The Cradle Ship,
When baby goes a-sailing, and the breeze is
fresh and free, *
His ship is just the queerest craft that ever
sailed the sea!
Ten fingers true make up the crew that
watch on deck must keep,
While all a-row ten toes below are passen-
gers asleep.
And mother is the pilot dear—ah, none so
true as she
When baby goes a-sailing, and the wind is
fresh and free.
When mother rocks the eradle ship, the
walls—for shores—slip past:
The breezes from the garden blow when
baby boy sails fast!
So fast he flies that Dolly cries she fears
we’ll run her down,
8o hard a-port! we’re not the sort to see a
« dolly drown;
And then, you know, we've got the whole
wide carpet for a sea
When baby goes a-sailing and the wind is
fresh and free.
When baby lies becalmed in sleep, and all
the crew is still,
When that wee ship’s in port at last, all safe
from storm and ill-—
Twa eyes of love shall shine above, two lips
shall kiss his face,
Until in deep and tranquil sleep he'll smile
at that embrace.
For mother watches, too, at night; while
through his slumbers creep
Dream memories of sailing ere the breezes
fell asleep. :
—G. C. Rogers,in Great Thoughts.
Willie and Dan.
Willie was asleep and Dan was
lonely. Willie is the minister's son,
Dan is his dog. Itwas Sunday morn-
ing and every one was at church but
these two friends. It was warm and
sunny, and they could hear the good
preaching, for their house was next
door to the church: :
In some way while Willie was listen-
ing he fell asleep. Dan kissed him
on the nose, but when Willie went to
sleep he went to sleep to stay, and he
did not mind trifles. So Dan sat
down with the funniest look of care
on his wise, black face, and with one
ear ready for outside noises.
Now, the minister had for his sub-
ject “Daniel.” This was the name he
always gave Dan when he was teach-
ing him to sit up and beg, and other
tricks. While the dog sat thinking
the name ‘‘Déniel”” fell on. his ready
ear, Dan at once ran into the church
through the vestry door. He stood
on his hind legs, with his forepaws
drooping close beside the minister,
who did not see him, but the congre-
gation did. When the minister
shouted ‘‘Daniel’’” again the sharp
bark said “Yes, sir,” as plainly as
Dan could answer.
The. minister started back, looked
around, and saw the funny little pic-
ture; then he wondered what he should
do next, but just then through the
vestry came Willie. = His face was
rosy with sleep, and he looked a little
frightened. He walked straight to-
ward his father, and took Dan in his
arms, and said’
~ “‘Please ’scuse Dan, papa.
asleep and he runned away.”
Then he walked ont with Dan look-
ing back on the smiling congregation.
The preacher ended his sermon on
Daniel as best he could, but theu he
made a resolve if he ever preached
again on the prophet Daniel he would
remember to tie up the dog.—New
York Mail and Express. :
I went
Butterflies as Roommates.
A young woman who lives in a New
England town has "had a unique ex-
perience with butterflies. She hap-
pened to be in the “garden on a warm
day in the fall, and noticed a brown
butterfly fluttering about; rather lan-
cuidly, among the few femauining
flowers.
She caught it without much trouble
and carried it to her room, where the
windows were screened, and let it
loose. The little insect accepted the
situation, and conducted herself as if
quiteat home. The substantial New
England name of Maria Silsbee was
bestowed upon it—though not emi-
nently appropriate. Maria's food and
drink were placéd on the window sill,
and consisted of a lump of sugar
moistened by a drop of water, and she
paitook of this ‘by unfurling her long
spiral trunk, which resembled the
hairspring of a watch, and inserting
the end in‘the sugar.
Maria was not fated to live in soli-
tude. One day there appeared inthe
room another butterfly of similar ap-
pearance, but more sprightly in be-
havior. No one could account for its
.being there, unless the maid had left
the screen up foratew moments while
making up the room. The stranger
was named Jonathan Matthews. He
was far more venturesome than Maria,
and of not so docile a temperament
But he was never seen to eat. Pos-
sibly a false feeling of pride or diffi-
dence restrained him from doing so in
any one’s presence.
~ The fame of this young woman’s
two companions spread abroad, and
visitors to her room were frequent.
This did not seem to rufile the equa-
nimity of either. At last Maria, in-
different to the joys of a wordly exist-
ence, settled down in a comfortable
corner, and remained there, to all ap-
pearances a corpse. She had decided
to hibernate—and hibernate she did
for several months. Jonathan, on the
contrary, was very active. Thus they
remained for most of the*winter.
One day Maria awoke, but in the
peg
olumn|
—
words of Hamlet—*‘to die
to stéfy.”
When the days became warmer and
the spring flowers appeared in evi-
dence that there was again honey in
the land for vagrant butterflies, the
screen. was pushed up,and the solitary
Jonathan flew joyously forth. He has
never been seen since.— Atlanta
Journal,
to sleep—
Intelligedt Geese.
It must have: been in the 40s that
my great uncle, Charles N , was
graduated from college and begun to
teach school. Communication was
not so rapid then as now, and the ex-
change of ideas was accomplished
with more difficulty. Th» eountry
was not overrun with teachess” manu-
als and guides, and there ere few
educational works. It was only by
gathering together and exchanging
ideas that teachers were able to pro-
gress. To facilitate this several
would in the summer time travel from
place to place, holding what they
called ‘“institutes,” to which all who
taught in the neighboring country
would flock to receive or disseminate
new ideas, and to discuss methods of
study.
My uncle and a friend of his had
started on a tour of this kind, and on
Saturday arrived at a town where they
were to hold an ‘institute’ the fol-
lowing Monday.
Sunday afternoon they took a stroll
in the outskirts of the town, on the
banks of a stream, and were engaged
in deep conversation when my uncle’s
friend espied a flock of geese ap-
proaching in a Solemn procession.
Moved by a sudden impulse, he took
off his hat, made a low bow and, ad-
dressing the geese, said: ‘‘Allow me
to introduce to you my friend, Mr.
N——, who will hold an institute in
this town tomorrow. © I cordially in-
vite you to be presant.”” The geese
appeared to listen attentively to the
young man’s words, and when he had
finished they waddled gravely away,
The incident passed quickly from
their minds, the next afternoon ar-
rived, and the friends repaired to the
church where they were to expound
their educational views to those who
were assembled for instruction and
profit. The day was beautiful and
sunshiny and everything beamed pro-
pitionsly on my unecleas he arose from
his seat behind the pulpit to address
the dignified gathering.
Hazdly had he opened his mouth to
speak when something in the wide-
open door attracted his attention.
There stood the old gander, leader of
the flock they hud seen the day before,
and behind him were all the geese!
Having completed his survey, tomy
uncle’s horror and chagrin, he wad-
dled slowly up the middle aisle, fol-
lowed by the rest.
Was ever a young man in a more
painfully embarrassing sitnation? At
this moment he received a tug on his
coat tail and plainly heard the par-
tially suppressed amusement of his
friend and the whispered exclamation,
‘“They’ve come!” :
My uncle grew redder and hotter
as the geese approached in front and
the tygs on his coat tail continued be-
hind. He could only stutter and
stammer,each moment becoming more
painfully aware of the awkwardness
of his position. ;
At last, with the timely assistance
of the congregation, the unwelcome
intruders were “expelled amid quack-
ings, confusion and uproar.
It is almost unnecessary to add that
the fount of my uncle’s eloquence was
,checked for the time being, and con-
sequently his disquisition on the edu-
cation of the young was not as edify-
ing as it might have been under
ordinary circumstances.
This did not end the matter, how-
ever. My uncle's friend for many
years after, at every dinner when he
was called upon for a speech, managed
to recount this incident. If my uncle
was there it only addel to the general
enjoyment.
Tiring of this in the course of years,
Uncle Charles once arose, after his
friend had related the story, and said:
“There was one point to which
sufficient attention has not been called,
namely, why did the geese understand
so perfectly all that my friend said?”
—Atlanta Journal.
The Wild Horses of Arizona.
“There must be 20,000 head of wild
horses in northern Arizona, ’said Will
S: Barnes, one of the largest cattle
owners in Navajo county, recently.
“They are the worst nuisance that
can be imagined. It has reached the
point when we cannot safely turn out
a riding horse to graze. We have to
keep our saddle animals and round-up
horses stabled all winter or bring
them down to Phoenix for pasturage.
that ought to go the cattle, but they
run cattle off the range.
chased off all the cattle from the west
end of the Hash Knife range, one of
the best grass districts in northeastern
Arizona. It is useless to put out salt
for the stock, for the wild horses chase
away the cattle that come near it. At
this season of the year they are fat and
have shining hides.- They sweep over
the country in great bands, gathering
up any stray animals they may come
across. A’ horseis as good as lost
that joins them.”’—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
~
Got Off Easy.
First Reprobate—Well, old man,
did you get home all right last night?
Second Reprobate—Yes; but my
wife wouldn’t speak to me.
First
Mine did!—Punch,
The wild stock not only eat. the food
They have
Reprobate—Lucky beggar!
HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
To Carve Ham.
First have a good, sharp carving
knife, so that thin slices are easily
cut. The most usual way is to begin
at a little distance from the knuckle,
and to proceed towards the thick end
or blade. If a ham is baked instead
of boiled, it is easier to cut it thin.
To Wash Blankets,
When washing these at home the
{aundress must proceed in the follow-
ing manner: Into two quarts of water
shred half a bar of best yellow soap,
and pour the liquid into a tub of warm
water, together with a tablespoonful
of liquid ammonia to every gallon.
Dip the blankets into this lather . and
rub them thoroughly in this. When
clean, rinse the blankets in tepid ‘wa-
ter, wring out, and hang to dry in "the
open air.
Cologne in the Cookery.
It is no secret that the French cul-
inary expert employs ean de cologne
to produce with other essences that
subtle mysterious but delicious flavor
often tasted in fruit salads and other
cookery confections. In the genuine
cologne there is compressed extract of
rosemary and lemon thyme. Here is a
real French dessert: Put in a salad
bowl a layer of chopped ice; well pow-
dered with sugar, and upon this a
layer of bananas; again a handful of
chopped ice and sugar, and after this
bananas, repeating till the bowl is full
as required. Pour npon the fruit a
wine glass of water in which you have
dropped a lump of sugar that has ab-
sorbed three drops of almond essence,
and another that has absorbed three
drops of genuine eau de cologne.
Rats and Mice. 3
The best way to. destroy mice and
rats is to cateh theny, writes ‘White
Ribbon.’ For mice, I set a pan or
wide mouthed washbowl, in a closet or
cellar, filling it with milk of water
on which bran has been sprinkled.
Five drowned mice have been found
in one earthen washbowl in the morn-
ing. For rats, a larger vessel must
be set, such as a barrel or tub. Part-
ly fill with ‘water, sprinkle bran on the
surface, tie a bit of meat or fish as
bait, to a chip, and let it float on the
water. Make a walk of board for the
rats to climb up on, and the trap is
ready.
I have caught many mice with bowls
and tin kettles. Use a strip of paste-
board an inch wide by four long. Bend
in the middle forming a rectangular
triangle. To one end pin a bait of
meat, fish or cheese, and stand the
strip on one end on the shelf, balanc
ing one edge of the kettle on the cor-
ner where it is bent. The other edge
of the kettle’s mouth rests on the
shelf, and the baited end of paste-
board bends forward inside of the
mouth. The mouse must go inside,
directly under the mouth, to nibble
the bait, and as the slightest jar dis-
turbs the kettle from its precarious
New Picture Bonnets.
Bigger and bigger and undoubtedly
more beautiful still, grow the Victori-
an bonnets every week. They seem,
VICTORIAN BONNET.
however, the exclusive property of
very young, slender girls, whose
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to form the fan back. Tt is lined
throughout and interfaced with hair.
cloth for a depth of five inches, and ai
the extreme edges is a bias band of
the velvet. stitched after the latest
mode. At the waist is worn a simple
straight belt of velvet made over a
foundation of tailor’s canvas.
To make this waist for a miss of
fourteen years, will require one and
three-fourths yards of forty-four-inch
material, with one yard of velvet twenty
inches wide. To make the skirt will
require two and three fourths yards of
the same width material.
A Little Girl's Costume
Cashmere,
darker shade of velvet ribbon and
combined with a heavy cream lace
yoke over silk, made this attractive
and stylish gown, which is well suited
to afternoon wear. The blouse waist
is made over a fitted lining and closes
| invisibly at the centre-back, but the
outside portion has shoulder and un-
der-arm seams only. The silk and
lace are faced ontothe lining to yoke
depth, where they are met by thefull
front and backs of cashimere, a strip of
the material edged with velvet being
placed over the joining. The fulness
at the lower portion is also collected
in gathers and is slitched to the
foundation in a manner to give the
skins are fresh enough to need no
youthful and slight blouse effect. The
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position, Mr. Mouse is imprisoned. A |
larger heavier device may be used for |
rats. A trap must be
washed or |
smoked out every time it has enter: |
tained a_rodent. Never let children
destroy or see them destroyed. Have
a reliable adult dispatch them pain:
lessly.—New England Homestead.
Fruits for the Table in Winter.
Apples, as a rule, are more easily
digested cooked than raw, although
raw apples are more palatable.
Fruits are more appetizing, and, per:
haps, more easily digested, if taken in
the early part of the day—whether oz
not before the breakfast must be de:
termined by the eater.
Grapks, oranges and shaddocks may
be served before the cereal. Baked
apples, peaches, baked bananas, figs,
dates, prunes or stewed fruits should
be served at the close of the break:
fast.
The sub-acid fruits, such as apples,
figs, dates, peaches, persimmons, pears,
prunes and apricots, are, perhaps, the
best of the winter fruits, and may be
used to good advantage with animal
foods.
Raisins, sultanas, dried figs and
prunes should be soaked thoroughly,
so that they may take up the same
amount of water with which they have
parted in the process of drying, and
should then be heated just enough to
soften the skins.
Acid fruits must at all times be used
most sparingly, especially by persons
inclined to rheumatic troubles. The
continued use of an orange or shad
dock before breakfast will diminish
the power of stomach digestion for
cereals, or such foods as require only
intestinal digestion..
The papaw and pineapple belong tc
a class alone. © They contain a vegeta.
ble pepsin which assists in the diges-
tion of the nitrogenous principles,
These fruits, then, may be served with
meats, and will aid in their digestion:
when served with bread and butter
they do not form so good a diet. They
are more digestible raw than cooked,
as the heat destroys the activity of the
ferments.
The fashion of adding sugar to
fruits should besavoided, as they have
already been endowed with a sufficient
amount of sugar, and as all the starch
and cereals are converted into sugar
any further amount would be stored
in the system, to its detriment. Ii
our bilious friends would throw aside
their liver pills, and with them,sugar,
they might be free from much discom-
fort.—Mrs. S. T. Rorer, in Ladies’
Home Journal.
The Old Lady’s Inquiry.
‘Oh, my friends, there are some
spectacles that one never forgets!”
said a lecturer, after giving a graphic
description of a terrible accident he
had witnessed.
“I'm like to know where they sells
‘em,’ remarked an old lady in the au-
dience who is always wislaying Lier
olasses, —Tit-Bits. :
|
STYLISII GOWN OF CASHMERE AND VELVET.
screen of tulle, since veils are never
worn with this headgear, and whose
nair falls into natural bob curls about
she brow.
There was a motion put and almost
carried recently with a view of doing
Laway with hat-wearing bridesmaids,
but this winter’s brides have not been
able to resist the blandishments of
the Victorian shapes and its pictur-
esque possibilities. One from a wed-
ding group is here given merely to)
show the most approved method of
applying the very extensive trimmings
and the size to which these bonnets
do grows Against a shape of violet
colored beaver, long, pale-blue plumes
are laid, and with cream lace, pink
silk poppies and ivory white satin
ribbon this crown of millinery glory is
made complete.
Stylish Gown I'or a Miss.
No two materials, according to May
Manton, harmonize more perfectly
than do cashmere and velvet. The
stylish gown in the double-column il-
lustration is made of the soft wool
material in gray, trimmed with the
richer stuff in an exquisite shade of
tulip-red. The bodice, which is emi-
nently girlish, is made over a fitted
lining which includes the usual num-
ber of pieces and seams, and closes at
the centre-front. The full portion of
the waist proper is arranged in gathers
at the edge of the yoke and again at
the waist line. The yoke and strips
of velvet are applied to the lining, and
are finished at all their edges of trim-
ming which includes both gray and
red. The-rightedge of the front piece
is stitched to the lining, but the left
hooks invisibly into place. The sleeves
which are in coat shape fit snugly, but
are finished with slight puffs at the
shoulders which give the effect of ad-
ditional breadth: Both neck and
wrists are finished with bands of vel-
vet edged with the trimming which
serves as a frill.
The skirt is seven-gored and fits
smoothly across the front and over the
hips, the fulness being laid in plaits
sleeves are two-seamed and snug,
except for the puffs at the shoulders,
which are all that remain of the re-
cent large sleeves.
are placed at the wrists and again over
the puffs, meeting those that dinish |
the yoke at the arm’s-eyes.
The skirt is simply full and straight,
and is unlined. At the lower edge is
a deep hem, above which are the twe
bands of velvet ribbon. The yoke is
finished with a straight band of the
lace, edged with bands and at the
A GIRL'S HOME COSTUME,
waist is worn a sash of piece velvet
bowed at the back.
To make this gown for a girl of
eight years will require two and three-
fourths «+ yards of . forty-four-inch
material. :
of Yale-Blue !
Yale-blue cashmere, banded with a |
Bands of velvet |
THE MESSAGE OF THE SEA
I stood beside the troubled sea,
In musing mood, one day,
The billows came and scoffed at me
And, roaring, rushed away:
My heart was tar across the ive,
I wondered if my love were true,
And,wondering, turned away.
But, as I turned, a fairy boat
Came bobbing o'er the sea—
A dainty little wave-tossed note
Came floating unto me —
Then Sashad the glad thought through my
mind;—
“In yonder waif perchance I'll find
A word from her to me.”
‘‘Ah, welcome, little messenger?’
In eager tones I cried,
“And do you bring me joy from her
Across the foamy tide.”
The roaring billows seemed to say :—
“We bring you word from far away
Across the trackless tide.”
I picked the missive from the sand
Upon the beaten shore;
In haste I opened it and scanned
The message that it bore: —
*A fool sends greeting o’er the sea
To the fool who gets these lines from me” —
! That was the word it bore. :
—38. E. Kiser, in Cleveland Leader.
HUMOROUS.
It is a long head that knows no
turning when a pretty girl passes.
Money talks. Perhaps that’s why
they put a woman’s head on the silver
dollar. 2
Father —I
hide. Son
games.
Age may not be garrulous, but itis
sufe to tell on a woman in the course
of time.
an going to tan your
-I don’t like those ‘‘skin’’
The city sidewalks are used by pe-
destrians, but the crab has a side-walk
of "his own.
A stupid man compliments a wom-
an’s pretty teeth, but a clever man
{ makes her laugh.
The belle in the choir often brings
| more young men to ‘church than the
| bell in the steeple.
i -
(A man always tries” to follow the
when it
i straight and narrow path
| comes to shovelling snow.
{ The man - with plenty of push is
{ usually successful, but he isn’t in it
i with the man who has a pull.
Surprises are in store for young
{ married couples who think that they
understand one another thoroughly.
Laura—1I’ve learned one thing since
Bessie—What’s that?
| Laura—That beauty is only skin deep.
|
| I got a wheel.
|
Martha — Speaking of Miss Mint-
|
|
|
|
|
i drop, hasn’t she a red head? Martin
—She did have before she came into
her uncle’s property.
Timmins—Every once'in a while T
find myself repeating one of my jokes.
| Simmons —That’s queer. I never hear
fany one else repeating them.
“I'm sorry the critics were so se«
vere on your play, Mr. Thespis.”*
“Oh, that doesn’t hurt me. There
wasn’t an idea of my own in it.”’
Bill — I think ~your friend is
overworked. = Jill--What makes yom
j think so? Bill-—-Why, [ understand
‘every man in town has. borrowed
money of him.
Penelope-—-Oh, there are lots of
{ good fish in the sea. Kathryn (whe
i came home from the season unen-
gaged)-—Yes, but why don’t they come
| out on the beach?
‘Next time I'm coming out to Bev-
ierly’s I'm going to take a camp stool
with me.”” “‘What for?” ‘‘Last time
{1 went I sat down on a little thing
: that turned out to be a tea-table.”
“Mamma,” said little Georgie, €‘L
{ don’t think it was a dove that Noab
i sent ont of the ark.” ‘‘But the Bible
says it was, dear.” ‘I know, but
i I think it means a carrier pigeon.”
Crimsonbeak—You never hear any
{ one speak of the white horse and the
| red-headed girl now. Yeast—No; §
| guess the white horses have all died.
“Perhaps it’s the girls who have
{ dyed.”
‘“‘You passed me yesterday without
| a word,” he said reproachfully. ‘‘For-
give me,” she murmured. ‘‘And have
L you no word of explanation?” “Two,”
she answered, “a borrowed wheel and
! a mouthful of gum.”
She —Do you believe there is anys
He-—Well, they say
there is a good deal of paint mixed up
in some of them; but I can see at a
glance that yours are geunine. May
1? She could only nod.
| Tourist— What's the name of that
| noble mountain? Native-—Dunno as
| it’s got any. We call it ‘‘the moun-
Tourist —No name for that
| erand eminence? Native-—Wot’s the
use of its havin’ a name? It’s. the
' only mountain here.
“Oh, papa,” exclained the dear
girl, her sapphire eyes brimming with
{ unshed tears, ‘hew can you say that
society is hollow?” ‘Why shouldn’t
| 1?” retorted pa, with a coarse laugh,
{ “why shouldn’t I, when I have to pay
; the bills for feeding the gang that youn
| have here at your blowouts?”
tain.”
The Moose and the Boat.
In the state of Maine there are a
number of beautiful lakes, some of
| them so large that small steamboats
carry passengers from one end of the
{ lake to the other. Recently, while
| crossing a lake, a moose was seen
| swimming in the same direction the’
| steamboat was going. The captain
got a rope ready, and when alongside
the moose threw it over its head. The
moose naturally was frightened, and
swam faster, towing the boat. He
suddenly turned about and almost up-
set it. The moose headed for the
woods on a low point of land, and the
captain saw that if he did not cut the
rope the moose would wreck the boat.
The rope was cut, and the moose
freed from his burden, soon struck the
shore and disappeared in the woods.
An Oklahoma lawyer named Crank
has petitioned the court to change his
name. ae :