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/ ‘ its own peculiar beauties and privileges. The}: 30d of Things. " Mamms, why do you not use the lovely toilet set that‘hlrs. Eaton gave you for your dressing case at Christmas 3" “ Because my dear, it is so delightful to have something with its first freshness on it in reserve, to use when making ready for guests whom we delight to honor. " " But, mamma, if you will consent to use them every day and ‘ take the good of] them,’ as we say, I will promise to replace them when they have become soiled, or have lost their first ‘daintiness." The above conversation was repeated to me by the mother herself, who used the incident as a text on which to found a little sermon on the duty and beauty of living in the present. ” I feel quite competent," she said, “ to speak of this subject, because I have been so derelict myself. I can see now that I have always lived too much in the future. There has always been in my thoughts and plans an unforinulated, and for the most part, perhaps, unconscious reference to an indefinite ‘ sometime’ when our circum- stances would justify the use of my pre- cious bits of cut glass, choice china, finer linen, modish gowns, etc., every day, unhampered by the consciousness that they could not be replaced if broken or defaced. “But my daughter's appeal caused a startling ‘arrest of thought.‘ A voice seem- ed to say to me, ‘Here are you, fast near- ing that point in your life when you may well begin to listen for the soft dip of the silent ferryman’s cars as he apprOaches to convey you to the other shore. Your life is already lived. The future is too brief and uncertain to be counted upon, or to afford opportunity for much change. The memories of home and home life which yourchildren are to retain forever are al- ready fixed and unchangeable. And yet, even now, you are so absorbed in the comtemplation of some indefinite future or the pursuit of some desired acquisition, that the beauty and the duty of to-day are half forgotten or over-looked altogether.’ ‘ And then and there Iresolved to endeavor to redeem the remaining time. Henceforth I am determined to make each.day as it passes just as beautiful in every way as I possibly can.” Said another woman to me : “For many years I kept m most beautiful things laid away, to be ta on out and used only when company was expected. But one day there came a fire which destroyed in an hour all my cherished daintinesses. Oh i how I regretted then that they had not been used and enjoyed while they were in my posses- sion: and perished through use instead of being destroyed dy disaster." Do not these little incidents, homely though they are, suggest a prevailing fault in our American lifeâ€"the ever-present struggle for some future, perchance inde- finite, good ‘2 And how easy for this habit of life to crystallize into a deplorable and almost irremediable habit of mind. It be- comes at last well nigh impossible to make onc’s plans with simple reference to to-day, {it Household. ! i “Some time," we say, “I mean to check this busy, hurried life, and take time to read and study, take a little pleasure trip every year, perhaps oftener, and begin really to live.” Alas ! the futureâ€"that ever-alluring “some time”-â€"is a receding quantity. It is never reached. Like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow it allures, recedes, vanishes, and in infinite but hopeless regret the allured and disappointed soul wakes up "to find that opportunity, too, is gone. Artistic Darns. Nothing keeps flannels and stockings and other underwear looking so well as darn- ing and mending and preparing material that matches perfectly. A hole seems almost preferable to a gray stocking darned with blue, or black undershirt bound with red, or a brown patch where there should be a black one. Buttons, all kinds of mending threads, in cotton, linen, silk and wool, bindings in taffeta, ribbons and even webbing by the yard are to be bought at most reasonable prices for making old things as good as new, and for keeping the new in perfect condition. It also seems to be an economy in the same direction to buy the same makes and colors in fiannels and hose from season to season, so that one may have material to reinforce weak places without buying it. Keep Children Busy. Children should be furnished with em- ployment, which is sometimes difficult to provide. What We call a natural love of mischief is often nothing more than activi- ty. Children are restless for employmch They must have something to do, and if they are not so furnished they will do mis- chief. Do not blame them ; it is their n1ture,and should be encouraged rather thin checked. In furnishiiiglittle employmenis vou can form the habits and cultivate the iastes. What is begun should be finished. Care should be taken with whatever is done, and neatness should be encouraged. Useful Recipes. Kuchen.â€"-Take a bowl and ‘reak into it one egg, § cup of lard, fi cup sour cream and 3 tablespoonfuls sugar : mix. Now take a lump of ybur bread doughâ€"when it is ready for making into loavesâ€"the size of one loaf, pour the mixture upon it and mix thoroughly with your hand ; mix until it is perfectly smooth, then let it rise. When light,roll out to about twice the thickness of a pie crust and line your pie-plates with it. When you have as many plates as you want, roll the rest into sheets about. an inch thick and put into a ; let it rise while you prepare the lling as follows: Fill the ics with fruit ; grapesâ€"one layer, not too c useâ€"are nice, or apples. pared, cored and sliced and laid upon it in one layer, are good, but peaches sliced upon it are best. Now pour over the contents of the pies kuchenâ€"one egg for each two kuchen mixed with about one cup of sweet cream. Use sugar to taste and flavor the apples to suit yourself. Bake until they are a nice brown over the top. The thick kucheu are to be covered with a little butter and sprinkle well with sugar and a little cinna- mon. These will be the German cofi‘ee kuchen. Get some German to pronounce knchen for you. Bread.â€"Scald one cup of milk, turn it into a bowl, and one teaspoonful of sugar, salt and shortening; stir until the salt and sugar are dissolved and the butter melted, then add one cup of water. Dissolve a half a yeast cake in a half a cup of lukewarm water, and when the milk in the bowl is lukewarm add the yeast and sufiiciént flour (about three and half cups) to make a batter, which will pour thickly from a spoon; beat until the batter is light and smooth and full of bubbles. This should be done at night, and the batter should stand in a room of about 65 degrees until morning ; it should then be light and cov- ered with bubbles on top. Add enough flour to make a soft dough, and knead, using as little flour as possible, until the dough does not stick to the hands. and is soft and velvety to the touch. Let it rise again until it is double its bulk. \Vhen the dough is light enough it should come away from the bowl without sticking. Moid as quickly and as lightly as possible, without kneading again, into loaves. Put in greased bread tins, individual ones preferr- ed, and let rise again until light. It should rise about thirty minutes this last time; then bake in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes. Whole Wheat Bread.â€"-Scald one cup of milk ; turn into a bowl ; add one teaspoon- ful of butter, one teaspoonful ofsugar, one of salt and one cup of water ; when luke- warm, add one-half of an yeast cake, which has been dissolved in a half cup of lukewarm water. Stir in three cups of whole wheat flour, and beat until light and smooth. Let rise over night. In the morning, whenlight, add two or three cups of flour or enough to make a soft dough. Knead well and be careful not to add too much flour in the kneading. White flour can be used for the kneading, if de- sired. Let the dough rise until it doubles its bulk. Shape it into loaves, put it into a greased bread tin, let rise again and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. ______.â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" Some Reverses of Fortune. A Yorkshire vicar in London last month paid his ’bus fare to ’one who only ten years ago was the squire of an East Riding vil- lage. The last time they had met the squire sat in the square pew of his village church, the walls of which held many tablets to the memory of his ancestors. He, their des- cendant, through mortgages and reduced rents, had to gain his daily bread by hail- ing foot-passengers and inviting them to ride to the “Angel.” Many examples of the vicissitudes of Yorkshire families might be given. Thus the ladies of a family who were in a position frequently to entertain the Duke of Clarence so recently as when he was quartered at York have been ap- plicants for situations as governesses. A man who was the titular owner of most of the land in another village called on the churchwardens (who were his nominal ten- ants) and asked if they could give him an order for stoves for warming the church, as he was making his living by selling them. Anorher gentleman in position, moving in the society of nobleman, may now be seen in the uniform of a porter at astation in his native county. Bravely havo these people faced their positions, and, instead of doin that which a century back would have een considered the only thing possible, viz., sponging on their relatives, they have nobly resolved to do their best in reduced circumstances. _â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" They Will Run After the Men. “ Women cannot leave the men alone,” says a writer. “ That war-cry of theirs, ‘ \Vhatever a man can do a woman can,’ is pregnant with meaning of which they themselves appearto be unconscious. \Vhat- ever a man does they doâ€"chiefiy because a man is doing it. If a man did not do it, they would not do it either. They crowd the risky entertainments because the men are there. They read and write the sug- gestive books because their first and fore- most theme is invariably the relations of the sexes. They play masculine games merely because they are masculine. I would venture on something of the nature of a prophetic utterance. It is this. If every man were to leave oli‘ playing golf. to- morrow, there would not be a female golf- player left in England in a month. Heaven knows that there are a good many of them just now 1 Where the men lead the women follow. The ‘ dear creature,’ as the old time ' bucks’ used to have it, always did run after the men; it seems that just now they are running after them a little harder than ever they did. That, from the social point of view, is the Alpha and Omega of the cry of the ‘ independent‘ women; that is not seldom the meaning of ‘ women’s rights.’ It is the right of a woman not to be far away from a man." ' Cynical. An assault case, in which a husband was accused of beating his wife, was cn trial in a certain court. A friend of the family had been, summoned, much a ainst his will, to testify as to the blows. a was asked by the prosecutor : " You saw these blows administered 2" “ I did.” ” And did you see the very beginning of the usrrel between them 1" “ did.” “ When was it 3” “ Five years ago.” “ Five years ago ! sible 3" " l was a guest at their wedding 1” How was that pos- WDMEN MEN DIE FUR. AMAZING BEAUTY THAT INSPIRES A FATAL PASSION. 1t Plcues n Woman's “unity to Have a lien Die for Love or “or, and l‘sually She is Very l'nworiliy ofSuch Devoiion â€"Burope's Illustrious Victims. Men kill themselves for women every day. The woman that is usually at the bottom sometimes comes to the surface, some- times not. To have a man-die for oneâ€"whether with pistol or by his own hand or at the hand of another, or through lingering illness, or through the complete sacrifice of his life and prospectsâ€"is an experience that wom- en of acertain nature thrive upon. It , means that a woman has been loved madly, loved more than life. It has been said that the women men die for are not worth it. That depends. Gen orally speaking the whole thing is the re- sult of an unbalanced brain and a disorder- ed body, and the actual woman bears little relative importance to the chimera in the man’s racked mind. He wculd in nine cases out of ten take his own life anyway in sheer desperation and weakness, and a woman merely acts as the motive for the revolver’s aim. From the latest development of suicide for a woman’s sakeâ€"back to the earliest one in history, there is all along very much the same coloring. In immediate recall, two beautiful wo- men that men have died for are the Count- ass Vecsera ' and Madeleine Bonnemain. For the first a crown prince gave his life ; for the second, General Boulanger. In fact, their lives were but a small part of the sacrifice. Careers, thrones, position family, all went in the overthrow. The Vecsera was a marvellous creature. She was an Austrian of exquisite face and form, heartless, passionate, unhappy. Mme. Bonnemaiu was even more perfect physically, and had besides the disposition of an angel. She shared Boulanger’s exile with him and died in Brussels of acute pneumonia. Three months later he shot himself on her grave and Was buried beside her. “Madeleine! Comment ai-je pu vivre des semaines sans toi l” (“Magdalen, how could I live weeks without thee 2") is en- graved on his tombstone. Theatric ending to a theatric life! But the story will be long cherished by sentii rental womenâ€"of the type who make a pilgrimage to his grave. Mademoiselle Vacaresco, though not beautiful, was a most fascinating girl. She was the protege of Carmen Sylva. Her lover did not die for her, but married some other woman. Yet he was ready to give up his prospects for her, and would have done so had not his judicious relatives interfered. The girl painter, Marie Bashkirtsefi', inspired an adoration among men where- ever she went. She is supposed to have published her life in her celebrated diary. but many of her conquests were not even hinted at. It Was well known among her set in Paris than Bastien Le Page’s death was hastened and his sufferings augmented through his passion for herâ€"a love she was not able to return. It has been hinted that his death had a curious effect upon her and that she in turn a few months later died for him. Mrs. Crawford was the name of the celebrated peach-skinned beauty for whom Sir Charles Dilke gave up party leadership and a premiership. And all for what? Fora momentary gust, for a physical dis- order that seemed bred in his very bones. Several men have killed themselves for the favors of the Reine des Blanchisseuses in Paris. She is a dainty little French woman, a mother, and as virtuous a woman as she is an efiicient laundress. Witty and vivacious, she is heartless as far as adorers are concerned, and a man who recently drowned himself for her in the Seine had not even been rewarded by one of her dimpled smiles. Mrs. Deacon, it was said by the latter’s friend, led M. Abeille to his death with a gay carelessness. I'heir infatuation seemed mutual and was the talk of the Continent. M. Abeille’s funeral in Paris was follow- ed by thousands. All France loves a lover â€" no matter what other facts may obtrude. Mademoiselle Chassaing, the former actress of the Comique, is stilla magnet of madness for men. A noted Parisian turfman shot himself for this fascinating woman in her younger daysâ€"the days when she held Paris with her eyes. Mademoiselle Neustretter has come into a lustrous prominence within the past few months. A young nobleman whose life she once wrecked, because helplessly demented and his death in some quiet retreat occur- red not many years ago. A recent French writer on suicide says: “ Men as a rule kill themselves for women who are not worth the trouble. With rare exceptions, nobody suicides on account of a decent woman, almost never on account of his own wife. “ For true love, that complete. lofty and exclusive sentiment, that love which is neither born of desire, ambition, libertinism or a diseased craving for intellectua amusement, but which is the moblest, sub- limest and most strengtheningof allfeelings, has no vile magic about it to inspire a man with any hunger and thirst for death. “ And is not this, independent of the sin against all laws human and divine which are involved in the act, proof enough that such a suicide is unquestionably the result of a cerebral disorder, an access of sudden madness which the man cannot hear up under for a single instant 2" The emotional writing of the time has something to do with suicidal mania. Jean Jacques Rousseau in the last century is said to have instigated men and women to suicide by the dozens. Digging about the roots of emotion, refining sensations, exaggerating passion and sentimentality, exciting the imagina- tion, pushing romanticism to its extreme limitsâ€"all this ends in falling into un- healthy conditions that provoke lassitude, disenchantment, disgust with life, termina- ting quite naturally in thoughts of suicide. These tho: ghis are certainly contagious. One person inclined to suicide is apt to ' influence another in the same direction es- pecially if their temperaments have run together. Britisn and Foreign. I Troeclimbing novelty at the London Zoological Gardens. j Glasgow shipping firms have decided to . make a consrderable reduction in freight- ;X well-known man not long ago, a fre. Tfi‘GSW India 80 BS to compete \Vlth the quenter of the inner circles of the Four Hundred in a certain city, in defiance of his principle, habits and training conceived the idea that he must suicide through hav- ing. lived for several years with a woman who had that find idea in her head. The man had actually contracted the idea from the woman and would doubtless have de- stroyed himself had she not died suddenly herself, and the man was saved. _._â€"_.â€"â€"â€"â€" HERE AND THERE. A. Few Readable Items That Will be Pound of Interest to Everybody. Umbrellas in Corea are .made of oiled paper. new line from Manchester, via the ship canal. Mrs. Osmer, widow of the paymaster of the Erebns,_who died recently in England at the age or 85, Was the last survivor of the women widowed by the loss of Sir John Franklin’s Arctic expedition. General Mercier, French minister of war, has promulgated a new series of regulations to more effectually prevent the examina- tion of French fortifications by unauthoriz- ed persons. The Municipality of Limassol, in Cyprus, has memorialized the British secretary of war to revoke the decision to remove the garrison. If such removal takes place they ‘declare the place will be wired. \Vorkmen excavating on the site of street ChicaSO 1155 W70 hundred and seven improvements at Dover, England, struck millionaires. upon something solid which proved to be a The strength of two horses equals that of cofiin cut out of chalk and effectually seal- fifteen men. Yellow rubbers are now on sale, for use over yellow shoes. Ornithologists have discovered sixty-five species of humming-birds. Eighteen venturesome tourists lost their lives in the Alps this season. Au ostrich can kick with the force of a mule, and it always kicks forward. I ed. In it a human skeleton was found. Capt. Homfrey, late of the Eleventh Hussars, had fought in the War of the re- bellion and under Garibaldi, and had been wounded in battle six times, to be finally knocked down the other day by a butcher's cart on \Vestminster Bridge, and killed. The only distinctive “’elsh colonial en‘ terprise has turned out far from successful Patagonia, according to recent travelers, is It has been demonstrated that porcelain by no means ,1 land of promise, and me is better than gold for filling teeth. settlers have great difficulty in making I The natives of equatorial Africa have it ends meet. system of telegraphing by drum-beats. Pupils who use tobacco in the public Several districts in Ireland have request- ed the government to send some unbiased schools of France are promptly dismissed. person to investigate the distress arising The hummingâ€"bird of Mexico lays an egg that is not much larger than a pin’s head. Milo Davis, of Grandy, Neb., recently f won 1,000 head of cattle by two throws of the dice. Physicians declare that the most nutri- tious article of diet is butter, and that bacon comes next. A hand-car which is propelled by a sail is used on the London, Dover and Chatham Railroad. Birds that fly by night have, as a rule, eyes nearly double the size of those that fly only in the day-time. The marriage ceremony of a Javanese bride is not complete until she washes the feet of the bridegroom. Black cats are considered mascots around theatres. Managers think they bring good luck and full houses. Li Hung Chang deplores the lack of rail- roads in China. It is very natural that he should long to make tracks. A raw egg, first well beaten, and then added to a cup of hot coffee, makes a pal- ‘atable and strengthening beverage. A paper weight used by the Prince of Wales is said to lie the mummified hand of one of the daughters of Pharaoh. Snuff-dipping is a common practice among the residents of Dover, N. H. Last year five tons of snnfi‘ were used there. Vultures cannot discover a carcass by the sense of smell. They rely entirely upon their sight when in quest of food. An old Greek law prevonted the husband of a divorced woman from marrying r. woman younger than the discarded wife. The dying wish of a Philadelphia lady, whose will is now the subject of legal con- test, was that she should be buried in her sealskin sacque. No woman has ever entered the monas- tery of St. Honorat, which is located on an island near Cannes, France. The monastery \was established 1400 years ago. The costliest fur is that of the sea-otter. A single skin of this animal, sold last year in London, brought the enormous sum of $1,100. It was six feet long by two feet wide. . A blacksmith in Norwich, Conn, found it difficult to shoe a refractory horse, and ohloroformed him. Then the job was read- ily done. A few days later the horse suc- cumbed to lockjaw, and died. An open countenance of unusual dimen- sions was possessed by a devil-fish recently caught in the Gulf of Mexico, about forty miles from Brownsville, Texas. Its mouth had a lateral spread of over five feet. Hammerfest,Norway, the most northerly town in the world, has a climate so mild that its great bay is never frozen. Chris- tiania, which is one thousand miles to the south of Hammerfest,is ice-bound in win- tor. Emil Jarrow, aged eighteen, is a strong boy. He worked on a. farm in-"Illinois. With one hand he can lift a 200-pound man ina chair, and can write his name on the wall with a forty-two pound dumb-bell hanging from his wrist. In a certain malarious district in Mis- souri only one family, comprising seven persons. escaped malaria. They had a hearth fire every evening, and it is inferred from the failure of the potato crop. It is feared that destitution and disease will prevail unless employment is provided or those whose sole support was the potato. It is not expected that an expedition will be sent this year against the Abors, a hill tribe in Assam, who have been threat- ening trouble to the Indian government. The Abors are quiet but defiant. Having been requested to deliver up their arms they must- come and take them. A new military post on the English Channel is to be established by the French Government at I’ort-en-bessin, in the department of Calvados, midway between Cherbourg and Havre. The place already has a small harbor, entered by a gap in the cliffs. The entrance will be enlarged, and will be connected with basins capable of accommodating the large ironclads. Clergymeu who have stopped at Mr. Gladstone’ a hotel and library at Hawarden express themselves as delighted not only with arrangements made for their comfort and their work. but also with the personal kindness of the grand old man himself. He takes the warmest interest in students who go there for rest and reading. A number of Scottish artists, mostly of the Glasgow school, recently sent forty-six pictures to an international exhibition in Munich, the capital of Bavaria. Twenty- six of the convases have already found purchasers, which is regarded as a striking proof of continental appreciation of the work of the younger and less conventional of Scottish painters. In acknowledging receipt of a resolution passed by the Manchester Chamber of Corn- merce urging a policy of international bimetallisrn, Lord Salisbury writes : “The subject is one of supreme importance to the empire as well as to the large industrial communities in Lancashire. The thorough discussion which it has received cannot fail to be very valuable.” At a recent special muster parade of the Royal Scots Greys the commanding officer read an order to the efi'ect that Queen Victoria had conferred on the Czar the position of colonel-in-chief of the regiment. When present at the review held by the Queen in August Nicholas expressed great admiration for the Greys, who are said to receive his appointment with every mark of approval. A story comes from Tunis that four Europeans are living with the Tuarcgs,and that they are Col. Flisters and three of his companions, who wore supposed to have been massacred in 1881. The author of the report is Djebari, an Algerian military interpreter,who was sent to Central Soudau last year by the French Government, and positively asserts that he saw the men. One of the best rivate schools in Paris, the Ecole Monge, has just been bought by the Government for a million dollars. The school was established by private individ- uals in competition with the State lycecs, and held its own in scholarship in the pub- lic examination, its mathematical and scientific training being especially good. It was in financial dililculties, however, and must have closed had not the State inicr- vencd. ' lobcrt Buchanan, who failed for- Jim 1) not long ago, has just been discharged by the bankruptcy court on condition that lic that this acted as a preventive,by removing pay half of all he earns above 34.5.)“ a wax. the dampness from the internal atmosphere. toward satisfying his creditors, till {he The money to run the lunatic asylum in l shall have recovered 37 cents on the dollar. Alicante, Spain, became exhausted, and His lawyer tried to free him from lllt.‘ oi. the authorities were dilatory about supply- ligation. but the Judge held that an author ing more. The manager took twenty-three of the lunatics oil" on a concert tour, vast audiences greeted them, and the mad people had lots of fun. A porter in a New York dry-goods house was in the habit of ibringing cheese sand- wiches with him for lunch. A woggish boy substituted generous slices of brown soap for the cheese, and for three days the porter ate soap sandwxches before he dis- covered the trick. There are extant twenty-two orna- mental china cups out of which, it is said, Napoleon took his last drink of tea at Saint Helena. One of them was recently sold at auction in Paris, and the mark upon it showed that it was made in 1840â€"- nineieen years after Napoleon died. Her Difficulty. Miss Fosdickâ€"“ What is that you are working on, Blanche? ' Miss Keedickâ€"" It's a Christmas present who had earned $7,500 a year by his writ- ings might be expected to continue to (in so, and should do something for his crediâ€" tors. The British House of Lords was recently occupied with a somewhat curious appeal. It was whether the ow icr of an adjoining estate had power, without consent of his neighboring proprietor, to cut down such branches as overhung his property. The judges in the lower court could not agree and, on the case being taken to the court of appeal, it was thought the man whose property the trees overhung had a right to abate the nuisance. This view was also taken by the House of Lords. In the trials for elector frauds at Toulouse it has been shown that the French have little to learn about stuffing ballot boxes, voting under false names, and altering th returns. One candidate, who for yen", in succession has been counted out, procured a. list of registered voters from the prefecture after the last election and sent to each for Harry. and, 0, Marie, I'm in such address acircular letter of thanks. Alter trouble." “ What are you troubled about ’3 “ Iâ€"Iâ€"l don’t know what to call it." u some days [0,000 circulars were returned I to him by the Post Office, marked “Eefi,” “dead,” or “unknown.” a kangaroos are the latest ~ .....~...- a..- .......M- ... .-M.-n . .â€" ...â€"...__.__._._.__..._......