The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, May 04, 1895, Image 9
THE SCIl ANTON TIUKITNE---SATITIUAY MOUSING, MAY 4, 1895. Facts of "Interest . To Womeo Readers Symposium of Partly Gossipy A FIN DB SIECLE DUEL: You llRht for n place In business, Vou llKlit for a chance to speak; Ton flKht for tho right to Btiuly With men tholr Latin nml Ureck. You fight for a sent ti the street car. You light for tho nyes iui1 tho not-sj Sou fight for our reformation; You oven light for our clothes. We laugh at your port presumption You dear, divine, llttlo slirowl Yet every man umoiig us. Would like the taming of you. We know the one way to conquer, . Since this dread duel began; So long us woman Is woman, 80 long as man Is man: You mny scold, anil sneer, nml scoff at us, You may play your Kattierlno's part; Ilut l'etruclo Is victor If hu but aim ut your heart. -liuth Hart, In Truth, . "'Who are the happy? I look about me," writes. "Amber" In the Chicago Herald, "and try to answer tho iues tlon. rirst I take the married filks. Are they happy? Not one out of twen ty. Why? liecause they exact too much. Whisky Itself lias not wrought the marital woe that exaction lias. Matrimony Is a chain. Vou may pad It with velvet orwreathe It with flower, yet It remains a chain. There Is un wisdom In pulling It too tightly. As lonjr as the slave docs not feel his fet ters he can be comparative! h:ipy. lu: let the steel corrode his tlosh niul he becomes aware of thraldom. AVhen a woman goes through her husband'. lockets on the sly she pulls at his chain. When she sheds tears because he walks down town with a pretty neighbor she pulls at his chain. When she sits up to sevld because he comes home late she pulls at his chain. Such things may not be agreeable for her to bear, but there are better ways of holding a man than hauling him alonjr at the end of a chain. If I were a married woman and had a husband who neglected me. do you know what I would do? I would begin all over again and lay siege to his heart. I would make myself so charm Ini? that before he know It he would fall In love with me for tho second time. There Is no use denying It, men are queer. They prow tire 1 of what they possess and are always reaching out aftet the fruit that har.sri high. There is something in a man's nature that 1-ads him to b-? oIway-3 on the lookout for fresh cowwesis. I'rom the time he besrins o drive hi.' dog In harness, through the staee of liking to break cort. all along the era. of love-making, and away down to old ac, man wishes to be muster of the situation and lord of a. new possession. He loves his wife, no doubt, but after a few years she be comes an old story, and he becins to yearn for something newer and frshr. He doesn't mean to be exactly unfaith ful, but he U like a man who leaves his Bible untouched to read the daily pa pers. The news is whit he covets; the plan of redemption will do to save his Foul and to base his hopes of heaven upon, but th" columns of the 2-pennv papr hold the current new. and that I what he demands for daily needs. If. then, when y- ir husbanl Is taken by the pretty ts of another woman yon betf'.n to 'go her one better" on the question of beauty, you can keep him, provided he Is worth the keeping some times I doubt it." t A rODEt, CHILD: Her temper's always sunny, her hair Is ever neat; Sfier doesn't car for candy she says It Is too sweet: Bhe loves to study lessons her sums are always ritrht; .And she gladly oes to bed at eight every single night! Her apron's never tumbled, her hands are always clean; With buttons missing from her shoe she never has been seen. Bhe remembers to say "Thank you," and "Yes. ma'am. If you please;" 4 And she never cries, nor frets, nor whines; she's ne'er been known to tease. Each nlcrht upon tho closet 9helf she puts away her toys; Eh never slams tho parlor door, nor makes the nlltrhtest noi?; But she loves to run on errands and to play with her little brother. And she's never In ILfo been known to disobey her mother. "Who Is this charming little, maid? T Ion to grasp her hand!" She's the daughter of Mr. Nobody, And she lives In Now be re In ml! Helen Hopkins In May St. Nicholas. ... "If yon 'know something to the dis credit of somebody," says "Amber," In another place, "keep It to yourself. Jf certain circumstances lead yoti to sup- poe a woman Is not what she should be why should you constitute yourself the town-crler to cry her shame? Uod will take care of her. Suppose you look after yourself know where your own hoy spend their evenings before you Jmlsre your neighbor's. There never yet was a heart record that did not include entries In Invisible Ink. We cannot explain what we do not under stand; so let us keep our eyes off our neighbor's books and try to make our own accounts balance. If we see a fact that looks black nnd would make a sensation If published, bonds oft! Only God knows the truth, for He looks back of results at causes nnd Judges by the heart rather than the deed. Of one thlnx I am determined, and I wish that I could rally an army under tho banner I carry. I will not lug (the devil's powder-horn around any longer, fur nishing scandal for him to load his Run With. I will not tell disagreeable truths unnecessarily, even if they are truthH. I will make myself so busy with my own n (fairs that I shall have no time to spend watching others. And, lastly, whenever there is somebody down whom I can help to, stnnd agnln, or somebody discouraged whom I can help to cheer, I humbly pray thnt I may bo there, not wltth m-truths and taunting I. told you so's,' but with love In my heart and evorlasting1 silence on my lips." "My dear," says this same charm- for your prlnco limt get a chance to . Don't judge him by how he can UKtf vi iuiu ur uomntLmeni. or. nil nm i Bister, and how ho-speaks to his old don't go to suit him at home. You may think all this old-fashioned talk, and hardly, worth the heeding, but If you Information, Partly lOrave, and Partly Gay. are wise enough to test your butter be fore buying why not your husband? A tub of butler Is soon linb.hod, but a husband lasts a long time. Sold some bt.dy once: 'Marryln' a man ain't like Sotllii' aside of hint nights und heurln' hint talk pretty: that's only the tlrst prayer; there's lots of mi'ctln' after that.' It that homely bit of philosophy were incorporated Into the world's practice there would bo fewer dreary and loveless homes." It there be one point on which modern housewives are agreed it is certainly the degeneracy of modern housemaids. And yet there Is room' for doubt as to whether this Is not a popular fallacy. In a curious old tract entitled "A Trip Through a Town: Containing observa tions on the Humours and Manuel's of the Age." published In 173i. there Is a chapter devoted to "Maid Servants" which would cause even a ft it de slocle matron to gasp, i The writer says: "Women servants are now so scarce that, from 50 to 40 shillings a year, their wages ure Increased to it!. JL'7 tind is per annum, Insomuch that an ordinary tradesman cannot well keep one; but his wife, who might be useful In his shop or business, must do the drudgery of the household affairs, and all this because our servant girls are so puffed up with pride nowadays that they never think they go tine enough. It Is a hard matter to know the mistress from the muld by tholr dress imy, very often the maid I the finer of the two. our woollen manufacturers suf fer much by this, for nothing but silks and satins will go down with our kitchen wenches, to support which In tolerable pride they have Insensibly raised their wages to such a height as was never known In any age or nation but this." ... Moreover, there was In those days something very like a trades union among maid servants for keeping up on exorbitant scale of wages. "Hefore a country girl has been a week In service In town," says the author of "The Trip," "a committee of servant wenches ure appointed to examine her. who advise her to raise her wages, or give warning, to encourage her to which the herb wo man. or chandler woman, or some other old Intelligencer, provides her a place of four of five pounds a year. This suits Madame Cock-a-hoop, and she thinks of nothing but vails (tips) and high wages, and so gives warning from place to placw til! she gets her wages up to the top." The maid servant In those days not only robbed her mistress; she levied blackmail, too, upon her mis tress" gu-sts. In shape of "vails," or tins, as we should call them. "For now," says 'he author, "they make It a per rpiU'e, a material part of their wages, nor most their master give a supper but that the maid expects the guests should pay for It." And those were the "good old tims"' Who would care to substitute them for out- own? . FOOD3 FOR THE SICK: Milk Cruel. Pcald one-half pint of milk: add six raisins, and allow to stand Ave mlnnteq. Take a tablespoonful of crn-starch and thorouehly mix with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk. Hav ing placed the scalded milk in a farina boiler over the fire, add the cold milk and corn-starch, stirring the whole backward and forward until It begins to thicken: then add one ounce of sugar and let it cook one minute. Strain, and place in moulds In a cool place. Milk Oruel with Oatmeal. Fine oat meal, two tabkispoonfuls; milk, one pint. Stir It qul'rly Into a pint of boil ing writer and I a few minutes until thickened. Adt. pinch of salt and aiv?"tn with suga. Milk Jelly. As a., variation In milk diet the following l recommended: Heat one quart of milk with one pound of sugar nnd when the sugar Is dis solved, continue the heat at the holing temperature or about ten minutes. Then cool well and add, slowly stirring, a solution of one ounce of gelatin In a cupful of water. Next add the Juice of three or four lemons. Pour Into glasses and set In a cool place. It Is necesaary to have the milk quite cold before adding the other Ingredients, else It will curdle. Milk Punch. flood brandy, one or two tablespoonfuls; eold milk, one tum blerful. Mix. with fitignr and nutmeg to taste. This Is a useful medicinal drink when a stlmulnnt Is required In conjunction with a nutrient. Heef Tea. This Is best mnde by dis solving a proper amount of a reliable brand of "beef extract" In a cupful of boiling water, seasoning wlih 'suit, celery salt and a little pepper, and serv ing hot. Heef .lulce. Holl quickly a thick piece of fresh beef devoid of fat nnd bone; put in a meat press nnd squeeze out the Juice. Henson nnd rerve full strength or diluted with hot water. Chicken liroth. Skin and chop up n small chicken, or half a large fowl, nnd boll It, bones and nil, with a blado of mnne or sprig of parsley nnd a crust of brend, In a quart of water, for.nn hour skimming It from time to time. Strain through a coarse colander. Mutton liroth. Lean loin of mutton, exclusive of bone, one pound; water, three pints. Itoll gently till very tender, adding a little salt nnd onion accord ing to tnsto. Pour off the broth In a basin, nnd when It Is cord, sklm off all the fat. It enn be warmed up as want ed. If btirlcy or rice Is added, as Is desirable during recovery from sick ness, It should be boiled separately until quite soft, nnd put In when the broth Is heated for use. Cutlet for Invalids. One nice cutlet from tho loin or neck of mutton; wnter, two tcacupfuls; celery salt a sufficient quantity, or one very small stick of green celery. Itomove all flit from tho cutlet nnd put In a stewpnn with the other Ingredients. When fresh celery Is used It should bo cut In thin slices before being added to the meat, and care must bo taken not to add too much. Stew very gently for nearly two hours, adding salt nnd pepper to taste, and from time to time sklm off every partlclo of fat thnt may rise to the surface. It the water Is allowed to boll fast the cutlet will be hard. Cup Custard. One egg; one cup of milk; sugnr, nutmeg and salt to taste, p.eat egg thoroughly In a teacup, add the milk nnd flavoring, mix and bake about 20 minutes In an ovon moderatoly heated. May be served cold or warm, with or without Jelly. F.gg and Hrandy. Brandy and cinnamon-water, each four ounces; and yolks of two eggs; and half an ounce of loaf sugar. Hub the yolks of the eggs nnd sugar together, and add the cinnamon water and brandy. This Is given In two to four teaspoonf ul doses as a stimulant and restorative. Imperial Drink. Dissolve from two to three drnchms of cream of tartar in a quart of boiling water, add tho Juice of one lemon und a little lemon, peel, and sweeten with sugar. When cold It mny be taken freely hs a cooling drink nml diuretic. A valuable drink In threatened Huustroko and passive congestion of the biulu. Lumonnde.--PRre thinly tho rind of a lemon and cut the lemon Into slices. Put the peel and sliced lemon Into a Jug with an ounce of white sugar und pour over them one pint of boiling water. Cover the Jug closely and digest until cold. Strain or pour oft' the liquid. Citron may be used Instead of lemon, nnd likewise furnishes a grateful and refreshing refrigerant beverage. Milk Lemonade Sugar, one and a half pounds, dissolved In a quart of boil ing wuler together with half a pint of lemon Juice and one ami a hull1 pints of milk. This makes a cooling, agreeable, iionrlsblng beverage. White Wine Whey or Posset-To half u pint of mill:, whilst boiling In a sauce pan, add one wlueglassful of sherry and nfterwards strain. Sweeten with pul verized sugar according to taste. "A useful drink In colds und mild febrile disorders." (l'nvy.) l.liiMeed Tea Place In n Jug one ounce of bruised Unseed, two drarhniH bruised licorice root, half ounce white sugar uud two tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice, und Kur over them one pint of boiling wa ter. (Viver lightly, and digest for three of four hours near a lire. Strain through linen before using. Thin makes a mucilaginous liquid possessing mul cent properties and of special value In bronchial and urnlnitry affections. Hurley Water with While of Kgg Take n tablesiionf ul of course hurley and wash well with cold water, reject lug the washings. Then boll for an hour or more with a pint and a half of clean water In a covered vessel or saucepan. Add a pinch of salt, enough sugar to render palatable, anil strain. To four or six ounces of barley water tints repared add the while of one egg. The value of this preparation In gastro intestinal Inflammation and irritation Is not easily overestimated. From the Dietetic and Hygienic (lunette. HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS: A gamlo of hot boiled milk Is recom mended for n cough or sore throat. v Carrots and turnips should boll forty five minutes when youmr; one hour In win ter. drained woods should be washed In cold tea and then, utter being wiped dry, rubbed with linseed oil. Silver can be kept bright for months by helm; placed In an Hlr-tlght case with a good-sized piece of camphor. If a tablespoonful of kerosene Is put Into four quarts of tepid water, anil this Is used In washing windows and mirrors. In stead of pure water, there will remain upon the cleaned surface n polish no amount of mere friction can give. In mounting photographs, always put Just a dab of muellage on each corner, nnd one or two about the middle. Instead of spreading It over the whole surface. It answers Just us well und does not cause the board on which It Is mounted to curl In drying. For hives In children, rub the Irritated skin or the pustules with castor oil, np plled with tho tip of the linger. Pnby will pass from fretting to slumber while the process Is going on, the relief will be ho great and quick. For Inflamed eyes, bumped heads and sprained ankles, uso abundantly water as hot as can be borne. Hot water applied to a bruise will allay pain and prevent discoloration. It has superseded medical "eye waters" In tho treatment of Inflamed and aching eyes. An American author, whose excellent eye sight was wonderful, when one consid ered her nge and the Immense amount f.f literary labor Hhe performed, attributed It mainly to the custom of bathing her eyes freely In water us hot as It could be borne, night and morning. One way of preventing delicate and sweot-seented flowers from nagging Is to cut them with several leaves on the stem, and when the flower head Is placed In water, to allow only this head to remain above the water, while the leaves ore en- V-ely subiniirged; by this means the leaves seem to 'help support the flower, which will then last for three days In a fairly cool room. ... ABOUT NOTED WOMEN: In civilized countries the nvernge age at which women marry Is Zi years. Muzzles are used on refractory women In tho provincial penitentiary at Cologne. Mrs. Rachel Cantor, who at 84 Is staying at the Eorest Home, In Philadelphia, Is said to be the oldest living actress. One of the first women to register In Wichita, Kan., was Mrs. Hnrrlet Mc Murrny, a giddy girl of 115, who knew Thomas Jefferson. Down to the present century part of the marrlnge ceremony In Hungary consisted in the groom giving tho bride a kick to re mind her of her subjection. The widow of General Anderson, who lives In Washington, treasures as a sacre I relic the famous flag which wns on Fort Sumter when the rebels attacked It. In S!am the flrRt wife may bo divorced, but ennnot be sold. The other wive mny not only be divorced, but sold In open mar ket. The men who buy them are also soi l. If lletfonlshlre, England, girls are lucky enough to Mud a pod containing nine pons Ihey lay It under a gate and believe they will have for a husband tho Hist man that passes through It. According to Mrs. Iturtnn Harrison, n fjlrton girl remarked not long ago that th" woman question would easily h'j solved If wo could only have three genera tions of single women. Ladles who kiss their pet dogs nro warned by tin less nn authority than Hi-. Megntn, of the I'll rln Academy of Science, that the little beasts are one of the great agencies In spreading disease, especially cuiiniimpijcii, lihaubiil Fardoujeo unnnjep, nn Unban womnn, carried off the first prlzo In lie Itomboy Association of Artists. She we it to Paris to complete her studies, nml ono of her pictures wus accepted by the com mit teo ot the salon. At a church fn!r In Glasgow, Scotland, forty femnlrs engaged In a towel-wnsli-Ing content for prizes. The quickest hands had their towels wnsh"d nnd hung In about three minutes, and the prises were nil won by single women, In JK71) the census reported only seven women sti'nrigrnphora In tho United States. Now the number of persons earn ing their living by typewriting nnd sten ography Is estimated at mors than 17u,0.l, of whom two-tlilrds lire women, ltejnne commands a higher price for hT talents than even a favnrlta prima donna, According to excellent I'll r Is authority, she receives $I,WKI ery performance, nml In addition hor manager pays hr expenses and provlus hor with a muld nd a dress maker, Tho lltornry women In New York urn Inking to publlo rending of their own works as a menus of Increasing their In comes nml ' their fame. Knto Douglas Wlggnn, ItulH McEnery Stuart, Mrs. llur ton Harrison and Edith Thomas hnvo re cently read their stories nnd poems In pub lic. Agnes Lormn, who Is considered In Ger many to bo tho best exponent of the unrt of Norn In Ibsen's "Doll's House," has mnde a mo.it successful debut In St, Petersburg.. So enthusiastic wcro tho au diences that tho pleeo wns performed threo times Instead of onco, and every sent was booked beforehand. In ono district of Dohomla the girls go Into a field of poas and make there a gar land of five or seven kinds ot flowers, all of 01 fTo rent hues. The garland they must sloep upon, lying wuth their right ur upon, then they hear a voice from underground which tells them what inau ucr of men they will have for huslniuds. Ibsen und the bicycle hardly uppeur com patible.' Vet llllzabeth Kobblim, who Is tho best known Interpreter of Ibsen on any stage, and who has plsyed I he hero ine In must uf Ib.icn's works that have been put on In Loudon, Is tho same Mlla btith Itoblilns Pennell who with her litis bund inailii a blcyullng tour tlirounh Kn ," land when the Improved tumlciii ciiino around u few years ago, lifter which '.ho pair wrols u clever book or the tour. WKLSII JOTTIXWS. Welsh Llberallam Just now Is paying the penally of complete success at the last election. In country places Liber als ure "resting on thelrhonnrs" and quietly neglecting the Important work or organization, whilst the political ene my Is active In every Held. The next volume of the Dictionary of National fllography will cimlaln I he ii.nneM of a number of eminent Welsh men, Including Henry Salesbury, the Welsh grammarian; William Salesbury, the translator of the New Testament Into Welsh; and David Samuel, of Naut glyn, u well known Welsh poet. An Interesting marriage took place at I.lanelly recently, Harry Jones, of 'the' Sun, fornierly of the South Wales Dally News, being married to Miss Kmlly JMalnwurlng, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Malnwarlng, Llam-lly. The ceremony was performed at Park Congregational church, the Kev. II. F.l-Vt-t Lewis olllclatlng. Hume's views on Druldlmn had bet ter not be communicated to llwfu Mon, the Archdiuld or today. That hliitorlan has written: "No species of supersti tion wa ever inure terrible than that ut tho Druids;" nnd a little further on, "No Idolalroua worship ever attained such an ascendant over mankind us that of the ancient Gauls and llrltotis. Wurrlnlon, In his "History of Wales,'' has eloquently eomniMlted on lite con quest of the Cambro llrltotis In the fol lowing words: "The fall of nations dis tinguished only by misfortune or mere ly Illustrious for conquest, may rise for a moment a High of pity or the transient effusions of applause; but a people like the Welsh, satisfied with their moun tains, who had been forced Into a long and unequal contest In defense of their mitlve rights, with few other recourses other than their valor and u fond at tachment of their liberties, though fall ing In the ruins of their country, will have a claim upon the esteem and ad miration of the world us long as manly sentiment and freedom fshull remain." F. T. Llrcliam, bcal government board Inspector, hold an inquiry at the Carmarthen workhouse last week rela tive to the complaint against Dr. John Kills Edwards, medical officer for the Conwll district, for his alleged neglect In attending Maria Evans, a. deceased pauper patient, of iiankbaoh. The Car marthen board of guardians had called upon Dr. Edwards for an explanation of tho allegations that he hud neglect ed to attend the old woman, who was 80 years of age, and thnt he Instructed a girl servant to give a certificate of death without seeing the patient and the members expressed their disapprov al of his conduct, and the Investigation was the outcome of the correspondence on the subject being placed In the hands of tho government department. 'Dr. Edwards brought forward evidence to prove that he was attending a more Important case at Carmarthen for six hours on this particular day. The mat ter will be duly reported to the local government board, and the result sent by that body to the Carmarthen board of guardians. Speaking at Louth, a stronghold of Nonconformity, It. W. Perks, M. I, for the division, said it could not fall to gratify English Dissenters that the most striking victory gained by the government this session was In favor of the severance of church and state In Wales, and It wns a great satisfaction to them to find thnt In the hour of trial Mr. Chamberlain stood firm to the sacred principle of religious equality with which In by-gone times his name was so closely Identified. It was an bb tounding thing that out of the whole band of Liberal Unionists, most of whom were nurtured in the lap of Dis sent, almost all of whom had over and over again pledged themselves to Dis establishment, two nlone were found faithful. Every 'Methodist In the house voted for the bill. It would have been a most amuzing thing had It been other wise, and It presented a more striking refutation of the theory that the pros perity of churches had anything to do with the patronage and endowments of the state. He quoted the following fig ures to disprove the theory that, nu merically, the Anglican church wns to day stronger In England than Noncon formity. The Establshi'd church pro vided last year sittings In her churches, chapels and mission rooms for G.4S1,;7ll persons; the Methodists for nearly four millions. There were 2.270.41H young people In the church of England Sun day schools and 1,75U.H00 In Methodist Sunday schools, excluding the Calvln Istlc Methodist Sunday schools In Wnles. The number of churches In England and Wales belonging In the church of Kngjand In ISSJ, excluding mission halls, was 14.7.1; the number of Methodist chapels was then l:i,l!7il. The first meeting of the creditors of T. Cory, J. P.. of Swansea nml Tun brldgu Wells, was held at the ulllclal receiver's nlHce, Swnnsea, a few days ago. A number of roof's having been scoopted for the purpose of voting for the apK)lntmetit of n trupteei the cred itors present were asked If they had any questions to put to the debtor. Mr. Dovey said he should like to express his regret at Ihe position In which Mr. Cory found himself. Mr. Hurgess: Wo all do that. The olllclnl receiver: I enn Join In thnt, 1 nm very sorry, I nm sure, to have seen Mr. Cory come before me nl all In this adversity. Mr. Cory: Thank you, gentlemen. It wan resolved thnt the meeting be ndjourned to May 4, In order to enable the debtor to sub mit a Bchomc of composition or arrange ment, and that he be not udjudged a bankrupt In the meantime. Gilmores Aromatic Wine A tonic for ladies. If you are suffering from weakness, and feel exhausted and ner vous; are getting thin and all run down; Gilmore's Aro matic Wine will bring roses to your cheeks and restore you to flesh and plumpness. Mothers, use it fo your daughters. It is the. best regulator and corrector fot ailments peculiar to woman hood. It promotes digestion, enriches the blood and gives lasting strength. Sold by Matthews Bros., Scrantoa. Random Notes of Life 5n London, Hiss Kaiser Graphically Describes a Visit To the Celebrated Crystal-Palace. Iiondon, April 17. They have some funny old customs over here about the observance of Ciood Friday and Easter, und the days close to them. Last Thursday, which was Holy Thursday, Is 'also called Maundy or Maunduy Thursday In England, from the old cus tom of the king or queen distributing films' at Windsor from a maundy dish or alms basket. The quiwn was not In England to perform this ceremony, so It was dune by her chief almoner, who ever that Is. I remember, when nt the tower, see ing two great gold plates ns large ns Ihe ordinary dlHlipaim of tho kitchen among the regalia, from which gigantic soup plates tlie iHinleiit cuHtom of dis tributing alms Is yearly observed. The poor to whom this distribution takes place, however, are not the poor of all London, but only some indigent and In llnn old beings In the parish of Wind sor, where the palace In located, nnd consists of u gift of some thirty or thirty-five Hfillllngs. l ulling Into IIIhiimo. There used ito be mnundny money coined In the mint for Just this Hpeclal purpose, and also more poor to whom to give It, but It Is one of tlb- old cus toms whl-h they say will gradually full Into disuse, as it here is i-hh and less maunday money given -acli year, nnd Instead of being distributed by the reigning sovereign In person, who nt the same time lined to wash the feet of a few of bin loyal beggars us a Hlgn of his humility, It Is usually given by some oIllHal of 'the Queen's household, on ac count of the ever present danger of be ing shot, or blown up, that micron to ex ist wherever there Is a king or a queen to be Hhot at or blown up. I shouldn't care to be a reigning monarch; they seem to be considered nothing more nor less 'than an Interesting kind of target by some of their people. Well, to move on to flood Friday, we find here another old custom, and that Is that everybody eats hot cross buns on that day. The venders go about the streets all day crying that old rhyme: Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! Ono u penny, two a penny! Hot cross buns! lluy 'em for your daughters, liny 'em for your sons, Hot cross buns! Hut cross buns! We had them for breakfast. They are Just like other buns, except that they have a cross upon the upper sur face. They sre full of currants, and are not at all wonderful, as pastry, and I managed to eat only one. The Eng lish seem to set great store by eating, and commemorate almost every holi duy by something special to eat on it. A Nation of Epicures. On Christmas It is roast beef and plum pudding, and as many pieces of different plum puddings as you eat, why Just so many happy months will there be for you In the coming new year. There Is a great time exchanging pieces of plum pudding during the holidays, so that everybody manages to get pieces of twelve different puddings for the twelve months In the year. Tou have to eat them all, too, which is the worst of It, On Shrove Tuesday everybody eats "pancakes" and on Oood Friday comes the hot cross buns. Then on Whitsun day, six weeks after Easter, comes the gooseberry tarts, which are the national dessert for that day, they tell me, while on Michaelmas Day, In September, It Is the religion of the English, or the majority of them at least, to consume roast goose. Visiting Crystal Palace. On Oood Friday my landladies took me down to Crystal Palace to spend the day, and a, delightful day It was, too. "England's giant Cucumber frame." ns John Husklu calls it, Is Just outside of London In the most beautiful and healthful spot that can be Imagined. Perched upon very high ground, as high indeed, ns the top of the dome ot St. Paul's, and surrounded by the most wonderfully beautiful grounds, It is a breathing spot nnd recreation place for the whole population of London. The palace Is, as Its name Implies, built entirely of glass, nt least the out side of It Is, the different pieces of glass and crystal being held together by n slight iron framework, which, wherever It appears, Is painted white, po that tho effect of the whole building Is very light Indeed, and It forms a splendid place for the exhibition of the different art collections which are here. Almost llnffles Inscription. I do not knotv how to pot about de scribing the plnce, as there Is so much to say, snd ns lit Is nil In the supertnllve, I nm afraid "It will be rather tiresome description. The whole thing brought bnck the World's fair to my mind most vividly, for It was very like It, Indeed. Miss Itndlra! Informed me thnt It had been, In fact, nn exhibition building, nnd wus en vtod for that purpose In Hyde Park for the International affair of isrd, 1 think, nnd that nfter the fair wns over, they had It taken npnrt, lucked up nnd brought down here, whore It wns ngaln set up nnd has been used for ft most delightful plnce of re creation, entertainment nnd Instruction to millions of visitors ever since. The entrance fee Is very small, nnd the train on which we" went down was crowded with thousands of visitors, some of them very poor people, Indeed, nnd most of them of Ihe "common" rlnp.vs, so that ono cnti see what nn Immense amount of good such n place docs for all kinds of people, both rich nnd poor, but especially for the poor. Even the railway entrance to it Is lone ly, being a sort of Moorish arrange ment of pillars of colored stones, mid sfterpBssIng through this vaulted pass ago. ' we entered the pulnco proper, where everything wns light nnd music nnd beauty on every hnnd. Amid Luxurious Tropical Plnnta. The building Is very Inrnre, and, ns 1 snld before, tho glnss walls are a most Ingenious Idea. The stronK light this furnished, together with the warmth of the pluce a well, make it quite a con servatory, and one wing of It Is de voted to the growing of tropical plants, ferns, great pnlms, nnd so on. A pretty little brook runs through this part and great ferntrees grow up from It, nnd Its cute little, mosses and smaller ferns on the barks. The great rope vine of India grows In a corner here, too, nnd its foliage Is so thick nnd long that It forms a perfect llttlo. or, rather, large grove here, through which we passed. The queerest and most beautiful flower ing shrubs and trees are planted and growing here, and blooming: away most happily, too. Miss Radical says that some of them are extremely rare, and have been brought, together with the earth in which they are growing-, from Africa, India and Japan. I really wns quite dumbfounded by all the tropical luxuries here, It wa all so beautiful, and certainly exceeded anything 1 had seen ever In the horticultural and agri cultural buildings at the World's fair, which Is saying a great deal, I think. The place Is so Inrgo, and the trees and plants so like a piece of outdoors, that the birds fly In through the ven tilating windows and build in the trees. They were singing awny like little an gels the day I was there and flying about as busily us though they were perfectly at home, a I dare suy they were, Curious IClhnologicnl Spoclmcns. A nice Idea connw.-ted with this trop ical plant collection was tho exhibition with them of the peoples of the coun try from which they came. With the plants from Africa there was a group of Abysslnlun Indians, all going ubout their little village routine, and among the trues and foliage from Australia were grouped the life-like Images of a family from the Push, nnd bo on. Even North America was represented, und "my forefathers," aw Miss Had leal culled them, In the shape of a family of the Ited Indian, sat sunning themselves umMigtheenvlronment of the trees und plants of our glorious country. I dis claimed the American Indian, however, an one uf my forefathers. We left here ami wandered through a Pompellan village, where we could not mako out where tho Pompellans of old slept. We searched their fious all over, from the front door to the primi tive kitchen, und saw very curious rooms and places, but we could not de cide Just where these Italians stowed themselves away for a nap. 1 suppose, now, that it must have been on the couches, which I, for one. Just took for a sort of sofa. We then went through some restored Egyptian temples, which were Indeed very grand, with their groves of gigantic pillars, In th Bhade of even one of which I could have lol tered as the Egyptians used 'io of old. Another thing which wus very Interest ing to me was an exact model which there Is here of the Alhambra. Of course, we went through it, and, oh! how beautiful a thing this palace must W-. It simply took my breath away, ft Is, as you know, the finest example of Moorish architecture In the world, and, going from this, we passed through several more models, each one of them a reproduction of the finest specimen of the architecture of which it was an example. I enjoyed this tour immensely, and saw, by the way, among these samples of the best in architecture the samples of what was best In sculpture as well. Object l essons in Architecture. These .reproductions of the old sculp tures were In plaster, of course, as the originals are priceless, and in muse ums, but these copies are of Just as much value, from the point of view of the instruction of the people, as the originals themselves. Of modern stat uary there Is no lack however, and the palace abounds in hundreds and thou sands of the most beautiful marbles Imaginable, some of them very valua ble, which have been bequeathed from time to time to this institution. We did several ather parts of the palace, and then went outside to look at the grounds, which are beautiful, Indeed. Taking in, as they do, a great deal of the surrounding country, and beautified, as they are, by statuary, ar tificial waters and magnificent shrub bery, they are a veritable triumph of landscape gardening. Indeed, I do not think that 1 ever really understood, be fore, what actual landscape garden ing Is, There are miles of grass, over which you may run and play to your heart's content. It was here that the little Joke which is now going the rounds of the papers in both countries, originated. A little girl, on a first visit, exclaimed to her father: "Oh! Papa, how many policemen they must need here!" "No," said the father, "why should they?" "Why, there Is so much grass to keep off of," replied the child. Painty l ittle Daisies. We walked over the lawns nnd I picked little daisies that were growing there. They were not like our daisies, but are small nnd pink tipped, and very dainty, nnd growing away here In the middle of April. 1 had my first glimpse of some cedar trees, too, for I must acknowledge that I never had seen a real cedar before. There were quite a number of these growing, some of them very fine ones Indeed, nnd they looked Just like the Hlblo pictures of the cedars of Lebanon. The shade which they cast Is lovely. We went through the "Masse," a sort of labyrinth In a llttlo round piece of woods, out of which they say thnt yon can never find your way without the help of the guide, who (comes nnd fetches you out In the end as you are pulling your way along nnd getting very much provoked with yourself for being so stupid. We had to be estrl cated Just like everyone else on a first visit, nnd went on to n little lake near by, where they sail little ships; then to the cricket fields, the cycling tracks, tho foot-ball grounds, the switch back a A Helping Hand. Quaker Oats has helped I places in life. It will help you. Delicious, too 1 Sold only in 2 EVERY WOMAN Ms BMdi a nlitblt, monthly, nmilaUni uadlelM. Only huali Ih purcit drugs thoald be asd. If you want lh bwt, get Dr. Paal'c Tkoy an aronpt, nJeuit eortata la ranlt. The nsalne (Dr. Fwl'i) mtt dlsip. mint, 6ratu7wuare,fl.0, Addien Rub Maaiaias Co CloreUnA, O. For Saleby JOHN H. PHELPS, 8prvee 8tiwt Soranton, Pa. railway, the toboggan elide; and those other "Atlantic CHy arrangements" as I promptly dubbed them. ' Wa then went through an old fash ioned fair, which is a Very quaint and pretty little part of tho outdoor Bights, and from there to the lurge hike, on which the people were rowing about in pleasure boats, Just ns they do on the dear old Susquehunnn at. home. We then somehow got Into the prettiest little. pi.-ce of wooded land thnt I ever saw. Little brooks ran through It with every once In a while a small still lake, on the bosom of which a family of very stately s-nns were floating about. These fascinated me quite, and I could hardly bo torn away from the contem plation of their graceful way of moving over the water. Little bridges spnnncd tho stream, and cute little puths 1I all over, while nt every pretty point there were rocky little seats to drop down in and enjoy tho view. In tho liowcr of Hoses, Wo. made our wuy through this woods, where I should like to have ublded all day, to the Itosary, a largo round summer house, made of inter secting arches of rose vines, which. In the summer, they say, bloom until tho end of October, thus making the wholo place a verltablo bower of roses. I siipposo that Is why they call It tho Itosary. We were rather near tho Palace again by this time, nnd could: hear the great Handel organ in the concert hall pealing out some magnifi cent preludo to tho sacred concert which was to follow, and to which wo wished to go, so we rnad't our way in again. In tho center of the. PaIac Is a very largo space which Is formed Into a con cert hall, and which makes ono of tho largest and finest in the world. Tho places for the orchestra and choruses ure magnificent; and It Is here that the great Handel festivals are always held, on account of the splendid space ac commodation. Put this Is not all. There are other smaller concert halls within the precincts of this great glase hou.se, besides a most beautiful and. roomy theati-r, and a performance or a concert is always going on, so that peo ple can come into them, sit down and rest and hear the music at the same time. The management always have the best of amus'-rn'-rits provided, and the people hav the same talent here as Is brought lfore the most critical and fastidious audiences in any part of London or the Kingdom. Music and Monkeys. We could not g'-t s-ats, as It was already too crowded, so we ordered our tea and sat down to It within ear-shot of the concert, and enjoyed it in that way. The contralto. Marion Macken zie, sang, and then the sopranos, Anna WlHianjs and Ella P.uff'-I, the American concert singer who is doing so very well in London. Santley and Edward Lloyd were the men, and sang pimply divinely, while the chorus and orches tral works was a treat to h'-ar. ' We went to the mcakey house after that and saw the funr.y monkeys, and by that time the band of the P.oyal Household troops l"-gan To arrive to give their concert. We hurr!-i4 to get seats for this, as they are supposed to be the crack band of the kingdom, be longing as they do to her majesty's house, and being on that account ex empt from for-rign service. We had good seats for their performance, and sat through it all. They cer'.ainljr did I play very well; as well as a ban J can. I suppose. After that wa oicuntd to the picture galleries upFtairs, ajid spent a couple of delightful hours amen some perfectly wonderful pictures. W were by that time so dreadfully tireJ that we could not make up our minds t j stay any later and se? the fireworl: which were sent off outside the palac. and which are one of the features .ll summer long, of this fascinating place. So we came heme, in as crowded a train as the one in which we went ar.A I like It so much that I am jeinc again Just as soon as I have a half a day and eighteen pence to spare. I wish I could do It justice in de scribing it to v out I could not wre 1 to use np all the nicest adjectives :n the dictionary. It was simply entranc ing. I can only say that ehe environ ments are nothing short of charming, being all that art and nature com bined can do to make the place de lightful. The palace itself is a monu ment to the ingenuity of the man, Sir Joseph Paxton, who devised It, and is nil of actual glass, held together with a fragile looking iron frame work. The light and heat thus furnished the place nre delightful. The whole place minis ters to the good of every one who p.ns there. Entertainment, pleasure, recrea tion and through and above all these. Instruction, is in every corner nnd turn of IU Sadie E. Kaiser. And This Is Man. A tiny speck upon the scene where lights and shadows meet. A merest atom on A- field where Joy and sorrows fleet ; A simple 'nothing in the w hirl of atrug- lliiK. seething life, With Its greatest, best endeavor a mere xero in the slrife. A brief snd tired existence, feeble at Its greatest height; A flickering star w hose meagier beam is quickly lost In nlrht; A thing whose life nnd being hangs on a hair-like thread, Suspended from s. vast unknown where sleep unnumbered dead; With mystery for beginning and oblivion at the end. As myriad worlds of atoms ever on and upward trend. Yet this small, presumptuous morsel, with a vision lame nnd dim. Sometimes really thinks the universe was solely mnde for him. Judge. millions across perilous lb. Packages. Pennyroyal Pi.Bs Ptiarmeolet, Cor. Wyoming Avenue an - JX.