do with complacency. Therefore you can understand the drift of my argument "A man must be more or less hot-headed he must be more or less jealous and more or less passionate to inspire a woman with the love that burns. The man who wouldn't kiss a woman when she tellg him with her eyes that her lips are yearning is an idiot I don't mean by this that kissing is at all necessary, or e*en {ftrppoue, but it is certainly apart and parcel of the art of love-making. "I heard a pretty girl from Cleveland say onoe that sbs had been devotedly sought by young Mr. for four years. She was fond of him and admired him for many excellent qualities, but she finally let him go, because, as she put it, he never had the courage to once squeeze her hand. To my knowledge there never was a purer or better girl than that one, but she was too full of mercury to ever wed a man who lacked the spirit to at least squeeze her hand in a lovable way. Real women, I protest, care nothing for milk-and-water men, nor do they always worship heroes, but, as I have said, if any intelligent man, with dean linen and clean teeth, will make a judioious combination of flat tery and ardent devotion, he can win any woman in the world who doesn't hate him for a cause in the beginning of the affair."

A Brave Little Woman.

[Ella Guernsey in Burlington Hawkeye.] Another tidbit of wisdom Tve picked up— these little women, who often fume and fret over little things, stand as a tour of strength when real trials and privations visit their household. Ali worry is forgotten, the brave soul sustains the frail body tho* the lips tremble, they speak only words of comfort, hope, love and cheer tho' the tears are about to fall, a smile holds them back.

Said a strong man to his creditors when the disagreeable truth came to light that his thousands were gone: "Gentlemen, I have given up every dollar for myself I do not care, but my wife, daintily reared, always petted, she will feel this misfortune sadly."

The big fellow passed and repassed his own door, dreading to go into bis own home. "Mamie was inclined £5 worry over little thing*, what would become of her in this trial!" He loved her, too, and desired to keep her happy. "You should have told me all, Charles, but the past is irrevocable. Together we will climb up again, my husband," was her calm reply, yet common report said of this brave little lady, "she ruined her husband by nonsensical extravagance."

M'Tis

impossible for the best, and bravest,

the most unfortunate not to worry we think "if we had known," "had done this or that" or "it would have been better so," and consequently discourage onrclvee, forget* ting what short-sighted mortals we are.

No use to tell us wrong drives nails in our coffins, divers blonde locks, and imprints wrinkles upon our faces we don't desire these effects, yet we can not go through life without a mite of worry.

Contriving a Cosy Conn.

[H. Maria George in Br&ttleboro Household.] In arranging a room try to contrive coaj corners. Instead of having the sofa set primly against the wall place it across the corner, and in the opsn space back sit a tiny table holding some article of virtu, hang over this a bracket with a vase, or as we saw the ther day set in the corner an immense decorated far holding dried wheat, oats, grasses and cat-tail^ in front of the sofa was a email table holding a few good

books, and a couple of easy chain were drawn ap as though used bat a moment before. The effect was charming, and one felt at once that one was ina boot*

and one-half feet each way, measuring from the corner ot the room have a frame put in* in which a door can be hang. Top of this have a panel about eight indies wide, and on top of this a little fumed work, |uesa Anne railing or something similar. A sffi most

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the

Whan do?*?-stairs dJmta are not alma- place attracted biUr the action that she dant one both useful and novd may be im-

provissd in sitting or dinlbg-room. Two In dark seal-brown velvet and rich Ottoman

bottom Csr an ordin

ary door. Fttt in three rows of

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screwed to pieoss of board joined V-shape te fit the corner. You are now ready far the ornamental part of the work. The closet can be painted the same odor as the rest of the room, or ebonized, or stained to represent black walnut On the panel at the top, paint a spray of some flower that will lode wall on the ground work. If the wood work is ebon* ized the railing should be gilded and also the edges of the panels.

Washington Society Teas* [Washington Letter.]

A rather innocent amusement in which society is just now indulging itself is "teas." There are several grades of these "teas"—an ordinary "tea," a high "tea," and occasionally a "blue tea," though the last mentioned is not much of a fort here. The ordinary "tea" is simply asocial gathering at whioh the principal duty seems to be drinking tea and eating a slight refreshment—biscuit, cake, thin sandwiches and the like. The second, high "tea" is more like a party, for the gueBts are served soup, terrapin, and salads with their tea or coffee. Besides the ladies appear in elaborate toilet and without bonnets, and guests are served standing at the table.

The third division or blue "tea," as it is called, has features besides tea-drinking, such as readings, recitations songs, and music. In Washington society high "tea" is the favorite. No set rules are observed as to what shall be furnished the guests. Each hostess does as suits her convenience, her sole aim being to make her guests comfortable. For this reason the high tea has come to be regarded as a republican mode of entertainment and the utmost latitude is permissable. The only differenoe between high tea and dinner is that the former Isnot served in courses, nor do the guests sir at table, but content themselves with standing and being waited upon, or else helping themselves the same as at an evening reception. All the dishes that accompany a dinner can be set out at high tea. A feature at an ordinary tea is a compound know as cheesesticks, the materials dough, cheese, and red pepper, being forced into straws, which are then passed to the guests with sandwiches.

A Holiday for tha Wife. l"M. A." in Detroit Free Press.] Give your wife a vaoation. She needs on& Little cares are harder to be borne than great responsibilities, and she has many more little cares than her husband and sometimes as great responsibilities. The doctors tell us more women break down mentally than men, and they also tell

left her husband.

that this i* because they have more cares to carry, and have to carry them continuously. When your work is done you can lock it up in your office and put the key in your pocket But she never locks her work up till sleep comes and turns the key upon it

A woman's work is never done. And modern life has increased and intensified it Cares have multiplied faster than conveniences. Life is more complex, its demands are greater and more numerous, society more exciting. Who needs a vaoation if she does not? And she cannot get it at home. The more quiet and restful the home is to you the more evidence that it is a care if not a burden to her. A housekeeper can no more take a vacation in her home than a merchant in his counting house. Even though her absence occasions inoonvenie nee give her an occasional vacation. ra*

She Heeded Not the Warning.^- ifj [Texas Siftings.] Her mother told her not to marry until she thought she was able to support her husband. But she heeded not her gentle mother's warning. She went and got dvilly contracted to a man who was a flne, longWinded talker, who could sit around and keep a stove warm better than any one she had ever seen in her life. And then how proficient he was lying in bed snoring on a December morning, while she got up and made the fire, fed the horses, split the wood, swept the floor, boiled the coffee, blackened his boots, mended that bole in his coat, sewed on that button, laid a pipe full of tobacco and some matches along side of his pillow, and bow loving she must have felt toward him when he got up at last, about 10 dock, cursed her for making a noise, and wanted to know why there was no beefsteak and eggs on the table, and why she bad not pawned her watch (it was her dying mother's gift) in order to give him whisky money. And when, after three years of this, she left him and went to work as a sewing girl people spoke of the depravity of a woman who

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.m The Baby's Growth, [Babyhood.] Any one who has listened to the usual talk of the mother or the nurse about her baby will have noticed that she endows it with a degree of intelligence whioh it is quite impossible that it Bbould possess. She has no hesitation in infusing a grown-up mind into the helpless bundle in her arms, and in attributing to it likes and dislikes, percepions, expressions of will and of temper, and various virtues and failings which are incompatible with its stage of development It is a very natural misconception. Mothers may be interested in comparing their children's progress with that of the typical baby we therefore subjoin the following table:

First With intention

Motion attempt and success. 16 weeks.

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Shaking the head.... 4 days, Holding up the head. 11 weeks, Seizing 117 weeks, Pointing 8 months, Sitting 14 weeks. Standing 28 weeks, Walking 41 weeks Kiting 12 months, 23 months. Jumping 27 months, 28 months.

16 weeks. 17 weeks, 9 months. 42 weeks. 48 weeks, 66 weeks.

A Startling Variation. [H. Quia in Boston Home Journal.] The minister at a recent wedding came very near being broken up right in the midst of the ceremony, and ali by the bride, a pretty, fragile, young little thing and one of his favorite parishioners. She had insisted on the most rigid of the Episcopal church forms, and her Unitarian minister had humored her. Imagine, then, his surprise, as be dictated the lines, "promising to love, honor and obey," to have -her distinctly alter ber oath to "promising to love, honor and be gay," looking him directly in the face the while. He had some difficulty to control his inclination to laugh, and not being prepared for the contingency let It dip. So there are some very young brides of awful nerve, and that pastor probably feels as if one such had carried the whip* hand with him. If ever trouble does arise in that nest, the minister must expect hia share of the blame.

At the Oramaor Exhibition. [London Life.] Mia Langtry was tha observed of all observers at the Orosvenor gallery private view Saturday last No pictures in the

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8hs was qpi^y Jwt ^l^y drwssd

silk. In ber bonnet which was of black jet bordered with gold lace, she wore a large bow of the new green watered ribbon. Lady Monektoa was also, much talked of. Her gown was of bright-red Ottoman brocade. Her bonnet was of phuh, the same «olor. The diees suited her to perfection, and did daty, in ties way oi ooler, for a oatforu,

brightening up whatever part of the gaOeery she happened to be in. Gladys Lady Lonsdale was very »ombre|jr gowned in black, with a short coat of light

brown doth, and a straw bonnet matching the coat in color, trimmed with velvet ana wings a tone or two darker. Mrs. Oscar Wilde out-Heroded Herod in estheticism. Her gown, which hung loosely and dapreesedly, was of sickly green. It was relieved only with touches of consumptivelooking pink. Oscar was there, disguised as a Philistine. Mrs. Bernard-Beere was Ilk mourning, and absolutely glittering with i: J*

Ladles' Club in New York. IChioago JournaLl

A ladies' dub, patterned upon the Union, is soon to be organized in New York city. Its membership will be composed of tha most prominent women in the society of tha metropolis. The names of Mrs. Rivers, Mrs. William Astor, Mrs. John Jacob As tor and Mrs. Adrian Iaelin have already been suggested for president, and the Misses Hewett and Miss Marbury will almost cer» tainly be among the governesses. It goes without saying that no men are to be admitted to the dub, either as members or visitors. The servants are all to be women, and the stewardess will be a person of long experience as housekeeper. As might be expected, many of the husbands of present and prospective members do not favor tha new dub. Several who do not happen to be dub members in particular frown severely upon it and say they do not see why their wives should join a dab when their husbands have not done so. One bright woman is said to have given as her excuse for not joining: "I have married a husband and therefore I can not come."

Advioe to Young Married People. [The Quiver.] & Appearances should not be disregarded In home life husbands attach much importance to what others think of their wives and their homes. It is apart of the soienoa of home life to present a good face to the world it argues bad housekeeping to be seen at a disadvantage. At the same time the young wife must never dwindle down into a mere housekeeper and head nurse, with a spice of the dressmaker. She must keep her place as a companion.

A good wife is a priceless treasure, and the husband is none the worse that he is made to realise she is a lady and to be treated as such. Surround your lord with tender care and tender thought for his comfort, but it does not become you to fetch and carry and wait on him hand and foot, or he will come to expeot it as aright and think the less of you rather than the more therefor. From the very first expect and demand respect and you will get it

The First Girl Engineer on Kecord. [Wichita Eagle.] On Sunday it was found necessary to send a train out to the Ninnesach bridge with material, and no engineers being on hand, Mr. Bauman, who has charge of the engines in this city, put his daughter Bessie, a school girl, in charge of the engine, furnished her with a fireman, and she did her work nobly, handling the throttle and guiding the iron steed as well as the best man on the road. This girl has frequently run the engine about the yard, but never before made a trip on the road. We don't know of any other road having female engineers.

When a Worn an Grows Old. [New York Evening Post] "When does a woman begin to grow oldf* was lately asked in an assembly of French women, who are said to be even more afraid of vieillir than the women of other countries. "With the first gray hair," suggested one of the ladies, and "When she ceases to inspire love," thought another. The decision was finally put to a charming white-haired matron of some 70 years, who at once replied: "What do I know about it! Ton must ask an old woman to answer suoh a questioa" ,5,1- 4 a A [Chicago Herald "Train Talk."] «t

At a station down in Indiana the IaIes Shore company employs a lady ticket agent She is a good agent, and attends closdy to her business, but she is a woman stilL The other day a lady traveler stepped up to the ticket window and inquired about a train that was a little late. "Will the train be longf" she asked, meaning if it would be long in arriving. "Oh, yes," was the reply of the fair ticket agent, "longer than latt season, but without so many ruffles ar6und the eflgd.

Onion Flavoring. [Tid-Bits.J

One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outer skin, then stick cloves into the onion and bake it until it is nicely browned. The peculiar flavor thus gained is relished by the epicure. ,'k?^

Silver Jewelry.

The silver filigree jewelry is exquisite in design and workmanship, but too easily affected by the atmosphere, and requires to be boiledfln add to render it clean.

,' •, *iJ! For Fastening. Ladies are using pearl, silver, gold and small Rhine stone studs for fastening lawn dresses, as they can be removed when the garments are sent to be laundried.

Ami Arm. Arm in Afm«

There Is a oertain prejudice in refined circles against a gentleman taking a lady's arm when walking, and many persons say it Is the worst possible form. i.c-'l.',

New Beverages.

"Lactart" is a new acid drink that is becoming popular in the east In Richmond, Va., one of the most delicious of beverages they call "limeade."

A little borax put in the water in which scarlet napkins and red-bordered towels are to be washed will prevent them from fading. _________

Veranda s^tits in Canton, China, are quits popular just "oat of Boston," but there are not many to be seen in Clifton or the Hill*

A namber of society young folks in Cin dnnati have revived the old-time popular game ot battled oor and shuttlecock.

A bnnch of peacock feathers, tied with a ribbon, makes a pretty ornament to hidp a bad spot on the parlor-walL

A well-beaten egg is a great addition to a dried-apple pie, giving Ughtnesf and a good flavor also,.....

The favorite jewelry for graduates will bs dm. Stj-1 On One of the Baek Hows. •.j [SanFrandaooChroaicl^.l sat an one of the back rows at one of tha last festival concerts. We had lots of fun, for it was not much use listening. Behind ma sat a very well-known lawyer and a lady. They oould not see much of the steg^ even. Mm* Rive-King came oat to {day a ptasoet^k It was a long on*, bot we conld Mt hsar The lady behind roe got op and looked at the stage, after a long wait ,,-Ob, n*yl She'sa^gem'ityst"