Resiguation,
I do not care
If [may never climb the heights of fame,
If I may nover win a glorious name
Nor hear, with well-pleased oars,
world's acelalm,
I do not care.
the
1 should not care
Fhongh ull obscure and lowly ba my lot,
fhongh men pass idly by and know me not,
Though 1 should die and straightway be
forgot,
I should not care,
1 would not care :
Though all the world should shun the path
1 tread,
Though words of
wore said
Why, when the
head
shame and scorn of me
grasses waved abova my
I would not care,
{ would not care a cent
plano hermit, most austere,
u lowly hermitage severe,
thousand dollars, say, a year,
I would not care,
Were 1 0
Living
On thirty
ESL
SUNG IN THE TWILIGHT.
Tr
he sultry
Che heat was unusual for an English
Summer, and seemed to rest upon
evervthing like a palpable weight. Even
the clamorous london sparrows were
silenced by it. The noise of wheels
grinding on the stone pavements, when
soma provision-cart stopped at a neigh-
boring back-door, seemed an imperti-
Denes the hot stiliness. To live at
a Hans Brevdel thought, , demanded
more energy than fate had left him. He
y on a hin his “threestorv-
* room, and panted restlessly with
Six years in England had not
f his German expletives
to
thoug
with the wife of hi
youth and his ] But when she die
he quiet scenes among which they ha
wd together berame insupportable
him. The old longing of his boyhoo
for a wider and more stirring life
sessed him again, and he took his violin
and his little daughter and went to
England, But again in London h
failed to find any bri i
had never msen higher
weeond violin in an orchestra,
For the last
lie, and s
to
or fe Wa yg
IR SUCCESS, u
ove.
truret}
tog i
he
three months his
een 1 Ne mys
he had been tl
13 malady which sa
1 beat down h
} dwindl .
¢ half-crown, but Minng
y too sadly well. She hs
ng desperately over this
ngs when her father’s exclamation
moned her to his side,
“What should she do-—what could
sive do?" she had been asking herself,
Her one sole accomplishment was to
1g, and she had never sung as yet for
any one but her father. Her voice was
10t strong enough to sing in public, he
had always said, In truth, he had been
too jealously careful of his delicate blos-
som of a girl ever to contemplate for her
a fate which would compel her to strug-
gle with the world.
He had trained her very thoroughly,
de Le sier
2 A8
onl 0
i
{i
F111
sing.
worst came to the worst, she could teach
-or something.’
“Or something’ is the stronghold of
dreamers, but during those last three
months it had seemed but a desperate
refuge to Hans Breydel. And yet he
lid not guess that already ‘‘the worst”
was ale his door. That very morning
the landlady had called Minna out, and
asked for the last month’s rent, which
there was no money to pay.
“I don’t want to be hard.’ the
woinan said, and vou always paid punc-
tual up to now, 1'll wait a week or two
longer, but more than that I cannot say.
I'm a poor woman, as lives by her lodg-
ers, ”’
“Oh, I'll get some money, somehow,’
Minna answered; and then she had
come back nto the room with her
father, and sat at the window watchin
the Mot, sleepy children in the back
street below; watching them yet taking
no senso of anything, beset by the one
awful question: What could she do to
Keep arool over their heads-to give her
«father food and carve until he should get
‘better?!’
The glaring sunlight shone down on
“the heat-stricken, listless world, It
seemed to ghrivel up all hopes, all fila.
sions; to force her to contemplate the
“bare and terrible facts of life. Where
should she turn for aid or counsel? Her
baffled thoughts seemed to go up and
down purposcless on the wretched tread
mill of her anxious questioning till her
father’s exclamation broke the evil
spell, and she hastened to him, glad of
the interruption. She took up a fan and
waved it to and fro, but seemed
to make the musician nervous,
‘sit down,’ he said; ‘sit down, dear
dieart, and sing, It may help me to for- |
get the heat. And I want also to see
what you can do.”
The girl obeyed. Her fresh young
voice rose on the heavy, heated air; a
soaring voice, clear and sweet, conquer-
ing for the moment her father’s listless.
ness and discomfort.
“Tieber Gott,”’ he cried: “‘hear her!
It is a voice of silver,
not yet, Sing yet once more the song
ner, who loved me, and whom 1 loved
in the far, old days, Sing the song he
rest,
tI, and bad talked
{ whieh we thought would be all of
{ cess and of glory
about the future,
ue SUC-
the song that he put
| our hopes aud our dreams into 3g."
| A sudden thought flashed into Min
i na's anxious heart--a hope so sudden
i that it made her breathless, A
{ door seemed to open all at once:
{ ““Father,’ shesaid,
| even now. Let me go to him!
you once; he will help you now.”
| dpi”? Has Breydel cried, hotly,
ng himself in his
| **Helj I will have
We will help ourselves and each othe:
i Shall I, who walked in the old days by
Richard Wagner's side, grovel at 1
feet now; I, who have failed,
who has i )
il
5
y
aimnost
i} 5 3 f1¢] I
He 18 in London,
bed as he Spoke,
none of his help.
1s
at his feet,
80: but
y heart's
succeeded?
ing me once more hi
} 1 r
i He Ciell,
music, and
FEEL
Bang
uttered its ery of
g le the door Heard
song was over, Dr. Green
to it from
his t
ing oulsi
¥ ii
4
fi
it
mught came !
ut by-and-by an
r, and perhaps she m
1 NOW 80 many sil
» forgot the cl
ments of the emply years i . and
dreamed again the old dreams, Mean-
time, Minna dreamed also, sitting
| side him; dreamed her young dream of
| to-day; how she would sing to ome pur-
pose at Jast, and how perhaps some
| manager would hear her,—she had
{ heard of Rachel ,—and she would be
{ chosen of fortune and beloved of fate in
| the future; but, first of all, she would
| be able to help, in the present, this dear
father of hers, and turn the days bright.
| drew nigh. She gave her father some
| beef-tea, and for her own supper she
made a bit of bread do duty,
| last the twilight fell—the long, summer
twilight, that always seems so much
longer in London than anywhere else,
And seeing her father drowsily inclined,
breath of fresh air.
sleepy he would have been surprised at
parting promise from the landlady to
look after him now and then, Minna
Breydel started out, to test, for the first
time, the uncertain humor of the world,
Once out of the door, her heart began
to fail her. How should she, how could
she, raise her volce to sing-—she, who
had grown up in the shade, and had
never, m all her life, sung for any other
listener than her father? But from the
very thought of that father she must
gather courage. What joy it would be
to help him!
Some impulse urged her to get quite
away from home and beyond. the proba
bility of meeting any familiar faces be-
fore she began. She wandered on and
on, until she came near K n
Gardens, Once or twice she was about
to lift up her voice, and wads deterred
by some gaze which seemed to her curi-
ous or impertinent. She paused at
length, before a pleasant house where
were frequent musical gatherings in a
quiet street of Kensington. © The draw
ing-room windows were , and their
t, white curtains sti with the soft
breath of the evening.
Who Might be behind those curtains?
What fate for her did they veil?
A star had arisen and looked down at
i hugh Sng i hoe
star n ope,
They must be music lovers in the house
for some one struck, with the touch of
if to illustrate something that was said,
With the sound Minna’s courage rose,
and she broke the following silence with
an uncertain note, Then her voice grew
stronger, and she sang:
“Why woop ye by the tide, ladle?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I'll wed ye 10 my youngest son.
And ye shall be his bride:
And yo shall be his bride, ladle,
Hae comely to be seen,
But aye she loot the tears down fa
For Jock o' Hazledean."
The tender sweetness of her voice
the gentle dusk,
The low wind stirring the leaves, the
cloud-like white wings scarcely moving
across the blue, the faint breath of the
she and they were as one.
white
comrades,
gather of
emaories,
“Hark!” cried one of
how beautiful!
curtains two men listened--good
who had been talking
pleasant plans and
them,
It is the soul of
YOICe
And then both men listened quietly
till the song was over. There was a
moment’s silence
sudden impulse, the girl began to sing
that other song which Richard Wagner
had written for her father—that
“of wonder and hope,’ full of present
joy and future } Soft as
itself the voice aros strong
climbed towards heaven. Bho
beard it and one of the*one who
had wfore-——reached out and
grasped his comrade’s hand.
‘Listen! listen!”
two
i song
Qilise,
men
them
sp Ren i
and
the seemed |
the SON Was over,
elder of the two sprang fron
almost threw
his hurry, and
down the
Minna B
himself
od before
err Wag-
3 .
gestina-
membrance; since now the great musi-
cian has gone on,—where the singers
are immortal, and the
made with hands,
msm I WP
Value of Foods.
articles of diet are the safest, and that
is, in my opinion, another argument in
favor of plain living.
lest are the safest, and let me add, the
best are the cheapest. The butcher,
have several qualities; and there is a
stage at which all animal foods arrive,
when kept in shops, which renders
them to a large extent poisonous, and
|
teration.
We often hear it sald that shop
éges, as Lhey are called, are good
enough for frying, with bacon for ex-
ample,
{ egg that has even a suspicion of stale-
ness about it is deleterious to health,
not to say dangerous, no matter
whether it be fried or boiled,
| the same may be said of flesh meats of
{all kinds, and I will not exeept a hare
ior venison. 1 am quite prepared to
{ have this little sentence pooh-poohed
by the robust and healthy. I only
said that I
| have the courage of my
and furthermore, that 1
and dyspeptics, and those with deli
cate digestions In my thoughts as |
| write,
I grant you, my heaithful athlete,
who can tramp over the moors with
gun and bag from morning dawn till
dewy eve, and never feel tired, that
the eating of long-kept game may not
seem to injure you, but the t
convictions,
bare fact
that piquant sauces and stimulants are
needed to aid digestion, 1s exceedingly
suspicious, There are two animals in
} and
i
partict that like thei
tender: on
som fort
eal must be
Leaving |
| aii:
the present,
they
its seleclion,
om i
careful in
syncrasy out of count for
although every one ought to know
what agrees with him and what does
not, there are many things connected
the value and digestibility
obtained from various sources
| that I do well to remind the reader of.
most
£1
i
1 Oe
-_—-
Popular Errors,
nutriment in
There
1. That there is any
{beef tea made from extracts,
is none whatever.
2. That gelatine is nutritions, It
will not keep a cal alive, Deel tea
and gelatine, however, possess a certain
reparative power, we know not what,
3. That an egg 1s eq to a pound of
meat and that every
eat eggs. Many, especially
nervous or bllious
not eat them: and to such
jurious,
4. That because milk is an import
article of food it must be forced uj
patient, Food that a person cannot
endure will not cure.
5. That arrowroot is nutritious
iy starch and water,
ive quickly prepared.
hat cheese {3 injurious in
It ia, asa rule, contra-indica-
ted, being usually indigesfible:; but it
is a nutriment and a
$ YU TY 3 61
temperament
Lt, can-
eggs are in-
ia sin
£3,
Cases,
concentrated
She sought me
“And she vheyed, 1
She but
not. She cannot be blamed,
sang under my window, knowing not
that it was mine, the old song of youth
and hope and love,—~the song I gave
thee when we had wandered and
dreamed and been happy together in the
Black Forest, in the long ago time,
And I remembered the old days, and I
the pavement, with her face like the
moonlight, and ber voice that I think
must be like the songs of heaven; and I
asked how thesong I had given thee
found again my old friend than in ali
else I have gained in London. Is theo
Hans Breydel 7"
And through the darkness the weak
one again, as in the days of love and
hope and youth of which the song had
sung.
And the rest follows, as a matter of
course, The highest, dearest right of
love is to help the beloved; and Richard
Wagner claimed that right, On the
shore of the North Sea, across which
German eyes can look from England
towards the fatherland, Hans Breydel
spent the August and September days,
And was it the breath of the sea or the
breath of hope that breathed into him
new life?
At any rate he grew well again. And
when the world went back to town, and
entertainments for the Winter it
was not hard for him whom Richard
Wagner recommended, and who was
Ric Wagner's friend, to get such a
position as he had never held before,
Thus came Beosparity] the violinist
and his da fr “proherity and the
fulfilment of long delayed hope—and to-
day, if you go to one of prettiest
houses in London, where Minna reigns
as wife and mother, and Hans Breydel
figures as proud grandfather, you will
goo-—in the of honor over the man.
tel-piece—richly framed, the song that
Richard Wagner wrote, that Minna
Breydel sang, and before it always a
7. That the cravings of a patient are
whims and should be denied. The
stomach often needs, craves for, and
digests articles not laid down In any
dietary. Sach are, for example, fruit,
pickles, jams, cake, or bacon with fat,
| cheese, butter and milk.
| 8 That an inflexible diet may be
| marked out which shall apply to every
| case,
i
i
!
i
cided by the opinion of the stomach,
The stomach is right and theory
wrong, and the judgment admits no
appeal.
A diet which would keep a healthy
man healthy might kill a sick man; and
a diet sufficient to sustain a sick man
would not keep a well man alive. In-
creased quanlity of food, especially of
liquips, does not mean increased nutri.
ment, rather decrease, since the diges-
tion is overtaxed and weakened. Strive
to give the food in as concentrated a
form as possible, Consult the patient’s
stomach in preference to his cravings;
and if the stomach rejects a certain
article do not foree it.
¢ Length of Days.
At London, England, and Bremen
Prussia, the Jongest day has sixteen and
# half hours, At Stockholm, in Sweden
the | day has eighteen and a hatf
hours. At Hamburg, in Germany, snd
Dantzle, Prussia, the longest day
has seven hours. At St. Peters-
burg, and Tobolsk, in Siberia,
day has nineteen hours, and
the shortest five. At Tornea, in Fin.
land, the longest day has twenty-one
hours and a half, At Wardhuys, In
BEDS.
Of All Nations and in All
| The beds of ths anclents had in gene-
i ral few peculiarities
i them from our own simpler
| Both the Greeks and the Romans had
{ their beds supported on frames that re-
sembled our modern bedateads; feather
| and wool mallresses were common,
{and the bedclothing, in the luxurious
periods of each nation, were richly
| decorated with elaborate needlework.
North American Indians; but at a later
| period they made use of straw sacks as
| beds. The ancient
| couch of peculiar shape and a profusion
| of soft cushions and richly embroidered
drapery.
i In the Bible were probably of the ordi-
nary simple kind. During the Middle
Ages beds were made of coarse canvas
{ and filled with straw or leaves, These
could be opened and the litter remade
daily, as is tho custom to-day with the
| matiresses in the old-fashioned inns of
France and Italy. The bedsteads were
low posted, and usually had a canopy
at the head. In the Bayeux tapestry
Edward the Confessor is represented
{lying upon a raised seat, his head sup-
ported by square pillows, and the
| canopy over his head is attached to the
wall. , in his romance of *‘Ivan-
hoe,’ describes one of the beds in the
mansion of Cedric the Saxon, as con-
a rude ‘hatch or bed frame,
stuffed with clean straw, and accom-
| modated with two or three sheepskins
by way of bedclothes.” ‘The bed of the
Lady Rowena “*was adorned with rich
tapestry and surrounded with curtains
of dyed pur ?
The
Seo
y ‘
ing oi
house of
dor
stead, an 1mmense
piture, having a Canopy
rner by Lhe posis,
hionable sleeping couch,
lls mention ‘posted
These paneled
netimes of elegant
The column
ice of fan
supj
weame UU
sorted al each ox
he fas
yme of the old ¥
seit work b
bedsteads were 1
and massive architecture,
huge ballusters, and rose
dado bases, and all the
with decora-
| resembled
fromm square
frame pieces were carved
tive moldings of various patterns, On
some of ibe earlier bedsteads the col-
umns terminated with figures repre-
senting the four evangelists,
In a medieval ballad there is mention
made of *“the four gospelious (gospelers
or evangelists) on the four pilloues (pil-
lars, and heads of angels, all of one
mould.” The invocation still u
in some of the English country places
i f this old cust«
TK, Luke a
C30 € yas
} of Queen El one day while
wandering about the spacious mans!
re the mai
were making the , and spying
arrangement of the sliding beds
quite taken with them. In his
epuntry he had slept on straw in
hostier’s loft, but in
| found that rather
i account of the cold.
| master: **Sir, there are a sort of little
| beds under the great beds in this house,
Was
own
#4
Lae
| you to suffer me to lie in one of them,’
In the sleeping chamber was usually a
“perch,” answering to an oil lasaioned
clothes horse, On it, says an old
writer, “hang your clothes, mantles,
frocks, cloaks, doublets, fur, winter
clothes, and of summer.”
Shakspeare’s *‘second best bed’ with
‘the furniture,’’ which he bequeathed
to his wife, Ann Hathaway, was, un-
doubtediy, one of those huge Eliza-
bethan bedsteads with canopy, curtains
and square pillows, The furniture eon-
sisted of the “hanged beds,” *‘harden
sheets,” of fine flax, “‘flock beds cover-
lets,” *‘pillow beers” and “‘counter
points,” so named from the fact that
the squares were in contrasting colors,
The well-to-do gentleman of the late
Middle Ages kept a good supply of
bedding. In “The of the
Shrew,” Gremio glibly names over the
furniture of his country house, and is
| careful to include bed apparel,
In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns,
In cypross chests my arras, counter points,
Costly apparel, tents and
Fine Hon, Tukey RIOR’ ag with pear],
Variance of Venice gold and neediework,
The “Great Bed of Wave men.
is the
the
Tudor style, twelve feet square, of
solid oak, and elaborately carved. For
three centuries or more it has been
served at the inn of the Saracen’s
in the town of Ware, in Hertfordshire,
As many as twelve persons are sald to
have slept in it at one time,
How Paper Doors are Made,
i
Paper doors cost about the same as
woud, and are said to be much better,
because there is no shrinking, swelling,
The is com-
A SQUIRRELS LIFE
A Pet With a Conscience—¥lis Advens
tures With a Dentist,
ssi
¢
fle began life by t
nest when an infant,
| hands of my nephew, then al srvard
and lived in his pockets. le could be
y at any moment if tor
stand on his head -—which wa
| convenient He always went
tion, which aust have Deen very grat
| ing to the professors, He became mine
iat the end of 5 Burnmey
That is, I said 1 would keep
be ulely
Time would fail to tell all
He was f
His int
of the
faniing out
He fell the
| put to glee Inasde
its
03 vu 8
to recitia-
became arn
ways.
superb tail,
vellous, 1l¢
| affect bh
than man
right from
¢ x perient §
gnid of all men an
him alone
I came
{ Wrongs
from betraving
fearing
would tl
asked
now 10
brought at
hen the victim and
heard the tale, be said “I call it mur-
der, plain and flat!” You might as
{ well kill a baby! Take him to Dr. ——,
the dentist, Dr, — fell in Jove with
| Pim, as most people did, and explained
ito me that he would first cut off half
{ the length of the teeth, then the nerves
would retract and he would cut off the
rest to the right length a week later ;
and thus the squirrel would not suffer
pain, The burden of the operation, I
must gay, fell upon me. 1 had to hold
him, and he could kick like a mule.
You kpow squirrels are very strong in
their hind legs. 1 don’t think be was
much hurt, but his rage and indigna-
tion at the whirligig thing the dentists
use was unbounded, and his shrieks
brought people in from the street to
know what was happening. As I car.
ried him off the dentist said : “Come
back in two weeks and I will take the
rest off.” Ishall always beleve that
squirrel heard him. The moment he
got back into his house he seized a hick-
ory nut and went to work atit. The
next morning I saw a slight nick in one
of the teeth. For two days nothing
was heard but the sound of fling from
his bed, to which be had retired. At
the end of two days one tooth was off ;
at the end of four he had the prettiest
little pair of front teeth yom ever saw,
and they never gave him any further
trouble. I am sure you want to know
what became of him. I don’t know.
I went to Eu for a year, and left
him with a friend. When I came back
never mentioned him to me, and I
never had the to ask for him,
for I krew be must have come to some
untimely end,
—————
Hot air, drawn over steam pipes that
are heated by exhaust or live steam and
then blown through pipes to various
points, where it is a satisfactory
Inethod of beating shops.
Ost
ones, W hes saw