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 1,1 ?2^5 'f m" â-  A l-' mi *â-  • '""a i r 19 HOUSEHOLD. Cookeij for CUuldien. Too littk attention is pud to the food prepared for cfaildxen; the cf^niad amnce- ment ia left to aerTaats who are either u- competent thmuelTca, or care so little about the matter as to cook it in the manner they fiad the easiest to thenuelTes. It is rf sreat conseqnence to fix the times of taking food as well as to res^lar the quantity given to a child. The mother should, unless she has servants who can be thoroughly trusted, personally attend to these arrangements it is her province. There is great danger that an infant under 3 years of age will be overfed if it be left to the discretion of the nurse. These persons, generally, to stop the screaming of a child, whether it proceed from pain or crossness, or repletion (as it often does), give it something to eat â€" often that which is very injurious, to tempt the appetite if it will only eat and stop crying they do not care for the future inconvenience which this habit of indulgence may bring on the child and its motner. Arrange as early as possible the regular times of giving food to children, according to their age and constitution. Young infants require food every two hours when awake; after 3 months old they may go three hours, then cautiously lengthen the time, as the child can bear it. But remember that all temperaments are not alike. Some of the same age may require more food than others. One rule, however, will apply to all â€" never give food to amuse a child or keep it quiet when it is not hungry, or to reward it for being good. You may as rationally hope to extinguish a fire by pouring on oil as to cure peevish temper or to curb a violrait one by hampering the appetite for luxuries in diet. Vacation. Don't begrudge boys their vacation. Let them enjoy it to the utmost. Let them hie to .ihe wood and the streams and the lakes, and leave behind them the dirt and smoke and constant worry of business life. Don't laugh. The business life i not theirs yet, but the signs and sights of it are all around them, and a few more months or years and each of these merry lads will have to stand in the thick of the fray and battle for the goal he has set his. heart on. But jusu now that school has closed, let him have all the air and light; he can get, and freedom from restraint save necessary and wholesome ones. Let him climb trees and grub in the ground. Let him swim, and fisli, and run, and walk, and play in sunlight and shadow, till his skin gets brown as a berry and he sighs for rest again. Don't keep the boy in the city. Vacation on the spot where all has been work so long would not have the necessary charm. The boy may not quite appreciate in its highest sense what such a vacation is to him now, but in after life he will look back and realize the real value of this summer revelry and when manhood with its responsibilities and stern necessities shuts down on the pastimes of boyhood, he will feel that he is the gainer in life-long happiness by as much as. these vacation months have been allowed to in solid pleasure. He will do more. He will rec- ognize what an important influence .they have had in making up the sum of life's pleasures, and helpinghim to meet its pains., and will thank God for them. A Woman Mender. Frances E. Willard, too well known to need introduction or commentary, proposes a new occupation for woman, that of a wo- man mender. By this it is not intended to convey a "mender of woman," but a woman mender of all clothes that need mending. How it would rejoice the heart of many a mother who has to cook, and wash, and iron, and see in a thousand and one different ways to the material comfort of her family, if she could find herself exempt from this one thing, uninteresting, everlasting, all- necessary tail-end to the list of her manifold occupations Woman, as Miss Willard states, wants bread as much as the ballot, and whenever she has obtained one of these she has taken one step towards the posses- sion of the other. Herein the woman mender is an occupation that thousands of woman could easily and lightly take up â€" money making when left without training for any more difficult trade or position. Every woman can sew on buttons, mend hose, darn breeches and the like. Such work is quickly done and no mother would find it expensive to pay for, while the mender would find out quickly that all her time would be in demand as soon as it was known that she would do the work, and would ag- gregate a good living to her. Miss Willard proposes Co start such an enterprise in her own town. Let others do the same, and it will be found to be a double-edged benefit to many. Practical Beceipts. Fried Crackers. â€" Soak square soda crackers well in mUk and fry them quickly a nice brown in a little butter. Cream Cake. â€" One cup sugar, one cup sour cream, two eggs, two cups flour, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream of tar- tar. Cheap Cake. â€" One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sour cream, one egg, flour enough to make a good batter, one- half teaspoon soda. Graham Gems. â€" One quart buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, Graham flour enough to make a stiff batter, bake in gem pans hot and well greased, in a hot oven. Potato Cakes.â€" Peel twelve good sized potatoes, grate fine, add two eggs, teaq6on- ful of salt, one cup of flour, and enough milk to make a batter bake on.gridiue irons, well greased. Catsup. â€" ^To a gallon of ripe tcteatbes, put four tablespoons fine salt, four df groond black pepper, three of ground mustard, half tablespoon allspice, same of groond cloves, six red peppers ground fine sim- mer the whole slowly with a pint of vine- gar three or four hours, tiien strain through a sieve, bottle and cork tight. Fig Pudding. â€" One pound of sugar, one pound of bread crumbs, six eggs, the juice of four lemons, the rinda of two lemons, grated fine, all mixed together thoroughly, and boiled five hours in a tightly-covered tin mould. Fig pudding must be served hot, with a sauce made of one-half cup of white sugar, one-half cap of butter undone cupful of sherry wine, boiled tpsrether for tm minutes. Apple Custabd.â€" ^Make a symp of a pound of white sugar to a pint of water, let thia b(^ remoying aoy acnm that may ariae. Drop into it a dosan or more tart apples pared, cored and quartered flavor with â- tick (dnnamon, extract (rf lemoiv. or tiig jnice of a fresh lemon. Let it ovSt'vim. the apple ia very aof t, and the aymp ^ick and j^y-fike, thali pot H^Mray to ooolia a yaVtf form or a howL When it is oeld and firm, ton it oat into a diah, and poor oT«r it a soft costard. This makes a palatable dessert at a tea dia^ â€" *iaâ€" 'f As It Will Be One Hundred Tears Eenoe. Miss Araminta Fitzgigga to James Angus- toa De Brown, at an aerial picnic party one hundred miles from the city. Time, mid- night. â€" " Dearest Aornstua, will yoo let me see yon home '" He (aside)â€"" I shouldn't wonder if she'd propose to-night." (Aloud, baahfolly)â€" " I do not know. My ma's here. Perhaps she will expect me to go with her." She^" Oh, no I I just saw your ma's driver arrive with her new aerometer, so that she will drive home, while we will wing it on the soft, lambent air, and I've some- thing sweet to tell you, love." He â€" " Oh 1 Araminta, you're a flirt but for this time I yield," They fly away. She â€" " No by Heaven I'm true, James Augustus. (Putting her arm affectionately about his waist.) 1 have long wished to say something to you that concerns my whole life. Dearest, will you be my husband I can support you in luxury my business is prosperous I have money in bank I own a house, and can cherish and protect you. I love you, my darling, and will make you a good wife. Say ' Yea ' and make me happy I" He â€" "Araminta, you do not think of what yon aay. You cannot consider what it will take to support a husband like me, educated as I have been by my ma in the most expen- sive tastes and habits." She â€" " Do not say 'No,' dearest. I will work for you. I will do anything â€" even to going on the stage. Only say that you will have me." Heâ€" "No no Araminta yon know not what you ask. I will be a brother to you. I wUl be your guardian angel. I will always be ready to accompany you to the opera or theatre. I will always come to you for money or advice but I cannot marry you " She â€" " You must you shall If you re- fuse me I will haunt you all your life, for to-morrow my cold corpse shall be found in the bay and on my person a letter telling that you have deceived me and left me hopeless." He â€" "Are you in earnest, darling I (Aside) â€" ^I'd better close on her. Maybe I can't do better, and I'm getting passe. (Aloud) â€" Take me then, dearest Araminta I am yours forever " He falls into her arms. She embraces and kisses him, and they arrive at his mother's door. LIHTJING FEEAKS. Lightning struck the Lyon county (Kan- sas) Court House, tore the gas meter from its place, ignited the gas, and set the build- ing afire. A negro lad in Atlanta was so frightened by a thunderbolt which struck a tree against which he was leaning that he became a hope- less maniac. Lightning made splinters of the foremast of the schooner Alfred H. Hemp of Albany while the Captain and crew stood upon her decks, yet not a man was injured. James Carmichiel of Spring Hill mines, Ont., was standing on the porch of his house with two friends, when lightning instantly killed him, while neither of his friends re- ceived the slightest injury. Lightning peeled the bark from a tree in Bich woods township, and, cutting it into six-inch pieces, drove them into the weather boarding of a house several feet away, so that the whole front was decorated. Lightning entered the residence of G. S. Meachaftn at Fruitland park, Fla., and meandered around the premises until, meet- ing an umbrella leaning against the wall, it ripped out the ribs and made a bonfire of the cover. It then left the door. The points ot the cultivator with which Frank Strait of Cornins;. was ploughing were melted by lightning and Strait was killed. The only mark on his body was a dark blue spot on the side of his neck. His shoes and stockings were torn to shreds. Two visitors at Marshfield, Wis., live to tell a wonderful story of lightning. One of them was struck upon the shoulder, the cur- rent passing down his leg and througb the soul of his shoe, making a clean-cut round hole in the leather and entering the floor. The other was likewise struck on the shoul- der, and the fluid passed out through his slippers, making six clear-cut holes through the toe of each of them. Where the House-Fly Breeds. But few know the origin of the house-fly. The eggs, mere whitish specks to the un- aided eye, are laid in little agglutinated piles in warm manure or in decomposing vegetation, especially that about our sta- bles and barn-yards. From 80 to 100 are laid at a time and probably at three or four different intervals by the same fly, though oh this point we have no exact data. Within twenty -four hours, in summer, they hateh into footless maggots, which, after rooting in filth till their tender skina aeem ready to burst, become full-fed in less than a week, and descending into the earth or sheltering under an old board, contract to brown shining objects, rounded at hoth ends and tecl^cally known as pruraria. Within the darkness of his hardened skin changes rapidly take place flie insect paaaes through the pupa te the perfect atatoand fiqally, in about five daya, the anterior end of the snpariam ia poahed off, and the fly foiokly. crawled Out At firat its parte are pale and soft and its wings are crumpled and useless, bot those soon expand and suddenly, without practice or teachii^, the new fledged fly winsa its way to our tables to mock our diapwasore.and to shue our resist. "What's the matter, John?" Why dat nigger dat lib down in Pearl street hit me on de mouf wid his fiat" "^eU, didn't yon atrike him back, Johnf' "ITo, a^. but I did strike him head 1" The man who haa raiaed a cabbage head has lione more good than all the meitaphyai- ciana in the worH," obserred PrtrfeiKV Brohaon. "Then," observed Profeaaor Jonea, "yoor mother ought to have the premiam." JIEI A5D WOMEV. It is said that Sarah Bernhardt invested the balk of the money made last season in American real astate. Frederick Dooglaaa will retom from En- rape in September, and the colored people of Waahington are making arrangements to give him a rousing reception. Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria, brother of tho Empress of Austria, doring a recent brief stay at Meran, made no less than 220 successful operations at the Eye Infirmary of that town. George M. Bartholomew, the Hartford default^-, has apartments in a private resi- dence at MontreaL His wife is with him. Canadian air agrees with Bartholomew, and he is in better health and qpirits than for years past. Some of Mb victims are still very much depressed. The fine park on Dofferin Lake, Canada, in which Mr. Erastus Wiman, the Hon. Benjamin Batter worth and other conspicuous men and thousands of the rank and file of the Canadian population held the big Com- mercial Union picnic, is henceforth to be known as Wiman park. It is an interesting fact that both Stagg, the famous Yale pitcher, and Caldwell, stroke of the winning 'Varsity crew, will de- vote their lives to the ministry. Their in- fluence as clergymen will be all the greater from their success as athletes. On her way from Balmoral to Windsor to attend the Jubilee, Queen Victoria was stop- ped by a swarm of bees. It was ^t night. The bees had swarmed in the glasi ox of a signal lamp and put ont the light. The en- gineer not seeing the customary light stopped the train, and would have secured the bees and taken them on to Windsor as a memen- to had there been time. Jules Verne lives at Amiens. It was his custom to go to Paris once a month for a day or two until a year ago, when he was wound- ed by a pistol-shot in the left leg. He still limps, cahnot bend his leg, and is deprived of all exercise. He drives a good deal. Verne does not speak good English, He is a great reader of English literature, but has to make use of translations. Yan Phon Lee, who was graduated at Yale a few days ago, was frequently inter- rupted by long and loud applause during the delivery of his commencement oration. He discussed the Chinese question from tlie Chinese standpoint, and sailed into the United States Government with Oriental vigor. This young and able Celestial has just been married to an American, Miss Elizabeth Maud Jerome. John Willard Young is the youngest son of the late Brigham Young's first wife. He is about 43 years of age and has ten sons and ten daughters. He says his father left an estate of about $2,500,000. He willed $22,000 to each one of his children. Brig- ham Young has as yet no monument. He lies buried near what is called "the Iron House" in Salt Lake City, and his family have not been able to decide on a fitting de^ sign to mark his graVe. The Sandwich Islands are a prolific source of interesting news of late. Walter Murray Gibson, Premier of the Hawaiian Kingdo m, is a man over 70 years of age, but hale and vigorous. Miss JSoward St. Clair, a. hand- some California book agent, claims that the Premier had failed to keep a promise of marriage, and that the sum of §100,000 will just about quiet the throbbings of her mors or less broken heart. An effort at a com- promise is being made. Harriet Beecher Stowe is failins; rapidly. The brilliant intellect which conceived the immortal tale of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is perceptibly shattered. The death of Pro- fessor Stowe has added years to the apear- ance of his lonely wife, and she has lost en tirely her vigor and enthusiasm. In her modest little house in Hartford she awaite listlessly the end of her busy life. Sadly she said a few days ago to a friend, "No, I write no more. I have done, I have done, I have done" A prominent. British oificer dining recent- ly at Hawarden for the first time, ventured to traverse a very erroneous version of re- cent occurrences which fell from the lips of his host. Thereupon Mr. Gladstone's once remarkably fine though now haggard and restless eyes began to glare, he knit his brows and surveyed his audacious guest with a glance of withering contempt. But ere his anger could find vent in words, an intim- ate friend of the family averted the impend- ing storm by interposing with an adroit ex- planation of the visitor's " obvious miscon- ception," as he chose to term it. While the explanation was still in progress a foot- man slipped into the guesf s hand a scrap of paper on which Mrs. Gladstone had hastily scribbled the words, "I regret that I forgot to forewarn you that Mr. Gladstone is never contradicted in this house." "What is it about?" • "Itia from an old fri..j. andit8ays:«TelegraphS'l?, I'm financially ruined '" "^^'^.yo'i weren't here?" .,_M.And he busted '" " Very probably. Ahlwel- nsh and some must bust. Thi ' tion I have is in km have raiaed §10 had I bSUt»;i Be the Sowl o' MoU \^ Irish voter at the TEBMS OF OSEDIT. Ike TiBM AUewed by the Tart â-  CowtCrlcs «i theWaprld. hand. The following data regarding the terms of, " ^J*^ *â-  " credit aUoiwdui various coui^ies are de-T^,. Jwt found thU rived from reports of United States conaola pobliahed by the Governnwnt It appean that in Germany the credit Satem is verv.widespread, and'tiiat the time [owed porchaaera to aettle their acconnte is genenuly mnch longer than in France and England. Nearly every commercial and manufactaring branch of buaineaa haa its own particular terma of credit, and there' is no oniformity in this reapect. In England, a payment of the price of the gooda delivered is required at the end of three months, dating mm the day of ship- menL In France, a four-month's acceptance is required to be sent in settlement of the in- voice. In Italy, bat little credit bosinesa is done and none without good security being given. In Spain, four-fifths of the transactions are done on a cash basis, while in Portugal great liberality is shown, and quite a long credit is usually allowed. In Austria, it is scarcely possible t^^ do btisiness without allowing a very long credit which is always one of six months. In Turkey, even objecte.of prime necessity are sold on credit, and in this country, as well as in Russia, the time allowed is in most cases twelve months. In Canada, settlemento are made at the end of thirty days, with a discount of five per cent. Sometimes a credit of from three to six months is allowed, but in this case there is no discount granted upon payment of the account. In Mexico the large commercial houses willingly give credit of from six to eight months, and in the retail trade Ion? terms are given customers in which to settle their accounts. In Costa Kica"a credit of from six to twelve months is given in case of mer- chandise imported from Europe, in order that the goods may be easily and quickly disposed of. But since this system of credit has often led to losses it is now being given up. In Cuba the time fixed for payment is generally four to five months after delivery of the goods. The consul general of the United States at Bio states that one of the greatest drawbacks to commercial intercourse with Brazil re- sides in the necessity of allowing too long a credit. " At Rio Janerio, as in Buenos Ayres, the minimum credit is six months and often more. In the Bermudas, acconnte are settled but once a year. The 30 th of June is the day usually fixed for the payments. In Asia Minor, a credit of but two or three weeks is in most cases all that is al- lowed. In China, it is not customary to give Credit. Money is obtained from lenders, who exact an intetest of from 8 to 12 per cent. Busi- ness is nearly always conducted upon a cash basis. In Australia, a credit of six months is generally allowed. One Fished-Totw "Toobad-toobad.-T" out of Us office with a »^*«1 '^^ when Mked iflT could "LS'^*' akcrity, " I can, yer honow,' off his paper in triumph to the desk. He spent at least a J..,r hour puzzling over it, and at 1^," back in disgust, flung it dowu^^' the Nationalist agent, and cried " luck to it Alvrk ityersslf, will â-  A Large Family. A certain distinguished XmA senator was on one occasion in faWw. tour round the world, and amoDjTj visited was the English cemet^S were many noted Englishmen burial S and such nan.es as "George " • "Henry 'JVevelyan, Bart," werejo., ous as to attract the senator's atto Finally he said, " My, my, this BwU must be a large and influential one" member to have seen the name in W but I had no idea they were such pt,t! people. Really, when I go back to Euk I must look them up and get better jâ„¢3 ed." n How V9S yer; Minor Morals for Married People- The last word is the most dangerous of in- fernal machines. Husband and wife should no more strive to get it than they would struggle for the possession of the bomb-shell. Married people should study each other's weak points, as skaters look out for the weak parte of the ice, in order to keep off them. Ladies who marry for love should remember that the union of angels with women has been forbidden since the flood. The wife is the sun of the social system. Unless she attracte there is nothing to keep heavy bodies, like husbands, from flying off into space. The wife who would properly discharee her duties must never have a soul " above buttons." Don't trust too much to good temper when you get into an argument. Sugar is the substence most universally diffused through all natural products I Let married people take a hint; from this pro- vision of nature. Singing Sands of the Pacific- In one of the South Pacific islands are some wonderiul singing sands. These sands are in a small desert. In the centre of the desert are about a dozen cocoanut trees,, and about five miles distant is the ocean. Ka Pule, a native guide, and myself reached the trees about noon. Our horses, as well as our- selves, were about|usedup,travellingthrough the deep sand under a blazing sun. As we lay stretehed at the roots of the towering cocoanute, the trade wind set in, cool and re- freshing, from the ocean. Notwithstanding the heat and our wearied condition, there was an enchantment about the situation that caused me to think of the beautiful storieft I had read in my childhood. I began to feel the soft touch of slumber, and all at once I heard a faint musical tinkling as if troops ot fairies were coming to greet us as they used to do the enchanted princes in. the olden days. I tried to locate the melodious sounds. In all directions thera was nothing bat hot, glowing sand. I looked up â€" there was noth- ing but the beautiful tropical sky and the tremulous atmosphere. Still louder sounded the music it was all around us it filled the air. I gazed toward the ocean, and there, apparently a short distance away, was a beautiful lake, with ite waves dashing upon moss-covered stones. It was not there when we first arrived at the place, and I became half convinced that it was the work, of enchantment. Ka Pule had fallen.asleep, and, gazing at the lake and listening to the music in the air, I rested my head against the rough bark of of a tree. As I did so I heard the distant gurgle of a brook. I could plainly hear the water splashing over the glistening stones and dying away in quiet eddies, I was more and more bewild- ered, and at length awoke Ka Pule. J told him what I had heard, and directed his at- tention to the lake. He explained that the seeming lake was a wailiula or mirage that the sound of gurgling waters came from an underground stream, and that the music was caused by the stirring of the flinty sands by the winds Anyway, the whole experience was beautiful, and I have often said that I once made a visit to fairy land. T he Importance of Negro Father (to son)â€" 'long at school " Boyâ€"" Fust-rate." Fatherâ€"" Whut yer flingin' down on fur de mos' part '" Boyâ€" "Rifmertic" Father â€" " Got down ter joeerfv rit Boyâ€" "No,sah." " Fatherâ€"" Wall, I wants yer ter git ter dat ez soon ezyer ken." Boyâ€"" What's jogerfy gwine teri' me »" Fatherâ€"" Whut's it gwine terdo fo W'y, it'll alius keep yer outen depo'l dat's whut it gwine ter do." Boyâ€"" How come " Father â€" " Is yer dun los' all yer dat yer doan know how come Doi know dat er man wid plenty o'jogerfij his head kin alius tell de age o' er hcs lookin' at him Doan yer Ijnow te fling his eye up ter de clouds an' t«ll it's gwine ter rain, an' dat he kin sheep jes like snatchin' off er shirt dat man whut tuck er peach tree awitdi found dat fine well o' water on de place, doan yer " Boyâ€"" Yes, sah." Father â€" " Wall, he wuz er fine hat' jogerfy. Go back ter dat school-'onse Study jogerfy, son go right back dar study it dis minit." The Disappointed Ones. The following expressions are made nft about fifty times per day at theladie livery window in the post-otiice " No letter for me You must have on looked it?" " Oh there isn't Well, I didn't haril expect one. " " Please look again. You don't knowte anxious lam." " Thank you. I was going by and t I'd inquire.^' "Sostran£;e He said that he'd write i soon as he got there, and that was f weeks ago.' " You are certain you looked in therii' box Well, if there ain't, there ain't 1' " It was a letter with money in it, m wish you'd tell the Postmaster, Majn somebody has stolen it." " This is the fifth or sixth time I'nn quired, and I'm beginning to be suspici"" " Thanks, ma'am. I knew you'd ?i«" a letter if you could." The Oil Wealth of Pennsylyadia- As a basis of work for those who love to revel in amazing figures we may state that statistics show that 53,000 wells have been drilled in^ Pennsylvania and New York since the discovery of petroleum at a cost of $200,000,0e0. These wells h we produced 310,000,000 bairpU o€ oil, which was sold at thewelia for $500,000,000. Thia repre- aented a profit to. the producer of 1300,000,- 000. Theamonnt of ou exported is placedat 6,231,liJ2,923 gaOona. Ihthepool in Waah- idgton.Coonty «lone f3,2(?0,000 have been expended ui machmery and drillii^. This does not include the many millions that are represented there in the natural gas in- doatry. Indepe^idrat of the oil boaineas there are about $50,000,000 inveated in natural gas plante in Pennsylvania. These are majestic fignres, and serve to show the magnitode of^the oil and gas boaineas. Wl^ere Shall We Draw the Line- Scene â€" A Glasgow hotel. Enter Ameri- can stranger, who is asked by the proprie- tor to sign the visitors' book. He reads several naimes previously entered, and asks the meaning of some' appendages, such as " M. R. C. V.S.," c., then writes as fol- lows :-^"tbm Swan, B.B.B.B.B.B." Pro- prietor, angrily " Don't make a fool of my book, sir ' Stranger: "Why, that's my title I" Proprietor ' ' Your what What does it stand for?" Strang» "Well, I'm the Best Blooming Bugler in the Boston Bi:aas Band. " Collapse of Proprietor. Easily Satisfied- Gypsyâ€" "Gi\e me fifty cente and 4'11 tell your fortuhe." Irish Womanâ€"" Shure, an' If i had fifty si^te tha.t would be fortoue enough." A son of the Emerald Isle Meeting a coun-^ trymaa whose fac6 was not perfectly reoiemr bored, after saluting him most cordially, in- quired his name. " Walsh," was the an- swer. "Walsh, Walsh," rerooiided the Paddy, "are ye not from Cork? I kne^ two old maids there of that name. Was ayther of them yer mother " Question For His Eeverence- One evening Cardinal Manning waswa^ ing in West London, and passed a law"" ing man, who, with his pipe in his m"'"!; was walking along. " (iood evening, the prelate, by way of beginning a comt! sation which before long turned on the tee perance question. The workman, it »F peared, had not taken the pledge, h consulted a friend about the matter, thought there was no need for him to as he was no drunkard. The Cardinal. P^ bably thinking that example is better tiw' precept, told the man that he had fciken whereiipon the latter replied promptlfi asking, " Did you want it, your reverence. gboi'l A Child's Logic- There was an old negro cook, seventy years of age, in the Petetsby i»^i who has been with them for a great w*»^ years, and whenever her birthday around she receives presents, cake '^^^â- mjH lations, ete., much to the disgust or Johnny, who said to his mother .^ "Ma, I don't think you ought to ;;^ that cake to taie old cook. Vou oa^ five it to me. I've not had haU as w â-  irthdays as she has had." What First Prompted It- " Do yon belong to the society koo*^ „, â-  the Woman's Suffrage?" asked al8rm^ay| a. wxman whose appearance niign Y indicate that fact. i»dy. " Certainly I do, sir," rephe'l t""^^ „,â-  :.« May I ask what are the real WÂ¥^ the society " he asked. _„-,pn "To promote the welfare of vro'^^" to elevate the sex," slie rephed- "Jstiiatalir' "ThatisalL" „nted tl" " May I ask what first pr°"'P^ organization of such a socieQf j^ an " Yes, su- we have no objectw^ swering such questions. -lY prompted by the scarcity of nusi firs! miliilttl