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 "^â- ^,-?vT?S^^7^?Tn^!5'5 HUTTIE'S FATHER. BT OHABLOTTB M. TOyOE. CHAPTER XXVII.â€" (CoNTiNCED.) But the very sight of her old friend, and the knowledge that he was in the neighbour- bood, filled her heart with gladness, and â- eemed like a compensation for everything. Mr. Element was in a gracious mood, and leadily consented to see Mr. Datton â€" the iriend who had been so pleasant and helpful ftt Paris â€" and Nait-ie gave her privat-j in- structions to the footman to insure his admittance. His card was brought in just as the father and daughter were finishing luncheon, and he was received in Mr. Egremont's sitting- room, where the first civilities had hardly passed before the door was opened, and in irotied the golden-haired boy, so beautiful a child that it would have been impossible x'ot to lookat him with delight, even for those to whom his dark eyes and sweet smile did not recall those that had once been so dear. Mr. Egremont's voice took a fresh tone •' Ah here he comes the old-fello w " â€" and he held out his hands but the boy was in- tent on his own purpose. " Where's black doggie " he asked in a aQver-bell of a little voice, but lisping a good deal " Wyn got penny for him." " Wynnie mast be a good boy. Kiss papa first, and Mr. Datton," remonstrated the Slater and Alwyn obayed so far as to sub- mit to his fathet's embrace, and .hen raising those velvety eyes to the visitor's face he repeated " " Where black doggie. Wyn want to see him buy bun. " "There! your fame has preceded you," said Mr. Eijremont, " or rather your dog's." " You shall see him," said Mr. Datton, taking the pretty boy almost reverently on his knee, " hit he is at home now. I could not leave him out on the street, and I did not know if I might bring him in." " Oh, Mr. Datton as if Monsieur would sot be welcome," cried the Nuttie of old Mmes. "I only wish I had stipulated for him, dear old fellow." " Wyn want to see him," reiterated the sfaiM. "'Ifay I take him to see the perform- Anca " said Mr. Dutton. " I live only at the comer of Berkshire Road, and there's a dairy just oppssite where Monsieur has been allownid to keep up his accomplishment." Alwyn's lega, arma, and voise, were all excitement and entreaty and Mr. Egremont himself proposed that they should all come and witness the feat so^ Nuttie in great glei climbed the stairs with her little bro- th r to get ready and when she cams down tkim, found the gentlemen deep, not in Mark Epjremoat's umbrellas, but in the gas and smoke, grievances which had arisen since the lease of the house had been taken, and in which sympathy might be expected from a fellow-inhabitant of the district. Little Al wyn was, however, plainly the lord of the ascendant, and unused to see anything else attended to in his presenee. He took possession of Mr. Dutton's hand, and his tongue went f^st, nor did hia father or sister seem to desire any better music. They reached an old- walled garden. With lilac and laburnuin and horae cnestaut blos- soming above and showing a mass of green- ery through the iron railing that sur- mounted the low will on the street side, whtre Mr. Dutton halted and took out his key. " la this ycnra " exclaimed Nuttie, "I have so often wcnde.ed whose it could be." " Yea, it was a country-house whpn I was of the age of this little man, though you might not th-nk it." " The incre se of London had not been on taatside," ai i Mr. Egremont. " This must be a very Vi.lu ble property And Nattid pre :jivei that such an ia- iieritance made N:' Datton much mora in hia eyes than n cx-umbrella-monger but ao sooner was ihe 'ail iron gate opened than Monsieur, beauti ally shaved, with all his enrly tufta in per action, Cime bounding to meet hia master, "vnd Alwyn had his arms around the neck in a moment. Monsieur had in hia time been introduced to too many children not to understand the situation, and respond politely and he also recognised Ursula, and gave unmistakable proofs of 'being glad to see her. Then the half pent y *-as presented to him. Ha wagged his quet r tail, smiled with his intelligent brown eyes, toos it between his teeth, and trot ed acrcss che street in the most business-like way, the others following, kut detaining the boy from keeping too doee. They found the creature sitting up- right, tapping the floor with hb tail, the eentre of rapturous admiration to all the customers already in the dairy shop. He Teoeived his bun, and demurely dropping on his front legs, walked back witi it to his Blaster, and crossed the road with it uneaten, rather ♦â- o Alwya's disappointment; but Mr. Dutton said he would probably dispose of it in some hiding-place in the garden until his evening appetite came on. It was well he was a dog of moderation, for there was great temptation to repeat the entertainment more than was wholesome for him. " There, Wynnie," said Nuttie in a voice ef monition, " Monsieur doesn't eat all his goodies a; once, he keeps them for bedtime. It might be perceived that the over- snpply of sweets was a matter of anxiety to the elder sister. To the nurse, whe waited in readiness, Alwyn was consigned for his walk, while hia father and sister accepted Mr. Dutton's invitation to look round his domain. It would have been small in the country, but it waa ex tensive for the local- ity, and there was a perfect order and trim- neas about th^ shaven lawn, the little. foun- tain in the midst, the flower-beds gay with pansies, forget-me-nots, and other early beauties, and the freshly-rolled gravel paths, that inade Nuttie exola m " Ah 1 I should have known this for yours anywhere. 'I have not had much to do to it," he said. " My old aunts had it well kept up, even when they could only sea it from their win- dows. Their old gardener BtiU lives in the cot- tage behind the tool-house, though he is too ionrm for anythiag but being wheeled about in the sun in their Batb-chair." ' You keep a large amount lying idle by retaining it as it is," said Mr. Egremont " True, bat it is well to preserve an oasis here and there." Nuttie knew well that it was not for bim- self alone, and as they entered the little conservatory, and her eye fell on the row ef white hyacinths, the very scent carried her back to the old times, and her eyes grew SMSt while Mr. Datton was catting a dou- f net for her in accordance with well-known "I shall put them in my room. It wiU feel like home," she said, and then she saw that she bad said what her father did not like for he was always sensitive as to any reference in her early life. Mr. Datton, however, took this opportun- ity of saying that he had been backwards and forwards to Micklethwayte several times this spring. •' I hope you are well out of the concern there," said Mr. Egremont. '• Thank you, air I'have no share in it at present." " So much the better " "Bat I am very anxious about my friends." " Ah 1" But Mr. Egremont's attention was drawn off at the entrance of the house by a new-fashioned stove of which Mr. Dat- ton did the honours, conducting father and daughter into the drawing-room where ob- vious traces of the old lades remained, and thence into bis own sitting-room, smelling pleasantly of Russia leather, and recalling that into which Nuttie had been wont, be fore her schooldays, to climb by the windows and become entranced by the illustrations of a wonderful old edition of Telemaque, picked up at Paris. Mr. Dutton made them sit and rest, for this hid been a good deal of exercise for Mr. Egremont coffee was brought in, hav- ing been ordered on their arrival, and there- with Mr. Dutton entered on an exposition of the affairs of Greenleaf and Goodenough, which was listened to with a good deal of interest, though Nuttie could cot quite de- tect whether it were altogether friendly in- terests in Mark's mbfortunes, or if there were not a certain triumph in the young man having run into trouble by rejecting his offer. Mr. Datton explained that his present object was to induce the friends of the fam ily to prevent annoyance by preserving the furniture and personals at a valuation and Mr. Egremont readily agreed to contribute to doing this, though he said the sisters and stepmother were well able also to do their share. "And then to give the young people a freah start," added Mr. Dutton. " There are some men who- are always wanting fresh starts," said Mr. Egremont, "just as there are some vessels that are al- ways unlucky. And if you observe, it is just those men who are in the greatest haste to hang an expensive wife and family round their necks." " I don't think poor Annaple can be ac- cused of being expensive, papa," said Nut- tie. " Only think, when Wynnie has two nurses 'always after him,[her Willie has only the fraction of a little maid, who does aU sorts of work besides." " les, I never saw more resolute and cheerful exertion than Mrs. Mark Egre-- mont's," said Mr. Dutton. "She owes him something," said Mr. Egremont, "for she has been the ruin of him." " Of his worldly prospects in one sense," said Mr. Dutton quietly while Nuttie felt how much better and iviaer an answer it was than the indignant denial that trembled on her tongue. " There can be no doubt that they made a grievous mistake in their choice, and I unfortunately was concerned in lead- ing them into it but no one can see how they meet their troubles without great re- spect and admiration, and I am especially bound to seek for some new opening for them. I have little doubt that some office work;;|might be found (for him in London, but they are essentially country people, and it would be much better for them if he could have some agency. I suppose the situatiiu you offered him before, sir, is filled up " "Not really," cried Nuttie. We have only a .common sort of uneducited bailiff, who would be much better with some one over him. You said so, papa." " Did he request you tj apply to me "' Slid Mr. Egremont sharply, looking at Mr. Dutton. " Neither he nor she has the least idea of my intention I only thought, sir, you might be willing to consider how best to assist a nephew, who has certainly not been w anting either in induatry or economy, and who bears your name." " Well, I will think it over," said Mr. Egremont, rising to take leave. The carriage had been bidden to await them at the door for their daily drive, and as Mr. Egremont leant back with the furs disposed over him he observed "That's a man who knows how to take care of himself. I wonder where he gets hia coffee, I've not drunk any like it since I was at Nice." And Nuttie, though well knowing that Mr. Dutton's love of perfec- tion was not self-indulgence, was content to accept this as high approbation, and a good augury for Mark and Annaple. Indeed, with Mr. Dutton settled near^ and with the prospect of a daily walk from church with him, she felt such a complete content and trust as she had not known since she had been uprooted from Micklethwayte. CHAPTER XXVIIL A BEAVE HEABT. " One f arnace many times the good and bad may hold. Yet what oonsames the ch^ will only c!ean39 tne gold." â€"Archbishop Trench. Never was there a truer verse than that which tells us that in seeking duty we find pleasure by thc; way, and in seeking pleasure we meet pain. It might be varied to apply to our anticipations of enjoyment or the re- verse. Ursula had embraced her lob as a necessity, and found it enlivened by a good many stmshiny hours and when she looked upon Mr. Datcon's neighborhood as a con- tinu3Ll source of delight and satisfaction, she found that it gave rise to a continual cotirse of smiU disappointments. In the first place, he did not walk home from church with her every morning. She looked for him in vain, even when she knew he was in town. He only appeared there on Sundays, and at intervals when he had some especial reason for speaking to her. At first she thought he must have grown lazy or out of health to have thus dropped his old Micklethwayte habits, but after a time she discovered by accident that he fre- quented another church, open at astill earlier hour and a little farther off, and she was forced to come to the conclosion that he acted out of his characteristic precise scmpolosity which would not consider it as correct for her to w^ home every day with him. She chafed, and derided " the dear old man " a little in her own mind, then ended with a sigh. Was there any one who cared so mach about what was proper fwher? And, after alL was he really older than Mr. Clarence Fane, whom everybody in her fathar^s set called l/larenco or even Clare, and treated as thfl boy GHOOSIBO A HUSBAin). BT MAKION HASIABD. of the party, so that she.had taken it aa qnifee natural that he should be paired off with her. It was quite a diBcovery I There was another and more serious dis- i. aapointment. Mr. Egremont had not seem- As a rule, fathers are reluctant to have ed disinclined to consider the giving the their danghters marry. The mothOT who agency to Mark, and Nattie had b^iin so knows for herself what are the trials of a think with great satisfaction of May Con- i wife's lot, and upon whom the separation of damine's delight in welcoming him, and of the girl from home and family falls most the good inflaence that would be brought heavily, yields her up more cheerfully. The to bear on the dependents, when sad- j match-making mamma is a stale and stock denly there came a coolness. She joke with the misogjrniats, but who ever She could trace the moment, and was sure heard of a manoeuvring papa Yet the that it was when Gregorio became aware of astute provider in forecasting the future what was intended. He had reason to dread should see more distinctly than his spouse Mark aa an enemy, and was likely to wish the approach of the d«y when sheltering to keep him at a distance and it had been walls and arms will have fallen away from Ursula's great hope that an absolute promise the lonely spinster, leaving her the f A-lom- might have been given beforehe heard ot the est being aliveâ€" always and everywhere ex- plan but Mr. Egremont was always slow to â-  cepting a confirmed old bachelor, make up his mind, except when driven by a J In spite of foresight and worldly prud- sadden impulse, and had never acta sdly said; ence, the father of many daughters and nar- that the post would be offered to his nephew, j row means frowns and sighs at the sugges- Nuttie only detected the turn of the tide by tion of relief from the burden that may the want of cordiality, the hums and haws, ' come through the marriage of the girls, and by and by the resumption of the unkind They may be extravagant and undntiful, ironical tone when Mark and Annaple were but they are his, and he grows savage at the mentioned and at last, when she had been reading to him a letter from Mrs. Wil- liam Egremont full of anxiety for the young people, and yet of trust in his kind- ness to them, he exclaimed, "You've not been writing to her about this absurd pro- 1 her jealousy of the stranger who has robbed poaal " I her of the first place in her child's affections, and ^becomes the lyoung peoples' mediator thought of giving them into other men's keeping. There is no affectation in his un- willingness or savagery. So well establish- ed is the anomaly that it's the mother, in most " cases of the heart," who suppresses I have not mentioned any proposal at all. What do you mean " "Why, this ridiculous idea about the agency. As if I was going to put my affairs into the hands of a man who has made such a mull of his own." " But that was not Mark's fault, papa. He was junior, you know, and had no power over that Goodenough." " He ought, then I Never sail with an unlucky captain. No, no, Mark's honour- able lady would not let him take the agency when he might have had it, and I am not going to let them live upon me bow that they have nothing of their own." " Oh, papa, but you almost promised I" " Almost 1" be repeated with his ironi- cal tone " that's a word good deal of stretching. That is what yon and that umbrella fellow have made out of my sot giving him a direct re- fusal on the spot. He may meddle with Mark's affairs if he chooses, but not with mine." Nuttie had learnt a certain amount of wis- dom, and knew that to argue a point only made her father more determined, so she merely answered, " Very well " adding in a meek voice, "Their furniture, poor things!" " Oh, ay. Their umbrella friend is mak- ing a collection for them. Yes, I believe I said I would contribute." Hot blocd surged up within Nuttie at the contemptuous tone, and she bit her lip to keep down the answer, for she knew Mr. Datton intended* to call the next afternoon for her father's ultimatum before going down I to Micklethwayte, where the crisis was fast approaching, and she had so much faith in his powers that she dreaded to forestall him by an imprudent word. Alas, Gregorio must have been on bis guard, for, though Nattie was sure she heard her friend's ring I at the usual time, no entrance followed. She went up to put on her habit to ride with her father, and when she came down Mr. Egremont held out a card with the name " Philip Dutton," and the pencilled request below to be allowed to see Mr. Egremont later in the day. " He has been denied 1" exclaimed she in consternation. " Hein Before we go out, sit down and write a note for me." And he dictated â€" "Dear Sirâ€" I will not trouble you to with her irate lord. From the rtandpoint of the ordinary observer, the situation is so nearly phenomenal as to provoke specula- tion and questioning. The latter is met with vaguest evasions. The father ' 'd oeen' t want to lose his girl. There is time enough â€" she is only a baby yet. He is Willing and glad to take care of her. What does she want with a better home " And a dozen et ceteras that throw no more light on the true inwardness of the case. A little while ago I " interviewed " the father of one daughter, and she passing fair, on THIS VEXED AND VEXATIOUS POINT. He is a man who understands himself and capable of a knows how to say what he means, ao when "'â- 'his open brow darkened at a^ hint that his girl might not always be his alone, I pushed inquiry. It did not satisfy me to be told that he had a loaded revolver and bull- dog ready for any fellow who should dare ask for his darling that the best thing a man could do, and the worst thing a woman ever did, was to marry. Sensible citizens, even when fathers and fond, do not rave causelessly. Presently he steadied down into calm coherence. " It is becausa we know men â€" bow coarse in grain many of them are how selfishly inconsiderate are the best of them how dull of sensibility and slow of apprehension are all of us when compared with women â€" that we shudder to resign our tenderly- nurtured girls to them," he said, feelingly. " Men understand what I inean 1 And marriage is so terribly irrevocable I" " But you married 1" "Yes, and have b!en glad of it, on my own account, ever since. Had I known a woman's needa and nature then as I do now, her delicate sensibilities, her capacity for love and for suffering, I could never have had the presumption to offer her marriage with myself." The more refined the man's nature, the more strongly does he feel what this true hesband and nobleman of God's own making expressed. Yet, despite his testimony, the truth abides that the BEST EARTHLY HAPPINESS FOR WOMAN is found in a judicious marriage that, when her choice is wisely made, there are no pecu' call aga n this afternoon, as I have decided ' liar miseries in wedlock no thorns on which on reflection that there is no employment she would not step were she to remain celi- on my estate suited to my nephew, Mark ' bate. It is only through her failure to en- Egremont. t ter â€" as the church service puts it â€" " dis- " As I understand that you are raising a creetly" upon this ordinance of divine ap family subscription for rescuing hia furniture ' pointment that inevitable sorrow is incident from the creditors, I enclose a cheque for upon it. £50 for the purpose. â€" I remain â€" â€" ' ' 'Yours â€" ^what â€" papa "'asked Ursula, with a trembliog voice, full of tears. "Yours, etc., of course. Qaite Ln'timate enough for an ex-umbrella-monger. Here, give it to me, and I'll sign it while you fill up the cheque for me." That such should be the first letter that Nuttie ever addressed to Mr Dutton, since the round hand one in " which Miss Ursula wished Mr. Datton to have the onner of a tee with me on my birthday, and I am your effected little Nuttie " She hoped to explain and lament the next morning, after church. He would surely The first requisite in a husband is that he should appreciate the value of that which he hats won, and hinging directly upon this, that he shou'd make himself worthy to be mated with a true, noble woman. The mother cannot begin too early to impress upon her boy's mind the thought that purity in thought, word and person is as truly his duty as it is his sister's. There are, thank Heaven men with hearts and hands as clean as those of the saintliest woman men who scorn coarseness as loftily as they do dishonesty upon whose garments there is not so much as the smell of the fires of temp- tation through which they have passed. come to talk it over with her but he only Such a man's disdain of impurity carries returned a civil note with his receipt, and with it more weight than a woman's natural she did not seei him again before his aversion to what is common and unclean, departure. She was greatly vexed she It has the glorious dignity of St, Michael s had wanted so much to tell him how it was, triumph over the devil, and then came an inward consciousness that "fi hate that man I" once said to ine a she would probably have told him a great whiied and garnished sepulchre who called deal too much. j herrelf a " woman of the world." " He sets Was it that tiresome prudence of his himself up, in his quiet fashion, as a moral again that would think for her and prevent Gibraltar. I told him one of my best stories impulsive and indignant disclosures? It at a dinnerparty the other nightâ€" a story made her bring down her foot sharply on that was decidedly piquant and a little ca- the pavement with vexation as she suspect- viare-ish, you know. Everybody else was ed that he thought her so foolish, and then in paroxysms of laughter. He set his hand- again her heart warmed with the perception some face like a marble mask and wouldn't of self-denying care for her. She trusted see the point. Somehow he always puts me to that same prudence for no delusive hopes at such a disadvantage that I could murder having been given to Mark and his wife. j him sometimes I" She did so justly. Mr. Dutton had The wife of a vicious man cannot be happy thought the matter far too uncertain to be if she remain really virtuous. The wife of set before them. The Canoness's vague one who is foul in imagination, heedless and hopes had been the fruit of a bint impru- coarse in speech, must sink to his level or dently dropped by Nuttie herself in a letter, suffer acutely, slow martyrdom none the less She had said more to Miss Nugent, but Mary was a nonconductor. Mr Dutton's heart sank as be looked at the houses, and he had some thoughts of going to her firsi for intelligence, but Annaple had spied him, and ran out to the gate to welcome him. (to be CONTINUED.) my ears A Heroic Girl. Miss Claraâ€" Oh, Ethel, I had pierced to-day Miss Eti. elâ€" weren't you frightened Miss saying myseU, A Hopeful View. Old Mrs Bently.â€" Have you heerd how Mrs. Brown is gittin' on T cruel that is dumb and unsuspected. SECOND TO CLEANLINESS OF HEART AND LIFE, we may rate an equable, well managed tem- perâ€" a very different quality, let us observe, from amiability. A quick, generous temper goes ao often with intelligence and feeling, and slowness is so pervasive, that we have cause to distrust the powers of a man who never gets angry. The thoroughbred, traued to bit and harness, is more easily driven than the cold-blooded roadster is A jr „ â-  '**?' ^^^ *â-  "â- Â«Â«â-  »»i action. The sullen dreadfully embers of a phlegmatic man's anger ' smoulder long. He may not retaliate on the ,, „ «. --*â€" Iâ€" -, .-^.^tinguish' able. Instead of "answering back" he uswera not at all, but while he moses motely the fire bums. The old adage. Beware of the wrath of a patient man,' '^•'~« "» fuo wrata oi a panent man," is Old Mr. Benflyâ€" She wa8doia'vervw«ll ' Pâ„¢y»J»°* **»? enmity of an amiable, slow- and although o.^ U^r^S^^fflS, SSStu^^lv'LThr '^l^^ ^^* *°"»!f said he thought shrSiight live for some SS^^J^ *^®,*f?*^ of vengeance the time; but li^ week she kISdiiloS'wS ^S2'f oZb!T** " "^^ ""P developed in^o pneunonia. ^I *â„¢,"'8et« that he ever meant to run OldMnu BeStly (with pensive hopefol- £nwS! iliX J^°?,? "•*'J^ observant, «)-Ah, well, if she's oi^rKSr lttFh^i5.i.^r^ '^J'~^*'°* *^ ****'" le oan't have it vary bad. ^^ ^^ O^U^^ "^^ ^« ^•«*» "V •»« she flner natore taw. "wy- I*t our ^irl looktrit^^^^^ partner has hu temi»r ni*** Wd^ whatever may belSSift'^yut! or wiU not control it w «k«0 WiU not try to do it ^te^^ «uSt That truism should bT^ ' here Uluminated in brilli JI v*** « iWu npin the boudoir of'S;S^*J.^ti tatos matrimony. ThereT.^ ' *• "â- ^"^ed state tLisri"i?s, violent or a 8ulleB^!i'"*flYaH married of a much I that may aggravate bcS^S who cannot manage his teS «.» his tongue when he has onTll^^ Q not attempt the task when \tT^^n smoking jacket and rtippe„ """^^^ to J^ we STEADINESS QT PVb^^^ a definite object in life and the dii; suit of it, are essential to succe^l^*"" Wr- or place. Our girl cannot E " »?yV; servant of her lover's habits nfl "'?*• gagements and fulfilling oblLH P"^* stead ot tempting him. ti hefc ^• neglect of business claims, as i«^ **«â-º'» of some foolish virgins, she shoVu ""*« his strict attention to these Jl^^P'^^ may occasionally interfere v\tTv°^^ " sures When he gives as artoll^ escorting her to matinee or reo^?- ' he "cannot get away from tCS" leaving her earlier than iipn.i :. 7i" "'« besides kec mer __ â€" â- -"•6""'"*^' iromniecffi-."„:7' â-  »»*' *^ « »ood-naturea. won nu mcr leaving her earlier than usual in «,;â-  "'« â-  every o°?, *!°°„" -our whole house "u that he has a hard day's wo koMh?" i y»« rt'torspK cleaning. I kno^^ row and must hn in *,:.- ... j .â„¢ '•'« mot. â-  'j„«m" iviat tor spnus v row and must be in trim to Hn iT- "' """' should be honored,"rt°ceifV' naore pregnant lines were ever oenL i" those in which the lover decKf " " I could not love thee dpir „,. ., Loved I not honor mire"' '"• In her lever's st«rn fidelity to the right i» his heroic submission to the reatrictfoM S .duty, in what she so far forgets herJt! and then as to term "his obstinate £" to that detestable basinets 'â-  our iTr* guarantee of hia fealty to her m the davs«,5 the years to come. ' " THIS IS THE UNEOMANTIC SIDE of courtship, but in a country where there i. no privileged leisure class, business enern properly directed, is a prime factor inthi sum of wedded happiness. Wise commo. sense enjoins the necessity of care in t4 respect, and no woman need incur the bm picion of mercenary motives in mating bum that the man she thinks of marrying is like ly to support her decently. Rose leaves aai ambrosia command high prices in cur degen- erate days, however; cheap they mayh»ve been in the times of Strephon and Chloe, and the flowing^ muslins of Amaryllis mU be exchanged for the tailor-made cloth gowm and furs when the blizzwd is abroad in the land. It costs money to exist, and if the husband be incompetent to earn it beggary or slavish drudgery closes up the bride'i vista of life. Poverty thus entailed is of the sort that setting its hoof upon the cottage threshold, scares love from his perch in the window. Wedded bliss is not comestible, nor the rapture of reciprocal devotion mb- stantial aliment for the human body, as at present constituted. To compatibility of temper we might add sympathy of taste, community of interests) similar bias of intellect and spiritual desireal were it not that " Like likes unlike," might be accepted aa the rule of matrimonial se- lectien were we to judge by whit we see every dav. Love wanders and rests whith- ersoever it listeth, and at some miracles of congruous incongruity, referable to no laws known to parents and friends, we may well stand amazed and dumb. With the traditions of generations of wiseacres at her back, and the accumulated treasures of moraUaing well-wishers at her command, our girl must, in this most solemn issue of her mortal career, make or mar for herself. Upon her pretty, palpitating palm lies the millet-seed of possibility that may hold Prince Ahmed and hia atately pivilion, or may, when opened, choke her with bitter dust. The Post-OfBce Club- ' ' â-  The great storm interrupted our club meeting for a while. Moat of the memben had about all they could do at home shovel- ling snow and keeping the house warm. When the storm stopped we turned out and broke out some of the roads. Tne snow began to melt at once, and the roads are all the way from two to three feet deep wita mud. The gutters are piled up with snow, so that the water can't run away. So it settles in the middle of the road, which, as a result of our system of road making," generally the lowest part. Mud road. mud We have all we want, and a lot to spare. Our mud seems to be alive, it seems to crawl up your boots and cover yon all over. It seems like a sin to take a hoW out into it. Most farmers seem to thins it cheaper to walk than to take out a horse and then have to clean him on. The mud caste a gloom over the entu« neighborhood. Everybody seems mclmea to borrow trouble. " Terrible tiiiesfora funeral or sickness," they say. Kobody u sick, yet all the croakers imagine how dreaa f ul such a state would be. To show how po«^ erful the mud is, it may be said that U n»» nearly covered Uncle Jacob's P^^'/f.T' This is about all he can see in it i nai doubt dere is blenty off good bomts mic " mud, butdey vas moat offdem go mit strike shust now. Ve vaa fail to un^e""°' sometimes, shust vy ve vds calledOF vade mit der mud effery spring, /^^i^ jj myobinion. Effery man vas get sou der vinter. He vas eat shust as mncn he vas do much less vork. t-J°Begueno his stomach vaa run avay mit his °\°^-^jj. vich vas not der broper ting. It va ^^^ sary for dot muscle to catch up stomach pefore der hard vork ofl sn^^^^^. vas pegin. Conseguently 4tire ^^ vide egatra vork mit der shape cfi aer ^^ It vas harder vork to get around mit ,^^^^ der conseguence vas •1°*" j® _« v»sii» vas buUd up der muscle so dot ^\^^^^j_ goot draining for der summer voik But for der mud it vould dake us tij^^ middle off summer to get »ntovorB^ ^^^^ It vas shust like a brize fighters ao hard and praces up mit his^ "" ^eToolf he steps in mit der ring. Jsa en ^^^ at it mit dis light, ve vas fiid.^"" ^^ vas an exceUent ting-someting not do mitout. ' ^^^^j, ncA. U Comforts of a Borne. Landlady (to appUcant for ^f^goiot* WiU find, sir, we can give you the of a home. .._,«! ^?' AppUcant-Comforts of s ^^^^^j iit madam. I've jost sent ny '^«,B«ple'« â- iz months and closed my house «" r- beoaoBe I seed rest Talk Vith the Ladies, _--«iiff " A Fireside Talk with Aft^.?^d not resiat the temptatic tS'-rJStolk with the "lords'" Z« S-^^STrnedby experience that a 1 I'CSt goesl g«^ way with t •if-affpelrs. They won't ovm it, iroirf"'v./about that. Now, if w BS'^.'^nr honse-cleaning without aaly ^Itrosting what is going on, Wc l^*2l ti»csl unpleasant feelings •♦«** «t Bat that u not possible, ooeorrencw^ pogsibly not to every •^J^^osthousekeepersI believe it i /•**°l^ inthe city and countrv, »' fH^d without never bad over •«^*rt^family. so I wUl not preten ^. "Jh^ whose families number fou, t^^Ir^t dread house-cleaning, nor ^•*Z„v of my family do. tbtok ^y ll^l^ion " without their By. r» I do not mean literally the t *^f^!'imorance as to the fact the 1 •**°i!«.Xaned-of course that woulc •^ weffr each days labor-but^ "P^i «ot be unpleasantly reminded IjSvvoarbest to make everything pas '^Jnt" fluster and worry," and you ^^out """ ^ojk, bendes ' »«*'"ELf«?W-*tu"ed.' Don't in " ^ly, turn your '"»"i« '""'" *V«,»,nhadlour carpete up,andthe con W« four room, in a fifth, when her l?"wS brought home with a broke J one of the children came from sj S. next day with a breaking out *,Tto be measles. This child waJ iff in due time by the other two chi tt was mii-8ummer before she got !!;« straightened out. To be sure ;^"^nunusualcase.,butitorasinnla Tliable to occur m. any family. Si«peoted company that cornea fr. See. at such a time, would b „«nJ.p for von would not ask thf r;Cger thai civility required, to^ome to the actual thing Suppose we take the dming-room fir that cWpet usually needs cleaning o Sn any other in most houses. Don 15^. my ladies, how these "lords d Setoe huddled off into the kitchen ev. Tsingle meal, especially if that mea cold bite of " nothing extra good ' will begin, the day before you clear room, ^d spend all your extra time tho eettiig ready for the next day, you ^me off victorious. Be sure and something nice for dessert. Have meat on hand that is easily prepared cold meat; roast beef is little work t Bare and is always cocsiderea exeeiU m day's mcHK. If you do all your yourself, pare your potatoes the day and let them stand in water tiU yo them. Above all things d3 not woi hard and get tired out. This would b preparation. Sit down and read or nap after dinner, then clean out your closetâ€" shwld you have one m the ing-room, and I hope you have. ISe the top shelf and set the dtshes do spare corners below, if they do not washing. After you have cleaned th you can put them back and so contm tQ'tbe fioor is reached. It will sa^ much confusion if you do net ta'-.e thing out at once. Vou can tell in ih just which china goes en this shelf ci otherwise you will have to stop and When this is done, rest a few minute dust and wash the glass of your pi without taking down if possible. Th look well on the walls that evening, 8 lord will not notice anything peculiai die room. Wipe off all the bric-a-b your buffet ready to be taken out morrow. Now comes the most dHTicult task. awful tacks I Does it lie betweei doing it and asking my lord If i «an't you do it? If you cin, good fo Don't try to sit down in that uncomf way and take them all out at once, and walk around and it will be mucl to continue. Leave the corners all c my lord will not notice the tacks a Next put a cloth over your broo sweep down the cobwebs from the i yon might do this before you clea pictures. It does not matter much will need dusting again, after the ci put down, anyway. When my Ic down to his comfortable supper-t will be in blissful igrorance of ycu noon's work if you rightly choose soe of conversation remote from it. Mj fclways to appear happy, and alway « happy as I can. It works well, i one ever gained anything worth gai being cross or glum. Remember t lords, as well as ladi«fi " Now I hope yoH cam have a wi help you clean if you keep no serva; lord should expect his lady to clean •lone, that is, if it is a /»o«se, it's ic Work for any woman â€" we are not c ing hovels. When I have had ser\ a. eould do the cleeming I have often nsan for 20c. an hour to come and si ^rpets and put them down. This i: Mlp, for a man can, if he w ill, do it than a woman, being stronger, 'oom is in order sooner in const quei You must let the ordinary daily ' ~-tihe day you clean the dining rooi â- tttemoon, unless it be something tl »e done. With the beginning you ha the day before, you can have your i *^«rder at dinner time. If your loi ""•Wring man he will now remi •»eet and clean the 'puzzled Ym." he ^ed it this morning 2^«M aghast, ng d ith no rake ji -o-» «Miu anrpriae are undisguii â- you «"-- â€" « -s i â€"I- way room seems, ac if it has been *cs," he hears your sweet voice s •^wied it this morning " " Wh ^aina aghast, " the dining-room •jjd We eating dinner in it, and d toB»* ^r^ "y favorite Indian ^V Do I wake or am I dreaming u«ught and anrpriae are undisguii ?yjj» were real tired when you e 2,â„¢"»er. yon feel unaccountably J|^*ia Bure you will not need m; further. In regard to all t ^^B" yon can nae the same fore he victorious in like manner Z** y«M lord to remark at this (t rj;^ •eaaon: "Ug'h r I should •• honae cleaningâ€" boUed rice, "" cold oomed beef hair skewed What is Needed ttJ^^'y "iian and woman if they ;;^^ownfort in this world is a ci WtJ[r^**" Com Extractor she bSi?' ^^ ^y" *^«l without d ^1^^ Ahoodred imitetions p ,^«f Jrtnam'a Painless Corn E 8ae ^. always sore, safe and k»u2^^ ot POLSON k Co. 7^ «U by medicine dealers.