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MR. BADGER’S NEW STORY,
Happy Jack and “ Pard ”;

The White Chief of the Sioux,

A Romance of Sports and Perils
of Post and Plain,

Commencing in No. 414, is just what its title
implies—of Sports and Perils in Frontier
Military Post and the Plains of Wyoming, in
which the mysterious gentleman scout Happy
Jack and his “ pard ”—the

Widely Celebrated Bill Comstock,

are to the front in a series of events wild and
exciting even for that wild country. Life at
“ Fort Western ”———in which U. S. officers,
troops, scouts, ladies of the ofllcers’ quarters,
Indians, outlaws and renegades, all are living,
active elements—is vividly depicted; but this
is quickly overshadowed by the deep, thrilling
interest of a

STRANGELY ROMANTIC STORY,

in which the inscrutable Happy Jack and the
beautiful Kate Markham, daughter of the
commanding officer, are central figures, and
the White Sioux is the Lucifer of a many act
tragedy. It is in the author’s happiest vein—
which is commendation enough.

 

W Of serials scheduled in for early use
we have indeed a brilliant array, including
those by

Albert W. Aiken,
Mary Grace Halpine,
Charles Morris,

all soon to come. The prospect for winter
nights’ entertainment is certainly fine for our
readers. -

 

Sunshine Papers.
Just Like a Woman.

THERE is one sentence that a man knows
how to use with the greatest elocutionary per-
fection; and, perhaps, no other sentence with-
in his command Of language to which he can
give so powerful, so varied, and so subtle
meanings. He says—sarcastically, sneeringly,
contemptuously, jokingly, laughingly, teasing-
ly, mockingly, bitterly, commendingly, ten—
derly, profanely, sacredly—“ That is just like
a woman.”

When his sister‘ says she cannot attend the
next reception with him because she has
“nothing to wear,” he remarks, “Oh, that is
just like a woman! She never has anything
to wear when a feIIOW wants particularly to
go to some place;” and when his chum pours
into his ear the tale of a woman’s fickleneSS,
and a man‘s despair caused thereby, the recipi-
ent of the confidence hisses between his teeth,
“ Just like a womanl”

Mother relates at dinner how aunt Saman—
tha started to pay the family a. visit, and took
the wrong train at the junction, and father
and son curl their lips and murmur, “ Just like
a woman.”

When he has a sweetheart, and she jumps to
the other side of the room when the door of
the apartment where they sit is opened, he in-
forms her afterward that he was not at all sur-
prised; he knew she would do that; “it was
just like a woman;” and when she pretends not
to like his kisses at first, but uses every means
for obtaining them, he still informs her that
she “is just like a woman ;” and when she
vows she loves him, he says she will change
her mind, “just like a woman ;” and when she
sees him walking up the avenue with a young
lady, and treats him to a storm of tears, and
sobs, and reproaches, when next they meet, he
still insists that she is “just like a woman ;"
acts from impulse instead of common sense,
and so gets into a dire fury over what might
be explained with only mutual smiles.

A man says it is “just like a woman ” when
he finds some need or desire kindly, unob-
trusively, and deliciously anticipated; “just
like a woman,” when ruin stares him in the
face throu, h her extravagance; “just like a
woman,” when she watches unwearyingly and
patiently by his side in pain, or watchfully
and carefully reduces his expenses by half in
times of trouble; “just like a woman ”—al-
most as an oath or a curse—when she dashes
his highest hopes to earth, betrays his honor,
and blasts his life; “just like a woman ”—as a
blessing, a prayer—-when she counts friends
and comforts and all of earth’s goods as naught
so she may cling to him and uphold him when
all other faces are tui ned from him, the help
of all other bands withheld.

“Just like a woman," it is, on occasion, to
be cowardly, selfish, fickle, foolish, thought-
less, weak, false, wicked—brave, generous,
loyal, sensible, thoughtful, strong, true, good.
And so it is scarcely strange that man has

 

 

come to say with such diverse meanings—
“ just like a woman.” And there are some
failings so essentially womanlike that even
women recognize the weakness of their own
sex, and with even greater scorn than men
say, it is “just like a woman 1”

Little meannesses are more common to wo-
men than men; and when women say they paid
only so-and-so for an article whose price was
thus and so, men elevate their brows and whis-
per, “Just like a woman.”

It is “just like a woman " to ask a shopman
to lower his prices; “just like a woman” to
worry her s rvants and her seamstress into
taking the smallest possible pay: “just like a
woman" to indulge in contemptible hints in—
stead of frank, truthful, outspoken words;
“ just like a woman ” to borrow little articles
and services that she has no intention of re—
paying; “ just like a woman” to make all she
can out of people in despicable small ways;
“just like awoman” to prefer to sponge ra-
ther than bear a little seltldenial, to maintain
a glorious independence; “ just like a woman ”
to say insulting things to those who are either
pow rless to defend themselves or too noble to
retaliate; “just like a woman” to prefer a
novel to a history; “just like a woman”to Sf end
seven hours in beautifying her clothes to every
one she spends beautifying her mind; “just
like a woman” to talk ten times more of what
she shall wear than of any of the social, scien—
tific, political or intellectual topics of the day;
“just like a woman "—and yet, the men can-
not live without her!

A PARSON’S DAUGHTER.

 

HAPPY DAYS.

 

SAD indeed must a person’s existence be
that has no happy days mingled with it. I
cannot imagine a life that is all clouds and no
sunshine. There must be times when one is
not so utterly crushed d0wn with sorrow or
trouble that he or she can be happy; yet
some persons will tell you that they “never
have had a. happy moment in their lives.” I
cannot believe that, for it seems so contrary to
reason. Perhaps they never tried to be happy.
I think, oftentimes, we can make our own hap~
piness, if we would but try; and if persons
would strive half as hard to be happy as they
do to be miserable, maybe they would be more
contented with their lot in life.

Are not school—days happy periods in one’s
life? There are few cares and troubles that
creep into those happy times. The friendships
formed among schoolmates—the eager desire
to obtain knowledge— the welcome vacation
after months of hard work—the striving for
medal or diploma—the bearing away of the
prize—the many little kindnesses shown, one
to another, among schoolmates—the romps,
plays, parties and merrymakings Of youth, are
all full of joyousness, and I would not deprive
youth of one of these pleasures. We all know
that school-days do not last long; yet, while
they do last, why should we desire to have
them otherwise than happy ones?

Lovers’ days are deemed the happiest in the
calendar—by some; and why not, pray? Love
began in the garden of Eden, and will not end
——as far as earthly love is concerned—until
Gabriel blows the last trumpet. Call the story
of love a foolish one, yet it is a sweet one to
those concerned. Call it an old story, yet is it
not ever a new one? You may call the days,
when one is in love, “miserable,” but no one
can deny their being happy days. Let those
who will enjoy them to their hearts’ content.
Love lasts but a brief season to many, and
God gave us hearts to have us fill them with
love, not hate. Were it not for love, the in~
habitants of this mundane sphere would soon
sink into miserable, misanthropic old “pokes ”
or “ snarleyows.”

Are not those happy days in which we are
striving to do good with the talents given us—
when we help the wayfarer and try to make
his burden lighter? Can one be anything but
happy when his head, heart and hand are doing
their best to better the condition of another?
Is time wasted, is money thrown away, or are
days made wretched when we are living more
for others than for ourselves? Oh, who would
have a callous heart—a hardened heart, one
deadened to all the finer feelings of humanity
—that would let a person suffer from want
when power was given to relieve him? Shame
on such as would, I say! I abominate them,
for they little know how sweet is the pleasure
of doing good.

And when old age comes on are there not
happy days connected with it? Some persons
shudder when they think they must grow old.
It is not such a fearful thing in reality, be-
cause we grow old gradually; the silver locks
do not come all of a sudden, and as others grow
old with us we do not lose their companionship.
if a person has led a good, honest and upright
life,what happy days he can pass, “as life les~
sens on the lea ” by looking backward over the
happy, happy days, and thinking what joy and
happiness they brought; and then, there is the
sweet, restful future, where pains and troubles
are unknown, and where there will be no part-
ing from friends as there is here! That is one
of my sweetest thoughts of Heaven, no part-
ing, and as there will be no parting of course
there will be no death. One eternity of hap-
piness! Ah, well, if we cannot have happiness
here we shall have it there, but I believe we
can have it here.

There are so many ways in which we can
make ourselves happy, so much sunshine we
might infuse into the dark days that visit us as
well as others. By lightening others’ sorrows
we lessen our own, don’t we?

W! y was such a beautiful world given us to
live in if not for us to enjoy? Why were so
many innocent, harmless pleasures granted us
if not to make us happy? And, if we are not
often happy it is our own fault, and if we are
often miserable, ten to one we deserve to be so.

EVE LAWLESS.

 

Foolsoap Papers.

A Confidential Letter on Going
to Housekeeping.

MY DEAR YOUNG Nnrunw:

You have lately wedded and are now some-
what of a married man, having a. wife to
whom you should be a husband. You have re-
turned from your wedding trip, and the fact
impresses itself upon you that you have to
make a start out into real life. You would
scorn to stay and live with your father-in—law,
to be a comfort to his declining years and be
near him and have nothing much to do but go
to your meals regularly You would do noth-
ing of the kind— at least since he has not said
anything about such a course to you, so you
think of going to housekeeping.

You look over the papers, and with your
wife start out in search of advertised cottages,
and in the course of a. few days you are sur-

 

 

 

prised to see how many desirable homes you
would not have. At length you find one that
doesn’t suit you, and you take it.

With the ready cash in your pocket (which
the old gentleman with fatherly kindness has
donated for the purpose) you start out and or-
der such things as you desire to furnish the
house. Of course the money furnished by your
father-in-law you would suddenly refuse to
take—if you had any of your own.

The things are delivered, and you set to
work to put your house in order, with more
confidence in yourself than twenty of your
friends have.

You begin at the front room, and first put
down the carpet, getting it wrong side up. of
course, when your wife comes in and causes
you to reverse it. You find it is rather short
on four sides, and it requires a great deal of
hard pulling to get it up to the wall, when
you find your wife is standing on it. You or-
der her off, and try to show the edge up to the
wall, and observe that you are vainly trying to
pull your own weight along with it. Then
you notice that you hammer a good many
more “nails ” than tacks, occasionally sit-
ting d0wn on a few to rest. You wonder
why carpets ever were introduced, and are
mad because you were introduced to this parti-
cular carpet; you find a good deal to carp-at,
and as you observe the figures drawn out of
line in some places, you indulge in some flowery
figures of speech.

When the carpet is down, the stove has to
he put up. It is hard to put up with the put-
ting up of a stove, but your patient wife offers
you some of her patience, and you tell her that
women waiting to get married learn patience,
and then put in the stove-legs which have
fallen out on one side, while you were trying
to put in those on the other, and then go and
put in those on the other side that jumped out
while you were putting those in. As each
joint of pipe is bigger than the other, trouble
begins, and you pipe yourself, and wish to
stove up the stove, and for the first time since
Smith took Julia home after church you growl
at her, and domestic felicity threatens to grow
infelicitous, until your wife finishes the work
and makes it a pipe of peace.

You will notice that you will hang the pic-
tures upside down so that Mount Vesuvius
threatens to fall and pierce the blue sky, or
the milk is in danger of falling out of the
charming milkmaid’s pail, and you get bother-
ed and perplexed so much that it is a wonder
you don’t hang yourself on one Of those con-
venient hooks, and you would if it was not
that you wanted to live to be a blessing to
your darling little wife, whom you narrowly
escape knocking down when you tumble from
the step-ladder, bringing the picture along
with you for company hard enough to jar all
the fruit out of it and set it rolling about the
floor.

You say this reminds you of the parlor
where you used to sit and use up her father’s
firewood: kiss your wife and go to arranging
the kitchen with enthusiasm, for you are get-
ting hungry and want the first square meal
that ever belonged to you in your life.
You get the kitchen stove up somewhat in
the manner that any other domesticated man
does, occupying the same longitude as to
time, seasoned with a few pinches of fingers,
and in your hurry and ignorance start a fire
in the oven, grab a basket and go down town
for rations for dinner. You buy one pound of
sugar, three pounds of pepper, eight pounds
of tea, six pounds of salt, one bar of soap,
two pounds of ground cinnamon, sixteen
pounds of steak, ten pounds of flour; eight
quarts of yeast, one barrel of bominy, two
dollars’ worth of celery, three dressed chickens,
and two gallons bulk oysters; these altogether
you think will make you both apretty good
substantial meal, and when you get them home
your little wife is somewhat surprised at the
proportions of the articles, and you set in to
help to get the first meal, as you know how it
is done. You slap three steaks right on top of
the stove, and your wife slaps your chops;
then you put the tea in the tea-kettle, season
it wi.h pepper and salt, while your wife sets in
to make the biscuit without seeing it. You
get in her way as much as possible and employ
all your means in upsetting cups and things on
the table and drinking out of the two gallons
of milk you bought of the milkman along
with the ten. pounds of butter. You step in
the bucket of water on the floor, but water is
cheap. You stir the fire and burn your fingers,
and your wife sends you into another room to
go to work and keep out of the way of dinner
till it gets there.

Then, while you are eating your first meal
and don’t know just where the balance is to
come from, your friends begin to drop in and
see how snug you are, and you feel something
like you did long years ago when you and
that little red-headed and checked girl of seven
summers played at keeping house, and had
your dinners served on very fine broken sets
of dishes under the apple tree on a box, with
the little ants crawling all over the repast,
and your mother not knowing you are out.

Ah, my boy, going to housekeeping to-day
is very fine, and you can’t quit smilingall over,
and it seems a good deal like play, but it is en-
tering the real battle of life, and your enemies
are the butcher and the baker, and to keep
your dishes greased three times a. day grows
monotonous and expensive, and you will
eventually settle down into the matter-of—fact
“day after day.” This play part of going to
housekeeping will wear off like the nap from
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Topics of the Time.

—There are ten men to one woman in South-
ern California. Female servants there receive
$40 per month.

—-—At a Pittsburg church fair oung girls dis-
guised as slaves were placed on t e auction-block
and knocked down to the highest bidder, the
cash going into the church treasury. The pro-
perty of course was not delivered to the pur-
Chasers.

 

—Miss Josephine A. Stone, a colored gr], who
graduated from the High School at ewport,
Vermont, this last summer, took the gold prize
for the highest scholarship, gave the valeglictory
and did the last tv‘vo years’ study all in one.
She is the daughter Of a cook and supported her-
self by her own labor.

-—-Notwithstanding famine and rewards, DOX<
ious animals multiply in India from the religious
dislike of Hindoos to killing anything. Cobras,
lucky re tiles, are held by them especially sa-
cred, an , with other sna es, managed in 1875
to kill 17,000 persons; but 270,185 snakes were
killed. The loss of cattle from the same cause
was very heavy.

——The largest hell in the world is in the temple
of Clars, in Kioto, Ja an. Unlike the great
bells in Pekin and oscow, it iswhole, and
its tone is as rfect and as sweet as when first
suspended. here and b whom it was cast is
not known. Chinese an Sanscrit characters
complete] cover it: but they are not transla—
table b apanese scholars. It is twenty-four
feet big and sixteen inches thick at the rim. It
has no clapper, but is struck by a sort of wooden
battering-ram on the outside.

—The Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce, the patriarch
of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church,
being now in his ninety-fifth year, has written
a letter to The Christian Advocate, of this city,
in which he counsels a union of the Northern
and Southern Methodist churches in foreign
mission work. He says! “We are becomin
essentially one at home in fraternal peace and
love: but we must become absolutely one abroad.
Actual fraternization in all foreign mission work
will insure fraternal union and peace and good-
will at home.”

—-—An Irish jury has had the audacity to assess
a woman for damages done to a man’s heart.
Mr. E an, a linen-draper’s assistant of Roserea,
was ji ted by a Winsome young lady of thirty-
five; and, after hearing the sad story of a. lover’s
woes from his own lips, the generous jury award-
ed him $l,250a.s damages, so that the consolation
afl’orded him is of a very solid kind. The lady
coolly admitted a promise to marry the plain-
tifl, but leaded that she was not very much in
love, an that she “ declined to be dictated to”
during the courtship.

—Prince Bismarck likes to find everything in
his study in disorder and general topsy-turvi-
ness, 'ust as he left it—bott es, mugs, cigars and
cigar- xes, odd gloves, books, pamphlets,

pers, letters, spurs, stra antiques, swords,

and-mirrors, pistols, fid le-strings, flutes—
these are all articles he wants to put his hand
on at short notice, and see lying around loose
on the tables, floor and sofas. Whenever he
discovers any signs that his wife or the servants
have been tryieng to set things to rights a terri~
ble row is was .

——Before 1789 the expense of kee ing up the
few lighthouses then standing was me by the
States in which the lights were laced. In 1791
the first lighthouse erected by tEe Federal Gov-
ernment was lighted. At that time including
the new one, there were but nine lights on the
whole American coast. During the following
nine ears the number was increased to sixteen.
In 18 2 there were seventy lights in all, and in
1838 two hundred and thirty—eight, includin
light-boats. In 1875 there were nine hundrer
and twenty -five lighthouses, and twenty-three
lightships; four hundred and eighteen oflthe
number being on the Atlantic coast.

-—-Dr. Dyce Duckworth, an eminent En rlish
ghysician. discusses in a. recent number 0 the

ritish Medical Journal the question of using
stimulants in disease and health. He concludes
that the medical faculty cannot do without
them, as they serve certain purposes which
cannot be obtained by other means and cannot
be dispensed with. egarding the use of stimu—
lants in health, he condemns the prevalent
drinking habits, but believes that a moderate
use of stimulants at proper times is beneficial to
very man rsons who are not suflicientl
robust to erive all needed nutrition from f ;
but they should be taken only with meals. Dr.
Duckworth’s position is claimed to be that of
the most learned of the medical faculty gen-
erally. '

-—From a statement made recently by Richard
A. Proctor, the English astronomical writer, it
appears that the result of the observations of
the British Transit Expeditions has been to fix
the sun’s distance from the earth at 93,321,000
miles. This exceeds by nearly a million Of
miles Newcomb’s estimate, generally accepted
of late years, and by more than a million of
miles Leverrier’s conclusion drawu from the
planetary perturbations. The authors of the
new estimate, it seems, admit a probable error
of 200,000 miles, while the British Transit 0b-
servations in Southern localities are yet to be
combined with those made by America, Russia
and Germany at Northern stations. It is too
early yet, therefore, to lay it down in the school-
books and to teach children what the exact dis-
tance of the sun is.

—The Wilmington (N. C.) Starsa s: “ Archi-
bald Gordon, of Granville, in that tate, is the
father of twent seven sons, by one wife.” But
the Charlotte Observer beats this story by say-
in : “ At the house of a well~known citizen of
So. isbury stopped during the meeting of Con—
ference four ministers and one layman from
different sections of the State. At the table
they compared notes as to their respective fami-
lies, when the startling fact was revealed that
the five men had in all sixty-seven children, and
not a single one of them (t e fathers) had been
married more than one time.” Well may we
exclaim—what a country! GO West, oun
man; go anywhere but to North Caro a, i
you ever expect to get the better of circum-
stances. Too many circumstances there!

——The most colossal inheritance sued for in

your wife less than a bushel I will cut you off the courts is that of the Metzger family in H01—

in the p.ime of your life with a two—edgedI

shilling. Your venerable unc' e,

WAsRING'rON WHITEHORN.

 

@" “ Fret- Sawing,” by both boys and girls,
is now such a. source of pleasure and profit that
a text-book of instruction is quite in order.
This is given by Henry T. Williams in his
Hand-book Series, viz.: Fret Sawing for Plea-
sure and Profit—an exceedingly tasteful and
admirable guide to the pretty art.

In the Same “ Hand-book Series” is S. Annie
Frost’s Ladies’ Guide to Needlework, Embroi-
dery, etc—a very useful and almost complete
guide to fancy work, elaborately illustrated,
etc. No excuse for ladies “not knowing
how,” when such manuals as this are acces-
Bible.

Equally well may we speak of Mr. Williams’s
Household Hints and Recipes. It is not a
cook’s manual, but aims to tell the housewife
everything about house and home, its needs,
economies, etc. The more that such bOOks are
disseminated the better for American house-
holds.

Among !he “candidates for favor ” coming
in with the new year, is Vick's Illustrated Ma-
gazine—devoted chiefly to flower culture. It
occupies a very interesting field. and is pretty
sure to win a large circulation among those
who love flowers and are so fortunate as to be
able to grOW them either in house or garden.

 

land. Lieut.-Gen. Metzger dc Weibaum died at
The Hague in 1601, leavinga fortune of $28,000,-
000. The Holland Government took the estate
to itself on the alleged ound of want Of heirs.
Gen. Metzger was of A sace. Some of his dig-
tant relatives there laid claim to the property.
The suit lasted 150 years, until 1764, when Wil-
liam III. of Orange declared it outlawed by
time, and confirmed the original seizure by the
State. New firmfs having recently been dis-
covered, the etzger heirs have petitioned the
French Swiss and American
assist them in securing the ri its of branches
of the same family living under their protec-
tion. With sim lo and compound interest, it is
estimated that t e estate in question uals in
valulei the whole amount of coined gel in the
wor .

-—Modem weapons of precision can be used to
advantage in the school-room as well as at the
seat of war, especially in 'estern vill es,
where the young ideas are quite apt to shoo in
the direction of the schoolmaster. A breach of
discipline in a public school at Foster Minn,
led recently to an encounter on the cor, in
which the teacher was flogged by the pupil
whom he had undertaken to punish. The next
morning the schoolmaster a poured upon the
scene armed to the teeth, and having laid on his
desk a bio bowie—knife ahuge club, an ax and
a large wliip, glared at his pupils, and began to
sharpen his jack-knife on his boot. The big
boys winked at one another, and the little girls
stopped whispering; and so overwhelming was
the effect of this formidable armament that at
a signal from one of the rin leaders, there was
a rush for the door, and a he ter-skelter retreat
£20m the school-yard. School was over for that

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Readers and Contributors.

Declined: “The Race of Pigmies;" “A Gift for
'Naught;” “Treason in Truth; ‘ “swnding the
Holidays;" “A New Revelationz" “ aking the
Song;" “ Will Morris, the Bad ‘Un;" “Sporting in
S ain;“ “True Till Death;"’ “Home;” ‘ In Memo-
riamg” “ A Summer Night’s Adventure.”

Accepted: “The Grave of Emmet;" “An Id lof

 

the Past;" “One Constant Friend:“ “A ew
Name;" “Lost in the Leaves;” “Love in the
bum ;” “A Naughty Bou uetz" “Mrs. John
Potts;” “Sobersides and o.;" “Measuring a

Tonguef‘
Ladies!"

B. R. W. Rhymes rather crude.
find place for one.

L. G. L. We do not care to examine the “Ad-
ventures on Mars.” No stamp for reply by post.

0. S. W. Sketch worthy of use, but we have no
need of its class of matter. Package came under-
paid in postage.

JERRY M. “ Deadwood Dick " is not yet “ off the
hooks ” b any means. The New novel of “ Buf-
falo Ben ‘ will soon appear in the Half—Dime series.

HARRY L. The novel you speak of by Mrs. Flem-
ing was published in the SATURDAY JOURNAL some
time since. It is not now to be had, in any shape.

OXFORD. The two new serials by Messrs. Badger
and Aiken are announced elsewhere. We do not

ropose to re ubllsh Mr. Aiken‘s “ Mad Detective.“
His new seria is in the style of that fine story, but
of course wholly unlike it.

D. C. B. The discoloration probably will
away in time. Don't irritate or bother wit it.
That will only aggravate the trouble. There is no
paper of the kind you name. Forest and Stream is
the nearest approach to it.

WALTER B. Velvet Hand is not given in the
Twenty Cent Novels’ series. It may, after awhile,
be given in complete shape, seeing that the demand
for it in back numbers cannot be supplied. At
present, however, it cannot be had.

SERGE. For full particulars of Wedding Anni-
versaries, Language of Flowers, Code Signals of
Fan and Handkerchief, etc., see the Lovaa‘s CAs-
xE'r, in the Dime Series of Beadle and Adams. The
wedding anniversaries are known as the Paper—
Wooden—Tin—Crystal—Linen—Silver—Golden and
Diamond.

A. M. K. Beadle's Dime Novels are still a fea-
ture of the trade. Books of their merit do not
cease to be largely read. The new Hill -I)ime Li-
brari is very brig t, fresh and of star in merit.
Bea lo and Adams uhlish only the best t ings by
the best writers. hey never ubllsh a. “trashy '
or vicious book, nor ever wil . A book must be
both good and perfectly pure to bear their lin-
print.

COUNTRY-SEAT (2d). Times will improve—are
now improving—so do not get discouraged—We
should say by all means write freel to the gentle-
man. He may misconstrue your s lence. ——Do not
let the tyranny you suffer under repress our nat-
ural spirits and tastes. This tr ing to mo (1 people
to one pattern is ridiculous. n a quiet way per-
sist in being yourself.

“Haughty Miss Strong;” “Go ‘way,
Will try and

883

SENATOR’s San. Martin Van Buren was born at
Kinderhook, New York, December 5 1782. In 1821
he was elected to the United States Senate, and re-
elected in 1827. In 1828 he was Governor of New
York. In 1829 Secretary of State. In 1831 Minister
to England. In 1832 Vlce-President. In 1836 Presi-
dent. Braln large: so was Secretiveness. He died
July 24, 1862, aged 80.

READER. The harm in all kissing is in the man-
ner and motive. if you are engaged to the lady it
is a lover’s privilege to kiss, always doing it with
deference and gent eness. If the lady is averse to
such advances or repels the familiaritv, a gentle-
man is bound to respect her feelings. nly kiss, or
offer to so, when you are assured by her demeanor
and looks that she is not displeased.

J As. CRow, JR. No clam chowder can be success-
fully put to: other by a recipe. It is necessary to
"operate" under the su ervision of a good chow-
der-maker, since everyt ing introduced and the
mode of preparation must be “ just so " or you have
an unsavory or iiidirzestible mess. Seek any ood
restaurant where chowder is a specially and ta 9 a
lesson or two is our advice. Thank you for your
excellent opinion of the SAT: RnAY JOURNAL.

HELENA asks for a recipe for bleaching false hair.
—On one ounce of pure strong oxalic acid p ur one
pint of boiling water. In this liquid, while hot,
soak the hair. Care must be taken that not a drop
of the water gets on anything valuable, for it wlll eat
holes in any fabric. A paste of bisulphate of mag-
nesla and 1 me will bleach hair effectually and burn
your skin severel if it gets touched. Chlorines
and chlorides wil bleach hair. After the hair is
bleached it must be dyed to the required tint.

Mas. D. S. Sculpt is still the favorite style for
visiting-cards. so our husband‘s name, first
name in full and lnitl s, prefixed b Mm; as: Mr».
John A. J. Thurber. Get your car 5 marched, not

tinted or written. A plate and lift cards costs

ut $2.00 and every fifty cards therea ter 500. An
large stationer will attend to your order, and sen
it by mail or express. Monograms and initials are
stil used upon paper, but only upon very nice pa-
per. It is best to order the pa or where you order
your cards, send full name, an leave it to the sta—
tloner to decorate in the newest style—name, in-
itial or monogram.

SARAH and IDA ask: “ Is it perfectly allowable
for young ladies to write to young gentlemen
through a post-office at a fair? And should they
use the‘r own name?" It is perfectly allowable for
a lady to write to a gentleman with whom she is ac-
customed to corresponding; otherwise she should
exercise great discietion in writing. If she writes
at all it should be under her own name, and to
some one with whom she is friendly, and compara-
tively well acquainted, and she should put nothing
in the letter that she would be ashamed to have her
mother and all her young lady friends see.

CHARLIE W. S. writes: “What is meant by ‘Lo
grand moon ’ and by ‘Le jeu n‘m mu! par la chan-
delle?’ Who was the Ancient Mariner, and what did
he do? Is it a book of travels ?" “ Le grand (2min "
is French, and means, “The great work; the phl-
losopher’s stone." The second sentence is a French
proverb; freely translated it means, “The game is
not worth the candle ” or “ The object is not
worth the trouble."—'l‘he Ancient Mariner is the
title of a poem written by Coleridge, and is the
name of the hero of the book. He committed the
crime of shooting an albatross, a bird of good omen
to voyagers; for this he suffered terribly, and was
compelled to tell his story to every one he met,
that they might take warning and show love and
charity to all of God‘s creatures. At the last he is
pardoned because of his sincere repentance.

TiLLY asks: “ Are not Chloe and Phyllis just no-
gro names? DO you think Victoria is a retty
name? What does it mean, and has it other ormst
How many pieces of silver-board, silk and ribbon
go to make a- complete toilet—set, besides the cushion
and mats? I would like to know, to make a com-

lete, elegant set for a large, handsome room."
You are mistaken about the names Chloe and Phyl-
lis. They are both beautiful Greek names, the first
meaning a green herb, and the second a green
bough. Victoria is the feminine form of the boy‘s
name Victor; and both are Latin and signify ric-
tory. The French call it Victolre, the Italians Vit-
toria, and the Germans Victoria—Besides the
cushion and mats, make a handkerchief-box, a
glove-box, collar-hon cuff-box, hair in-basket.
watch-stand, card-rack letter-rack, “ crutch-my-
back " match-receiver burnt match-receiver, hair-
reclver, air castle, in silk~llned jewelry—case, and if
for a gentleman a shaving-case; w th as many
grettk y Emits as are needed to ornament bureau and

ran 0 s.

B. S. D. writes: “ I am a young man between
twenty-five and six years old, unmarried. At a
relative's house, where I often visit, I have become
acquainted with a married lady, about ten years
older than myself, who likes me ve much; and
whom I like very much. I often give or grin-rents,
occasionally escort her out, and we s on consld.
erable time in each other] society. an caress each
other when we meet. My friends make a great time
about it, and this relative who lives in the same
house intimates that she sides with m folks. But
do you think there is any harm in my Oiidness for
this lady as long as her husband makes no objec-
es, any man of ordinary intelligence, re—
finement and gentlemanllness must be disgusted
with a young fellow who acts as you confess to do
ing; and the husband probabl dos lees you and
his wife, althouah he is too we] -bre and proud to
make the matter a subject of public contention.
And the lady of the house may well desire such at-
tentions to cease, since they must injure her home,
and her Own social standing in the eyes of all who
become cognizant of the facts. Astor your “ folks,"
they probaby think as we do, that such attentions
to a man led woman will injure you mentally, mor-
ally and sociall . No res eotab a woman would al-
low such famil arlties. gentleman may admire
and esteem a married lady friend very much, and
enjoy ler society; but. when he makes a habit of
giving her ifts, caressing her, and paying her
other attont am, there is but one construction that
the world can put upon his behavior and hers; and
that construction is a horribly damaging- one to
hiiii, and a ruinous one to her.

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