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 HOUSEHOLD. « l^ li :."». ill {i *i deamng Home- The "time for the ^»g*"g of birds is haad," ud^^ongh the yoong man's fsMf may "ligWl^tam to thots tf loye,r Ae hoMBkewpw's ttni 'heaTi]y-«» the Msnse- deuiiufaBiltioiirl^ilile iMMbeiliB9;49e^- liiMw,is ^cle i»»ot taprlhoee«l9i9 netii •oggeiitiMs » to th» bestl9«eth«a ql pw] eeediiig 'W0k the Mceswy wsdt, tatr to those that, *^ • ki^^ too ^^11 Iiow how to make the home fresh and Jiealthf nl and sweet, but how to use np the little strength the^ have gained dnring the qoiet winter months. The first mle for house-cleaning is this ** Clean only one room at a time. Another excellent rme for the woman who has all of her work to do without hiring any help, is " Clean only Hie room in a week"â€" which, being interj^'eted is. Wait until washingand ironing are oat of the way, and de, on Wed- nesday or Thursday, the single room that can be restored to order before any more heavy work oomes to hand. A third rule to die honse-cleaaer is this Don't be too smart â€" " smart" being " Yankee "for am- bitious.. You may say, " I must have this cleaning done before hot weather," but in this latitude and further north, the months of May and June are the earliest months in which it is safe to dispense with fires upon damp floors, and open the house to the free winds of heaven. We know of homes where twice every year the destroyer of home comfort enters iu, and even rooms that have hardly been entered for three months, are devastated, and scrubbed from floor to ceiling, involving much unnecessary labor. A room that is properly swept from week to week, never needs cleaning but once a year, and unless the room contains a stove or fire of some kind, the carpet wiU not need to be shaken more than once in eighteen months or two years. This may be rank heresy according to the "Health" column, but the hard- working farmer's wife who has washing, ironing, sweeping, baking, sewing, dairy, poultry and children to care for, with no help to carry on her work, will have more health in Aer home if she clean only what is necessary, than if she strain every nerve to do what, after all, is very well as it is. Do not even clean on Monday afternoon, be- cause you "have the suds," for Monday's work is sufficient unto itself, unless one has time and strength to lighten the next day's labor by ironing a few plain pieces that do not need sprinkling. So, all good housewives, before you take down the cheerful base-burner, make your plans in comfort for your spring campaign, and when gentle breezes blow and the sun shines warm and bright, these two elements will not only assist your work, but help you physically, if you do not try to do more than your strength is equal to, even if the tempter Ambition chides or eneers at you for the slowness of your progress. It is the spring cleaning that makes so many fEirmers' wives unable to bear the " burden and heat •f the day" when the summer comes. Savatiie teftlMTM for vmIb tiiey win brii^ten a carpet wonderfully. Keqp an ril can fiUpd at luad lot nas. little xSL wfll often improye the ' a wringer, to remove th^.annoy' ol a jdooc at once. â- ' flbSMffW â- sMK wvSttae: FOOT iitt vMoM he ssi« again "NooBecoaMbs Like her to me. dakatOda The Dish Cloth. An excellent girl, that for three weeks only worked in our kitchen, surprised us one day with a request for new dish cloths. Formerly the queen regent of the kitchen had used the half -worn dish towels for the purpose, or the cloth flour bags that accum- ulated. But this vara avis demanded more. " I can keep two dish cloths a year," she declared, " but L want one for pote and kettles, and a nice one hemmed all around, and with ' D ' embroidered in the comer. " Why a D ' " inquired we, for her name was Mary, and our surprise dulled our per- ceptible faculties for the moment. " Why, for dish cloth, to be sure," was her answer. Cruel fate, in the shape of a brother, re- moved this treasure from our home, but her memory lives with us yet. A clean dish cloth, hung up to dry when the work is finished, is a sight by which a good worker may be known. Many women who are rapid about their housework, 'fail in this one particular, and while the dish cloth may be hung up when the work is done, it is by no means always clean. Ap- ropos of materials suitable for dish cloths, an exchange publishes the following, which is worthy of consideration " ' There is nothing bettor for dish cloths than old or cheap or part-worn canton flan- neL It makes a sensible dish cloth â€" wrings dry and wipes nicely.' " Don't do it. At least stop to think of it a moment, and you won't. Old canton flannel that has been worn next the body two or three seasons is not very nice for dish cloths, no matter how clean it is wash- ed. Don't you remember what Beecher said about wrapping butter in the tails of old shirts, when he was an agricultural edi- tor, more than forty years ago He said he wanted at least to know whose shirts he was eating. No, no. Get always new tow- els for your dish cloths and dish wipers. No matter how cheap and coarse they are, get thenL It's the only dainty way. Don't let any old shirt gussets or drawer legs come near the dishes off which you eat your food. Be particular about whose shirt you are eating. Original and Tested Becipes. Graham Floub Pudding. â€" 1 cupful of Graham flour, 1 cupful of sweet milk, 1 cup- ful of molasses, 1 cupful of chopped raisins, 1 teaspoonful of soda. Steam 3 hours. (John Muffins. â€" 1 cupful of wheat flour, 1 cupful of com meal, 1 teaspoonfnl of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of crean) of turtar sifted with tiie flour, 1^ cupfuls of milk, 1 egg, 1 table- spoonful of sugar, 1 tablespocnful of melted lard. J Flottb Gems.â€" 1 egg, 1 tablespoenfnl of sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, 1^ cupfuls of sweet milk, 3 teaspoonfuls of baung pow- der, 2^ cupfuls of flour. Beat well, have your gem iron hot and buttered. Pour in and bake quick. Chocolate Cakk. â€" cupful of batter, 1^ cupfuls of sugar, l| cupfuls of flour, i eupful of milk, 1 teaspoonful of powdei:, teaspoonful of sioda dissolved in a little mOk, i cake of chocolate grated in cupful of milk, cool and add to the cake. Flavor witii TaniUa. Molasses Cake. â€" 1 capfal of sugar, 1 capful butter and lard, mixed, 2 capfuls molasses, 1 teaspoonfal ginger, 1 teaspoonfol of nutmeg, 1 teaspoonfiu of cinnamon, tea- spoonfnl of dovee, a little salt, f cupfiil ci Strang ooffee and 2 eggs. Best all togetfier, add 4 enrols of floor, and after mitiiig wdl add i cap ol bmliag water, in wludi 1 tea- eapfd rf soda has been dissolved. If a few rauiaa, aoRaati and a tttUe vitnn an ad- ded. qpij^ it4Na^jiMj[ioAii (rqitiahke. stfndii^ IncwMngWi^iilSt pnk • tiaall pieetr f a red pepper into the pot. It will not Hily improve uie taste of the vegetable, bat jtfe- vent any harmful rendt in the eating there- oL .. A dsmp broom is often an excellent thing withwhiw to sweep a carpet after the firw dirt has been removed, but a wet broom a very bad me. If dirt and water mdke mod a loet broom will be the meanato i^read that compound wherever it travels. A few forms for use in hanging ap clothes may be purchased at any hardware store for five or ten cents, and will keep a ear- ment ^reeinitable a great deal longer Aan when it is hung upon a nail or hook. A man's clothes are almost ruined by hanging in folds, and these forms will preserve the shape of the shoulders and keep out wrink- les. Sonnet. QCSES TICTOKU'B JCBOiEB. What means this about of joy o'er all the earth ?â€" A nation's ttankfolness I a nation's praise 1 From whence the cause that give* eaoh joy its birth. And o'er the world each fjrreat commotion raise For fifty years our noble Queen hath stood The tryine ordeal of a nation's crown 1 Beloved by allâ€"" Victoria, the good," un Freedom smiledâ€" gave Slavery her frown I E'en through her lonely years of widowhood She held with dignity a nation's rein Was ever Queen so well beloved and good Did ever King such lasting homage gain Victoria I as Mother, Queen, or Wife, Th3n hast adorned thy patiiway all through life TonONTO. JOBN IHBIB. v.jJ: She never gpeat money, Was ever content ^^ r. To have a new bouiet ' Would never o^DSMit; Yet summer or win- er. gt aUai^. otjfmfm Would never â-  FVom dinrch away â- ..-':: His Susan Aoaaada Matiida'TaBe Waa never too eariy Was never too lata Her dinner was ready Ori aa ri i r t o w a tt i â€" "â€" 'â€" â€" utairi he never s h ould see again f^miyye yee^ Such peeileaa plea*- Poor Suaan Amanda Matilda Jane I Cenid lew on liia'bnScwa, /Dars, back-ttitoh, andheui, Badi button a'piiAuN, Karli rism waa a gem, A viaieB«Hiea«ty.- • paari without stain t .When she 1^ there HiawoeatoiihaMi Poor Buaan *~«i~i^ ii«tiH«. Juie I t In ailepoe ahe listens. Till eudden there lies An ember ^t gjjstana Deep down in her eyes. " To praiae her yet farther to me is vain No tmn," quoth she, "RtareUUkeme Poor Susan Amanda Matilda Jantf Mi l A Boftm QM'i AmbitiflB. Borton ftstiier (to newly graduated dan^tiar): ** I an jjiad Oat yonr mind haa taken.sadi • t«m lewmrd art, for yoa^kaow that ivre Daughter Father: '*1 have spared neither pafais nor ezpeosa in yonr education thoa far, bnt not- withstanding â-  ^« -* ^i whi^yoabeliev» meat for the career ^hich you are a bout to I makes him groan und call oadt ta/i? beginâ€" if-yoBcatt«y{gesl8pme other way of Jbat-aobody oomes to help him t reinj' your taste, please do so. Do you dot a big bear mit *â€" ' •" ' know w anything else " Daughter i " Yes, father." ' :3?atii«f ' " VFhat is it SjwiA out;' never misfltiiea^pense." Dauffhter " Well, father, Fd like to go this afternoon and s6e Prof essorSuSivBn thump tiiat yap from the country. " A BenasB fat GfaUdren Toe T to Church. «HIhadaleedleboy»W. oldt to fipmejind ait oaT^S and bet-^' hangs doWn his headt madder oriei all der troubles you nefer nut shij,' *i«e. mil A Last farewell to Charlie. BY ARCHIB HACK. In memory of those by-gone days, which were so bright and gay. And of those festive scenes of mirth, which never- more must dwell A treasured memory of the past, which looms now through the gray A ghost-like phantom of lost joy to all I bid fare- well. Of months a score have yet scarce passed since he did hold my hand. And gazed into my downcast face with darkly-speak- ing eyes. Of words but few he spake to me, yet I could under- stand "The passion true, too strong for words, to deep for tears that lies. And with my hand clasped close in his. With eyes that 'neath his glance* fell. As evening shades drew near, I said That first farewell, that strange farewell. That sad farewell to Charlie 1 I deemed him true. When rumours wild were whis- pered in my ear, I laughed in acorn' to think that I would list to such a tale. But day by day they grew in strength; ah, then a chill, chill fear Did gather o'er my trusting heart, did turn my young cheek pale I've learned, alas I the fatal truth, that youthful fancies wane. That lovers bend in worship sweet before the nearest shrine. I've learned that he who said farewell with eyes of passionate pain Has linked his hand, his heart, his Ufe, with other love than mine. Then once again, but once alone. Till sounds the latest, deepest knell That ends life's struggle, I will say A sad farewell, a long farewell, A last farewell to Charlie 1 Where Wilt Thou Stand? Matthtw, XXV. 31 to IS. BT L. A. MORKISON, TOKONTO. When the leaves of the Judgment-Book shall unfold. And the Earth with its myriad dead shall have roll'd To the Judgment-Bar. And the Archangel's word Shall have gathered the Nations before i^e Lord. When the Great White Judgment-Throne shall be set And the numberless children of EarUi are met To hear from His lips, what the Judge shall declare Is the perfect reward of the record there With thy life-work complete, be it illorieeU, Oh, Brother of mine la it Heaven or hell? When all that engaged us while under the sun. The thinking, and planning, and toiling is dene And the light from that Judgment-Throne shall re- veal From the leaves of the Book (which we kept), and seal That we are, what we are. from what we have been The impress on life of each action is seen. And the future to us forever must be. The present continued. How clearly to me The awful conviction^ I cannot dispel That, after that JudgmttU, 'tis Heaven or heU. His Second Wife. In silence she raises Her low drooping head To list while he praises The wife who is dead And ever he echoes the old refrain, " Oh 1 that was life With such a wife, Poor Susan Amanda Matilda Jane I" Bioh Toting Women. As to rich young women, there are numer- ous good catches in tha United States. Miss Elizabeth Garrett, the sister of the President of this Baltimore and Ohio rai'road is said to be wcn-th between $15,000,000 and $â- ^0,000,000, and she is both bright and business like. The three daughters of Francis A. Drexel, of Philadelphia, are worth 14,000,000^ and there is a millionaire girl in Tennessee named Maud St. Pierre who recently purchased 34.000 acres of coal lands, and who hetb enough business ability to manage her own fortune and a husband as well. One of the riohest young ladies in Washington is Miss Jennie Riggs, whose father, George W. Biggs, was a partner of W. W. Corcoran and there is a Miss Ber- nice Morrison in St. Louis, who, several years ago, was down on the tex list as being worth $964,990. Miss Clothilde Palms, the Detroit beauty whom Senator Jones in vain tried to woo, is said to be worth $2,500,000, and there is no w hardly a city'in the .United States which has not an heiress or two whose fortune runs high into the hundreds of thousands. Miss Benson, of Philadelphia, inherited $1,500 OUO from her father, who was a well-known Philadelphia banker, and Miss Helen Erben, another Philadelphia girl the daughter of a wealthy wool factor, is also worth $1,000,000. Miss Erben is' a fine horsewolnan. She drives a spanking pair of bay horses and often a tandem. The Drexel girls are also fond of horses and this is, in fact, their only dissipation. Each of these three four-mil- lionairesses has an Arabian steed which goes like the wind. They ride out from their country seat near Philadelphia as early as 6 o'clock in the morning, and they go galloping around the country until their cheeks, are Tike roses. They are said to be as well posted on horses as veterinary sur- geons and they sometimes, it is said, rub down their horses themselves after they come in from a long drive. Results Tell. The proof of the pudding is the eating, and the proof of the extraordinary power over pain of Poison's Nerviltne is in using it. Poison's Nerviline never fails to perform wonders in every. case of pain. It cannot fail, for it is composed of xowerful pain sub- duing remedies, it goes right to the bottom and pain is banished at once. Nerviline cures all kinds of pain, internal or external. (to to any drug store and get a 10 or 25 cent bottle, and be delighted by its promptitude in doing its work. "I have observed one peculiar charac- teristic amongst lunatics," sagely remarked a wag to one oi his friends, " They are all great economizers of time they no sooner go out of their mind than they immediately go in sane." A young married woman in Iowa goes out every moonlight night and takes long strolls with theghoetof a former lover, who " talks as naturally as he did on earth." Her bus-- band finds it impossible to become jealous of a thing he can't see so the posthumous love air makes no trouble. "How d'ye do. Brother Jones I hope you are going to give me your voto." "Very sorry, c(Uone1, out I have already promised, it to your rivaL" " Oh, never mmd thate In election times promising and keeping ars two different things, you know." " If that " so," said Jones, TU promise you my vote." All Things Come taHim THHiq Waits. Charley " My lunch to day only cost me seventy-five cents." His wife " That was cheap, dew what did you have " Charley " Bread and milk." His wife "Im't seventy-five cents a good deal for bread and milk " Charley " Oh, no. Twenty-five cents for the bread and milk and fifty cents to the waiter." At an Afternoon Tea- Mrs. Smith Grood afternoon, Mr. Rob- inson; excuse my left hand. Mr. R. (wJio is deaf aitd thinks she is al- luding to the bad weather): Yes, it is rather dirty A Question of Legs. If four h )und dogs, with sixteen legs, can catch twenty- nine rabbits, with eighty-seven legs, in forty-four minutes, how many legs must the same rabbits have to get away from eight hoimd dogs, with thirty-two legs, in seventeen minutes and a half ANSWER. Let the three-legged rabbits, like sensible folks. Borrow twenty-nine legs from their neighbors. Then give thm a start of a mite and a quarter. And I'll bet you my hat, if you think that I "oughter." That in seventeen minutes â€" add a half â€" if you pleaseâ€" A schoolgirl will giv; you the answer with ease. two leetle cnill ondt of her den in de hill unj -jj? • dot badt boy and says ' " ' Vhell, who you vhas '" **' vhas Peter Bad.' « Und how vhas it you come W.l " ' I vhas going to rob dot oldtTj ••'ChUdren, come here,' savs IS bear to her cubs, un' vhendey vk KmnnA lita' alia snvo c««- ' around her she says some more • 'II Kotes and Queries. We always know when Spring has come to stay. Not only is our mail crowded with love poems aspiring to meet the public gaze, but there are thonsands of vouchers attest- ing that the spirit of inquiry breaks forth at the same moment that the young man's fancy lightly turns te thoughts of love. Among the queries of the week we find the following 1. To what branch of the cattle king- dom does the Parad-ox belong 2. If, a woman becomes a widow by los' ing one husband, how many does she have to lose to become a widower 3. Should a runner wear rubber shoes because he's eraser 4. If as we recently remarked. Nature is indulging in athletics by having a back- ward Spring, will she continue them when Summer-sete in 5. Is the signature to a cheque a signe qua non 6. Are sugary remarks made from verb, sap 7. When a lady and gentleman are walk- ing should the lady walk inside the gentle- man or vice versa 8. In view of the editorial we employed on the New York World, is it proper to say " Mr. Pulitzer is a crank, or " Mr. Pulitzer are a crank " 9. Is Browning or Camera Obscura 10. Do Bostonians take Buddha on their Brown Bread There are no prizes offered, but the edi- tors of this journal will gladly receive and acknowledge answers to the above ques- tions, inasmuch as the learned gentleman who has charge of our Bureau of Imormation lost his mind before he could reply to these seekers after truth. A talented lady who lectured before a literaiy society, speaking of Job and his patience, remarked that all her sympathies went out to Mrs. Job, who had to make the poultices. Two A.lC.,*ABafiED' TO .CBS nOBEf^' OasXBOT THS lOK wliflt" ' " AOVAMCBa 'HntntOKHIS '}Bow;-smnnii*9)felT a TMV WXIR BK No. S^oaitts* T4CX?; nouui CHAina autaibs so tmrnaax. r for • forti [him thrl „he ^*" ^^ irontm ^d «» ' „,.batonj yon to know how it vhas. Dig ^^ tells some lies to hb mudder den ha some sweet-cake and shugar, 'likea«j he coes oudt mit some badtboys mi apples end peaches den he stteik money from his mudder. Pooty soo^' a robber, and haf some police looU,' him. If yon doan' believe some W vhill come to a badt end shust look W vhas shnst as true ash gospel dot der iL peoples doan' lif out half deir days. b| boy vhas goodt he doan' want to rob il body; he doan' come here und bre^ leg. My shildron, dis vhas a sadt th, to. you dot der vhay of der tranggressot hardt, un now fall to und we shtJl eiti oop, und pick his pones so clean whistle.' " ' Und der bears eat him oop '" "'Yes.' " • Und he vhas deadt ' " ' Yes.' " • Und his mudder und f adder nef er see him again. ' " ' Neafer again " " Und some tears came mit my leedli eyes, und he creeps a leedle closer to v und maype der seed sowd in his mindk dot leedle shtory takes a root petter dul der sermons he shall eafer hear in ahatck.'l How to Read- To read profitably means more tiuj read only the best books. It means toi the best way, and when a man of so i culture as Mr. John Morley tells how toi this we may give his words some attentiij In the C9urse of a recent lecture in Loidi Mr. Morley said I will not take up your time by eiplijl ing the various mechanical contrivance) J aids to successful study. They are not toi] despised by those who would extract t most from books. Many people thii^ knowledge as of money. They wonld 1 it, but cannot face the perseverance and a denial that go to the ticquLBition of it, J of money. The wise student will do moet q his reading with a pen in his hand. He « hot shrink from the useful toil of abstracts and summaries of what he ur ing. Some great menâ€" Gibbon was one! Daniel \Vebster waa smother, and the i Lord Strafford was a third â€" always befoi reading a book made a short, rough an^ysl of the questions which they expected t«\| answered in it, and the conditions ^»k made for their answer, and whither it woi^l take them. I have sometimes tried tkl studied and guarded attention, and I btvl never done so without advantage aDdll commend it to you. I need not tell ynl that I think that most books worth reai^l once are worth reading twice, and the iiikI terpieces of literature â€" and this is a renl important fact â€" are worth reading a thoul sand times. It is a great mistake to think,! because you have read a masterpiece once oil twice, or ten times, that you are done wi^l it. Because it is a masterpiece you ought to I live with it and make it a part of your I daily life. Another practice which I com I mend to you is that of keeping a commoiil place book and transcribing into it all ^1 IS striking and interesting and suggestive, I or that seems to lead anywhere. And if ym keep it wisely and well, as Locke has tangl us, you will put every entry under a be* division, and subdivision, vdiich is excellent 1 practice for concentrating your thoughts ot the passage and making you alive to ittl real point and significance. Social Facts. Human beings are not bom with eqi gifts and powers. Wherever there is an up- 1 per and middle, there must be an under. The weak must seek the wall and be the si from which the ambitious strong will y»idt towards the top. Nor can those appoin by nature for the pyramid's base serve ii I any other position. To press the wall » little as possible, get all the pay for service that it demands, and make the " best ot now and here" u the bound of their posa- bilities. Without a foundation there can be no saperstouctore, and the position is v truly honourable as any other, though uni- versal mankind have held it to be less desir able. If you wish to see a grass widow in closer, watch her when she grabs a rich widower by the arm. The Princess of Wales has had her dao^- ton taught the complete art of dress-makiBg. The Princess herself understands both it theory and practice, and this is one reason whyane is ahrays so perfectly dressed. " Young man," said an apostle solenoly " do you realize, when you retire at niehti thatybamay be called before the morning dpiwnsT" "Yes, sir," responded the yooBger man, "Irelize it fully. I'm the father of » HtM weeks old baby. " A Scotchman, having hired himself to » facmar, had a cheese set down before hiin l^t he might help himself. His master u^ toliim^ "Sandy, you take a long timew breakfast." "In truth, master," answerea he, " a cheese o' tlds size isna sae soon (»â-  «^«iB7e may tiiink. " Tbe rate oi mortality in London 1886 did notexoeed 19.9 per 1,000, and w" one exception â€" via., the preceding Tf*' ,Wh«n ft was only 19.7â€" was the lo^^ nowd.' In the 27 large provincialJ»*2 ' ^Vbi^4ak^f*B av«*»ged^21.8 per l.OWJ* ^oiiMbcimlT^llaBrighton, 18.2 ui P HaariS in Hall to 23l in Portsmontt a^ in livwpool, 86.S in Blackburn, »â- ' " IfaadimUr, and 28.9 in Preston. ' Some " " And wh« to do that and once i "Toun daring I how then tiirown to feated. I « You f thip besi yend my dnty to t cognise I must gejt â- gns." "Yon Isodore. heis, aft " miik ^jiUtmiisu^aaMibi """â- â€¢ ' -â-  .:.-:.-^.-..-^ ^,1^ â-  .... MBUHI