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DETROIT, JAN. 30, 1892.

 

 

"THE. HOUSEHOLD-éeupplemeni-

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"_ ’- For the Household. ’ ‘ 0

~ 3 ,. reassure roams saw m is.

3! turns 1. onion. -

' r f. . - tht it the past has failed to bring
7, ._ .. ,. *The good anticipated? v -_
‘ . : ’ '. What if the present proves that we

if: v Our powers have overrated P '
< ’ Shall we therefore sit meekly down

5.; i " ‘4_ 5' And give ourselves to sorrow ? -
4‘12: 5 . : Lament the past so profitlees.

Andfuture trouble borrow?

' ; I- ,, “ It might have been i” is well enough

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7 For poetry to embellish :
' As fond for thought in prosy life
' ‘ 4 It has a bitter relish. ,
And [I for one. am thankful now
That life is not quiescent. -
But that each hour brings in its train
A duty omnipresent. I

1 ’ - 0f “ faith and works” we have been taugh
,. , fl‘hat each is an essential ;
' ‘ That neither one alone can bring , '
. " Its perfect peace potential.
’ So let us. then. with faith look\up
» Beyond life's tangled seeming.
And work with steadfast earnestness
_. Instead of idly dreaming.
Fon'r Warn. Inn, 1

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womm AT THE conmuiv ax- -
‘ . rosn'ron.

‘ The Board of Lady Managers of the
Cblumbian Exposition has settled all
its little internal difficulties and “ got
down to business.” Its rights are
“known and conceded, its privileges
I. made available. 'The members know
what theywant to do, and have pretty
well determined on the manner of ac.-
Complishment. -The Board will have
the entire management of the women’s
department! of the great show, even to
the constructionlof the women’s build-
ing. :. It was early determined ,that
woman’s, hand and brain should design
that building. Miss Sophie G. Hayden,
a promising young architect of Bostou,
offered the design which was selected,

. ,and was asked to superintend the con-

pose.

struction of. the building, but wouldn't
[leave her beloved " Hub” for the pur-
The Women’s Building is

nearest ' completion of any 7 on the

, grounds. _Women will also design and'

execute the statuary'upon the exterior.

; Miss Rideout, who is doing a large part,

. ' of this work, is but 18 years 3 old;.and a

0831315”; filichfwill 7;supp0rt_~,the , ~
I 310% ‘Y ’ {model kitchen-with; all the latest
I ” culinary. appliances, where. scientific

. :young550uthern . girl“ 13905.9}?! g. the

the; 1'00, . igarden yucky;
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lung by seven in height, between the
main-pediments.

Manyol the States, through their
Lady Managers, are contributing
materials and specimensbl stone and
woods toward the construction of the

. building. A California lady will donate

abeautiful redwood panel; a daughter
ot Missouri will contribute an onyx
column. A Montana lady donates the

,last nail to be driven, which will be of

gold, silver and copper, the three chief
metals of that State; and many other
equally valuable donations are prof-
fered; and it is altogether likely that
the building will be a fine exponent of
the taste, genius and creative skill of
women.

While no attempt will be made to
separate women’s work from men’s,

owing to the fact that in many indus- _

tries their labor ' is inextricably
mingled, those exhibits which are en-
tirely and distinctively woman’s will be
grouped in the Women’s Building.
Exhibits will be admitted only by in«
vitation, and such invitation considered
equivalent t0~a.prize, as no awards are
to be made. But the General Com-
mission has decided that wherever
women’s work enters into a manufac-
tured article, that article shall bear a
device indicating her share of labor in
its production.

As to what the Women’s Building
shall contain in the way of exhibits.
there is less unanimity of sentiment,
but all are united upon one cardinal
point—that the work to be admitted
mustbeof the highest degree of ex-
cellence. (We hope the rules may be
rigid enough to exclude hair and
feather “flowers” and crazy quilts.)

.“No sentimental sympathy shall in-

duce the acceptance of mediocre work”
say the Lady Managers. We hope
they‘ll adhere to this commendable re-
solution.

Illinois alone among the States has
as'yet made an independent appropriac
tion for a collective exhibit of the in-
dustries of its women; $80,000 and one-
tenth of the space of the State building
-—the largest and finest on the grounds
-—-are to be given over to women.

,, It . is settled that there is to be a

' eth'ods will‘ be practiCaIIy illustrated;

1am ‘ e1 kindergartenm trained, nurse

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ditto; a room devoted to women’s -

literary work; another to! rare lacesi‘ f.-

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and quaint fabrics. The Countess of '

Aberdeen is arranging for an exhibit
of the handiwork of Irish~_ women and
girls—the makers of hand-made laces
and embroideries, hand woven linens
and wool goods, and the "beautiful
crochet work for which they are noted.

In one room she hopes to have a rep‘- .

resentation of a bridal party, --ithe~
figures life-size, in wax, the garments
made by hand by Irish girls and con.-
sisting of the richest laces and. em-

broideries: and‘ a delegation of girls "

will be at work. Women’s‘inventions,
represented by models, will be given

space; and anything notable and of _

ligh order of merit is solicitedby the .

Managers, who after all, rlike ,the

editor of the successful newspaper, _

will best show their good judgment and
discrimination by what they decline.

There is to be absolutely no‘discrimi- ‘

nation as regards color,
nationality against any meritorious
work. All are free to exhibit, if their
work is worthy of place in the estima-
tion of the Board, which must be, ’in'

the very nature of things, most critical,,.-"

and exacting, space being limited. . , - 1

race or, . ‘

In Michigan, those who dW

make exhibits, or wish for furtherin-
iormation, should address the Lady
Managers for the State, Mrs. J ulia A.
Pond, Hillsdale, or Mrs. J. S. Valen-
tine, Lansing, and early action ,should
be taken. So far, the State has made
no appropriation for the exhibit of
women’s work, and it is not likely any
will be made. BEATRIX.

OVER THE WAY.

Just across from my window, 11er -

write, twin babies are playing in the

sunshine in their window and the few

months of earth-life rest very ’lightly

on their innocent heads. I can tell just" -

when the “ gurgle ” and “coo” comes

in by the looks of their little faces,'bu1; .

how difierent the expression ofeach?

One is a rosy-checked, dark-hafi-Sd, ..

healthy girl with a Yankee faeefggfids
the other a pale, deliCat’e,‘ bald-headed; _]
boy with the unmistakable features: 9L
his J ev‘vish parents. Totallyurflib are f ’
flier .. _
asap let' ”i

they; but across the street-lie!
family where . the pretty :7,
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-‘-'-fello,ws‘ whom flithlfli'élghbors 10V6

._ to seer. are so alike that even their
parents need to give a searching look
to distinguish one from the other, and

~' ., no outsider ventures to mention them

singlyytheir united name being “the
D-.——.-,thin8..” ‘

There must be many smart sayings
by the little ones in the families of the
HOUSEHOLD, but such are rarely re-
ported for its columns. A' teacher
here had—devoted some time talking to
her class of little girls about purity and
asked them all to pray to be made
pure- ‘ But the thought was carried out

difierently from what was in her mind,

for ,a parent of one of those little ones
told her that she overheard the prayer.
,which ended with “Please, ‘ Lord,
make me as pure as Royal baking
powder,” proving that the object les-
sons taught by popular advertisements
were doing their perfect work. An-
other teacher called upon her infant
class for the golden text found in Matt.,
14:27, and. the rendering by a preco-
cious youth was: “It’s me! don’t get
skair .” EL. SEE.
Bonito.

 

A TRIP TO SEBEWAING.

 

It was a warm sunshiny day of last
September when my friend came to me
and said: “ Let’s go to Sebewaing to a
Dutch picnic.” No sooner said than my
dress was changed, and with the best
“bib and tucker on,” we started. It
was a drive of about fifteen miles from
where we were staying, over fine roads
and through beautiful scenery. Part of
of the way roads were cemented, while
off from the cement I noticed the sand
was black, and difl’erent from'any I
had seen before, and was told the color
sed by coal in it. Well, we
“arove, ” as Samantha says, ate our
dinner, and prepared to take in the
town by first going to the Arbeiter
Hall. It was in a grove of young
maples with little lunch stands" around
in difierent places, and was quite a
pretty place. But about all we could
see there was beer, ice-cream, sausage,
beer, which almost disgusted us with
the sight.

The bay was grand, especially at Oak
Park,.where the Saginaw people camp,
but we could not stay long to enjoy its
beauties. 'As I had never been to a
‘ooal mine, and as there are two mines
here,.we drove out about a mile to one.
There was quite a little town of about

” ' ftwenty-one houses and one large board.

ing-house. We only looked in at the

' engine works and coal sifter, but went

to the main shaft. One of the work-
man said to me: “I am afraid it is
pretty damp, down there for a lady.”
But I thought it was rather late to
back out, so, went on. They lit a little
men a light no larger than a. 'candle,
and' 'about sit of us went ‘down about
120 feet and- :then out herlzontall-y

I T1,}, W50 «feet,— and away out we ob. uld~

see little stars twmkfiigg—the lights
‘of the workmen. Wag-did not. go
out to where they were workifig.
But I thought if ever I get out of this
I will be cold befdre I get so far under
the ground again, 'and "you would have
thought so too. if you are as big a
coward as I. There was water running
all the time down the shaft, “to keep

of the shaft, it was like rain. There

halls, and instead of men to push the
cars they use mules to draw the coal
to the shaft. The mules are led on the

told us they would stand just as quiet
until they reached the bottom. ' I don’t
see how men can work, as we could not
stand up, but had to stoop even where
they had worked, and we were not so
tall either. When we came up we
started to drive home, well pleased with
our picnic and ready to .rest when we

got home. _ LUE.

THOMAS. .
M.—

DECOLLETTE PIC T 0 RES.

 

For several years I have been an
ardent admirer of the lively little
paper; the HOUSEHOLD supplement,
and lately have been expecting to see
its correspondents take up the subject
of the women officers of the World’s
Fair for discussion. Is it possible our
good sisters favor the style of photo?
graphs the lady officers have chosen to
exhibit themselves, and thus keep
quiet? Hardly probable. Every period-

Columbian Exposition. Many repro-
duce photographs of 'its officers. In
every instance the ladies have been 1n
low necked dresses and with bare arms,
either decollette or with V-shaped
opening nearly to the waist line, back
and front; many have only a band over
the shoulder for a sleeve. Doubtless
these ladies think to enhance their
beauty by this exposure of their flesh
in so wholesale a manner; possibly it
does to some people. Will it to the
masses? We read there are one hun-
dred and seventeen lady ofiicers. Are
we to have them all in flesh tints? I
heard a. man remark recently on look-
ing at one of these pictures: “What a
fine quirk she has to her neck, and
what a heavenly expression—~like a
duck looking at a bird flying over its
head! Suppose she thinks that adds to
her looks.” Will not most men make
remarks similar to that, or .plainer’
still, and more forcible speeches?’ How.

'much more sensible it would be if

ladies, like men, would dress with high
necks and look natural when havin‘g‘j
their pictures taken for this greatf
nation to gaze on. It is doubtful if the
young people of our day are going to
get the best ideas of women from this?
contemplation of them. ' ¢ . “ "7
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the air pure,” and down at the bottom '

were little tracks running in all the‘

shaft and lowered dOwn, and the men"

ical 'has something in it about the'

 

 

necked dresses The grit-13am no";

head Of the nation”

common lot, undressed in this fashe
ion! We doubt not their ability to
crown with success th sir every under-

is the fashion in cities, in society and
theatres, to so'dress.

uplifting effect on the other sex, but
that is another matter; it doesn’t make
it any more right for the “highest in
our land” to exhibit their charms to all
classes regardless .of all kindsoi re-
marks and severe criticisms. We are
told onewoman paid over two hundred
dollars to exhibit herself in a leading
journal, and there she sits, nearly nude,
what we can see of her, and so staring—
is her flesh one can think oi little else,
'while her face is turned and so shaded
it is hard to get an expression of any
kind. >

Where are our farmers’~ wives, our
’W. C. T. U, the Kings Daughtere?
Will they not express an opinion on
this subject? '

ALLEGAN. GBANDMA.

“T. 8.” AND THE FARMERS‘ CLUB.

 

. How we laughed over “Me ’n’
Sarah” in the HOUSEHOLD of Jan.
16th! I started to read it, and after I

times, pater-familias, who sat in his big
chair with his feet acrgss another,
reading the last FARMER by the fire,

going crazy, or was it some new phase
of the grippe. I replied by telling him to
listen while I read him something fully
equal to Bill Nye or Widow Bedott,
and then we both laughed.

‘ T. S., where have you kept yourself

from you before? for I do not remem-
ber ~ to have seen

in- the .HOUSEHOLD columns. .- It

is ,just possible though that this

eflusipn comes from some contributor
who is masquerading under a new
name. Itsounds a little like “Simon’s
Wife,” .come to think-of‘ it." .But
whoever it is I should advise you to
enter the lists against the popular
humorists of the day, and give up
“spankin’ butter” (if a woman) or

1‘ milkin’ cows” (if a man), forone who . r

can make folks laugh a good: honest

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their ears ” in’ high govms; in fact most
women dress that way these days. 7 .
1 Then what 'must be the street on these {I ;
Classes to see women who stand at “ the ;
as types of .. f. '
.culture and wisdom,- superior to the ; ;;.-\:; —‘

taking, and we wish them’ God speed; . -. .
but We fear unless more common sense ‘1
is used in the display of their charms ‘
the best impression of their ability and .

power will be lost. We understand it ,. ,

Even then it is ‘
risky, and far from inciting the purest ’

had “broke out” laughing. two or three fl.

looked up and mildly inquired if I was .

all, this time, that we have not heard,

that signature '

laugh, in these days has a ‘icareer’.’ . I

to fame, and all the world will be ‘
scrambling after seats at a dollar apiece; ,?
to hear such an one speak. Come azain, . ' ‘

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' ‘ in California,-
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came once before and as there were
no verbal Objections I am here again
and have come to stay. -

I must tellyou of an experience we.
had iast- summer. We edited and

, ,published a’ paper known as “ The Fern

Elli Chrdnieler. ” It was printed; or

1; father typewritten, On paper about as

' Wide as the HOUSEHOLD and {three
inches longer. Our printing outfit
‘ consisted ofa Remington typewriter,
, "by means of which we made manifold-
. The “ Chronicle-r ” contained
five ‘leaves neatly typewritten in
columns, the gleaves fastened together

" by the novelty fasteners, which .we

\already had. Itnwas made up of

': editorials, locals. stories, ”mm mm"

" tion and answer department, fashion
department and “funnyisms,” and

. ' _‘many were" the questions asked and

‘ "ridiculous the‘fashions set.
'One important feature was that

everything must be original, nothing
-. copied.

Copies found their way to
brothers, sisters, cousins and friends
Colorado, Wisconsin.

eastern States, and seemed to be wel-
come visitors wherever they went.
T-hey.saved writing -lots of 'letters,- and
."'were issued semi-monthly until it be-
came so warm that the editress and
'her assistants ~“struck,”, for. We had

‘--rather, play croquet and spend our

time. out of doors. The' subscription
" price was nothing, advertising ditto; ‘ We
received a number of contributions
and had quantities of locals that wouid
" interest those absent. All voted it a
- success, but some illnatnred one dubbed
it “TheCackler.”
Ifsay let Grandpa stay with us. I
, think he is nice, and perhaps he will
tell us some of his experiences.
I reiterate, “I have come to stay.” '

. ALICE C. DIMON.
Frans HILL FARM. FORT WAYNE. Ind.

 

.P.C.C.

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- It may not be improper to follow the
article on' ill-treatment of children,
which appeared in last week’s HOUSE-
HOLD, by a brief account of a society
formed especially to take cognizance of

, and remedy such abuses. It is a re-
proach to our boasted civiliz ation that

_ societies for the prevention of cruelty
toehildren and animals should be nec-
With all our Christianity, we
are less merciful than some of those
people whom we arrogantly call pagans;

 

for in India no Hindu abuses or m'al-i
treats a domestic animal,‘ and there is

, no law, save the teachings of his r’e-a
.‘ iigion, to deter him; We all know"

 

 

what Henry Bergh accomplist' for

 

 

 

 

 

  

the brute creation, by means Of the

 

,‘Socicty for the Preventiou‘of Dfuelty
_'_.?'to Animals which antedatedeby some’ ‘
_ {yea-s {'“the first organized eflort to :

 

   

the work of women.

alleviate the mistreatment of children.

. .. -. - L j}, .-The New'York Society for the Pre-
" More copy? With all my heart «:1

ve'ntion ofrCruelty «to Ghildren was the
first of its kind, and its inception was
A poor woman,
lying on her death-bed in acrowded
tenement house, begged a charitable
lady who visited her tolsave a little
child in an adjoining apartment from
its cruel stepmother, whose daily beat-
ings disturbed her dying hours. Benev-
olent societies and 'even the police
were powerless under existing laws;
the‘lady was warned that it was dan-
gerous to interfere between 3“ parent
and child, and not until she appealed to
Henry Bergh could she find a man or
woman brave enough to rescue little
Mary Ellen from the inhuman treat-
ment to which she was daily subjected.
So many similar cases came to light
through the publicity given to. this,
that a society especially devoted to that
branch of.charity was soon organized,
and there is now none which1com-
mands a stronger or more wide-spread
public sympathy. Through its in-
fluence laws have been modified to give
the Society jurisdiction and a rightito
interfere, and certain penalties pro-
vided for the punishment of inhumani-
ty. The Society, in its sixteen years
of existence, has investigated cases in-
volving over ‘ 161,400 children, and
rescued 28,950 from conditionsaof
shameful abuse, in most instances at
the hands of their parents. The presi-
dent of the Society, Hon. Elbridge
Gerry, is almost as widely known in
connection with its work as was the
lamented Bergh in his. The Society
has put down the infamous padrone
system, by which children were sold to
or stolen by Italians who held them as
slaves, and subjected them to starvation
andbrutal punishment when thev were
not successful in a dav's begging.

The tenement houses, where the
poor, the intemperate, the depraved
and brutal herd, where men, women
and children are crowded like brutes

in a pen, are the headquarters of vice
and sin and the suffering of the little

ones. It is not unusual forone of these
tenements to hold a hundred or a
hundred and fifty children; .indeed, it
is estimated that eight-tenths of New
York City’s 182,000 children under five
‘years' of age live in these tenements,
in ‘dark, unventilated, dirty 'rooms,
where all the surroundings tend to
blunt or wholly eradicate the moral
sensibilities, and where privacy is as
impossible as refinement. These are
the schools for educatiou in vice, and
thousands of graduates are turned out
every year. Here is the chief work of
the‘ Society, in rescuing the ill treated
'ones’ from physical suffering, and by re-
moving them to decent surroundings

making them, respectable, wage-earn-
ing individuals. ,

 

 

studying the Society’s work, went

and providing for their education,

Seven years ago an English gentle-_
man came here for the purpose of ~

 

home, andfounded societies inL'ondon
and Liverpool on the same plan, to
save “ the child of the English savage."
There are now eighty auxiliary so-
cieties, employing sixty inspectors,
who have an average of six'hundred
cases every year; and thereare now
about three hundred societies in all, in
various parts of the world. The average
number of children in whose behalf the
societies are compelled to act is six
thousand per annum; and as they are
able to cover less than one-fourth of the
country, it is simply appalling to think '

of the number of little ones suffering _,_,....~..

from the tyranny and cruelty of those
who should be their protectors and de-
fenders, with no one to interfere in
their aid. _

It should be borne in mind that the
S. P. C. C. does not take cognizance of
what it calls “parental indiscretions;”
that is, those severe punishments-in-
flicted in haste and passion, after which 5
are experienced genuine regret and
contrition. Only where the ill-treat-
ment is continuous and the suffering a
matter of indifference-is the law. in- .
voked. Little children are still subject
to the violent passions of their parents.
The humanitarian is powerless to pre-
vent domestic ruflianism. until it a
reaches the point of savagéry. But '
public sentiment can be and is aroused.
A man who broke his child’s arm in a :
transport of ,rage had no particularf
compunctions, saying “He’s my Child{
I shall punish him as I choose,”>but the
indignant neighbors talked of’tar and
feathers so significantly that he felt it
wise to relieve the cammunity of his '
presence for a time. 1

The lovers of little children and of;
humanity the world over h n
to rejoice in the work of the W,
and it and all charities which relate to " .
the helping of the helpless little ones '
who are here without their own voli-
tion and subject to the ignorance, the
thoughtlessness and the cruelty of the
world, should be liberally sustained by

those more fortunate in life. .
EATRIX. '

AN APOLOGY-OR WAR.

 

I never felt a bit like voting against
Grandpa’s membership in the HOUSE-
HOLD until I read his letter in last
week’s paper. But when a man Lven-
tures to slander women in their own
favorite paper, I say “ Put him outi”

“Peeping is a natural prepensity of ,
children and women! ” -Indeed,iis it?
For my part, and as far as a large
amount Lof observation goes, for all-
round, able-bodied 'curiosity, that will
descend to any measures, commend me
to a’man! Who sits in "the bald-
headed row” when there’s .3 ballet'
show at the hall. Who stands on the
street corner and ogles every good- ,
looking girl that goes by, criticism!"
her appearance? Who' always has’an,

 

  

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V ' 'we‘. [done up in a paper?” '
wwill be kept up' at intervals

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’ j._ son a rainy day to see how
. " ‘ and ankle a woman displays
w‘henfi’nhe steps 0ver a puddle? And
whirl; tell you the color of her hose
Who
sneaE? round houses in the evening,
trying‘fio peep through the blinds?
Why am, every time. Who was the
most famous peeper of history, justly
punishedior his curiosity and execrated
- in poetry to this day? who but “ Peep-
ing 'l‘om of Coventry! ” I guess Grandpa
meant to say children and men were the
peepers.
I vote that Grandpa be required to

”“44 make an ample apology for slandering

us,t or be informed his room is better
than his company. And we will not
give him as much time to do it in as
Uncle Samgave Chili, either.
‘ inhuman. INDIGNAN l‘.

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\ WHEN?

 

I move that we tender, a vote of
thanks to Hattie E. Rix for the able
selection given as a re ply to that ques-
tion, *“What shall we tell our chil-
dren?” It has haunted my thoughts
ever since its asking, and had I found
time to express it ,through my pen, it
_would not have been as well said, but
fithe substance of\my reply must have
; been the same as that of Miss Willard’s.
‘II'n' the first place, Iwould plead that a
;mother tell the truth, and nothing but
the truth; but to tell the whole truth is
I-‘Inany‘ times impossible. Even the
gifted Miss Willard may not realize
_how early In life this questioning be-
‘gins'. Often a two year old baby

queries, “Mamma, where did you get'

.._me? ’Did you get me at the store, and
This at

right along. Few 'children under ten
can be intrusted with, or understand
Nature’s creative laws. Meanwhile we
mus ., ot tell our child lies, nor thwart
her .eiiriosity in such a way as to make
her seek elsewhere what we want to
give at the proper time. Whatever we
do tell, let it be truth, and let us
promise over and over again that as
soon as she can understand it, she shall
know all we know. Ask her to trust
us, and come to us with anything that
puzzles her. If all children were alike
» this problem would be easily solved;
but while one is grave and thoughtful,
another is gay and thoughtless; while
one would keep a little talk to herself
another. _at the same age would pro-
claim her news to all her mates, and
bring upon our heads the condemnation
-" of our neighbors who fail to see things
in the same light we do.
Butin. this case, as in many others, I
'find- it easier to say and know what one
ought to do than to do it. To look into

.._ . my daughter's innocent eyes, and draw

her attention to the great law which

i It governs alike the vegetable and ani-

mal kingdom's; to teach her the purity

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and holiness of love and passion, when

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it is set as a crown upon-- thé‘human"

race, would be an easy task; but I must

go farther:' The, sin. the loathsome.
misery ' brought into the worldfby thel'
perversion of this must also be spread
like a scroll before her; and forever
after she sees life as 'she never saw it
before.

It must come, and it had better be
learned from the mother; That mother
can not begin too early toknow how far
this education has gone, andgive the"
lesson ahead; but to know just when it

is wise to “ tell it all, ” is a puzzler to
THOMAS. A. H. J.

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INDICATIONB 03' SPRING.

 

The new spring dress goods are al-
ready upon the merchants’ counters.
They are nearly all in cotton weaves,
as the spring woolens are not‘ in de-
mand until the latest styles are in the
hands of dressmakers, which is not
until Lent is over. Challis are the only
woolen goods yet seen for spring wear;
these are in flower patterns, like the
light silks so popular last year. - One
piece had a pale gray ground on which
were exquisitely shaded pink roses and
buds—but it would be prettier in the
piece than made up; another had a
ground of cinnamon brown, sprinkled
with ecru violets; a third pale green

. blossoms on a darker background, while

others were blue, black, . purple, to
suit varying tastes. There are also

- very handsome white and cream challis,

in floral designs, all wool, at 65 cents a
yard..

In cottons, the new cotton Bedford
cords promise to be both ~fashionable
and durable. They are invariably
striped, a cord of blue, ecru, brown,
gray or pink alternating with acord
of white; they are as thick and firm as
pique, and are especially recommended
for children’s wear, and are 30'inches
wide at 60 cent sa yard, Cotton crepons,
with crumpled surfaces which would
make the particular woman feel as if
her dress needed. pressing, are among
the new things and are very stylish;
they have a smooth, raised 'stripe al-
ternatingwith a crinkled one, and the‘
colorings are in. what are called *ombre
stripes, that is, three inch stripes
shading from white to the faintest tint
of blue or pink and on to a deeper but
delicate hue, then back by the same
gradations to white. New ginghams
have white grounds barred into tiny
squares by black lines,.-.and on this
groundwork are scattered the ‘large
dots or spots an inch and a half in
diameter, in raised effects, a very
striking novelty. These and the
crepons are 60 cents a yard. -.>- ’.

For summer wear are black lawns”
plain and satin- striped, with polka and
pea dots and tiny trefoilsgin white,
lemon yellow, mauve and "blue, at .15

cents for plain and 25 cents for the
satin-striped.’i‘~l1_ese’ ere tube made up

  

  

 

  

    
  

the meant percaline ~beiIig used for th
purpose, and make pretty dresses for

hot“ weather. _ Apretty way of making ._

them dressy is to have a yoke, belt and'
deep cuffs of surah to match the colon
of the figure, and overlay with black
lace edging. I Ribbons will also. be

much used on these and the white; .
_organdies, not yet shown—it is a"little~,. ~
“ previous _” for lawns when snow is on, 2
‘the ground and sleighbells chiming,

but these‘ cotton goods are largely
made up for house dresses now. and the

early patterns are always handsomer .
than those shown later, in what we can

not help feeling a more. seasonable

_time. - ~ . 7‘ T ' ‘
Satteens (which we are told are a.

little out of, the swim) and the crepons.
and Bedford cords, they tell us, are to
be "made up in tailor gowns.
might do for the 'satteens and the Bed-
ford cords, but the crepons, ginghams
and challis are much prettier made with
full waists, or with a back which is
close-fitting and jacket fronts opening
over a silk shirt with yoke and pointed
belt. The Russian blouse' Is “ new,” but
is a horribly homely garment,.‘bein_g

de'mi-length, fitted only by under arm .

seams and belted downr Anything
that is ‘.‘ Russian ” goes, of course, but.
it is to be hoped only the slender tall
girls with no hips'to speak of will:
essay it. - BEATRIX.

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

SPONGE. CAKE—Beat three eggs three-
minntes, then add one and a half cups of

fine\granulated sugar; beat five, minutes and“. V

add one teacupful of flour and one teaspoon "
ml of cream tartar, sifted; abeat three.
minutes. then add. one~half .teaspoonful»

of soda dissolved in one half cup of cold '

water and another cup of flour; beat and
mix well. Bake quickly. Flavor as you
like. Good. , ,

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GINGER Commas—One cup of brown
sngar;one cup of lard; one cup of butter-
milk; twd cups of N. O. molasses; four fies-
spoonfuls of soda, one in milk, three mashed

and sifted in flour; two teaspoonfnls of " '

ginger, cinnamon and salt; two eggs. Mix
quite soft. When they are in the pan to
bake wet with cloth dipped in a mixture of
two parts water and one of molasses.fwhich

makes them shine like bakers’ cookies. _ 7’ ..,, ‘

 

. Gnanm Balm). --One egg; two' cups of?

buttermilk; one-third cup of molasses; twe» '

cups of graham floor; two cups of wheat

flour; one. tablespoonful of sour cream; _.
' two teaspocnfuls of soda. one of baking .

powder and one of salt. Bake slowly.

 

  

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