Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 December 1887 — Page 8

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WOMAN AND HOME.

LIFE HISTORY OF A GIRl*. STOWAWAY FROM SCOTLAND

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Good Manner* at Horn®—School Hygiene. Ignorance of Girl#—-Ventilation of B«d roonix AUvloe to Btother* Pretty

Kitchen*—Helpful HlnU and Item*.

Here in the lifo history of a woman who I* well known to many New York shoppers as tho forewoman in the suit department. 8be la still quite young—ou the sunny side of 86— with a pleasant face, a sweet, low voice and a manner that helps her greatly in her profesaion. This may not soein a very exalted position to some people, but wbeti they consider the long, steep road she has climbed her present stand may appear an enviable one. At all event*, her work is light, though the -responsibilities are heavy. She gets very nearly $2/j00 a year, and has a cheerful, pretty little flat of her own, where she bat books and birds and flowers, and die considers herself an individual greatly to be envied.

This is the story: Twenty-flve years ago a mnn died in a little squalid Scotch village by the sea and a few miles from a port where the smaller sort of sailing vessels cleared for harbors all over tho world. There was nothing uncommon concerning this man's death in fact, it was the usual business, helpless widow, threo crying orphans, no money and no prospect of any. The eldest brat was an «in«h girl with a sharp tongue that offended close fisted relative who offered to take the mother into his homo as housekeeper and the two boys to work on the farm as soon as they were able, but wouldn't have tho girl at any prico. She heard his proposition and her eyes flashed. She wouldn't stand in her mother's way or in that of the little brothers, ao the 10-year-ohl Imp packed her one other drcs9 and few childish treasures in an old handkerchief, kissed the three tenderly, and when they were usleep stole away to the neighboring town through tho darkness. She t»nng about the wharf for two days until she found a ship bound for America.

When that ship sailed she wasn't in Scotland, and yet she didn't seem to be on the ship. Third day out up cornea a white faced brat from tho hold, ghastly with hunger. The captain swore a little, then laughed, and tho women fed, clothed and corseted the only girl stowaway they had over seen. When tho ship reached Now York one of the women took tho child to mind her babies at homo. She learned to read from the children's blocks and picture books she learned to write and figure from one of the older girls, who was going to a primary school and liked to have help in her lessons. At 15 she was behind a counter in ashop at20 she was at tho head of her department. The uncle was dead, tho boys apprenticed and tho tnotlier alono so she sent for her and took two rooms. In five years more she was the bondwoman in the hlg shop, and every two or threo years hor saEry increases. She lives well, saves something each year, has an account in tho savings bank and is as plucky as ever.—Now York World.

Good Manners at Home.

I know a woman who is always harping about "culture" and "refinement" and "etiquotto," and who does not this minute know tho meaning of that old fashioned term, "good manners." She is always regretting th* luck of culture among hor neighbors, and there is not ono of them who is more polite than she is. I have heard her actually yell at her servants, and storm at hor children, and I do not think hor husband is the happiest man in tho world. In society she is a charming woman. 8ho knows always just what to say and how to say it. I never saw si woman who ooulil excel her in gliding across a room and sinking gracefully into a chair. Her littlo boys can tip their hats so prettily to ladies on the street her little girls can ontor room with toes properly turned out und with tho grace of littlo queens and, alas*, both the littlo boys aud the little girls l)o as impertinent aud display the worst manners of any children I ever saw. And they literally rtght among themselves. They •re not taught to be polite to each other. Their mothor soldora favors them with her own properly choeen words and graceful manners when they are alone with her. Discord reigus uutil the door bell rings and theu the entire household must put on good manners. "If wo don't," ono of the children said, ••wo catch it when tho company's gonel" This is an extromo case, but do wo not all have our "company manners!" Do we speak just as gently and sweetly to our children, to our husbands and wives, when we are alone with them as whon in the presence of the chance caller Do we say to a transgressing Johnulo or Katie, "Don't do that, dear," or, "Stop that this minute, I toll youf" Which is itl Do wo say "please" and "thank you" to each other and to our servants at all times, or are these pleasing littlo words hold in reserve with tho rast of our "company manners Is it only in the presence of strangers that wo smilingly overlook or gently chide tho trifling faults of our children?

Oh, these "company manners 1" They are tho ruination of a household. They cannot always lw put on and off at will. Traces of tho every day discord and lack of harmony will manifost thomselves through tho affectation of all the mere "company manners" one con assume Habitual politeness and kindness and gentleness should be the unwavering rule in every house, even on "Blue Moudaya."—Zenas Dane in Good Housekeeping.

8rho«l IIy*tene In Winter.

In summer tho child is greatly favored by the fiw, natural ventilation of the school room, the wide rouge of his sports, his sympathy with exuberant nature and the long *a«Wtioii, with its varied ramblw, its frequoul Inching#, its exhilarating sense of freeUom, awl. perhaps, with its change of air. The aiwctuv of thwe favoring circumstance! In winter suggest greater attention at that time to the phjtfcal condition of *."hool cbiMrvn

Their food should be suited to the season. Fat is to the body what coal is to the store. It Is dimply fix*. No sailors are allowed in expeditions to the North Pole who cannot dlgwtt an abundance of fat The child can eafoiv withstand oar northern cold only as be carries within him a copious source

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beoU He not only shook! have, but should, if necessary, I* trained to love, fat matt, gravies ami well cooked rashers.

Where oatmeal is an important pari of the 1 daily diet the large proportion of fat it contains meets the need in part, and so dona the well buttered bread, but it i» wsll to add dailv the fat of meat.

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It Is tntr**tas«» rmmatm tba physical diffmoo* la cfcOdna. In son* of Umax tba recuperative power Is Strang, and

Aud yet under proper training what a noble specimen of womanhood she perhaps was capable of being made 1—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in New York Star. rf

Air of Sleeping Apartments. What of sleeping apartments? Shall they bo warmed or left cool? Perhaps, in a Yankee way, these questions may be answered by another? How shall fresh air be admitted if windows are closed! And, since plenty of fresh air is absolutely essential, and warmth sufficient may readily be secured by bed covering, it seems better to have them open to outside air and rooms unhealed. There are certainly fewer cases of acute catarrh among those who adopt the open air plan than where warm rooms are indulged in during sleep and less liability, less sensitiveness to those lurking, sneezing bronchial coughs that are so annoying and so difficult to cure.

But it is only during sleep tjjat chambers should be cool. While dressing or preparing for bed they should be as warm as tie rest of the house-that is, 08 dega. This plunging into a cold bed with skin all tense and protesting, is a good way to insure a sleepless night to anyone over twenty-flve years of age, and is a relic of the unscientific past that looked upon a warm deeping room as a piece of folly of unmanly coddling.

It is easy to shut a register upon opening windows, and to open it again in the morning when they are shut down, to let the room get warm enough to dress comfortably. Then a little nap extra, a leisurely toilet under comfortable circumstances, and one goes down to coffee with a sense of readiness to meet whatever the day may bring forth.— Family Physician in American Magazine. f,j

Advice to Mothers.

If you say "No," mean "No." Unless you have a good reason for changing a given command, hold to it.

Take an interest in your children's amusements mother's share in what pleases them, is a great delight.

Be honest with them in small things, as well as in great li you cannot tell inem what they wished to know, say so, rather deceive them.

As long as it is possible kiss tho children good night after they are in bed they like it, and it keeps them very close.

Make your boys and girls study physiology when they are ill, try to make them comprehend why, and how the complaint arose, and the remedy, so far as you know it.

Impress upon them from early infancy that their actions have results, and that they cannot escape consequences, even by being aorry when they have done wrong.

Respect their little secrets if they have concealments, fretting them will never make them tell, and time and patience will.

Allow them, as they grow older, to have opinions of their own, make them individuals, and not mere echoes.

Mothers, whatever else you may teach your girls, do not neglect to instruct than in the mysteries of housekeeping. So shall you them in the way of making home happy-"Herald of Health. IJ

Pretty Kitchens.

There is no objection to a pretty kitchen, or to a girl filling one up with bric-a-brac if she keeps it free from dust, A kitchen to those who do the work in it is the living room, and why should it not be mado convenient and prettyt If the kitchen is a comfortable. chcery room, must girls will take a pride in keeping it so. Give them pink colored tissue |**per for the shelves, if they wish it, and a fancy lamp shade to rest by after the kitchen is tided up for the night too, that they have convenient utensUl to cook with, a good clothes wringer and plenty of clothes pine and a good stove.

It will pay you well to look after these things in the good, wholesome dishes that will come on to the table well cooked. Many girls have to do with makeshifts that you would not think possible for yourself to use —a broken wringer, a tub without handles or awash bailer or teakettle, with a rag run through a hole to prevent leaking. No girl likes to ask for repairs, and oftentimes tba mistress is too carrisw to look well after the little things of ber kitchen. I wookl add: Let the girl* sleeping room be a pleasant, attractive placet Many a horse has better quart*** for rest than oar servants hare. Look well to the comfort of the servants. If not appreciative at first they may learn to be so—Detroit Tribune.

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itself at once in others a slight cold

mm death, or a protracted invalidism. Bat the school room itself need# constant looking after. If it is not properly ventilated, the vitiated air liowen the tone of tho physical system, and readers it very susceptible to colds and other ailments. A tendency to colds will also be caused by too high a temperature, which weakens the resisting power of the skin. On the other hand, the weakly ore sure to suffer from too low a ter~ perature. This should be regulated by thermometer, and should not be allowed vary much from TOdegs. Fahrenheit—Youth's Com po lion.

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Ignorance of Girls*

If a girl never bears a word about economy from her birth, and is only oonseious that to secure the means to gratify her slightest wish she needs only to stretch out bar hands and they will be abundantly filled, how can one expect after marriage that she can have the ff»intjnt knowledge of the duties that must belong to her in the care of her household? She has never been called upon to know anything about her own expenses. What she fancied she wanted she bought without* a thought that it might be well to learn whether she could afford tho money. How money came, how it was always ready for her when she asked, were questions she had never been taught that she ought to ask and to understand the answer.

As far as any teaching she has ever received, she might imagine that money grew in the woods, and her father had it gathered for her as wanted—and of course her husband would do tho same. No education before marriage ever taught her anything more nfionaL With such a girlhood, free from every thought save that of her own personal gratification, what reason can there be for surprfee if she makes many mistakeswell for her if they are not irremediable. Duty was something never mentioned to her when a girl. After marriage her husband gives her no insight into his business affairs, iio cautions as to expenses, never talks to her or consults or advises with her about their mutual expenditures. The same cruel love firiri indulgence—or it may be indifferencesurrounds her in her new home, and thus she continues to be left in utter ignorance of all practical knowledge, simply a toy, a butterfly, seeking only sunshine and personal enjoyment.

Beef.

If possible buy the meat of a butcher personally known to bo an honest man. If the meat has a reasonable proportion erf fat upon the bock and running in little Unas through the lean, and if the color is fresh and not wry darkened, the meat is good if the botcher has kept it properly for a week or taa davs it may be supposed to be uasou ably tender. Most botchers are willing to keep meat the right length of time for emit they take it at Its first weight it

ITEKRE* HAtJTE SA1TIRDAY: EVENIlSr MAIL

loow a little wjight by keeping. When 3d* is the intention have some of tho bone trimmed off, the fiat which is not needed for and let these trimmings be sent home with the day's marketing, the bones for the soup pot, and the fat to be tried out, to use in the form of drippings.

These '""i* economies are not at all despicable on the contrary, they are of considerable consequence in die aggregate. After the meat is trimmed let it be hung in the butcher's refrigerator until he pronounces it tender, but not long enough to spoil. In this connection remember that meat, which has been kept on ice is very susceptible to changes of temperature, and should be fookart as soon as possible after it is taken from the ice, and cooked at a very hot fire, bftowT"** a slow beat might taint it at the beginning of the cookery- —American Analyst

The Best Pet of All.

The best pet of all is the little child old enough to talk and to understand, with a child's comprehension. The child that is a pet is always promising to be abetter pet, because a more appreciative one. Its receptive and retentive mind is greedily gathering »fn thousand facts and then ten thousand more, all with each added year the little one not only fills a largo* place in your affections, but you are becoming more to the youngster, to be treasured in fond regard through all the years of mature life.

Every month, and week, and day is a step toward manhood or womanhood, evincing expanding intelligence and growing affections, «nd cementing the bonds of friendship and love between the little pet and the elder persons who ore nourishing its absorbing mind and are guiding its otherwise uncertain footsteps in the best path of life toward the goal of thought, love and action.—Good Housekeeping.

Hot Fomentations.

We all know the value of hot applications, but the mode of making and the applying differ in almost every house. An exchange gives the following: "Wring several thicknesses of flannel out of cold water, so it will not drip place between two folds of paper, and lay it upon a hot register or top of a stove. Steam will generate and permeate the whola cloth, and thus the required temperature will bo obtained. In this way there is no running iong distances to a kitchen, no burning of the hands, no uncomfortable moisture in the bed and no ruffled tempers. A hot fomentation is beneficial in almost every acute disease accompanied by severe pain, and is often of great service in chronic inflammations. It is more effectual and more accessible than any other therapeutic agent. By quick, prompt. and thorough use severe attacks of illness are often prevented."—Herald of Health. i* ^sV ,•%„

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Sometimes my wife and I say on Sunday: "Now let us agree that wo will not say a single cross word to any one this whole week. Let us be studiously polite to each other and to the children. Let us be very mindful of the feelings of every person with whom w» may come into contact. Let us not fret nor complain nor do anything that good, decent, well behaved Christians should not do." And if when the next Sunday comes, we have, through tho grace of God, kept this resolve, it goes without saying that we have been happy and the world has perhaps been made a little better for our being in it.—Zenas Dane in Good Housekeeping.

Advice to Young Girls.

A word of advice to the young girls: Never contract acquaintance with strange young men unless they come in company with those with whom you are well acquainted and in whom you place confidence. Even then be on your guard, and see that the proprieties of life are not exceeded..

For bunions got five cents' worth of saltpeter and put it into a bottle with sufficient olive oil to nearly dissolve it shake up well and rub the inflamed joints night and morning, and more frequently if painful.

Crackers thnt are stale can be freshened by beating them in the oven, but do not let them stay loug.

Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off by soda water.

Use good soap in the kitchen, as it saves tho hands.

Chicago's Garbage Crematory. The city health department of Chicago Is directing considerable attention to the question of getting rid of the dty garbage. Health Officer Thompson has been to Dos Moines, la., and witnessed the workings of the garbage crematory in that dty, of which he says: "The furnace is 18 feet long by 4 feet 6 inches wide, ha* a capacity of 50 yards of garbage daily, and cost, with th* building, about ,70(1 About two feet from the bottom of the furnace is a solid iron plate, and above that, and upoti which falls the substance to be burned, is a heavy iron grating. In the center of the furnace is a circular hole, closed by a trap, into which was thrown, while I watched it, two dead horses, •even dogs, eighteen barrels of garbage, three hods of manure, fifteen bushels of rotten eggs and three barrels of rotten fish. This was all qfnsutned 1u one boor, «nti» no offensive smell from the combustion and no smoke. The furnace was cold when started. "There, are two fires, in front and another in the rear. Tbe rear fire was started first Tbe refuse is dumped upon the grating through the manhole, thus being kept away from tbe fire as not to extinguish it Th»i heat from the flames in the front and rear rapidly dries the matter, and soon all Is banting. The theory «»f the inventor is that if there woe only one fire, the combustion wnuki be offensive^. The draught carries the smok* to the rear fire, which consumes the noxkxu gases and destroy* all germs."

Tbe Des Moines crematory Is simple, and considered by Mr. Thompson effective as any that to has examined, and It dons not require ranch labor to attend it or consume ranch coal to operate it. Tbe authorities of Chicago are bound to erect a garbage consaudngfarnareof kind, and according to Health CKlirer Tbotnpeottfc report, the oaa above described is the one aaast likely to tw tried.—Industrial World.

jiefore using new earthenware place in a bote- with cold water, and beatgradnaQy tBl it bolls then let remain until the water {scold, ft will not ho liable to crock if treated to this monasr.

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When the rubber rollers of your wringer become sticky, as they very ofter do after wringing flannel, rub with kerosene and wipe dry-, and they will be nice and smooth.

For washifigHannels use two spoonfuls of borax to threo gallons of water use no soap, tnd the flannels will be soft and dean and will not shrink. _______

Never use a sharp knife in denning the n*n«t Fill under the nails with soap, and then remove it by brushing with a nail brush.

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WHAT SRAIL WE WEAItt

AN ATTRACTIVE FRENCH TOILETTE WITH A SQUARE FICHU.

New Designs for Ladles' Watehea—Glov* Colocnes and Lorjnette»—An Imported Bonnet That Finds Favor with New

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Numbered with imported bonnets that find favor with New York ladies is the "Empire," illustrated in the accompanying cat.

THE "EMPIRE" BOITOXT.

The crown of the bonnet is round and low. The brim, with its peak four and threequarter inches wide in front, is bordered at the edge with a stripe two and one-half inches wide of green velvet shot with red.

Indies' Watches.

Now that chatelaines of all descriptions are again in demand, decorative silver watchc* have come to be a prominent feature, and the result is a wide diversity of styles. In the new watches are represented many antique as well as quite new patterns. Etching appears on some of the cases, engraving on others, enamel, gems, gold rosette work and gold wire work on the others. A decidedly attractive effect is gained on a surface enam-eled-in a plain color and overlaid, dther with gold rosette or gold wire work. Dedded novelties are silver watches in form of a frog, crab or a lizard.

Fashions in Lorgnettes and Glove Colognes

Lorgnettes framed in repousse and etched silver are in big demand, as are the lorgnettes ih silver cases. Opera glasses in silver cases are equally fashionable and will figure conspicuously this season at all places of amusement. In this connection it may be well to tell that glove colognes and vinaigrettes show new and pleasing designs. A glove cologne in silver, seen recently, simulated a paint tube, and afforded at the same time an exceedingly convenient and unique trinket. Another glove pungent seen was in shajpe of a powder horn.

New Models in Millinery.

Many of the reoently imported hats and bonnets are made of the shot velvet, trimmed with birds and wings of the most beautiful shades to match tho velvet. Tho shapes are varied. Diroctoires, with large brims advancing considerably beyond the forehead toques, largo hats with low crowns, ornamented with tufts of feathers at the back, will all bo worn.

Parisian ladies are largely patronizing felt hats for street wear. These come in colors to match tho costume, and wherever the trimming is placed, whether to ono side or at the back, it always overtops tho crown of the hat.

In New York many young ladies are wearing soft crowned round bats of doth, or velvet cloth, and fur are frequently combined in bonnets to be worn with tailor gowns and doth coats. Black Persian lamb is a favorite fur for this purpose. Tho fashion of wearing ornamental pins in hats and bonnets continues. In many of these the heads are ornamented with beetles, butterflies and bugs, composed of colored stones on a dull gold leafy twig.

Vaveltles In Ulbbons.

Watered ribbons are mado very effective by being also shot with fashionable colors. Another novelty likely to meet with approbation is a ribbon wovon in two colors, with a narrow ribbon of tho same sort put on branchwise, and only fastened in the middle to the very of the broader ribbon foundation. I

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embroidered, embossed and plain velvets. These now materials are very choice and have a wonderful effect, not only on account of their beautiful texture, but also for the dfJiy^y of their coloring and soft shading.

A Xovel* Evening Toilette.

The toilette hero illustrated is a Parldaa one, and affords in tho laoo fichu that adorns the drees, as well as in tho novel and becoming coiffure, points of interest to lady reaflere desirous of entirely new for evening

a ctusBEio mortal voaxsm. Tho sqtoroCehu may be mode of any bet preferred, but its ribbon trimmings should or harmonize with the bodice over which tbe fichu is worn. As will bo seen, tbf hair is dressed high, and tndudet iaitaan» sroUtfcm a ribbon bow and small beckoomh. Bibboa two and ooe^alf incbea wide, tbe oofcr of t!» velvet, is gracefully twisted about tbo crown, tied in a bow in front and arranged at tbe back edge of tbe crown la three loops hiding the pioos where tbe rtriagi aro sewn on. Five short black oOrid feathers fell toward tho bode, and a fancy arrangement of codof feathers, with two wtegs at the ride, start tram hnwmij the

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

How to Serve a Small Company Dinner— The Christmas Tree and Greens.' The laying of small company dinners is a matter of interest to many housekeepers who do not wish to serve a la Russe. Miss Corson tells in Harper's Bazar of a happy combination of methods calculated for the attendance of one servant. Hie approaching season of hdliday festivities will bring up this subject to many readers, for whose benefit a part of Miss Corson's advice is reproduced in substanco. Suppose the dinner to be made in four courses, as follows:

FIRST COUBSE. SltCOMD COOBSS. 1. Soup, 1. Small entree or vegetable. 8. Fish. 8. Principal dish of course. 3. Boiled potatoes. 3. Vegetable. -.f, 4. Cucumbers. 4. Vegetable.

THIRD OOUBSC. FOURTH OOCSSM. 1. The salad. 1. Principal dessert dish. The roast. S. Some small swest. 8. Cheese. 8. Macaroons. 4 Crackers. 4. Candied fruit or nuta.

Dish No. 1 in each course is to be placed before the hostess and served by her. No. 3 is placed before tho host, by whom it is served. Nos. 3 and 4 ore placod midway of tho table on either side. After tho first course of soup, fish, boiled potatoes and cucumbers has wxn finished and removed, let tho second course bo served, tho principal dish of tho course being placed for the host to servo if thero is a second entree, place it before tho hostess, otherwise put the principal vegctablo beforo hor and tho others at tho sides of tho table. In the third course place the roast beforo the host, tho salad before tho hostess, with oil, vinegar, salt and pepper within reach and put tho cheese and crackers which many people like to eat with a green salad at tho sides. After the roast and salad havo been eaten, tho table is to bo cleared of all things except tho cheese, crackers and the dishes belonging to tho desBert tho crumbs aro to bo removed, tho finger bowls placed and the chief dessert dish set before the hostess. The smaller dessert, such as the candied fruit, macaroons, etc., occupies the other threo places if uuts aro served tho salt should be returned to the table.

Christmas Trees and Trimmings. The Christmas tree—how wonderful it is to the children. The gifts gathered from its branches in the midst of delighted anticipation and joyful surprise have a flavor above common things. Tho tree gives the touch that makes Christmas tho gala day of tho year. Even good St. Nick's mysterious arrival by way of tho chimney hardly equals the magic tree. This sourco of delight may be of any size, from a dainty littlo tree that can be set up on a tablo for tho pleasure of tho two or threo young folks of ono family to a large specimen, apparently transported in Arabian Nights, fashion from its native forest, around which sevbral families may hold their holiday reunion*,

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The tree must first bo planted in a hole bored in a largo block of wood heavy enough to keep it firmly in position. If it is quito a large tree, a rudo platform can bo built for it and covered with green baizo or moss and lichens. It is a prime essential to light tho tree well. This may bo dono with small tapers, Chinese lanterns or ordinary small lanterns covered with bright colored paper. Thero is hardly a more effective trimming than tho old fashioned ono of festoon* of popcorn strung on thread. These with tho bright lights and pretty paper cornucopias, and boxes and gay colored bags of nuts and candles will mako a troo beautiful in the children's eyes almost without the gifts that ingenious and loving hands havo hung upon it

Another groat source of pleasure to all tho younger members of tho household is in appropriately decorating the home. This they can do with a littlo advice from elders. Ground pine, holly and mistletoe, as well as dried grasses and immortelles, aro now to be bod at tbe

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season in many markets

not

obtainable there is always

some greenery in every locality that can be utilized. Cedar, spruce, hemlock or arborvita, brightened with sprays of the red bitter sweat berries, is handsome. Ground pino interspersed with sprigs of holly, with its dark, glossy loaves and scarlet berries, furnishes a beautiful and popular trimming. Evergreen decorations may be given tbe effect of being lightly flecked with now by dipping the branches in gum water and then into flour. Ropes of evergreen for festooning, forming wreathes, etc., aro made by binding evergreen twigs to a stout cord by rn«nMi of «™ii twine threaded into a packing nocdlo, which is passed through tho cord occasionally to hold all firmly in place. Crosses and other emblems, as well as letter* for mottoes, may be cut out of cardboard and spread with gum, upon which are applied pieces of cotton wool, which, when dry, may be pulled out to look looso and fluffy.

Decorate tho houso and set up tho joyful tree, for "Christmas cones but once a year."

Famous Black Cake.

Mrs. Stanley Matthews, of Washington, a cako maker, furnishes to a cook bode gotten up for a church fair, her redpe for

Hsfat and add them alternately

with tho Soar. Then pot in your brandy and wine, and last of all the fruit. Bake this in a moderately slow oven. This cake has tickled the palates of eminent men and women, and he re in vi a 4

Fig Csks.

FBling for fig caka may be made with one pound of fl^s, chopped very An« c*q agar, oevhs^f cop of walee. Put it oo tho K^rJr of the store and mash with a spool ntfl It forms a smooth pasta Flavor with vanilla and spread betwesoany white layer

OUR GIRLS ABROAD.

AN APOLOGY FOR THE ENGLISH

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MAIDEN'S TOTAL ECLIPSE.

tiulles Abroad Fladlaff TbcmnelTes Out--sbone by th« Girls of America—A Hint to English Mauds and Beatrices—Emancipation from Cant.

The Lady Mauds and Lady Beatrices aresore at finding themselves outshone In tho highest circles by American chits who, before coming abroad, wore just ordinary misses in small provincial towns in the United States, It is a hard case to be thrust into the shadeby these fair invaders. But soreness about it will only spoil good looks. Why not rather* learn the art of war from the invading belles, who were not reared in hothouses, but in. public free schools. In a great degree they have conquered because they aro in the habit. of thinking themselves as good as no matter whom, and of not being shamfaced in the presence of mortals of uppermost rank.

I don't think it occurs to the Mauds and. Beatrices that very few uppermost personages, in no matter what country, have, orcan have, much conversation. Having had allowances from their cradles upward thereis no strenuous effort in their lives. And sothat intensity of thought, feeling and will which makes a man a man, and sublimates a woman, is wanting in them. Etiquette throws on them the onus of startling subjects of conversation. Having to talk do haut en bas, but there is no quick interchangeof ideas. As it was 900 years ago, so itjis now. Their lives being flat they must fall back on buffoonery—a reason why Schneider's dressing room at Les Varietes was"Le Passage des Princes." License of speechi is sure to bo granted to anyone whose talk: tickles or is droll. There are few rosebuds in etiquette ridden courts who can so converse. But the United States freo schools produce them in thousands. Origiuality in America is not confined to the unornamental sex. The conditions of life are so different thero from what they are in England, and there is such emancipation from cant in most of the forms in which it tyrannizes us that the beauty from Ohio, Illinois or Delaware is startinglv novel, and whatever piquancv there is in her talk comes home with a double force.

BEAUTIES FROM AMERICA.

There are such heaps of Miss Jennie Chamberlains in tho United States that hardly any ono notices their points. Americans are astounded at the effect they produce on English noblemen when they come out at the* Riviera or in London. As to the etiquette invented by lords chamberlain those flowers from over tho Atlantic are in happy ignorance. So they start topics in colloquies with royal personages instead of waiting for them to be started, and when they find they ploaso they go ahead. "Sir," or "madame," or"your royal highness," used as commas, are in tho conversation of ordinary persons. Then the young and fair Americans neglect no advantage which is derived from attention to personal appearance. They knowhow to dress, and they grudge no money thatthey can give to the best dentists. Being in the habit of dancing from infancy, theirgestures aro easy iuid not angular, mid they always talk distinctly, and, if sometime with a slight twang, in an audible voice.

Our girls often mumble or run on in a chirruping jabber that really is not speech. They,, too, often deal in set phrases which got soon exhausted. 1 think when a British girl isnice site's the nicest of any and many morethan there are could be charming if thoy could only loam how to speak, und to moveabout in an easy, graceful way. Tho American girl has neat features, a delicate skiu and. fine nervous system. But in tho rest of the' organization nature has been wanting in. generosity. The western woman or girl is a. finer human being than the eastern. In thesouthern states womanhood is nearest to perfection. Women there are reposeful—not precisely amusing, but intelligent, swoet and interesting.—Labouchero in London Truth.

Th« A inn* and the K*llp«e.' An interesting glimpse into tho thought procMBes of unenlightened peoples is furnished by the following observations of th» Ainos, a degenerate Japanese tribe, distinguished for their long growth of hair, during tho recent eclipse. The Aino is said not to be imaginative, but on being shown the eclipse through smoked glass he cried outthat tho sun was fainting away and dying. A silence ensuod, broken by an exclamation* of fear, that tho sun would dry up. They brought water and sprinkled it upward toward the sun, crying: "Oh, god, we revivothee I Oh, god, we revive thee!" Somesquirted tho water upward with their mouths, some threw it up with their hands. A group1 of women and girls sat down with their hfnids between their knees, as If expecting some calamity.

Their tradition with regard to the eclipse says that "when my father was a child he heard his old grandfather say that his grandfather saw a total eclipse of the sun. Tho earth became quite dark, and shadows could"not be seen tho birds went to roost and thodogs began to howl. The black, deed suit* •hone out tongues of fire and lightning from

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The ingredients aro one pound

at butter, one ami ooequarter pounds of •agar, one pound of flour, ten eggs, twomxtmaga, a small pinch of ground mace, two wtneglassfuls of wine and two of brandy, two and one-half pounds of raisins, two and ono* |«w pounds of currants and one pound of citron. Tbe yelks, sugar and spices should be beaten together and tho butter should be creamed and next added. Whip the whites bf the very

sides, and tbe stars shone brightly. Thenthe sun began to return to life, and tho faces of tbe people wore an aspect of death, and a* tbe sun gradually came to life these men Upn to live again." Otherwise they have no theory of the eclipse, but their personification uf the phenomenon la evident—Science,.

Device «f American Travelers.

A story is going the rounds to the effect: tJn»t a party of American travelers in Germany, whose literary studies had not prepared them for tbe emergency of conversing fluently upon customs duties, conquered the Teutonic officials by bold device. After delivering long and polished harangues in thepurestEnglish without provoking any effect* opoa the officers, they all exdaimod sudden* ly, "Long live Klqg William The official! understood the name, reverently took off their hats, and gave the Americans no mors trouble.—Boston Transcript.

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Corisu Wedding Custom.

Among tho Lolos of western China it itcustomary for the bride on tbe wedding miming to perch herself on the highest branch of a largo tree, while the elder femate members of her family cluster on tbe lower limbs,

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with sticks. When all aro duly the bridegroom clambers up the

tree, asurfkd on all sides by blows, pushes ond ptodies from dowag«m, and it is not until be has broken through their fence and* captured tbe bride that he is allowed to carry

her

off.—Blackwood's Magazine,

Artesian Water Power.

Many artesian wells spout water under aheavy pressure, just as many gas wells find the gas under a preisure of several hundred* pounds to the square Inch. This water powea Is used to many places in France by means o* turbine wheels, and it is probable that cvec tho gas pressure might in some cases also bt •ftiiw la very deep artesian wells thfr hoot ot the orator is also utilized.—PubUr Opinion.