Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 July 1886 — Page 6

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WOUAN AND HOME

TAKES OF MAKING CHILDREN SLAVcS TO THEIR CLOTHES.

Hints to Totinj I-adics TTIio Eustlcate. H«!cn Ifnnt Jackion—Love and Idealixtij Proccs«—SJarrj lag a Poo? Man.

Pa- a-jruph* and Item*.

One of the most frequent minor mistakes of parent* is tbe making of children slaves to their clothe®. I know whole families of children who have jtever really breathed a free breath, no many cautions have they received about soiling or tearing their clothes, and in such fear have they stood of the consequences of such petty disasters. It is wicked and cruel to dress children in such a manner that their freedom fa restricted by thoughts of their clothing and all the frolicsome pleasures of childhood practically forbidden to them. There are few things which make one more unhappy than to see a number of little girls standing around on a sonny lawn of a summer morning all dressed in immaculate finery, and with dainty shoes upon their feet, to whose existence one solitary childish romp would provo fatal.

I have seen them many a time standing around in this manner, not daring to do a single natural or childish thing for fear of their clothes being soiled and they being reproached therefor. It is pitiable and exasperating. The folly of such mothers is only equaled by their cruelty, for it is both foolish and cruel thus to repress young childrenHow can such children have health—the didivine birthright of all children? How can they develop any of their natural powers? How can they lay tho foundations of any education which is worth tho muno unless they are allowed a chance to make their own free observation of the phenomena of tho natural world? A perfect unconsciousness of their clothing is one of the natural rights of children. They should be so dressed that they shall not feel their clothing as restricting any natural action, and in such material as can bo easily cleaned—made so simple that the number of pieces which goes to tho laundry is of no importance. Thus only can they be really happy and free, and capable of developing their bodies and minds in a natural manner. Strong, heavy shoes, free from tho bigh heels which make cripples of so many of our littlo girls, are indispensable.

A girl has as much right to these things as a boy. And she has the same right to ran nnd romp, to raco through tho dewy grass, and to climb tho highest tree if sho be sc minded. If sho could bo saved from her clothes, liberated from her shoes, emancipated from her complexion, and allowed to lead a natural, simple life till she is obliged to msumo the proprieties of young ladyhood, there would be more healthy and hearty and happy women in this land, mora happy homos, nnd fewer littlo graves on the hillrido. Tho slavery of dress will^bcgin socn enough for nil girls let then* atJeast be fr«o from its tyranny in childhood. They need not bo tastelessly or unattractively attired oven to do this. Simplicity in dress is always charming in tho young, and for chiidren it is the only propriety. And with simple attire give them plenty of freedom to enjoy it. Don't lay too many restrictions upon them. Let theen enjoy life in their own way. Dc-n't try to cramp thom all into one mold. Let each one develop along tho line of his own individuality. Thus only can there bo any originality in this commonplace world.— Chicago Tribune.

Helen Hunt Jnokson's Sansltlveness. No one loved beauty more than she no ono could depreciate the body more when it began to lose its freshness. For strong young men in their prime, for blooming girls and mature wotnifnhood, she had an admiration as frank and almost as unqualified as a Greek's. But her very adoration of physical loveliness made her joculinrly sensitive to imjierfeetion and tho dismal accompaniments of sickness. In her own cose, when accident brought infirmity upon her, it was received nt first with shudder of disgust, a kind of quick impulsive acorn, of which, perhaps, only noble natures aro capable. She spoke of .her illness as "a career of disgrace." It was not, probably, for tho loss of creature comforts, nor even tho long train of afflictions which it entailed theso sho could endure they proved, in fact, afield for the exorcise of a fortitude which was littlo short of heroic. Health meant liberty, its loss an endless series of restrictions affecting her activity and tho ftvo play of her intelligence. She mental them as something outside of herself, which deserved only contempt and chastising. Her soul, sho thought, could lift itaclf above thom—was abovo them.

Throughout her sufferings, she kept her sunnincss of spirit, her serenity and elasticity. And sho continued to work. This, indeed, was on integral part of her creed. To idlers and dilettauti sho had always turned a cold shoulder they had no place in her scheme of things. If her antipathy assumed at times a humorous form, it was none the less real nnd deep seated. It would have gratified the most rigid economist to have heard her set forth this thesis of lifo as a period of active production. She rejoiced to call herself, and bo called, a working woman there was no bettor titlo under heaven to her sense, and her life was a long enforcement of tho belief, a fruitful illustration of how it could bo practiced with dignity and success. —Princeton Review.

Tho Disillusion of Matrimony. As love is always aa idealising process— and it is the charming craft of the girl to aid and abet the illusion of the devoted lover by a thousand exquisite arts that he tiowr suspects—tho chances aro that in nine eases out of ten the first six mouths of married life are months of disillusion.

The scuso of {xxscedou, which plays so important a rote in th? consumption of love, has finality with her that he cannot understand. This fa tho end of her drama. But he doesn't want it to end. It was the delicious littlo actress that he admired without knowing it, and now she insists upon turning off tho gas and washing off her point and prosaically informing him that tho curtain is down.

Alas! how many women have awakened from their long dream of a hero, and in the silence and desutaUon of their chamber have poured bitter twu-s oat to their mirrors, because chivalry and poetry and sentiment have resolved themselves into common masculinity with a large appetite and a disposition to get weary of tonderaesa now that there is no bar to it

Where is the man or woman who can touch these intricate and afceorbtag themes outside of fiction with the deft fingers of truth and sentiment.—2*ym Crinkle in New York Wortd.

Yonng La-He* In tho Coon try. "Its well enough to go into the country •ad play tennis and croquet, go on fishing oxrur&HW and picnics, and sat in the hot sun half of the day, bat what shall one do with their complexion lamented a fashionable young lady the other day.

Some suggested that ft was fashionable to return home as brown as an Indian. "But I do not get brown,* she exclaimed. *1 tarn a horrid red, and then my skin begins to •on* off. and my face gstsroogfe and daMaot (took at all pwttjr.*.

For tho benefit of such young ladies the following items wore given by an old lady of CO, who i3 still considered a beauty, and who r».'ainrj a complexion noted for it3 dclicacy of coloring:

Wear a larga white sun hat when outdoors in tho daytime, even if sitting in the shade.

The nock should never be permitted to be sun-buraod, and to avoid this wear thin flannel underwear, with a lawn or muslin dress, tie a silk handkerchief about the throat when out boating.

A cbcap toilet water is made out cf a half pint of water, a small cup of cider vinegar, and tho same amount of milk. Put into a jar or bottle, and apply to the face with a soft sponge. Let it remain over night or until perfectly dry, and then wash it off with warm water. It will remove tan.

A shining face maybe avoided by ladies who do not use powder if it is bathed over night with warm water and the eyes only sponged in the morning.

A pomade for the face, to remove tan and whiten the skin, is made out of an ounce o? almond paste, the juice of two lemons and a littlo eau da cologne. It is to be applied at bed time and left on tho face until morning.

Gloves should be worn constantly to prevent the hands from tanning. Tho most serviceable are large ones of dog skin of a dull tun shade, and these aro suitable for most country pleasures.

Rain water is the best for toilet purposes and keeps the skin soft and smooth Boiled rain water is considered as effective as a Turkish bath in removing tan.

Masks of whito cloth, dampened with warm water, are worn at night by ladies who have the courage to stand their unpleasantness, and are considered most effective for beautifying the complexion.

Dark colored veils of heavy gauze are a protection against tho sun when driving or riding.—New York Journal.

In Marrying a Poor Man.

An advantage over a poor girl that the rich one has in marrying a }oor man is that a woman of the world, who has seen much of society, rarely suffers from that morbid selfconsciousneaa which is the most frequent form of snobbishness to be found among small gentlefolks, and which makes them over prone to take offense and to think that e^ry little action of their neighbors is the result of deliberate intention. Half the ''slights" and "insults" of which such people complain are quite unintentional, and are caused by that forgetfulness which is the natural outcome of the hurried existence of thoso busy bees of fashion or of "hard work, who tire the most usual offenders.

The adaptability of woman is truly wonderful, and the poor man's wife will, if she has oven moderate intelligence, in a short timo emerge from the anxious, over-careful period of her early married life and, having discovered the scale at which her new income will permit her to live, she will find that her previous knowledge of how things ought, to bo done will enable her to become that most excellent type of a housewife, one who can combine eleganco with economy.

Wo do not mean to assert that every rich girl is iitted to be a poor man's wife, or that every poor girl is unsuitable. In every position thoro are women unlikely to be good wives to anybody, and others who could hardly fail to do their duty in any state of life to which they may be called. But, taking girls of average goodness and intelligence, it will found that the rich ones are more often happy and contented in small houses than those who have never lived in anything else.—Loudon Queen.

What Will liappeu to Girls. Thirty-nine girls. In ten years fifteen will have married. In ten years seven of the fifteen will be widows dependent upon their own exertions for bread and meat.

In ten years fifteen of the remaining twenty-four will be sleeping beneath tho sod. And how far apart thoy will be sleeping! One in Georgia, one in California, one in Ohio, ono in Virginia, another, perhaps, in a missionary's grave in China, another amid the ashes of tho anciont Aztecs of Mexico, another—but only time will tell where they all will sleep.

In ten years, the nino I have not yet mentioned will begin to lose their sweetness and develop something of the sourness supposed to be inseparable from women that aro destined to be old maids.

In ton years, not one of the thirty-nine but that will have tasted of tho bitterness that comes hi time to all human beings. Hope will be blighted, loved ones will be claimed by that same skeleton you beheld just now, sorrow in a hundred forms will be eroerionoed—indeed, to every one a surfeit of dead nea fruit will be offered.—Atlanta Constitution.

Curtains for a Badly Lighted Koom. The following advice is given by The Art Amateur to a correspondent who wants to know a cheap but effective way of curtaining the narrow and disproportionately high windows of a poorly lighted sitting room: "Cut off from tho upper part of tho windows enough to make tho height of the window proportionate to the width, and fill the upper part with Japanese lattice work, which can bo bought very cheap at almost any of the Japanese stores. Below have a narrow brass pole, with the usual brass rings. From this suspend 'Crete' curtains, which are transparent, but heavier than the similar grenadine goods called 'Madams.' With alight buff or rich cream-color window shade as a background for the latticework, as it will be if the shades are kept down afoot or two, you will retain more light in the room than jou could secure by the use of any other kind of curtains and have an artistic effect at a small expense.''—Exchange.

Secrtt of Ileitis Well Dressed. Nowhere is an American woman dressed so well as in Now York. An Englishwoman is dressed well nowhere. The American woman will not have a dress made iu Loudon if she can get across tho channel to be measured on French soil. It will not do to employ a dressmaker in England, although rank and wealth there command the best modistes. It does not answer to say that their art deteriorates, like the flavor of Beaujolais, by transportation, for when tho Englishwoman goes to France to be dressed shut, like the New York weqaan, comes back no better dressed than when she left homo. "Dress exclaimed a Chicago girt

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you swing it" That is the sorret after alL The Englishwoman cannot swing it at all She American woman swings it pretty well, bat the swigging of a Frenchwoman Is a poem.—* CouricrJotnaL

Tho "Servos" of the Fond Mother. The good housekeeper forgets thai the huge bouse with its wealth of furnishings and its many cares to which she steadily devotes herself has anything to do with it. Oh, these bouses! and the fond mother so prood of bar w*ll-dr-*i children, and, perhaps, prood as well of the fact that it is all her own work, never thinks that these millions of beautiful stitches are in any way mqpomihie for the tremor and the hot flash that (be shun of a door will produce, or for inability to be patient with the precious charges that med sack careful guidance. What loving wife, whoss "heart rises ia her throat" a*, the swemtnc ab» of bar hiiViifl ia Uwbikiisi. or

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

thing beside tee joy of her presence rrnct cf home, over thinks that she has imparted her nervous depression to him, from vfinch, possibly, if ho bo sensitive and never so lovmjj, to cannot rally?—Cleveland leader

Uncivil Konncn Between Boys* There is a good deal of rudeness between boys in their intercourse and bearing with one anotkerthat is not really intended assuch, but is not, therefore, any the less to bo disapproved. It is often simply the overflow of excessive high spirits. But the very best good humor, unrestrained by proper bounds and limitations, may become the most positive incivility. We often apologize for the coarseness of people by saying "He means well." It is well if we can make such an apology for them, for if their rudeness is really intentional they are not fit to bo received into any worthy person's society. But they who mean well should also do well, and the ways of politeness are never so easily learned as in youth. The boy who is habitually coarse and rude in his bearing toward other boys will be such as a toward men, and all his life will never gain the reputation of being a gentleman.— Philadelphia CalL

What "Father Say*" and Does. If parents think that children do not notice closely everything they do they make a serious mistake. Children see quickly and reason with marvelous exactness, and are not easily deceived. They are more likely to notice every little act of the father, because he is not always at home, and what "father says" and what "father does" are the things they most wish to say and do. No matter bow dearly they may love their mother it is undoubtedly true that children imitate the father far more closely than they do the mother. So, therefore, tho part a father bears in the training of children is a very, very important one, and ho who shirks it, throwing it all on the shoulders of tho already overburdened mother, will havo a serious sin to answer for some day.—Cleveland Leader.

Peculiar to a Boarding School. There is a fashionable boarding school in New York where the "young ladies" are taught to enter and get out of a carriage, A vehicle with the proper pedal arrangements for this sort of exercise, which determines a lady's breeding and claim to social position, is kept in the back yard of the educational establishment, and there the "carriage classes" are put through the most arduous training. Another accomplishment, peculiar to this giltedged academy, is learning to eat asparagus, oranges, grapes and other juicy and unmanageable viands, in a style that shall represent the perfection of tabletaanners.—Good Housekeeping.

What Becomcs of Vassar Students. Out of nearly 700 Vassar graduates about 300 havo been drawn in nuptial noose. The full-blown buds left have taken up various callings. Thoro are 17 physicians, 2 organists, 10 bookkeepers, 5 chemists, 15 school principals, 2 farmers, 1 census clerk, 2 insurauco agents, 230 teachers, 0 artists, 1 law clerk, 5 librarians, 1 copyist, 12 music teachers, S astronomical assistants, 2 journalists. 3 gymnastic teachers, 2 missionaries, 3 public readers and 4 authors.—Chicago Herald.

How to Choose Wall Paper. Light wall paper should bo chosen on a sunshiny day, and dark paper in a somewhat shaded corner. The reason for this is that tho light paper is lighter and reflects brightness, and the dark paper is really darker, on tho wall than when one side only is shown in the lighted room. It would be well if paper hangers hid a corner rack, that is one with a right angle in it, to judge of the reflections of two walls of any sort of paper.—Cleveland Leader. 'f Should Harden the Little Bodies.

To get tho full benefit of the summer vacation, little girls should not be dressed everyday as though on a Sunday school picnic or iii training as embryo belles, but their wardrobe should bo simple and comfortable, permitting the freest action of lungs and limbs. It is not enough that when they return they be "as brown as berries," but digestion should be itn proved, endurance increased and muscles hardened.—Dr. J. EL Hipley in Babyhood.

Several Method* of Kemovlnz Stains. Table linen and other articles that are liable to be stained should be carefully oxaminod before washing, and such spots removed by soaking in milk or dipping in melted tallow fruit stains disappear when equal parts of kerosene and soda are applied cover wino discolorations with salt, dampened.

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Uer Measurements Strangely Accurals. Women are much given to talking. When you encounter a woman who also thinks, you shall hear many unflattering truths. Her measurements of human motives are strangely accurate.—Signor Max.

'Will Make Good Ironing Holders. Tho tops of leather boots, not too heavy, enter into the manufacture of good ironing holders, as leather is a non-conductor of heat. Cover with two, thicknesses of old cotton flannel.

In every woman's soul is reared a house^of love, and man may dwell therein if he can find and keep the key.—Signor Max.

Wo commonplace fellows seldom cut a very inspiring figure in duels with the woman who thinks.—Signor Max.

A school for training nurses is to be established in Japan under charge of a lady from Boston.

Isinglass or rice water makes delicate starch for muslins.

All colored goods should be dried in the shade.

Gal'ant lteacue of an English Tourist. Word comes from Fentress Monroe, Ya., of the gallant rescue of an English tourist, Thomas Cunningham, of London, from drowning in the bay by Dr. Irving C. Rowe, a noted swimmer, formerly surgeon of the Corwin during the Jeannette search expedition. Cunningham, confident of his strength, had wagerw that bo would reach the red buoy, a quarter of a tnik out beyond the float anchored a short distance from the shore. Beyond the float tho current was strong to scawanL and only a vigorous swimmer can hold his own against it Dr. Rose, while resting cm the float, observed the English swimmer throw up his hands in distren, and the doctor plungwi to his rescue. On reaching him the doctor called out: "If you obey my orders Fll savo you if yon don't 1 will let you drown." Tbo Englishman obeyed, and by feebly treading water enabled the doctor to grasp him by the nape of the ncck and hold him unal be recovered his breath. The doctor then succeeded in poshing him in to the shorn. —Baltimore Sua.

Politeness of a Xowport Coaclimaa. A wealthy New Yorker bad engaged a splendid cottage at Newport, and also anew driver for his horses. The driver was advised to be very polite if be intended to keep his (dace. Accordingly when the master went to tbe Queen Anas stable tbe following dialogo* •noed: Miiti W*n, John, bow am tfaa bones? Coachman—They are quite well, sir, thank jrou, and bow am you t—Boston B»

WEDDING PROCESSION.

ONE OF THE MOST CURIOUS FEATURES OF FRENCH LIFE.

Talcing the Matrimonial Plunge In tho Most Ostentations Fashion—Coming of tbe Brido and Groom—A Disregard of

Good Maanera.

To those who are not accustomed to such sights in their own country, perhaps the most curious feature of French lifo is the wedding procession in tho open air. When the French plunge into matrimony, they show no shyness over it on tho contrary, they take the plunge in the most ostentatious fashion. They wish all the world to stand by and admire their heroism, and, lest the world should not take any trouble in the matter, they sally forth from the church or mairio dressed in hymeneal garb, and spend the best part of twi" days promenading in public and attracting all the attention they can to themselves. This custom is general among the masses of the people. Among the higher classes it is needless to say that there is no wedding procession outside of the church, unless it be the procession of carriages.

Those who wish to see one of these corteges des noces will have no difficulty in doing so if they are in Paris at this season, which, above all others, is the ono in which mankind is prone to marry. They havo only to spend an afternoon at St. Cloud, Clamart, Meudon or any of the suburban rural retreats, and they will be sure to see at least one noce, and they may see h-tif a dozen. A sudden clatter of tongues tells me that one is coming. A procession of twenty, thirty or fifty people,walking two and two, is passing near, headed by a young woman dressed in white, with a wreath of orange flowers on her head, and a young man in a "claw-hammer" coat, with a great deal of shirt showing, a whito necktie, a tall hat, and with his hands encased in white gloves. A bouquet in the buttonhole completes the invariable costume of the bridegroom. Those who follow are relatives and intimate friends. Among them may often bo seen an old couple—the man in a hat of the bygone chimney-pot pattern, and the woman in a great white cap, an elaborate work of art in tho way of starching and ironing. They aro the parents of tho bride or bridegroom, and sometimes there aro two such couplos. If there is one serious face in the whole party it is that of the bride. She feels that the eyes of the world are quizzically fixed upon her, and that everybody is saying "O la belle martep!" or something less pleasant

RADIANT WITH SATISFACTION. Xs a rulo, however, her face, like the bridegroom's, is radiant with satisfaction, and her shrill laughter pierces the air when her ears catch the latest joko from the low comedian of the party—and it is sure to include one. When wit is wanting, buffoonery supplies its place. While tho noce is promenading—following tho bride and bridegroom as sheep follow their leader, a feast is being prepared at a neighboring restaurant, which displays along its front the words, "Salons pour noces etfestins." At about o'clock the procession enters the restaurant, and the rest of the evening is spent in feasting, dancing and uproarious merriment. This programme, without the marriage ceremony, is repeated the next day at some other place. But it is tho rule there for the brido not to promenade in white, but in black silk.

Theso wedding processions ore not without a certain quaint picturesqueness, and in some out-of-the-way districts they are associated with much that is ]astoral and beautiful in its simplicity but there is uothing to be said in favor of the custom as it is practiced in tbe neighborhood of Paris and other large centers. To a really modest girl tho ordeal of being thus paraded before the public gaze cannot be otherwise than painful, for it is quite opposed to delicacy. Moreover, every person invited to a noce of tho kind I have been describing considers that he is in duty bound to air his wit When the well-bred Frenchman airs his wit he can with difficulty restrain his Rabelaisan spirit, which is so characteristic of the Gaul, oven in the presenco of ladies. When the ill-bred Frenchman tries to be amusing, it is generally at the expense of decency. That respect for women which so frequently nips tho coarse joko in tho bud among Anglo-Saxons who have any claim to respectability, is hardly porceptiblo in Frenchmen who have never felt the restraining influence of polite society. It may very well be that the womon ore as much to blame as the mon for this state of things nevertheless, no Frenchman, I think, would deny that a young woman who has just become a wife, if she has any modesty, had better bo deaf during the two days of feasting and promenading which aro so often the beginning of matrimonial experience in this country.—Paris Cor. Boston Transcript.

Four Pound* of Lead on His Footer A surgeon of this city, who makes a business of straightening crooked spines and bandy legs, and oiling rusty joints in the old and young, received tho other day day two visitors from the country. They were father and son. The boy, some 14 years old, limped painfully, dragging his right leg like a stick across the room, and when be sat down arranging it liko a prop in front of him. "White swelling?' quoried the surgeon. "Yaas," said tho father. "Dick was throwed down stairs by his nurse when he was a baby, and ho hasn't got over it yet. Seems to be getting worse every day. What can you do for hiu», doctorf"

The surgeon picked up the boy's useless foot, and let it drop with an exclamation of surprise.

Tbe surgeon was too angry to make reply. He turned his attention to the boy, examined his deformity, cut the lead from the shriveled foot, and, sending for a shoemaker, ordered Crispin to take the cripple's measure for tbe lightest of cork sotaL Dick satin tbe office till the shoe was ready, and then hobbled oat with alight beart aod a lighter foot. "That man ought to be made to carry mffl-stooe for ten yean.* muttered the surgeon, as he turned to his next patient.—New York Tribune.

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Wl\o Knows?

Boys and girls, how many uppsr front teeth has a cow?

Bravo Boys.

If Florida has many more boys like Mortimer and Roland Bun tin r, of Madison, her future is assured. These httle fellows—they are 13 and 11 years old—have this year rented twelve acres of land and planted it with corn and cotton, have worked the crops carefully, and have good prospects of an abundant yielt. ThK besides raising enough vegetables to supply the large family of their father, who is au invalid. 5*^3

Easy Conundrum

What is that which Adam only of all mankind never saw and never possessed/ 2. Why is coffee like an ax with a dull ed?e? We hava 'only one mouth to^go^with two ears We should listen twice as much as wo talk, rnv dears.

V-- Little Housekeeper*.

In tfielar^e citie- of the Union benevolent ladies havo establishe I what are called "kitchen gardens." That means a school where little pirls are taught to keep houses They are the daughters of the very r° people, mostly foreigner*. Their mothers from over the sea had frequently not any decent houses even to live in. and so tbey know nothing about our kin of ueat Yankee housekeeping.

The ladies gather up the dirty, ragged, hungry little girN from the streets and tenement rooms where tbey livj so wretchedly. Tney are first bathed, scrubbed from head to foot, combed, and then given some foo.1. After that they come every day to the housekeeping school. They are given luncheon. The change that takds place in them is wonderful Tiiey become neat, orderly and ladyiike. They soon begin to try to tidy up the.r wretched home*, and in many instances whole families become happier and more prosperous, just because the little daughter goes to tho kitchen garden.

At the clo«e of their school lor the sum mer. the girls have an exhibit ion showing what taey have learned. Tuey have miniature tublea, tiny dishes and little beds and mattresses—all the furniture and bt'lon^ings of a house, and with these they practice till they are flrst-cla^s workeis and housekeepers

Whin they have finished the course of instruction, tb'j children are given diplo'nas. and are regular graduate/ It in a ery useful sort of learning they have, too. A class graduated in Chicago not long a^o, whose exhibition the newspaper men went to see. The class consisted of twenty-four little gir^s, ranging in ajzo from 12 to i5. and representing almost every European country. Their long white pinafores, fluted muslin cap« and prim litil) ties gavj them an appear*no that was very refreshing. They entered th room single fiie to a military march, carrying miniature tables and boxes. In the latter were linen, cutlery anl small table furniture. Brought to a halt, the teacher put the little hounw.ves through a citocliHm like this: "How often should a room lie swept f\i "Thoroughly onca a we-k," answered wee bit of aS .ved*) with a voica bigger than herself. "What kind of a broom is bast for tho corners nud edgtw of a room?' "Whisk broom." sang out a maid with yellow pig-tail who seemed to be having her throat sawed by the well laundried tie under her chin. "Why is a dust ra^ bettor than a feather duster?" "Because the feathers scatter the dust instead of gathering it."

After this part of the programme the girl* took out their little tablo cloths, tbe piano struck up a series of popular lunai, and the board was spread beautitully.il

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LITTLE HOUSEKEEPERS.

Before the t-ds were made the clan had an oral recitation, one question being: *'W*hat three things are necessary for nic» bed making?" The answer being: "Levei mattress smooth clothes an square corners. Then the mattresses were whipped into shap the pillows knocked into form, and in an incredibly short time every bed was flat and smooth, and the children retired under a murmur of applause. On their return thsy carried trays, with which they went through a series of pretty maneuvers. Dishes were washed, and after the place was "tidied up," broom« were used for an exercise in calis henic*. The visitors applauded the neat and pretty girls and were dcUg^X^.

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"What makes it so heavy?" "Heavy!" echoed the father. "Why that m'nt heavy. Only four pounds of lead." "Four pounds of lead!" An expression of pain and pity settled on the surgeon's face as he looked from father to sfti and back again to tbe fatter. Tbe latter hastened to explain: "Why, doctor," be began, "the boy's been wearing that on his foot ever since be could get about, and it hasnt ever done him one bit of good. That leg ain't a quarter of an inch longer than it was a year—two years ago. And Dick's getting weaker all tho time, and "I should say so—weaker—yes. Wonder be isn't dead. What put that into your beodP "The leadf "Yes, the lead." & "Why, don*t tf**y all wear itf "They! It! What do you mean?" "The crippks—peojjfc with white swelling— don't they carry load weights in their thicksoled shoes to stretch the leg back to its right length!"

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METTIKG THE TABLS.

It takes two years to learn all the things in tbe course. Cooking and laandry work are part of it, and the girls learn to bake bread and cake, and iron muslin and laces that are as beautiful as the prettiest picture.

As soon as they get their diplomas there are always ladies waiting to hire them to work. Their teacher keeps a list of these, and they go directly from tbe kitchen garden into good place*. Tbey know ail the branches of housekeeping, so they can be cooks, laundresses, chambermaids, nurses or dining room girls. They also learn plain sewing Tbey get belfc-r wages than ordinary faooseworkiog girls can, because they know their business so perfectly. Bat that is always tbe way. Tbey keep bouse so nioly that it is like poetry to look at them and their homes.

So girl r*n g*t a diploma unless sbe understands resd ng and writing and aritbinscic. It would be a good plan for rich girls to attend snob schools, took

CHILDREN'S CHATTER

"Papa,' said a littlo five year old, pointing to a turkey gobbler struttwg around in a neighbor's yard, "ain't tM^t red-nosed chicken got an awful big blHtle?"

A school board inspector askod th* members of the girls' class, the othei day: "Who can tell me what basting t. turkey means?" There was silence ror a while, and then a little miss signified that she knew. "Well, what is it?" said tho inspector. "Sewing up the place where the stuffing goes in," was the roply.

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