TO LEARN CHARITY. And a Woman's Way of Profiting by the Lesson. Howard Fielding Describe* a Domestic In cident Which Gave Maude a View of the Wrong Side of o Great In dustrial Problem. [COPYRIGHT. 1894.] Into my humble home there recently came a great light which illuminated one of the darkest mysteries of human existence. I will not name this mys tery immediately. I do not dare to put the name of it on the first page of this "copy." It is such a fearful chestnut that I am constrained to conceal it for a time. When the person to whom I shall deliver this manuscript has wor ried through three or four pages of it and has found out what it is about, I shall be far beyond pursuit. Shortly after eight o'clock in the morning 1 entered the dining-room of our flat and discovered our girl. She was clothed in that becoming costume in which—so the janitor informs me— she was acknowledged to be the hello of the Fifth Grand Annual Function ol the Spielers' association. Being natu rally of a timid disposition, I hesitated over the proper formula in which to ALL THE WORDS IN THE LANGUAGE. ask for a small quantity of oatmeal porridge. A fine instinct informed me that there was going to be a fuss, and I listened for my wife's footfalls with an eagerness of longing such as I have not known since the early days of our courtship, before her father lost his money. She is a good ileal better fusser than I am, and I yearned for her pres ence. , "Going to leave," said our girl .whose command of English is limited to the words absolutely necessary in her profession. She speaks the above phrase entirely without accent, for she learned it on the steamer from a girl who had been to America before, and she has practiced its pronunciation dil igently ever since. "Why?" 1 inquired. "Don't suit." "Oh, yes, you do." "I say you don't suit." I argued that question modestly but with deep feeling. I stated the facts in regard to myself, ana spoke of Maude in terms which moved our lit tle dog to tears. But our girl only said: "Month up to-day. Fourteen dollars." I would like to see some of our sil ver-tongued orators stack up against that. There is something in this pain ful directness which disarms elo quence. Ten minutes later she was gone and I was doing her work, which consisted at that moment in hurling epithets down the dumbwaiter shaft at a butcher's boy who wished to do liver, C. 0. I)., a fragment of a vener able cow which had been ordered by the mistress of u boarding-house far ther up the street. "Of course, this would happen to day," said Maude, "when the dress maker is coming, nnd it is washing day, too. That's why she left. And such an easy place, too! There posi tively isn't a single thing to do. 1 just simply had to invent things for that girl to do, because she absolutely needed exercise. I'm sure she can't find a kinder-hearted woman than I am, and I hope her next place will be with a family where there are a dozen children and seven flights of stairs to go up and down every time the bell rings. Tfcen she'll repent in sackcloth and ashes for having given up a nice, easy place like this." Immediately after breakfast I retired to my den and gave orders not to be disturbed. I said that there was a great deal of work to be done. So * tIAVE YE NOTHIN' ELSE IN THE HOUSE?" there was, but it was on the other end of the flat, and I wanted to keep out ol it I read a novel until one o'clock, and then cautiously crept out to see how Maude was getting along. She had engaged a distant relation of the janitor to do the washing. I knew this lady must be a distant re lation, because nobody in the direct line of his race will work, and he is the head of the family. Maude was .preparing lunch for the dressmaker and the washerwoman. "Mme. Maladroit," Maude was say ing to the dressmaker, "how will you have your eggs cooked?" "I uevaire eat eggs," said the dress maker, severely. "Eggs, is it?" said Mrs. O'Meara. "Have ye nothin' else in tli' house?" "What would you like?" asked Maude. "A fillet Bordelaiso, ah, it is good, or " "To purgatory wid thim furrln dishes. A bit of an Oirlah stew wid Jninna " Maude was standing in the hall where she could command a view of the dining-room and the kitchen. Mrs O'Meara was in the kitchen examining with evident displeasure a sample of the tea which Maude proposed to serve. Mme. Maladroit was sitting by the dining-room window, smiling on the janitor who stood in the back yard de bating whether when the grass should begin to grow, two or three months later, he would simply let it grow or persuade the agent to hire somebody to cut it. "I haven't any of those things," said Maude, "but I have a nice piece of steak." | "Very well," said Mrs. O'Meara, re signedlj'. "The Lorrud knows Oi'm aisy to suit." "Mme. Maladroit?" "Yes, yes; j'ou shall please yourself," said the dressmaker airily. Then she sighed and turned her eyes upon the janitor, who was gently scratching his left shoulder blade on one of the clothes poles. l*resently the janitor went into the cellar to issue a ukase to our iceman, and Mme, Maladroit saun tered into the kitchen to give Maude some directions about cooking the steak. The ice had come up and Maude was holding it in her hands, which v\ere naturally growing colder every second. But Mme. Maladroit stood gracefully in the doorway leading to wards the refrigerator und Mrs. O'Meara sat on the kitchen table. So Maude continued to hold the ice be cause there wasn't any place to put it, except on top of the stove. "Yes, yes, the cookery, it is an art," said Mme. Maladroit. "In this coun try, you know little of it. Now, Mrs. Fielding, if you will permit, I will say a few things how a steak should bo cooked. Very well, to begin—" But at this moment Maude discov ered that all sensation had vanished from seven of her fingers. She could not tell where the ice left oIT and her thands began. "Oh goodness gracious me!" slio v cried, "my fingers are frozen off." She plunged madly in the direction of Mme. Maladroit, who retreated pre cipitately uttering French words which ought to be prayers but they are not. Maude rushed to the refrigerator and hurled the piece of ice into it, thereby annihilating the butter which it had had been her intention to preserve. When Maude regained the use of her hands she cooked the steak and every thing else she could find, and put it on the dining-room table. Then she had a private interview with Mme. Mala droit, who refused to eat with the j washerwoman: after which she had an 'nterview with Mrs. O'Meara, who de- MRS. O'MEAKA WILL NOT EAT SECOND, clincd to eat in the kitchen. Then Maude offered to serve them separately but neither would ent second. Where upon Maude set a table in the little sewing-room; cut the steak in two, and perved half of it to each. Then Mine. Maladroit insisted that Maude should remain with her, and Mrs. O'Meara, in a voice audible on Governor's island, insisted that Maude should remain with her. Maude did her level best to serve them both, si multaneously, but the effort was natu rally not wholly successful; and I had the pleasure of hearing both of them reprove her for errors which she had many times declared to be evidences of gross and unpardonable stupidity in our late girl. After the fraeus waq over Maude discovered that every thing had been eaten up with the ex ception of one egg which she prepared to boil for her own lunch, but in the meantime the (ire had gone out. It up peared that the washing could not con tinue without it, so Mrs. O'Meara had leisure on her hands. She therefore made her peace with Mme. Maladroit, and they sat pleasantly conversing upon a variety of topics while Maude rekindled the Are. Then Mme. Maladroit insisted that Maude should new, while Mrs. O'Meara demanded that the dishes should be washed and got out of her way in the kitchen. She said all the things to Maude which Maude had said to our girl about leav ing things l}'ing around. 1 saw that the situation was becom ing more and more difiicult, and i therefore prudently withdrew from the house. When I returned about sever o'clock Maude was alone, and in tears. It seemed to be a good opportunity fot reading her a lecture. Like any other husband, I always select moments of this kind for imparting useful lessons. And yet I have never had anything heavier than the dictionary thrown at me. Sir Edwin Arnold's poems were lying on the table beside the diction ary, too, which proves that Maude did not really wish mo harm. It was on this very occasion, by the way, that I dodged the dictionary. I had said: "My dear, this should teach you that a servant's life is not the flower-strewn pathway which you have supposed. When we get another girl, try to treat, her more like a human being, and—" It was at this moment that Maude replied with all the words in the lan guage at once, as I have described. "When we get another girl," said Maude, "I won't let her get away on a 3ay like this. I'll just make her suffer what I have suffered." And I am inclined to think that the whole dilllculty of the problem fs to bo discerned in tnat remark. So long as women stick to the principle of vica rious atonement ever}' servant will be made to answer for the faults of her predecessor, and naturally she will not want to atay after her month is up. Uowaiu) Folding. WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN. I hopefully wait my slnn to come In, i With Its cargo of golJ. guloro; I eagerly gazo with-wandering eyes For its sails from a distant shore. 1 could do much with Its treasures rare To encourage humanity frail, the distressed in poverty land Who strugglo and toil, hut to fail Many thoro are licart-strichcn and sore For the lack of monoy and kin, I fain would glvo them a helping hand, If my ship would only come ia By the ocean brink I sit on the san Js, Building my "castles In Spain " Homes for homeless, childhood and age. When my ship sails over tho maim Youth hood, full freighted with golden hopoa Who faint in lifo's battle and din. I will help to soothe their path in lifo, ' When this wonderful ship comes ia But what if my ship be lost ht sea. With its riches that might relievo, And I not know the exqui iito bliss '•More blessed to give than receive.' Yet life I may givo, my richest store, Tim love of my heart, full and free, With pity's tear Oh, 1 need not wait For my ship to com ) over those v. Mary W Kith, in Boston Budget. A PAROCHIAL MATTER. How Church Warden Hnrdman's Grievance Was Settled. Mr. Claxtoa, accompanied by Mrs. Claxton and the three children, came DUt of the Claxtons' private door into the gaslit street on his way to even ing service. lie glanced at the slurp door; that was all right lie worked the handle of the private door; that also was securely fastened. He was always careful, otherwise he, to gether with his family, would not have been able to live iu that coudition of material comfort and fatal elegance which so well satisfied them. A.- Mr. Claxton turned away from tho door he saw Mr. Hard man standing under the gas lamp, evidently waiting to speak to him. Hardman recognized the presence of a lady by tilting tho back of his silk hat upwards an.l rub bing tho front of it nervously across his forehead. Claxton recognized tho courtesy by exactly repeating it. tlardman spoke: " Eveuiu', Mrs. Claxton; eveuin', Claxton; 1 wanted 'alf a word with you." "Well, I never!" exclaimed Mrs. Claxton, "and you waitua' outside! Why didn't you take and ring the bell?" "I thought I wouldn't fetch tho girl up just for that." "And what's phe paid for if it's not to answer doors? Why, I've no patience! Another night when ycu •vaut to speak to 'Ector just 3'ou ring xnd come into the drorln'room. That's what it s there for. Now I'll be mov n' on, because of the children. You'll ;utch us up, 'Ector. Come aloi g, Gertie; your father's legs are langer than yours." She went on with thechildreu, large, hospitable, and slightly irritated. Hardman assumed an important and Jetermined expression, and tapped Claxton on the arm. "Well, it's come to it at last; told you it would aud now it 'as. I dou't set foot ia that church to-night." "Come now, 'Ardman; this is really icrions, you know. You'll think about it?" "Oh, no, I won't. I thought I'd look round, because—rne bein' away—-yoa'Jl he cul Ih1 upon to take a plate round. I know from csperyunce that far warned is 'alf the battle on such oc casions. Otherwise you may 'ave a pair of gloves on as you wouldn't mind ave made prominunt—or you may not." "Well, I am obliged to you, 'Ardman, for tluii There's nothing I 'ntc more than, a cmbarrusmcnt of I hut sort Now, these what I'm wearin' are a old pair, though not noticeable bj night in tho ordinary course." One hand dived diagonally behind him, and came up with tho treasure of his coat-tail pocket. "But, as luck will have it, I've got with me the pair of pale new yel low kids, that I wear Sunday mornings. They're a trifle tight., but I ran work cm on slow under cover of the Abso lution. And, thank .you,' Ardman, for giviu' me the word. But is this neces sary? Can't I persuade you?" "I'll just walk a step with you, Clax ton, and then you may see how the land lays. Now, there are *o:ne folk ::s rays that parsons should bo piavoas, and not breeders of pigs. Well, I don't go for these fine shades: if 'e finds it consistent with preaching of tho Cos pel to use up his kitchen refuse profit able to himself, I'm not one to say 'iin nay. As far as charity will take a uian I'm prepared to go. But *oles in 'edges is a different matter. Now, Reverent Mi tor Lacey's pigcoiaes through a V.e in the parson's 'edge, where's that pig then?" •In the parson's paddock." Quito 6o; and so fur I don't cotn •dn. But that pig comes acrost tlie paddock, gets through a gap in my 'edge, and plays the doose with my gard'n'in'. And you know that gard'n in's ray little 'obby. First it was rows —'ole rows—of early cabbidge. Then then there was lilium aurryturns. Now I've got my dailiers plowed up like dirt I did write once, and your Reverent Mister Lacey writes back that it's my 'edge and so I'd better mend it Now, .that's all right; so it is my 'edge, but it's 'is pig; and if it wasn't for 'is pig my 'edge would be nothing amiss; and the outridgo bein' repeated this very afternoon, it seems to me as I've only one course—to withdraw my patran idge." "Well," said Claxton, rather despond ently, "I 'ope it may turn out all r : ght One can't bo too careful about any thing. Of course, it is 'ard—first tho liliums and things and then the dail iers. I don't garden my:,-if. but I can feel for them as do. You sec, all you told me before was that there was a unpleasantness between you and Mr. Lacey. You didn't give no details. Otherwise—sooner than 'ave 'ad this up pen I've got a few feet of bnr'bed wire, unsalable becaufo a remnant and too short—still, enough to 'are served your purpose and not hurt the pig neither-not to speak ot" I "You mean it kind and so I take it; I but that's too late now And, look j 'are, when you 'and the plate, just put :in this shillin' for me It's only your • Rev Mr. Lacey that I'm spitiu' ! I've no feeliu'of 'arshness towards any ! one else, not even to his poor dumb pig, that knows no better." 1 hen Mr. Ilardinan said good night and turned off in the direction of his own house. He was not feeling very happy: absence from church was very unusual with him, and he began to think that he was being irreligious; so ho said aloud: "Only this afternoon —all my dailiera —too perfectly scandalous!" But in spite of this he still felt irre lifflous. It then occurred to him that as soon as he got home, ho might go through the church service by himself. There would be no organ, and no surplice and no offertory; and hymns that you chose for yourself were not the same as the hymns that were chosen for you. Still it will be less irreligious than nothing at all. lie had just reached the extremity of the churchyard wall, when he encoun tered Mr. Laeey's gardener, Henry Wick; and Henry Wick was smoking a {short black pip.e. All the church war den in Mr Hard man arose at the sight of this: "Come now, Wick," he said, in rather severe remonstrance, "couldn't you'ave left that pipe till afterwards. You don't want to go into a sacred place of wor ship stinking of that stuff." Henry Wick looked distinctly sulky "You needn't trouble yourself, Mr 'Ardman. I'm all right I ain't going to no sacred place of worship." "Eh? What?" said Ilitrdman, stag gered by tho coincidence. Wick took his pipe from his mouth, spat, replaced it, and became voluble "It's the principle of tho thing 1 object to. 1 won't be spoke to of a Sunday afternoon, and you'd 'ave thought that 'im be'.n' a parson might 'ave known belter than to want to .do it. 'E says to me: 'l've told you five times to mend that hedge so that the pig can't get out' So it might be five times, but. I'm a gardener, not a rememberer; still I'm not a worm and I won't be spoke to of a Sunday afternoon by no man. Now I think of it, it was as much your fault, Mr. 'Ardman. if you'll excuse m 5 for sayin' so, as it was 'is. I pointed out to 'im that the 'ole in the 'edge was in the right p ace. The pig didn't get into our garden, only into tho paddock. Then 'o said that the pig wept acrorst the paddock and got into your garden and 'o'd just turned it out. So ho be gun nbusin' of me and praisin' of von, Mr. 'Ardman." "Spealc of me, did you? You don't call to mind no details, I suppose, Wick." "'E said you were a good man, and the best church warden 'e ever' ad, and you'd got more real talent for gard'n'in than any man in tho parish. They j was nice words to use to me! Any'ow, we've got the new dahlia, and you can't ' buy that in shops, nor got it at all ex cept by faveyure. I'll lay my life no oue else in Gavisham will get it for two years to come. It ain't in the catter logs, and 'e said that 'e wouldn't 'ave you interfered with and annoyed. Then 'e said, as 'e'd have given me notice if it 'ad been Monday; 'owover, I'll give 'iin notice—" "Now, Wink, you just listen to me," interrupted Hardman. The controversy which followed was long and illogical, and the more obsti nate man prevailed, ilardinan was the more obstinate man. The result of the controversy was that Wick knocked out his pipe and ca erod tho church with iinrdman, c, l. iilo late. Mr. Claxlon noticed their en'ranee, and worked tho pale yellow gloves off again under cover of the ccneral thanksgiving. Mr. Hardman, lor the first time in his life, handed the ! ate around without wearing gloves at ill. Rev. Mr. Lacey k ul Mr. Hardman have both mended ti. -ir h .Iges. Henry Wick ia still in Mr. Lu c y's service, and desjriM to commerce an orchid-house :'.v ii ii'dmun po sossvs a specimen of the new dahlia, and has ju-.t finished a 'eg of capital pork—a present from ihe vicar—which was cat ui with oniou stuffing and associalions. —Barry Rain in Loudon Black and White. An Inquiring Mind : ! now," said th . icarne 1 lecturer oiogy, who had addressed a small ,r. deeply utter., ivo audi nice at the | .illage hall, '1 hare tried to make the e problems, abstruse as they may ; mil inv.. < ,*• in their solution the best thoughts, t: closest unalysiu, and the most prod i . I investigations f our obi t scie ' fl • men f<- many -—1 have tr.o I, 1 say, to make ;o :;a comparatively simple and understood in too light of m d cra knowledge, Tom I close tki, t. cluiv I :.ha 1 b. ;.,d to aasv.er aay questions that may << cur to you us to pni.its that ;-pf)c. I • iien I clearing up or that may have be i overlooked." There was a .1 .ce of a few mo ment , k.kl the:: i''i unxiors-ii o .ing man in tho rear of t .a hail res j up "I would talcs ,t us a favor," bo raid, if you could tall me whether scion-* has • reduce ! as yet any rolia ablo and certain cur * for warts?"— Ch icago Tribune. —One of the most remarkable ex amples of mistaken criticism ia found jin Bentlcy's edition of Milton When over either seuso or sound did not suit the critic, he never hesitated to amend according to his own notion, confiden tially assuring the reader what Milton j meant to say. —Tho largest standing army is tha" of Russia, 800,000 men; the next in sizo that of Germany, 402,003; the third that of France, 555.000; the fourth, Austria, 823,000; ufter which come Italy, with 225,000; England, with 210,- 000; Turkey, with 100,000; Spain, with 145,000. "My dear John, I hear you went around a great deal too much while you were in Chicago." 'Yes, my love; 1 i passed all my time on the Ferris wheeL"— Boston Gazette. DRESSMAKER'S RILL. Discovery of One Made Out in tho Year 2000 3. O. It Looks Like a C!iln*-e l'uz*lf, Hut Was Ureidfil by Chaldean Husbands Cost ly Itobes Worn by the l'rlesta of Antiquity. Egypt has been called "the land of surprises." Year after year the ex plorers in the Nile land bring to light some new and startling examples of art. revealing to us the astonishing character of the early civilization of the Egyptians. Egypt has now a rival in the sister civilisation of ancient Chaldea. Although in art Chaldea is far behind the land of the Nile, espe cially in the art of painting, the res toration of the early civilization and the perfect picture which we can form of the life and manners and customs of the people are almost as complete as those which we can restore of Egypt IT* •'!<; <o tgw-mxs&p 0. Tip B•„[? H ' - 1 a -O 15-QBtex j-'l EGYPTIAN DRESSMAKER'S BILL. In the pyramid age. The startling feature of the discoveries resulting from the decipherment of the cunei form inscriptions has been the numer ous details of popular life which are accessible to us. The little clay tab lets not only contain the record of kings and princes, but even of the poorest of the people, slaves and beg gars. In so great a literary land as Chaldea every transaction, no matter how small, was recorded in writing, and thus we have many details of transactions which would otherwise have been forever lost. Among the documents which have been discovered is a tablet which may be well called "the pldest dressmaker's bill in the world." It was the custom of the Babylonian kings to present to the temples sets of robes for the use of the priests and priestesses. This was usually done every year, and we have many of these lists in the British museum. The oldest hitherto known has been that of a king, about 1450 B. C. There are several of a later period, but the document before us is far older than any yet found. The tablet, which is of limestone, l was discovered in tho ruins of the tem ple in the city of Nipur in southern Chaldea. This temple was dedicated to the ghost god and had a very large priesthood attached to it. From tho style of writing, which is extremely archaic, and from the curious system of numerals employed, the table can not bo of later date than 2800 B. C. It contains a list of ninety-two vestments which were presented to the temple by the king. Tho name of the king is un fortunately not given. The end of the tablet reads: "In all ninety-two pure vestments, the bill (list) of the temple for the priests this year." Many of the words are unknown to us, as they are, no doubt, many of them technical terms employed by the modistes of the period. Some of the lines, however, are of particular interest—those that can be satisfactorily deciphered. Among the items are: "Twelve white I robes of the temple, eight robes of the house of his lady, ten pure gold col lars, two wide robes." One item of especial interest occurs near the end: "Four scented robes." This reminds us of the passage in Psalm xiv., speak ing of the robes redolent of "myrrh and aloes and cassia." It was, no doubt, the custom in Babylonia to per fume the robes, a£ it is to this day in Persia and India. Another item is also illustrative of eastern life: "Two winders," probably scarfs used for binding round the waist. This docu ment has likewise an additional value in showing us the great development which had taken place in the textile ifrts in Chaldea even at this early period. The decorations on the statues of Oudea (B. C. 2800), the embroidered fringes, show that the skill of the weaver and the embroiderer was far advanced, and it is a curious feature to notice that nearly all the attempts at decorative work in early Chaldea ure in patterns which arc derived from textile designs. l'H|wr for a Bedroom. Dainty bedroom papers are much in demand, and wonderfully beautiful some of them are. The ono fault in rooms of any size is lack of character and a somewhat faded ensemble, but even that has been obviated by a clever :levice. In the home of a recent bride of artistic tastes the walls of the guest room are papered with a design of pale pink upon a creamy, white ground, and the defect of too pale tints is en tirely overcome by a bordering of olive cartridge paper. Each of the four j walls has become a panel, and the I plain tint runs around all sides, so that tho sweet, tender pinks are in alosed in a frame ifnd the room as a ■vhole gains the dignity that is desired. Relief for Nnrvonn l!elarhe. 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