Baines remission CONSTERNATION. The honeewife woke with sudden frizhs, About the hour of two, And, trembling, lay with gasping breath Not knowing what to do. All sorts of plans for safety sped Like lightning through her brain But still she was inanimate, Held fast by terror's chain Was there a burglar down below Revealed by Intel's elick, That made her heart almost stand still Aud every fibre sick? Was creaking step upon the stair, Had baby ceased to breathe, That she should take this Russian bath Or creeping chills receive? Was smell of smoke within the house, Had she forgot her prayers? Ob, no, she simply had not brough The silverware up stairs! Olives Step-Hothes. | “8he is the sweetest, dearest ereaturas In the world!” said Olive Ogilvie, en- ‘husiastically. ] “IHumph!” said Miss Jane Barrin ton. «Px ople didn’t use to talk so of stepmothers in my day |” “Bat then vou see,” retorted with the of who effectun silences al cumen never wus exactiy such a stepmother before. fix he's not self!” sai “And that she sympath pursuits so he y. “She married your poor, for a home, and to avoid the necessi of going out as a governess,” uttered Miss Jane Barrington with aeerbity. “Jt is false!” cried Olive. «Sh married him becanse she loved him.” “Huomph!” said Miss Jane Barrin: ton. “You're bewitched, i You're nader the glamour, if woman was, 1 agreeable awake Ogilvie; see you have “Not with spirit, as paused a second. “(), never mi Barri: ing her ey mischief. sy “Percei Ozilvi I do hate dark innn foes! thing to say, Miss on, do say it out, and have done with it. If not I'll go down to the river and see h the children are getting on with stone tito.” Thus driven to the wall Barrington said her say In the communi : ly be described. As I remarked bef re,” Barrington, “I am the last one mulgate idle reports; but it is qui plain to all disin erested eyes that vour young stepmot ! 1 widow whose deep weeds eeedingly becoming ——" “Do cried Olive, in an agony “It is quite the gossip of the place,” went on “that Mrs. Hayden Ogilvie is carrving on a lively flirtation with Albert Stanfield.” “With Albert Stanfield! Impossi- ble!” cried Olive incredulously. “Just what I should have said self,” said Miss piously. “If [ hadn't been an es withess to all her goir with her poor, dear first husband yet cold in his grave, and? “Be silent!” eried Olive, springing to her feet so suddenly that Miss Jane Barrington started backward and tumbled with more precipitation than grace over a square ottoman. “How dare you utter such slander ous falsehoods? And to me, of all other persons ifi the world, who owe everything to her loving eare, her more than maternal kindness! | mysclf for standing here to it!” And she swept away with the roval pace of a princess, her cheeks dyed earmine, and her eyes glittering like wrathfal stars, Btraight as an arrow she went to the sttit of apartmeuts occupied jointly by herself and her young stepmother at the “Crown Hotel”—a Summer resort of some celebrity among the moun tains that wall in the blue waters of a Camberland lake, The door was open, the soft Angust breezes blew the muslin window- draperies to and fro, and a piece of embroidery lay on the table with the needie yet sticking in its folds, and the thimble beside it. All the tokens of a recent presence were there, but the | room was empty. ‘She has taken her the little woodland spring,” said Olive to herself; and she ran down the cool, secluded path, where inter- | mingled sunshine and shadow made a moving checker-work at hier feet, eall- ing “Mamma—where are you, mar ma?” as she went. Bat no answer came. The woods and spring bubbled out in cool drops over the ferns that shadowed its pool, | the birds sang overhead, and that was wll. “Oh, dear!” said Olive to herself, “where can she be?” Bbe wandered along further down the glen, swinging her hat by its strings as she walked, her footsteps falling noiselessly on the velvet turf, until suddenly she pansed, stricken to she heart as keenly as if ao barbed ar- row had pierced her gnivering flesh. For, hidden away by the leafy cove | ert of tremulous birches and white pines, upon the moss-covered trunk of | Olive s i wir one “there rs older th » Barrington, Yervy reason all my interes inyvour- that ts and ear pa tha Teton ag 8 $3 maiicious Miss Jan , with a re » tion which o 4Li0n Willch can scm said » {0 pr her—the charming are so ex- §5y » On: oe of suspense, i he backbiter ii MOCK OIter, my. Jane Barrington, ow on, not EO des; listen to hook down to in her deep mourning robes, her face turned wistfully upward, while, in an atti- Stanfield leaned over her, Olive Ogilvie did not mean to listen : the was an honorable girl, witha keen of delicacy; but all volition seemed gone from her at the moment. She leaned, pale and trembling, against a tree, and could not but the words spoken within a throw of her. Believe me, sense ' up stone's Albert, I the treasure of your love,” Ogilvie, softly; “bat I do whether I am justified in your offer.” “Dear Mrs. Ogilvioe— suid Mrs. not accepting lutelv motioning him away, s&s you not premature? 3 time has elapsed since Mr, Ogilvie was laid in his grave?” “] have forgotten nothing,” the ar dent lover made reply. ¢“ Nor do I deem it any disrespect to the dead in that [ would fain extend the tenderness and protect who was dearest to him in life. that you will grant my praver. me but word of and I shall be happy.” “I must Mrs. Oril “Time retorted. ay Give one for vie answered, hesitating! ! tima! “ Yon have had tae enougl have time reflection,” ? ale 2 a1 x Stanfield impatien already . a matter of such i, you must rest con- you your answer to- 180 not forget the truth ; : ' - LMC deep 0yaity And it all, Albert; only he hotel now. Olive | it grows toward suu- , and Olive, wait- i. dead passiveness through the fy dell, took uld ever touch it unfinished ' A penny arain. novel. now goil n w hethe } i rried or not. “1'll go and liv Aunt Sarah.’ said Olive to herself. «Jt will be a life; but--but it’ i that's left to me now. [I de care for much variety or brightness.” “Olive, darling, where are you?” it was Mrs. Ogilvie's Mrs. Ogilvie's footstep: and although Olive would fain have fled from her presence it was so now, The young stepmother came up to her, and seated herself at the girl's side. “1 have something tell Olive.” Olive shrank Wa | olne with 4 onotonous i ntt voice, 0H IHRE 0 (in t late t i to you, away from the arch, questioning gaze of her stepmother's eyes, “] know what it is.” said she faint- Iy. “You are going to be married.” “I! My dearest child, what could possibly put such an idea into your head? You are the one who is married, if only you can bring your- self to say ‘yes’ to the suit of Albert Stanfield.” “Mammal” “He has been urging me for per- mission to address you this Jong time; but I have scarcely dared to consent, knowing how recent a time has elapsed since the death of your dear father. jut, perhaps, I have no right longer to object. He loves you tenderly and truly. He would lay down his life for you, and I believe him to be worthy even of my Olive. Shall I tel) him you will listen favorably to his suit 7” Like a burst of renewed sunshine after the blackness of a thunder- shower, Olive's face grew brilliant; and throwing her arms around her stepmother’s neck, she sobbed out, “Mamma, mamma, 1 have been wicked in my heart! Oh, mamma, can yon ever forgive me?” And then she told her story, ‘Go to Albert, my dear,” said her stepmother, smiling. “He will con vince you presently that all is right with your heart and his.” That was the end of Olive Ogilvie’s tribulation. And she still firmly per- sists in the belief that she has the best stepmother in the world. And Miss Jane Barrington is rather disappointed thau otherwise. I ————— or Must be Fresh, Shopkeeper—<Why don’t yon try some of these sausages? They are particularly nice, madam. . Mrs, Newwed—i<1 don’t know but I should like some of those. But are you sure those are fresh caught? Mr, Newwed said the perch this morning had been too long out of the water.” ~ America. to be wy Ir A woman oan deceive sanotlier wo- man she can succeed at anything. THE TOILETTE. The It lin ladies have a movereion ol- lowing: Take the white of afre-h ece, with this albumen, whi~h with fresh water, afterwards was off The result of this is which snvone who it cannot imagine: this method has the advantage of being same time removes all tan and rough- Bo many washes, creams, &o., are now being vsed which only injure the skin and yet do not snceeed in nu ak- ing people believe that the complexion is lovely and genuine. The above is the best thing to use in hot, sunny In winter give your face a bathi—~that is, wash it with | with glow, it wth a soit towel as if it were del Do not use a rough towel, and firm and are travelling, wash A lit- | tle tincture of benzoin in water is the | Levit 48 he French call it—and brightens toe complex.on | wonderfully, 8 minute afterwards cold | Drv | cate soft as If yon rin le IN THE ROUDOIR, Those who write decrying cold eream, | aapiaints of lat will hardly find accord with me. Th totle t necess sry has he led too many wind-buarnt | ps and chapped generations of to disrespectful word must be care ’ beaut “a sid of But there med in cold He It must be fresh, and only kept Il quantities, not to cxcced =» Almond oil, delieste as it is, pharm- the readiest of all Mu i oul hops, even rancid will delicate wind-burnt the i French pres almond t IN Oty or to scratched 1 nd To be sure of it : sie OF skin wants to get . ‘ . pigces wher th have a CE | cream, fre- : A Warm room or loset, may be expected to keep sweet just as long as a jar of ansalied butter, and you know how soon that would go good a conductor of ing to et creams, which preserve their quality thick queensware pottery l 1 yellow figured ware of the old Italian apothecaries, which is the delight of collectors, What Thin glass is too tin or Wood is also good to keep ointments not for the grease in most of An ointment, pomade or cream from the side of the But there is another reason why cold cream isn't what it used to be, malgre the cold bed-rooms and the prayers, It is a pity that cream which is 80 fine grained-—they beat it with an ed stirring with a silver spoon—and so | deliciously fragrant is guiltless of a particle ot rose water, ita place being taken by a few drops of rose oil and Now glycerine ia variable in char- acter, and more often than not very | impure and tinctured with frritatiog substances, which neither smell nor affect the skin pleasantly, The smell of m wt glycerine is ennugh to deter one from giving it a place on the toilet table, Vegetable glyccrines are the safest to nse, for much animal fat used in soapthaking 1s of too doubt ul qual- ity and the separation of the glyce ine too carel ssly done to recommend it, After reading the processes for separ- ating glycerine from soapfat and lano- lin from the seurvy refase of wool fao- tories, I do not eare to use either on my skin while there are unctions of cleaner origin, Vegetable glveerine from nut oils that are not rancid have | a wholesome start, and with dae puri- fying and redistilling commend Sor selves. But you can see why cold cream smelling like the vale of roses iteolf, its rich scent hiding almond oil | an little turned acd glycerine no better | than it should be, improved by keep- | ing #ix weeks on your toilet near the | register may be capable of effects like impure soap and only soothe as itis | first put on. : But cold eream of a earefal druggist who knows the minutim of his art of a reputable woman dealer in cosmetics, Notice that such women know enough to sell cold eream in dainty little pots, holding a great spoonful perhaps, which is enough for the lips and inside the nostrils or edge of the finger nails | as long ns it ean possibly be kept. And that js all in the best practios that cold cream is need for. A more nontral pre- paration is desirable for mas age, There ars Chinese skins which ean use cold eriam a lifetime without rais- | ing a hair, but most are different, and if you nse these mellow, oly, greasy applications well rubbed in by a mas- sour three or four times a week I am | much afraid after » while you won't i like the effect. Ff course it smells de licion ly an | feels grateful, sud if yon put it on your hands with kid gloves over or on your face, and 1 t it alone, the old way, it won't come to much burm, ‘Bat use either lanolin or cold cream faithfully with massage for a ses- son nnd you will wish you bhado’t. It 18 far better t)» use the «il and the the body and let the fuce beue it by retle. action, But that is a — -———— {THE FEAST OF ROSES. A remarkably pretty festival and parade took place two rummers ago in the Boyul Botanie Gardens, in London, Was 14 imitation of a similar show in the carnival Nice, Italy, and consisted of a number of carringes and horses profusely decor- ated with fresh flowers, One equipage wus a viclorie and pair wit) all over the horses’ backs and heads the wheels were adorued w th white and vellow flowers, and were two ladies iu saliron with flowers, Another ecare 8 ornamented with four thous Jacyueminot roses and asparagus folmge., A wi puny-e rt, covered with white, sid yellow Glorie de D Jt Ii TORes, 3 driven by a little girl dres in wii with a sus'l ol Ink BUS HB her hat, A ed with White hilies, on a i red gladioli, with a canopy of La Frauce TOROHR slao FINES Ww and crimson eid (roses in wus Iriug body «f “ouy- ; ' dar.ven 3 ] diess festooned Next yollow TUses with aud past flicsing toilowed by a IU ID armor, ast ¢ ed with a marting TT yellow Lilie aud barberry le bield the “Union . red and fellows In cart «ll covered with sprays and sali pains, Ajart from the procession, flowers aled everywhere, poles and in the cked boats VOTY Os LOTS Wore 8, red gersuinm wihille scacin Lilo 3 fl fwo little r n velvet drew a mul- blue curt UWe KE, Maro ETAass, uspuarsgas ICRTIV € TE Wergion Was rev) of the royal fam Wales dist je disagreeabl d to Jung W ut this 18 expensive if the family is large. That other re- the old-sty'e washerwoman, who “takes both wash and the owner thereof, is nsually a last and des- perate How, is the de- sired re orm ‘0 be accomplished? About thirty years sgo, an exchange mforms us, the question was satisfac torily answered in Chicago, where some fifty women organized a co-operative In bdry, and in spite of some blunder ing in the management of it at first, re- duced the cost of the work one-half and made it an success, A fow years since, the writer countinnes, twenty. seven families of her acquain’ance combined, and ass'ste | the intelligent washerwoman of a ozen of the ho holds to organize, in her hired house, a lannd:y of very moderate proportions She was an English woman, a widow with two active and willing daughters, With 8 small ontfit ol washing- machines, wringers, mangles, boilers, flat-iron heaters and set wash-tubs, the e three women laundered for the entire twenty-seven iamilies. Other families joined the organization, tl number reached thirty-eight. Nothing wos received after vine o'clock Mond y morn ng, and everything was returned t: the owners by Thursday night in beautiful smoothness and whiteness, The women purchased their own stareh, fue!, blueing, soap and other necessary supplies, by wholesale, thus getting the most for their money. They also did mending and repairing for some of the families. The business was continued, affording a comfo table income to the women and a vast deal of comfort to their employers, until the death of the mother and the marriage of one of the daughters, This he narrator says, redunoed the washing and ironing one-third to the families interested, nnd took out of their houses cities 1 Troy laundris BOUTS sus” Tid resort. Hen, a dental to the disagreeable work. : In the light of such saccess s, again we say, why not? —-——- England's Poor Clergymen, Hereafter no clergyman in the English Church will be allowed to hold brewery stocks, a hole in the incomes of many clergy- men, who have been in the habit of investing in this gilt-edged stock. New York Tribane. Ix Anstrin women are employed to carry the mortar and brick to the builders. They work from seven in the morning till six at night with one hour at noon, and receive twenty cents a day. Mot of these female hod- carriers are unmarried and homeless, whole of Bonth Greenland is covered with a sheet of ice that is from 5000 to 6000 feet deep in the valleys EARNING MONEY WITH FLOWERS, The meanest lawer th Thoughts that do often Wordeu of our women, articles Five In econtinnation florienitnre for week #8 narrated to mgt “pe far Acros an this exnerience of th & Young woman 1 a writer for the Wash n Mar Ye Yer near le care, open deep, is kept hilled posts are stuck in ale ir hem. Ge ined upon sixteenth of an acre sweet peas and it brought in a cle r 8200 from the sale of the blooms. “Another flower 1 am dablia, whiel very much handsomer than the double dalilia, yon know. I plant the balbs, which I propagate myself, the last of May, and the plants begin to flower about the last of Angust, keeping on until frost. 1 manage to keep them going for some time later than would otherwise be possivle by hghting fir s on cold nights at the ends of the rows In this way I get them over the first frosty speil, after which there is usaal- ly a season of quite warm weather, so that frequently my dahlias are bloom- ing beautifully up to the end of No- vember, “I try ‘o make the fl \wers I grow al- ternate, 80 t at when one sort stops blooming another begins, My violets are flowering from the last of Beptem- ber to the end of April; then come the roses through the summer and the sweet pease, ‘with dahlias in the fall and violets again until spring. Yon ean perceive that my way of growing flowers does not make necessary any large investment in green-honses or otherwise. Ihere is a great deal in the proper packing of fliwers for mar. ket. For example, wiolets must be placed in bunches in pasteboard boxes, with waxed paper folded loosely aronnd them. They must not be touched with water, because to do so will take away their sweetness. : There is money in the business, prop- erly pursued, and more women ought to go into iL" FLORAL DEC RATIONS, Another paying business might be bailt up in the large cities by making | a specialty of decorating honses for | parties, weddings, ete. A bright, yonng woman who had an eye and taste for ; artistic and unique combinations, wonld | nodoubtedly, be in constant demand. She shonld make a stady of her bnsi- ness and learns the preferences of hor employers, THE CHINESE BAORED LILY. This beantifnl flower is of the poly. authus narcissus variety and is one of the pretiiest flowers imaginable for | house enitare. It need: but a shallow "dish kept filled with water and some pebbles for the roots fo eling to, and 10 anchor the bulbs, It will bloom in ‘four wecks or less from the time of starting and is most fragrant and fa ry. like in its besuty. If yon wish the | flowers for Easter they should be sot . abont the first of Mareh. There 1s a Cliuzese legend connected with the flower whie of two , brothers, to the elder of whom his ‘father left large possessions, wlnle one ful with is the single AA PATS poor and barren acre was given to the y mnger BOT. The e'der soon squandered his prop- erty in riotons Living winle the younger became a desolate wanderer. One day, becoming foot sore and weary, he lay down beside the brook ond slept, when there appeared to Lum a spirié or waler-uvmph who told him fo take of the bulbs snd flowers which grew free- iy about hic sand plast them in his barren fleld, when if he wonld love and enre for them they would make his for- tune, On awaking he followed the suggestion and nj on New Year's dav his once des- garden presented such a wilder- ness of bloom that pe ple came from far and near to see. He sold the bulbs to the rich for fabulous sums and gave them away to the sweet char- ity's sake, Becom'ng rich he bought ulate | OOF for back his father’. large estate, and it is , ®aid that his family still raise the bulbe f upon this far which their chief irce of tappiie. On the Chinese sw Year's day these bulbs are seen ng in every window, and good be coming year is supposed to tus nes who ean have n that day. BLOWY is , with {f a rare and deli- white Ten Health Commandments, Thou shalt have no a food atl Olli SOITOW or } Vr us and rer t b UY Gilad Augry Bumble Bees. Edvard 1} of Jeffersonvie, nty, knows, by sorry ex- st Tend AUC onous the sting of 2 BOI times is, for Le came very | near dving a few dave a rom the effects of several which he re- had He was mowing in a field the 5th inst., when he happened to run his ceived from bees, whose nest be disturbed. on his father’s farm Friday, scythe into a bumble bee's nest, and in an instant the bees were and before them they had s about the head neck. Almost instantly the parts in which the stings Angry swarming about his head, he could escape from stung him several tims face the and sna on ! had been inflicted began to swell, and bad that his face was unrecognizable, and his throat that his windpipe was almost closed up, and it difficulty that be A physician wae summoned with all speed, and when the swelling soon became #0 enormously large was: with great breathed at all. he arrived he found the young man almost suffocated. Remedies to nen tralize the effects of the poison in the young man’s system were at once ad- minisiered and he was soon better and is now thought to be out of danger. i [Kingston Leader. a ———— Making Matters Worse, A writer in the “Business Women's Journal” advocates a dress with seven pockets for business women. That will not do atall,. Think of a man i attempting to find his wife's thimble in a dress having seven pockets. With such inventions wonder that the lenatic asylums are overcrowded wo The poople of Tyre were such experts in dyeing that the Tyrian purple remains unexcelied to this day, The Egyptians were also wonderful dyers, and could. produce colors so darabile that t.ey may be called lmperishable, SA A A curio 1s searfpin worn by a Nashville {(Tenn.) a man ia a petrified human eye, set jo a gold frame, The present owner of this singular orament found it In Peru while he was on an exploring tour in the land of the Incas with a party of scientists, >
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