DETROIT, MAY 18, 1893.

 

 

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-“Supplement.

 

THE WE iI‘HER.

 

BY EL. SEE.

 

A friend or acquaintance whenever we're meeting
“Rainy morning!” “Fine evening!" tne style of
our greeting,
And ’though uttered by some one somewhere
every minute
We scarce pause to think of the meaning that's
in it:
Not often consider that. t lken together.
All our health, wealth and happ'ness hang on the
' weather.
Would we go to a Sunday school, concert or ball
The weather is king and decides for us all,
For we‘ll live without sermons. or picnics or
shows.
When we think by atten ling we’ll ruin our
clothes.
When plowing and sewing the farmer's amount
Of bushels and stacks is an uncertain count.
For the rain and drouth have control of the soils,
The sunshine and showers determine the spoils.
If perchance we are threatened with fever 0:
chills.
The state of the atmosphere governs these ills,
Counteracting or aiding the po yders and pills
And assisting physicians in making their bills.
Gallant fireman may labor and strong engines
play.
But when buildings are burning the wind has its

way.
And. while fitfully changing, it governs the
whole.
And is, like the weather. beyond all control.
There’s a fog o‘er the waters. staunch vessels
- collide.
Are shattered and broken and sink ’neath the
tide;
Or the storm king cones forth; in his fury he
raves
And loved ones sink helpless in watery graves.
80 with most undertakings the loss or the gain
Comes in the proportion of sunshine and rain.
Rom.

A WORD OF CAUTION.

 

I have something to say to the young
women and girls among HOUSEHOLD
readers who purpose attending the
Columbian Exposition,and incidentally,
a word or two to their mothers. If I
could get you all together somewhere,
and appoint myself special lecturer, I
could speak much more plainly and to
the point, but that is not practicable; I »
must reach my audience, if at all,
through our little HOUSEHOLD.

Let me advise you, mothers, not to
allow your young daughters to visit the
Exposition unless you know where and ’
with whom they are going to stay and '
unless they are properly chaperoned,or -
have some one whom you know and
trust to look after them. It is a Shame
to be obliged to say that evil men and
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unless you have a chaperon,and let that
chaperon be your friend, not has. Don’t-
. go anywhere, alone, with strangers.

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brace every opportunity to lead them
astray and ruin them; and that under
pretense of assistance innocent girls
will be directed to places they will not
be allowed to leave as pure as when thr y
entered. Wicked men and more wicked
women—for the woman who has herself
fallen and yet will plan to seduce the
pure of her own sex, taking advantage
of their inexperience, is the vilest of
the vile—will be on the alert for vic-
tims, and employ any means to secure
them. Don’t let your daughters be
sacrificed. Go with them and look
after them. or send them only with
those you know are experienced and
trusty,and who will have authority over
them.
Thousands of girls are being drawn
to Chicago by the promise of employ-
ment at good wages. While the demand
is legitimate, it is among these stran-
gers, many of them away from parental
care for the first time, that the pro-
. curess and seducer will seek their prey.
Azquaintances will be form.d which
will lead to worse than death. Look
' out for yourselves. The gentlemanly
stranger and the obliging, lady-like
woman will take a special interest in
young girls traveling without escort,
and direct them,if they are unprovided
with lodgings, to some “nice place”
likely to turn out a disreputable house;
or induce them to go to some location
“nearer and more crnvenient.” On
general principles it is safest to “take
no stock” in a person of either sex who
seems to take particular interest in
you; their motives may not be a credit
to them.

And girls, be very shy about accept-
ing attentions from very nice young
men who seem to have developed a bad
attack of love at first sight. The wolf
wears his sheep’s clothing with a grace
calculated to deceive the very elect.
You will remember the romances you
have read,and see no reason why a gal-
lant stranger should not precipitate
himself into the abyss of love for you as
well as for the girls in the books. But
he may be planning the deepest injury
that can be done a woman. It may
sound like prudishness, but take my
advice: No rides,no v1sits,no theatres,
no suppers in “nice little restaurants,”

 

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That sums it all up, and therein lies the
only absolute safety.

It may seem to you very rude and dis-
courneous to a stranger, especially such
a very nice, pleasant, gallant, good
looking one, to be suspicious and re-
served, and decline such charming
schemes for unaccustomed pleasures;
you feel ashamed to be so “prudish,” es-
pecially when he adopts an injured tone
and asks if you suspect he is “not a
gentleman.” Gently remind him that
he is astranger. If he is a gentleman
he knows even better than you that he
should not presume, upon short ac-
quaintance,to the privileges of a friend
and that your prudence is perfectly pro-
per, respecting you the more for it.

Many. many girls will disregard all
cautious and say with a shrug of their
pretty shoulders that they aren’t afraid
and can look out for themselves; and
many of them will stay in Chicago in
places where they would not have their
mothers see them for the world; and
some will creep home, broken~hearted,
betrayed, not because they were wicked
or weak, but because they trusted some
plausible stranger and advantage was
taken of their ignorance and inexperi-
ence, or brute force employed.

Girls who marry strangers on short
aco uaintance take a fearful risk. Every
week instances come under my eye in
the papers where some poor girl is de-
serted,perhaps with a baby in her arms,
or finds she is the victim of some man
with one wife or more somewhere else.
She has thought herself a legal wife;
but the marriage of a married man
means bigamy and a prison for him and
shame and dishonor for the second wo-
man, who is no wife. however honest
may have been her belief that she was.
No girl with any sense of prudence or
any knowledge of life or the world—I
will go further and say that no girl with
average common sense—will marry a
man she has known but-a few weeks, no
matter how plausible an account he
gives of himself or how frank and ap-
parently open he seems, without proper
and sufficient investigation into his past
life and present standing. No man
worth having as a husband will object
to putting before the father or brother
of the girl he would marry such cre-
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and her family for their precautions.
But often a girl’s blind trust in her
lover, her absolute infatuation which
banishes good sense, makes her resent
any inquiry as insulting or unnecessary
in face of the man’s mere assertions,and
she marries in haste for a life-time of
repentance.

Let these words of advice influence
your conduct at Chicago—and else-
where, and you will not have life-long
cause to regret your visit.

BEATBIX.

——..._—

“FROH THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE
FIRE.”

 

From the frying-pan into firel—What
a fatal leap! Do you refer to the time
you were married?

“Sometimes these frying-pans have
an adjective prefix, in the superlative
degree, which if thoroughly investigat-
ed proves to be of the smallest kind.”

I firmly believe I jumped into the
“fire” when I got married. but under
no trivial circumstances would I leap
back into that small dish.

Before I was married it did seem as
though, when evening approached and
other members of the family became
sleepy, I was wide awake, and like the
little boy. “I would sit up;” but unlike
this same little being I did not get
“scared out” by an owl, or try to enter-
tain one (at least not a feathered one);
consequently, when day-light streamed
into my window, each successive morn-
ing found me where I should have been
the previous evening. This was a
luxury which I am now deprived of.

As the hour hand points to four
o’clock, every mormng a sound like a
dynamite bomb arouses me from that
peaceful slumber, and in eight minutes
I am ready for my day’s work.

This is what causes that “fire,” and
don’t you think it afatal leap? Candid-
ly, I sometimes sigh for even a glance
at that “frying-pan.” at any rate long
enough to forget myself—and I’ll shoot
the “ Owl,” if he dare peep in; and that
early bird is perfectly welcome to the
worm.

Ohl farm life, country life or rural
life, whichever of these synonymous
terms suits you best,is perfectly delight-
ful (when you become used to it). You
can study all the landscapes you care
too, and listen to the chirp and chant
of insects. You can gather ferns and
flowers; you can hear the soft zephyr
among the trees, and catch the low,
wailing sound as it dies away in the
pine tops; you can watch the nimble
squirrels as they noiselessly tread the
green-carpeted earth. You have plenty
of time to study Dame Nature in every
form when you rise at four o’clock in
the morning three hundred and sixty-
flve days in the year, and in four years
you will have all surrounding territory
committed to memory and a name for
every toad.

Do you wonder I sigh for an old fash-

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ioned sleep, in that downy bed at
mother’s?

Bv the time most people are up my
work is done, and not having any one
to look after excepting mv husband and
a little pug dog, with no milk or butter
to attend to, you will not wonder that
the day seems long, and actually, when
the sun begins to sink in the west, my
eye-lids legin to droop.

This early rising is the one trial of
my life. and although I can never
forget it, I will bear it as patiently as
possible, and will be just as attentive to
Aaron in the next four years as I have
in the past four, but I want to be brief.
so I will say right here that I’ll never
many another man whose business calls
him out in the middle of the night.

MT. CLEMENS. LITTLE N AN.

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SWEET PEAS AND CARNATIONS.

The parent of all the varieties of car-
nation pink is the clove pink of olden
times, which was considered frost-proof
in mild temperature only; but we have
carnations that will endure our Mich-
igan winters bravely (although not
those with smothering banks of snow),
as will other tribes of the Dianthus
family. Carnations grow readin from
seed or cuttings; the last succeeding
better where small slips are used. All
varieties of the pink delight in cool
moist situations, with plenty of air. A
soil that is porous and rich suits them
best. There is nothing better than de-
cayed leaves and sods for them, further
enriched with liquid fertilizer when
necessary.

If you wish choice carnations ior the
garden send to a reliable florist for seed.
The seed is high-priced; and do not
complain at the small quantity, for that
is an indication that it is from choice
plants. Make a smooth mellow bed in
rich soil and sew early; used them well
and the second year you may enjoy their
sweet, spicy odor. If you wish plants
for the window. buy them in bloom and
prOpagate by cutting and pegging
down.

Sweet peas should be planted in the
autumn or early in spring, and quite
deeply. The soil should be made rich
and mellow, and when seed is covered a
top-dressing of rotted manure applied.

When the plants begin to show up the ,

fastidious cutworm is apt to thin the
ranks if not circumvented. A good plan
is to dip green leaves in paris green
water and lay over the rows.

Excellent directions for later treat-
ment are given in the FARMER of May
6th, also good varieties named.

After last seas0n’s trial I can recom-
mend Blanche —— for rich and beautiful
colors;this sort requires no support and
gives a long season of profuse bloom.
When ordering seed for spring plast-
ing try the summer chrysanthemum,
and also the pure white ten weeks’

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few new dahlias, or a paper of dahlia.
seed. These will bloom the first
year.

Do not depend on old sorts of chrysan-
themums for winter, but try a few from
a good florist’s stock and see the changes
in form and color secured by those
who labor for the perfection of this
class of plants. I like to dress and live
well, but would forego, if necessary,
many an indulgence for the sake of a
new plant, tree or flower and be well
satisfied. No work more beneficial and
noble than is being done by florists and
horticulturists.

“To the hearts that ache and the eyes that weep
A wee flower bringeth God‘s peace again;

Each one serveth its tender lot,

Buttercup. poppy, forget—me-not. ”

FENTON. MRS. M. A. FULLER.
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A CONUN DRUM.

 

I have been wondering what will be,
come of the children and babies, while
father and mother, aunt and uncle, are
in Chicago. I think that patient wo-
men (no one unless they love children
and have lots of patience need think of
it), have a chance to make good fat
pocket books. I wish I was near a city
that I might avail myself of the op-
portunity. I used to keep city boarders
and have as good friends among them.
to-day as I have any place, and know
there is money in it too.

I wonder if the lady who had those
woolen blankets washed and sent home
smelling like old grease,ever got advice
that was acceptable? I should make a
good suds and have them washed
through it and rinsed in water of the
same temperature; hang up where the
wind will dry them quick.

I want to ask a question, if it will not
make me tiresome. How are we to clean
house, one room at a time, and not al-
low the house to get in disorder, when
the sitting-room carpet has to come up
and be turned, the worn places taken
out, and made to fit the dining-room,
while the carpet on that room is to be
washed and fitted to a bed-room up
stairs, and the bed-room carpet made
over for a smaller room? Am I the
only one who has to economize to such
an extent? No wonder I envy others
the Opportunity to take city boarders.

OLA.

[The Lady Managers of the Exposi-
tion have provided for the needs of we-
men who must take young children to
the fair or stay at home. A creche or
day nursery has been arranged where
your baby is checked very much like-
your valise, and fed and cared for by
competent nurses while you see the
show. I do not know what fee is paid.
This feature is adapted from the creche
at the Paris Exposition. Three thou-
sand babies were deserted at that Ex-
position, and the managers placed them
in homes and asylums. I understand
the managers of the Chicago model ex-
pect to have a few surplus babies at the
close of the iair.--ED.]

 


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LN OPEN DOOR TO FARMERS’
DAUGHTERS.

 

Paper readby Miss Julia Ball at the Farmers’
Institute at Howell. Feb. 28th, and by request
befolre the Webster Farmers‘ Club. April 8th.

(Concluded. )

There has been some advancement in the
past year,besides those in education already
noted. A lady has been made assessor of
Mackford, Wisconsin,a responsible position,
on account of the many wealthy residents:
another is clerk of the District Court in
Beatrice, Nebraska. Miss Ames is sheriff of
B oone County, Illinois. Miss Browning has
been made librarian of the Indianapolis
P nblic Library. No other woman in the
U nited States has been placed at the head of
so extensive an institution of its kind. The
0 nly woman customs broker in any country
is Miss Hulda Graser, of Cincinnati. Miss
Ruth Kimball, of the St. Paul Globe, has
won entrance to the gallerv of the United
States Senate. Naturally there was some
0 pposition when she first took her seat with
th 6 other reporters. Four women were
among the honorary pull-bearers at Whit-
tier's funeral.

We have not as yet enough free trade to
o ompel the American women to seek the
co a1 mine and the chain forge. on account
of their husbands’ low wages, as in Great
Britain; there, over six thousand wamen
w ork in the coal mines.

We have our women farmers, stock breed-
ers, fl homesteaders. horticulturists, bee-
k eepers, and fruit growers. There have
been even women butchers and saloon-
keepers.

And now comes the oratorical girl. To
Miss E. Jean Nelson belongs the honor of
b sing the first woman to win the oratorical
p rize in an inter-state contest. Henceforth
this brave Indiana girl will rank with Miss
Fawcett, [with her signal triumph over that
d oughty senior wrangler of Cambridge Uni-
v ersity, also that Scotch lassie who in the
o ompetitive examinations for London Uni-
v ersity distanced sixteen hundred rivals. In
Miss Nelson's success every American college
gi rl has a share; she represents forty thou-
sand college girls, who to-day study side by
side with their brothers. on ground once
de emed man’s by prescriptive right, and are
to aching the world that as there is no sex in
talent. there should be none in education.

There remains one pursuit in which man
h olds the whole field, because woman re-
in see to enter it; the occupation of the tram p.
Woman has to face poverty. and has the
as me difiiculty in finding an occupation
which will support her as man;but the profes-
si onal vagrant,whose manifest sin and cause
of arrest is homelessness.is a type of woman
practically unknown. You can find plenty
of cheap lodging houses of the good-night-
rest-and free. bath- for-15'cents ‘ord er; all are
for men. No such places can be found for
women. Did you ever hear of a woman who
took to the public highway,going afoot from
place to place, sleeping in barns and along
the roadside. working but little, but begging
much, and even thieving, a vagabond, and
homeless? The hatred of work, the dislike
for any useful labor. is dormant in every
male child. In many this increases with
age; if you add to this poverty, you have the
tramp. If we give the data a careful study
the only conclusion to be reached is, that a
hatred for labor is not a trait belonging to
woman; women as a class are more indus.
trious than men; and when a woman is con-
fr outed with toil, starvation or beggary, she

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invariably chooses the first. As proof of
this. in New York city alone, one hundred
‘wenty-scven thousand working women sup -
port their husbands. The absence of the
woman tramp is a glowing tribute to the
sex. and a plea of superiority.

One door still remains for woman to push
wide open; she has gained a little crack in it.
This is the door of woman suffrage. This
crack assumes different forms in the twenty.
nine States that have any semblance of equal
suffrage in force; only one, Wyoming,
allows woman the electoral franchise; in
others it is limited to local improvements,
school elections, municipal elections. etc.

Taxation without representation was one
of the principal causes of the Revolution; it
may be the cause of another. In New York
city there are one hundred eighty—one wo-
men who are millionaires besides those of
lesser wealth; upon this enormous sum,these
women, the majority of whom are intelli-
gent and well eiucated.m:ist pay taxes every
year; yet are totally unrepresented among
those who have the spending of these taxes;
taxes of which the most ignorant foreigner,
and the most ignorant native.many of whom
pay no taxes, may have the disposal. Would
it be unreasonable if woman should rise up
en masse in open rebellion? ‘

Some men believe equal suffrage should
be extended to women only on the question
of local Option in regard to intoxicating
liquors. Think you this question of woman’s
enfranchisement is one of morality only?
It is one of equity first. If it is not right
for woman to vote on all questions, it is not
right for her to vote on any question, es-

‘ pecially one in which the liberty of a portion

of the human race is involved. This question
of woman suffrage is the greatest question
of the day, and every young man thinks he
alone has correctly solved the problem.

The newest recruit from Castle Garden
would hail it as an impertinence if he were
questioned as to the direction of his ballot.
before the probate court granted him suf—
frage papers. No more should woman’s use
of the ballot be questioned, or her vote
limited to questions of morality only. In
this Republic every citizen should have equal
rights With every other citizen. and no one
should be deprived of these rights except for
infancy, idiocy,insanity, imbecility or crim-
inal conduct.

These reforms for woman that are taking
place are necessary to keep space With the
progress of the nineteenth century; and the
reformers have not been incendiaries or
termaga nts; neither have they renounced
their womanliness. They have been discreet
in conduct, quiet in speech, and slow to
anger. But they have been none the less
persevering, tireless, and fearless. Read the
lives of Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth
Fry. Dorothy Dix. Mrs. Stowe,Grace Dodge,
and others,for proof.

We hear a great deal in these days about
self- made men. We are beginning to hear,
and are likely to hear a great deal more of
self-made women. She who would earn her
bread after the manner of men, without fear
of social expulsion or favor offered as a gal<
lant recompenseis fettered by sixtv centuries
of precedent. From the time of the first we-
man down to the present day, woman’s has
been unpaid labor; for innumerable genera.
tions she has had her “keep” and pin money
for the asking,—-upon the manner of asking
and the humor of her lord depended the
quantity and quality.

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as man. An apt representation of woman
is the Indian Dervish whose arm is upheld in
prayer week after week, until he cannot low-

. er it. In spite of all this,examination of th

records of woman's work. wherever she has
been taught to work. will reveal, I think, a
pretty fair showing for them, beside men of
equal advantages. This world is terribly in
earnest. A girl should have a business edu-
cation. A man who is master of four trades
can learn the fifth and not be spoiled. The
same with woman; let her develop her capa-
bilities and when the time comes, as come it
may. she will not be compelled to fold her
hands, and ask “What can I do?”

This idea that man needs higher wages
than woman is in strange opposition to the
idea of woman’s helplessness. She may be
the sole support of mother, sisters, or child-
ren, while he has no family; her work mz-y
be superior to his: no matter what the equal-
ity or inequality between them, in most
cases the man gets the place and the high
wages, instead of the woman; because, poor
man, he needs it. and must be encouraged
while she, of course, does not need it.

This disparity between the wages of men
and women can only be righted in one way.
A writer in the Christian Union said: “Tl 9
boy who will suzceed in this world is be via
is content, for a time, to do two dollars
worth of work for a dollar.” The same pre-
cept should apply to business girls as well;
it should be ingratted into the heart and
brain until it becomes a. part of our very
being; a living organ, as it were. There
should be a determination to render even
the smallest obligation thoroughly in every
respect. The compensation to be received
should be lost sight of, in the endeavor to do
the work well. First, skilled workmanship;
last, what price Will it command.

I heard a teacher say, “I only get twenty
dollars a month,I shall not work very hard.”
You were not hired to teach a twenty dollar
school, nor a forty, nor a fifty dollar one.

You were hired to teach school. Do your

best, and you will get more for your next.
Make yourself necessary to those who employ
you. by industry, fidelity, and scrupulous in-
tegrit y. Put zeal into your work. Hold
yourself responsible for a higher standard
than anyone else expects of you. Be con-
stant, steadfast, perrevering. Firsl,last and
always,engage in any allotted labor,even the
most menial, with a determined purpose of
performing it as though it were the one and
sole object in life. Don’t be satisfied with
work half done; but whether you boil a po-
tato, sweep a room, or paint a picture, he
sure to work out the best that is in you. Let
every woman learn to do some one thing,
Unskilled labor must take what is given; but
skilled lab or is always sought after and ad-
mired. What woman has done, woman can
do——yes, indeed, and much more, and do it
better.

Woman certainly has come; and now that
she‘ias come,what good can she do? Much,
if she come to improve the quality of society.
The masculine mind is very much of a ruin.
Woman may well covet his freedom and op-
portunity. but not the use he has made of
them. If she smokes tobacco, it will be
difficult to prove that two smokers are better
than one. If she comes drinking wine, or
playing games for money, that will be ask-
ing as to believe that two drunkards or two
gamblers are better than one. If woman is
drawing nearer the liberty of man, she must
not betray the fact by imitating his vices.

The old adage runs, “Whistling girls and '

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end.” Woman has set aside this adage:
whistling pays; it has brought her money.
Will woman ever learn to throw a stone?
'I‘hc-re it is! The future is inscrutable. The
prejudice of generations gradually melts
away; and woman’s destiny is not linked
with that of the hen, nor to be controlled by
a proverb—perhaps not by anything.

More and more it is evident that the world
needs the work of women not merely for the
sake of women,but for the sake of the work.
The tasks which invite women to the sphere
of education. industrial life, art, philan-
thropy, and social and political reform,need
women for their full execution as much as
women need the tasks for their full develop
ment.

Society needs something more than the
society woman: and the woman who fits her-
self to work mainly ffl' the sake of the work,
will get the highest and best reward for her
service, and society will get the best result.

"For woman is not undeveloped man.

But diverse: Coulll we make her as the man.

Sweet luve ware slain. his dearest bond is this,

Not like to like. but like in n‘ifi‘erence.

Yet in the long years likpr must they grow;

The man. be more of woman. she cf man:

He gain in sweetness xnd in moral height.

Nor losei the wrestling thews that throws the
war; ;

She, mental breadth, nor fail in chiliiwnrd care,

Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind;

Till at the last she set herself to man.

Like perfect music unto noble words.”

AN OLD THEME RENEWED.

It must seem natural to the older
members of the HOUSEHOLD to have
me talking up my old hobby—the
schools—again.

My last letter was on the subject of
literature in the, district schools. No
one, to my knowledge, has said any-

“thing further on the subject in these
columns. I introduced it here because
I thought so many intelligent mothers
as speak here would be likely to, some
of them, see and act in the right direc-
tion and for the good of the children
about them. Perhaps you say, “My
children have all the good literature
and more than they can read.” Good,
then; very good as far es it goes. But
unfortunately in a district school that
is not far. Your dutv is not done when
your own are provided for. Provide for
them first, of course, but do not stop
there. We should accustom the minds
of all children to good company by in-
troducing them only to the best books.
In country school districts this can best
be done through the agency of a wisely
selected public-library.

To this fact the foremost minds
among our educators are keenly alive
and a great effort is being put forth to
secure this end. In towns and cities
the work is readily accomplished. ButY
the country school is not so easily
reached, and so the country child is de-
frauded of his rights through the neg-
lect, carelessness or ignorance of his
teachers, parents and other guardians
of public-private afiairs.

The district where I am teaching has
just made an addition to its library of
twenty-four volumes of choice litera-
ture, adapted in style to the first seven
grades. ~These books are beautiful in

 

 

structive, entertaining, educating, in
history, mechanical sclenc 3, natural
science, ethics, travels, biography and
the study of human nature. For there
are two volumes of Shakespere’s plays,
besides fables and fairy tales for the
little folks. All of these cost the small
sum of $8; and we have the promise of

two natural history charts besides.
Arbor Dav was celebrated by the
planting of twenty-six thrifty maples in
double rows on the two road sides of our
pleasant school-house play-ground. A

happy lot of children gather there.
. E. L. NYE.

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THE GIRL WITH ONE BE AITI‘Y.

 

Girls are always being told to “make
the best of their good points.” It is
impressed upon them with all the force
of a religious conviction, and the result
is sometim as a badly overworked lot of
“points.” Ten chances to one, the girl
who undertakes to show off a good
point so overdues it that she makes her-
self ridiculous. It’s batter to be con-
sciously and indisputably homely and
make no fuss about it than to possess
one or two good points or features and
be everlastingly working them. It is
certainly much more pleasing to one’s
friends. Who has ever seen portraits
of Mrs Lydia H. Slgourney and not felt
pained that she gave her head such an
awkward, unnatural and ungraceful
pose in the attempt to display both her
eves and her curls? Her portraits are
as indicative of the presence of vanity
as words could possibly be. The girl
who has dimples is everlastingly smil».
ing to show them off; she’d smile at her
own mother’s funeral from force of
habit. If she has good teeth she laughs
whether there is occasion for it or not;
if long or abundant hair it is “so heavy
it’s always tumbling down"—with the
opportunities afforded it; and while a
large foot is discreetly masked behind
skirts a pretty one is always an evidence,
like a sore thumb.

Girls who have good figures are always
posing for effect and attitudinizing.
They drop into graceful attitudes care-
fully studied before their mirror, with
very perceptible self consciousness
which takes away all the charm. That
sort of thing must be as unstudied as the
flight of a bird or the sweep of a bough;
there must he no apparent volition; it
must seem the most natural and inevit-
able pose for the action. Otherwise,
the observer’s keen sense detects it is
simply “posing” and away goes th 3 im-
pression of beauty and grace and one of
conscious vanity replaces it. The
quickly noted difference between the
impromptu, spontanedus attitudes and
the studied is “a dead give-away.”

I once heard a man of thirty-five years
say he never fell in love with a pretty
girl in his life. Knowing his quick eye for
beauty of face and form and admiration
of such charms, I couldn’t help making

 

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"Fact,” he said; “I admire beauty, as
you know; but I never yet have seen a
pretty girl whose very evident cou-
sciousness of her charms did not repel
me. They expect flattery and compli-
ments from every one, and if not given
extort them. I prefer a plain face with
brains to a pretty one without.”

Perhaps this is too sweeping, for a
few beautiful girls have faces not mar-
red by self-consciousness, and manners
not moulded in airs and graces. But it
goes to prove that though a beautiful
face is a fair gift and, gives a girl a great
advantage over her plainer sister, it is
easy to lose that advantage.

Especially must the girl with the one
good point beware of accepting it in
manner. Let it bear its share of im-
portance in the general ensemble, but
don’t, don’t work it too hard.

BR UN EFILLE.

 

MRS. HENROTIN, who stands next to
Mrs. Potter Palmer in World’s Fair
undertakings, has written for the May
number of the Review of Reviews a sum-
mary sketch of the participation of
women in the forthcoming World’s
Fair Congresses. Mrs. Meredith, of
Indiana, also one of the high officials
of the Board of Lady Managers, has
given the readers of the Review of
Reviews a glimpse of the Woman’s
Building and what it represents.
There is also by another lady of official
standing in the World’s Fair, a. charm-
in g little sketch of the Child ren’s B lild-
ing and its exhibits.

 

HOUSE HOLD BIN 1'3.

IT sometimes happens that a pricked
finger will leave a blood stain upon some
delicate work. It is a good thing to
know that a paste made of uncooked
laundry starch, if spread upon the stain
immediately and left to dry, may then
be scraped off and with it will disappear
all traces of the stain without injury to
the fabric—American Cultivator.

THE cake vou wish should havea fine,
delicate grain should positively always
be stirred. one way. Never knead
cookies or fried cakes but stir stifl, roll
out as soft as possible. If molasses
cookies are rubbed over the top before

being baked. with a mixture of equal
parts of molasses and cold water, they
will take on a beautiful golden-brown
color. -
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Useful Recipes.

 

Darn CAKE.«Bake a rich cupcake in lay-
ers about three-quarters of an inch thick
when done; mix half acupful of whipped
cream with a cupful of chopped dates and
spread between the layers. Pile three layers
high, and ice top and sides. To be eaten
the day it is made.

 

SOALLOPED Conrrsn.—Shrei and freshen
a pint of codfish and stew till tender. Put
alternate layers of fish and bread crumbs in
a dish, finishing the top with bread- crumbs.
Just before putting to bake. turn over it two-

 

in-terrogation points of both eyebrows.

thirds of a cup of drawn butter sauce.

 

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