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A GENTLE WORD, Artists’ Models. comfort of the system, Older folk car
— often get on betjer with pastry than February was one of the two months
In London the model can be, and very 5 the other—mtroduced
Suddenly she paused and came to me | make me your enemy by foolishness.
through the cloud, and held out her | Stay at Cedar farm, and I am your
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A tla word Lath a magical power
Pe scea:y heart to begnile;
TE ghoddens the eye, it brightens thip brow,
Mmd ¢lmnges the tea to & smile.
Tox whee genial sunshing it sheds around,
Ther «luulows of care depart;
Ard wo feel iu its soothing and friendly
tone 4
Theerd's a balm for the wounded heart.
OF € waich thou then, that thy lips ne'er
bresthio
A bitter, ungentle word,
Wow that which is lightly and idly safo
Fs often too deeply heald,
Ap thengh for a nioment it leaves no trace,
For pride will its woes conceal,
_ Tammember the spirit that's calm and still
Es always the first to tesl.
#e enay net bain thy power, perchance,
may regret it. Gol”
We went, ;
She sobbed. (Looked prettier than
ever). »
“I can’t go wack,” she walled.
“They don’t know Ileft. I'm afraid
to go back.”
“Then,” said I, ‘what will you do?”
“I don’t know,” she said, defiantly.
“But I won’l go back!"
I found myself in a nice predica-
ment—younlg lady, aet. 18, on my
hands, a bachelor, ast, 30. What was
‘of en Isenex rev elyres;ect bem mber
of rociety; and if bis or her work be well
done, the pay is not bad, as wages go
in England, Seven and sixpence & day,
or & shilling an hour, is the price paid
a costume model, ‘while those an the
life classes or posing as figure models
earn half as much again, Some men
and women have grown old in the pro-
fession, know every artist and his or
her works, are well versed in studio
ways, understand cos umes, and even
something of periods in costumes ahd
rot frequently contribute valuable sug-
younger one; and for children pastry
and sweetmeats are particularly harm-
ful, affecting the stomach, and through
that the teeth, and developing a taste
for such things that can rarely be check-
ed before permanent harm has resulted,
and the happiness of the child endian.
gered for life. Children cannot have
too much milk food--such as milk pud-
dings well made with plenty of eggs
and good milk being the best possible
food for'them. Boiled milk and bread,
porridge and milk, brown bread and
stewed fruits, would be a diet calculat-
= | Calendar by Numa
Pomipilius when he extended the year
to twelve of these periods. Its name
(Felruare, to expiate, to purify) srose
from the practice of religious expiation
andpurifieation which took place among
the Romans at the beginning of this
month, He arranged that it should
have twenty-nine days, excepting in
leap years, when, by the Intercalation
of & day between the 23d and 24th it
was to have thirty. But a time came
when Augustus chose to add a thirty-
first diy to August, in order that the
“Bo secure a lofty place, chisel, despairing of ever doing them I to do? gestions. ‘Others, who may be invalua- | families where the children are everlast- | morth named after him might not lack
And blazen thy name upon history's page, | justice. A sudden thought, I would! ble 80 far as lines go, aie, after years | ingly in the doctor's hands undergoing the dignity enjoyed by six other months
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on akaof Hie And then she dusted, and while she | “My dear,” said I “I will take care | of work, hopelessly dull, stiff and unin- | courses of pills. and powders. 1 have | of the year, He took it from February,
Though the world behold thee not, dusted she sang, what a voice! Don’t | of you.” terested; indeed, we have known of an | jittle sympathy for those unhappy peo- which could least spare it, thus reduc-
ms Seutle and kiwlly a rd may soothe . | mention Nilsson—1 won't hear of it! “Youl” (Astonished and prettier.) | instance where a young woman has sat | ple who give way to the whims and fau- | ing it tb to twenty-eight days in all or-
BE And then she drew up a chair, and | “Yes, L” Mary me! Instead of my | three years for a well-known artist | gies of childhood, and thus pre di tom
fo ree with 2 Shotthul beast, sat down beside me, having first re- | niece, be my wife! Will you?” without having acquired the faintest | much future wretchedness ny them- "This: month Tas Pisces or the fishes
EE innen: ang an vpenhand, | moved the handkerchief and the impro-| She could not give an answer im- | idea of what he was doing, or what spec- | selves and their children, itis disgust- | for ifs Zodiacal sign. The Saxons call-
_And a geatle word for all, : vised apron. Then she shook her curls | nediately. Such important questions | ial style he worked in, and would a8 | ing to ses, as one does too often, child: | ed it Sproutkale, because this species of
Simos life 11.0 thorny and diftioalt path, and addressed me, requie deliberation. She was silent placidly pose for an escaping slave a3 | yen of tender years given meat two or | the cabbage tribe sprouted freely at this
W here toll is the portion of man, . * : :
We all sgonid pd, ple while passing “My dear uncle, let us have a talk.” | for about two minutes, and then said: for a lady of fashion, without taking the | three times a day, and filled with sauces ungenial season. The name of Roe-
smallest interest in the work or its suc- | and seasonings. Parents have them- | monatt was afterwards conferred upon
a along, sia seth ua We ts . Her uncle! If my heart had suddenly “I like you.”
a A nn, changed to a lump of lead, it couldn’ | wpiess you,” sald IL cess, Others, sowever. enter with very | selves to blame who are worried with | it'in consequence of the return of the
© WAY IT HAPPED have sunk quicker that it did then. And you want some one to care for | deliberate zeal nto thelr wor k, and | constant juvenile squabbling and fight- | sun from the low course in the heavens,
“You know,” she continued, '‘that | you?" where thev are not too knowing they | ing, followed by tears and sick head- | which for some time he had been run-
you wrote me a letter saying that you “1 dol” are valuable assistants Naturally the | acke. You find a house in confusion | ning. Others say that “soe” signified
Moliere’ when she entered the room | considered it best for me to stay on the | «J will marry you for that room isn’t specialties of the model are so muck | and wonder what 18 the matter. “Oh, | “food” er “cakes,” and that it meant
unannounced at that, farm until you wrote again. But, | half dusted.” capital in his favor. Some are noted | it is only one of Master Johnny’s bilious “pan-cake month,” because cakes were
i looked and saw an angelin white | then, I don’t want to stay; Ifelt 50 ( She was angelic! She was an angel! I for hands, others’ for the pose of the | attacks: and you probably find the | offered by the pagan Saxons to the sun.
. aun’s veiling, jaunty little blue hat, | lonely away out there, hardly seeing a | cmbraced the angel! head, others for some peculiarty of col- | young gentleman lying on a sofa, sulk- In “The Months,” by Leigh Hunt,
ing and moping, with sore lips and yel- | he remarks that “If February were not
alsout the size of a saucer, tipped to | new face once mn a month, forthe 12| «and that room is such a cunning oring, while the “glassical’’ is looked
ame side in a most bewitchingly hearet- | years I have becn there— for you Know | 1itt1e one!” for in certain instances, and the gro-| low eyes, scowling at the mother who the precursor of spring, it would be the
attends him so assiduously when ill be- | least pleasant month of the year, No-
THE WAY IT HAPPENED,
rending manner; and she wore cream- | you left me when I was six years old, tesque in others, One of the most per-
Words fail to express how handsome
fect models we ever knew was 4 man
pongee—taken in all, a fairy!
She smiled at me, and held out her
Band.
I took it mechanically. What did
this mean?
She pouted—ah! those cherry lipsi—
and stamped her little No. 2 impatient-
Iy on the floor,
“You don’t seem very glad to see
me," she said pettishly.
I murmured that I was delighted—
entrancedi So I was—such visions
were not of everyday occurrence with
me.
“well?” said she, gleefully, that’s a
comfort! Now, they told me that you
wouldn’t receive me—that I would be
farned out of doors.”
“Reptiles!” said IL
“But I came—and you're not angry?
“Angry!
i could say no more,
Then she walked up and lown the
OOM.
“How do you like my dress?” she
asked, revolving before me as if ona
pivot,
I murmured something about cne
“angelic superbness!’’
«+1 did intend,” she said, half coubt-
fully, ‘to get a dréss of gray cashmere,
with underskirt trimmed with deep
plaiting—the space to be filled in with
bias folds above the plaitings in a band
of silk--the overskirt cut square—the
side gores rounded up four inches and
finished with a bow--the back breadth
1% inches longer, and looped up into a
tournure. That, with a pretty little
sacque with opea sleeyes, trimmed to
match the under dress, would be nice,
swould’nt i?”
1 murmured an unqualified assent—
got that I understood what she was
talking about, for she uttered the full
description in one breaath, but then 1
dida’t know what [ was saying.
“Jat,” said she, “I bought this
aun’s veiling because I liked it. Don’t
you?"
«J admire your taste,’ sad I, faintly,
for 1 was fust losing my senses, through
wendering as to who and what she was.
“You're a dear, good fellow,” said
she rapturously; ‘and I know we'll get
on well togetheri?
So! She intended to stay here! I was
getting into very deep water!
“Now, then,” she continued, “show
me some place (o put my things, and
then you and I will have a talk,
I mechanically pointed out a small
room opening ont of the library. She
hurried in. I sat like a statue carved
from adamant. Deeper walter,
Presently she returned, divested of
jittle hat, pongee and kids. Dainty
and jaunty as the little hat was, it never
could be such a head dress as the curly
Slack head of hair; and the bare hand
was certainly prettier and its dimples
showed better than when gloved. I
We were married!
And that’s the way it happened!
RIN OT
A NB ARAM A
Miduight in Montresi
In the early part of February a mon-
ster Toe Palace, was erected in Montreal
and thousands of people visited it from
all part of the Union. A midnight de-
spatch from Montreal says; Montreal
is delirious. Since dark the carnival
has reached its highest tide. The busi-
ness streets were abandoned and the
stores closed at sundown, after which
the multitude, including all but the
crippled and infirm, climbed the hill to
the ice palace, which glittered like a
monstrous jewel, There were 50 000
persons in and near Dominion square,
Fifteen hundred snow shoeman, wearing
their clattering foot nets, and clad in
blanket suits of every brilliant hue,
wound in a long procession beneath
flaming torches through the swarm of
people, While some entered the palace
of shining ervstal, others massed them-
selves outside. Then began a fierce bat-
tle of skyrockets, Roman candle, and
Chinese bombs, The tens of thousands
of French people laughed and appland-
ed like children. When the serpentine
stream of torches next made its way
through the black mass of people it was
to reappear presently, windiug its way
up the steep mountain side. The people
stood in the open squares and yelled
with delight, The torches came togeth-
er in a solid field of flame, then seperat-
ed, and were strung in a thin line along
the erest of the mountain, whence they
let off more fireworks,
The town at midnight shows no symp-
toms of either moderating ils enthus-
iasm or going to bed. The New York-
ers have unpacked their swallow tails
and lownecked dresses, and are dancing
in the biggest hotel parlor in town, Al-
though they are already too numerous
to mention, they are still erowding into
the city by car loads, Those who came
to-night will bave a chanceJo see a mar-
quis hurled down the glazed side of a
mountain on a thin strip of birch veneer-
ing. A slide called the Lansdowne has
been named in his honor, and he has
shown his disregard of safety of life
and limb by promising to cross his legs
on a toboggan matiress.
Home-made Bonnets,
One of the pleasantest things to know
about Alexandra, the Princess of Wales,
{s that she knows how to make her own
bonnets. It brings her nearer to the
universal lieart of woman than any-
thing she could do. The first thing she
did, after entering the Queen's house.
hold at Windor castle, was to make
over her Majesty's bonnet. Of course
that bonnet needed making over badly.
pictures it at once. A
heavy, funereal affair, covered with
who had pot a single absolutely good
feature, but whose toutensemble was
excellent, and whose entire willingness
to sink personal prejudice and devote
himself to the cause was really noble,
This spirited person has posed on a
broiling July day, with heavy wraps,
and over a candle which iliuminated
his heated face, to represent a Christ.
mas traveller cowering over the fire,
and that no moan escaped him is to be
recorded to his credit; and on a fine
day in June be ‘-posed” in bed, as a
very sick person, in an elaborate night.
cap, wearing an expression of patient
anguish, which perhaps Lowand sundown
ceased to be entirely simulated. This
man had been, as it is called, “on the
grounds,” otherwise a sporting charac-
ter, and being converted by some trave
elling preacher, he abandoned a very
money-making and exciting career for
the life of artists’ model, and years
proved his patience and sincerity; an in-
born cockney, hopelessly though cheer-
fully independent of h’s, he had a queer
streak of fun in him which asserted it
self oddly, and under no circumstances
required theaid of a smile. He had a
grave way of telling inimitably funny
things, which illumined many a foggy
afternoon, and his staid endurance of
the most hopeless cough we ever heard
added to the impression of strength he
gave, How hesat for a certain “‘queer
old gent on the Brumpton road” who
“did the classical,” and how the old gent
“hasked ‘is Lopinion, and then never
took it, sir, don’t you know,” and how
he went toa florid artist of the hour,
who kept him posing as a Turk six hours
at a time, while he was “‘a-painting’ of
his background in hall the "ole bloomin’
time I was a planted there, sir,” with
the details of both incidents are tales
that to be apprecited should be heard
from those grave pale lips, while his
eyes were fall of suppressed glee.
When such a faithful follower of the
arts falls ill his employers usually con-
tribute toward his support; bat at best
it is a hard life, and old age rarely finds
such a one with any resource, the life as
model having entirely destroyed other
aims and powers of activity, so that un-
tila “Models’ Fund’ be formed there
must always be the sad spectacle of the
old and decrepit model going from sta-
dio to studio seeking the only employ-
ment he understands but finding it not.
ins
Good Aavioe.
Take your meals with great regular-
ity, and avoid eating too much at once,
the amount of food taken
by the quantity of work-—-especially
outdoor work—done; for if you eat the
same quantity of food when indoors
that you do whilst engaged in full open-
air exercise, you will eat too much
sometimes, the result being that a lot of
useless nutriment will be flying about
cause she has not had the moral courage
to discharge her duty to God and her
child when he is well. “I cannot un-
derstand my children,” many a poor
lady will say; “those next door are al-
ways well, while mine are always ill.”
The reason is simple enough; those
next door are given simple food, and
have to eat it, which hers never have,
because, forsooth, they won't. But if
we would have our children temperate
we must be so ourselves, and not lecture
them on indiscretions in diet between
the mouthfuls of lemon cheesecake.
ssn AA ———
Influence of Wholesome Fool.
There is little doubt that savory
dishes, serving to vary the monotony of
the poor, hard-working man’s ordiffary
fare, afford considerable moral, as well
as physical advantage. An instructive
experience of my own illustrate this,
When wandering alone through Nor-
way, in 1858, I lost the track in crossing
the Kyolen field, struggled on for
twenty-three hours without food or rest,
\ and arrived in a sorry plight at Lom, a
very wild region. After a few hours’
rest I pushed on to a still wilder region
and still rougher quarters, and eontinu-
ed thus to the great Jostedal table-land,
an unbroken glacier of five hundred
square miles; then descended the Joste-
dal itself to its opening on the Sogne
fiord—five days of extreme hardship,
with no other food than fiatbrod (very
coarse oateake,) and bilberries gatherel
on the way, varied on one occasion with
the ludhry of tworaw turnips. Then I
reached 8 comparatively luxurious sta-
tion, Bonpel, where ham and eggs and
claret were obtainable. The first glass
of claret produced an effect that alarm-
él me—a craving for more and for
stronger drink, that was most irresisti-
ble. I finished a bottle of the wine,
and nothing but a violent effort of will
brandy. I attribute this to the excessive
work, and insuffic’ent, unsavory food of
the previous fivedays. Ihave made many
subsequent observations on the victims
of aléohol, and have no doubt that over-
work, and scanty, tasteless food, are
the primary source of craving for
strong drink that “so largely prevails
with such deplorable results among the
class that is the most exposed to such
privation. I do not say that this is the
only source of such depraved appetite.
It may also be engendered by Inxurious
pandering to general sensuality. The
practical inference suggested by this ex-
perience and these observations, is, that
speeth-making and piedgewigning, can
only effect temporary resaits, unless
supplemented by satisfying the natural
appetite of hungry people by supplies
of food that is not only wutritious, but
savory and varied. Such food need be
no more expensive than that which is
commonly eaten by the poorest laboring
man, but it must be far better cooked,
vember not excepted.” What ean be
more delicately beautiful than the spec-
tacle which sometimes salutes the eye
at the breakfast-room window occasion-
ed by the hoar-frost? If a jeweller had
come to dress every plant over night to
surprise an Esstern Sultan, he could
not produce anything like the “pearly
drops” or the “silvery plamage.” An
ordinary bed of greens seems corrogat~
od with emeralds and powdered with
diamonds to those who are not at the
mercy of their own vulgar associations.
An Eccentrical Funeral,
An old woman named Mary Robin-
son, who is said to have been well
known through London as *‘the queen
of the costermongers,” was buried re-
cently in Finchley Cemetery. She at
| one time used to havea stall in Somers-
town, and of late years had been a ven-
der of cats’ meat. It is stated that she
amassed a fortune of £060,000, It was
her custom to lend costermongers mon-
ey on Fridays and Saturdays to go to
market with, they paying ber for the
joan a shilling in the pound. She wasa
most eccentric woman. She paid,
twenty years ago, to Mr. Sharman of
Caledonia road, £20 for her funeral ex-
penses. Owing to the rumor that the
deceased in her will had ordered that her
remains should be carried to the grave
by four men wearing white smocks, and
that twenty-four young women should
follow wearing violet or purple dresses,
Paisley shawls, hats with white feathers
gf:
lin them and white aprons; that some
money was to be spent in drink for cos.
| termongers at certain public houses she
named, and that there was to be a band
of music in attendance, some thousands
of persons congregated in Bemerton
street, where she lived, along the Cale
donian road, and along the route to
Finchley cemetery. The concourse of
people blocked the streets for a time,
and in some cases persons paid for win-
dows to see the procession. The eoflin,
which was of ahandsome polished oak,
bore a brass plate, with the inscription:
“Mary Robinson, aged 71, died Jan. 1,
1884." It was reported that the corpse
was shrouded in wlite satin, and that
round the head was a white wreath,
The funeral car was covered with ex-
pensive wreaths and crosses. There
were in the procession, besides the rela-
tives and friends of the deceased, a
great number of pony-carts, donkey-
barrows and cabs, all being overfilled
with costermongers. The deceased, it
is said, left a sum of £10 10 be spent in
drinks, and 10 shillings for pipes and
tobacco after the funeral.
Women,
The common ohjection among wo-
mankind to letting their ages be known
is not shared by the ladies of Japan,
eould not speak 1 only looked. 1 inwardly vowed to assissinate crape, bugles, and nonsense. Such a bon-
She cast a searching glace around the | man some dark night. My companion | net as no one except Victoria ora Cape the system, Which, wing xo § sod work
Library, grasped her pongee fiercely. ' | Cod woman would wear, Itis no wonder to do,, very, aor
«Horrid dirty!” she said, disdainfully, | “Oh, I could beat him!” she said
“When has it been cleaned?” savagely. I trembled at the outburst.
“About a year ago,” I said quickly. | “But however,” she said “that’s not
scribing a balf circle round the head,
the forehead being left free with a curl
She gave utterances to 8 pretty little
SCTeam.
“A year? Shocking! Ob, I couldn't)
sit down in a room that hasn't been
cleaned for a year? This must.be put
to tights,” : tnd ar
She said this in a very determined
tone and then set to work. She con.
verted my linen coat into an apron,
tied a cunning little handezchict over
© ghat pretty bead, and suatéhing up the
fly duster, dusted away. valiantly—
raising & cloud of dust, |
gazing on the vision, What did all this
jng authority, but Mollere could give no
explanation. Could she be an
sent to cast aia of light over my
dismal path of Perhaps, but did
whe
Hynpossible! It must be 4 dream,
hia en wl