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Sunshine Papers.
A Vindication.

MEN have several little failings and faults:
so have women. If “ a person’s daughter”
has sometimes let the sunshine in upon the
weaknesses of her sex, she has no less unspar—
ingly used her pen against the vices, and fol—
lies, and foibles, and conceits of the dear
men.

For once, however, she plunges it into her
inkstand, with intent to show a just cause and
impediment why masculinity should have less
abuse in matters where it gets much.

There has been a chorus of fault-ﬁnders, for
a long time chanting in mournful refrain
man’s utter lack of politeness, and the general
incivility and insult met with by women who
attempt to do any work, or go to any place,
unprotected by a “lord of creation.” Many
of these walls from my sisterhood ﬁnd voice
to the world through the columns of our daily
papers. ' .

There comes a. time when a famine of news
is in the land. Politicians, and lawyers, and
plaintiffs, and defendants, and fashion have
gone to the mountains or the sea. Wars and
rumors of wars are silent for a time. The
engineers forget to run their trains off the
track, twenty-four hours pass without more
than three murders to record, and there being
a. limited supply of steamships, the accidents
in that line are delayed for a time. To “ ﬁll
up” the distracted editor, remembering that
he forgot to offer his grandmother his seat in
the horse-car last night, puts in a little item
on the neglect of mankind toward women.
The next day two or three columns of touch-
ing sorrows are related in letters from women
who never go outside their own homes, but can
get off a few reproachful words at men, and
so see their literary efforts in print.

If I were a reporter on those papers I’d get
such heaps of news from somewhere, if only
out of my imagination, that there would not
be room for their milk and water patheticsl
Oh! bah! the idea of any woman who is a
lady, asserting that she can not do this or
that, or go here and there, alone!

The trouble is that women are so loaded,
when they travel, with ﬁnery and luggage,
and nerves, and airs, that a man could not get
within ten feet of them to do them favors, if
he would. Just let any sensible, lady-like
woman try traveling alone, and she will ﬁnd
that she can go where she pleases in safety,
comfort, and under the care of a great broth-
erhood who are kind and courteous.

Then the old cry is made, “you must be
young, and rich, and pretty, to get any atten-
tion shown you.” It is false. We women
ask no courtesy to our face, or pocket-books,
or score of years, nor do we generally get it
on such accounts. Men enough, there are yet,
to pay respect and attention to the sex—not
to the individual. Nor do we want promiscu-
ous attention. What woman wants is freedom
to pursue any honest employment, to go to and
fro whet-ever pleasure and business calls her,
with all the accord of rights that men ﬁnd.
And I maintain that we can do so already,
despite the much that is said and written of
man’s rudeness and woman’s trials.

I know that every honest, gracious, woman-
ly woman, young and old, rich and poor,
pretty and homely, will ﬁnd that man in gen-
eral will respect her and her rights, in all her go-
ings forth and comings in. She can ask what
time a. train starts, how to ﬁnd such and such
a street, to have a troublesome window open-
ed or closed, and be aided with the same frank-
ness that man accords to man.

I know that men do not often, if they do in
rare cases—none of which have ever come un—
der my personal knowledge—treat women
rudely and insultineg who travel alone. I
know that one of the most abused class of
mortals, editors and newspaper men, show
women the greatest kindness and gentlest po—
liteness. I know that proprietors of ﬁrst-class
hotels accord deference, and attention, and
conveniences to a ladyas soon as to a. man.
That the cry raised of woman’s difﬁculty to
ﬁnd accommodations in hotels of repute is a
false cry. I know that a lady can go to any
entertainment and ﬁnd herself as much pro-
tected among the people, strange and around
her, as if under the watchful eye of some gal—
lant cavalier. ’

The secret of true politeness is all one needs
to depend upon as a safe chart and guide, and
protector, among one’s own or the opposite
sex. We cry of men’s incivility, but do we
often look at home to note the many little
kindnesses we receive at the hands of strangers
without offering a. “thank you?” There is no
deed so triﬂing, no person so humble, that the
one is not worth gratitude and the other enti-
tled to our expression of it. I often wonder
why women never have a voice in car or stage,
street or ferryboat, store or hell.

We are not Often without that useful organ,
when in the bosoms of our families. If we
would make better use of it in gracefully ask-
ing favors, and pleasantly acknowledging
them, we, as a. sex, would have far less fault
to ﬁnd with man, as we go through the high—
roads of life. A PARSON‘S DAUGHTER.

“
QUEER PEOPLE.

HOW many persons there are
ignorance or thoughtlessness, act in a very pe-
culiar manner! Some of these beings will
write letters on their own business entirely
and desire you to answer immediately and at
full length, but never inclose a stamp! Per-
haps they imagine stamps in your neighbor-
hood grow on trees, or that you have a friend
at Washington who provides you with them
gratis, or that you are so overwhelmed with
this world’s goods as to have no use for your
money, and therefore wish to use it in paying
for answersto letters to those for whom you
care nothing.

Another odd specimen is he to whom you
write a respectful note asking an answer, and

 

who, from

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do not forget to enclose the stamp of a return I
postage, but who quietly pockets the stamp
and lets you whistle for a reply. I don’t
think it is “just the thing ” for a person to
keep other people’s property. A stamp may
not be much, yet it is something.

[Brother Tom says I don‘t look at matters in
the new civilized way as regards stealing, for
it does not appear to be considered a crime to
rob millions, but heartless wickedness to take
a little. Well, I don’t know of anything much
smaller than a stamp one could take, but, as
for there being a difference in stealing, I think
a. theft is a theft and you cannot “civilize”
me out of that belief]

There’s another queer specimen of humanity
—the person who expects too much. An edi-
tor of a puzzle column, to stimulate his read-
ers to send answers to problems, offered a
small prize for the ﬁrst correct solution. One
being, among some ﬁfty, sent an answer, but
not the correct one, and quite awhile after the
prize was awarded, she wrote and stated that
“as she had taken so much time to solve the
problem” (which she didn’t solve) “she should
expect a prize, and would take a walnut writ~
ing desk.” She didn’t get it, but the editor
wrote her a note stating that he was out of
walnut writing-desks and wouldn’t she like a
gold watch and chain or a set of furs? I don’t
know what you think about the matter, but
my idea is that that editor served her about
right. If he did treat her rather coolly, didn’t
she deserve it?

Then we have that strange being who, if he
happens to know a writer for the press, is
always begging said author to write him some
thing either in the shape of some lines to his
lady- love or stanzas composed on the death of
a favorite poodle dog. Somebody pestered me
once, that way, and, feeling a triﬂe good-na-
tured, I told him it would give me the great-
est pleasure in life to write his epitaph. I have
never had him make me a call since, and I
have» heard, from other parties, that he was
quite offended with me, and thought I treated
him very cruelly. That comes from being
good-natured and obliging, but it has kept one
bore away from the mansion of the Lawlesses.
There was more good than mischief done that
time, and if people have a mind to stay away
because one is willing to write their epitaph,
let them stay away, say I.

Another queer specimen is the female who
rides in the horse—cars and whose ticket is
always in the portemonnaie which is carried
in the pocket of an inside skirt. It generally
takes her three whole minutes to ﬁnd that
porte, etc., and then she has to “rummage”
over the contents, which she does in the slow-
est and most unconcerned manner, never for a
moment seeming to imagine that conductors’
time is precious, or that there are others to be
attended to. I’ve often blamed conductors for
being uncivil, but when I see what they have
to put up with, and with whom they have to
deal, I wonder they have any patience left,
whatever. Men generally have their tickets
handy, and that’s where I think they know the
worth of time. .A little bit more thoughtful-
ness concerning this matter, sisters, will render
yourselves more pleasant and accommodating.

Curious specimens of humanity are they
who are particularly “gushing ” in their
friendships and affections, who would go to
the gallows and die in your stead, or who
would pass through ﬁre and water to serve
you, if need be, and use other such trite,
“stagey,” and unﬁtting expressions. Maybe
they would be willing to doall that, but, you’ll
ﬁnd them generally unwilling to do things of
a simple and more sensible nature. This great
“gushing” rarely amounts to a. great deal,
because words are cheap, and some folks don’t
really know what they are saying. You’ll
ﬁnd your sincerest friends are those who have
but little “gush” to them; they may, not use
a dictionary of endearing epithets, but when
you come to deeds, then is the time they will
show their sincere friendship. And good
deeds are worth one hundred times empty,
“gushing ” words. Evn LAWLESS.

“

Foolscﬂapers.

Washington Interviewed.
IT was three-quarters of a century ago—and

ter tomorrow, when I called upon George
Washington, Sr., at his residence at Mount
Vernon.

I was a young man—a very young man—’
but this occasion stands out upon my memory
as vividly as it did yesterday, or the day be—
fore.

I had heard of the gentleman before, and
this was the reason I called upon him.

He was not an entire stranger to me, at least
by reputation, as he is now to some others.

I had expected to see him all dressed up in
his regimentals, sitting in state upon a throne,
but was informed by a. servant that I would
ﬁnd him out in the garden weeding onions, so
I went out there and asked the ﬁrst man I met
if I could ﬁnd G. W., and he said I might go
further and ﬁnd less of him; that he was what
was left of the man, and asked me if I had any
little bill to settle.

I said certainly not, and asked him if he
was really the little George Washington that
owned the little hatchet.

He said he represented that little boy.

He said that he couldn’t deny being a little
boy once with all the failings of a lad, but one,
and that was that he could never tell a lie—
here he asked me if I could not take a hand in
the game of pulling weeds, and I accepted the
invitation; he added he would like to combine
business with pleasure.

He said he used to do his very best to tell a
story, but could never make it. If he could
have told a good square lie, many a time he
would have saved many a licking from the old
man; and he seemed very much surprised
when I told him that to tell a fabrication was
the easiest thing for me in the world, and I
had saved more switchings than he over de-
served by it. I told him that it never did a
boy any good to tell the truth.

He pulled up a little onion by mistake, and
said that every time he had attempted to tell
a lie he got caught in it, before he got through
with it, and under the circumstances he had
concluded that to tell the whole truth when he
had committed a misdeed—and that was often
—-was the best, and got more sympathy for
one than to try and tell a lie.

“ General,” said I, “ did you really cut the
cherry tree?” ‘

He told me that any strain on the onion-
tops would bring them up by the roots, and
said that he had really cut the cherry tree.
His father had told him never to climb up in
that tree, and he wanted to mind him; so, as
he wished the cherries, he had to either cut the
tree down or do without them; the last he
could not do. He cut the tree down, ate all
the cherries and swallowed the seeds. When
his father asked him about it, he couldn’t lay
it on his neighbor’s boy, for he had gone Oil? on

 

 

a visit. He revolved many things in his mind,

and ﬁnally told his father that he would write
him an answer to that conundrum by return
mail, but that was no go, and so he out and
told him the whole truth, and the openness of
the confession saved him one Of the most out-
rageous thrashings that a father ever be-
queathed to his son. He said he didn’t think
it would work, but he was bound to risk it,
anyhow. He said he sold the chips of that
cherry tree at two dollars apiece, and gave me
one, and I have improved on it ever since.

'I inquired about that celebrated vicious colt
that he rode for the ﬁrst time.

He said that it was as wild as a house a—ﬁre;
one day he jumped upon its back in a. ﬁeld.
He had been practicing on a saw-horse in the
wood~shed, and thought he could ride on any—
thing. The colt walked on its fore-feet forty
rods; then it walked on its hind-feet as far;
then it turned summersets, but still he held on.
Then it laid down and rolled over, but he still
held on, though, he said, tugging at a great
big weed that broke off and let him sit down,
I thoroughly broke that colt; that is, I broke
his neck and both his fore—legs, when he jump-
ed a creek.

He said the harder I pulled the more weeds
would come up, and toldr inc that when he
was at Braddock’s defeat he really was shot at
seventeen times by one Indian. He put the
shots down in a note book as they were ﬁred.
The trouble was the Indian was drunk and al-
ways forgot to put in the balls.

He came over and helped me weed my side
of the patch, and said the encroachment of
England was something like the encroachment
of the weeds upon that onion bed. At the
ﬁrst he ﬂew two arms, or to arms, and re-
solved to be the ﬁrst in war, the ﬁrst in peace,
and the ﬁrst in the hearts of his countrymen,
although his principal aim was at British
hearts.

He pulled a few more weeds in silence and
then said his crossing of the Delaware had
been misrepresented. He crossed it on a log.
His horse had been with a circus, and didn’t
mind the rolling a. bit. His army jumped
from cake to cake of ice, and carried the
cannon on their shoulders; they then captured
the Hessians and made them lay down their
arms and legs. He said each soldier carried a
Hessian back in his carpet sack.

He told me to work a little faster or we
wouldn’t get done by dinner~time, and said
this getting rid of weeds was like getting rid
of the British power—dreadful hard to pull up
by the roots. He had fought on many a ﬁeld
but he had never sweat so much on any ﬁeld
as on this ﬁeld of garden truck, to resist the
invasion Of weeds. That was the worst ﬁeld
he had ever fought in.

I asked him how it was that he had never
got killed even once on the battleﬁeld.

He said, chewing an onion top, that he al-
ways laid it to the fact that he had never run
against a ball that was coming in his direction.
His eyesight was always good, and when he
saw a bullet coming he stepped to one side as
any sensible man would. Why shouldn’t be?
besides he never chewed tobacco!

We began on another onion patch, and I
said that the folks up in our country honored
him so much that they wished his birthday
would come twice a year.

He said if he had his way about it it
wouldn’t come once in ten years, as he wished
to live long enough to attend the Philadel-
phia. Centennial in 1876. He pined to be
there. He ate a little onion and tears came
into his eyes.

He said when he was a boy his mother never
told him he should become the President of the
United States. He didn’t have anything of
that kind to cheer him, and he was deprived
of his fourth of Julys. He pulled up a big
burdock and sighed.

When we had exercise enough we went in
for dinner, and I saw that the father of his
country was fond of victuals and beans. He
said he never ate much more than he wanted.

He showed me a regiment of body- servants
who were destined to live and boast of the
fact for several centuries yet.

His habits were very regular. He got up
every morning before breakfast without swear-
ing; he never smoked, nor loaned any money;
never drank anything intoxicating nor staid
out late at nights.

When I left be pressed my hand and in-
vited me to come back in three weeks, as then
the onions would need weeding again, and he
thought it very healthy to work among them.

I cut one of the buttons from his coat, and
came away with this good man so imprinted
on my memory that all the water I can drink
will never wash it out. Never.

Respectfully,
WASHINGTON WHITEHORN.

“
A LITTLE GIRL’S GREETING.

- THE following pretty letter and the accom-
panying very welcome Christmas present have
the SATURDAY J OURNAL’S most cordial
“ thank you, Miss!” It is indeed pleasing to
know that we have friends—though unknown
to us, yet dear, good friends—wherever the
JOURNAL goes. It is one of the sweet com~
pensations of journalism that it enlists the in-
terest and commands the sympathy of those
for whom it caters. May Our Little Southern
Friend long enjoy her beautiful Florida and
the weekly visit of the “ dear old J OURNAL:”

“ ORLANDO, ORANGE Co., FLA.,
“Dec. 15th, 1875. }

“DEAR EDITORS:

“I am a little girl thirteen years of age, and
for the last twelve months a constant reader
and admirer of the dear old J OURNAL—the
best of story papers published. To show my
appreciation at your kindness, I send as a
Christmas present a barrel of choice oranges
gathered from our trees, whose dark-green fo-
liage and heavy laden branches little denote
the bitter cold days you all are having now.

“It seems so strange that while you are
tramping around in the snow and ice I am out
in my ﬂower-garden gathering ﬂowers.
Would you believe it, we had for dinner to-
day the following named vegetables: oakra,
cucumber, green peas, tomatoes, and real nice
new Irish potatoes, all taken from the garden
but a. few minutes before being placed upon
the table. It was only last week brother
brought in from the ﬁeld a nice, ripe water-
melon; just think of it, a watermelon in De-
camber.

“ Our climate is perfectly lovely; in fact it
is, as a lady visitor expressed it, “ heavenly. ”
Have you any little girls or boys, if so, please
tell them to send me their names, and when
the snow and ice disappear from the streets of
your city I will send them each a'beautiful
ﬂoral present, “a pine-apple air plant.”

“Trusting that I have not intruded upon any
of your valuable time, I will close with a wish
that you may have a merry Christmas and a.
happy N ow—Year.

“Your little Southern friend,
“ GERTRUDE SWEET. ”

“P. S. The oranges I shipped to Jackson-
ville, thence by rail to New _York, marked
Beadle & Adams, 98' William street, N. Y.”

 

 

Topics 9_f_l_i1e Time.

—An intimate friend of Professor Agassiz once

expressed his wonder that a man of such abilities

as he (Agassiz) possessed should remain con-
tented with such a moderate income. “I have
enough,” was Agassiz’s reply. “ I have not time
to make money. Life is not sufﬁciently long to
enable a man to get rich and do his duty to his
fellow-men at the same time.” Doubtless mere
money-gettcrs think Agassiz a great fool to have
so underrated the worth of money, but now that
Agassiz is dead and .We see what true wealth he
amassed and left behind him for the good of all
mankind, the money he might have accumulated,
even though it were the millions of the Astors,
sinks into contem ptible insigniﬁcance in compari-
son. The pursuit Of riches so absorbs a. man‘s
whole nature and energies that it is almost in-
compatible witb literary and scientiﬁc develop-
ments, and he who forsakes the acquisition of
wealth for the accumulation of wisdom is the
man to honor, ﬁrst and before all others. The
wealth of the Astors represents a stupendous
avarice—the wealth of the purse-poor Agassiz,
or Humboldt, or Spencer, represents imperish-
able honor. ‘

—--California is going to astonish the world by
exhibiting a large section of her trees, cut in
the Kaweah and Kings River Grove, near the line
of Frcnso and Tulare counties, California, on the
west slope of the Sierra Nevadas, at an elevation
of 6,500 feet above the level of the sea, fortyﬁve
miles from Visalia, the nearest railroad station.
The age of the tree as indicated by the yearly
rings was about 2,250 years, the rings being so
close on the outer edge that it was almost im-
possible to count them. The hight was two
hundred and seventysix feet. The diameter, at
the surface of the ground, was twenty-six feet;
ten feet above the round diameter was twenty
feet; one hundred eel. above the ground, where
the ﬁrst limb projects, the diameter was fourteen
feet; and two hundred feet above the ground the
diameter was nine feet. It was perh-ctly sound and
solid. The bark averaged one foot in thickness,
and in some places it was sixteen inches thick.
The bark of some of this species of tree is three
feet thick. The estimated number of lumber feet
that it would make was 375,000, and the number
of cubic feet about 31,000, enough to make lum-
ber and posts enough for sixteen miles of ordi-
nary fence. The Weight Of the wood when ﬁrst
cut was seventy-two pounds per cubic foot, mak-
ing the weight of the lumber producing portion
2,232,000 pounds. It took two men ten days’
hard work to fell the tree, and when it fell it
broke in several places.

—It has been discovered that the same kind of
coloring matter which poisons the striped stock-
ings is also used to color bad whisky. In both
cascsit goos to the legs and wins} the under-
standing. If whisky has now become “ crooked ”
as well as poisoned, its old name of “tangle-
foot” may as well be restored at the ” sample
rooms.” Pure old Bourbon now means pure new
Government swindle; honest drinkers, therefore,
should drink the Jersey lightning straight.

——-What dainty and beautiful work-baskets
they manufacture for ladies nowadays. Years
ago our great—grandmothers used to be satisﬁed
with a segar box covered with pink paper, mus-
lin and tulle, or a clothes basket cut down, but
now the aﬁ‘air is all lace, ﬂowers, nicksknacks
and furbelows, and it is altogether too nice to
put Johnny’s darned stockings in, or Sissy’s
pieced pctticoat. Indeed, Jobnuy no longer
wears darned stockings; he’d “go for” the gov-
ernor who would dare to ask him to do that,
While Sissy no more wears a pieced petticoat
than her “teller” goes without a square foot of
ring on his ﬁnger- And that’s what's the matter
with the times.

——Mr. King, the American Consul at Dublin.
’sends information that a project is being agitated
there to hold in the United States during the
Centennial an international cricket match be-
tWeen a club to be called “The Eleven Gentle-
men from Ireland” and a picked eleven from
this country. We are not much on cricket, on
this side of the water, but, when you say “ base
ball 1” we go in with or without “ club” to back
it up. If “Eleven Gentlemen from Ireland"
come, however, we’ll match ’em with eleven
gentlemen from Kansas whose experience in
ﬁghting grasshoppers will make it high fun to
run the crickets.

—The old adage, laugh and grow fat, is not of
universal application. John Morris, a young
man about twenty-eight years of age, living near
Langley, Ga., went to a masquerade the other
night. He had always been noted for laughing
immoderately at any funny incident. Some in-
dicrous feature of the masquerade caused him to
set up in a ﬁt of laughing, when suddenly he
stopped and fell to the ground. He was picked
up and a physician sent for, who pronounced
the case hopeless, as Mr. Morris had ruptured a
blood-vessel. The unvortunate man lingered un-
til thc next morning, when he died.

—Some of the Western papers are discussing
the fact that Charles Francis Adams pays taxes
on an estate assessed at $856,000. This is a
handsome estate to have, but these ﬁgures by no
means represent the whole of Mr. Adams’ large
property. The Ordinary rate of assessment in

lassacbusetts is at one-third of the real value,
and at this rate Mr. Adams is really worth more
than two millions and a half; and, besides,‘Mrs.
Adams is also very rich by inheritance. Mr.
Adams is one of the most economical and shrewd
of rich men, and his fortune is continually in-
creased by his diligence, economy, and attention.
Indeed, the fact of such great wealth, with his
peculiar management, has nor. contributed to
render him popular in Massachusetts.

—In France the average salary of workmen
(without board or lodging) is sixty-eight cents;
in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, thirty-eight
cents; in England, eighty-three cents, living
being thirty per cent. dearer than in France.
The average here is about two hundred
and tWenty cents, without board, while liv-
ing is about thirty—three per cent. higher than in
Grbat Britain. The American laboring man also
enjoys great advantages of education, suffrage,
and personal rights enjoyed in no other country
on the globe. Add to this his liberty to pur-
sue any calling, to go and labor anywhere, and it
would seem as if but little more could be done
for him, in this world. If our laboring men are
discontented it is from some local cause—not be-
cause tbe rewards of labor, when the labor is
performed, are small. As compared with other
countries it will be seen that no government or
region on earth offers anything like What is here
bestowed upon the laborer and his family.

—The Japanese of all classes are intensely
anxious for the spread Of education. New
schools are. being opened and educational endow~
ments made b individuals almost daily. A few
days ago the mpress in person opened the nor-
mal school for girls at Tokio, and delivered an
address. This evidence of progress in the hith-
erto heathen kingdom is one of the most pleas—
ing signs of the times of the century. No mis-
sionary effort has wrought the change, but the
spirit of“ high intelligence among the Japanese
broke its bonds and overﬂowed into new chan-
nels, and now We behold one of the most ancient
of earth’s races asserting a new civilization that
is quite sure to make it one of the most admired
and intelligent of modern peoples.

—If a hen is careless about her eggs and leaves
the ends rough and unﬁnished, they will hatch
out roosters. But if she is painstaking and
smooths and polishes them off nicely, she can
raise a brood of cunning little girl chickens. If
you don’t believe it try the experiment when it
comes time to “set” the hens, in Macrh and
April. We have systematically pursued the plan,
in selecting the eggs for hatchin purposes, of
picking out all the eggs blunt at both ends alike,
and have almost uniformly secured ;a brood Of
roosters. The eggs pointed at the lower end
will invariably hatch out hen chickens.

—A blind beggar in Paris was absent from his
usual position during the late cold weather. In
his stead was a placard with the inscripdon, “ In
consequence of the severe cold I solicit aims at,
home,” accompanied by his address.

Readers aﬂontributnrs.

To Connlsroublm sun Amou.——No M88. received that us
not fully prepaid in postage—No M88. preserved for future orders.—
Uusvsilsble MSS. promptly returned only where stamps accompany
the inclosure, {or such return—No mmspondenu of any nature is
permissible in s package marked as “ Book M8."—M88. which are
Imperfect are not used or wanted. In all cases our choice rests ﬁrst
upon merit or ﬁtness; second, upon excellence of MS. I: "copy"
third, length. 0f two MSS. of equal merit we slways prefer the
shorten—Never write on both sides of a sheet. Use Commercial
Note silo paper as most convenient to editor and compositor. tearing
oﬂ each page as it is written, and carefully giving it its folio or page
number.—A rejection by no means implies s want of merit. Many
MSS. unavailable to us are well worthy of sum—Ali experienced and
popular writers will find us evsr ready to give their oﬂerings ssrly st-
tentlon.—Cormpondents must look to this column for all information
in regard to contributions. We can not write letters except in spools)
CIEOI.

 

We accept “Transient Joys;" “Thy Voice;”
“The Tangled Skein;” “Lost on the Schiller;"
“Jamie‘s Letter:” “The Dead Poet,” “Gone
Away;” “Little Blossom;” “Another Loss;” “El-
dorado;” “An Old Man’s Memory.”

Declined: “Number Eight;” “The Lance and
Knightz” "A Base Rumor;" “Whose Wife Was
Shel" “The Centennial Chime;" “A Case for a
Judge'” “Bell on the Border;” “Bijou;” “The

Gum Tree’s Secret;” " A Marauder in Clover."

Mas. E. N. S. You can write through our care.

JAKE N. Stop any paper that prints improper
stories. Don’t let it come into your house.

SARAH B., Oswego. It is wrong to encourage the
suit of a man you detest. No good will come of
it.

DENNY. Artiﬁcial ice is usually produced by the

sudden evaporation of ether or ammonia.

F. S. V. The article you speak of is sold by al-
most all dealers in sporting goods and toys.

RusTIcus. We use the poem in another publica-
tion where it will be most “ at home. ” The legend
is very pleasantly versiﬁed.

ONE OF CLnnxs in the great hotel of Chicago
writes: “I like the JOURNAL ﬁrst-rate, and don’t
think it can be improved.” That clerk don’t part
his hair in the middle. and he is polite to every-
body! .

DADDY BROWN. What do you want to color your
hair for? It is a strange vanity that “dreads gray
hair.” Some of the ﬁnest heads we know of are
silver streaked. Let the dye alone. Mest all dyes
are either very dangerous preparations of arsenic
and sugar of lead, or are simply nasty.

W. P. Your little joke is good enough to repeat,
so we‘ll try and give it place. .

L. C. G. Always happy to hear from you. Hope

you’ll ﬁnd favoring breezes in the balmy South.

CHESSHAN. See BEADLn‘s Dmu Cnass INSTRUCTOR
for all the rules of the game. Place kin s and
queens exactly opposite each other-this wi bring
one king and one queen on each color.

ALFRED H. H. We know or no “ party ” going to
California in May. Parties are going now as freely
to San Francisco as to Chicago. The fare by rail is
$130—sleeping-car extra.

M. 0., Baltimore. A good freckle lotion is muri-
ate of ammonia, one—half drachm; lavender water,
two drachms; distilled water, half a pint. Apply
with sponge two or three times per day. There are
other lotions whose base is citric acid, which are
quite efﬁcacious. Any good druggist will oom—
pcund for you.

Mus. HOTcuxIss. The green teas are colored by
the Chinese, with a mixture of Prussian blue and
gypsum. The Chinese never drink this colored tea.

t is colored to answer the shipping demand. In
England, since the enforcement of the Adultera-
tion Act of 1872, the reen tea. proper is sold with-
out coloring, and is t erefore a far more healthful
beverage. '

H. W. 0. Any proper club, company or organiza-
tion can obtain a charter by proper application to
the Legislature. But why 0 arter a more social
club ?——Cologne does evaporate,
if left exposed to the air.

MISS A. B. C. Your case really is a hard one. Of
course you can have only light employ. Can’t ou
obtain a position in some fancy store where wor is
light and skill with ﬁn era is desired? You write
very nicely, and might earn to keep books. In any
event don‘t leave your present home to go among
strangers, and of all things don‘t come to the city

and quite rapidly

 

to try your fortunes.

Manx BRANTINGHAM, Utioa, writes: “I wish to
ask a lady to accompany me to a lecture that is to
take place soon, but she is out of town. Can I, with
propriety, Send her a note conveyin my wishes?
If I go to make an evenin call u on a ady and ﬁnd
a caller already there, 8 ould leave immediate-
ly?" You can send her a note of invitation, if you
are one of her recognized friends. You should
make your call very brief, if you ﬁnd a visitor al-
ready a: the house of your friend, as you may be
intruding.

MARY G. M. If you are inclined to be bilious, and
have sallow complexion and pimples, you should
avoid eating rich and greasy food, and eat lenti-
fully every day of apples. Several eminent ench
.physicians have pronounced the free use of raw
apples to be most nourishing. an excellent tonic,
a preventive to disease, and as effectual a medicine
as pills, or the nauseous doses so manyI persons
think they must take every few weeks. ruit diet
is very purifying and cooling to the blood, and of
course beautiﬁes the complexion. Grapes, ﬁgs and
oranges are all excellent, and lemons cannot be
used too freely.

HATTIE J. V., Coopersville, Mich, writes: “ What
does comma il foul, and tout ensemble, and emban-
point mean? Is it improper for a lady to travel up
on the cars alone? Is it proper for a young lady to
propose to agentleman upon leap year?” Cbmme
it fuut means—as it should be; tout ensemble—taken
as a whole; embonpoint-plump, inclining to be
ﬁeshv.-—lt is generally considered, by American
girls, and is getting to be accepted by English is-
dies, as quite proper to travel alone moderate dis-
tances. lndeea, many ﬁne ladies of this age under-
take very extended tours alone—Most leap year
proposals are made in sport; but for a. lady to make
a proposal of marriage to a gentleman in earnest,
is not considered the proper thing in leap year or
any other time.

Mas. DE LAch. You can make a perfectly trans-
parent and ﬁrm cement by mixing ground nce with
cold water, quite thick, and gradually boil, stirring
it to keep it smooth until it is an almost solid jelly.
Of course it is not polite for a gentleman to smoke
in the presence of ladies wit out their cheerful
consent, nor in any person‘s house unless invited
to do so. But as regards your husband‘s smoking
at home, by all means do not forbid it. If he is
“an inveterate smoker,” he will indulge in that
pastime somewhere, and- you had better kindly al-
low lt in his own home, or you will be the cause of
his learning to frequent other places. Do not have
every room in the house too good to be spoiled by
smoke, but arrange that in one pleasant room he
may freely be at home even to indulge in his favor-
ite habit.

meu FELTER says: “ I loved a young lady very
dearly. but she was very much of a ﬂirt, and we
had a quarrel and parted. I think she was fond of
me, and still loves me, and I know that I shall nev-
er learn to love any one else as I did her, forI have
tried vainly. It is nearly three- years since our
quarrel, and I long to make it up with her; but am
tormented with doubts as to whether I am wise to
marry a. girl who has been courted by several gen-
tlemen, and is always surrounded with admirers,
as I am of a jealous disposition. What would you
advise me to do? I am very unhappy without her
love, and I never can put her out of my mind,
though we rarely ever see each other. ” If your love
for the young lady is so sincere and strong, and
she yet loves you, we think you can trust to your
devotion to each other to keep your path uncloud«
ed in the future. There can be no harm in putting
the malter to the test; and perhaps she is really
waiting for you, and will not care for other admi-
ration so she is once more sure of yours.

“ETHEL.” We do not think a gentleman who is
merely engaged to your sister has anyolaim to kiss
you; but if he makes a family affair of it, and
“treats all the family alike,” you could hardly
take exception, nor has your husband any just
cause for offence.

“BRIDE MERRY ” writes: “Is there any impro—
priety in accepting the invitation of a gentleman
friend to ride with himself and a. young lady friend
of mine? And can I, with strict regard for eti
quette, invite a gentleman who was my intimate
friend for years before my marriage, and acted as
my escort when my lover was unable to do so, to
make a short visit at my house?” There is no im-
propriety in either act that you suggest, if your
husband quite coincides with your wishes.

T. C. L., Brooklyn. Your question is a peculiar
one for an American to ask, but we give the desired

 

information. Queen Victoria receives from the
British nation an income of £385,000 ($1,925,000),
and £32,000 ($160,000), more from the Duchy of Lan-
caster, besides the income arising from her private
estates and investments. which probably amounts
to as much more. The Prince of Wales has an al-
lowance from the nation of £24,000 ($120000), and
receives from the Duchy of Cornwall £60,000 (3300,-
000), more.

 

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