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A Summer Sons.
ltoly-poly honey-bee,
Humming in the clover,
With the given leaves under you,
And the blue sky over,
Why Rro you so buRy, pray T
Novcr still a minute,
Hovering now above a flower,
Now luill-lnuied in it!
Jaunty rohhln red-hronRt,
Singing loud and cheerly,
From the pink-white apple treo
In the morning early,
Tell mo, is your merry song
Just lor your own pleasure,
Poured horn euch a tiny throiit,
Without stint or niuusurc T
Little yellow buttercup,
Hy the wayside smiling,
Lilting up your lmppy laoe,
With such ewect beguiling,
Why are you bo gnyly olad
Cloth of gold your ruitnent T
Do the smmhino and the dow
I-ook to you lor payment?
Kobcs in the garden bods,
Lilies, cool and saintly,
Darling blue-eyed violets,
1'anBies, boodod quaintly,
Sweet pea that, like butterflies,
Danoe the bright skies under
' Bloom ye for your own delight,
Or for ours, I wonder!
Julia C.R. Door, in St. JVicholai.
night, within view of the smoldering
drift-wood fire, wathingthe sails that
glimmered in the starlight an instant.
like ghosts, and were gone, the revolv
ing lights like great glow-worms, lilt
ing Bea-songs, repealing all the love and
romance of the "melancholy main."
Colonel Audenreid's artic expedition
as well as his Indian voyages furnishod
material for conversation, even had ho
not been once shipwrecked, and once in
peril from mutiny: but he seemed the
merest dilettante while ho lounged upon
the sand, quoting poetry and caroling
snatches of ballads to two pretty girls.
" The sea hath iu perils,
The heaven hath its stars ;
Hut my heart, my heart,
My heart hath ita love,' "
STELLA'S LOVER.
' v;i,o is he?" asked Stella. She and
Felicia Martin were idly looking out
UDon the diivewav of Mr. Martin's
country seat through the narrow latticed
window.
"That is Colonel Audenreid" an
swered Fciieia. adinsting her eyeglasses
' Paia in hriufcinu hini hereto dine. He
is a widower: he's lived abroad lor
years. . Status lo me I've heard that his
course of true love didn't run smooth
lie has the most how itching ni Uncholy
1 ... .1. .. t v....
help wishing lie was in love with you
That niyht, while the girls combed
out their braids nnd curls, in the low
wHLncotcd chamber. Felicia suddenb
' reiffarked : "I believe there will be a
stAnd Mrs. Audenreid."
- Stella gave a start.-and returned fron
an excursion into the past
" Do you know," continued Felicia
" I caught him looking at your retlec
tion in the mirror, with his heart in hi
eyes I wonder the first Mrs. Audenreid
didn't turn in her irrave."
" Felicia, don'tl you make me shud
dcr," cried Stella. " Your imagination
is betttr Hum your eyesight; jou are al
ways ft eing soineooit y devouring some
body else with their glances. I ra tur
I thought Colonel Autieuieid was as in
" different as a star in heaven."
"Modest creature! Ha had ears for
nobody out yourself, as well as eyes. It
is Kismet. Why was not 1 born under
some lucky planet'"
From that date Colonel Audenreid be
came a frequent gufcst at Mr. Martini
suburban retreat, lie rode with Stell
and Felicia over the hills; he picnicked
..with the in at the edge ol the pine
woods; he drifted on the lake at sunset
by their Bide, and tilled the boat witli
water lilies and spicy branches of the
wild azalea: he amusid them will
eliniDses of his continental life; wit)
stories of the war. in which he had led
forlorn hope; -of camp and hospital
regimen. bomttimes they took th
train to the city, and laughed together
over some comedy, or hung entranced
upon some lamous singer s tones; or
they joined a pleasure party to the Isles
ot bhoals, or down the harbor, return
ing . iu the dewy evining'.with the btars
leaning out ol heaven, and the whip
poorwill making the bight melancholy.
Once they paused at the gate to listen
to his plaintive voice. Felicia had
, passed on to the piazza ; the pines stood
out tall and dusky against the heavens;
the roses shook out tin odorous breath
whenever the wind touched them.
"You should hear tho nightingales
fluting about my home in Surrey, when
the ni'jht falls; it is like the refrain of
some sad poem," said Colonel Audenreid.
You must have been very happy
there in that beautiful country," re
turned btella.
Colonel Audenreid opened the gate
for her to pass on, without replying,
with a distraught air, as if he were al-
readv mi es away Irom the subject.
"I think ho did not like me to speak
ot that time," she confessed to Felicia,
" Fiddlesticks," returned that young
person.
" Perhaps it was too sacred."
"Pshaw! Are you blind, Stella? None
so blind as those who won't see, I've
heard. I hastened into the house on
purpose to give him a chance to speak
to you. I saw it in his eyes."
" I never knew such sight as yours,
though 1'vo always understood near
sighted people could see in the dark.
He lias nothing special to say to mo."
"Then he is the greatest humbug ex
tant. He leaves us next month. If he
says nothing before then, I shall never
believe in siens and omens again."
"Nor iu your own eyesight? Poor
Fel t ia. I'm afraid you're doomed todis
iaDO'ntment "
" I've set mv heart upon the match."
Tho next dav Ms. Martin and his
family set off to the nearest beach for J
week's camping out " A little taste ol
gypsy life.' he said; and CjlonelAu
. denreld, confessing that a camp was
quite home-like and irresistible, fol
lowed, bearing his part in pitching the
tents, in baking, and hewing, "and
. gathering tho d if t-wood to boil the
kcttlo. They sat late on the beach at
he repeated one night, as ne gave his
hand to Stella to rise.
5." Did you notice?" said Felicia, later;
he spoke in the present tense, lie
ignored the past."
" lie was quoting trom the iTerman."
"How stupid you are, Stella! If you
will not respond, how is a lover to know
if you caro ?"
And whnt makes you think that I
care ?"
How can you help it ? Oh. why
doem'1 ho make love to me that way !"
Nonsense. Lelieia; he makes the
same sort of love to every girl ho meets,
I suppose,"
1 don't suppose anything of the
kind,"
The following day the wind turned
east, a drizzling luzy rain set in, blot
ting out everything, and obliging them
to told their tents and takereluge in the
little bia shell House at hand; and by
nieht all the rowers of the air were
abroad ; the air seemed to beat and bel
low under their very window, the wind
whipped it into hne leathers ot spray.
and the darkness was like a garment,
There was a gray sickly dawn creeping
up the sky, when btella, looking irom
her window, saw in the distance the
outlines of a wrazged wreck painted
boldly against the horizon, and the
shore swarming with people moving
sbouo uncet taiuTy.
"Oh, Ste la," cried telicla, "here s a
real shipwreck 1 Let us put on our
wraps and creep down to the shore, and
hear nil about it. I wouldn't miss it
for worlds!"
Felicia's teeth were chattering might
ily as they took their way to the shore,
and mingled among tho groups of men
and women.
"She'.l go to pieces in no time at all,"
some one was prophesying. "Jim saw
folks a-clinging to the masts and things,
with his glasi."
"Thai's a master glass of his'n," said
another. "But ain't they going to for to
do nothing I"
"They've sent out a life-line; but it
ain't no pleasant places that line's fallen
into, let me tell you. Jim he was a-going
with it but for me and the children.
I'm powerful glad he didn't."
"(lirii! girls!" cried Mr. Martin
bustling up, "this is no place for you.
Better go baci to your beds. Trying
scene. None of these men would
carry out the line to save a soul. Aud
snreid has gone out with it himself a
terrible risk. So much brilliancy and
cultivations much wit and experience,
as good as thrown avay. Taey'll have
to pull the line In presently, no doubt,
and it would be painful lor you to be
here, my dears, after so much pleasant
companionship. Oh. Stella! Stella! my
dear girl"
Stel a had fainted away.
It was a stirring morning that fol
lowed at the little Sea-shell hou3e, pro
viding for the rescued, listening to their
story, and taUing over the event. When
Stella left her room, about noon, she
was met by a fisherman's wife bunging
her a sealed note. " I found it in the
pocket of Jim's pea-jacket, and 1 made
out how it was lor Miss Stella Ames,
and they told me you were the lady as
tainted on the beach," she explained.
"You see, Jim has gone for the doctor
up to town, and he changed his coat
nrst to look ship-shape like."
"Thank you," said Stella. "Who
can have written to me here?" as she
tore it open and read :
"I am going to carry the life-line out
to a shipwrecked crew. I shall probably
never return alive, but it is their only
chance. While you are dreaming on
your pillow I shall, perhaps be tasting
the bitterness of death and parting.
' Verjly, death is this' to see you no
more till the sea gives up its dead. My
darling, my darling, let me have the
h appiness of repeating 1 love you, I love
you, Stella. Good-bye, sweetheart,
good-bye."
'John Ai denheid."
Then she turned to the torn envelope
addressed to " Miss Stella Ames, Sea
shell House. To be given her only in
case I never return." The revelation
was premature. Colonel Audenreid had
returned, but so spent that the doctor
had beeu summoned Irom town. Mr.
Martin took his family back to Martin-
vale, but Colonel Audenreid remained
at the seaside a fortnight longer under
treatment. In the mean time, Stella
went home home for Stella meaning at
tendance on the whims ot a wealthy
bvDochondriac. with a small stipend.
without relaxation. One morning the
post brought her a letter from Felicia.
Perhaps it contained news of Colonel
Audenreid. It did with a vengeance.
" Dearest Stella " (it began)
" How odd that the very thing 1 wished
should come to pass! I'm almost
daft. To think that, after all my non
sense, it should be me myself little
insin niticant. near-sighted Felicia Mar
tin, whom Colonel Audenreid asks to
marry him! I can hardly believe my
ears; and all the while I believed he
Txr u a am iitpn with vour charms. How
glad I am that you didn't care for him!
You must be my bridemaid. Mamma
says it shall be white satin and pearls.
" Yours, in the seventh heaven,
" Felicia."
" p. S. After all, he doesn't make
nnite the ideal lover I fancied he is so
respectful, and not at all gushing, you
know By the way. you never toid me
how you came to faint that night of the
wreck."
It was no wonder that Mrs. Davis
found Stella distraught that day, talking
at random, absent-eyed and fantastic in
her moods. What did it all mean?
Why had Colonel Audenreid written
her that Dote if he loved Felicia, and
why was he going to marry her if he
loved somebody else? Didn t he know
that she had received his message of
love? Or did he mean simply to ignore
it, having Been fit to change? From
living in a state of happy excitement,
when every footstep in the street below
might be Colonel Audenreid's, who was
hastening to repeat the burden ol his
note, Stella was suddenly brought down
to earth, to the dull certainty that
nothing more was ever likely to happen
to her, that there had been some dread
iul mistake somewhere, which had lent
her days a rose-color for a little while,
to be sure, only to leave them grayer
and more forlorn than before.
Ail at once she remembered with a
shudder that Colonel Audenreid's fatal
note was at Martin vale, that one morn
ing she had been reading it and getting
it oy heart in her own room, when
Felicia knocked at her door, and she
had slipped the precious document be
tween the leaves of her "Golden
Treasury" lying on the toilet table;
and then Felicia had entered with Mrs.
Davis' summons for Stella to return to
duty, and in her hasty packing and de
parture she had left Martinvale without
the " Golden Treasury." Some day
she promised herself to beg leave of
Mrs. Davis to run away to Martinvale
and secure her treasure, not that its
possession would signify to her any
longer, only in order to keep it from
Felicia's eyes; but Mrs. Davis would
not hear to being left an hour, and
sometimes Stella cherished the insane
idea of writing to Mrs. Martin and re
questing that lady to send the " Golden
Treasury of Song," which she would
find in the gable room, without open
ing it.
" Dear Mr. Davis," Bhe begged one
day, when a couple of months had gone
by, and she had heard no more of pearls
and satins and bridemalds from Felicia,
"do let me run down to Martinvale, if
only to stay over a train; it is very im
portant." " A matter of life and death, I sup
pose?" "It concerns the happiness of two
people."
" Can't you tell me about it?"
" Yes, I wi II, and then you w ill surely
let me go. When I was at Martinvale
in t lie summer I met uoi a certain
gentleman. He was very kind. He
carried the life-line out to a distressed
crew when we were all at the beach to
tther, and he left a little foolish, hasty
note for me, in case he never returned ;
by some mistake the note was brought
to me. though he did return. It was n
hasty little affair, you know, written, no
doubt, under strong excitement, when
he had misunderstood his own feelings,
I suppose; for I have never seen him
since, and the note is in my "Golden
Treasury," which I left behind me, and
my friend lelicia Martin may find it,
and it would break her heart, for she is
going to marry Colonel Audenreid,
Oh! I did not mean to tell his name;
but vor .1 forget it, dear Mrs. Davis,
and let io ro at once ?"
" I am not likely to forget it, child,"
laughed Mrs. Davis; "it was my own
name before I married. Colonel Au
denreid is a sort of cousin ot mine. It
is a pretty story. Yes, you shall go.
So the note would break Felicia's heart,
would it? It mu9t have been very ten
der." " But you see there must have been
some mistake about it."
" Well, there are as good fish in the
sea as ever yet were caught, child. Go
and look alter Felicia's happiness, it
you will." And lor the first time Mrs.
D.ivis kissed Stella's white cheek.
" You might have been my cousin, you
know," she explained.
But Stella never reached Martinvale.
Stepping into the station, she ran
against Colonel Audenreid stepping
out, with her " Golden Treasury " in his
hand. They looked at each other for a
breathing space
But all's well that ends well. I had no
thought of retreat. Felicia had Ac
cepted me. I had heard at the beach
that she fainted when I carried out the
line. You had not received my note,
and had no knowledge of my feelings.
I must make the best of my mistake.
The engagement waennnounced. I made
a sorry lover, I fear. One day when I
went down to visit at Martinvale, they
gave me the room you had used, as
there were other guests. In a fit of
megrims I happened upon your 'Golden
Treasury,' and your name stared at me
from the fly leaf, and my own letter fell
at my feet. Felicia released me without
a sign. There is another star in her
heaven, before which my light grows
pale. Stella, do you love?" Harper's
Bazar.
TIMELY TOPICS.
A number of Philadelphia experts in
coal mining and the manufacture oi iron
and steel have been granted a valuable
concession by the czar for the purpose
of developing the resources of a large
tract of country in Southern Russia.
The giant extends for eighty years and
promises- to be immensely profitable.
About $8,000,000 has been subscribed
by American capitalists to put the en
terprise on its feet.
William Pennix was the iolliest fel
low in Lynn county, Ind. He fiddled
and sang at the country gatherings.
rode recklessly in horse races, and was
seemingly incapable of a serious
thought. Miss Bundy shared in the
general estimate of his character, and
laughed when he attempted courtship.
lie declared that tor once ne was in
earnest, but she would not listen. The
dead bodies of both were found in the
road a few days ago. Pennix had
proved his sincerity by murder and
suicide.
FOR TIIE FAIR SEX.
The frequency of stammering in the
tion, to equal twelve or thirteen cases in
ever; 1.0U0 of the population, while in
the eastern departments the proportion
is only one to that number, (t has
been assumed that the defect was, in
many instances, stimulated to avoid
military conscription, but according to
the Abbe Petitote there are two districts
in the Bouches du Rhone where ail the
inhabitants some 15,000 stammer,
lie ascribes this to long-continuod in
termarriages among the communities,
and to a consequent degeneracy of the
race.
Professor Bencke, of Marburg, Ger
many.after measuring 970 human hearts,
says that the growth of that organ is
greatest in the first and second years of
tile. At tho end of the second year it is
doubled in size, and during the next
live years it is again doubled. Then its
growth is much slower, though from
the fifteenth to tho twentieth year its
size increases two-thirds. A very slight
growth is then observed up to fifty,
when it gradually diminishes. Except
in childhood, men's hearts are decided.y
larger than those of women.
Flrlinn.
The fichu is a very conspicuous fea
ture in summer toilet?, and appear?
in various ways. Sometimes it is made
of the dress material, and forms the
drapery on the bosom; when made of
white muslin, and very email, it takes
the place of a collar or frill; again.Wie
large shawl-shaped ncnus oi wuue iace
and mull are used to complete water
ing-place toilets; and the hchn-man-tle
of black lace. Surah, or camel's-hair
is the fashionable wrap for city streets
or drives. The fichu as part of the dress
trimming i3 especially pretty on thin
muslin, grenadine, or light silk dresses.
For such purposes it is maae ot iour
folds of the material cut bias, and edged
at the top and bottom with a narrow
plaiting, or else a ruflle of the goods
taken double. This passes around the
back of the neck, and extends down the
fronts as far as the top of the darts,
where it is rounded off, or else it may bo
lengthened so that tho ends will be con
cealed under the belt. A ruffle of lace
or a linen collar is worn around the neck.
Very small fichus of white soft mull are
made with a point behind, are turned
over at the top, and rounaeci in ironi;
t.hev are then edzed with lace two inch
es wide, and this lace is also put on the
upper part, which is turned down, tiius
nmkinir two rows in the back. When
completrd this fichu is scarcely larger
than a lady's pocket-handkerchief folded
triangularly, and is worn close and high
about the throat, dispensing with the
warm linen collar or the full run oi lace
It is cool and pleasant for summer wear,
and is very dressy. Ladies who make
braid laces, and who do fanciful pat
terns of tatting, make this small fichu
without muslin, and entirely of the tat-
tinsr or lace. The shawl-shaped muslin
fichus are large enough to reach nearly
to the elbows, are quite straight and
close-fit' ing across the back, and have
ends looselv tied in front. They are
shaped by a seam in the back, where a
Sloped piece is seu m. iuc uppa jiiiiu
of the fichu is turned down very broad-
lv and when trimmed with wide lace it
meets the row of laoe on the lower edge.
Tftis is the prettiest wrap lor wearing
with white dresses and tho white gypsy
hats that are now trimmed with muslin
and lace.
White silk-mushn fichus are made to
use instead of laces with dressy toilets,
and are trimmed with embroidery ol
white silk done on the muslin. New
black fichus, to be worn in the same
way, are of transparent square meshes,
like thosa of grenadine, and are bright
ened by being elaborately wrought with
iridescent beads and gold tureaas. ine
Snanish lace hchus are popularly worn
. . . , 1 1 ! 1 J
bath in oiacK ana wiiue iacea, aau in
Something Hood,
When over the lair lame of friend or loo
The blight' of deep disgrace shall iall, instead
Ot woids ot blnuie, or proot ol thus anl s ,
Let something good be said.
Forget not that no fellow-being yet
May fall so low but love may lilt bis head ;
Even the cheek ol Bhamo with tears is wet,
If somet hing good bo said.
No pitying heart may vainly turn aside
In ways ot charity; no soul bo dead
But may awaken strong and glorified,
If something good bo suid.
And bo I charge ye, by tho thorny crown,
And by tho cross on which the Savior bled,
And by your own soul's hope of fair renown,
Let something good bo said!
James IV. Riley.
TEMS OF INTEUEST.
Honor never gives alms bat awards
justice.
A figure of speech Naught set down
in malice.
Children are earthly idol3 that hold
us from the stars.
At the end of 1879 France had 11,120
miles ol railroad.
We meet a great many warm friends
during the heated term.
The twin brother of General Hancock
is a lawyer at Minneapolis, Minn.
Chinese soldiers get three cents a
day, and no restrictions as to how they
spend it.
The cashier of a bank ran away with
all ttie funds.and the directors placarded
the door: "No cashier."
The two-thirds rule is observed at the
homes of young married men who go to
live with their mother-in-law.
A mother dreads no memories those
shadows have all melted away in the
dawn of a baby's smile.
Tt ia coiner to be so pretty soon that
nobody but the proprietor of a paper
mill will have money enougu 10 gei, into
Congress.
Nn man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life ; nor
temperate who considers pleasure to be
the highest good.
" What is worse than freckles?" asks
the New Haven Register. "L-orns.
They don't show so much when you're
dressed up, out tnen, n you iteep
straight, no fellow can step on your
Ireckles."
I never knew any one that was too
trond or too smart to bo a farmer. I he
a farmer, iuo
the small sizes like mere collarettes, as hln kW t ho halrnv breezes and gre.'ii
well as the large mantillas. Bazar. fields never tainted any pure m.in's mor
ality or dwarfed any noble mat's mtei-
1 was going to you," said the
colonel.
" Where is Felicia"" demanded Stella.
" At home and happy still. Where
were you going?"
"To Martinvale, for my 'Golden Treas
ury.' "
" I have made the journey unneces
sary. Let me call a carriage and take
you home. I hav a great deal to con
fess." "It happened oddly enough," he ex
plained later, when ho had given orders
to be driven in the opposite direction
from home "I had left the note to be
given you in case I never returned.
Afterward, when I asked Jim to sur
render it. he confessed that he couldn't
lay hands upon it; must have lost it
through a hole in the pocket of his pea
jacket. That was of no consequence ; it
he had dropped it on the beach, the tide
had hidden it. Returning alive, I pre
pared to do my courting by word of
mouth. I did not know you had left
Mr. Martin's. When I was able to walk,
I went there to find you. It was dusk as
I approached through the garden-.
Somebody was dreaming on the piazza.
It is Stella,' I thought. Inside the
house Mrs. Martin was speaking to Fe
licia. I heard her sav distinctly. ' Shall
you go to town to-morrow, Felicia? '
and Felicia reply, 'Certainly, if the
weather allows. 1 did not know that
there wns an Aunt Felicia with the
same tricks ot voice. Of course, if Fe
licia was indoors with her mother, it
was Stella star-gazing on the piazza,
and Derhaos thinking of me. Would
ever things be more in my favor? I
drew near; some tender word, some
hasty avowal escaped me; she was in
my arms, when a voice from the win
dow dispelled my dream. Felicia,
child,' it said, 'you will take cold moon
ing out there so late.' Do you know,
Stella, at that instant I was almost sorry
the sea had not finibhed me the night of
the wreck. Stupid of me,
A beginning is about to be made, says
Nature, to carry out lieutenant v ey
Drecht's proposal for a circle of observ
ing stations around the north polar
rezion. The Danish government has
resolved to establish a station at Uper-
nivik. in West Greenland : the Russian
government has granted a subsidy for
an observatory at me moutn oi uie
Lena, and another on the New Siberian
islands; Count Wilczek is to defray the
expenses ot a station on Nova Zembla
under the direction of Lieutenant Wey
precht: the United States signal service
under General Meyer, has received per
mission to plant an observatory at Point
Barrow, in Alaska; and n is expected
that Canada will have a similar estab
lishment on some point on her Arctic
coast. At the Hamburg conference it
was announced that Holland would
furnish the funds for a station in Spitz-
bereen: and it is expected that Norway
will have an observing post on the ex-
tremitv of the province of Finmark,
This is a good beginning, and it is hoped
that some sort of agreement will bo es
tablished to have all the observations
made after a uniform method, otherwise
their value will be greatly decreased.
Sand-Showers in China.
Ever? vear witnesses curious sand-
showers in China when there is neither
cloud nor loir in the sky. but the sun is
scarcely visible, looking very much as
when seen through smoked glass. The
air is tilled with a tine dust, entering
eves, nostrils and mouth, and often
causing serious diseases of the eye. This
dust, or sand, as the people call it, pene
trate houses, reaching even apartments
which neem aecurelv closed. It is sup
posed to come from the great desert of
Gobi, as the sand of the rmhara is
taken up by whirlwinds and carried
hundreds of miles away. The Chinese,
while sensible to the personal discom
fort aiisinir from these showers, are re
signed to them from a conv lotion that
they are a great help to agriculture
Thev sav that a vear of numerous sand
showers is alwavs a year ot great fer
tili y. The sand probably imparts some
enriching elements to the sou, ana it
also tends to loosen the compact allu
vial matter of the Chinese valleys. It is
possible that thee showers may be
composed ot microscopic insects, like
similar showers which have been noticed
in the Atlantic ocean.
John Howard, the great philanthro
pist, married his nurse. She was alto
gether beneath him in social lite and
intellectual capacity, and besides she
was hfty-two years old while he was
but twenty-five. He wouldn't take
"No" for an answer, and they were
married and lived happily until she
died, which occurred two years after
ward.
Shirring grows uiuro and nioro fash-
iuinab'.e.
Fashion IVotca.
Bead collars increase in popularity.
JaDancsc pongee is a summer nov
elty.
Children continue to w( ar single piece
dresses.
Soft silk sashes are finished at the ends
with tassels.
Cheese cloth dresses are worn again
this summer.
Parisian dressmakers combine cotton
goods with silk.
Heavy box-plait A flounces to the knee
are much worn.
Trousers under tho skirt are univer
sally worn by equestriennes.
White foulards with black polka dots
make very stylish toilets.
Surtouts have the front breadths cut
away to show tho trimming on the un
derskirt.
Silk fans with long ivory handles and
flat borders of feathers are cheap this
summer.
Grenadine di esses often have the front
breadths entirely covered with flounces
of r rench laoe.
CheaD satin is the best material for
trimming cheap woolen suits. It is not
so likely to fade as silk.
Bead embroidery on black net is used
to trim kid waists, or else satin pipings
and cascades of lace.
The Black Forest hows of black silk,
which suDcrsedo the Alsatian. ?ire espe
cially becoming to lair-haired gins.
Shirrius is more used than at any
previous season lor ineironioi aress
skirts, but is now shirred horizontally
in wide clusters instead ot lengthwise,
as it was formerly.
Panels at the sides of skirts are now
1 !. . I .1. 1 fill.
more oiien Diaiitu man main. xuk
nlaits are lengthwise side plaits, and
sometimes one large round knot is tiej
on these plaits about halt way down
the skirt. Shirred panels are also u sed
Tha MurrlaKcs of (.real Men.
Shakespeare loved and wedded
farmer's daughter.
Humboldt married a poor girl be
cause ho loved ner. ui course- mey
were happy.
ltnhert Burns married a poor farm
girl, with whom ho fell in lovo while
they worked on a larin iogeiiiT,
Voter the Great, of Uussim. married a
nensant. She made him an excellent
wile and a sagacious emprebs.
John Adams married a daughter of a
Presbvterian clergyman. ller lather
objected on account of John be in,
lawyer.
Andrew Jackson married a woman
whose husband was fetill living. She
was an amiable woman, and was mo.st
devotedly attached to the old warrior
and statesman.
Washington married a widow with
two children. It is enough to say uho
was worthy ot him ; ana they uvea as
married peop'.o should live, iu perfect
harmony with each other.
Prince Albert and Queen Victoria
were cousins, a rare example in tho long
Hue of English monarchs, wherein the
marital vows were sacredly observed
aud biucero affection existed.
lectual ability. Lambie.
If I have ever used any unkind
words, Hannah," said Mr. bmiley, re
flectively, I take them ail oacic.
" Yes ; 1 suppose you want to ueo them
over again, ' was tno not very suuui-
ing reply. New Haven Register.
Kin? Pomare V.. of the Society
islands, has of late years been a ruler in
name rather than in fact. The natives
regard him as their rightful sovereign,
but the German and French traders
have acquired control of affairs. Po
mare has now abdicated in lavor of
Governor Chesse, the French represent
ative.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, and lived with her but
a short time. He was an austere liter
nry recluse, while she was a rosy, romp
ing country lass, who could not enduro
the restraint placed upon ncr, so iuey
separated. Subsequently, however, she
returned, and they lived tolerably happy
together.
Warm Weather Diet.
The first warm davs are fruitful of
complaints about the failure of appetite.
Breakfasts arc no longer relished ; din
ners afford but a languid interest, anu
suppers seem superfluous. Only vigor
ous workers out oi uoors, oi juuhk iiuu
ple who are so blessed as not yet to have
m:dc the acquaintance of their stomachs,
come to tho table with a real zest for
food. And it is no wonder, considering
how few people have yet learned mean
of altering their diet to suit their own
conditions :md the state ot the season.
The spring appetite fails and ought to
fail, before ham and eggs or a great
piece of steak, on these enervating first
warm mornings oi tne year, rucu u jp,
heavy meats and all stimulating and
blood making artiults of diet, that met a
real want iu the nipping and eager air of
winter, are as much out ol place now as
the furs and ulaters. And yet many a
person who would think it a siga of
lunacy to dress in tho December style in
May, does not appear to see i.ji.v im.Mii
gruity in eating in the December fashion
Food and coal create heat, and thick
clothing and tight houses preserve it for
the comfort of the body in winter. Yet
men who know enough to dump their
furnaces, open tho windows and lay oil
their overcoats on the advent of spring,
are stupid cuough to keep on stoking
their stomach at full blast and consider
themselves " out-of-sorts " and ill if
nature resents tho abuse.
It is time to let up on the cold weather
diet especially for persons doomed to
live indoors. A mold ol well-cooked
oatm.al, served cold wita cream and
sugar, with two or three oranges and a,
cup of coffee, makes an adequate and
appetizing breakfast. All fruits and
vegetables attainable lit in well at this
season. The many preparations of the
small grains afford a variety which it
I j well lit sill d v. Milk and eggs and hh
contain all the needed food-eieiuents for
a diet of a month or two, with such
sugar and starch as the housewife com
bines in toothscmo light puddings or
other desserts. W hether we eat to live
or live to eit, we ou'.'ht to bo rational
enough to dispense wkh food wheu not
l uugry and to tempt rather than force
the appetite. Golden Rule.