The Fair Sex.
The Most Perfect Home
I ever saw was a little house into the
sweet incense of whose fires went no
costly things, A thousand dollars served
as a year's living of father, mother and
three children, But the mother was a
creator of a home, Her relations with
her children were the most beautiful I
have ever seen. Even the dull, com-
monplace man was lifted up and ena-
bled to do good work for souls by the
atmosphere which this woman created,
Every inmate of her house involun-
tarily looked into her face for the key-
note of the day, aud it always rang clear.
From the rosebud or clover-leaf, which
in spite of her hard housework she
always found to put by our plates at
breakfast, down to the story she had
on’hand to be read in the evening, there
was no intermission of her influence,
She has always been and always will be
my ideal of a mother, wife and home-
maker, If to her quick brain, loving
heart and exquisite face had been added
the appliances of wider culture, hers
would have been absolutely the ideal
home, As it was it was the best I have
ever seen. — Helen Hunt,
Send Girls Out of Doors.
How can girls get a chance to live out
provide them with opportunities, This
industrious with quick feet when sorrow
calls to her “Come,” but neve: industri-
ous with the tongue, save in saying
good words —words that will make
“spinster’’ a very crown of glory on the
head of her who giveth of her rich store
of love and good works,
nmin tl A rs
Facts and Fancles,
Tae ‘“‘cateh’ of cod fish this year
has been larger than any previous year,
and prices are expected to be very low.
Tue production of cotton in the
United States, it is now believed, will
be fully 1,000,000 bales less than last
year.
DAkorA wheat crop this year
amounts to over 20,000,000 bushels,
Joux B. Govan, it is announced,
will leave the lecture platform this
season. He is perhaps the most effec-
tive speaker that has yet appeared on
the temperance question,
—IRON WATCHES, —Crowther Broth-
ers & Co., of Kididerminster, in order to
prove the malleability and ductility of
their iron, have constructed a watch
entirely of iron, which keeps excellent |
time, Claudius Saunier, on reporting |
this fact in the Revue Chronometrique, |
adds: There is nothing new under the |
sun. We have a watch upon which is
should nomore omit than to provide them
with food and clothing,
they are generally healthier and strong-
er and often more beautiful. After girls
get larger they must go out on their own
accord, and seek out-of-door amuse-
ments. There are many kinds of out-
door sports suited to tkem. Archery is
one of them ; rowing, riding, skating
-and walking are others. There is flow-
er culture and® gardening. Some years |
ago I published a book called **The |
School Garden,’ advocating that every |
school should have a piece of ground |
where girls and boys could study horti- |
culture and agriculture, I am sorry to |
i
this country, but in France and Ger-
many it has become popular, and al-
school. Botanizing and all similar out-
of-door pursuits should be encouraged.
To study botany, geology,
a million times as much as to study
them in books in the house,
lve with them ?—Dr. Dio Lewis.
Delightful old Maids.
some of the most delightful
fron.
—Y ork farm, on Chester river, Kent
county, Md., owned by 8, Merritt Wile
kins, and containing 400 acres, has a
peach orchard of 18,000 trees, which |
from 1875 have produced 311,500 baskets
of fruit, bringing in $103,000. In 1879 |
the sales netted $66,000,
Tue decision of the Supreme Court |
of the United States, declaring the civil |
rights act unconstitutional, is unduly
effecting our negro population. They
will not attain the social distinction |
they seek, by any act of Congress nor |
| by any decision of the Courts, Personal |
| living and personal =orth can only se-
| cure them the boon they covet ; and |
these will be found stronger than Courts |
{ or Congress in its attainment,
comm A pn
Country Roads.
Too much cannot be said in favor of |
The farmers of |
the whole country are deeply interested,
Transportation is a part of the cost of |
pockets, and a part, also of
which they make too little account, If |
the difference money cost between |
hauling their produce over poor roads !
in
“‘old maids.” Undisturbed by husbands
or children, they are perfectly willing
to assist in bearing less fortunate ones’
woes, and are in constant demand as
there will be found a woman
"not married ; and because of her many
would see that |
their roads were kept in proper order.
they
that some gadlant knight has not claimed
this “lady fair and full of grace,”
taken her away to make for him a happy
home,
these strong, kindly natures, who have
sufficient strength of mind to refuse all
men because their ideal never came,
called old maids. The old English
“‘spinster’’ seems more appropriate and
kindly. And when one thinks of the
nephews and nieces cared for, the dainty
garments made by industrious and
never-tiring hands, the patience with
which other peoples joys and serrows
are listened to and the pangs of loneli-
ness that are quietly endured, then the
name becomes honorable, Of course
there do exist unmarried women who
are not like this, but none of them should
be called ‘‘spinster,” because the name
itself betokens industry. Not industry
in hearing anc retailing petly, worth.
less gossip, or in keeping perfect a home
in which she is alone in her selfishness,
but such industry as seemeth good for
@ woman, industry in’ making clothes
for the naked and giving homes to the
fiomeless,
The name spinster is very old, and
«arly used in the jurisprudence of Eng-
fand and Germany as a means whereby
o distinguished unmarried from mar
led females. It is supposed that in
emote ages it was customary to bury
ihe spindle pins with industrious mai-
«lens, as in some graves recently disco
wered in Suabia these were found. Al.
fred, iv his will, distinguishes the men
and women as the spear-side and the
apindle-side ; while in the Germany of
to-day the titles schwert-mazen (sword
amembers) and spindle-mazen (spindle
members) are not uncommon,
Thus the spinster, bearing industry
in her name should feel that industry
is a duty she owes to the world at large;
for living up to one’s title is a para.
mount claim. For her there is need to
®e industrious in Junieing itty feeling
exist, industrious the needle.
that have a decisive
The roads the
and we are |
are
companies. The Chicage Railway |
Review, commenting upon a paper re- |
ap- |
showing the importance to commercial
undertakings of paved roads leading
to railway stations, The Review says:
“A well-arranged system of paved
or even well-made dirt or gravel roads
will some day prove a blessing to this
country. And although we are so spread
out that the undertaking seems hope
less on the score of expense, valuable
beginnings can and should be made at
once, taking railway stations as centres
to work out from, Such a system would
aid the growth of the material interests
of the country, through rendering pos-
sible a wider segregation of manufact-
uring industries, the manufactories
of which, with good teaming, would
not necessarily be upon a line of-
railway. Farmers could also till their
soil with profit at much greater distances
from the rails. © Then, again, the latter
would benefit through the independence
of climatic conditions in hauMng their
produce to shipping points. In this
respect, also, would the railways find
gain, for they are severely annoyed
during wet periods by the inability of
shippers to get through the mud to the
stations, and the consequent light ship-
ments, which are followed after a freeze.
up or drying-up with a rush beyond
their capacity to handle, In Illinois
last season this matter of improving
highways was taken up with consider-
able enthusiasm, and comittees were
appointed, ete., but we fear that little
has come of it."
While we do not expect any good re-
sult from legislative enactments, much
good may result from an intelligent |
self-interest, which may be developed |
by a proper examination of the sub-
ject. The loss to the wealth of the
country from bad roads is an enormous
total, to say nothing of the loss of com-
fort.— Philadelphia Record,
——
The Cholera,
——
B. G. Jennings, F. R. A. B,, writes
to the Pall Mall Gazelle, “to call atten-
tion to the attack of cholera on southern
and western Europe now due. Such
visitations come with more regularity
than mest people imagine, It is re
markable that every attacked on Egypt
is followed by an extension to England.
Such cholera is not of the true Asiatic
type ; it makes its appearance first in
the Hadjiz, on the tropic of Caneer, in
the neighborhood of Mecca, sometimes
the year before, sometimes the same
year in which it appears in Egypt. In
1831 it broke out in Mecca, the same
year appeared in Egypt, and traveled in
a northwest direction to England. In
1837, six years after, it appeared in
England again, having started from
Hadjiz in 1835, In 1848 eleven years
after, it broke out at Mecca, appeared
in Egypt, and reached England the
same year, In 1854, six years after, it
was in England again, having broken
out at Mecca two years before, and
In 1865, eleven years after, it broke
out at Mecca, spread to Egypt, and
reached England the same year. In
1871, six years after, it broke out near
Mecca, but extended as far as the north
In 1882, eleven years
after, another attack on Europe fell
due. It will be observed that these
outbreaks occur every six or eleven
years alternately ; a great outbreak
{ happening every 17 years, as 1831, 1848,
{ 1865, and 1883. In every instance in
which Egypt has been attacked, south
ern and western Europe have suffered.
some delay in regard
but that is a reason for believ-
ing that the advance will be rapid. In
the other great attacks the cholera has
On the 25th of March,
1865, the disease broke out at Mecca;
{ on the 2d of June it appeared at Alex
| anderia, killing 60,000 persons in Egypt
in three months ; on the 11th of June,
it reached France,
and eon the 11th of September it was in
It would appear, then, that
Arabian diseases
differ
not Indian, but
specificall
There are, as I endeavored to show
eleven years ago, when [ stated that
the next great attack would be in 1883
seven different
species, which descend from the atmos.
phere at seven different points, situated
equally distant from each other along
the tropic of Cancer, and move in a
northwest direction. The Indian and
Arabian streams intersect in England.
Asa matter of fact, the Indian, from
exhausts itself
in Russia and Germany, and in all pro-
the
31.
when
in 18
of it, unless perhaps it be
north of England suffered
that all cholera can be traced
to the Ganges, what is to be said about
which commenced last July in Mexico
and last January was carrying off by
a fearful ravages an immense number
of victims ? Before the present year
closes I expect to hear that cholera
has broken out in every quarter of the
globe,”
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Dreams.
A writer in Bow Bells says: Dreams
of nuptials are considered to portend a
funeral. The extraction of a firm and
sound tooth signifies the loss of a near
and dear friend ; but if the tooth should
be decayed and paipful, this dream
promises deliverance from a secret and
deadly enemy. If such firmly built
things as a house or city appear to be
shaken, it it an omen of exile or com-
motion in the state. Two candles sig-
nify breaches of friendship and dissen-
tions. Dreams of hares signify flight ;
of dogs. quarrels ; of sheep, wealth, un-
less they should be shorn or diseased ;
the crowing of a cock denotes vietory,
it is an omen that the victory, which
was on the eve of being obtained, will
be lost, :
The rising sun denotes increase of
wealth and splendor; the setting sun
the contrary. A dream of the full
moon is one of very bad omen, for it
signifies that immediate misfortunes
and decrease of greatness will follow.
Dreams of the eclipse of the sun or
moon predict an intermission of pros-
perity, but that it will again return.
Whoever dreams that his hair is pulled,
it is a warning that something will hap-
pen by which his pride will have a fall,
The loss of a hat has at one time been
interpreted as an omen of disgrace, at
another as protection from some injury ;
but the loss of a cloak, &., Is a sure
sign that poverty will sucteed wealth,
To dream that the pillow is dragged
from our bed signifies that something
will happen. by which our rest will be
disturbed,
Whoever dreams that he is
tobacco has a warning that he will turn
his wealth into smoke. The best omened
fancies himself carried gently through
the air, for they forrtell increase of dig-
To dream that
handsome shoes are presented by a
friend isa warning of timely flight;bnt if
anyone in his sleep searches for boots
or shoes without finding, them it fore-
tells that when in great danger he will
be prevented from escaping. Whoever
dreams that some one puts a clown’s
cloak on him, or covers his face with
flour, a mask, ete., must be cautious
lest a more cunning man than himself
should deceive him and then laugh at
his simplicity. A dream in which a
person seems to follow a cross in some
public procession is a signification that
he will be persecuted on account of his
religion,
If anyone dreams of a violent knock-
ing at his door, or that his ear is pulled,
it is a warning of approaching death,
If a man dreams that he is dead it is
not an vmen of his death, because who-
ever dreams that he is dead also dreams
that he sees or speaks after his death;
but to dream that our curtains are
drawn aside by a man lately dead is an
intimation of the death of some near
relation.
A man having dreamt that an egg
was buried beneath his bed, went to
consult a conjuror, who told him there
was a treasure concealed under his bed.
The man dug and discovered a quantity
of silver, in the middle of which there
was gold. He ran in ecstasies to the
conjuror, offering some pieces of silver
as a reward ; upon which the conjuror
said : “Do you give me none of the
yolk of the egg ?'’ meaning that he ex.
pected some of the gold also. This
dream is related by Cicero, **De Divina-
tione,” libro primo ; also by Valerius
Maximus,
The dream of Guntramnus, King of
the Franks, is very remarkable, This
good king, who was passionately fond
of hunting, having one day separated
from the whole of his train except one
servant, and night coming on while in
the midst of a thick wood, he sat down
on the bank of a stream, and being ex-
tremely weary, fell asleep on the bosom
The servant keeping
watch, and having his eyes steadfastly
of his servant.
fixed on the countenance of his master,
he saw a very stnall animal of the lizard
species issue from the
king, and make for the stream,
it seemed anxious to pass;
servant, stretching out his sword,
formed a sort of bridge, over which the
reptile passed ; and having atered a
whith
the
then
cave at
few minutes, and
pasaed over the same
the
remained there a
then coming out,
bridge, and entered
bh of the King,
awakening, said that
that he had passed over an iron
sile,
again into
mout who just then
he
bridge,
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1
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i
a vast heap of riches. Then the ser
nessed, they both entered the cave
found there a great treasure,
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The Kitchen.
BAagep Quinces.—Quinces baked
with the skins on are delicious when
served warm,
each plate. 1f mashed with a knife the
core is easily removed ; then put on a
littie batter and plenty of sugar. In
process of baking the quince loses the
many, and retains a delicate flavor that
is excellent,
QUINCES AS SWEET PICKLES —
Quinces make delicious sweet pickles,
Peel them, cut them in quarters,
stick two or three whole cloves in each
quarter, then steam them until tender,
and let them boil for a very few minutes
in the vinegar prepared for them; or
make the syrup of vinegar, sugar and
spices first, and boil the quinces in it
till soft ; proceed just as for pickled
pears or peaches, only that the quinces
being of so tough fibre, need cooking
longer. Seal in cans, and they
will furnish a good relish in days to
come,
CRAB-APPLE MARMALADE, — Mar.
crab-apple is not to be despised, and
for the children’s lunch or for tea with
good bread and butter it is looked upon
as a luxury. Stew the apples, skins
and afl, till they are very soft; mash
them adding light brown sugar to your
taste, This may be put up in cans or
in little earthern jars and sealed for
winter use. Marmalade may also be
made of nice peach parings, with now
and then half a peach left in. This
latter dish is not recommended ex-
cept when fruit is scarce, and you
feel like making the most of every part
of it.
CAvLIFLOWER. —Cauliflower is par-
ticularly good when boiled until tender,
changing the water twice and taking
care that no scum Is left to discolor it,
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Luxuries.
dom
A really vicious-looking reptile is
that very harmless and eminently edi-
ble monstrosity, the terrapin, Properly
cooked—as they cook it, for instance,
at Augusiine’s in Philadelphia or at the
Club at Baltimore—it ranks among the
most luxurious of luxuries. Some
men, it is true, turn sick at the first
taste of it, and refuse to face the dish
again, Others worship it on the in-
stant, and are fanatics for life. It is
always so with very pronounced flavors, |
Thus, in India, to eat the *“‘jack’ fruit |
is to be held in abomination by your ;
neighbors, but some men smuggle it in-
to their premises, and, regardless of the
fact that the astonishing odor of the
huge fruit betrays them, make believe
to eat it clandestinely. Others, how.
ever, know of his horrible infirmity,
and as if he were a cannibal given to
the secret consumption of dreadful
meats, tell each other that so and so
“‘eals jack.”’ Yet the fruit has a cous-
in, the lorian, exactly like it in taste,
and Burmah goes mad over it when it
isin season. Mandalay gives itself up
body and soul to the luscious abomina-
tion. All official business is stopped.
Trade puts on its shutters, The steam-
ers will bring no other freizht up the
river but dorians, It is the formula of
the season if a stranger wishes to see
anyone who wishes to not be sen for
the servant to reply ; ‘‘Master is eating
dorians.’”” This is something more
than the ‘‘not at home’ of civilization,
It is equivalent to *‘He is saying his
prayers’ of the Mohammedans, A
man, while eating dorians, must not be
disturbed. His privacy is sacred.
it is with other strong tastes,
will flee from musk as from
skunk. Yet half acontinent delights in
smearing itself with the perfumeand eat-
ing it in food. However, to return to the
terrapin, Seen in all its natural hid-
armature of native shell, and
prickle, and wart, it would be flattering
to the poor turtleish thing to say that
its appearance was anything less than
Yet what miracle does art
more benefi-
0
* Boome
people a
eous
loathsome,
work more startling or
| tion of an odious looki ng reptile into 4
dish that men call “‘terrapin, and
It has been a
nan
risk-
ought to call ambrosia 7
that any
ving moise] down his throat.”
But
dare.
his courage:
what, then shall we say of the
Turtle was
terrapin was posi-
2
tively reckless, Yet men have
the portentous crocodile.
It is said to have a slightly musky fla-
to be ‘“‘succulent.’— London
vor, but
The Tobacco Industry.
The tobacco industry of this country
sup-
pose, and a few statistics on the sub-
There
7674 establishments engaged in the
of tobacco in various
Of this total 477 are engaged
and
smoking tobacco and snuff, 7145 in the
manufacture of cigars and cigarettes,
and 52 ir steaming tobacco. The total
number of people employed, according
to the census returns, of
whom 55.552 are males above sixteen
years, 20.480 females above fifteen
years and 11,565 chiidren and youths,
The total amount of money paid annu-
ally in wages is $25,054,457, or under
$3000 each per year. The value of the
material used in manufacture ik $65,-
384,407 ; the total value of product, $18.
660166, The largest amount of ma-
terial consumed is for chewing and
smoking tobacco and snuff, it being
$34,807,072. However, the value of
the product is only $52,793,056, against
$20,577,833 for material, and $63,070, .
575 value of product for cigars and
cigarettes, the difference being made
up by the amount of money paid in
wages | the sum thus paid fer the man-
ufacture of chewing tobacco, ete., is
$80,419,024 against $18,464,563 for
cigars and cigarettes,
The amount of taxes paid on tobacco
of all kind, including all special taxes
for manufacturing, dealing, ete., for
the two years, 1882 and 1883, was $50,
496,238.70, Of this total, smoking and
chewing tobacco paid the heaviest tax,
amounting to $47,170,144.50. Cigars
and cigarettes comes next with $35,141, -
067,52
The tobacco industry, however, does
not end here ; there is the cultivating
part, which is by no means an unim-
portant branch of the tobacco industry.
Last year there were 040,230 nores
planted, which produced 449,880,014
pounds of tobacco, of a value of $43,
372,806 ; Kentucky producing by far
the largest proportion, having had 232,
people
are
forms,
‘ i a
is S0,080,
163,087,700 pounds, of a value of $14,-
347.016. Virginia came next, with
an acreage of 130,663, and a production
of 77,048,804 pounds, and a value of
v sna
$6,071,907. South Carolina was the
lowest, only producing 47,528 pounds,
of $6,653 in value,
The total export of leaf for the sta.
tistical year ending June 30, 1883, was
235,628,560 pounds, against 223 665, 980
pounds for 1882 and $19,438 906 in
value, against 218 067 721 in 1882, The
exports of cigars for the last statistical
year amounted in value to $06,801
against $113,717 in 1882, which shows a
marked reduction, In manufactured
tobacco, however, there is a healthy
increase in onr exports, which amounted
to $2,555,677 in value, against $2. 246,-
! 602 for the year 188: 2, or an increase of
$308,965, —E zehange.
Gold Pens.
The gold from which the pens are
to be made is melted and cast into bars
six inches long, about two inches wide
and one-quarter inch in thickness, It is
then passed between cast steel rolls until
it is reduced to about one twelfth of
its original thickness. From this sheet,
the blanks are cut ad then pointed by
heating the gold until the pieces of iri-
dosmium selected for that purpose
settles into the gold and becomes as
strongly attached to it as though it
were a part of the same metal. The
blank is then reduced in thickneis to
about one-third by rolling and hameris £.
after which it is cut out in the shape
of a pen, stamped, raised or formed,
slit, the points ground finally polished.
The inside of the nibs are also roughed
with a piece of Scotch stone: which
operation is termed ‘‘graining,” and
the object of whic h is to make the ink
flow more readily. The pens are
tried and examined
offered for sale.
RR
Behind our Masks.
then
being
before
——
If we could only read each other's
hearts, we should be kinder to each
other. If we knew the woesand bitter-
ness and physical annoyances of our
neighbors, we should mage allowances
for them which we do not now. We
go about masked, uttering stereot yped
senlments, hiding our heart- ~-pAngs
and our headaches as carefully
Cali §
a8 we
and yet we wonder that others do
discover them by intuit We
light 3
we do not so conceal our sentiments
and dislikes, of whi prone to
be proud. Often two people sit close
together, with in
heart, and neither knows it. Either
thinks, “I could be fond; but what
use of wasting fondness on one who
does not care for it?’ and so they
part, and go their ways alone. Life is
a masquerade, at which few unmask,
even unto And
though there is need of much maski ing,
would to heaven we dared show plainly
our real faces; from birth to death. for
then some few, at least, would truly
love each other,
rit
dr on
eh we are
“uy love you’ either
their very dearest.
- swan
A NBC) SITY. —Sun baths
cosi nothing and are the most refresh-
ing, life-giving baths that one can
take, whether sick or well Every
housekeeper knows the necessity of give
ing her woolens the benefit of the sun
from time to time, and especially after
a long rainy season, or a long absence
of thesun. Many will think of the in-
jury their clothes are liable to from
dampness, who will never reflect that
an occasional exposure of their own
bodies to the sunlight is equally neces-
sary to their own health. The sun-
baths cost nothing, and that is a mis-
fortune, for people are still deluded
With the idea that those things only can
be good or useful which cost money.
Let it not be forgotten three of God's
most beneficent gifts to man-—three
things Lhe most necessary to good health
~sunlight, fresh air and water, are free
to all; you can have them in abun
dance, without money and without
price, if you will, If you would enjoy
good health, then see to it than you are
supplied with pure air to breathe all
the time ; that you bathe for an hour or
80 in the sunlight ; and that you quench
your thirst with no other fluid than
water,
SUNLIGHT
— »
~Dress skirts are growing decidedly
fuller and wider, and this decided ten-
dency to bouffant styles has, as history
plainly reveals, been almost invariably
the forerunner of erinoline, and crino-
line we are to have, unless scores of
manufacturers, who have summoned
their hitherto idle forces and begun the
work anew of making hoop-skirts, have
listened to a delusive rumor of their
coming popularity.
~Tte cost of stopping a railroad
Aralziis/said 50 bo from 40 0 60 conte
SAIS.