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,
>