Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 November 1886 — Page 3

THE MAIL.

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

OX THE PIAZZA.

EN»Aar.D.

All the week she had *at, from morning till FTVF,

With far-away look on her face. Complained of the dullnews, and threatened to leave, ... And remarked, now aud then, that she couldn't conceive

Why people should come to the plaee. Bui a cnfltige htm t/^day conic over her, quite Hho is blithe an a robin In #prlnK, And Hhc's put on her Slimiest gown of pure

All liThonorof him whofruoming to-night O, love 1* marvelous thing. WEIt)KI. All the week *he has waltzed and flirted aud smiled

In that charmingly feminine way Th?»t*ot* both the young men and the old

men Just wild—

»a«e a* a matron, iw Kay a* a child— Hh:.'u the belle of the house, #o they nay.

But a change h«ut to-day eome over her,quite, And her laughter

lacking Its ring

She's a headache—feels stupid—I* not very bright— Tltc fact Is her husband is coming to-night,

W'eddeJ life's curious thing.

H. V. in Life.

Mrs. Beardsley.

nv itARiuirr l'luworr uroFFonii.

Tiireft times in the courne of her life hud Mrs. Hoardsley died, ami threo times )iad die gonn to heaven, as she averted with a eomplitncney rivalled only by her resentment at having been called back from that abode of the good. Mrs. Hejirdsle.v's idea of heaven, however, mav have been very different from ours, and indeed it may liavo boon quite another place that «bo visited. It would only have

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heaven to iter if there

were no children there to disturb lite eternal litnes* of things, if there wore no music to make discord to her ear or want of oar, if there were no llowera to make a elutter, and if there were no one present of any superior authority to her own. One thing is certain, if Mrs. IJoardslev lttd remained there it would have iioen heaven to nobody else remaining there. "Them snapping black eyes o' hern would spy Hoinetniug outer kitter in one o' the corners of heaven itself," said old Miss Malkin," the nurse "aud she'd set the angels by the quills, and get up a new revolt among'em in less 'n no time." And her long sulVering little «top-dunghtor~Jn-luw didn't dare tostnile acquiescence.

If Mrs. Ue.irdsley had ever been a real mother to her husband's son Aaron, Mrs. Taev, Aaron's K«\ migl.t have felt'differently: but as she had been the traditional

step-mother

so completely,

the sou's wife tell nothing but hostility in the vear of her married life and enforced companionship. She was only a child then herself, having married at seventeen and when Aaron died and left her alone with Mrs. .Beardsley, her heart sank within her, and she hailed dollTcr.ineo, when two or threo years afterward it oume along in the person of handsome Harrv llaverman, embraced the deliverance out of hand, and becume Mrs. llaverman without oven asking Mm. Hoardsley opinion and that lady's hysterical surprise was one of tiio oecasions when Mrs. Hoardsley wont to hoaven, and to everybody's sorrow, as well as her own, failed to remain there.

Tacy, at the time of what Mrs. Beardsley persisted in falling her elopement, owing to hot* own tack of an invitation to the ceremony, left the house in Mrs iteardsley's hands, and a letter saying thnl her own .•mall income should be at the disposal of that lady during her 11To. "1 supposo she oxnoets me to thank her for ntv own," xaitl Mrs. Hoardsley to Mhs Malkin, if Aaron, my sou, would have been different, lie know what was.dne his father's widow, if he didn know how his own widow would carry on. I wonder how she can reconcile it to iier condolence!"' "Why, Mr*. Hoardsley. you thought of marrying again vourself once!" wait! Mlm'MniKln. "That's the mJsehiof of 1KM»Ka nurse! cxclalmcd Mrs. Howdsloy. "Nurses know a great deal more of folks' business than folks know themselves. At any rate, I liuhi't marry again." "No," said Miss Malkin, with full aonuiojwenee now, as beonnto ft nurse, nluiough perhaps with a manner that remind*! Mrs. Beardsley why she didn't marry again. "Now heros some nice •ruef von take it, like a ladv." r*. lleanlslev, however, forgave Taov: st least ahe aairiTahe did. How eould .she help it, with that old llaverman house onlv a half-mile away, the insido of whloh she luul never seen, and with Taev's new out lit not yet ins|MM*tel by her,* and with her burning curiosity tinaratlttal? To think that such au affair con Id have IHH'U carried on under her verv eyes! As she reviewed the days now, a hundred incident**started up like points of lire to light her on her way. And tho moment she recovered from her hysterics she took a Ik tie walk for her health In They direction. "tJood-morning,* wdd TVwy. coming down In her prmty wrapper. ("1 never had *uoh gown in my life,' said Mrs. Itoarvlsley.) "This is kind of yon, Mrs. Boai-daley." i-\Vhv, Taov, I thought you be feeling so strange von be glad to see your mother, and fall her mother, too." "I never called you mother while I was married to Aaron, Mrs. Henrdnley, •o it would seem rather odd,' said TViey.

llui how, wo won*t Iaik of tuaU Just lake off vonr things and stay to dinner, and you'll have a ehatiee to make Harrv aeouainUnoe," sho said, gavlr. "It'-m! I guess 1 don't need to be inritevl In mv daughters house, Harry or no Harry.* And as for making his acquaintance, I used to think I knew enough of him when he was keeping company with Adele Freetnautle.

ompauv with Atleie rreetnamic. "\Vhv, what on earth do you mean?" cried Tfcev. "Harry hardly knows Adele." «IVK»n't het Well, if he wants to tell vou so, I've no objection. It's not rat mission to be making mischief In tamllles." Having Implanted which barb, Mrs. Beardsley proceeded to make herself at home—so much at home that before dinner-time she had become acquainted with the content® of every closet In the house, and had given the kitchen-maid her own opinion of the cmre she took of her lamp chimneys. *«f'd rather run over and do them myself for you than have them looking that w*v," said Mrs. Beardsley. "Would you?" said llecky. "Yea, I would. And don you answer me that way, either." "Well, ni, you're not my mistress and when 1 a*k yon to trim my temp*, it's time enough fbryou to begin. "You*11 And out who your mistress, mis*, and It wont be anrbody In thto boose long, III warrant," «ald Mr*.

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And ray advice to you is to get rid of that Becky without" warning. I never met her match for impudence, and I've meta good deal." "Beekv? Why, she's a perfect treasure," said Tacy." "A perfect treasure!" echoed Harry, with a gay twinkle of his wicked eyes. "Well, you may call it a treasure that insults vonr mother. I call it a baggage. And I shall expect you to send lier packing if you care anything about me."

Poor Tacy looked aghast. "No, no, now, Mrs. Beardsley," cried Harry, coining to the rescue "that's too serious a test. "Let Tacy keep the girl that suits her. You manage your girl, and she'll manage hers. "I haven't any girl," said Mrs. Beardsley, deeply injured at the reminder of the fact.

:,If

it wasn that Mrs. Malkin

accepts a home with me between whiles, I should be doing all my own work myself." "Well, you come over here when y«m want a rest,' he said, rising. "I'm going down vour way now, if yon want company, Mrs. Beardfley." And Tacy gave hi in a glance of gratitude, although she did not know of it, that repaid him for the walk.

Poor little Tacy! All her late years had been joisoned with tho bitterness and spleen of Mrs. lieardsley's tongue. Thero had been a dispute going on between her and her stop-son Aaron that kept Taev head aching, although she had so longed for peace that she would have been willing to give up everything for the sake of it, she never secured it. The sharp sayings, the slanderous statements, in wliich Mrs. Beardsley gloried were hateful and painful to her, and she felt that the innuendoes aud contumelious sniffs and all tho rest were degrading to the listener. And now to think that even marrying out of the house she had not escaped this ogress, whom family decency compelled her to treat with civility, and of whom she did not wish to complain to Harry, though some sentiment of personal pride and reserve concerning her as a part of her past!

But it was of no use to wish she should never see Mrs. Beardsley again, for here she was immutably nor that Harrys business was in some other place, for how could she bear to leave home and friends herself? No sho must make the bost of it here. And so everv little while she sent over to Mrs. Beardsley certain luxuries she could not have had otherwise—great bowls of fresh cream and dishes of strawberries, melons and peaches and grapes, all in the season, and various other more substantial things, among them always tho marketing of goixl .Sunday dinner, which Harry himself ordored.

Noiie of this made any difference to Mrs. Beardsley it all only embittered her a tritle more as the enforced recipient. And overy time she spent tho day at Tae.v's sho contrived to leave Tacy tolerably miserable at tho end of it— miserable in away of which she would not speak to her'husband, feeling that she must always receive Mrs. Beardsley, and that if Harrv disliked her more than need was, that "would becomo impossi iilo.

What Mrs. Beardsley's motives were in making Taev uncomfortable, other than as onvv inspired them, it would be dillWult to say but there was not a detail of Tacy's house-keeping which was not subject to her sneering criticism, as often before Harry as another. Taev had not a taste that she did not go out of her way to east a slur upon it, and Taev had not a friend that sho did not assault with a perennial mnlieo, not so much from malignity toward those individuals, apparently, as toward Taev herself. Retorting at llrst, at last the victim took refuge in silence, and the silence spurred on Mrs. Beardsley more than tho retort. Whether she eared for what was said or not, it was all very upsetting to the nerves of the young wife and always after tho departure of tho enemy Tacy folt as if she had done a hard day's work. "I saw Ad lo Froomantle to-day," Mrs. Beardsley said, untying her bonnet strings. "I declare sho looked about as frosh as she did those days when Harry used to go with her." "He never did go with her!" cried Tacy, in hot forgotfulness of her silent system. '"Didn't he? I^ook here, Taev husbands don't tell their wives everything. Wives have to take it out in despising tho other parties when they suspect anything—" "I think such talk is disgraceful and degrading."' "Such actions aro. As for Adelo, howdo you know who goes with her? At any rate, she's monstrously frosh and pretty, it's strange how time goes by some women and never touches thorn— vou've begun to look mightv peaked yourself, Taev. You're face is yellow with moth, and thin enough to split the wind. I declare I shouldn't want Harry to see the difference between you and such a blush-rose ns she is, though I do believe she paints such color at tier age can't be natural, and that I do say." "Harry would love me just as well, no matter how I looked," began Tacy. "I'm glad you think so. I often say, if women only knew what their husbands said and did away from them, they wouldn't rest at home quite so easy Wlien people reach my time of life they know tno world, and they don't believe in the best man alive—that they don't. I guess if Harry Haverman earricd a glass in his bosom, so that you could read his thoughts, you might sing a different song. But I'm not going to make mischief, and I'm glad you're so confident. Did you see Queenie Munro's bonnet last

Eody

aald the gneat that d«y

at dinner, after Becky had retired, beginning M* again J°°

cmn

Silt* •dVto* don jrwir «Um» I mfpoM.

Sunday? She might just as

well have worn Queen Victoria crown. Of all things 1 do despise middle-aged women making believe young. You're getting along yourself, Tacy, but yon don't put on an airs about it, though

ou be justified if ytu did, for everyknows how Harry likes young women, and stares at a pretty face.

Aud whon she went, Tacy burst out crying aloud. Was it true mat ahe was looking old and yellow, and getting middle-aged, and that Harry preferred voung girls, and had thoughts in his brt»ast which ahe must not read? And did he really have anv old feeling left for A dele? And what did Mrs. Beardsley moan by saying that she didn't believe in the best man alive? Did she know anything about Harry that she herself did not know? was there anything for her or anybody to know? and was it possible that all the world was looking at her with pitr, aware of she knew not what? With all this, life began to be more of a burden to her than even Mrs. had known before how to make It.

But when Harry catne home, blithe and gay. and took her in his arms, all her doubts flew to the wtnds, and ahe cried again to think ahe had been so wicked as to suffer them. And then Harrr reproached her for being hystcrlo*l, and at that die feared he did think her getting silly and tiresome, and cried the more, and cried so hard that she had to go to bed at last with a sick-headache, and Harnr went to the monthly concert alone, and, aa Sin. Beardalay afterward remarked, goodneoa only knew whom he went home with.

Here, after a staaon of depreaaion tint tasked all Harry'a good-nature, Tmcj resolved that ahe would not condescend to let Mr*. Beardsley meddle ao with her hayptnew that, in tact, ahe wo* ni wttfe her If that nM be

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

kept her resolution by denying herself whenever Mrs. Beardsley came in sight of the window. And then one day the house that Mrs. Beardsley lived in burned to the ground, and

what

should rlarry

do but bring the woman home in his arms! ., "I know she's a terror,' he said out what else is there to do?"

Mrs. Beardslev fortunately dul not hear him, being entirelv unconscious through smoke and shock. It was an

other

of the occasions of her dying ana going to heaven, and she made Tacy the object of loud reproaches for calling her back—Taev, who worked over Mrs. Beardslev all the more indefatigably lor being guiltily conscious of not caring if her efforts proved Ineffectual. "When a person has got through with life and reached the other shore, its nothing but cruelty and cold curiosity that calls them back through the deep waters again," cried Mrs. Boardsley. "And you ought to know well enough, Tacy Beardsley—I mean Haverman, but somehow Harry is such a frivolous, inconstant sort of a husband that I never feel as

k'cm a

husband, and your*

name always seems to me to be Beardsley—you know well enough that heaven isn't a country so easily reached by everybody that, when you do get there, you want to bo dragged out aud knocked down in this way. If you'd seen the visions

I saw, the wings, tho faces, the

golden streets, and all that, you feol just as I do. It's a groat privilege and netting apart that I ve been given so freelv to understand my place, and I should think, Tacy, 'twould make you give heed to your mother to know'— "To know vou had an epileptic or a cataleptic tit," with bright lights and colors before your eyes." "You terrible child! This is nothing short of blasphemv. I guess I know where 1 went, and I guess I was brought up to know what heaven is—and that's where you will never go while you throw such a doubt upon the place, nor Harry Haverman either, unless he mends his ways!" And at that Harry in the next room roared so heartily that the interrupted seraph refused to speak to him in his own house for several days.

Poor Harry had now little other cause to laugh for, as the daj's went on, and Tacy listened and brooded, lie grew aware from day to day of his wife's eyes following him with a strange, dogged questioning in them that gave his true heart a perpetual unrest. To cap the rost, his business had becomo seriously involved, aud he had not a dollar of income, and was forced to cut short Tacy's usual allowance. "It is no more than I expected," said Mrs. Beardsley, looking at Taev's old winter suit—tho low state of the family finances having continued a good whi'lo—"to see you going just so shabbv. I must say it looks suspicious. A husband who loves his wife wants to seo her looking her bost, wants to see her well dressod, and takes his pleasure in it, and raises tho monoy by hook or by crook to bring it about. And when he doesn't, then you ma3r bo sure ho is just ai indifferent to her as ho is to tho wind that- blows. Aaron always wanted you to bo well dressed. But I must say Harry never seems to know what you have on! Men don't stint tho women they lovo, and that's a fact." 1 don know why this was tho last straw in tho camel's burden, but Tacy broke down while Mrs. Beardslev was talking, cried in torrents, and had to be earried screaming to bod, with Mrs. Beardsloy in herolonient, making other people run for hot towels, and hot soap stones, and catnip tea, and what not. "He's driven her mad! that's what he's done!" cried this virtuous woman to whom ho had given a homo at his hearth.

Harrv came homo iti tho nrdst of it, stood at his wife's door threo minutes took the st lirs ata bound, found his team where ho had left it, put the old mare to her utmost, made a brief call at a place four miles away, came back triumphant, went into the house regard less of all Mrs. Bo irdsley's "Hush, hushes," and "Poor lambs,"'and striding into his wife's room, sat down by the bed and lifted her dishevelled head and tear-sodden face to his shoulder. "What is it, my darling?" ho whispered. "You have made me miserable long enough. Toll me now what makes ,»/o« miserable?,' "Oh, Harry!" sho sobbed "don't you —don't you—iove nic—any more?" "Love you, my precious little wifo! I worship you, antl you know it." "And yon ro not—you're not—justjust as indifferent to me—" "Indifferent! (food heavens. Taev, what has put this into your head Have I ever seemed Indifferent? Don't I hang upon your words, your ways, your—" "And you don't—oh, solemnly!—you don't cafe anything about Adelo Froemantle?" "Adelo Froomantle!" And he burst into his old ringing laugh. "Why, I haven't seen her to speak with for a dozen years. And I never did care anything about her. I care for nothing and nobody but you, my sweet wife." "Oh,* Harry! then, Harry," Tacy almost shrieked, "take lior away, then f— take this dreadful woman away! She's killing me she's killing all our peace it's hor slow poison. I don't know that I shall ever get over it but give me a chance—do give mo a chance. Put her away somewhere." "It's just what I came home to do," said Harry. "I've found her a boardingplace where she'll be proporly looked after, four good long miles away, and she's going to tumble her things into one of our trunks aud be out of here in half an hour, or she's going without them."

And sue did. It goes without saying that Mrs. Beardsljy's wrath did not go without saying. Loud and inarticulate at first, it "was finally to lie made out that sho was tilling "the world about her with complaint concerning all she had done for Harry Haverman, and the ingratitude she had met in return. She refnsed to eat, she refused to have her fire lighted.

eat. she refused to have her fire lighted, ana she would have refused to sleep had not nature been too much for her. "I am under no obligations to Mr. Harry Haverman that I can help," said she, witberinglv. "If he chooscs to send his wife a mother to the poor-bouse, I ain't help that. To the almshouse 111 go. I shan't stay In this place, that's certain. He knows I can't sleep with a tire In my room. ISre put afire in his room, though, that'll make it hot for him!" And rejoicing in the work she had done Ignorantly, and with a par*-el of her possessions in hand, the worthy old person started on her walk to the poor-house. She never reached the poor-house, though. Her anger and Its expression were more than ner own nerves could bear, and one of her cataleptic setxurea prostrated her In the street, where she fell, striking her head on the sharp fee, and never stirred again. "Oh, we have killed her!" cried Ifcey, Ins horror, when they told her have killed her!" "She'd have killed as if we hadn't," said Harry, grimly. "She has killed bereelf," said Becky. "It awful," said Harry. "Of course its awfuL Bat tot who will be chief mourner, it will not be I. Now we cmn live the rest of oar lives in pesos. There will be nobody to tench yon cruel sas» eon-

mpt for nay de ••Oh, bat if It'soar

desrwifs." faalt that—"

"It's plain

•aid

the doctor. "I don't really see that you have anything to regret." "And trust," said Miss Malkin. "it is not in t»ie least uncharitable to hope that th« time Mrs. Beardsley has really gone to lieaven."

METHODS JX HOVSE WORK.

{Mrs. Jack Robinson in Minn. Spectator.] A young girl, soon to bo married, asked me to draw up a sort of plan for her, by which she might do her work in tho littlo home, which she was soon to occupy "Why, bless your heart, child," I answered, "I couldn do it any more than I could fly." "But Mrs. Brown has one. I'saw it hanging up against her kitchen wall.'' "You might copy hers, then," I suggested, "if vou must have such a document." "Oh, 1 d-\re! Sho would guess in a minute that I thought of getting married, and I can bear for her to know. I just caught a glimpse of it once, and I know it read Monday, arise, put tho bed to air, empty chamber slops, get breakfast, wash dishes, straighten dining room, wash, get dinner, hang out clothes, wash dishes. Thero, that is as far as I could read in the amount of time I had but I could just seo how much good such a thing would do a young honsekeejcr, when everything

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up-

sid down and she didn't ki what to do first." "But according to the plan, as given by you. she hasn't made tho slightest provision for dreshi lg herself. lo you suppose she went around in her nightdress and with uncombed head, until so ne time in tho afternoon, when it might perhaps be sot down in her plan as the proper time to dress?" "Oh, what a silly question, Mrs. Kobinson! Of course she knew enough to dress when sho first got out of bod, without writing it down. Why, don't-you believe in having a housework plan? "Can't say that do, my dear, not of the kind vou mention, nnywaj*. It would bo hard for mo to believe that Mrs. B. could do everything about her house w-itliout it, quite as well as sho could -dross herself without having it written down that sho must clo so. It isn't tho things that one can think of far enough ahead to put down on a piece of paper that young housekeepers stumble over, but the littlo unexpected things that come every day, that no provision has been made for, and that really must bo attended to. They would interfere very seriously with ono of those pretty little plans and render most young housekeepers frantically nervous in consequence. Any housekeeper knows enough to do tho things set down on that plan tliev have to be done and aro seldom neglected, though I question the wisdom of doing them just in tho ordor named. And right thero is the reason why I couldn't draw up a pi in for you, even if I believed in plans like that. Everv household is of necessity a law to itself, and every housekeeper ought to be a law to herself. A plan that I might draw up, whereby I eould do my work would not be at all likely to fit any other houschood in tho universe, nor ought it

..J trying to adopt housekeeper has her tragodies, hor preferences, her likes and dislikes, her strength and hor little weaknesses, and must plan her work hor own way, and to suit those little characteristics. Sho could no more follow another's plan successfully than a carpenter could livo the lifo of a'clergyman.

Excepting so far as ono can glean helpful suggestions from them, tho 'plans which

confront

us every littlo while in

newspaper or cook book aro utterly use

"But don't vou believe in doing housowork methodically?" "No, mv dear, not the way you understand the word. Every housekeeper should have in her

mind

asort of routine

or ideal of how" her house should be kept, u: can but it should be so flexible that it

to it as well as sho

and should live up can but it should wouldn interfere at all with sickness, or weakness, or unexpocted company, or anv of the unexpeetod thimrs that are always happening. I have the idea in my mind that it is good to wash on Monday and I do so whenever convenient sometimes I strain a point a littlo in ordor to do so. but I don ever intent to turn my little world upside down, or wash when I am not fit to do so, or neglect sick folks in ordor to do so. And I do intend to learn the very easiest and quickest wav of doing it that I possibly can, for time is an object to mo. Every minute wavocl front my work can be usod in keoping mv mind and body from growing old too fast. Speaking of washing reminds me that I have heard of the best way vet of doing it by using what is called 'washing crystals. I mean to trv it next week." "Whv, Mrs. Robinson, I thought- you believed so firmly in washing with kerosene. Bah! I'd rather rub my finger ends off than use it.''

No, and I don't mean to. Tho nasty, greasy, stinking stuff! I don't believe there'is any way so good as the old-fash-ioned rubbing. "You express your opinion emphatically considering that you have never tricti anv other way. If you keep on yon will make tho conventional housekeeper, who devotes herself exclusively to her housework, I am not so sure but that you might ornament your kitehen wall 'with a eopv of Mrs. Brown's 'plan,' after all. Mv faith is yet strong in the helpfulness'of kerosene on washing day, and ing be do not expect to find anything better, but I am going to try this "washing crystal," I believe it is called, so that if there is anything better, I shall know it and can use it. There is tho key-note of successful housekeeping according to my idea. A housekeeper has no right to give one unnecessary minute to her housework, for if she wastes time on wjiat at best must be done over again the next day, time that might be given to work, the results of which would last life time. A housekeeper should have general idea of what mnM be done for, say, even a year ahead, as well as what she wonld like lo do. Then she should begin on the 'must beV seasonably. Do them ss well as time, health, strength ands sensible mind will permit, leaving the other work to wait the convenient season. In housework, ss in everything else, the head should come first, the feet and hands should follow, and the mind and heart should always be kept in suitable preparation for their share of the work. A housekeeper with a mind and heart 'on a strike* can never be an ornament to her profession. You'll know her, because she will slways speak of her work as 'menial' sod ^drudgery,' and invariably foils of the higbest success In

I out give you a safe rale to follow, and that Is to have a ntaoe for everything and pnt everything in Ms place the minute you are through with it. Valuable time, incomputable timet ts utterly lost in looking for things thst one tdioald be •Ms to find in t£* dark. It to Just as

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wraps in their proper place when you remove them, as it is to let them lie on the dining room table, use parlor table or the stall's until somo "more convenient season.' It is just as easy to hang up your dress sis soon as you take it off, as it is to throw it over a chair or let it lie on the bed a littlo while before doing so, and it,makes housework much easier to do. ir

Another safe rule is to give to each piece of work that yon undertake, enough time that vou mav be able to do it so well as not to have to go back and do it over again. That is always a waste of time which is sure to occasion a waste of

foeper's

ood temper, which is one of a housemost important allies. Now my dear, I'll write down my "methods in housework" for you, if you really feel as if von'must have something of the kind in black and white, and perhaps vou can get an idea from theni which will help you in forming the ideal hoiue which you will strive to copy.

First—Keep cheerful. Second—Do well what you undertake to do. I-J-1

Third—1«»n

ties.

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undertake impossibili

Fourth—Keep cheerful. Fifth—Don scold. It doesn't do any good.

Sixth—Ixjarn tho easiest, quickest and bfjfit way of everything. Swventb-rrceep cheerful.

Eighth—Don't fret ovor what can bo helped—nor what can be, eit'ier. Ninth—Don't magnify the little "disagreeables" of your every day lifo. Better forget tlioni as soon as possible.

Tenth—TIavo a place for everything, and everything in its place. Eleventh—Keep cheerful.

Twelfth—I/earn soiuethiug^now about your work everv day. Thirteenth—Work as if you took a real interest in what you wore doing.

Fourteenth—Keop cheerful. Let your homo bo a sunshiny one. Cheerfulness is infectious, and "you should soo to it that every member of your family "takes it"*as soon as possible.

Mv young friond thanked me for my "plans' for housowork, and is going to get a copy of Mrs. Brown's to compare with t-hciu, to sec which is bost. All right. I*t her. But I do hope she will see Mr. Brown sonietimo when he hui ries out of the house to spend the evening at a neighbor's because his wife is too tired and cross to bo companionable p. s.—Then* is a good deal of woman's nature shown in that last sentence, isn't there? Not tho bost nature either. Evi dentlv I have got some work to do in the garden of my mind and so I've jotted this down as a reminder.

Tho now remedy for Rheumatism and Pains in tho Chest, is "PoMKin ^Pnnj?)MNK Pl.AiSTKltS.''

CIIIL Dli EX'S CHA TTEli.

Lesson in manners: Small boy—"Mn, pass tho broad." Ma, sternly—"If what, my son?" Small boy, smartly—"If you can roach it, ma."

Mrs. Society—Now, dearie, bo a good girl and go to bed soon. Mamma must hurry off now. Little Dot—Where's oo goiu' mnmm.1? Mrs. S.—I'm going to a party, pet. Littlo Dot, gazing at tho d«eoiiotto eostome—Is oo goin' too dross oosolf when oo gets there?

A well-instructed Boston four-year-old said to his mother at breakfast, the other morning, boiled ogg«» being on tho bill of fare: "Mamma, unshell my ogg.' Then, apparently thinking ho had not been sufficiently polito, added: "For Jesus' sake, amen.'*

Littlo Johnny had just beon called upon t-o sit down "upon tho school ma'am 's walnut ruler for some misdemeanor, and whon soon after ho read that tho skin of a rhinoceros is three inches thiek, ho ejaculated: 'By hokey! I wisht I had a pair of pants undo of it. .Wouldn't 1 cut up then?"

Said a little schoolgirl to hor teaehor: "Mamma gives mo two cents every day for taking a dose of thoroughwort tea without making any fuss about it." "Indeed! And wiiat do you do with so much money?" "Oh, mamma takes caro of it for me, and uses it to buy more thoroughwort toa."'

A single fact is worth a ship load of argument. This may well be applied to St. Jacobs Oil, which is moro ollicadous than all other liniments. Mr. John firegg, a well known citizen of Watsonville, California, found it to bo indispensable as a cure fer rheumatism. Trice, fifty cents. "Does your husband get a salary for taking up the collection in the church every Sunday, Mrs. Deacon?" "Well, not exactly, but I never need to buy any buttons for the children's clothes."

Duly a Step. 0

When catarrh has progressed to a certain extent, it is only a step to that terribly fatal disease, consumption. If you have catarrh, even slightly, it is a terrible mistake to allow it to continue its course unchecked. If you will only read, you will find conclusive reasons why you should take Hood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh, in the statements of many peoplo who have beon completely curetl of this disease in its most severe forms. Send forbook contalningabundant evidence, to C. I. Hood it Co., proprietors of Hood's Sarsaparilla, Lowell, Mass.

and IgotweiL cateoiTa Ira WaUdanrfile,

-A

MIRK

Aetl.p. Pushing and Reliable. Cook Bell it Lowry ean always be relied upon, not only to carry in stock tho best of everything*, but to secure the Agency for articles as have well-known merit, and arc popular with the jveople, thereby sustaining the 'reputation of being always enterprising, and ever reliable. Having secured tlie Agency for the celebrated Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, will sell it on a positive guarantee. It will surely cure any and overy affection of Throat, Lungs, ami Chest, and to show our confidence, wo invite vou to call and vet a Trial Bottlo Free. (1)

WomU-rful Cures.

W. I). Jloyt A Co.. Wholesale and Uctull Drusrcists of,Hotm\ (in., say: We have been selling l')r. King's New Discovery, Klectrlo Hitters and Hucklen's Arnica Salve for two years. Have never handled remedies that sell us well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have l»cen some wonderful euros effected by these medicines In this city. Several cases of pronounced 'onsumptlon have lnvn entirely cured by use of a few lxttlesofPr. King's New Discovery, taken In connection with Klectiic Hitters. We guarantee them always. Sold by Cook Boll it

Tluoklen's Arnica Salvo.

The Host Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Soivs. Cleeiv, Salt. Rheum. Kever Soros, Tottor, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay quired. It is guaranteed to kIv« perfect satbfaetion, or money refunded. £"H\ |Hr IKX. For sale by Cook A Bell. (,t f.

ORATI: CI I.-( O

KTI XG.

Epps's Cocoa

KRKA KKAST.

"Hy a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which c«»vern the operations of diceslion and nutrition, and by a careful application ol' the tine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Kpps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavored beverago which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It Is by the Judicious use of such ar* tii les of diet that a constitution may lc gradually built- up until strong cnoiurh to lvslst every tendency to disease. Hundreds of sulMo maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. Wo may ex-ape many a fatal shaft, by keeping ourselves well fortHied with pure bldod and it properly nourished frame."—[Civil Scrvlco Oa/ette.

Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only In half pound tins by grocers, labeled thus: il AMKS KFl'S &

IPllifts

CO..

Oit-inlsM. I,otulon.

Kn«r

rteml six cents for postage,and reolevc free, a costly box of ntils which will help all, of

Ither eex. to more money right

away 'h«ii anything elso In the world. Fortunes aw.ili the workers absolutely suro. Terms nailed free. True A Co., Augusta, Me

PISO'S KKMKDY FOB plves Immediate relief.

CATARRH

Catarrh I

virus is &oon expelled from tlie system, nud the diseased action of the mncoui-- membrane is replaced by lualthy secretions.

The doso is small. One package contains a wiflleieut quantity for a long treatment.

A cold In the Head is relieved by :m application of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. Tho comfortto ho got ironi il In thJu way

T-TiTTmra ERADICATED.

takes Swift's SpwMe. I nam beat troobled with it At the hsfjnnlf of cotd weatker lad fall it mad* a wwfl. It also beaeCted say wtfe gresUy ta csee at skk fafcaktacMtananrlittlc time year old daagbter last dinffiMk, TWTtt, 1888. Rtr. il

MMMMf WEIMM,

TNi Luauae

worth many limes

its cost. Easy and pleasant to uso, V, Price. 50 cents. Sold by druggists or sent by mail.

T. HAZBLTINK, Warren, Pa.

PETRDLINE

Manhood

not

A trial will convince the most skeptical thst they are the best. They ctlveprln ing far moro powerful other piasters. Do not be Induced to take ether plasters which are inferior, but be suro and get the genuine "Petroiine," which is always endosed in an envelope with the signature of the proprietors, The P.W.I*. Co., also above seal, In? reen and gold, on each plaster its, at 35 oents each, and our Ageota.

They are medicated with

capsicum and the active principle of petroleum, being far moro powerful In their action than

Bold by Igeata.

J. J. r.Al'K Ar HON, Tern- Haute, Ind.

RESTORED. Free. \k'timrfItcmedyyouthful iinpni'J',n«'"iu»hnr Prenwin* liecuy, NerT"u« Polilll.hsvhitr

tried In vain -vry known remedy, bw dissevered a rimple Heit-nire, which h« will Mtid I'll

to hi*

fellow sufferers. Aliln-«* C. J. MAHOK, Pott OUico Ilex 817V, Now York City

for

Ct.CtWUL »DIT PMTE8TIB,

A -otur iiiirSlorKliiir support«r», Bu*om Forms, Df*W Shields, Sufftjr BelU, Infutt* rniiln-r good*, etc. JJew d»Vuin nnil i-riuJT noles. w#h«*» rnnlxT of larilei now rl«OT?loo a month. Addrwn OOM

A tit

3!.«flattest.,

OK HtUMT

Cfcleace

entirely well of eczema after barla* ce since la bat went tagood ta caae at slek hradwirhe, aad auule a perfect at summer.

bm never fatarmd. 8.8.8. no doabt broke ap: at least it pot my system in good ceoditkn

TnatiK OB Btooa aad 8kta Dteaaea mailed free. T— thnrr Srmxno Co.. Prsww «, JUkta,

IIRTHDAY

in my face since last spria£ earancc, bat went sw*7 SM!

JAMBH Y. M. MORRIS.

MESMT.*W

CHAIR

THC WONDERFUL |H

LUBURG

DM/M jAY aod op. Bend sUap I JSP* SH1PPKD to all JtTtCe ipi lorfistolsgas. parts sf ikt warM.

CUIkBBKHIS CARRIAGES

hnHiiwib telajinalis Cwdi »«ak«. and stalls* We—»aFalass Psad aw|i tor Ortalotae, and stale carria«ea.

manp'c co., i«s

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