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THE PK1MA DONNA. CHAPTER V. It ii limply a piolon of boyhood , an. hippy, hepuy boyhood ; appearing uowand then in my perpetual night like eu atom of illuminated dam, at it d ieti in e ray of memory tint iteal* into ray darkened room. It il forgotten again, however, ai readily a* one fcrgeM tbe work of thi timid neophyte, treading tip-in the threshold of genre, when he turns to tbe lroai<r, dteper liaef, Ibe harper liichti and ihadoifi ol th* daring mMler. So, as I enur bn-, from day lo day. and aland in thi* K%lli-ry all my own, kaoK by ik careleu, i^ncirani, blanderinx hud. I for^'t the tint piataro, dear ai il U for itj very monotony of nealrali, in the deeper, darker, more defiant toochtx tbal draw ay thought! away to cringe and thud- der end rrnret. JMI beocath the itill life itndy there it a half linuhert dra*iiu', very loureetive of what meitar mibt have mtda of it had a Mter held tbe bruab ; bat tho boy wai 10 tall and alow of oomprfhrnilon that, even with tbe outline before bicn, be could not lay tbe oolor in. He wae like a leaf on the urfaoe of a aiream and waa ctrried by tbe current and borne by the bre/.i whitherio- ver they lilted, wilhoat a lingle motion of apportion or independent action. My father took me 10 ontirely into him- elf and oat of myself that, from the time that I pat on the new name and tbe new eloihre, I do not think I wai ono oonicioni el a linxle miiK>vin|{ oonoerning the mor row. Bomoient onto the day wai the pleainre of it, evnn ai imperfectly ae 1 cim- pnhanJed that. At flrit, we travelled, day after day, and life termed like the noge which MinaiaDK, nly. perbarH. not i|aite o real ae they. \Ve vieiK-d u'and an 1 beautiful oitiei and wonderf al palacee. We oroited broad riren by ooloeeal brtdgi. We were borne on teamen over great lakee inrroanded by Ugh bilU. We were amony giant moan- tains, btiide which the olill'i of the Rhine were hardly terraoee, where the mow lay (iaihiiK on the lofty peak*, though it wai IODH after midiammrr, and onward, jcward till, conetantly moving tbroogh wonderi heyonrt anvthin,: whiah tho fairy talei an 1 Ufjonde of the Uhine had ever imparted. I laid very little ai time went on, for, even then, 1 aeemed to feel 4iatinotly that my father wae better pleaerd when I wai ilently latiined. Batiifted I inrely wai, d aileoce to me wai natural. Thai, from the tint, I grew to have few opinlone of my own and never to prefer them. To wonder where we were H" n K woold have itemed to ate a feoliih lentiment ; to have oared wai qnelly atinrd. and to aik my father would have appeared to me, not only daring, hot moit nnreaiouable. When he choap, he imparted iaoh information ai he wiihed willi mt my <)aeationiDg, ami when he did not ohoote to impart the information I very eon dlioovered that, a<k iaoh qaeitioni at I would, I obtained only very kind and antic reiponeee utterly devoid of any utii- factory remit* 1'huf, notwithstanding the peculiar position whioh might naturally have tended to continual outboriti of tome art, I not on without them, to the belter aliif aotion of both uf ne, I think, and after I bad fathomed the myitery of the new dothee and learned how to let mjit-K into them, it did not again aeem to me that my father ever wae or ovor could have been a jtranger, or that, eo far aa I knew anytbioff of what that word might mean, the name f father wai at all inappropriate to expren the relationi between M. It wae not that I WM devoid of oarioiity e maoh ae that i|iioitione, wilhoat number, were oonitently bfing anewered by nature od art about me, giving me little time even to think of aiking more. Nor wai 1 at the nt without very deep and genuine thoajhte of gratilade to my father , bat the few eo eteavora whioh 1 made to eipme them very lamly diipleeteed him, and I Soon grew Into carefully avoiding any aoheipreiilona till, in time, I even (ergot to be gratef ! taking everything he nertalnly eeerued to wiih that I tboolii take it, ai a mmplr, an qneitlonahle mattr of oonrae. At l%el, the train moved Into a itatlon where my father announced that we had reached oar deitloatlon. I followed him from the compartment with no anniaal lentiment and hardly eo mooh ai that I had no name by whioh to call the plaoe, eioept tbe indefinite dietinotioo thai II wai where I wai to itady art till I oonld do better, and it wai long afterward before I fully appreciated how, through that in itial j nrni v, when I had thought him eo utterly indifferent, my falhor bad been in tenlly ilu lying me, probing me through and through, to dinoover tbe wlieet way by which he ihould lead me into life. Life ? What did I know about it, that I honld appreciate il or dieoovnr hii annety 7 Life wai to me like one of tbe old legend It itemed to me vurv plain and teal that my lady love bad offended me and I bad > jnii from her upon a great oroiade. When my father aboold tell me that I could not do better in art, I ihould know that I had conijatrrd, and then I ihould go hack to her in triimph and ibe ihould aik my par don, be forgivon, and we ahoald live happily ' . r after. I onuld not eee that any thiug alia wai deairable. If I Hacked a point whore neither the nor any etranger patiinx through Boppard could oriiioiee my picture*, I felt that Mine would be in honor bauad to reinstate me ia the poeition whiih I had I. HI. A private ocach with a ooaoliinan and i i. MI waited for us at the nation, and I bad lut partially recovered from the bewil- dormant of thii lorprtie when I fuand my- elf climbing marble itepi and entering vary grand apartmcnli, following my father into a -iniiniii iu drawing room, where he threw himaelf. with a ligb, upon a riobly ophoUtered divan, laying: Well, Anthony, at lait we are at home. I have been wondering bow it would pleaee you, for you know it ii ai much youri, lo do what yon will with, ai it 11 mine, and I hall feel that you are latiified jail io pro portion ei you make it ao. Now, what will you unl? What ii the lir.t thing that itrifcti yon to do? " " Learn to paint," I responded, without a moment'i facilitation. " Learn to paint ? " he repealed. Ii the ruling pauion omnipreeenl ' Will there not t>9 time enough lo morrow, An- thony 7 Think fora moment ; I am oorioue to know what you would wiihfor moet jail DOW." I almoil laid : " To eee Mine " ; but, checking myielf in time, replied : " Only to itndy, air." " Only to itudy ? Abaolulely nothing mere ? " he aiked. ' Nothing more bat what you wiih for me," I replied. " I have too maoh betide*, already." " Anthony," aaid be, after a moment'* paoee." you ilrike me ai being well, loin* lay peoaliar. If yon bad ever been brought up, I ihould lay that your training had :>ni-n txoellent. Now, I am eomawhat at a DM Tell mr, who bai been ohitlly re- iponiible for your aotioni T " ' No onn bat myilf," I replied, hanging my bead aod twinging my foot reelleady over tbe aoft rag, aehemed that I lacked *o otterly what all othrr boyi oould boaii. I'riaenlly, in hii moel deliberate tonet my father continued - " Then, ipeaking lo Iron a* the philoeopher who hai had in charge the lad before ni, I ruuil commend yon highly and oonfeta to yon that I have grown very n luctam to oinrp tbe leat of authority. Your joriedietion ii pregnant with good reinlti, and if you will appoint me your prime mmiiter, with the right to ogguil occasionally, for yonr ooonderation you know, I am penuaded that it would be Mttr for both of ni if you remain prao lioally the ezolniive matter of youraelf." Uodentanding very little of what he laid, I retreated onoe more to that old refuge in art, exclaiming : " You laid that yon would be my matter and teaoh me." Looking baok to day, from a poiltion 10 ar away ai now, it Ii eaiy enough to are that Mine waa really tbe reeponaible lainii for all that I wai whioh wai in any ray refined or gentle , for what, indeed, hoold I have Dtion at fourteen had It not Men for Mine T Where even would have in my apparent love for art bad it not >een for my apparent devotion for her ? At the time, however, I WM not in a mood to give undue credit to any influence for good whioh Mina might have had over me. I only taw in her influence, ao far, the fatal wr~ok M i tlic Lorelei. After another leouaar [aut my father continued : " I will willingly be your matter in art 10 org ai yon require me, and while I oan I will leaoh yon. At preaent, however, I aeem ;o feel a certain neoeeaity of being taught >y yon. Yon will pardon me, will yon not, Anthony, bnl a peoaliar oorioeity leadi me aik you, juit now, if you happen to know where you an ? " " I am in Italy," I replied, indifferently, 'or I wai becoming need to fail unintelli- gible philosophy and the oarioui iaterroge lioni with whioh bil lentenoee were irongbt to a oloee, and eeeiog but little of their real intent I aniwered them aa oare- eitly ai I inppoeed they were given. " Ah I " he laid, thoughtfully taming over the leavei of a book, "yon are quite n hi about it, ijulte right. You are in Italy. And have > on advanoed any farther n yonr uooitentatiooi invc eligatione ? Do you know, for ioitanoe, in what oity of Italy ? " ' In Florenoe, I loppoie, lir," I replied, aod naturally wondered at the frown which gathered over hie forehead. "Yon are quite right, Anthony," be re- plied, with no indication in hii voice of the Frown upon hii forehead. " Now I have no deeire to perplex you with queitioni, especially tinoe you have been 10 oonildir- ate, daring our ateooiation thni far, in not perplexing me, but there ii tome way by which yoo tnooeed in gathering informa- tion that ii of a thoroughly reliable nature, without any reversion to your tonga*, while with me, you eee, lacking that valuable aearet, If I want to know any- thing I have no way but to aik about it. Now I am very curioni to learn how it wai that you knew 10 well that thli wai Italy and Florenoe." How, indeed, did I know f It had never occurred to me until he aiked me. It had come to me In eorae way ; but being bound to reply to hii qaeition, I hit upon the right uf it all, rlonbtleti, when I laid : " Became." " That ii an excellent explanation in ill way, Anthony," my father remarked with ' a imila, " and I have no doubt that to yon it ii thoroughly lucid and comprehensible ; ' for four mind ii vidently ooMtrnoted ' up. m the vry wieatt of all fandlmenti I the good old Knglith plan, to keep what you ' get and got what you oan. Yon iee what I mian '.' You comprehend much more ' than you impart, which it one of the greatee! eeoreti of luooeai. Continue in that way, Anthoay, and your reetrvoir ol information will never lorpriae you and dleappoint your friendl by running dry Bat now, In direct contradiction to all thii aage advioe, I am about to aik you to open that valve a little for my benefit. Il ia io very peculiar lint I am puzzled beyond ezprewion. Did yon hear any one ay that thii wai Florence 7 " Ai oiual, be oloeed hii eentenoe with a few word* whioh I oould eaiily anderiland and to which I coold readily reply in the negative. "I fancied not," he laid, carulcnly ",1)01 poatibly yonr aw the name tome- where.'' " No. ir, it wa* not that," I replied. "I am not tare what it wai. At we oame in the coach alcng the river I law a bridge oovorud with ihopi and another wiih four marble itatoei, aod then we drove pal porch full of beautiful marble ttaluoi, with a oarioai iqaare palace oppotile and marble horn, and the great church with a moiaio bell lower and boantifnl doori al] covered with figure*, and I thought of th ongi that my molhar tang uf Floreno,., beautiful Flort<noe>, and I aeemed to kno 4 in my heart that it oonld not be anything elte." " Yonr mother 7 " be replied, riling and walking rapidly to tbe window. Yonr mother 7 Did you not tell me, Anthony, Ibat you oonld not remember her 7 " It luddenly occurred to me that he thought I bad been deceiving him aod that wai why ha frowned ; ao that, eager to ex tricate myaelf, I ezolaimed : I oannol remember her face, lir. That wai what you aiked me ; if I ihonld know it if I law her portrait anywhere; and I know that I ihonld not know ii, for I cannot remember anything at all of what ihe wai. Thii ii what I laid, lir, and I know that it ii true." I ipoke 10 earnestly that he turned a little from the window, and, in a voice Ibat wan anoiually gentle, replied : I did not doubt yon in the loait, my boy, believe me. It wai only that you germed to remember aomelbing of your mother, after all. What ii it 7 " I remember the longi ibe lang. for I have been linging them ever linee," I re- plied. Bat how do yoa think of her, Anthony 7" he aiked, ao abruptly that I, by what I oould not tell, re to think of her always by frightened ponded : I seer wbsl .' > Will, by whst 7 " "By what sbs WM nol, more than by what ibe was." And what, Anibony, wai ibe not," my fstber asked, turning from the window snd standing for a moment with hii gray eyes fattened aesrohiogly upon me. Bbe wai nol like anyone else, lir," I replied promptly enough ; for tbsl, at least, wai what I had said to myself hundreds of limes ai thi only image of my mother io my mind. When I looked at other mother*, when I law them, heard them peak, snd remembered that once, locg ago, I had a mother, too, I limply kcew o( aer that abe was not like them. My father crossed tbe room, lit a cigarette, and eank into an arm chair, re- [raatlog, but nol to me : No, ihe wai not like other women." Springing to my f-et, I exclaimed : Did yoa know her 7 Did yoa 7" " I know her in yoa, Anthony," hi re- plied quietly. I can tee what the wai in what TOO an. Yoa are not like other boy*, are yoa 7 That ii all. Now take your I and tell me a little more. Il ii very interfiling, unless il paini yoa. Tbe songs be isng, yoa *ey that they were in Italian 7 " Why, yes, air, I suppose so," I replied, after thinking for a moment, and discover- icg Ihst, after all, I had DO reaeon to be absolutely sun tbst they were in Italian. Yoa are not really obliged to lav ' lir' lo me, yoa know, Anthony," he replied, knocking tbe aihei from hii cigarette snd looking for s momsnt al the tpark of fire glowiog beneath them. " Yon oan say Fsther when il pleases yoa. Whatever ii most natural will be belt. I wai thinking that, on tbi Rhine, you told me yoa under tood no language but German." I did not inppoee thsl I did, sir, father I mean," I replied. " Only when I heard everyone * pee king words that wers so much lik' songs, I knew tbal they must be Italian, and I seemed to nnderitsnd something of what was said without know- Ing ths wordi." " Yoa are mon of a philosopher than I had laipeoled," my father observed, imll Ing s moment later, " and il ii very wise precaution that yoa have adopted, not to carry a complete catalogue of yourself upon yoa coat collar ; though many a *age hat averlooked the wisdom of il. Tbil bss been a rather peculiar and nol over oordial way of welcoming yon to your home, but if yon will bear wiih me a moment longer and lei me turn tbe talk a little more directly npon yourself, then we will bave done with all these disagreeable psrsonali- tise fonver. Our dinner will soon be ready for nt. snd with il ws will orosi the Rabicon. Thereafter yoa shall b yonr majesty yourself, and I your majesty s prims ministir ; tn that I matt pat all the }uettioni that I have to aik in the brief period tbal remains , the moit important ons ihonld take the lead, I suppose. Do j yoa not wish to sladv other thingi while yoa an itodying art 7 " ' Ol oonne I do, il yoa deiirs il, tir - father I mean," I replied. " ' Sir ' meets the point ot appropriate, neei in your mind a littlo mon emphati- cally, I fancy, Anthony. II would nol be wsll to forae inch a familiarity," my father said, again turning over the leavei of the book which he held. " DM that whioh seemi thi moit natural, and then if by -and. by it ii ea*ier for yoa to lay father, why, it will Indicate a diminution of the distance between 111. and for that It will be all the pleaianter. Hpontaniety ii the ion) of confidence. What I mean about yourself is this : you ran aftsr me beoaan I inti- mated that you could do belter if you itudled art. Now " Mlna laid ao, too," I interrupted him, forgetting mvaelf for a moment. Ah ! " HII lifted bil eyebrow* a little, " and Mina (an exqaiiite name by the way p i -i a very pretty faoe and a very goo* heart, too, it I remember." " Oh, the wai not Mar no pretty that day by the wall a* ihe WM aometimei," I Hammered, blnihiog and watching the flgnrei on the Fenian rag. " That day by thi wall 7 " he repeated " Anthony my dear boy, your mind is sooh a prof uiion of fact! that yoa lain me into one perpetual interrogation. I am sorry, but I am ignorant and ons mon mast ask, what wall 7 " Why, whsn I wai making my battle tome, cf course, ' I replied in attoniih ment. ' Yoa were not alone? " he aiked. "I have often thought aiooe then that il was rather rnde of me, speaking ai I did to yon under any oircomstenoei ; maoh more so wss it rnde btfore s litlle lady ; bat ths truth ii I wn io engroiied ia certain very good qualities in your work that I did not even notioe that you bad company at all." " Have you seen her some where else ? " I cried. " Do you know my Mina 7 " " 1 know her at you showed her to me," he replied. " Have yoa forgottoo tbt aketoh that yon made ? the Lorelei 7 You lol.l mi that that wai your Mine." I shuddered ai I thought that, even to my father, Hina and Lorelei were one but, still woudirir.t! that he ihould kuow a mnob and so truly, I could not be oon ot-ived thst be had not seen her, snd said, again " Yoa mail have known her to have seen how go j.l s heart she bad " One more he untied, and, looking in my fao*. said " Have, you forgotten that there wai no blue en my palette with which to paint yonr Mina'i eye*? and did yon never know, Anthony, that blue eyee and a good heart were inseparable 7 But never mind, dear boy," he added, noticing my confusion. Il it only on genenl principles thst I judge. She U s very lovely nrl. I am sore, snd while you are perfecting youroelf in art, to please her, she will be perfeoting herself in other thing* to fleets yoa perbspi. When yoa return to her, a great arliit, yoa may be turprited to find tbal the who ii waiting for >ou it a great and accomplished lady. Who knows 7 Of course yon an wishing her to bt proad of yon and, will ihe not be wiihing yoa to be ptxuiofber? Now there are many tningt betides srt in which s msn should perfect himself to be s man, and one mutt be pro fioient in many to be worthy of a woman'* admiration. What I mean 11, bow would you think of itndying from booki a little, at well, while yoa are itadying art 7 ' I should think whatever you wished me to," I replied, in tbe deepest sinoerily; for tbe root of my earli-st conviction* tank o deip that even ibii emphatic deolara lion failed to touch il. I did not gather tbe *lighi etl hint that the power to paint a pert eel picture wai nol all Ihst wsi neoessary gain my loel tupremacy ovir Mina, which formed the turn and tnbstanoe of what I understood by love. Thai, about the rest, I meant precisely what I said ; that I should think cooosrning it what- ever my fslher wiihed mo to. What I wiih is that yon ihonld do si you will," he said, " but, until we come to t little clearer oomprehirmcn of each other and of ourielve*. too, perhaps, and yon find some other t) stern would be better in the end, let us lest thii on*. Until yoa an Deyond me I will help yon in art for an Hour or ao every morning, and io the after- noon yoa ibsll have tutor* to put yoa up lo other tbingi in a gtn ral way, in tbe line of what the world at large calls educa- tion." Ths boiler, in an extravagant uniform appeared at the door announcing tbat dinner was waiting, and we crossed the Rubicon. Tbe half finished drawing in my gallery comprises tbat period ; one of absolute con- tentment, and, ID far at inrronndiogi and atsocistions are concerned, one of perfect liappioeM , but, as niual, it wsi alloyed by the uofortnnate fact that I did not appreoi ate it ; could not through my own ignor- ance and apathy, appropriate ill joy and pottibilities ; would not see anything jeyond the sufficiency for the day and left ibs morrow Iq take thought for Ihe things of itnlf. Thai for ten yean I lived, delving in ihe myiterie* of many books aided by ikillfnl initroolon, and in the myiteries of and in tbe greater myiteriet of the ;reat world under the marvelloni guidance >f my father, only to diioover how little I lad known at the beginning, only lo realize low maoh I had learned in the interim, never to apprehend bow litlle, how very ittle, I had accomplished, in tbe end, of all tbal still Isy before me, well within the each of my almost unlimited possibilities. How everything failed to impart Ibat atom ot common-sense that should oonuiot with the great misapprebaniion ol my life I oannot nnderitand. CHAPTER VI. TOO CM IK) BITTU. Perhaps il was only because tbe argu- ment wai *o timi le, so very simple, tbat it never seemed worth the trouble il would iske lo lay it thocghtfully before my mind n a frank demonstration, or, perhaps, it ' tbal the ruling panic n wai inch a 'iindamenlel fact of existence, thai I bought no more of arguing with myielf anon than of diioaning the statement that sunlight made the day and darkness mad* ihe night. The same old argument still itood by ms, in the ssme simple form : ihat there wai not a boy in Boppard who lad not exaelled me in everything bnt in art; in all, betides my picture!, I WM black, and yet my Deidsmona loved me. wai art, not I, that had won my Mina. It wai art, not I, that had loit her. It was art, nol I, thai must regain her. Whatever I as, ontilde ot art, I wai for my father upon ihe same principle with whioh I had tarted, Ihat I would do and be whatever BMmed most to plsaae him, withont a ihought of ill effect in any way on Mina. What I wai in art I WM all for Mina, never curbed or flattered by ill contention ith the world. Thai the ten yesri passed with little ot note, leaving only a lingering memory, ai the inn' lait oareii tarries among the trsissa ot twilight ; a toggeation of a -me thing that had not been apprr jialed until after it WM gone. The moit marked effect ot the ten yean, and perhaps the mo*l natural, waa that rny father became to me the one bright taoon and intranet live charm of life. Il fe. When he had left me under the Lorelei I knew that all ihe world w.i from me in his going, and now it wai imply nveraed. All the world, high and low. Mood by me In hi! may ing. Ulna had not been more potent in Boppard than my father in Florenoe So conscioui wae I of hie oontlant guardianship that 1 tally realized that in ten year* I had never taken a lingle itep which be had not previously resolved upon for me, end yet I knew with equal certainty that, from the trail matter to tbe greatest, I had invariably been left to follow the tlighteat dictates of my own inclinations with absolute and uncondi- tional independence. (To be eonUnnad.) MIL i. About lirr .k r..i. Breakfast ought to be made a very plea- sant meal, beginning the day, as it dote, after tbe family have b>en separated for the night. Yei in how mn> families is It the custom to <jod cff Ihe mailer of boose to hii daily louod of business an unsatisfied feeling after partaking OCA harriel, uncomfortable nval. ' ;mposj*ji mainly cf tbe remain* cf yesterday'* Ma> ner, warmed over in any way mott easv;1o the cook, witbcnt seasoning, and altogether unpalatable I am not finding fault with the materials for the breakfast, but wish the manner cf preparing and serving. By all m'ani UM ai breakfait what ii left from dinner of the day before, bat cock it carefully, state n it appetizingly, serve it prettily, and have it hot, smoking hot, not merely warm. Give your cook to onderttand that *he moil be down in tbe morning in lime lo got ready the hroak fast wiih as moch care M she bestows upos) the dinner. B down yco'Salf at the moment of di-hing it. to see to its b-ing irved temptingly. If summer, and your home is in the ornntry, bave always a few flower* on ihe breakfant lablr, no matter what yon do at other meeU Even a few daiiiti or clov.-r bl H.OTH, with the dew till on them, lend a greet tbat ii pleading. If winter, bave highly colored fruit, if pos- sible, inch ai orangei If yonr puree oan- not afford thi* sef e that, at leant, the eilver il chining, tbe nofiVe pot bright and thi table ha* an air of warmth and comfort. An aid to thii i* a red table cloth in winter, bat be inre that il ii clean and Do nol allow it to be left on the table tween meals, bat sabetitnte a rtifftienl for tbii purpose. Bottom Kudgtt. they die they Tbe Jew* of *ew York. For yean I bave known many people ot the Jewiih race in ihil cily. I have mingled with them in their qaarten, have visited their lynsgoguei, and bat recently eddreued a meeting at which over a thou- sand of them were present. In ancient times the Jews were a " peoaliar people," and they am so yet, writes John Swmton in tbe New York SHU. Their shrewdiMM and uiher like train are often spoken at; bat the Jew* whom I know oannol be de- eoribed by s few words ot thst kind. They are of an ir qniring disposition , their mind* are open to new ideas ; they are loven of knowledge ; they are juick of apprehension ; they genams in their friendships ; are upholders of freedom; they play at limes an exalted enthusiasm ; ire mutually helpful, and they their reputation for works ot charity. I know many of them whobsve given op tht Moesio faith, yet possets tbe deurabto train and virtues btre ipcken of. I know many who bold the moet radical opinions in politics, yet for whom reaeon ii thi guide of life. I know many of the Jewiah working people, and I feel bound to say that their aspirations are worthy of ths 'ace that built Jeraialem. The Jewish element has within a few yean become xiwerf al here si well si elsewhere in the United Blair* , and I believe it U an la- ment that will promote the welfare of the country. The Men to Blame. Ella Wheeler Wiloox laments the oondi- lion of her listen, but the blame* il on thi icn. She layi : " Unfortunately, mn want their sweethearts to bs brilliant and howy, and their wives to be domestic and iraotical The girl who understand! how io MW, cock, and nurse s aioh child, does) not attract single men, and the superficial Mile does not lalisfy her hniband after marriage. Henoe the prevalence of divorce, iber men moil btoome more seniibls >efon marriage, mon resigned afterward, or mothers moil begin to teaoh their daaghten in their cradles the neoeiiity ol combining the useful with the ornamental, ths practical with the entertaining qnal- lUs." Tom Cannon ba* issued a challenge to wrestle soy man in the world for tt,50O a ide. He n now in Glasgow, Sootland, but ill leavft soon to fill engagements in France, Germany, Russia and Austria. bad been wilhoat the IMS* atoniahnaent that I eoon diicovered that be itood at the lummit of hii profewton, with two or three oonfrerei acknowledged ai Ihe living artiiii of the world , but It WM not at all . For tril". it wit not beeaMe Tie was rich, to invariably kind, so fabulously indulgent, that he wai ot theosophio importance to mi. It wai limply thai he wai what he wai upon the Rhine, upon the journey, upon the Aroo ; a vital necessity of my A Chicago man figures out that he h*M paid hit landlord, a hotelkeeper, 160,000 n hard money for hii board and lodging. Bat at he bai, at 74, rosy cheeks, a dear complexion and bright eyei, he doe* not spine. AM KXFK.1I1VB LCXUBV. 1 Oh, iin't thi* llorloni weather I" aaid Hand. Un th* aofa, iguit* clone to hit aide ; ' Tbe mow It m perfect condition, 1 think for a I. ng. long, long ileigh ride." And poor littla Harrr aaid n?er s word, Bat h iiiwr-iu -r-l ,. i . w .r.. For " h bandli tho rlbboni" at five per week In a Kollon itreet dry goodi ttore. Every lover of poetry will regret to tear that tbe poet Wbiitler, who ii now is ;he 84th winter of his life, has laid aside in pen forever. The wife of tx Sheriff Flack, ct New fork, who lufftrsd so maoh from the 'raadalent divorce proceeding!, died yester- day from paralyeii. The World 1 ! Fair people talk of provid ng movable tidewalki through the build- ngs, to live viiitori the labor of walking around. Get a club ready for the man who will lell you, with a boldnesi born ot profound thought and deep refl-otion, that ibe baok bone ot ths winter ii broken. It U related that the queen of Romania, daring her sojourn in England, vitited a needle factory. While watching the work one of the men asked her tor a linglr hail frwtn her h*a3. TTis qaen Krantsd his K<iaeil, with a *mile. Thi man planed th* hair under the needle of bit machine, bored ' in il, drew a fine tilk thread throne* the bole and thin presented it to the aitonished queen.