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Lend n Hand.
Lilo is nmile ol nps and downs
Lend a hand j
J.Ue h mnilo cf thorns and crowns;
If you would tlio latter wear,
I .ill somo crushed heart lrom despair
Lend a band.
t
Crow .is nre not alone ol gold!
Lend a hand ;
, Diadnns nio bought and soldj
Hut the crowns that good men own,
Come from robludced alone
Lend a hand.
Many crowns that manr wear
Ind a hand :
Never in the sunlight glare;
Diam6nds never in them shino,
Yet they hold a lightxliviiie
Lend a hand.
Hold a linh" that no'er shall fade
Lend a hand;
Beauty, nil huifx never made;
For tlnso crowns that gopd men wear,
Everlasting are, as rare
Lend a hand.
Would yon own so bright a crown ?
Lend a hand ;
When you see a brother down,
Lead him from the deep, dark night,
riiice him in tho morning light
Lend a hand.
AIDING THE ENEMY.
" I can't, I won't, I'm not going to
so there 1" ,
To a person unacquainted with the
Gregory family, the above singular pro
testation would seem not only very
cross and impertinent, but decidedly un
called for.
Grandma Gregory, in the most melli
fluous of tones, and with her sweetest
company smile, was simply suggesting
to her daughter Gertrude, the propriety
of nutting up her back hair.
"But you are seventeen years old,"
the tidy urged, to all appearance quite
- undistuibcd by her companion's reply.
" Grandma, I shall i ot be seventeen
till n.ext. Saturday," tho young lady an
swered, with fbishing eyes, ."and it don't
make any .difference how old I am.
When I wnt to Mrs. Graham's party, I
said that my hair would never get top
of my fiend again up less it went there
itcelf. My head aches now with those
old longs of hairpins that that hair
dresser nu k through my scalp. I wish
my h-nd was as bald as old Mr. Tom
lirso iV; then I should be let alone."
" You are very tall oi your age, my
dear," g andnia began again, in the
same unrulll d manner, "and for cer
tain occasions such, for instance, no
Carrie Slielville's wedding to-morrow
- night the arrangement of your hair, a
you own good taste will tell you, should
oirrespond with your dies'. There
must be harmony in these things, else
we might as well be barbarians."
' "There'll never be any harmony
about mc, grandma inside or out, if I
h:ive got to be badgered all the time
about my buck hair, and how I enter
and leave a room, and how I behave
when I go to those hateful dinner
particc, which nobody but an antedi
luvian can enjoy, why, then, grandma,
you might as well give mo up, lor I shall
never do you or papa tho least credit."
"Just consider a moment, Gerty,"
grandma began aeain. " Do you think
your hair, arranged as it is now, in a
braid at the back of your neck, will be
in keeping with your white silk dress?"
. " No. grandma, I don't suppose it will ;
but I'm not to blame for that. I wanted
a blue silk, or a white muslin, such as
girls ot my age wear; but you bought
-the white silk, and what could I do?
The discrepancy will bo in this grandma
that my dress will be old enough for
a lady twice my age, and my hair will
be just as old as I am."
Grandma's pvtience did seem of the
elastic kind, for even now, after all this
provocation, she proceeded to argue the
case in her most cheerful and smiling
manner.
" I only care," she said, " to have you
dress as becomingly as possible, iou
look a veritable full-Hedged young lady,
my dear, and the costume that would
ba suitable tor many girls of your age
would bo in verv bad taste for you.
hope you will acquit me of a;ty responsi
bility for your outgrowth of short skirts
and pinafores, mv dear."
For a moment Gertrude did not speak
She stood before the library fire, looking
down among tho glowing coals, appar
ent v in deeD thought.
.Finally she said, with a keen glance at
her grandmother :
" 1 heard you and papa talking about
Court Uenlly last night."
"Yes, my love," the old lady replied,
giving the last smoothing touch to
new lilac glove she was trying on.
"Well, grandma," said Gertrude, '
if
Cojrt Bently comes to this house to
nuke a visit, you needn't think I'm go
in to be poiite to him. I believe Graud
m i Gregory, that the reason you have
taien to talking so much about my back
hair and my style generally, is because
you want me to look sufficiently mature
lor that traveled gentleman to take pai
ticuar notice of. It won't work worth a
cent, grandma, because I shall tell him
. . my age as soon as ho sets foot in the
. house, and 1 shall wear my hair down
my back, unfettered by braid, ribbon cr
. comb, and I shall endeavor to look and
behave just ai uu'.cu like a wild Indian
as possible."
vAllow ms to inquire, Gertrude," and
now there was a trinirg change in the
old-lady's manner, as he carefully drew
the
glove iroin nersuapeiy nana, wuy
. 1 11 J4 1
you mourn Miigie 5SLt. uenuy, outoi our
lurgecircle of mends and acqaain anccs.
for thaava?e exhibition sou speak of? I
confis's to somo curiosity, ttrange as it
may seem?"
"Because," the girl replied, with a
blush of vexation, you and papa have
t ilked so much about Court Bently's
perfections, and Court Bently'e fortune,
and, when you have grown very much
interested, have looked mo over so crit
ically, for all the world like a milliner
when she is selecting the shade best
suited to one's complexion, and then
your lalk for the last few months about
thebnauty and safety of early marriages,
combined with your anxiety about my
back hair all these things I have put
together and added up, and my figures
tell the truth, and you know it."
" I shall give you an opportunity soon
to be ashamed of yourself," said the old
lady, quietly, "when I inform you that
the gentleman you sneak of is engaged to
a lady in Berlin. You will perhaps see
the propriety of doing your sum over
again, with a view to correcting its for
mer mistakes.'-'
"Oh, Grandma Gregory!" Gertrude
exclaimed, lu;r sweet face rndiuit with
delight, "you may rig me now just as
you pie se, and you can hoist my back
l, air to my eyebrows, and fasten it on
with spikes, and I'll never say a word,
and I'll forgive you for ever planning
about mo, you naughty, designing
grandma, because I know you did, and
papa, too."
At this juncture a servant entered and
presented a card to Mis. Gregory. With
a critical glance at her granddaughter,
wh had thrown herself into an arm
chair by the fire to think it all over,
the old ladv ordered the visitor suown
in, and the next moment a gentleman of
most distingue appearance enterea the
room.
Grandma's greeting was very kind.
and the visitor seemed Bincerely glad to
see Ins old friend again.
This." said Mrs. Gregory, leading
the gentleman to Gertrude, " is the little
girl you used to tease so long ago, and
who. I suppose, has quite outgrown your
remembrance. Mr. Bently Gertrude."
Indeed, no." the gentleman replica.
as he shook hands with the young lady.
She has crown quite tall, to be sure,
but I should iudce. Mrs. Gregory, if I
may be pardoned the remark, that your
ifranddnughter has not outgrown her
mischief."
"Quito correct," said grandma.
I
think not."
Gertrude replied, with a blushing
smile:
1 do not remember you, Mr. Bently,
though, if vou will excuso me, Isuould
not be afraid to hazard the remark that
vou have held on to your fun also."
- ri . ' .1 ... . 1 . m. . I A
uourt lienwv wi iweniv-umc, miu
ooked twentv-five. and Gertrude, as she
conversed in her unanected and ladyntte
manner, was not quite seventeen, and
koked twenty.
Grandma was tho picture of serene
contentment as she listened to the
pleasant chatter; and once, as Gertrude
surmised a peculiar expression on the
old ladv's face all her old suspicion re
turned for a moment ; but as sue naa
never known her grandmother, with all
her tact and diplomacy, to tell a lalse
hood, she dismissed the thought as un
worthv. and gave herself up to tue
pleasure of entertainment.
1 mi ; -I L 3 5
i ne next evening uoriiuue, m
white silk dress, her hair a la mode, was
escorted to the wedding by Mr. Bently.
She had kept, her promise to her grand
mother, but sue leit altogether over-
dressed and uncomfortable.
Her own ideas in regard to what she
should wear on all occasions were ex
cellent and her taste unexceptionable,
and now she grew more distrait and un
hannv.
ller companion, noting tne mange in
rr - . . . i .
her manner, whispered laughingly to
her as they took their seats in ono ol
tho front pews in the large church :
You seem out ot tune, buss uer
trude. Is it envy of the bride, or dis
satisfaction with your escort1"
Gertrude's eyes flashed they had
been all ready to flash ever since the
hairdresser finished his work and re
plied, considerably above a whisper:
" You are all that is desirable. Mr
Bently at lea3t, I suppose so though I
have not had enough of attention from
gentlemen to really be able to tell. And
as for Carrie Sheville, who is going to
marry a man ever so much oidqr than
she is, mst for his money, I don't think
I feel anything just now but contempt
lor her."
"She mav love him. Miss Gertrude,
notwithstanding the damaging fact of
his fortune," Mr. Bently venture I to re
snond a little satirically.
"Fudge!" said Gertrude, with a curl
ofhorlio.
" Since you are satisfied with me, and
not jealous of the bride, Miss ueitruae
mav I inauire why sou appear so-
so--"
" Cross?" his companion interrupted
" You had better ask why I came to this
wedding, Mr. Bently."
" Well, whv did vou?"
"To show off my new dress and the
arrangement of my top-knot, sir, and for
no other reason in the world, unless in
deed it might be that Iwasexpected to
come."
"Oh!" said the gentleman, with a pe
culiar notification ot countenance anc
tone, which, for the moment, seemed to
quite restore the young lady's good
spirits.
An hour later, at tho reception, Ger
trude, who was sipping a cup of coffee
and chatting gayly with her new friend,
heard her father, who, with her grand
mother, had seats directly behind her,
remark cautiously indeed, the ears they
were intended for scarcely caught the
low tons:
" lie says there isn't the slightest
truth in that report we heard."
Mr. Bently went to gat an ice for his
companion, and on his return MWs Ger
trude was nowhere to be suen.
' She has gone to have a chat with the
bride," Mr. Gregory explained; but the
gentleman's manner of looking about the
room Beemed to Mr. Bently to contra
dict tho statement.
However, there was nothing to do but
wait, and this Court Bently proceeded
to do with an excellent grace. Ho talked
European politic3 with an elderly
Kagli.-Jhn'an, and chatted with a
mitionly French lady, introduced by
Mrs Gregorv. in the lady's own ltn-
guage, much to her del ght.
When it was time to go, Mv
Gregory
went in search of the .truant, and Mr.
Bently did not Bee her again till he of
fered her his arm to tne carriage.
Grandmother had been lecturing. That
was plain, for Gertrude's cheeks were
painfully llushed.ana ner nana trcmoieu
as it touched his arm.
Mr. Bently wondered what it nil
meant, a3 who would notf but he said
pleasantly, as ho took his seat beside
her:
"You saw tho bride oil, l suppose,.
Miss Gertrude?"
" No. I didn't," she rnswered, per
versely, and then, leaning forward to
address her father: "Fapa, do you
know that Carrie SheviUc l mean
Mrs Knight lacks a month of being as
old as I am." .
She looks quite mature," Mr. Gre
gory replied.
"And I suppose you think that is
enough," Gertrude resumed, in a higher
key. "Mr. Bently," she continued,
"what do you think of the way girls
are driven into unsuitable marriages in
these days?"
"I thought, Miss Gertrude, in these
davs that voung ladies did about as they
pleased," the gentleman answered.
" 1 am not taiKing oi young laaies,
was ihe petulant reply, " but the girls
of my age."
" Pardon me, Miss uertruoe," said
Mr. Bently, " but I was not aware that
girls went into society in New York."
This wa3 a hard hit, but his com
panion was equal to the situation .
Well, they do" she replied, "if
they happen to talk and look mature,
as papa says. A girl might prefer to
play witn her aoiis w going into uei
ety; but that wouldn't make any dif
ference if her folks had reasons of their
own for pushing her out, and she hap
pened to be tall enougn io niicu a tram
to, and unawkward enough not to break
her neck with it."
Bvthis time Mr. lientiy was nearly
convulsed with laughter.
This girl or whatever she was
pleased to call herself was certainly the
most original and straightforward speci
men he hid ever met. He knew that
her father and grandmother were burst
ing with rage, and this only increased
his merriment.
I sometimes think Gertrude con
siders herself a martyr," Mrs. Gregory
remarked, in her most indiff erent man
ner. . . .
By this time they had reached home.
and Gertrude's "Oh. grandma 1" was
the beginning and end of her indignant
reP.iy-. . .
Sheknejv. and 60 oiQ vouri uenuy,
that the old ladv had planned this
moment for the delivery of the few
words which were intended to deceive
him in reference to her granddaughter's
opinion of her own grievances.
The next morning iienruae appcaica
at he breakfast-table in a light-blue
cashmere, trimmed girlishly with vel
vet, and her magnincent brown nair
hanging loose on the back, as she had
threatened, only she had managed to
fasten it on the neck, so that its wander
ings were considerably circucumscribed,
The pttect was nne and almost start
linff. Court Bentlv was afraid he should
make himself obnoxious by his frequent
glances in her direction; but in all his
travels he had never seen a prettier
picture, and Court Bcntley was very
appreciative of the beautilul in Tiott
nuture and art.
Grandma Gregory did her best to be
social, but the figure opposite was evi
dently too much even tor her serenity
Hnd tho old lady's breakfast was not i
success. . ., ,
Will you be very much vexed n .
pay you a compliment mis muiuiug,
.-. - - i e . m r 1 J
m 99 f-iertrunei"' jir. uentiv atiaeu.
Mr. Gregory and his mother had left
the dining-room, and he and Gertrude
were alone.
" That's according," she replied, good-
naturedly.
"Well, then." the gentleman re
mimed. " I am auite in love with your
morning toilet; and if I were in your
place 1 would wear oiue dresses anu my
hair on my bacK an tne time.
"Do vou like this?" Gertrude
quired.a comical expression overspread
ing her face. " I'm sure I didn't think
you would," she added.
"Then you must have considered me
a man of very poor taste," air. lientiy
replied. " If I-were a little nearer your
aee. Miss Gertrude," he continued,
might infer from your words that you
had made your toilet this morning with
a view to my disnmng it."
Gertrude looked very much amused
and with a curious glance at her com
panion. said :
" One would suppose you were an oc
tosenarian. Mr. Bently. '
" I presume I must be nearly twenty
vears older than you, Miss Gertrude,"
Tie answered, gravely. " I am twenty
nine, and, calling you twelve pardon
me if these figures are too large you
see there wouldbe seventeen years ait-
fprence. and that is a great deal."
" Well. I declare!" the voung lady ex
claimed, with flashing eyes and scarlet
cheeks. "You niust have a singular
opinion of my father and grandmother
it you thinK tuey woum anow jue to
wear a train, and my hair top of my
head, as if I were only tweive years old!
I shall be seventeen to-morrow," she
continued, making a low obeisance;
" and what induced you to think I was
only twelve. I'm sure 1 can't under
8tnnl" " l beg your pardon," the gentleman
replied, carelessly; "but I presume I
received my impression from your re
marks last evening as we returned from
t he wedding."
Gertrude had no time to answer, for
just here her lather entered the room,
and shortly after the two gentlemen
started downtown.
" Well, Gertrude," said grandma, as
they found themselves alone once more,
"what is your programme to-day?
Will you stay at liome and play with
your dolls, or may I have the pleasure of
jour company on a shopping tour?"
This was too much, and Gertrude
walked out of the room without a word,
and was seen no more that day. The
next m jiniug the ytun lady's hair was
J kuot'.ed at the back of her pretty h'.ad,
and Mr. Bently thought her even more
bewitching than the morning previous.
" I made several inquiries for you last
night, Miss Gertrude," Mr. Bently re-
marked, as ho was once more leu aione
with his voung hostess; "but no one
seemed to know anything about you.
If you had not undeceived me about
your age, I might have tnougutyou naa
gone to bed like other children."
Mr. Bently, do you want me to de
spise you?" Gertrude inquired, looking
her companion straight in tne eye.
"Miss Gertrude!" Mr. Bently ex
claimed, with a start, not all assumed
Because, if you do," the gin wont on.
you can keep twitting me of the past!
have plenty of that to bear with grand
ma. I don't believe you tnougnt yes
terday morning that I was tweive years
old, when you said so, so innocently;
and I don't think that wa3 very nice of
you though, I suppose, it was quite
smart, and just what I deserved. 1 do
think I have been pushed lorwara too
much, Mr. Bently, and I do believe in
girls bomg allowed to enjoy tneir girl
hood. I shall never wear my hair
stringing on my back again, though!"
Then after a pause, which her com-
E anion could not see his way clear to
reak. "Papa said, Mr. Bently, that
you wanted me to go to tho opera with
you to night. I should like to go very
much, thank you" and extended her
hand" if you won't make fun of me. I
think I shall like you very much ; and I
don't see why we cannot be good friends,
notwithstanding the tremendous diff er
ence in our ages."
I don't think that Mr. lientiy could
very well resist kissing the fair little
hand she extended so frankly, and as she
didn't make any fusS about it, I don't
know why we should.
A year afterward, on tne young iaay s
eighteenth birthday, grandma inquired,
with a peculiar smile about her still
handsome mouth, "Then you don't
think, Gertrude, you are too young to be
engaged to Court Bently P You will
have to leave your dons, you Know."
" Grandma." said Gertrude, with the
old ominous flash of her beautiful eyes,
that is a very aged and a very stale
joke. Don't you think if you sat up a
night or two you might produce some
thing original? "
Grandma laughed and said no moro,
lor, had she not carried her point?
Capturing Hamming Birds.
The following is an account of the
method in which humming bird3 are
caught: Let us follow little Dam, the
oldest and sharpest of the humming bird
hunters, as he goes out for birds, iirst
he goes to a tree called the mountain
palm, which replaces the cocoa paimin
the mountains, the latter growing only
along the coast. Beneath the tree are
some fallen leaves fifteen feet in length ;
these he seizes and strips, leaving the
mid-rib bare, a long, slender stem taper-
mg to a point. Upon this tip he places
a lump of bird lime, to make which he
had collected the inspissated juice ot the
bread fruit and chewed it to the con
sistency of soft Wads. Scattered over
the savanna are many clumps oi uower
ing bushes, over whose crimson and
snowy blossoms humming birds are
dashing, inserting their beaks in the
honeyed rorrollas, alter active lorajs
resting upon some bare twig, pruning
and preening their feathers. Cautiously
creeping toward a bush upon which one
of these little beauties is resting, the
hunter extends the paim-nu with its
treacherous coating of gum. The bird
eves it curiouslv but fearlessly as it ap-
proacues ms resung-piuec, even piu&mjt
at it, but the next moment he is dang
ling helplessly, beating the air with buz
zing wings in vain efforts to escape the
clutches of the treacherous gum. Na
ture.
9 he Proposed Sahara Sea.
A difference of opinion exists among
European engineers in regard to the
practicability of establishing a sea, as
now proposed, in the great desert of
Sahara, in Africa, the chief problem
being, it would seem, how to keep it up
It is argued that, supposing the sea to
be created by means of a canal, it will
lose an enormoua quantity of water by
evaporation every day, without the in
troduction of an eaual volume of fresh.
The water evaporated being replaced by
n supply coming through the canal, the
whole body will soon reach the maxi
mum of saturation ; and thus, the
evaporation still continuing, a deposit
of salt will.be. formed which, in time,
must fill up the whole space of the in
terior sea the salinity of the water
being such that no animal life would bo
possible in it, and the ultimate result
bMng eimpj the accumulation of an
immense deposit of salt. On tho other
hand, tho projectors of the enterprise
claim that the presence of this water,
and its evaporation, must produce copi
ous rains, which will in a large measure
return to tho sea, and thus not only ac
complish the object referred to, but also
convert a sterile wasta into a fertile
country.
Au Anecdote of Davy Crockett.
"J. B. II ," writing frcm th3 "Old
Stone Fort," at Nacogdoches, Tex.,
relates a circumstance which transpired
there in 1830, between the late. Colonel
J.S. Forbes and Davy Crockett, then a
fresh recruit to the cause of Texan in
dependence. Colonel Forbes, who was
Sam Houston's commissary general at
the battle of San Jacinto, was in a
room in the "Old Stone Fort," when
Colonel Davy Crockett, on his way to
the Alamo, called to take the oath of
allegiance. Forbes was commissioner,
Rlcalde. and recruit ng officer, and to hiu.
appeaved Crockett, coonskin cap and
all. Ho stood up, holding in his left
h:md " BJtsy," his gun, his right hand
raised to heaven. When Forbes, read
ing the oath, came to where it said, " I
will support any government that may
be framed by the people," etc , Crockett
indignantly objected, and taking the
blank oath inserted "republican" alter
" any," to make it read and mean that he
would support " any republican govern
ment" that might be formed hereafter by
the Texans, but none other. Ho then
picked up"Botsy"and went and died
with Travis and Bowie at Alamo.
FOB THE FAIR SEX.
Fall and Winter Fathlons.
The colors in which new goods are
shown are, first, various shades of pur-
Ele, such as eveque or bishop's purple,
eliotrope shades, pansy, plum with
much red in it, and prune-color. The
blue shades retain the peacock and gen
darme hues. Very dark red li shown
in wine and garnet tints; but it is said
that dull reds will be introduced later,
similar to the cinnamon shades Worth
has used during the summer. Olive,
bronze and moss green are shown, and
one of the novelties combines the yel
low olivo green with clear blue green
like the dark green of myrtle leaves.
Seal brown is shown; but tho newest
shades are more like the old-fashioned
ashes-of-roses and felt drab, with much
gray and yellow in them, rather than
the red of seal brown.
Stripes of plush or of velvet are shown
again for the skirts of costumes. The
handsomest are plush stripes with very
long pile on satin of the same shade.
Very little of the satin stripe is seen, as
it is quite narrow, being intended merely
to show off the pile of the plush stripe
aa it falls over upon it. Velvet stripes
are shown with double narrow stripes
of satin between. Heliotrope, peasock,
myrtle and prune are stylish in these
stripes, and plain velvet is imported to
match for the overdress. Other velvets
have half-inch stripes alternating with
satin stripes of the same width. For
dark costumes are mixed stripes of
brown and gold plush on brown satin.
For coats and basques to wear with
nlnin velvet or plush skirts are gav-fig
ured velvets, with stripes and sprays of
light colors on dark ground. Tt ese
have small blue or olive ngures Dro
caded in lines or stripes on rioh red
or blue ground. For other gay jackets,
and for trimmings, there are lozenge
shaped balls ol dark velvet, with a tiny
chintz figure in each ball, combining
olive, peacocfe blue and dull red.
A few silks are snown in me new
colors very softly woven in twilled or
basket patterns, ana strewn over wim
brocaded. figures or quaint Egyptian de
signs jars, lotus leaves, ana niero-
glyphics ; there are aarK green vases on
pale blue ground, or on the new cinna
mon red; paie Diue is commnea witu
drab, and olive with peacock blue. The
black satin ae ltfon nas a novel comm
nation of brocaded patterns, or part
of it is thrown into broad relief, while
near it the same design is impressed or
sunken in the fabric, like the chasing on
silver. Large fern leaves, mammoth
daisies, roses and other single flowers
are preferred to the small figures for
rich and elaborate dresses. For street
costumes smaller figures are shown,
such as linked riDgs, triangles, leaves,
GtC.
Plaids are revived in the first woolen
goods imported for autumn. These are
not the tartans of Scotch clans, but are
fanciful plaids that show French taste
in their daring vet well-blended combi
nations of color. Moreover, these plaids
are not meant for entire suits, but for
the borders and trinimings of plain wtol
goods to, imitate the haudkerchief de
signs worn in -ginghams during the
summer. They will also be used for
skirts beneath plain overdresses, or for
jacket basques with plain skirts, and for
tne nooaea manues oi pilgrimage tiuio.
Lartre and conspicuous plaids are im
ported ; in some instances a single plaid
oovprs the tntire breadth of goods forty-
eiirht inches wide. Less extreme de-
sitns are. however, more largely
imported in the English homespun
cloths that will be worn for undress
suits this winter. This cloth is loosely
woven and smooth, like the bunting
flannels now used, but is of heavier
weight.
Dark plum and prune colored grounds
are most seen in these plaids, with large
strines and bars of peacock blue, olive,
red and white. A nother plaid has olive
green ground barred with peacock blue,
and lines ot bright maizo color. 'Rose,
scarlet and narrow pale blue lines are
on nlum erounds. Instead of old gold
the yellows mow used are brighter, such
ks straw color or maize. Olive green
grounds nre plaided with dark myrtle
green on which are red and pale blue
lines. Regular Roman strij es are crossed
to form plaids ox peacock blue ground.
More quiet colors are drab grounds with
two shades oi green in me oars crosseu
by light blue lines. Bazar.
(ilrls as Housekeepers.
Begin with your own things and your
own place. That is wuat your momer
will tell you if you rush to tier enthusi
astic wiili great intentions, and offer to
r i -ill 1 ;
relieve her oi unii ner uouseaeeping
Don't draw that little bucket of cold
water to have it poured back upon your
early zeal. Reform your upper bureau
drawer; relieve your closet pegs of their
accumulation of garments out of use a
monLli or two ago. Institute a clear
and cheerful order, in the midst of
which you can daily move; and learn to
keep it. Use yourself to the beautilul,
which is the right, disposing of things
as you handle them, so that it will be a
part ot your toilet to areas your room
and its arrangements while you dress
yourself, leaving the draperies you take
off aa lightly and artistically hung, or as
delicately folded and placed, as the skirts
you loop careiuuy to wear, or me no
bon and lace you put with a soft neat
tirsj about vour throat. Cherish in
stincts of taste and fitness in every little
thing you have about you. Let it grow
impossible to you to put down so much
as a pin-box where it will disturb the
orderly aud pleasant grouping upon your
dressing-table, or to stick your pin in
your cushion ev n at all sorts of tipsy
and uncomfortable inclinations, lliis
will not make you "fussy" it is the
other thin that does that the not
knowing except by fidgety experiment
what is harmony and the intangibh
grace of relation. 'Once get your know!
edge beyond study and turn it into
tact which is literally havingitat your
tinkers' ends and order will breathe
h ut vou. and grace evolve from com
moncst things and uses and belongings
wherever you be; and "putting to
rights" will not be separate taak-work
and trouble, any more than it is in the
working of the solar system. It will gp
on all the time, and with a continual
pleasure.
Take upon yourself gradually for the
sake of getting them in hand in like
manner if for no other need all the
cares that belong to your own small ter
ritory of home. Get togethr things
for use in these cares. Have your little
wash-cloths and your sponges for bits
of cleaning; your furniture brush and
your feather-dusters, and jour little
broom, and your whisk and ppn; your
bottle of sweet-oil and spirits of tur
pentine and piece of flannel to preserve
the polish, or restore the gloss where
dark wood grows dim or gets spotted.
Find out, by following your surely grow
ing sense of thoroughness and nicenesp,
the best and readiest ways of keeping
all fresh about you. Invent your own
process ; they will come to you. When
you have made yourselt wuony mistress
of what you can learn and do in your
own apartment, so that it is easier lor
you to do it than to let it aione so mat
you don't count the time it takes any
more than that which you have to give
to your own bathing and hair-dressing
- then you have learned enotTgh to keep
a whole house, sri far as its cleanly
ordering is concerned. Ladies' Floral
Facts About Coins and Coinage.
Rome facts of interest not generally
known were presented recently by Mr.
i$. v. Head, assistant Keeper oi coins m
the British museum, in a paper read be
fore the Bankers' institute, i.onaon.
Twice only in the history of the human
race was there an enort maae to intro
duce theoretically perfect system of
weights and measures. The Babylon
ians were the nrst to mase me anempi
to refer all the designations of quantity
and extension to one and the same unit.
Not less than 3,000 years elapsed before
the next experiment in the same direc
tion was made, and the credit of it is
due to the French. With ail the agen
cies at the command of people in the
nineteenth century of the Christian era,
the introduction of' the metric system
into general use has been painfully slow,
and it may easily be conceived why the
Babylonians did not mtiKe meir unit
standard a permanent success. As to
the coining of money, the Lydians are
believed to have invented mat art aoout
700 B.C. The earliest coins were com
posed of electrum, a natural combin
ation ot gold and saver iouna in iue
washings of the river Pactolus. This
coinage lasted lor about iou years, wnen
Croesus introduced a bi-metallic cur
rency of gold and silver, which became
general throughout Asia until the time
of Alexander the Great. The ratio be
tween gold and silver was hxed at i to
13.5. European Greece had a silver
mono-metallic currency until the dis
covery of the rich gold mines at Philippi,
in thn reffrn of Philin of Macedon. when
the currency of that monarch was mado
bi-metallic to keep up me price oi goia
as compared with silver a device which
proved futile. Alexande returned to
the old system, but though gJid coins
were still made, they were regarded
simply as bullion, and monometallism.
henceforth, was universal even in
The change from a double to a single
standard in Asia was rendered possible
by the sudden depreciation of gold con
sequent upon Alexander's dispersion of
the hoarded gold of toe kings of Persia.
The Norwegian Horse.
The horse was one of the prettiest,
most docile creatures imaginable. But
I had done with it. I loved the animal.
and like the Irishman witn ins cow,
could I have sent it over to England in
a letter, it should have bid a long fare
well to Its Wild mountain me. in i
azing quietly about a hivnare.a jaras
away. Then, ca'cuing sigut oi us, m
knew well enougn vuat tue hivhmou
meant, and pricking up its ears, ana
arching its neck, gave a slight neigh and
began gently trotticg up anu uowd, u
fine white mane and long tail fluttering
in the breeze. It answered the master s
call as obediently as a.dog, and followed
gently at his heels up to the cottage.
We were soon ready and once more on
the way. Now began a long, toilsome
climb, which lasted until seven o'clock
at night. I had never yet gone through
anything of the kind on horseback. I
am not sure that I should care to at
tempt it again. Without ever encoun
tering actual danger manas to tue buic
footedness of the horse we were often
in what appeared such imminent peril
that more than once I regretted the ad
venture and devoutly wished msself
back again. For the pedestrians there
was not even the appearance of risk, be
yond the possibility of stones loosening
irom the heights and rolling down upon
them. From the very beginning I
noticed how wonderfully tho horse
piloted himself over the rough places
and through impossible difficulties, ex
ercising a skill and discrimination far
greater than that of his rider. At
length I gave it up to him and allowed
him to take his own course. The
sagacity of the animal was marvelous ;
the manner in which he would pause a
moment at a troublesome spot, seem to
pick out his way mentally, and then
boldly taking it, never hesitate until it
til. ... A - t-
WAS over. 4 iywy. v v v
Traveling in Arabia
Came!; and dromedaries are atnaz
ingly adapted for traversing the dry and
parched deserts of Arabia; for they aro
so formed that they can throw up the
liquid from their stomachs into their
throats, by which means thoy can travel
six or eight days without water. The
camels usually carry MOiijpounds' weight
upon their backs, which is not tukeni ff
during the whole of the journey; for
they naturally kneei down to rest, and
in duo time rise with thii load. The
dromedary is a small oatneJ. with two
bunchei on its back, and remurkably
swift. It is an observation among tho
Arabs that wherever there are trees the
water is not far off'; and when they draw
near a pool, their camo:s will un 11 at a
great distance, and set up their lant trot
until they come to it. (