The World. 'I hit world it n mil. iwul piano, I know— And what mild living ran doobt it? — flat ri vrfll not Iwrnii tho want and woo To lie al waya Hinging about It. Hum away with tho aong* that are full of tears— Awn) with tho dirges that sadden; Liot uo make tho moot of our IteoLiug year# By miiitinit tho lay* that gladden. A fow wort (tortious of tiliss I've iiuaffed, And many a oup.of sorrow; But, in thinking ovrr tho flavored draught, Tho oldtimo joy I borrow; And by brooding over tho l>ittor drink, Bain tills again the measure; And no I have learned that it's Iwst to think Of tho things tlint give u.s pleasure. The world at its saddest is not all sad— There are days of sunny weather; And the people in it are not all had, But mints nnd sinners together. I think those wonderful hours in June Are lietter by far to roinemlier Thau those when the world gets out of tune. In the cold, bleak winds of Novoinber. Because wo meet in the walks of life Many a selfish creature, It does not prove that this world of strifo Has no redeeming feature. There is bloom and beauty upon the earth - There are buds nnd blossoming flowers- - There are souls of truth and hearts of worth— There are glowing, golden hours. In thinking over a joy we've known, We easily make it double; Which is lattter by far than to mope and moan O'er sorrow, and grief, and trouble. Kor, though the world is a sad, sad place, (And who that is living can donbt it?) It will not lessen the want ami woe To lw always sighing about it. —K'll'i It /irrlcv, in Huston Transcript. NANNIES CHOICE. High time, declared the gossips of Grayville, that Nannie Williams made a choice of a husband and gave to the other girls, who doubtless would make bettor wives if they had not as much beauty, some chance. I'tterlv absurd that the men followed, one after another, like sheep in a drove, where ever her caprices led. They were like a hive of bees contending for one flower and blind to all the gardenful besides. Hut Nannie only siniled when some whisper of this reached her and let the gossips talk. Hull well she knew her power, this •duple, little country girl, who JHlS •awsed "no dower save her beauty - right loyally she used it. lb-sides, it was not quite as the gossips declared. There was no such butter in all the country as that which came from Nan nie Williams" farm, and Nannie's fingers, white and tapered as they were, molded it; no cream was so thick and yellow, and Nannie had solecharge of the dairy; no house was more neat and tidy and a nameless air of femi nine grace about it, and Nannie, since her mother's death, reigned sole mis. tres. No wonder the young men felt the race well run with such a prize at its goal. Trne, she had a saucy word ever ready; but one readily forgave its harm 1 essness for the sake of the sweet, brilliant smile which lent her pretty face its rarest charm and seemed to mntely ple.nl her pardon. However, when it was least ex pected, Nannie made her choice, and It fell upon Sydney Richards. Then was nothing to he said against him. He was a good-looking young fellow, with a farm of his own. He and Nannie would make a hand some couple and doubtless would suc ceed well in the world; but for all that it was a surprise to many of them, and vnn or two of the more discerning ones •aid that she had flirted shamelessly with Dick Armstrong, and that quiet as he had ever been he hud grown more so since the l>etroening on to the road, and stood leaning listlessly against it, when a quick, firm tread , broke the silence, and a flush of crim son rose to her face, then misled, as a tall, stalwart figure came around a •harp turning in the road. He gave a quick start, too, as he perceived her, and would havq passed on. merely raising the straw hat from the close-cropped blonde head, hut that her voice, a little tremulous, detained • him. " Dick I" she said. He halted then, hut made no move ment to approach her, until she held out toward liitn a small white hand. ** Dick," she repeated, "of all my friends, you are the only one who has not congratulates! me." " Indeed I" he answered, with a strange, hard smile. " I hope it is not too late." And touching the little fingers for aa instant only he turned away again m if he considered all his duty done. Hot tears rose to Nannie's ey<, though from whence they sprung none eowld have divined. ♦* Yotf are cruel, Dick,*' she said. • No," he answered, "I am kind; but believe tne, Nannie, I trust you may be happy. (Jood-night!" She spoke no further word to detain him, but stoisl and watched him walk away. Her eyes still followed the direction lie had titken long after his iigtire was lost to her sight. "He never loved me!" she mur mured to herself. "He would al ways have been exacting and jealous, and he never asked ine to he his wife. What right has he to complain?" Hut the girl knew that she silenced only her conscience, and no voice of ltis. when site tints spoke. He had ut tered no reproach. Dared she to iter own soul say he could have found no cause for doing so? Sydney l{iHiai found something amiss with Ins pretty betrothed that night, she shrank from his some what too demonstrative caress and turned upon him almost angrily alien he asked her t . name the day for their wedding -in .1 t. to let the bans be rcjid at once. •• You see, it'll -.'H,H lie harvest-time, Nannie, my la he pleadtsl, byway of argument, " and there's no denying that the farm needs a woman's hand and a woman's care. It's all ready for its mistress and why shouldn't its mistress lie ready for it ?" ".Simply because site isn't your in ltd of ail work. Sydney Richards, to lie hired when the season is most con venient and tHe demand for Iter most pressing!" was the girl's hot reply. But iter lover bore it good-naturedly, and just as lie was leaving she peni tently let iter arms sti al softly about his neck, while she raised herself on tiptoe to whisper in his ear that he must forgive her. Hut -well, the cream had soured and the butter would n,t come to-day, and >o her temper had not borne the test. Pardon thus sought might readily enough tx- won for harshest sin, hut "Sydney Ift hards imposed his penalty for all that; and so it happened tiiat tins next Sibbath morning witnessed the reading of lus and Nannie Wil liams' bans. I* r the toe. and were so al -urdly narrow that they looked like deformed fist, and rendu.-1 the movements of the young man far from graceful, though he striigabsl hard to preserve appear ances. His l'n? were covered by a pair of trousers that were simply amazing, so tight were they cut. It would almost lie impossible to sit down without splitting tlo-m across the kins-, as far as can Is- judged from n|>- pear an res. They were as tight as IS-J skin all the way down, fitting around the ankle as snugly a- a stocking. This remarkable i-xjsise of a man's vi-lopment is not advisable when his legs ore not up to the standard. The trousers in question were a very light gns-n with dark stripes. Above them was a vi-st that stretched from the chin to a line ju-t even with the hip tsmes and was cut straight across. The vest was of light material and looked odd, .it was so extremely short The cutaway coat was Iwittle green and iltti-d like a jersey. It was indeed a trial of the tailor's art in one sense, but it is far too tight to bo tieenming. The sleeves were nearly as tight as the trous ers, and the coat tails were very long. banging as far down behind as the knee. He wore a collar that lap|Hxl over in front, and w as certainly higher than any other collar I ever saw- in America It forced his chin up in the air, and caused the sunlight to scintil late on his single glass. Around the neck was a green scarf with a hound's head in diamonds for a pin. Above it all was one of the huge English derby hats with a great curling brim and heavy crown. He wore yellow gloves, and earriisl a stick with a twisted handle by its lower end, so that the handle drdpped nearly to its feet. The | vacant stare rompleted the effect, and i he limped along while the others envied him! This is no ideal sketch, but a faithful picture of a leading society i man in New York in tho year of oui 1 Lord 1882. _______ "The press," snys Chamber*' Journal, I"is every year becoming a greater power in the land ; it Is already one of the greatest 'resources of civilization,' unit wo might as soon try to get along without steam, or railways,or the post office, as without our newspapers. If we are to have newspaper# we must have editors to direct them, and the editors must tunrch with or in advance of the times. There is therefore good reason to hope tlint better things are in store for the coming generation of journalists ! than there have been for those that are gone, nnd that on the newspaper press the beat talent, the maturest judgment and the most cultivated taste will yet llud congenial and appropriate work." Strife to avoid cUrmme, especially those of wasps and bera LADIES' DEPARTMENT. A Woumn'* lltilrr for Ike Mirk. Miss Annie S. Evans, of Kingston, Conn., has patented it device by means of which sick and infirm persons may be comfortably raised and supported in different postures on ordinary bed steads. The invention consists of a divided and hinged Is-d bottom, to the under side of which braces are hinged, the lower ends of which are liingcd upon the sideboard. The braces at t lu lu-ad of the couch may he made ex tensible, so as to raise the head of the Is-d bottom higher than the center, so that the bottom may be used either as a chair or reclining couch. For rai mg ; or lowering the bi-d a windlass is jour nab-d on the sideboards of the bed and receives .'I '-trap eonili i ti-d to the . j bars of the hinged bed. An adjust able rest is p/ovideil for the feet. ThrW of r rrn. It Women, A letter from J'arisgh ••* an instance of the thrift of French women, as fol lows: French women, often stigma tized as the most frivolous of their kind, an- in reality tin- m ,t thrifty a virtue that frequently ib-gencratcs into absolute parsimony. I saw a striking instance of making the best of unregarded tnlle* tin- other day when dining with one who certainly lias a reputation for prudence. A eberrv pic had been on the fa hie, and the loistri -■ gave stri't iiijiin tion, that all the stones wi-r to Ik> si rapid from the plati-s and pla- •••! in her -tor. room. I ventured t'l a-!, the rea on, and \va j told that not only cherry, but plum, peach and all manner of stones, whether cook'-d or raw. win invariably saved, gently di. ! in tin- oven and kept in a great jar. "Then," said madame, "in the winter, when the fire burns . har and bright in the evening. 1 fetch a handful and throw them among tin glowing coals. I'hey era k am!-plotter for a moment, nd up a brilliant ffamc, and the w h -le room is liili d|w ith a di licioiis ml- r." otnrn \\ ho % R t RS rigttrrs. Some large dry goods . -tahli hmi nts in New V.-rk employ women to art as figure- in tin- smt dej irtmerit, and pay tlu-m al Mint f- awn k. The gr-at ma j j; rity an-alsjiit twenty years of age, j and one proprietor thus "peaks of the manner in which they are utiliz <1: When a lady wants to buy a dress one of the figure* is railed up and she puts the dress on to show bow it look*. She walks up and down the ffoor se\- eral tines and impres-i, the buvi-r with the beauty of the dress, which, I will confidentially say, i* dm- in a great measure to the Is-auty of the figure Then the dress is soim-tiuu*s purchased j Very often, however, the lady is not i satisfied with the first dress, and the operation is rontinnrsl indefinitely. In case the purchaser titiu-s in the course j of the day. When the girls are very attractive they are very g.l adver i tisements for the stores in which they ' are employed. Their beauty draws I custom. Th* f'trhrowa. The New York llairtlrnturr tell* us | just how the arches of the eyebrows ought to look to add to the lw-auty of. \ the feminine face- Though it is Indispensable to beauty to have the eyebrows of a dark color and also a protection to the sight, as they are the natural shade of the eye, yet when they la-come larger and shag gy it gives a look of vulgarity and Is also a mark of old age. We must re quest you to attend to this, and, if the hair grow s too long and thick, to keep eaver blue, gray and garnet lionnet*. Die -.e* of one material bid fair to i more f idiioriable this fail than com ] <•,,( times. Kiltir tat.liers <,f nett.sl chenille'ap pear on inquirled drcses and among trimming I lie new ottoinan velours si Ik> are as !. avily r-pp d .us Seilienne, but ha\ e a softer tinisli. Leather band- with buck!.-- appear on many new fall hats of f. It-. They are more old than j r< tty. Bla V.and g.-Id < ui'.r• :.ieri<* .>n r.uigli l.nrns are u-. d f• >r (amy en.tunics at Klin | • an ) athing-pl.v • A iin t iait < inbroidi ry. almost as light and welelike a- la is worn over Whitehall dresses of satiii and silk. Thr style in Pans is for sunshades of monstrous si/e and loud colors. The handles are grotesque ami of huge size. Handkerchief; are made w ith|minute colored Isinb rs and the name ern hroiilered in a color to match the I .order. The -kirts of light walking or danc ing dresses are kept .fl"the ground or floor by a puff of muslin inside the hem instead of a halaveuse. N< w woolen plaids anl cheeks come in the .Tsthetie colors with broken, -haded lues and bars of brick red. t rra> otta. gray, hhie and yellow. The new silk embroideries on cash , mere hsve large figures and flowers, wliecls. daisies, roses, circles. balLs and conventionalized flower and leaf de sign*. ' ltnniMnadp, hand-made brown lin<*n mitt* are 'embroidered in chain stitch in fancy figures and worn with ]>c;u sant costumes at French watering* place*. Short-waistc*l bodice*, gat hem] at the shoulder* and waist, arc worn by [ young ladii-* and misses in their toons in France as well a* in Kngland. They give a youthful air to the wearer. I A novelty in bracelets is composed ' of several circlets of gold linked to- I getlier with stones, whose initials form ' a wish or a name. The same fancy is reproduced in dog-collar necklaces. Itrsp et the ltodj. A writer in the Hearth and Hamt has some sensible ideas on the subject of lNslily health. He says : "Ilespn-t the bn't pierce its ears or pinch its fct; ion't roast it by a hot (Ire all day and smother it undei heavy led covering at night; don't put it in a cold draught on slight occasions, and don't nurse or pet it to death ; don't dose it with doctors* stuffs, and. above all, don't turn it into a wine cask or a chimney. Let it In* 'war ranted not to smoke,' fmtn the time your manhood takes possession. Ile- Spoet the body ; don't over work, over rift, or over love it, and never debase it, but le able to lay down when you are done with it a well worn but not a misused thing. Meantime, treat it at I a*t as well as you would your jw