ER JR NEI
Pictures In The Fire.
W hen the winds are crooning of the tempest
rising near—
Bbouting down the chimney, that the young
and old may hear;
What a joy to gather, while the bias is
leaping higher,
Apd watch the pretty pictures that are
painted in the fire,
There a ship is tossing that is wrecked upon
the sea;
a ruined castle crowns a green sud
sunny lea;
Yonder smiles a garden, and a church with
taper spire—
Ever coming, going, are the pictures in the
fire.
Here
Walls of stately mansions never framed a
sight so rare;
A'l wo do is wish them, and behold the
pictures there!
Fender faces Oh, the heart
ney
hing on a winter's night the pletures
inthe fire!
greet us,
ar tire,
om wild, stormy clouds, and nea
fan skies ;
all its busy maze, is symboled to
reyes
a wil dees that al benecatl
tranquil dreams iat wake ben th
anpest’s ire,
looking at the pi
ainted in the fire!
BCP eI TERT URE.
PA
tures that are
the Riviera
Dick Merrivale
r that I had stayed
tters to friends in England Ja
gn hike a w iwind.
fellow of about 25,
di n, hand
was an al
most charming-
3 Perhaps
he, especially, was my favorit
I had made him
g that he was i
A unt, he cried, ‘put
and come out! Don't
st! I have seen one of
s I ever saw in my lifel”
I exclaimed, ‘‘ay
—-(angerous,
Hoing
frit
+
ol
devoted to art,
generous SPOSILIO
face
ros f 1631 “4 i
srofession, ana
ity poor,
the |SWoeels $4
“Hoity,
Jack,
Is this
dear
1 ¢ MO
OKS3 ominou
i a native?
a visitor, ii
kz, who had crossed
\ 1+ +3
ke ourselves,
i thes
LO LER
asked Jack,
nething was wrong.
I repeated. “Phat man,’
“a fine, 1
v. he is Mr. Jaffery Ma
mnker; that is Ev }
SCOrn. olde old
«OF O18 as 1h
re;oine
mages
ne
warned of the
It migl
. } ¢
> HIER
ou will
§ ‘trie nts
said, pushing i8LErSs
evid
vidently was divided
and to 1
Marston, The former triutaphed,
He drew a chair near mine, saying:
“Of course I will listen. Who would
svor have believed you knew the Mars-
ane
tween
Eva
rie
i130
sity a desire
Fiwva Marston—for the daughter
tears the mother's name’’—I answer-
qd. “and I were school fellows—not
hing she was a little tot to me.
¥
«ON
ndeed, she was favorite with
ane,”
‘T don’t wonder,”’ interpolated Jack,
“f her child is like her.”’
Eva—my Eva-—-was the
ravest. most amiable of dispositions,
ed she were perfect stran
a every
oA EES
oe] and she was
natures which surprise one by their ca-
pacity for strong feeling. 1 loved her
like she reciprocated the af-
friendship was contin.
our schooldays were over,
As I have told vou, Mr. Marston is
a banker and exceedingly wealthy. Eva
was his vy child, and he loved her
‘passionately, He was proud of her and
her beauty. He held her second to
none, and she was one of the gayest,
happiest girls imaginable until’
Until--well, aunt?”
She fell in love,” I replied,
Jafiery Marston's bank there
Halbert Fortescue. He had
quite n vouth, but soon had attracted
the banker by his bright intelligence,
He was handsome, a gentleman, but
poor, upright, just and industrious,
Jaffery Marston made a favorite of
Him, and saw to his rapid advancement,
Halbert Fortescue was grateful, and
strove more and more to please.
“11 be the making of him, One
day. when he is well off, he shall re-
member he owes itall to me,” the bank
er used to say.
a sister,
fection
Ho
Anu oul
when
on
“In
was a
enterad
hobby, He was proud of him, He
thought how in time he would make
him his sub-manager, aware he might
trust all in his hands,
“Hva was about 18 when I noted a
shauge in her, She was thoughtful,
shsbiiried, 1 saw she had something
»
on her mind,
she confided it to me. She loved Hal-
bert Fortescue. More than that,
loved her. He had asked her to be his
wife, and she had said ‘Yes.’
“+f could never love any one else,
Nelly,’ she said to me. ‘I never could
be happy with any other than dear Hal-
bert!’
“But your father, Eva?’
ed, ‘lle may have
you,’
Eva laughed gayly.
““ ‘You do not know he Hal-
| bert.’ she exclaime!, ‘Halbert asks his
consent this afternoon, Ido not
| He is such a favorite?”
“Poor Eva! The banker's
was that of the patronized--the master
| to the servant. That Halbert Fortes
ly peniless but the sal:
ceived, sh i
to wed
» had no more
I suggest
likes
fear,
liking
-
utterly fol Ary
ile
wed probable
11
i
oon
WITOoganca,
in
seemed not
tion
he door,
peniu wid Eva
poorly dressed in black,
“How wan and thin was her eauti-
ful face; yet what a spiritual expression
glothed it! In her arms she oarried
her baby girl,
“The servants had
ry oy hoe
not ner,
A ob
katt
was a kno
r it Ix
0 i
4
been commanded
to admit but there was not one
who would have obeyed, So whin she
inquired for her father, the foitman
| respectfully pointed to the study. The
calm, peculiar expression still oir her
features, Eva entered, She dil not
the door; the foolman poeped
{ elose {
anker was seated by the
threugh, the l
| fire reading.
| “He looked up at ber entrance, then
| sprang to Ins feet; but as he gazed into
| her face he dropped back again, speech
| less,
; “Eva went or
| before him.
‘t fFather,’ she said, ‘Halbert is dead
and knelt on the rug
| for my sake—and my heart #8 broken.’
{ stared at her.
on the rug, and added:
| “Papa, love little Eva for my sake,
i I said I would look once on you before
| I died— I have, Papa, forgive, as I
i forgive
| knee, ‘Heaven bless you ?’
| “Then Jaffery Marston leaped up
i with a great cry, raised her on to a
t conch, wildly summoned the household,
| dispatched them here and there for aid,
tand sent for the best physician, * All
| before an hour Eva was dead.
“And that, Jack,” I concluded
gravely, ‘‘is the grandfather of her with
whom you, a penniless artist, have
fallen in love.”
Jack looked grave too, but was silent,
“Well 7” I queried.
“I'm very sorry for Jaffery Marston,
aunt,” he answered, rising; ‘but I shall
take my chance,”
“Yon forget it may be Eva's chance
also,” 1 said, almost severely.
“And you aunt forget that Miss
Fortescue may not care that for me,”
snapping his fingers.
Looking at the bright, handsome
young fellow that he was, I felt justified
in doubting, I said, however, malicious.
*“T'here is one comfort, so pretty a girl
is not likely 80 be unengaged as it is,”
I Hv his face fall; but he brightened in
a minute, smiled, took his hat, and say-
ing, “That's to be seen,’’ started off on
the track of his inamorata,
One evening, when returning hore
alone, as 1 passed the Villa Montinarl,
the residence rented by Jaffery Marston,
j2na beheld among the orange trees two
figures--male and female. A second
| glapce told me they were Jack and Eva,
His arm was round her waist, her head
rested on his bosom, I needed no ex-
i
| passed,
ito end?” I thought, hurrying on,
the lovers,
dy?"
I was aroused by the sound of
approaching: raising my eves, 1
| Jaffery Marston.
can't tell, but I stopped
ped, and said:
“Mr, Marston, are you
beheld
when he stop-
AWare
‘ oinge on between Miss
118 been o
que and my
A dark
nephew?
ita
him
¥ }
15 in the
he earth's t
x] back, with nothing between
land the He
great o« rs, as much
as if voy ig to th oon or to Mars,
Ab and vacuity
guides and
earth
one: he
$+ th
ti th
ON
upon
imme
et and Yea v
SUBLIAT
landmarks
disappeared, the horizon
i has only the sky and it
cold, vitreons, blue-bilac
are
5 orbl is
hrouo!
HAIrougt
water,
cosmic
of tl
vue
kK llauid
which the ship ploughs is not
‘but some denser form of
ether. He can now see the curve
sphere which the hills hid from him; he
can study astronomy under improved
cond If he was being borne
through the inter-planetary spaces on an
immense shield, his impressions would
not, perhaps, be much different. He
would find the same vacuity, the same
blank or negative space, Lhe same emply
i indefinite, oppressive out-of
For it must be admitted t
|age at sea is more impressive to the
imagination than to the actual sense,
| The world 18 left behind; all standards
of size, of magnitude, of distance, are
vanished; there 18 no size, no form,
perspective; the universe has dwindled
to a little circle of crumpled water, that
3 th
ie the
tions,
“HOON.
hat a voy.
3
0
Pas
i
to which you seern bound by some en-
chantment. The sky becomes a shallow
| elose-fitting dome, or else a pall of cloud
| that seems ready to descend upon you.
| You cannot see or realize the vast and
| vacant surrounding, there 1s nothing to
define it or set it off, Three thousand
| miles of ocean space are less impressive
l than three thousand miles bounded by
rugged mountain walls,
| grandeur of form, of magnitude, of dis-
i
shore. A voyage across the Atlantic is
| a ten-day sail through vacancy. There
| is no sensible progress; you pass no fixed
| points, 18 1t the steamer that is mov-
{and illusion of the troubled brain?
| Yesterday, to-day and to-morrow you
| are in the same parenthesis of nowhere.
The three hundred or more miles the
| ship daily makes is ideal, not real
Every night the stars dance and reel
there In the same place amid the rigging;
*
THINGS
SOME ABOUT BALADS.
Another Screed on Summer Food and
Feeding.
A shrewd writer insists that when
Nebuchadnezzar was punished by being
condemned to a life of salad-eating the
punishment consisted in the depriva-
but if the wicked king hid known
he could have given most
piquant flavor to his salad by adding
sorrel,
separately, without other admixtare
of vegetable, made the salad proper for
a pourmet, the other salads for the
dulled epicurean appetite needing
require capers, potted
ring, fow fish, olives, eggs, gherkins,
cheese, cold potatoes, bacon, and these
convert the salad prone:
IAYOL HALSe,
her-
into simply a
ibuted
t. hh
Ralad
Whatever Germany has contr
to the world in literature and 21
fails to pai to wu German
uistinetion, with
woman
ifetime notoriety
Keep a secret, for
the avean.
the excep
Therefore hé the
during her life
}
aci-Lh
won
by her deli
}
rilling, nobie compound,
future ret
makers
work in the
salad
light
light,
<
ywn among other great s;
because she accomplished
dark,
nevel
which ruined |
ALL TI
!
firmly believing
Dr exposed
18 freshness,
© i
thea nrt
Lait art
Akers, |i els al
must be in Lo
chadnezzar down to the far-f:
det, who postponed the dinners «
men to suit ©
prince of
driving
i great
as Lhe
His price i
make
sown engagements
salud-makers.
Carriage
alad for bis illustrious patrons w
guineas, Brillat-Savarin, the prince
gourmets, asserted that baked |
cold salmon lost thelr
in Lis to ith
wis
HAvYol
3 their stomachs wit
sorrel; bi the
cooks generally are n
comprebend chemistry and
i
i in
nea ical
th reat cat
Wi Ereal Cal-
1 neds to be
in strong drink f any sort
when summer days are jong, none bul
the ish eat of fat and fried meats,
» 1 ] Shakespeare
fool
ds LOO,
f Jack
Salads
Sa Shi GRY §
ul Oras it
1 the mouth of
s climbed over the wall
of Iden's garden walle in
looked for a bit of salad
“ h 1s not amiss.’ he
cool a man’s stomach this b
and Hamlet said of the players:
was no sallets in the | to make
matier savory.
The vagaries of fashion have not yel
regularly introduced frogsin our Amer-
jean bilis of fare, and, as far as taste is
concerned, 1t is to be hoped no such
1 be attempted.
ade,
innovation will Bat if
custom ordains it, it may be a consola-
tion to reflect that our cooks will
vent them from tasting like frogs-—Lhey
will so spice, and flavor, and combine,
and dilute the dish. What says Sam
Siick? **Veal to be good mast
like any else but veal,
musn’t know it when you see it, or it
vulgar; mutton must
beef must bave a mask
look
You
&
Ing
be incog, too.
on; anyth
ing
any-
thin’ that looks light cut with a knife;
if a thing looks like fish you take your
oath it is flesh, and if it seems real flesh,
it's only disguised, for it’s sure to be
fish: nothin’ must be nateral, Natur’
is out of fashion here. This is a manu-
facturin country; everythin' is done by
machinery, and that that ain't must be
made to look like it; and, I must say,
the dinner machinery is perfect.”’ Eat-
ing for the refined gratification of the
The French do a great deal ‘with
For example, they make delicious
{ behind the same wave, and staggers
| slowly across the sinister sky. The eye
sense of rcom, One understands why
sailors become an
superstitious race; it is the reaction
from this narrow horizon in which they
are put—this ring of fate surrounds and
oppresses them. They escape by invok-
ing the aid of the supernatural. In the
and colors of the land. How cold, how
merciless, how elemental it looks!
His Month,
“I made a big ‘speck’ to-day,” said
the horse reporter to the religious
writer,
“How 80?" was Lhe Yesponse.
“Well, I paid 20 centa for half a dozen
fried oysters and got about $20 worth
of pearls, [ was calmly chewing one of
the crackered bivalves when I suddenly
felt a sensation as if my teeth had sud-
denly become loose wanted to de-
seit my mouth, 1 opened the latter,
when out dropped eight good sized
pearls on the table in front of me, much
to the astonishment of the other patrons
of the place. I shall have them pol-
{shied and made into a necklace, 1 feel
now that I have rivaled the mythologi-
eal damsel who was wont Lo drop pearls
whenever she attempted to speak.”
Pearls ¥Foll From
compotier, seasoned with
glass of brandy. This must stand sev-
eral hours before serving.
Another exquisite invention of the
French is the Chartreuse cake of varie-
by
wich has been previously placed in
ice, build them up in reverse rows
when well set, terminate when time to
serve by dipping the mold in warm
water and turning it out upon the
dish. If there is a quantity of fruit
left have in readiness a quart of or.
ange or lemon jelly, place a layer of it
in the Chartreuse, alternate with
layers of the fruit until quite fAlled;
place it on ice; serve garnished round
with jelly in the skins of the oranges
cut in quarters after 1b is set.
These recipes and the following are
the invention of the famous Soyer.
The Nesselrode pudding is incompara-
ble. Blanch three or four dozen
chestnuts, leaving them In ling
water till tender; pound them in a
mortar with a pod of vanilla, a pound
of sugar, and a glass of Maraschino:
stir this into a quart of thin cream or
new milk, and beat up well with the
yolks of ten eggs; stir this over the fire
till it thickens to a custard, then freers
| {oe creatn: stone two ounces of raising
| shred two ounces of candied cliron,
| and add to these two ounces of cur- |
| rants; pour over them a half-pint of |
| Maraschino, and leave them for twelve |
| hours; then mix them with the pud- |
ding, adding half a pound of sugar to
reduce it to a syrup, and beat in the
whites of six eggs whipped to sold
froth with one pint of whipped cream;
mold the pudding, freeze it, and turn |
| It out when needed.
It is a common error t
French cookery is
more highly flavored than English or
American, Experience will soon prove
that the reverse is the fact. These re
i nowned chefs make use of every
scrap that we disdain, They instruct
the i as the poor in the art
of obtaining the greatest
: ishment and
food.
4 pudding a ia
bread-crumbs
i
FAN
0 suppose that
more costly and
ich as well
amount
njoyment from
miplest the antic pation
5 yg all } te
, Bave all Lhe slale
paper
crumbs, pour
f it
iid i
AYOL
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE,
How a Generous-He
sold by Yuct
srted Lady
on Capper,
Was
wre
o& poor
& woman’
mat
Al
and I felt so giad that I'd
deed at a bargain.”
“Yes, th
$s 3
1ye
100
% oF fF
went oul
quite
3
hap
abt it. Ti
@ Ir © WAS relieved,
walch
mock auction,
ed-looking man was a
it. He does
Was a
that
Las
distress
r the establishme:
hat twenty times a day.”’
John?’
WAavs
0%
—————
Warnings
Many
receive Warning
impossible t
such a belief,
assert that any geoeral reliance
confused and contradicl
of dreams would involve the most in-
{ wholly
Our
consistent vagaries of
4 avs
often
unworthy of a
reason and our
hopelessly at that desert
former f« latter would be
equivalent to inquishing the bright
shining of the sun in order to pursue a
treacherous will-o’-the-wisp. The
| writer once had occasion engage a
| passage for a long sea-voyage, and the
available at the desired |
| time was a steamer which bad been a |
great favorite in her day, but was then
| 80 old that doubts were entertained re-
garding her seaworthiness. In spite
| of warnings on this point, he engaged
{ his birth, and on that very might he
| had an intensely vivid dream of ship- |
wreck and drowning at sea. Unde- |
terred, however, he sel sail without
| serious misgivings and had a
agreeable and prosperous voyage.
this case the «
reams, and 1t is
arguments for
INAY «
retitrt $1
CUuUL Va
we
£@
On
wy indications
condu
beir
are
rational
dreams
arianoce
va
Tr
re
50
to
the
i
the
to
|
most |
In !
ream was evidently no
| supernatural warning, but rather |
the resnit of the effect produced upon
the imagination by the hints thrown |
seaworthy character. Dresentiments of
almost invariably ground-
less, and when on rare occasions a pre-
sentiment is verified by the resull, the ,
explanation is the very simple and ob- |
We
“> - "
A Cheap Paper Rack
Beg or buy at some fancy goods shop |
a pretty handkerchief box, such as nice
handkerchiefs come in to the dealers.
They are about twelve inches square
and five-eigths or three-quarters of an
inch deep. The covers of these often
are far more artistic in their ornamen-
tation than half the wall pictures and
decorations we see every day. The
bottom of the box forms the back, the
cover the front. Set the edge of the
back at the bottom edge, within the
cover’s bottom edge, and sew together
with strong thread; make holes in the
sides of both front and back so that
they will come opposite each other;
through these neatly-punched holes
draw ribbons and tie in bows, there
should be three bows on each side; the
sides could be four inches apart at the
top. Silver or brass headed tacks will
secure this simple wall-pocket against
THE LADY OF THE CASTLS
Magnificent Mountain
Adelina Patti,
Home of
About 100 fre ondon, in
Wales, in a picturesque chain of moun-
tains, 18 situ
the majestic and beau
tiful Castle of Cra the homme of
Adelina Patti, of
fifteenth century.
Numerous hot-ho
flowers of every
are pros ded
the diva hand]
Amazon,
descr
i
mies
in
ated
16
Ki
% i x
viel in We
ng with pi
1} Yee »
ihe great
ry possible gear
lial xr
AAAS, ie
iH
The grounds
and lakes belonging to the castle
sufficing 1
miles of land
in 10 have
hunt and fish there
my departure
before my
twenty-nine pounds,
ox
i
and five miles of the
order alone the right
~~ of
VES WH
I'he few and scattered villages in
neighbo i
YOOul are
are 12nd
it
poor, and the villagers
t. Patti is Known to then
tie than the “Lady of the
Jias bestowed her char
ties so often on the people Jor miles
around that they have a special yener
ation for
T
wan
by no other ti
Castie.”’ She
her,
a
Magnolias as Ornamental Trees.
There 1s hardly & tree that ean com.
pare in beauty with the magnolia, and
still we see very few planted. The
free a Siow
grower and thus becomes an object of
beauty only after a long while, That
the trees are slow growers for the first
vear is true, bat when they once get a
strong hold in the soil it is by no means
Of all the trees | know
stands the pruning
Whenever a limb is
is
least,
is gone, In fact, the magnolia should
never be toucked by a knife or pruning
shears, except in very rare cases, when
a whole branch should be cut clear off
to the main tree. Grafting wax should
then be put on the wound, ‘The
magnolia is a swamp plant whick
delights in water, and many failures are
caused by stinting the tree of water; in
fact, the more water the plants get the
finer they will grow, Nothing is really
more beautiful thah a n green
with branches and leaves from the very
ground, and when it opens its numerous
‘white and fragrant flowers, it is indeed
the queen of trees,
the wall.