LADIES* DEPARTMENT. What tho IJIrl. (Should l.rarn. By all moans let the girls learn how to cook. What right has a girl to marry and go into a house of her own nnless she knows how to superintend evory branch of lions okoeping, and sho aanuot properly snporintend unless she has somo practical knowledge of her self. Most men marry without thinking whether the woman of his choice is capable of cooking him a meal, and it is a pity he is so shortsighted, as bis health, bis cheerfulness, and indeed his success in life depend In a very great degree npon tho kind of food bo eats'- in fact tho whole housohold is influenced by their diet. Feed them on fried cakes, fried meats, hot bread and other indigestible viands, day after day, und they will need medicine to make them well. A man will take alcohol to conn teraot tho evil effects of such food, and the wife and children must be physicked. Let all the girls have a share in the housekeeping at home before thoy marry; let each superintend somo de partment by turns. It need not occupy half the time to see that the house has been properly Rwept, dusted and put in order, or to prepare paddings and mako dishes, that many young ladies spend in reading novels that enervate both mind and body and unfit them for every-day life. Women do not as a general rule get pale faces by doing house-work. Their sedentary habits, in overheated rooms, combined with ill chosen food, are to blame for bad health. Oar mothers used to pride themselves on their housekeeping and fine needle work. Why ahonld not we ? —fi'iUimnrc ,Sim. ParMla. The use of watered silk for parasols is a uow featnre. White Watered silk, with a shirred ruffle edged with Spanish lace, a bonqnet of roses at the top hold by a bow of laco, and a whit©-wood or other fancy handlo, forms the dressy parasol for drives in the park, and for midsummer at Saratoga, Newport, etc. There are also many red moire parasols with black Spanish laco frills, and oth ers of ecrn, pale bine, or old gold moire are ohosen with reference to certain toilets. The black watered silk par asol with or without the bouquet of flowers is offered to use with various costumes, and will rival thoso of black satin used last year. Alternate frills of white or black satin (pinked on the edges) and Spanish lace cover other handsome parasols. Cueokod black whit© silks, also checked silks that are watered, and striped satin with the stripes running around, are also used with the shirred frill. Among other white parasols, those with a frill of chine silk that looks like hand painting are very handsome. Black Spanish net is also laid over satin parasols—black, red or ecru—in the way it is used for dress waists and man tles. The polka-dotted laco is liked for this purpose. The only novelty in shape is the Bonlevard parasol, which is really as flat and straight as the Japanese shape. Shrimp pink is a fa vorite color for lining black, white, ecru or pale blue parasols. New sun umbrellas are of double-faced silk, with the outside changeable and the inside of a solid color ; for instance, a brown and red or green and red change able twilled silk will havo a dark red ou the inside. A bow of the change able side is tied on the handle. Bronso and hammered silver knobs are on the handles of umbrellas, while the para sols have a largo ring, or triangle, or hook made of the pretty whitewood of the stick. Thero is also a great deal of fine carving on handles of fine wood, and others are inlaid. Borne ebonised ■ticks are seen in black and dark-col ored parasols, but tho preference is for natural sticks of light woods, such as bamboo, tonquin, palm, cypreas, waug hee or orange, with thoso of vegetable ivory and oork mounted with silver.— Harper** Bazar. l-'a*hi*n Sun. Both small and large plaids are worn. Bicilienne is the stylish material for mantles. Cows and cats sro printed on Eng lish fabrics. The medium length dolman is the leading wrap. Paniers are fashionable, but not uni versally worn. Embroidery of all kinds is the feature of the season. Tho new draped bodices are jailed panier basques. The Lorraine is the largest of the largo hats worn. Fan bows of two wide plaited ends ornament tonrnures. Ecm batiste neckerohiefs have polka dots and scalloped edges. Bed bronxe is new for buttons and bnckles on chameleon staffs. " Dried roso leaf" is the namo of a tint that is to replace tea-rose color. Embroideries snd applique work in Moresque designs are very fashionable. A novelty in wall hangings ate gen uine velvets, which can be hung like wall paper. Kmbroidered apron overdrosses, highly draped, aro in groat vogue with tho n-sthotieally inolinod. Among otliar serviceable novelties aro tho white and bnfl Ganton pongees, plain or with printed designs. Tho deep pointed Cavalier, orOharloß 1., collara aro revived ax the newest ahapoa for ladies' laco neckwoar. Some of tho English walking jackets aro of plain cloth, others of cheviot, Melton and Gilbert mixtnros, and others again have metallic mixtures in light woolon cloths of various light and a-sthotio colors. The Tromblon is tho latest fancy hat of Paris. It has u broad brim hollowed out in tho back, is very becoming to most faces, and is worn by young, old and middle aged women, girla in their teens and little ones under twelvo. Satines and fine French cambrics aro more in demand at tho moment than light summer goods of any other de scription, and bright, aud soft tinted colors, harmoniously combined, form tho marked feature of most of these fabrics, Scotch zephyr ginghams have smaller plaids and cooler colors and shudes than lost year. The plain solid col ored pink, blue, buff and muuvo zephyrs come in the finest and most delicate shades, and are almost invaria bly embroidered on tho selvages. Tho latest caprice in Paris is the wearing of huge collars and cuffs crocheted of twine or linon thread. They are worn over dark woolen dresses, with a narrow white laco cr liese rucho abovo tho collar around tho neck and below tho cuffs around tho wrists. Those long black dolmans of bro caded satin and satin Hurah aro so elaborately trimmed with laco and pas sementerie and aro shnped so much like a long polonaise, that they can bo worn over a moderately trimmed silk, velvet or velveteen skirt, to form a dressy toilet. Medici lace mnch resembling fine torchon will bo mnch used for trimming children's snits, collars atd aprons this year. It has also proved a very durable trimming laco for undercloth ing. It comes in graceful but compact designs, and can bo more successfully lannderod than any other of the linen laces now in nso. hnnflower dresses have a huge sun flower embroidered in distinct parts of tho fabric, with wido spaces between the flowers or groups. Mado op by an artiotic- not fashionable—dressmaker, who knows how to manage the design withont giving the flower or groups too gToat prominence, the effect of such dresses is good. Other largo flowers are likewise utilized by embroidery for dross purposes. Jacknon and Benton. Charles CSibson, of Bt Louis, says President Lincoln need to tell n story of Andrew Jackson and Thomas II Benton. Benton and Jackson had long been at fend, and had not met for many years nntil Jackson was President and Benton Senator from Missouri. "It was in this room," said President Lincoln, nt the White House, "that their first meeting took place. Jackson was seated at this rcry table, when tho door yonder swnng open and Benton stalked in and stood silently in the middle of the floor. Jackson looked np and recognised him at once, and re collected at the same time that he bad no weapon to defend himself. Finally silent he got np, walkod to the door, locked it and put the key in his pocket, and went back to his seat. Then he said, 'Does this mean war or peace?' •It means peace,' said Benton. Jackson again rose, walked to the door, unlocked it, came back to his seat, and then said, 'Colons' Benton, I am pleaaed to see you. Take a chair.' All this time Benton wan standing ntatnesqnely in the room, neTer moving a mnsclo while Jackson was locking and nnloeking tho door, and the reconciliation between the two gentlemen was complete." An InAufT-rable Itoro. Brown in, to speak it politoly, an in sufferable bore A* aoon aa he stepped into Fogg's offioe the other day F gg took his heels off his desk, grabted np his pen and began scratching'awsy for doar life. "Good morning, Charlie," aid Brown. •' Morning," replied Fogg, withont looking np. " Bnsy this morning ?' asked the intruder. Fogg granted ont " No," and kept at work. " NoT exclaimed Brown in' astonish ment " Ton seem to be fall of busi ness." Another negatim grant. " Too sorely are not ont of work T" " Tea," said Fogg. "What! Ont of work I Then yon hare something in view F' Fogg dropped bis pen, gazed long and earnestly at Brown, and then calmly replied, " Nothing worth mentioning." It might hare been a mistake on Brown's part, bat he declares that that sooan drelly Fogg meant to insnlt him. He swears ha will nerer dst foot in Fogg's office again. And yet Fogg is not nn happy—Bottom IVatucript. Bilk culture in Louisiana has of late teooms a thriringindostry, ■ORAL AftD RELIGIOUS. One WT OR Casting Oat DSTIIS. A yonng minister in making a call on a friend who lived novetal miles out of towu took passage in the mail wagon, which already had two passengers. They were soldiers, and, being intoxi- quarreling fearfully. Their terrible oaths jarred npon sensitive ears and shocked tho heart long re fined by heavenly meditations. So violent was their language that the minister fearod they would inflict bod ily injury upon each other, and with tho sudden inspiration of genius he said: " Gcntlemon, don't bo cursing each other. If you must curse some body, curse the man who Hhot tho I'roa ident." At once all tie fury which they had been aiming at each other was concen trated npon Gnitean. With each hurst Of indignant speech new force was gained for tho next unset, snd they poured out the vials of their wrath most mercilessly. Young Cb ricus had accomplished his object in qnelling a personal quarrel, but bo wanted to calm tho men. Their auger was terrible. " That will do," said ho. " You couldn't make it any stronger if yon should try a month. Don't you wont me to sing to you ?" They wore ready to turn with interest to this new suggestion. " Well, let me sit between you and I'll aing yon a song." Tbey readily made room for him, and bo sang one song after another till their anger bad passed by, and they were delighted with him and happy with each other. By tho timo th< y reached their desti nation the quarrelsomo soldiers who Becmed, on starting, to l>e possessed of devils, were thoroughly sobered.— Christian at Work. Krllgloaa Urmnmnt l Notra. Minnesota has 7,419 Presbyterians. A union of tho Methodist church sects in Canada is proposed. Tho Methodist church at Elyria, 0., WAS recently destroyed by fire. Last year 18,000,0(8) pages of the New Testament and portions were sold for 816,000 in Japan. A second Congregational chnrch has just been organized among tho Chero keos by Rev. J. \V. Brroggs. Something new bas at last been hit upon by tbe Christian church at New Liston Ohio. The ladies gavo a "Ruck wheat Hupper" in aid of the mission fund, and it proved a great success. The general assembly of tho Presby terian cnnrch in tho United States will meet at Atlanta, Ga., in the First Pres byterian church, on May 18. Tho open ing sermon will be by tho moderator of the last assembly. Ilor. J. W. Sanborn and Itov. Joseph Turkey ("Spliced Arrow") aro busy completing a translation -of a hymn book and tbe Rook of Psalms into the Seneca langnago for tho use of tho Cat taraugus Indians. The Pope has Ieon invited to remove the papal chair to QucWe, ar.d it is ru mored tbat he would not be averse to establishing himself in some part of America. His proforence, however, ia said to be for the United States. Tho tower and spire ol St. John's charch, Hagcntown, MiL, erected by Mr. C. C. Baldwin, of that city, in memory of bis wife, have bee,n com pleted at a cost of $20,000. In the bel fry are four bells weighing respectively 2,000, 1,000, 650 and 250 pounds. In nine months cf 1881 the mission • ries of tbo American Sunday -school anion organized 1,697 new Sunday schools, containing 7,190 teacher* and 56,970 scholars. In tho Northwestern department alone 499 new schools were organised with 2,013 teachers and 17,- 429 fcholars. Talking from the Mountains. In a work just issued from the press —" Tho Pa*t and Present in the East" tho author describes a recent visit to tho once famous [mountaias, Ebal and Qeriaim, on which ho spent a day. He states that ho and a follow travoler as cended the latter and they afterward proceed to test the aoonstic property of the valley between. To do this his fel low traveler rode down Oerisim, across the valley and began to ascend Ebal, his " hone looking the site of an ant." After ascending a considerable distance until he appeared bnt a faint dot on the hills!ie, he stopped. It hal been ar ranged that the two should signal to each other when ready to apeak, bnt that was now seen to be hopeless, so, waiting nntil the dot appeared to have eeased to move, the author, the Rev. H. Jones, commenced to read aloud from a book, " feeling that he might just n* well have thonght of addressing the house of common? frogl Lambeth pel see." After a while he paused to beer tho reenlt. Clni.it was his surprise when from the little dot on the hillside he hoard the words of the twenty third pselta, and this in spite of the conversation carried on by some Turkish soldiers near. On the two meeting they found that eaoh had heard the other with perfect distinct- UN, PEARL* OP lIIOUGIIT. Want of rare does us moro damage than want of knowledge. If tho memory of an injury ia cher inhed it is not forgiven. One trouble sometimes makes us for get a thousand mercies. It is u barren kind of criticism which tells you what u thing is not. A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. Uncollect that trifles makoperfection, and that perfection is no trifle. Cbapin once raid beautifully: "The fatal fact about the hypocrite is that ho is a hypocrite." Men aro vainer of those qualities which they fondly believo they have than of those they really have. A new thought may be false; if it is it will pass away. When tho new truth has come to life it bursts the old husks. If wo keep well and cheerful and the mind constantly active wo never grow old. Uy and by wo get to the end of tho journey but wo never grow old. Kind words are bright flowers cf earthly existence; use them, and os- I>ecially around tho fireside circle. They are tho jowols beyond price, and powerful to heal tho wounded heart and make tho wcighed-down spirit glad. lion to Cure a Cold. Nothing is moro necessary than to re storo the activity to tho skin. Taking cold closes tho pores of tho skin, and tho thiity or forty ounces of effete mat ter which wonUl otherwise pass off from the pores every twenty-four honrs are retained in tho circulation, and are often thrown upon tho mncous mem brane, causing irritations if not inflam mations. In this condition nothing give* moro speedy relief than a Russian vapor or Turkish ba'h. Tho old-fash ioned method of drinking herb teas and piling on blankets is much bettor thau neglect; bettor still is an alcohol bath. For this purpose scat tbe patient in a cane seated chait; wrap blanket] about him and pin them closely about the neck; allow the blankets to Ml to the floor so as to exciudo all air; then place in a little rancor a httlo alcohol and light it; when lighted raise tho blankets and push the saucer tinder tho chair. Repeatedly renew the alcohol till the patient is brought to profnso perspira tion. Then, without removing the blankets, he should wipe himself dry and creeping from tho chair to the bed pass as carefully and quickly as possi ble beneath tho bed clothing while shedding the blankets used for the bath. A good night's rest with a warm cover ing and a sponge bath in tho morning in a warm room, using cool but not cold water, will give tho patient relief. Ex posure to the cold air should, however, bo avoided for twenty-four hours to givo time for the recuperative powers o do their work and prepare the skin to take care of itself.— lh. Footr't Health Monthly, Children's Fet. What a rant amount of human an ton ing might bo prevented did parents properly care for the foot of their chil dren. Wo do not now refer to the mat tor of cleanliness, too often disregard od, but to those points which atoct the doTolopmont of the foot, and directly concern the future comfort of tho indi vidual. Fortunately, tho day* in which tho foot was squeezed into tho smallest possible shoe or boot hare gone by. But life long trouble may result from wearing shoos that are too largo. When a shoo fits badly, and there is with every step a constant concussion cr rub bing, tho skin thickens at that point. At first this trouble may belong only to tho surface akin or cuti cle, but after a time tho true akin is affected, and in some cases even tho muscles may become involved and painfnlly diseased. These troubles, when small, are called corns; when larger and on the ball of the great toe, •• bunions," and on tho heel, " ribea." All have the name origin, an undue, long-continued local pressure, and are all the same nature, being an attompt to resist this pressure by a thickening and hardening of the akin, while the parts below become exceedingly sensi tive and painfnl. Corns of whatever description may result from a pressure of too tight a shoe, or the frequent rubbing of one that is too loose. Young people should always have well fitting shoes, and if they wear woolen stockings all the time they will be more likely to escape corns than with ootton one*. Perfume* and Clone. It la discovered that perfumes exert a healthy influence on the atmosphere, converting its oxygen into osone. Cher ry, lanrel, clover, lavender, mint, jnni per, fennel and bergamot develop the largest quantity of osone. Flowers withont perfume do not develop it, bat the flowers of narcissus, mignonette, heliotrope and lily of tho valley de velop it in close vessels. Odorous flowers, cultivated In marshy places, would be valoable in purifying the air. TOPICS OF THE DAT. The London lAxncit, a prominent English medical journal, states that thero aro "no appearances of the eyes worthy of a moment's serious notice in tho diagnosis of insanity. 'The wild ness,' 'restless ness,' 'dullness,' 'vacancy/ etc., so fre quently mentioned in certificates of insanity, are utterly groundless as evi dences of mental unsoundness." The writer adds that "there is incomparably more restlessness, vacuity and the like in tbe eyes of the sane than in those of tho insane." It is generally known by the mar riageable ladies of tbe conntry that President Arthur is a widower, which may account for tho statement by tbe Washington Star tbat be receives more dainty souvenirs than any unmarried clergyman in tho land. His blue bed room at the executive mansion shows numberless handkerchief cases, glove boles, pincushions, scent bags, clothes brush holders, wall-pockets, and tho like, mostly labeled " remembrance," "token of friendship" and " forget rue not," or similar suggestive legends. Austria was the first to adopt postal cards; in October, 1809, 2,930,000 pass ing through the mails in tbe first three months. Germany adopted them in 1870, 45,468.being used in Berlin alone on the first day, and over 2,000,000 in the first two months. During the Franco Prussian war over 10,000,000 postal cards passed between the German soldi* rs and their homes. The whole of Europe uses annually about 350,000,- 000. The consumption in Great Britain amounts to nearly 119,000.000, and of the United .Suites about 230,000,000. In 1879 Germany consumed 122,747,000. Seventy-three countries now use them. Hoth Green, of Rochester, New York, the great fisbrulturist, has made his annual report, and it is a very gratifying one. During the past ten years he has distributed over 20,000,000 infantile fishes in various lakes and rivers and smaller streams in different parts of tbe country. Tho demand for California mountain trout appears to have been tbe groatost. Mr. Green affirms that these trout are destined to succeed tLe Eistern brook trout, on aoconnt of tbe inability of tbe Eastern trout to live in waters exposed to the eun. lie also says that California trout aro a more I gamov llsh. The reports from waters previously stocked are encouraging. Emigration into the United States for tho current year bids fair to exceed in magnitude tho record of any pre vious year, though tho arrivals in 1881 gave an aggregate of GC9.431. Tbe largest number that cTer arrived in any previous yeArs was 457.257 in 1880, 459,- 803 in 1873, and 427,833 in 1854. Prior to the year 1820 no statistics of emigra tion were officially kept, though it has 1ocd estimated that the whole number of aliens coming to the United States from 1789 to 1820 was about 250,000. In the year 1829 but 8,385 arrived, though tbe total nnmber since that date aggre gate nearly 11.000,000. The arrirals of Germans and Irish during that pe riod show about the same figures—three millions of each. The V.ritith Medical Journal says the revelations made from time to time by medical officers of health describe so much ignorance snd neglect, and such fatal sources of disease, thst it is not surprising tbat " miik epidemics" are so numerous. Dr. Ooldie bas been investigating the probability of a spread of a certain epidemic which has just been visiting Leeds throngh the medium of the milk supply. He bas come to the conclusion that the way in which some of the milk supplies are stored in dirty houses, where all tho usual opera tions of s whole household arc being carried out, with, in many cases, gallons of milk standing in open vessels, is simply a ready method of spreading typhoid or other infectious diseases. More pounds of oleomargarine than of batter were exported during 1881 from the United States. Duringthe six | fiscal years ending June 30, 1881, the annual value of the oleomargarine ex port rose from #70,483 a year to $381,- 566; and whereas in 1878 tbe quantity exported was only 1,698,401 pounds, in 1881 it was 26,327,676. On tbe other hand, the amonn# of batter exported during the twelve months of 1881 was 21.331,358 pounds, while tbe year before it had been more than 87,000.000; and the valne of tbe export fell off $3,250,- 000. "This," says tbe Amsnorm Omlti valor, "is s fraudulent imitation, damag ing tbe foreign trade in American batter by making consumers suspicions of tbe latter. A few manufacturers of oleomar garine aro getting rich at the expense of millions of oar dairymen.'' Oi Mr. Longfellow's method when profeem of modern lite ret ore el Har vard, Dr. Edward E. Hale, one of hie pnpiU, hea gireo this eoaoant: Aa it happened, the regular recitation ooma.of th eolieg* ware all to BS<\ and wo met him in a sort of parlor, carpeted, fating with pic tore*, otherwise handsomely furnished, which was, I believe, called "the oorporatloa room." We eat round a mahogany table which wan reported to bo meant for tba dinners of the trustee*, and the* whole affair bad tbo aspect of' a , friendly gathering in a private bonne, in which the study of German was the amnse mcnt of tho cc&sion. lie began with familiar ballads, read them to u* and mudo TIH read them to him. Of ronrao wo noon committod them to memory without meaning to, and I think thu was probably part of bin theory. At tho samo timo wo were learning the par* digms by note. His regular duty was tho oversight of five or more instrnct ora who were teaching French, Ger man, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese to two or three hundred undergradu ates. We never knew when he might look in on a recitation and virtually conduct it. We were delighted to have him come. We all knew he was a poet, and were proud to have him in the col lege, but at the same time we respected him as a man of affairs. An India Itubber Man. The New York doctors have been in vestigating the peculiarity exhibited in the person of neinrich llaag, who takes handfuls of his skin and pulls it out as though it were so much iudia robber. Herr Haag is a lightly-built Germaa with reddish-brown hair, sandy mus tache and whiskers and blue eyes, and weighs only 130 pounds. The moat critical observer, seeing him in a stata of repose, would fail to find anything queer about him. lint all the medical men gasped when, seizing the skin of his throat, be hauled it up so far as to completely mask his face up to the eye brows. Then he drew down the skin OTer each ere so as to lap over on ths ehe< k, pulled the skin at the point'of his nose down to his chin, clutched tbs skin of his breast and hauled it out a good seven inches from his body, reached over his shoulders and dragged up flips of skin that looked from tba front as if he was pulling an india rub ber blanket over his back, and seizing the skin of his knee drew it out so far that he twisted it up In a knot as on* might a wet towel. Whenever the skin was let go it glided back smoothly into place without a wrinkle, lojked like anybody else's skin. The doctors examined him thourogbly and with much internet, and pronounced its case of "dermatolvaii" and said Herr Ilaxg's cuticle was nowhere joined to bis muscular tissue. On bis right arm there is a scar, where the Vienna doctors had taken off a piece of the skin about four inches long and a half inch wide. They fonnd that the akin had no connection with the flesh of the arm. Tho skin upon his ears, his hands, his feet and his bead showed this same elastic quality. In fact Herr Haag caa wrap himself up in the mantle of his elasticity, can pull tho cuticle out above his knee-pans and wring it like a cloth, and can slide around inside Iqim self to a really alarming extent A Minister's I'rr-lirameaU Daniel Webster had an anecdote of old Father s-arle, the minister of his boyhood, which is too good to be lost: It was customary then to wear knee breeches in cold weather. One Sunday morning in antnmn Father Soar 1 brought his breeches down from the garret, bnt the wasps had takes possession daring the summer, and were baring a nice time of it in them. By dint of effort he got out the intruders and prepared for meeting. Bat, while reading the Scriptures to the congrega tion, he felt s dagger from the enraged, small-waisted fellows, and jumped around the pulpit slapping his thighs. But the more he slapped and danced, the more they stung. Tho people thought him crazy, but ho explained the matter by: " Brethren, don't be alarmed; the word of the Lord is in my mouth, but the deYil is in my hreechea !'* Webster always told this with great glee to the ministers. A Uiral of Senruit Kitn, A man from Kentncky baa jut started ont with an intention of making an international ai of himtelf. Ilia name ia William Walton, an