Melodies of The Muse.
Early and late the pansies come,
Always welcome, and always fair
Filling the garden-beds with bloom,
Breathing their incense in the air,
“Emperor William,” in royal dress,
Fairer than any that decks the king,~—
“Faust,” in spite of the name we bless,
Velvet-black as a raven's wing.
“Cliveden purple,
Crimson-tinted, with band of pearl;
Violet gray, looking wise and old,
Hazesl-brown with the edge in carl,
Here ls a large one, white as snow,
Pensive-looking, with edge of blue;
There an orange, with stripes aglow,
“Udler,”’ large-eyed, bright with dew.
Early and late the pansies wait,
Bronze, and ruby, and gold are there,
Smiling a welcome beside the gate
Little faces so quaint and fair,
“fH eartsease,” ‘“‘violet,”” many 2 nam
They have borne in the days
Tardily placed on the roll of fame,
All because they are lowly born.
agonc.
Now they are queens of the garden old,
Robed in the sun's rays deftly caught,
Search if you will, for strangers bold,
Butgive untomethe flowers of Thought.
NH ARS
'ROFESSOR CHARLES,
It was the night before the
vacation at the old Bradford
Seminary. Studies and recitations hi
been carried on with
irregularity Ig
ing 1
rlimpse nto "n
&il nt
some difficulty an
i
i
he day,
room
astonished prin
the double
would have shown the
-ipal that the girls were making a
of it as only boarding-school gi
how to do.
ed the windows,
af various styles hung up and down
cracks in the doorway, and a dark
gpread and tacked carefully
transom prevented an)
gtrating
should have r
ladies
half-past
the provoking
custom of the in
rig kt
LAS AL
hall
with all
supposed to be in bed,
i in anticipa
inexcusable
} .1
the dark
ung, th
on of
(quile
from the halls prom}
mostly 1
in the noses
the gas
numerous candles,
stubs an i 24
101
Lint
win
a small
the
morsel
unnoti
around,
red-haire
bed,
head
rest
these
without
‘I am sus
young ladies !*’
able represer n
Miss Perrin, irreverently dubbed
“Prisms’ by the girls. Just then a
muffled knock, repeated three times,
was heard at the door, There
st ti Ben at
1 - . ’
general ir. **An! there
of the manner
18
last
“What can have kept you away un-
Lil this time 77’ they cried. *We have
been waiting a full hour |”
“*A petite figure, with curling brown
hair, which was disheveled and part
AWTY ; a pair of brown eyes, which were
large with mixed emotions and
a bright flush on the
Weari-
Ness | and fair
cheeks
to the room and threw herself down on
the tumbled bed with a despairing ges-
ture,
“Don’t speak to me! Don’t say a
word !"’ she cried. *‘I am almost dead.
1 thought I should have fainted away !
Oh, how my back aches!” But she
soon arose, and tossing back her thick
the group of impatient girls with a face
full of mysterious import, and asked,
with a touch of her forefinger on the
knee of the nearest : “Where do you
suppose I have been for the last mortal
hour ¥?
“In F. W.’s study, getting a lecture
for laughing at prayers,”
*‘In the music-room, receiving a pro-
posal of marriage from Professor
Charles,”
The last sally provoked a loud titter,
for Ben had taken it upon herself to be
sentimental over the handsome profes-
gor, in spite of his announced engage-
ment to a young teacher, and had raved
about him to her eleven confidential
friends in a manner which was the more
affecting from the hopelessness of her
assumed passion,
But Florence Healey blushed almost
angrily, and said :
. “Nonsense ! Come, Ben, let us know
what has detained you so long.”
“1 will,”” was the answer ; ‘‘but pre-
viously let's have something to eat. 1
aw nearly famished, I will take two
was cold as that its aroma might not
penetrate the nostrils of the watchful
teacher referred to as “Prisms.” and
soon all were fairly at work upon the
edibles, When Ben had finished her
first course, and was reaching for a lib-
eral piece of raisin cake, she said, sol-
‘*(rirls, I have the most astonishing
and wildly interesting thing to tell you
that vou ever heard. No novel could
be stranger or more thrilling! But]
am 80 tired! Oh, how my back and
neok did And it seemed as if
my feet would come off 1?
And Ben put in a large mouthful of
cake and relapsed
in two seconds became
her companions,
“Come, tell us I’
“Po let us hear it !
“What can it be ¥?
‘‘Has the housekeeper discharged the
cook 7?’ sald Florence Healey,
ache !
into silence,
unbearable to
laugh-
Ing,
Ben turned suddenly upon her.
“No; but Miss Lou Brown has dis-
«1 Professor Charles,’
» turned back to get the effect of
inning announceme
did 1
overspread the
1 tor, at
1b
iL
nt on the roomful
y < 1
Is, 80 8h 10
~HeaxKy
Ber
might bave been, but sudder
grave again. ‘‘Instead
when I heard some «
ust about to give a dismal
rtuuately peeped through the
and saw Miss Brovn,
and sat down, resting her face
her bands, Then I thought I would
out and confess mv base inten
tion, for Lou never scolds, you know
i beamed in enjovment
le
iy
i"
come
ne in,
nd Was
groan, J {
She
came in
on i
coilne
“Lou is only twenty-five,” murmured
Florence Healey, from her place in the
“Well, as I said, I was just coming
odt, when in walked Professor Charles,
And, girls, he did look too handsome
for anything |
gant in this world as he did to-night.
His face was flushed, and-—well, here
was a pretty how-de-do! I
but an accident, and
to place myself in such an awful light
began to speak,
**I understood you, Lou,” he said,
standing before her, ‘that you wished
to see me here,’
and 1 saw, as she looked up at him, her
lips trembled, ‘I wished to talk with
you, Charles, before we go away for
the vacation, about our relations to
each other,’
“There I was, in a most painful posi-
tion, in that narrow box, peeping
through the ribs of the French lady,
not daring to breathe for fear of rat.
tling her bones and being discovered ;
but I wasn’t a bit tired then, Profes-
sor Charles rested his hand on the back
of a bench and looked down at her
quietly.
“Well, Lou,’ he said, ‘what have
you to say to me about our relations to
each other ? I have felt for some time
that you did not love me-—that our ene
gagement was becoming irksome to
you ; but I deemed it best, for the sake
of your example to these girls over
whom you have so deeo an influence,
that you should not break it until 1 had
left Bradford.”
‘Charles,’
her hand
like you so,
you read
lieve me, I
ought.’
,
she cried, putting
down by me, |
as a friend, I—Have
of mv mind? Be-
tried to feel as 1
‘please sit
HE
much
have
Ky
the professor,
his lips,
*“4f know 1 ought to love you better
and dream over
your every word, to—to love you,’
“Instead of which.
fessor, coolly.
‘1 care no more
for that
desperation.
my which
for you than I do
Lou burst out, in
pointed straight to
leveled at them
" 13
skeleton !
mle
were
eves,
for 1 had begun to get tired, and lop a
ttle. ‘You may as well
‘the fact that we are tied
by the approval of the older
directors, who think
li
she went on ;
together
teachers and the
{1
made me Limes,
it
almost hate you at
Professor Charles
1%
a
not a
t is as a lover,’
“The professor had blushed clear to
harsh t
RES 1
! remarks, but,
does
at l.ou’s
ing lips as he
Lies
vel
a bit of his own),
+ 1
ie tone :
ear lovin
You are j
muti
lovers, and always
friends,’
“*We shall keep
. Lou,’ he
‘and you must go
“The
each onfi-
said, as
to rest,
it was
came out
staggered to
WAS never
said
her
dence
rood-night.’
you may
horrible
your door,
80 tired in my
jut,” den, looking around
room upon earnest listeners,
0 you suppose it is? I hope it
admire ti
reciprocate
instant
Ol
, and
Honestly, 1
life.
the
closet
3
professor, I really couldn't
his feeling, and it would be awful to
have him jilted again.
Florence Healey arose, very pale, and
“You will have to excuse me,
That ginger—or something has
I should not have eaten
I will go to my room,’
To Ben's solicitous *‘Let me go with
you, Florence,” she answered, “No,
no; I shall be better soon,’ and she
was gone, Bat kind-hearted Ben soft.
ly followed the swaying white figure to
the turn in the long hall, to know she
was safe In her own chamber, when she
saw a tall form approaching from the
other way, Florence held out her
hands as if about to fall, and murmur-
ed : “Charles |"
The professor caught her to his breast
and kissed her sweet face as she clung
to him, and cried, joyously: “My
darling! 1 am free at last to tell you!
My own |"
Ben came back into *'44’’ nearly para~
lyzed with this last shock, She soon
recovered, however, sufficiently to tell
the astonishing sequel to her romance,
and we girls drank the health of both
couples enthusiastically in mugs of cold
girly
it,
¢ition at the «ld Bradford
THE SAXONS SIMPLE
WAYR
Other in Their Work.
The of “Life
Eastern Europe’ gives a liv
and Society in
€i
authol
| kept up
amoung the Saxon settlers in
The reader who is acquainted
‘log-rollings.” the *‘hn
’ which
with the
8.” and
1"
Are realy {=
settlements of
Youth's (
sk ing
I
country, says the OLu=
ern occasions as perhaps the originals
of similar ipstit here,
thor’s Saxon host, after speaking of t
Crypsies and Wallacks as comanon farm
hands, goes on to explain how the
utions
he
Lt
aX
ons contrive to maxe themselves inde-
pendent of such help :
Tl ie drudgery
plowing, sowing, mowing
honorable and
Ours
for us; but
and reaping,
mani
hey do th
being y
ives by mutually
another throughout th
the vear.
AS 8001 as
a
A Sultan's Dinner.
¥
sheep and
ith honey,
and iaginable
horrors possible to
dlish which
of
greasy,
1
slave who hel
ugar, s
and
cookery.
Ail il
one
his awkardly
his sleeves and bosom,
scientiously turned it
again,
¢
inio
311d
ous on
This upset European stomachs
and desire to indulge in it, though they
found that the slave t
The proper way to eat
take a quantity
¥ in
Knew «
iquette,
to the palm of the
and return
the remainder—for the whole will never
quit the palm—into the common dish,
of even a crumb of the choice delicacy.
——— —
~-Bathing robes are in peignoir
full at the neck, with wide
square sleeves, or in circle shape with
of the neck, which furnishes more full-
ness for the back. Either shape is
finished with a hood or collar, as pre.
ferred. These are made in Turkish
broidered In gay colors. The girdle
for the peignoir matches the color in
the trimming.
~Secretary Brewster, of Washing-
ton Park Club, Chicago, has received a
draft for $6000 and articles of agree-
ment between David Waldo, of Kansas
City, and Henry E. Parish, of the
same place, for a match between
Waldo'’s Kildare and Parish'’s Lady
Parish for $3000 a side, Mr, Brewster
is made stakeholder, and the race is to
be governed by the rules of the Wash-
ington Park Club, The bets are to be
§ of a mille, best two In three, weight
for age, the race to take place during
the coming summer meeting, and the
stakeholder to name the day for the
race.
FASHION NOTES,
a ————
— Black lace In striped patterns is
up over white silk with very
striking effect,
—Short panjers with butterfly-wing
with chine patterns were
wide Valenciennes ed-
LAWNS
trimmed with
Lhellotrope, pea-green, etc,
A tweed checked with
be folded back as far as the waist, and
gle with those of the check that formed
the drapery at the back and locped on
to the bodice,
— A tweed costume showing lines in
pale blue had its lapels bound with vel-
vet or the latter color, and its watch-
pocket, cuffs, ete, shown in the same,
the drapery displayed a small
panel of the velvet,
glimpse of it to
through a disconnected
waist,
become
fold near
—Jersey bathing-suits fit the figure
closely walst part, the drawers
are made closer than the other style,
but n« ie tunic 1s shorter
1 not very full, These are much
liked by swimmers, and for that exer-
* the tunic is often omitted, especially
private bathing. A sash
one side is usually substituted
the tunic is not worn.
in the
* tiorht o
ob tight, and
when
vor
former,
variety
almost evenly at
however,
in style and decoration.
sit to the form
and many handsome costumes of En-
glish tricot, camel’s-Lair and other fine
vy
woolens stripes, checks of one
rit
present,
very snugly,
in
plain color will be worn during
late spring months without
ional garmeot except the Yandyke or
nonk's hood gayly lined,
or
the
Among the elegant long wraps for
places of black
yokes, with
pelisses
beaded
fro
iro
are French
with richly
id starting
the back
called
Black lace bo
are new, witl
the lace, and superb vest, turn-over
cuffs and wide ( 5 IX collar of
white lace, in duchess, real Irish poin
ne other expensive variety. Some-
siyie is 1, and the
jersey is of cream-white lace or
ACCOES 1 thread, marquise or
black Spanish guipure,
of
particularly tasteful
the collars and cuffs,
th paler than
for the remainder of
5 +
nA ¢
id g
belt. These
anders.”
yie
as far as the
“beaded sus-
lees in Jersey
unlined sleeves of
’ es wr
Qing aown
are
Or BOI
ties
Vithes
the reverse
nad
nes,
ITi€8 |
SOG the
y are, like
ntly shown
usually used
e costume, and
with a
cy braid of feathery procll
with a centre thread
Many of the turnedback
yw bordering o
carried, as
wn each sl
:
ie
alone is
gold or silver,
iapels have a
binding of velvet,
i uently are,
islcoal; one
from one
they will to-
the waist
oF
Ui
LAITY
and
'
al
Ai-inch chessboard
- le + 1
fawn, draped
fo
sha ‘68
showed the
ines, and
ine veivel,
Olive
y braided
M and cri
design carried over
of Was
HNesOn,
the
the skirt t
form ovet
grad uated
the folds of
preser
yuiders
material either in 1
the costumes,
¥ tier
PEALE |
"he popular
are plain flannel, I
the more wiry worsied
navy blue, c¢
a nal
dannel
serge,
suits
and
plain
Ly
add
s)
and red, the of
usually an i less,
striped goods are usually employed for
the skirt or tunic, and the blouse is of
plain blue, trimmed with red braid.
ihe favorit style has
stripes
neh or
ve
yoke, the neck finished with a sailor
coliar, and the sleeves short; the tunic
or skirt
respond with the blouse, and reaches
just below the knees, and the drawers
are wide, and are either entirely con-
cealed by the skirt or show a trifle be-
low it. Sometimes the neck 1s cut out
in heart shape, and a chemisette is in-
serted, like in a boy's sailor suit,
—Navy-blue suits trimmed with white
red braid have the chemisetts of
white, with crosswise or lengthwise
goods of a contrasting color is used for
bands the chemisette matches the trim-
Box-plaited skirts are very
prettily trimmed with braid of a con-
of
inch wide, placed In clusters of
three or five rows to forme =pright
stripes in the spaces between the plaits,
or sometimes upon the plaits them-
selves, Baxds of materials of a oon-
trasting color are also used in the same
way. Blue suits are trimmed with
White suits
are trimmed with white braid, but
there may be a chemisetle or a sailor
collar of dark blue,
~ Striped goods continue to appear in
endless varieties, and among the ele-
gant textiles in these patlerns are
Venetian gauzes, striped with a deeper
tint in satin--this stripe ornamented
with small but exquisite I'ompadour
designs, These lovely goods are made
up without the admixtures of any
other fabrics, often, for slender wo-
men, with round waists arra in
surplice style, the skirt full, but
slightly draped over the hips apd in the
back, In other toilets the pointed
corsage is cut square in front and V-
shaped in the back, the openings filled
in with a chemisette of pearl Florentine
net.
lb
HglSE N OTES.s
~The Terre Haute, Ind,, As$0Cid~
tion cleared about £4000 on its late
on foot for
Harry Wilkes
-- Negotiations are
another race between
¥. of Brook-
lyn, for $1600.
—Charles Kendricks ch, m. Lucine
beat the ch. 8s. Lucifer recently in a
match race for $100,
— Mike Bowerman, of
Ky.. 4 “a 2-year-0id filly
og recently.
Texington,
rove (pacer) a
Bayoune
Hartford
~Cad, a 4-year-old-son of
Prince, won the 2.57 class at
in 2.27 :
Lexington,
Ky., recently s Morrissey
a number of runner
’hilip B,, for which R. J. Lucas
} won buf
has purchased a
'hil Thompson
a g
—H, Mock,
driving his 3.vear-old colt
by Messenger Chief
Danville, Ky
y., 18
George A.,
AS.
and
-~1he X O1
BOCIALION Las «
14 as dates
{rer
= alnoun
returned
Princeps
record, 2 16
The we
Macey Brother
yrsemen Messrs,
Versailles, Ky.,
6 many trot-
Boston, shipped
of Harrods
nd salky for
unced of the
it Star, record
v Isaac Mlesse, of
3 purchased Rose
ef, the dam of
Messenger Girl
worked
‘
L Lilies
3d w probatl
¥ start
i8 Delng
lakes,
T
wh
yrie Daly 3-
. He bought
, Won two races
Baldwin each
Eastern and
has tried to
. The latter, how-
ex-Mayor Nolan, of
as the latter has been very
he is unwilling to accept
f the Californians,
v, and
fr
Ver 2as
Dwye
i three of
f whik
uld he retain
for the remain
naGel
his year,
it excellence
t the season he bids
the Dwyer Brothers with
larger sum t they have ever
with any other three-year-old,
and this 1s saying a great deal when it
is remembered what Luke Blackburn,
Miss Woodford id Hanover’s sire,
Hindoo, did for them.
With an infusion of new blood and
better resources, the old Jersey City
his prese:
O Cred t
an
¥
“a
Side Park, starts the campaign of 1887
under the most favorable auspices. A
new association was recently formed,
with the title of the Jersey City Driv.
ing Park Association. The officers are:
President, I). H. Johnson; Vice Presi.
dent, W, IH. Allen; Treasurer, A. A.
Bedell, Secretary, 1.. E. Wood. In the
Board of Directors are Messrs, A,
W. Cowan, H, W. Martin, C. R.
- A dispatch from St. Louis, under
date of June 14, says: Stoval, the
jockey, had a losing mount on Mahoney
yesterday. To-day he went to the
judges and stated that Mr, Hutchinson,
who manages J. T, Williams’ horses,
sent him an offer of $500 through Charley
Cross, the jockey, to ride Mahoney to
lose, This he refused to do, and the
same offer was then made by Hutchin-
ton in person. Stoval says he then
refused to ride the horse, but that
Harvey Colston, the trainer, came to
him and persuaided him to ride, Stoval
also says that the trainer told him to
go out and make the ruuning. This
Steval did so effectually that Mahoney
was beaten at the end of a mile,
Stoval says that be Intended to tell the
judges before the race, but that they
were not in the stand when he went to
weight, and he then rode the horse to
orders. J. T. Williams, the owner of
Mahoney, is not here. The general
opinion is that Stoval who has figured
in a number of disreputable ——"
ing the last few years, was disappo ave
in some way and has tdid the story fdr
revenge. The judges say that if they.
can find the party who
Stoval, or, If they prove val is
-
ying, they will inflict the full