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Joseph E. Badger, J r., Again !

 

We have in hand, to start soon, a strong,
strange and decidedly characteristic romance
of the Mines, Mountains and Men of ’54, that
leaves nothing to be desired in the way of ex-
citing incident, novel situation, peculiar char-
acter and startling denouement—one of this in-
comparable author’s best! Look out for it!

.___—-——

THE BOYS’ FAVORITE AGAIN!

 

In our next issue we start a new series Of
papers, reviving the “Yankee Boys,” in whose
Ceylon cruise our readers took so much de-

light, viz. :

THE FLYAWAY AFLOAT;

)

THE YANKEE BOYS AROUND THE WORLD.

BY C. D. CLARK,
AUTHOR OF “YANKEE BOYS IN CEYLON,” “ CAMP
AND CANOE,” “THE SNOW HUNTERS,”
“ROD AND RIFLE,” ETC., ETC.

 

 

With blufi‘ and brave Dave Sawyer for sail—
ing-master, the Yankee Boys continue their
Ceylon cruise to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Aus-
tralia, and thence homeward by way Of the
Sandwich Islands and Cape Horn, having all
kinds Of adventures on sea and shore, with Ma-
lay pirates and the wild natives and animals of
the Indian Archipelago; a wreck and singular
series of adventures on the north coast Of Aus-
tralia: a mOst remarkable and exciting cruise
ashore on the Sandwich Islands, in the volcano,
etc., etc.

These graphic and delightful papers are so
full of interest, information and suggestion as
to make them readable and enjoyable by Old
and young alike. Better summer reading
could not be offered.

Boys, see to it. that your young friends know
what the SATURDAY JOURNAL contains!

 

Sunshine Papers.

Lovers and Husbands.

OH! are they not nice—the men—when they
are lovers? Cream puffs and caramels are not
half so soft and sweet! IVas there ever a wo—
man on earth as charming as yourself, then?
No, indeed; I guess not! Did any one else ever
wear such a pretty dress or arrange their hair
So becomingly? Did any other woman select
such bewitching bonnets and have such darling
little crimps? Never! You had best not sug-
gest such a possibility, unless you wish to be
smothered, and choked, and squeezed, dread-
fully. A lover thinks no woman ever dressed
or looked so divinelyas his own particular
Angelina. Lovers are so appreciative!

But husbands! Bah! It makes one tingle
all lover, especially temptingly in the fingers,
to think how provoking they are when you
dress up your nicest to please them, and expect
to be told how sweet you look, an l they never
notice but that you have on your old torn
wrapper, and are as ugly as Macbeth’s witches;
but sit at the table regaling you with a descrip—
tion of such a pretty girl that rode up with
them in the car, or their partner’s beautiful
wife. And they never can see why you do not
buy a dress like Mrs. J.’s and arrange your
hair like Miss C’s ; and when you bring home
your new spring bonnet, they apostrophize
their cigars and wonder why a woman never
knows how to select a pretty bonnet; and let
them see you heating a slate-pencil, to curl
your hair upon, and what a row they raise!
Great Caesar! They guess they aren’t going
to have their wife burning off all her front hair.
You vainly offer convincing proof that you do
not injure it, and plead that you cannot curl it
on paper since they object to having curl-papers
poking about their bed at night. Very well!
You need not crimp your hair at all! It is an
abominable custom, and they always detested
crimps—on you especially!

Oh! ye gods and little fishes! Is it not Odd
how it changes a man to hear himself called
“ husband .3“

When a man is your lover he never can trot
you around enough. He makes appointments
with you at the picture-galleries, and spends
whole afternoons studying engravings and
paintings. He takes you to the Academy of
Design. Museum of Art, and the menagerie;
he walks with you around the parks, and drives
with you along the famous roads; he takes you
to the theater, the museum, the aquarium, the
minstrels, the circus, the opera; he doses you
with tragedies, comedies, burlesqucs, and scr-
mons; and patronizes rehearsals, concerts, so-
ciables, and balls. But when he has paid the
minister a nice little fee for pronouncing you
Jill‘s. , what a different creature develops
tself to you in your husband! Bless your
dear little soul! you are lucky if you get to
the theater once a year, and to hear an opera
during the remainder of your natural life!
He neVel‘ can get away from business until
after dark; you must be crazy to think he can
Waste his time idling in'picture-galleries; and
he is sure the last art collection doesn‘t amount
to a row of pins; he cannot see why you
should care to go. He doesn’t approve of the

 

 

minstrels or the circus, and he never has time
to walk, and the carriage is too cr0wded With
two on a seat: you had better stay home and
look after the baby. He should not think a
true mother would ever want to leave her
child to another’s care.

Oh! you great humbugs of selfishnes=, you
husbands! “'ho would ever believe that our
meek, slavish, sweet, doting lovers could turn
into such inconsiderate, tyrannical, cross old
fellows.

He. isa lover, now, so he wants your hands
to be as white as snow. DO you suppose he is
ever going to let you soil them? NO, not he!
“'liat if you do not know how to cook? he
would not allow you to do so, anyway: he in—
tends you should always have some one to do
that for you—Oh, of course, the naughty, de-
ceitful wretch! But, just wait awhile! Then
he will not care whether your hands are white
or not; but he will insist that you make your
pics yourself, and superintend the roasting of
the game. And no matter how hard you try
to have them marvels of culinary success, he
will always tell you of some one who can do
so much better.

Wouldn’t we like to shake a few of you ag-
gravating husbands, occasionally! And we
would, too, if it were not for wanting to coax
money out of you for a new silk!

A PARSON’S DAUGHTER.

 

AN UNNEIGHBORLY NEIGHBOR.

WHEN I was a little girl I used to think, if
any one had their trials on earth that individu—
al was myself. The greatest of all my trials
came in the shape of an ancient maiden called
“Miss Amy.” I hadn’t a very amiable dispo-
sition at that time, and it seemed all the hate
in my body was vented on that female. I hated
to go to her hou=e, hated to have her come to
ours, and hated to meet her in the street or see
her at church. She was exceedingly poor and
dependent on the charity of her neighbors, and
this charity was freely bestowed, because peo-
ple knew that Miss Amy “ had seen better
days.” They were willing to put up with her
uncivil address—so was I, and if it had been
only address she was possessed of I wouldn’t
have minded it one bit because I was Odd my-
self, but it wasn’t all; she possessed the sin of
ingratitude, and with all my faults I was al—
ways grateful. She wasn’t, and that’s one rea-
son why I hated her.

I hated to go to her house with any delicacy,
for she would always lift the cover from the
meat or fish and smell of the food to see if it
was fresh. As if mother would have sent her
anything tainted! Sometimes she would turn
up her nose at the food and say she “ wasn‘t a
pig and couldn’t eat swill.” Once she sent the
whole tray of things back to mother because
no pie had been thought of, and“she Wished
people to understand, if she was poor, she would
have pie with her dinner. It was what she
had been used to, and she must have it.”

I hated to have her come to the house, for she
would roundly abuse all those who had done
what they could for her. Mind you, she seemed
to consider it a duty every one Owed to her to
help her all they could. She was once telling
mother how the grocer had sent her some flour
anl tea and complained because he, did not add
some sugar to the present, and accordingly he
was “the meanest man in the world,” and she
“hated the very sight of him.” Mother, in the
pleasant, gentle way she had, said she had al-
ways liked Mr. D., the grocer, and that I was
always praising his liberality. “ Likely
enough!" exclaimed Miss Amy. ‘ NO wonder
Eve likes him, for he’s just such another ini-
pudent heathen as Eve is herself." I was mad,
and I may have said what I ought not to, but
I did burst out with—“W'ell, I’m not such a
heathen as to snap at the hand that feeds me.
I‘d be grateful for what. was done for me”
That angered Miss Amy and she flounced out
of the house, saying she didn’t come to be in-
sulted by such a minx as I was.

She never called again and I was glad.
Mother scolded me and said I was wrong; and
perhaps I was, but I didn’t think so then. I
had a habit Of speaking my mind very plainly
when I was a child and—I haven’t outgrown
that habit yet!

I hated to meet her in the street for she
would be sure to say something disagreeable
and give me unneeded advice. According to
her ideas I never went out for exercise but I
was romping; never went out for a walk but I
wanted to show Off my finecy; she’d always
tell me to be sure and carry home the right
change—as though I’d be thief enough to keep
it.

I hated to see her at church, for I always
felt as though her argus eye was on me, com-
menting on my actions and that, if she went to
Heaven before I did, she would tell the Lord I
ate peppermint drops or coughed, in church,
hoping to have the Lord close the door against
me. I wonder I didn’t think the Lord would
know all this before then, but I didn’t. I knew
if she could find anything to blame me for she‘d
be sure to tell the clergyman and he would
mention it in Sunday school before all my
young companions. I felt that, no matter
where she went, she would make mischief and
she might make herself so disagreeable in
Heaven that the Lord would send her back to
earth.

And when I saw her lying in her coffin I
shed no tears. I was not a hypocrite to feel
Sorry. To me it was a relief to have her gone.
Remember, that this was when I was a little
child and I cculd not help my feelings. No
doubt she had good traits to balance the evil
ones. Disappointment may have soured her
once amiable disposition, and poverty have
caused her to think and act as she did. But it
seems to me, if I were to live to be as old and
as dependent on others as she was, I would do
more to deserve the kindness I needed and be
more grateful for what was done for me.

The feeling I had for this woman were those
Of a child and, sometimes, when I think of her
now the Old iiiipi‘essions will come back to me
and I wonder why the memory Of her can
not be as pleasant to me as of another one just
as Old and just as dependent as she was, and of
whom I will tell you some time and let you
see the contrast. EVE L AWLESS

 

IN a'government like ours each individual
must think of the welfare of the state. as well
as of the welfare of his own family, and there-
fore Of the children Of others as well as his
own. It becomes, then, a momentous question
whether the children in our schools are edu-
cated in reference to themselves and their pri-
vate interests only, or with a regard to the
great social duties and prerogatives that await
them in after life. Are they so educated that
when they grow up they will make better
Christians, or only grander savages? for, how-
ever lofty the intellect of man may have been
gifted, how skillfully it may have been trained, I
if it be not guided by a sense of justice, a love ‘
of mankind, and a devotion to duty, its pos-'
sessor is only a more splendid. as he is a more '
dangerous barbarian. '

 

 

Foolscap Papers.
My Castle in Spain.

I HAVE a castle in Spain to which I very
often go. Railroad and steamship fares smack
so much of hard—labor-earned money that it
seems too earthy to stoop to pay it, and I won't-
travel nowdays by any more commonplace
conveyance than imagination. This is one of
the lines upon which the hands do not strike
and tear up the road and delay the trains. I
have always found it more prompt. I always
get there sooner. The employees are more
kind. I am not waked at every station for my
ticket when I do not wish to get off there.
There are no smash—ups whereby a man’s
widow can recover the exact damage for her
bereavement ($5.000, to a:cent, with her law—
yers to pay before she is fully satisfied, and
thanks to the railroad delightfully in a card.)

I travel a great deal in imagination over the
sea. I do not get seasick. The constantly re-
curring horizons with nothing on them but my
eyes, do not grow monotonous. I am in no
danger of climbing into the rigging and being
tied there for my curiosity; besides, I am not
confined to the steerage. I travel in the finest
Of vessels. The captain is under my pay and
delights to honor me, and the sailors struggle
to black my boots.

So when I get tired of this country I put a
card marked “Not in ” on my front door, lock
it and retire to my little room from whence I
spread the sails of my imagination and visit
my castle in Spain. I don’t lock my door for
fear of duns. I am rich and they never dis-
turb me. But, you know—a tailor, or a gro-
cer, or a shoemaker, or a wash-woman, might
make a mistake and rattle the wrong door
with their usual impatience, so I am not obliged
to go down and tell them, I’ll settle—I mean to
say, I don’t have to send them to the next
door.

My castle in Spain is built on more magnifi
cent proportions than any of my neighbors’.
It completely overshadows theirs. They are
so envious of it that they try to prevent its
shadow from falling on their domains, and
work to shovel the shadow over the fence.

The building is all paid for, and there are no
mechanic’s liens on it by way of ornamenta—
tion. The structure is high and airy—I may
say it is exceedingly airy, and I spend many
very agreeable afternoons in it. It has all the
modern improvements, making it a very de-
sirable piece of unreal estate. In it I feel
younger than I ever did in my life, and I don’t
go around with pocketsful of rheumatism, nor
jaw my wife to ease a toothache.

My castle was built under my own super—
vision, and everything is in order. In the
giant cellars are vaults built expressly to hold
my treasures, Where I go to whenever I wish
to pay off any bills, or upon which I give
drafts to my creditors, and never bother my—
self any more about it. (It is with checks
upon my treasure there that I do my principal
business. I could bring home stacks of money
whenever I come if I desired, but I have no
use for it here, having wealth which is worth
one hundred cents on the dollar, any day.)

Here I'm saddest when I sing, and so is every-
body else who hears me, but there my voice
rings out as joyfully as a maiden’s who has
just accepted a lover and gone into the gum-
drop business, and I feel like I was a boy—I
feel like I was two boys for that matter. The
quarter-day, when my salary is due, never
comes to aggravate me to death and tire me
out to walk all the way down to the bank to
draw it, and then have the trouble of carry-
ing it all the way back with me; and my notes
never fall due, thereby worrying me to death
to begin early in the morning, as I always do
on such days. to run around and hunt up the
man I owe, and then, after I have chased him
all day and found him at last, I have to use all
the persuasive eloquence for which I am cele-
brated, to get him to take it. I fear that pay—
ing debts will get to be distasteful to me yet
before I take up my permanent abode in the
castle in Spain, though I pray not.

When I am there people don’t immortune me
to death to go out and dine with‘onem, and
thus make me miserable, because there my
meals are served up regularly and also eaten
up regularly. I’m getting fat.

Then, when the nap wears Off my suit of
clothes, it grows on again, and the stuff is
good that I wear; it doesn’t get snagged if I
run across a little piece of Wind; the buttons
don’t shake off, and the button-holes don’t pull
out and get lost.

IVhen walking proudly up and down those
long, stately corridors, with many a marble
column graced, whose fluted sides, enwreathed
with carven flowers transparent, seem in inel-
low sunshine warm, I am never troubled with
my corns——I am never troubled with my corns.
The tall towers and minarets are lost in the
Hayes movement. The atmosphere is full of
air. The water from murmuring fountains is
wet. The audible songs of feathered birds I
hear. There are alabaster stairs, down which
it would be delicious to fall. Murmuring iner-
maids sport in the cascades. The softening
influence. of romance lays its spell upon my
soul. The soft ai '3 seem blowing from Eden;
and had I but pen and ink I feel soft enough to
melt away into transcendent poetry at ten
cents a line, if Ihad a market for it, and the
editor was good-natured.

Oh, my castle in Spain! Money could never
purchase it from me. I wish it could. If I
could only rent out the upper stories of it!
But what do I want with money?

I wish I was only a permanent resident.
Life is not life here. A man can‘t go up-street
but what he meets somebody whom he—don’t
admire. Here we put our hands into our
purse and find no mo——niore money than we
want. Here people. have the audacity to charge
for everything you buy—if you ask them to,
kindly. Here maidens deceiVe and paper col-
lars have linen only on one side.

I have been over in my castle all this after-
noon, and have had a good time. There was
no useless hammering on the doors there; all
was peace. I have just returned by the same
route I went, to hear some one hammering 011
my more matter—of—fact door below. It must
be some foreign nobleman or other dignitary
who does not quite understand our modes of
knocking. But I shall not go down. I shall
not disappoint him, but let him knock. I
think it would do me no good to go down—
nor him. I am rich, and just back from my
Castle in Spain, and I can afford to stay up
here. Sublimcly Yours,

WASHINGTON WHITEHORN.

 

LOVE is won by love, or not at all. There
is no money or price that a true heart knows.
Its exchanges are not low equivalents. They
are gifts, or they are nothing. They are un-

: alloyed attachments of love to love, Of heroism

to heroism, uf enthusiasm to enthusiasm. Love

’ is a celestial attachment of souls.

Topics .0! the Time.

——There were only 093 quarter sections of land
located in Manitoba in 1870, while 1,060 quarter
sections were located in five months of 1877'.
This far Northern region is destined to have a
large population.

—Thcre is an urgent demand for women in
the Black Hills. A newspaper out there says
that 1,000 women could find good husbands
inside of a few hours. We hope there won’t
be a panic, though, among the girls.

—The Turks allow no infidel to look at the
standard of Mahomet. and when it was car-
ried in a procession, about 1768, several hun-
dred Christians, who ignorantly looked on,
were massacred by the Turkish populace.

——IValking a thousand miles in a thousand
hours having been repeatedly done in. England,
is looked upon as slow. A pedestrian named
Gale now proposes to walk four thousand quar—
ters of a mile in four thousand consecutive
periods of ten minutes each.

—-Russia has in the last six months exported
wheat to the value Of over $13,000,000, against
wheat to the value of $8,000,000 for the corres-
ponding period of last year. So in spite of the
war, she has food enough to feed her Own peo—
ple and a handsome surplus for outsrde na-
tions.

——The Archaeological Society of Athens has
been making arrangements for the purchase
of the villagers’ houses now standing within
the area of the great temple at Eleusrs. If
the arrangements prove satisfactory, excava—
tions on a large scale will probably be begun
next season.

——The sect of the Pilgers receives constant
accessions to its numbers in Siberia. The Pil-
gers cut themselves loose from all family ties,
change their names, and either live in the for—
est or tramp from villa e to village. They
hold it no sin to kill t 6 members of other
religious sects.

—A recent history of American uniforms
brin s to light the fact that the gray of the
Sout ern Confederacy was the regulation dress
of the American armies Which fought at Chip—

ewa and Niagara in 1812, and was adopted at

est Point in commemoration of those vic—
tories. It is still quite extensively worn by
Northern regiments, and is the prevailing color
in all military schools; and for economy and
quietness it is doubtless preferable to the blue.

—Miss Bartie Le Franc lately walked fifty
miles in eleven hours and eight minutes, at New
London, Connecticut. She limped slightly at
the close, and her pulse ran up to ninety—elght.
During the evening the janitor turned off the
gas because the rent of the hall had not been
paid in advance, but the lad walked on in the
dark. Her admirers call for candles, and,
brandishing them above their heads, cheered her
as she walked. When she had finished her last
mile she made a little speech, and on the next day
she got u very early and went tochurch. WO-
men wa ' ts are now the sensation.

—A medical restaurant has been lately es-
tablished in London, on the (principle that dis—
eases can generall be cure by a special sys-
tem of diet, and t at they are caused chiefly by
improper food. On the entrance of a visitor a
physician asks him regarding his ailments. His
meal is then prescribed, and he is allowed to
eat no more than is presented to him. At the
close he is dismissed to smoke a medicated ci-
gar and to sip cofl‘ee, chamomile tea, or What-
ever other beverage may be considered advisa-
ble.

—The residents of Fort Edward, N. Y., hon—
ored Jane McCrea‘s memory on the centennial
of her massacre (July 27th). The church bells
were rung at daybreak, business was suspended,
there was a long procession and longer oration,
and toward dusk there was—a firemen‘s tourna-
ment. Not one of the young ladies of the place
was willing to be scalped for the occasion, and
it was difficult to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary Of the death Of Jane with any de—
gree Of appropriateness. In the lot overlooking
the spring where the fair-haired lassie was
murdered, there was an arch of evergreens and
iininortelles bearing her name. That was bet-
ter than playing away at the machine.

—In the “Memoirs Of St. Simon" is to be
found the following regarding the way the wo-
men of Paris dressed their heads in the year
1713: “At the commencement of the new year
the Duke and Duchess Of Shrewsbury arrived
from London. The Duchess declared the women’s
head-dresses ridiculous, as, indeed, they were.
They were edifices of brass wire, ribbons, hair,
and all sorts of tawdry rubbish, more than two
feet high, making women’s heads seem in the
middle of their bodies. If they moved ever so
lightly, the edifice trembled and the incon
venience was extreme. The king Louis XIV.
could not endure them, but, master as he was of
everything, was unable to banish them. They
lasted ten years and more, despite all he could
do and say.”

—Cardinal Manning, writing to a friend in
Dublin on intemperance, says : “Half the mis—
ery of homes arising from bad temper, sloth,
squandering, selfishness, debt, neglect Of all
duty, is caused by indulgence in wine and the
like. The sure and best cure of this is to bring
up children in simple habits, and to guard them
against ac uiring the liking for intoxicating
drinks. hen a liking for the taste is acquired,
the temptation is at once inexistence. Common
sense as well as faith says: Train up children
not to know the taste, and they will not be
tempted. I urge this 011 parents whenever I
can, and I have before me many happy homes
in which children have grown up without so
much as having ever tasted anything but
water." The cardinal‘s head, as they say out
west, is level. \Vould that parents everywhere
could apply the moral Of his discourse!

 

—The English may be very refined people
and all that, bnt they are certainly far behind
this country in the matter of schools and school
training. for they still flog the students brut-
ally, cven in their best preparatory schools. The
case of poor little Gibbs, Of Christ’s Hospital, in
London (Charles Lamb‘s School) is an il—
lustration of the treatment administered to
boys. After two or three months Of schooling
the lad ran away because he could not endure
the treatment which he received at the hands
Of one of the monitors. He declared that he
would never remain under the monitor as long
as he lived. He would rather hang himself. He
was, however, sent back to school, where he
was birched. After three weeks he ran away
again, and was again taken back to school. He
was sent to the infirmary to await the decision
of the Head Master on his case, and in the in-
firmary he hanged himself With a cord attached
to a ventilator. Some of the evidence as to the
condition of the school goes to show that bully-
ing and severe flogging have been too common
there. Poor little Gibbs seems :tO have been
fairly fagged into suicide.

—President Hayes is reported to have said,
the other day, that Indians could not be intro-
duced in the armv, in any extended wa , with
efficiency. He added: “ I had three In 'ans in
ngy corps. As scouts the. were unequaled.
I e could do nothing wit 1 them as soldiers.
They would not drill, they would not keep rank,
they would do nothing except in their Wild In-
dian way. IVe were troubled by a sharp-
shooter who had picked Off our men, and we
could not reach him. I sent for one of these
scouts. He came to my camp in a slouch way,
seemed half asleep, and was wholly indifferent.
When I told him what I wanted, his face glowed,
his eyes sparkled and he straightened himself
up like a crested snake ready to strike, rolled
his trowsers up to his thighs, his sleeves- to his
shoulder—blades—to be as much Of a savage as
possible. He took his rifle, several rounds of
ammunition, threw hinlselt' on the grass before
there was any need of it, and wound himself
along with the velocity and silence of a snake.
Three shots brought the sharp-shooter down,

 

when the scout returned perfectly exhilarated.

Readers and Contributors.

Accepted: “Changedz” “A Case for a Frat-n"
“The Bell at Eveg" “Listening to the Rig les;"
“Little Miss Stormsz" “The New Way;’ “A
Choice of Eyes;" “ Will He Come To-night‘: ’
Declined: "Ivan;" “A Queen by Mistake;"
“The Old Guard;” “ Ma'or Peason’s Last Pipe;"
“A Girl’s Revenge:" ‘ he Union School Rebel—
lion;" “ Mose Anderson‘s Yarn."

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lishers, New York, for their catalogue.

GEO. A. E. Have returned MS. by express.
Charges to be returned us, fifty cents.

SANDY. You did right in not bowing. A well-
bred woman knows that it is [167' place to make the
first recognition on the street.

ELWOOD. Poem %uite good, but marred by im-
perfect rhythm. ry again. And—look to your
rhyme. Sun does not rhyme with own.

H. L. E. Why not call upon the gentleman and
ask an explanation? An interview is preferable to
correspondence, especially in your case.

W. F. W. Your MS., as such, is quite correct.
The sketch, as announced, has been declined. It
is somewhat crude, and the incident trite.

BUMMER. Can’t give the recipe you ask for.
May give it hereafter. Have no story in hand by
the author named. His “ Fire Fiend” was given as
No. 5 of the New York Library.

N. G. C. Injury probably is not serious. The
fact that you can use the limb as ou indicate
shows that nothing is “broken.” eep it still;
don’t be tempted to its further use for awhile.
Base—ball is a rough game, at best.

W. J. The fpaste used by binders is thus made:
take 1% lbs. 0 flour and mix with cold water; stir
all lumps out, then add one handful of alum and a
tea-spoonful of salt; boil till it thickens. A little
carbolic acid afterward stirred in will prevent sour-
ing for several days.

MAIME M. Papers sent. See No. 386 for answer.
Do not, as a general thing, care to answer by mail.
To anticipate and overcome any dissent to your
wishes would certainly adopt your friend‘s suggese
tion. Ladies have far more rig/its than they usually
exercise—A difference of two years and dissimi-
larity of temperament should make the relations
very congenial.

W. S. C. For proper pronunciation of the
names see “Webster‘s Unabridged Dictionary"
“Wood’s Natural History” is one of the best on
birds, reptiles, etc. There are about thirty species
* of poisonous snakes in the United States. Can’t
spare space to mention them, or to describe the
moccasin snake—There are laws in nearly all the
States prohibiting work on Sunday. ——Other answers
in our next. v

CONSTANT READER, Syracuse. The calling of a
surveyor is a very good one in all States where
new lands are in market, new roads to lay, town
lots to locate, etc. If you could attend a course in
Cornell or the New York University School of Min-
ing and En ineering, it would greatly advance you.
Write to t e curator of these schools, or of the
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, or the Troy, N. Y.,
Polytechnic School, for catalogue, course of study,
etc.

CONSTANT READER, Binghampton. A ylain and
somewhat heavy Old ring is the proper marriage
ring, because that ind of a ring stands all kinds of
wear and tear. The engagement ring may be plain
or with set, and marked with betrothed's initials
on inside; the plain ring will cost about four dol-
lars, and the other from five to fifteen dollars or
more, as means permit. Wear engagement ring on
the first finger of left hand; wear wedding ring on
the third finger of left hand.

DANDY. Monograms and initials are much less
used by stylish people upon their note and letter
paper than heretofore. Initials have the prefer-
ence; they are large, often in script, and stamped
in gilt or a combination of gilt and gay colors; the
residence, street and number, or town, in gilt or
colored script at the top of the paper is a style Of
adornment adopted by some, but savors too much
of business. Initials and monograms upon wedding
cards and invitations are not as stylish as perfectly
plain envelopes.

M. D. R. asks: “Arc burnt matches bad for
the eyebrows? ls sulphate of zinc good for granu-
lated eyelids? Is Lucie a homely name, and what
is its meaning?" Yes, burnt matches are bad. If
you desire to darken your brows and lashes,
buy or make a decoction of walnut juice, and
keep upon: your toilet-table. With the aid of a
small brush you can darken the brows and lashes
prettily.—Consult a physician concerning granu-
lated eyelids.—Lucie is very pretty. It is the
French form of Lucy and means “light.”

 

CONSTANT READER, Providence. Because you are
“college bred ” is no reason why you should aban-
don your trade. If our mechanics were generally
ambitions to obtain a good education, and would
associate real scholarship with their occupations, it
would greatly enhance both their influence and
usefulness. Elihu Burritt, “ the learned black-
smith," is a case in point. All apprentices ought to
serve long enough to 1 \am their trade thoroughly,
in all its branches. Very few trades indeed can be
learned in a year. The average time is three years
for carpenters, printers, mac inists, upholsterers,
cabinet-makers, wagon-makers, tinners, etc., etc.

Two CLERKS write: “We are sisters who have
saved_up about three hundred dollars each; we
clerk in our uncle’s store; and a widowed aunt,
where we spend our evenings and see considerable
company, wants us to come and stay with her; we
prefer, ever so much, to be independent, however,
and ask your idea about it.“ We consider you
very fortunate young ladies: that you have good
positions, have been able to put aside a portion of

our salariestoward future contingencies, and en-
joy somety, is exceptionally good. We would ad-
v1se you, however, to preserve your independence
as long] as you can. Continue to prove to your
aunt t at you appreciate her kindness, and will
thankfully avail yourselves of her ohaperonage in
regard to the people with whom you associate; but
eirpress your Wish to be employed daily, as you are,
giving her and her friends your evenings and an 00.
2:510:18] day or week when you can be spared from

e s ore.

EM  writes: “A cousin of mine, a clerk in a
bank, is going to ‘tramp it,’ as he calls it, throu h
the Catskills. He wants me to go along, and 1 won d
like to ever so much. Do you see any impropriety
in my gomg, and what kind of a suit. would be best
for such a walk? Answer soon and much oblige a
good friend of the dear JOURNAL.” If ou are a.
young lady of enough spirit to underta e such a
walk, we see no reason why you should refuse our
cousm s kind invitation. Such a vacation oug t to
do you both much good, and afford you more en-
fiiyment than two weeks of conventional idleness.

ave a suit of flannel or buntin —navy blue trim-
med with white, Or gray trimme with scarlet, are
the most serviceable colors. The upper part of the
skirt should be made perfectly plain in front,
and as scant as looks well, and to the bottom
of it should be sewn, with a cord, 9. kill-platit-
zng half a yard deep. Above the kilt-plaits sew a
row, or more, of the red and white trimming. No
overskirt is worn, and the skirt should entirely
clear the ground all around. The waist should he a
Breton Jacket, not too tightly fitted. Wear plain
linen collars and cuffs, and no ornaments; your
hat should shade your face sufficiently for on to
dispense With a sunshade. Arrange your air as
neatly and compactly as possible—either in a
French tWist with a comb, or in a braid down the
back. Wear long-wristed lisle-thread gloves, dark
hose, and substantial, easy boots. A pair of Zouave
trowsers to match the suit, which will obviate the
necessxty Of donning more than one short Balmoral
skirt with the dress-skirt.

E. M. writes: “ Is there any way in which a young
lady who enjoys fairly good ealth can improve her
complexxonl’ I am a, teacher, am rarely ever sick,
am young and nice-looking, only ni complexion is
not as clear and fair as I would li e. What diet
Wlll purify and yet enrich the blood?" If you are
troubled with em tions or pimples, procure an
ounce of English g cerine, half an ounce of rose-
mary and twenty d
excellent used upon the face night and morning.
For refining the skin cold water applications are ex-
cellent. Make a mask Of cotton—batting and every
night at retiring wring it out in soft. pure cold
water, and place it upon the face for the night. If
persevered in for three or four weeks this process
is said to render the skin as fair, soft and pure as
an infant‘s. . Take frequent cold water baths,
plenty of active exercise in like open air, and avoid
the use of all greasy foods and pastries. To keep
the blood pure and rich use grain food—oatmeal,
grits, cracked corn, rice, hominy,’ Indian meal,
Graham flour, etc., and pure milk. Use all the fruit
you care for, especially seedy fruit, and all fresh
vegetables that are not cooked with fatty or salt
meats. Rare broiled steaks, and most carefully
brOiled meats are good, also soups and broth made
from'beef-extrxict. Avoid cake, pastry, and rich
puddingspuse fruit, or light deSSerts of corn—
starch, farina, etc. Ale, beer and claret, used in
moderation, are good; but coffee and tea should be
tabooed. Never make the mistake Of eating when
you are not hungry; take your food at regular
hours, and only as much as will satisfy your
hunger.

REE“ l’nanswrad questions on hand will appear new
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