A PERFECT DAY.
White roses are swaying,
4nd meekly displaying
eir shell fashioned petals
So fragile and cold,
While bluebirds are fiving
Where alders are sighing,
The winds on the wavelets
The lilies unfold,
O'er meadows the brightest
Drift clondlets the whitest,
Down softest and bluest
Of summery skies,
The apple tree twinkles,
And in the air sprinkles
ts blossoms that flutter
Like white butterflies,
The Sristal brook gushes,
The wild flower blushes,
Yhe trailing arbutus
Is pink on the slope;
The valleys a-tremble,
That Eden resemble,
Are sunny and fragrant
With kisses of hope.
Oh, hours serenest ;
The roslest, greenest,
Gold-vestured and gracaful
AS SWaDS on a stream!
Qur souls keep repeating,
“Oh, wherefore so fleeting,
Like faces we only
Can see in a dream?”
Youth's Companion,] [(R. K. MUXKITTRICK.
masa A ME QP
JENNIE'S COMMENCEMENT.
“I handed in my essay yesterday, for
corrections, you know,” said Jennie
Lander, at the breakfast table, one
morning late in May.
“And when is it you graduate?” ask-
ed her father.
“Four weeks from to-day commence-
ment is.”
“] wasn’t thinking it was quite so
soon,” said her mother,
“‘Nor I, either,” said Mr. Lander.
“Commencement! I don’t see what
they call it a ‘commencement’ for, when
it isn't the beginning, but the ending,
commented ten-year old Marian.
Jennie did not answer. To her it
beginning of life, in earnest, though all
pleased her, as though there was com-
vice.
“I think,” said the mother, ‘itis
in the season. 'lhey conferred the de-
year instead ot at its close, didn't
they?”
But no one seemed to know, and no
one answered.
“I guess,” said the father, ‘‘yon’d
better let Jennie get her fixings out of
that money Cane paid me for the wood
from the back lot—if there's enough
left.”
I guess it will do.”
say they can get things enough cheaper
to more than save the fare, and they
see a better assortment to choose
from.”
‘Well, you must do as your mother |
thinks best about that. If she's will-
ing, I am,” rejoined Mr. Lander, as he
rose from the table and went out.
Said the mother—but just recovered
from a long illness, and still weak and
thin—*Bun to my drawer and get that
old wallet, dear, and we'll look it over.” |
“Yes,” she went on,
about enough, as I thought.”
:
i
‘vou were going to have a new Spring
dress out of that wc od money, and you
haven't even anything to wear to grad- |
uation.” i
v “Well,” was the reply, with a little
igh, ‘se can only have all theres, |
you know. The doctor's bill was so
high, and your father had to havea
coat; but 1 guess maybe therell be |
some other way to
manage, somehow.’
To “manage somehow,” meant, in all
robability, to go without, Jennie |
new, and she thought remorsefully of
convalescence.
to add to the old, and the two or three |
mouey; and now her mother had only a
shiny black silk, years out of date, and
her much-worn black cashmere to
choose from for a Spring toilet.
She went about her morning work
with a sober face; the proapectof & new
the real flowers she was going to wear,
did not rejoice hir as she had
it woald.
Her mother was looking over some
little dresses of Marian's.
“When you go upstairs, Jennie,” she
said, “I wish you'd go to that small
trunk and get those things Aunt May
sent ua, ero are two or three snm-
mer dresses of Cousin Lena's. I be-
lieve that mull was her gradcatiug
for Marian.” :
. Bo a few minutes later the young girl
took from the trunk she had been reut
to, a gingham, somewhat worn, a lizht
eambrie, and, fapetally wre d inn
paper: a dress of fine white tinll, made
the fashion of a few years before, It
had evidently been worn only once or
twice, for it was not soiled.
“My, what quantities of cloth ihre
= fhit! It is just as good as new,
end #5 fine and pretty, If it were mull
I wanted now" —
How swift was the thought that flash-
ed through her mind--yet it was not
unite a welcome one—*‘I could take
this for graduation, and then mother
could have her dress.”
Her chin d into her hand, and
she sat quite still. "If I don’t, mother
ean’t have a thing,” and she knew how
little her mother’s wardrobe held, and
she was ashamed to own to hersell how
hard it was to give up her own cherish-
ed plans. She the dress in 1ts
Frappingn and laid it with the others
at head of the stairs, that she might
pee it when she went down, and went
to setin order her own little room. It
was Job early when it wasdone,
oat
4 another's burdens, and so fulfill the
{law of Christ.”
| she re-entered the sitting-room,
It will make a nice graduating dress,
ean have yours.”
“But you wanted a cashmere.”
as pretty as we can. 'L'hat mone
get your dress and my little things,
too.’
Once formed, her decision was final.
gown, and visions of the clinging cash-
mere she had renounced would some-
resolutely turned away, It was hard
not to go with the girls on their de-
hightful shopping expedition on Satur-
day; but sie drove Boe mother down
town 1n the old carriage, and forgot her
disappointment in the pleasure of choos-
ing her mother's dress of soft, fine
wool, a dark gray, with silk enough to
trim it and make a little bonnet; and
when, after her little fineries had been
chosen and paid for, there remained
money enough for a pair of gray kids,
to offset her own white ones, and some
dainty ruching to match her own laces,
she feit herself well paid.
The mull gave no hint of previous
service when its fresh, snowy folds were
draped about Jennie's slender form.
All her flowers were real ones, and she
she looked over to where the little
mother sat, Commencement Day, in
her pretty gray dress, with such tender
pride in her kind eyes. And the mother
was thinking, as I do, that such an act
| Rule,
tm AI HO ——————
Don't Kiss My Baby.
| is a pestilent practice, says T. P. Wil-
| son M. D. in the Old Homestead.
We use the word advisedly, and it is
{ mild for the occasion.
{ would be the proper word, did the
| kissers know the mischief they do.
you remember calling on your dear
| friend, Mrs. Brown, the other
with a strip of flannel around your
| neck? And when little Flora came
dancing into the room, didn't you
ounce upon her demonstratively, call
po a precious little pet, and kiss her?
Then you serenely proceeded to
scribe the dreadful
kept vou from prayer-meeting the
night before. You had no designs on
i the dear child's li , we know; never-
theless you killed her! Killed her as
| surely as if yon had fed her with strych-
nine or arsenic.
Your carelessness was fatal. Two or
three days after the little pet began to
complain of a sore throat too. The
symptoms grew rapidly alarming, and
de -
sore throat that
To-day
a little mound is the sole memento of
Of course the mother does
not suspect, and would not dare to
The doctor
—that would be impolitic il not cruel
—but to an outsider he is free to say
that the child's death was due directly
to your stupidity.
his words; and who shall say, under
the circumstences, that they are not
justifiable?
It would be hard to tell how mach of
the prevalent iliness and mortality from
diphtheria is due to such want of
mistake it for a simple cold, and
cold is not contagious, they think not
Taking into consideration the well es-
ly, if not always, communicated by di-
rect transplanting of the malignant
vegetation which causes the disease,
tain means of bringing the contagion
to ita favorite soil than the act of kiss-
ing, and the farther fact that the kiss-
ing of children on all occasions is all
but universal, it is not surprising that,
| when the disease is once imported into
a community, it is very likely to be-
| come epidemic,
Jt would be absurd to charge the
spread of diphtheria entirely to the
practice of child-kissing. here are
other modes of propagation, though it
is hard to conceive of any more direct-
ly suited to the spread of the infection
or more general in its operation. It
| stands to diphtheria in about the same
relation that promiscuous hand-shaking
| formerly did to the itch. It were bet-
ter to avoid the practice. The chil-
| dren will not suffer if they go unkissed,
{ and their friends ought for their sake
i to forego the luxury for a sesson. A
i single kiss has been known to in'ect a
| family, and the most careful way be in
| without knowing it. Beware tien of
| playing Judas,and let the labies alone.
-—-—-—
A Strange Incident Occurred
Bombav Recently.
A monster meeting of Hindoo bar-
bers was held for the purpose of con-
sidering the question of the impro-
priety of shaving tbe heads of Hindoo
widows, and tbereby disfiguring them
for life. About 400 barbers baving as-
sembled, one of them, named Babajee
More, read a pamphlet 1 Mahra' ti, in
which he stated that $hé bashers of vid
were happy and contented, iy
as though a curse had descended
on their heads, trade had fallen
off and they bad become poor. The
curse could only be accounted for by
the fact that they were committing a
great sin iu shaving the reads of poor,
innocent widows, thus depriving them
of thelr bess ornament. It was against
the Hindoo Scriptures to deprive a
widow of her hair, and doubtless it was
the Subnes of widows that had lowered
their i
a resolved
should shave a widow's
it he did he
cated,
in
and that
lke the stars
History of ta Umbrella.
MARY A. WELCOME,
Though as a shade the umbrella is of
! @éeat antiquity, yet it was not, ased as
a protection against rain till avons two
hundred years ago in France, and later
in England. Layard, in hisdiscoveries
at ancient Nineveh, fonnd that the nm-
brellas carried to shield the king against
the sun were similar to those now in
vogue in form and were highly orna-
mented. It was also a luxury of Greece
and Rome.
Thomas Coryat, the famous traveler,
| who introduced forks from Italy into
| England, after describing the fans of
| the Italians, says: ‘‘Many of them do
carry other fine things of a far greater
price, that will cost at least a ducat (5s.
| 6d.) which they commonly eall in the
| Itahan tongue wumbrellacs; that is
| things that minister shadow unto them,
! for shelter against the scorching heat of
| the sun. These are made of leather,
| something answerable to the form of a
| little canopy and hooped in the inside
| with divers little wooden hoopes, that
| extend the umbrella into a pres large
| compasse. They are used especially
| by horsemen who carry them in their
| hands when they ride, fastening the
| end of the handle upon one of their
| thighs; and they impart so long a shad-
| ow unto them that it keepeth the heate
of the sun from the upper part of their
|
i
i bodies.
Ben Johnson mentions the umbrella
in a comedy of 1616, and in Beaumont
{ and Fletcher's “Rule a Wife and have
a Wife.”
| Altea says:
i
i
i
{ “Are you at ease? Now is your heart at rest?
Now you have got a shadow, or umbrella,
To keep the scorching. world's opinion
From your fair credit.’
Swift, in the Tatler, October,
{| mentions the umbrella in “The
{ Shower."
1710,
City
i
“The tucked up seamstrass walks with hasty
strides,
While streams run down her oiled umbrella’s
sides.”
Gay says:
“Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood’s disguise ;
Or underneath the umbreila’s olly shed,
Safe through the wel on clinking patiens
tread.
General Wolf, writing from
1752, says: ““1lhe people here use um-
brellas in hot weather to defend them
from the sun, and something otf the
same kind to save them from the
i and rain. I wonder a practice so usefu
is not introduced in England.”
It was about that time that Jonas
Hanway, lately returned from Persia,
used an nmbrelia in the streets of Lon-
don and was hooted at for it. It was
considered so effeminate and was so
much ridiculed that for a long time no
one else would use one.
In 1770, one John Macdonald, a foot-
man, appeared in publie with a fine
silk umbrellas that bie had brought from
Spain, and was saluted with the cry of,
“Frenchman, why don't you get a
conch? Yet there is mention made ot
umbrellas being kept at coffee-houses
at an earlier period. We read that in
the Female Tatler, December 12th,
nouncement: ‘The young gentleman
| in the fear of rain, borrowed the um-
| brella at Weil's Coffee-House, in Corn-
i hill, of the mistress, is hereby adver-
| tised that to be dry from head to foot
{on the like occasion, he shall be wel-
{ come to the maid's pattens.” By this
| it would seem that the custom of bor-
| rowing this useful article and not re-
| turning it, dates back to its early in-
| troduction.
| Weread of one Dr. Shebbare,
who
| for some political diatribe gave offence
| to the government, was tried and sen-
| tenced to stand one hour in the pillory
{and be imprisoned for three years
The sheriff,
| Beardmore by name, was of the same
| political principles and so he bad the
| culprit conveyed to the pillory in one
{ of the state coaches, and a servant in
| livery was engaged for a guinea to hold
| an nmbrells over the Doctor's bead to
{ protect him from the rain.
i ve
| holes made for that purpose, but, un-
| confined stood at his ease.
| Churchill, an infamous man and
| would-be poet, thus refers to the mat.
ter:
| “Where Is Shebbeare? O let not foul reproach
| Travelling thither in a city-eoach
| The pillory dare to name ; the whole intent
Of tF ¢ parade was fame, not punishment,
And nt old staunch whig, Beardmore, stand-
Can + tel count give that reproach the le.”
The sheriff was tried by the King's
Bench for his failure to do his duty in
| the case and sentenced to pay a fine of
| £50 and suffer two months’ imprison-
ment.
It is related by Dr. Cleland that
about the year of 1781 or '82, Mr, John
Jameson, a surgeon, brought with him
from Paris to Glasgow, an umbrella,
which attracted universal attention. It
was made of heavy mixed cloth with
ghizo ribs, and was a very ponderous af-
r
It is anthoritatively stated that there
are more than 7,000,000 umbrellas made
every year in the United States alone,
and these, if placed in single file, al-
lowing three feot space for e would
borg ealumn more than 00 miles
long. ~ Housekeeper,
A OS LL
Cut This Out.
Mishaps are like knives, that either
serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by
the blade or the handle.
Cambridge Thirty Years Ago,
Julia. There are too many week-days
for one Sunday,
Valdesso. Then take the Sunday with
you through the week
And sweeten with 1t all the other days.
Michael Angelo,
One class of men must have their
faith hammered in like a nail, by au-
thority; another class must have it
worked in like a scrow, by Srgumant.
The Pulpit and the Pew.
Every master has fonnd his materials
collected, and his power ia bia
Iny
pathy with his and
Ci pg go
in.
M
{ This was December, 1758,
AR
Wrmorr a
3, 0 man oan
COOL DELICACIES.
Ices that Can be Made by Any Good
Housewife,
How to make a really very nice ice-
eream should be one of the sceomplish-
ments of every good housewije. As a
rule this cmnot be bought, because
people are not willing to pay the high
price charged by first class caterers,
and it really is not very much trouble
if one knows how, to make a delicious
cream that is worthy of putting on the
dinner table. A plate of ordinary ice-
cream such as we get at any restaura-
teur's is very nice in its way, but is
not what one expects from a nice fam-
ily table. Btrawberry cream, if made
properly, is a great delicacy. Put in
a vessel half a pound of powdered
sugar and six egg-yolks, Mix well with
a spatula for ten minutes, then add one
pint of boiling milk, stir for two min-
utes longer and pour the whole in a
copper basin. Place 1t on the hot
stove and with the spatula, stir gently
at the bottom until well heated, but it
must not boil. Take from the fire, set
it on the table, then immediately add
a pint of sweet cream, mixing again for
two minntes. Add a half a pint of
well-picked and clean strawberries.
Mix well with the spatula for two min-
utes, then strain through a fine sieve
into the freezer, pressing the straw-
berries through with a wooden spoon.
temove the sieve, cover the freezer
and proceed to freeze.
Peaches and apricots from
South make a delightful
Put in a vessel half a
of powdered sugar with mix
the
cream.
pound
ten minutes. Add a pint of boiling
pour the whole into a copper basin.
"lace it on the hot stove and heat
not letting it boil. Remove, lay it on
the table and mix in immediately one
pint of sweet cream; then leave it to
{cool for thirty mifutes, Have six
{ nicely, cut them in two, remove
| stones, then mash into the eream,
{ing thoroughly for three
| Strain through a fine
mix-
minutes,
Kleye into a
{ with a wooden spoon; then proce d to
freeze.
Pineapple water-ice is one of the most
delicious delicacies, and it can be made
nearly
| pineapples ean most always be gotten in
market. Cut a small, ripe pineapple
in two, Nearly all of the pineapples
are fine for this purpose excepting the
| Porto Rico pines. Po sud peal one-
{ half neatly, then eut it into small
Place these pieces in the mor-
tar and pound them thoroughly to a
pulp. Ten minutes will suflice for this,
add halfs pound of powdered sugar and
pound again for ten mmates Trans
fer the whole into a vessel. Nqueez
in the juice of three sound lemons, then
pour in a quart of cold water and max
well with a spatula for two minutes
Strain through a fi sieve into the
i
#
a
“
Cover with the lid and
The housewife will find these ice-
should always be made by her, because
servants, no matter how good, are not
hkely to measure exactly, which must
be done if the result isto be a sue
cons,
The most important thing to
Jhehes her attention. About the last of
ane and from that time onward, when
the grass grows “fat,” is the time for
fine milk, Six centsa quart is charged
for milk sold in the store or dairy, and
7 cents is charged for fine milk left at
the house, Milkmen y three and a
half cents a quart. Twenty five cents
a quart is charged for cream and 13
cents for a pint. Battermilk is three
cents a quart. Twenty-two cents is
charged for butter, and 1t is now lower
than at any time since the war.
has been for the last year one cent a
quart cheaper than it was formerly.
ity Inspectors go about weekly at
odd times and are very strict in their
examinations of the milk and cans,
Perfumes and Spices.
“At every breath were balmy odors shed
Which still grew sweeter as they wider spread,
Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales
Or spices breathing in Arabian gals.” Porn
“Nard and saffron and calamus and
cinnamon with all trees of frankin-
cenve, Jite myrrh with hign aloes and
all kind of spices.” Taroom.
From time immemorial the sense of
smell bas been the source of great
pleasure and satisfaction. The nose,
that unappreciated member, warns us
from poison and malaria, assists the ap-
petite by its keen peréeption of savory
odors, and affords us sensations of de-
light in the exhalations of sweet-scented
flowers and delicate perfumes.
The half-starved street gamin in the
humorous picture, who stood by the
ares railing announcing the various
dishes as they were sent steaming to
the table wi “Now they're sendin’
up the roast chicking, Jimmie,” snd
“Come ‘ere if Jou wants to smell the
lam-puddin’,” was g as anal
fred pleas go in his way as the fastid-
nous epiou. Mover his highly-seasoned
dishes.
Milton, in “Paradise Lost,” repre-
sents Eve as decking her bower with
“flowers, garlands and sweet-smelling
herbw,” preparing for her table, ‘‘fruite
with savoury odors, grateful to a
tite” and “burnished with golden ;"
She was but a type of our modern
housewives with their stores of
Jragram with lavender and rose
cato sachets, their Toomadwesh with
tem
a er oy -gnthered flow-
4%, spicy salads Sud Suite of fairest
colors mixed, ruddy and gold.”
Ia earliest times pacified their
«fix months with oil of
i
| paration.
months with sweet
myrrh and six
odors,”
In modern times we have learned to
| attacn more importance to thorough
| ventilation, scrupulous cleanliness and
' frequent bathing than to perfumes and
spices.
| This is as it should be, but where is
| the descendant of Eve who does not
{ love the fragrant appliances of the toi-
let, exquisite perfumes, scented washes
| for teeth and hair, dainty pastilles for
| famigation and faint, subtle sachet
powder for handkerchief and laces?
| Ifound lately in an old “Vade Me-
{ eum” which has been in the family
| ever since I was born, a confused jum-
| bie of recipes for cordisls, cosmetics,
| court-plaster, coloring and eorapounds
{ of all imaginable sorts, Among them
| was the once famous “Virgin's Milk”
{ or “Milk of Roses,” than which there
{ is no more useful and desirable toilet
{ adjunct. It soothes chapped faces,
| conceals wrinkles and 1s a most refresh-
| ing bath mixture,
It is, simply: Two drachms tincture
of benzoin, 8 oz. orange flower water,
| Or you may use two ounces of the
tincture and a quart of rainwater with
| whatever perfume may be preferred
! Resp tightly corked and use clear on
{ the face Jetting it remain on st night.
| A few tablespoonfuls added to the bath
{is very refreshing, Here is another
{ lotion for sunburn and freckles:
| Mariatic ammonia, 1 drachm, laven-
| der water, 2 drachms, rain water, one
| pint; apply with a sponge two or three
| times a day.
Here is, also, a “Cosmetic simple,”
which I give for what 1t 18 worth:
“Melt one half-pound scented Sop
with a little water until soft; add a gill
|of sweet oil and a half teacupful of
fine sand; stir the mixture until cold.
This cosmetic has been for years past
{used by many ladies remarkable for
Seg?
Oatmeal mized with water
juice of a lemon, addi also
and the
a
ng
| and excellent preparation for smooth-
ing and whitening the skin.
ih ever used is given below. It is
| the so called ‘Glycerine jelly of vio-
lets."
What Shall Wedo Wii h the Children.
In the current number of the Pusi-
ness Woman's Journal,” Madame FP.
De Hart, M. D., concludes an article
entitled “What Shall we do with the
Children,” as follows:
“The essentiale for the healthy devel-
opment of children are plain, nutri.
ous food, eaten regularly, suitable
clothing, free and unrestrained exer.
cises of all the muscles, and abundance
of fresh air and sunlight, and all the
undisturbed sleep which these will in.
duce. If any one of these is lacking,
the health will soon deteriorate. There
will be a lack of s:tality which may be
shown in many ways, even before
pronounced symptoms of disease ap-
pear. These signs are so small at first
that they are liable to be unnoticed, ex-
except by ar intelligent and vigilant
observer: for all there is to attract st-
tention is a slight loss of appetite, an
indisposition to play, or an inability to
sleep as well as nsual. When one of
these appears, others soon follow if
some remedial measures are not com-
menced, because there is such an inti-
mate sympathetic connection between
all the parts of this most wonderful
human machine that one eannot suffer
without involving all the others; there-
fore we should notice the first dgvia-
tion from health before the situation
becomes complicated, when diagnosis
is easy and cure almost certain. The
physician is rarely called in for such
cases, and thev sre entireiy neglected
or, what is worse, domestic remedies
are administered indiscriminately with-
out regard to their fitness for the case,
and the mother is disappointed when,
as many times happens, many other
disturbances are added asa result of the
medicine; then she loses her confidence
and sends for a physician.
“The stomach is the most frequently
out raged organ, and imptoper food
and irregularity in eating, the most
frequent causes of sickness in children.
much of the depravity not only in them
but in their mothers, teachers, and
for ill-health and ill-temper
“We are too apt to forget that chil-
' with violet.
with orris root. The pure juice of the
strawberry cleanses the teeth of tartar
and makes them dazzlingly white.
I prefer to everything else, a wash
myrrh in a glass of weter.
the gums, purifies the 1 and does
not injure the enamel of the teeth. A
tablet for cleansing the uth is made
as follows:
Seven drachms chlorate of lime, 8
drachms pulverized sugar, drachms
gum arabic, and a little powdered lico-
rice. Mix to a paste with warm water
and shape into tiny tablets. The mouth
should be well rinsed after using.
For those who suffer from profuse per-
spiration an excellent powder for dust.
ing stockings and
made of one half pound fine starch, two
ounces orris root, and a tablespoonful
of powdered myrrh.
It bardens
breatl
m
om
bs J
as follows:
Camphor, one ounce; oil cloves, one
and thyme each, thirty grains; glacial
acetic acid, one-half pound. Mix and
shake occasionally until the eamphor
| is dissolved. A tablespoonful in a basin
dents peculiar to healthy young life;
and if severe pensities are attached to
we do when other
of character present themselves? I
member hearing of an old man who
with a young father
Says he:
are trying to bring him up on a one
hundred-foot lot, when what he re-
quires is as much room asa coit-a ten-
acre field.” And I once heard a father
who was trying to read in the room
with his young son who was playing
korse, after reproving him several
times for being noisy, exciaim at
a man of forty years? If the natural
outlets for pent-up enthusiasm and ex.
these expansive forces are lisble to
infinitely worse, be really killed by
this nnwise repression.
“Let the children play and makes
philosopy of old age, for if we should
succeed, most of the joy of the world
ling rooms and counteracting noxions
{ odors. Our French cousins make con-
| seen here, except occasionally in sick-
{ rooms,
withouts” in our family and I will give
| two recipes for making, both of which
are good, ¥
I. 2} oz. pure charcoal; } oz. each,
gam storax and oblibanum; § oz. mitre;
this forms a base to which may be add-
ed perfumes as desired. For rose pas-
filles: Attar of roses and oil of gerani-
am. Oil neroli gives an orange flower
perfume. Oil vanilla, cloves and cedar
make a pleasant addition to the base; of
cach a few drops nore or less as de-
gired. The gums must be soaked toa
thick jelly before making up.
I1. 2 oz. charcoal, § oz. myrrh; § oz
pulverized beunzoin; § oz. pulverized
mitre; § oz. vial filled with mixed oils;
ronella &e. Make a thick paste with
gum stagaonnth which has been soaked
over night in water enough to cover it
Mould with the fingers into little
cones and set in a cool place to dry.
Then cork tightly in a can and put
away for use. They will improve with
age. Burn them on coals or by light.
ing with a match. The ‘steam of rich-
distilled perfumes” will penetrate into
every corner of the room deodorizing
the air and thoronghly fumigating the
apartment. They do not simply cover
UP Jaxions smells, as one may see at a
glance. Charcoal and nitre are among,
our most valued disinfectants; pica
too, have always been held in hig es:
teem for their purifying q ties,
When the Dutch destro the clove
trees in certain of the Molucea I
in order to raise the price of spices of
which trade they had control, epidem-
Thi ow pe aba hen
w the people
struction of trees,
It 1s said that perfunmers, chemists
and their smployes are notably exempt
from walarious influences,
A delicate perfume made in much
the same way as tho pastes above, was
sold in the streets of New York last
winter under the name of “Water Lily
candles.” They wore made into tiny
Japa and set in a fairy candlestick of
ras,
When ted in the booths they
would scent the street tor a block away
with their light cloud Be bn
Ir haven't an but
tron at Thing. but your
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close
Upon the growing boy,”
he can tesch
“For trailing clouds of glory, do we
come
From God, who is our home.”
“Children need a great deal of judi-
cious letting alone. Over-anxious par
ents forget thst much which they de-
plore is immaturity and will be out-
grown just as quick y and much more
happily by being ignored than by be.
everlastingly corrected. How
many children are injured in health
and disposition by this unreasoning
irritation, and made to dread the pres-
ence of those who love them best and
who love them best and who would
willingly make any sacrifice for ther
good except to let them alone! Many
parents are so impatient that they
cannot wait for the natural develope
ment, making the mistake of those
who try to pick open the leaves of the
according to nature's slow process.”
Bright Green Roses,
“Green rores are not a rarity in Cali-
fornia,” said a florist to a San Fran-
cisco Call reporier the other day. “1
remember the first one that 1 ever saw
in San Francisco, That was thirty-five
years ago. It was at Walker's Golden
Gate nursery. Dut before that date I
bad seen a green rose in Eorope. I
think that it was in 1850 that one was
exhibited in Germany at a grand expo-
sition,
“A green rose is nothing but a hy
brid, and like all hybrid roses it grows
hardy, healthy and tall. Some speci
mens are larger than others but they
are about the same, None of them
have any perfume, Its petals resemble
green leaves, By skiliful cultivation a
green rose was produced from a rose
Whee » sepals bad the leaf characteris
6,
“How are the green roses propo-
gated, by cuttings?" asked the reporter,
“Yes,” was the reply, ‘by cutti
laveiing and suckering, but chiefly
peels. The green rose Las stamens
and pe They are a delicate green-
ish pink, and if you were to
the coum crowded green petals
other, in the centre, you
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