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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

THE HELP PHAT C ”1153 TOO LATE.

 

Tie a wearisome world. this world of ours.
With its tangles small and great.
Its weeds that smother the springing ﬂowers.
And its hapless strifes with fate,
But the darkest day of its desolate days
Sees the helpfthat comes too late.

Ah! woe for the word that is never said
Till the ear is deaf to hear.

And woe for the lack to the fainting head
Of the ringing shout of cheer;

'Ah! woe for the laggarJ feet that tread
In the mouruful wake of the bier.

What booteth help when the heart is numb?
What booteth a broken spar

Of love thrown out when the lips are dumb.
And life’s bark drifteth far.

Ohl far and fast from the alien past.
Over the moaning bar?

A pitiful thing the gift to day

That is dross and nothing worth. l
Though if it had come but yesterday

It had brimmed with sweet the earth.
A fading rose i" a death-cold hand.

That perished in want and dearth.

Who fain would help in this world of ours.
Where sorrowful steps must fall.

Bring help in tune to the waning powers
Ere the bier is spread with the pall;

Nor send reserves when the ﬂags are furled.
And the dead beyond your call.

For baﬂling most in this dreary world,
With its tangles small and great.
Its lonesome nights and its weary days.
And its struggle forlorn with fate.
Is that bitterest grief. too deep for tears,
0f the help that comts too late.
Margaret E. Sanqsler.

W-

MODJEEKA AS MARY STUART.

 

Helene Mod jeska, Countess Bozenta,
is one of the great queens of the theat-
rical world. I have seen her as the way-
ward, frisky Rosalind in “As You Like
It,” as the Lady of the Camellias in
Dumas’ “Camille.” and as Katherine in
“ Henry Vill.,” but in none do I like
her so much as when she plays the un-
fortunate Scottish queen in Schiller’s
beautiful tragedy “ Mary Stuart.” The
sad story of Mary, Queen of Scots, has
always held a peculiar interest for me,
born of its romance, its wrong, its sins,
so heavily atoned, its tragic ending—
one queen brought to the block by an-
other, and that other closely related by
consanguinity.

Modern historians are shedding so
much new light upon the occurrences of
that period that we are ﬁnding out
Mary Stuart was not the wanton lighto’
loVe she has been made to seem by cer-
tain prejudiced chroniclers, but really
a wron ged woman and outraged queen.

Mistakes she made—who does not?——but
she never made a greater than when she
ﬂed from the ill fated ﬁeld of Rosevale,
and contrary to the counsel of her ad-
visers, sought the protection of Eliza-
beth of England. Long leisure she had
for repentance in the eighteen weary
years of her captivity, subjected to all
the indignities the religious malice of
the times could heap upon her.

In the mimic presentation of this
chapter of the Stuart’s life, the curtain
rises upon her apartment at Fotherin-
gay Castle while her jailor, Sir Amias
Paulet, is forcing the locks of her cabi-
net and taking from it her papers and
the last of her jewels, in the presence
of her old nurse Jane Kennedy. This
act, only one of many such lawless deeds
provoked by the constant suspicion of
her guards, does not at all move Mary,
who listens with weary languor to
Kennedy’s indignant recital. She mere-
ly entreats Sir Amias to forward the
letters he has thus secured to Elizabeth,
then begs to know the fate decreed for
her by the commissioners who judged
her case a month before, “ who came
like ghosts, like ghosts they disappear.
ed;” she implores,

"Oh break this silencevlet me know the worst.
What have I still to fear an 1 what to hope!”

All the satisfaction she gets from her

grim gaoler is the stern admonition,
"Close your accounts with Heaven."

Sir Amias leaves her,only '0 return to
announce that Lord Burleigh and the
Earl of Kent have arrived, their errand
to make kn3wn the ﬁnding of the court.
With scant courtesy does the rough
Lord of Burleigh enter her presence;
neither the dignity of the queen or the
woes of the woman touch him He blunt-
ly declares the verdict of the court,
which found her guilty upon the evi-
dence of her secretaries,who have been
bribed to false declarations. [it is
now established by documentary
evidence that Nau received two thou-
sand pounds for this betrayal of his
royal mistress] Mary’s protests against
the jurisdiction of the commission,
against allowing her servants to testify
against her while she herself is denied
a hearing, her demand to be tried be—
fore a jury of her peers, are alike un-
availing. Burleigh, to her plea for
justice, retorts

"Stern right ne’er stands a prisoner's friend.”

 

Burleigh, in an interview with Sir;
Amias Paulet, intimates to him that a
very certain way to Elizabeth’s favor
would be to furnish tidings of Mary’s
death, thus relieving Elizabeth from
the necessrty of signing the death war-
rant, and ending; the danger they fanci-
ed menaced England. For Mary’s claim
to the succession was indisputable;
better if anything than Elizabeth’s, and
the latter’s death might place Mary
upon the English throne. in which case
Elizabeth’s ministers, who had so long
sought to destroy her rival, had noth-
ing to hope and everything to fear
But Sir Amias repels the suggestion o?
assassination with indignant score and.
loathing. He refuses to believe Eliza
beth would sanction it (and the p robabil-~
ities are that the gaoler would have
been the scape-goat had such a thing
happened) and declares that he is the
custodian of his queen’s honor. which
demands the safe keeping of her am
fortunate cousin; who must die by legal!
warrant, if die she must, and not by
secret assassins. Foiled in his purpose,
Birleigh retires, with looks of rage,
and hate for the too cansclentio is jail~
or.

Sir Elward Mortimer, Psulet’s nepho
ew, by his seeming rudeness and dis-«
courtesy to Mary, has won his uncle’s
approval and is deemed incorruptible.
But really, be is passionately devoted
to Mary's cause and has laid a plan for
her rescue. He reveals his p1rp)se to
Mary, who is surprised and greatly
touched by his devotion; and learning
he is about to go to the E iglish court,
entrusts him with a. letter to Leicester.
ﬂaiubeth’s favorite, which he promises
to deliver secretly and surely, though
his own good judgment tells him Mary
is deceived in trusting the courtier and.
sycophant whose aspirations to the
hand of Eliz ibeth are matter of general
talk. But Mary’s persuasionsand argu»
ments overpower him, and he pledges
the delivery of the letter.

Next, we have E izr‘osth's audience
chamber; the queen in migniﬁcint
robes holds council with B irleigh.
Shrewsbury, Kant, and Leicester, and
Mary’s fate is the q lastion at issue.
Shrewsbury incurs her mij-ssty’s dis-
pleasure by advocating M lry’s cause,
and warned by his discimitucs, the
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The- Household.

 

tress’s mood. Sir Amias Paulet pre-
sents his nephew, Mortimer, who is
graciously received by the queen, who,
dismissing her cabinet, herself plainly
tells him there is a certain way to her
favor and that he who com passes Mary’s
death shall surely ﬁnd it. Mortimer,dis-
.guising his disgust and loathing at the
unwomanly cruelty and baseness of the
proposition, “meets craft with craft and
proves himself dissembler.” Then to
Leicester he gives Mary‘s letter, still
distrustful though the courtier’s beard-
ed lips are pressed to the paper, and
murmur fond words of its writer. Lei-
cester,with all his professed affection for
Mary, is too half-hearted, too cautious,
for the hot-headed,chivalrous Mortimer
who would not value his life a farthing’s

worth could its sacriﬁce secure Mary’s-

freedom, but he promises to obtain for
Mary the boon she asks in the letter, a
personal in tervie w with her royal cousin
and cantor. By adroitly ﬂattering
Elizabeth and appealing to her insati-
able vanity,he secures a half consent to
his plan for a meeting of the two queens
in the forest a‘vout Fotheringay Castle
while the English queen is hunting in
the neighborhood. Owing to‘the un-
queenly proportions of the actress sus-
taining the part of Elizabeth, who look-
ed like a cook masquerading in good
clothes, the gods in the gallery were in-
clined to guy my Lord of Leicester
when he praised the majestic dignity
and grace and dazzling beauty of Eng-
land’s queen and urged her to over-
whelm her unfortunate kinswoman by
permitting her to behold those sur-
passing charms. Leicester was a ﬁne
courtier; he understood women—or this
one at least, and the next scene, the
great “third act" of the tragedy,brought

_ the two queens together.

(To be. Continued )

 

‘THE Lessons on UNEAPPINESS.

Somebody of a happy temperament.
sound health, little care and short ex-
perience, has written a rhyme saying
that “Life is mostly what we make it,
just whichever way we take it, ﬁlled
with sunshine or with care, dark or
gloomy, cold or fair,” or words to that
eﬁect. Maybe there are a few saints
dotted down here and there, who never
groan or fret or rave over the aggrava-
tions and cares and aﬁiictions of life,
but generally speaking, they are not
ambitious,energetic,quick,bustlingfolks
who would if they could,do large things
in the world. These extra patient people
are content to sit quietly and he “let
alone.” They would be the same in the
best conditions or the worst. I don’t
think they are a bit better than those
who get up and howl when things get to
going all crooked. I have a great deal
of sympathy with the women who have
brought their trials to the HOUSEHOLD.
Telling one’s troubles lightens the
weight. I don’t want to know the post-
‘oﬂce address of these abused wives and

 

do not advise giving the name of the
husband or other relatives who sit about
the kitchen stove making daylight a
nightmare, but these stories of unhap-
piness certainly have a lesson. They
set others who have no such trials to
thinking; and perhaps make us thank-
ful for our better surroundings. And
it may check some man in his career or
stop his ﬁrst attempts to inﬂict his
selﬁshness on his family. If one lives
comfortably with a, man she has some
things to endure, and should beginning
early to use all her tact and art and
power, to shape 'him as she wishes.
Some men can be frowned down, others
scolded. and others cried into proper
manners and conduct; but if one has
commenced wrong away back in the
forties, and has allowed herself during
the ﬁrst year of married life to be a
servant, with no opinions or expressed
wishes of her own, getting up to make
ﬁres, etc., all for the love of him, why
then there is little help for her. There
is nothing but to die, or take lessons in
boxing and kicking and surprise him
some morning by suggesting that he
make the ﬁres, and if he refuse, give
him a thrashing and continue same until
he issubdued. 7

The other sort of misery connected
with duty to helpless relatives is, it
seems to me, easier to bear inasmuch
as we shall never look back with regret
for kindly services rendered to any one,
certainly not for care bestowed upon the
irresponsible. 1 listened to a sermou
recently which was a message to me.
The text was Gen. 7:16. “And the
Lord shut him in.” The minister said
that no doubt the Ark which Noah built
was ridiculed by the builders and arch-
itects of the day, but that it was meant
only for the safety of Noah and his
family and not for any display of arch-
itecture. Noah remained quietly shut
in waiting for the Lord to carry him
through the ﬂood. There was but one
window in the Ark and that opened to-
ward heaven. Noah did not clamber up
there eve ry day to peep out to see what
the rest of the world was doing. Had
he done so he might have been drown-
ed. The lesson was that we may be
shut in by poverty or sickness or
troubles of many kinds, but we have al-
ways a window opening toward heaven,
through which we have sufﬁcient light
to cheer us, and that it is well for us to
rest quietly shut in for a time until the
ﬂood subsides.

He did not say anything, nor does the
Bible, as to how Mrs. Noah bore the
shut-in time. I suppose she had to feed
the snakes and slop the hogs and keep
the children quiet, while Noah took his
morning nap.

That woman who continues on her
daily round of irksome duties,keeps the
little house clean, hrs plain food well
cooked and promptly on the table three
times a day,the clothing of her family in
good condition, is a heroine, even if she
does fret some and scold and cry a little.

 

 

 

She is a martyr—she is a saint, if she
adds to this the care of an imbecile and
permits him to eat with her at the
table. I have a neighbor, a cultured
and reﬁned lady, who is very deaf and
has an imbecile son, a young man. He
swears and acts sometimes like a de-
mon. She does not hear it and loves
him most fondly. I said to her, “I
think youvhave wonderful grace.” She
replied: “I have hardly a bit. Satan
whispers to me twothirds of the time.”
But, she is always placid and sweet. I
think most of us are like Joshua, the
angel 'of the Lord stands on one side and
Satan on the other to resist him. We
can only pray, “Lord, be thou my help-

er. ” DAF FODILLY.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.
-————ooo—————

DANGER IN RAW MEAT.

 

“Why don’t somebody put it in the
papers all about taps worms? Every
body eats meat, raw or half cooked.
Think of the tons of dried beef that are
eaten. They publish all about every
other disease, but I never read in any
paper that one might get a tape worm
by eating raw beef.” All this a lady
said to me while she was suffering from
the effects of powerful medicines taken
to rid her of a companion that had
afﬂicted her some years. As this trouble
seems to grow more common I will try
to tell of atape worm’s life. The mature
worm sheds off one or more joints each
day which come from the person alive
and with them come the eggs or em-
bryo of another generation of tape
worms. These are often thrown upon
the ground or grass with other cb amber
slops, and cows or hogs feeding there
swallow them with the grass. I do not
know what form this creature possesses
at this stage,but it gets out of the cow’s
stomach and meanders about her body
until it ﬁnds a snug nest among the
muscles and patiently awaits its oppor-
tunity. That Opportunity comes when
some human being swallows that piece
of beef. raw or half cooked.

Semewhere in that person’s digestive
organs it ﬁnds the sustenance necessary
to develop its latent powers, and the
ﬁrst its afﬂicted possessor knows of its
presence, is when the cast-oﬂ joints ap-
pear. Physicians remove them “with-
out any diﬁiculty,” so they say, but the
process involves from twenty-four to
thirty-six hours of fasting, followed by
powerful physio which must be a ter-
rible strain upon digestive organs al-
ready weakened by such an enemy.

I have just heard of a physician who
has removed eight recently, one, ten
feet long,from achild ﬁve years old, and
I thought, like my lady friend, that a
little information might do good.

AUNT ELIZ ABEI‘H.

MRS J. Q. P., of St. Johns, who in-
quired whether black velvet ribbon
which has grown rusty can be re-dyed,
is informed that it can be thus regener-
ated. Brossy, 289 Woodward Ave, this
city, does such work.

 

 

    


  
 
   
  
  

 
   

The Household. 8

 

“30 LONG- AS SEE REMAINS MY
WIDOW."

“Oh, dear! What a mean man he
must have been, to have made such a
will.” “ Wanted to keep his wife under
his thumb even after his death.”
“Awful ’fraid she’d take a little comfort
with some other man.” Thus run taunts
and criticism while he who dared to in-
sert the odious clause in his last,perhaps
his only testament, rests in peace. So
does his widow; secure alike from ﬁnan-
cial risk and the schemes of fortune
hunters. There are two ways of read-
ing this line, and in some cases, where
the widow is young and childless, it may
he tyrannical; but the most of us, after
years of observation, and perhaps a bit
of experience, come to look upon it as a
very wise and kind thing for a man to
do—to leave to his wife the use of all his
real estate So long as she remains his
widow. She is rarely accustomed to the
ways of business sufficiently to make
any successful venture. and if wise en-
ough to recognize this will feel for some
time, as a friend once expressed it to
me, ” afraid of her own judgment,
worried over every triﬁe,” and will
move cautiously and prudently, seeking
not to increase, but only to keep what
was left her. But another is likely to
have a secret pride in her ability to
manage property, and having heard of
the few women successful in that line,
hastens to follow in their footsteps,onlv
to ﬁnd herself dependentin her old age.
There is much truth in the proverb con-
cerning old canines and new tricks;
and a woman whose lines of thought and
action have for thirty or forty years
been conﬁned to household matters will
naturally ﬁnd herself strangely confused
in any other.

Then that pitfall, marriage! I sup-
pose it is the woman of it, but the pity
of it too, that when a man tells us he is
an angel, and loves us, and can not live
without us, we always believe him and
trust him with our happiness and dol-
lars, just as blindly at sixty as at sixteen.
Dickens’ “ Bumble,” with his tender
sighs and sweet morsels of ﬂattery so
delicately offered, turning so suddenly
when left alone to weigh the spoons
and inventOry the furniture, bobs up
serenely in many modern forms; and
we will not have to search far to ﬁnd
children left penniless and homeless,
because their father failed to protect the
mother against his wiles. As for love,
I can not say but what it comes in truth
in the evening as well as morning of
life; but it is not apt to trouble a widow
whose property reverts to heirs on its
acceptance.

Man’s affection varies in price; often
a few hundreds will take it readily;
while on the ether hand, if he really

. cares for a woman,and is such a worthy,
successful man as her good, middle-
saged sense ought to approve and re-
quire, he has a home and' means; is
willing to take her for her own sake

  

 

and let her property go to her former
husband’s children.

It isa well known fact that no law
can deal justly with all cases; but as a
rule. among farmers, this clause is of a
protective, not restrictive nature. And
why should we call him hard names
when, according to his best judgment
and ability, a man provides not only
for his wife but also for his widow?

- A. H. J.

m

SORROW.

 

Months have lengthened into years
till they number two since I sent my
last letter to the HOUSEHOLD, and I
wonder if anybody remembers poor
little me!

Many times I’ve resolved to write, es-
pecially after Maybelle’s kind inquiry;
(for which she has my thanks) but so
many others expressed my views so
much better than I could have done, I
hesitated.

As I come among you to-dav my heart
is ﬁlled with sadness, and I ask your
sympathy.

Until now, I’ve never known a real
sorrow; this seems more than I can
bear. My mother,the idol of my child-
hood, is very sick—physicians give us
very little hope.

Dear father, my heart aches for him!
How can he part with the loved com-
panion of his early life? The gentle
mother whose arms have cradled us in
infancy and whose kind teachings
have guided us to manhood and we-
manhood, how can we spare her?

Oh I’ve tried so hard to be brave, but
the future looks so dark, the walls of
despair seem to be closing around us! I
can’t see my way clear without mother.

MASON. BONNIE SCOTLAND.

———-—.O.——-———

HYGIENIC COFFEE.

Many people having dyspeptic dif-
ﬁculties cannot drink coffee. To such
the following will be found a very pleas-
ant and healthful beverage, one which
will not disagree with the most sensitive
stomach:

Take two quarts of bran; one quart of
corn-meal; one half cup molasses and
three or four eggs. Mix all together
until the whole is thoroughly blended;
then brown in a hot oven as you would
coffee, watching carefully that it does
not burn. As the top browns, stir with
a spoon that it may be evenly browned.
This is to be steeped the same as coffee,
a tablespoonful to one cup of water.

If desired it may be mixed with coffee
in proportion of one part of the prepa-
ration to two of coffee. A small quan-
tity of gr )und chicory, say two ounces
to a pound of coffee and bran is an addi-
tion to it. The chicory gives it a rich-
er color and does not detract from the
ﬂavor. Only granulated sugar and pure
sweet cream should be used in coffee
for best results. Their use gives a ﬁner
ﬂavor than anything else.'

Fuss. ELLt BOGKWOOD.

 

 

CHAT.

 

SORRY, A. G. EL, but the HOUSEHOLD
isn’t a matrimonial bureau and we can-
not make known through it the wants
of your friend. Besides, we do not be-
lieve in that way of doing business. If
a man cannot ﬁnd a wife among his
neighbors, friends or associates, or
make a woman’s acquaintance in a legi-
timate manner, he generally does not
deserve a wife. This marrying as boys
trade jack-knives, “on sight and un-
seen,” on a day's acquaintance or
through an ad vertisement,simp‘y makes
business for our divorce courts, who
untie what never ought to have been
joined together.

JOHN‘S WIFE,of Algansee, addresses
these remarks to Theopolus:

“Certainly, Theopolus, hold that yarn
by all means; it is your bounden duty to
do so. Some day you will call upon
your wife, when her hands are in the
dough, probably, to ‘just come and lead
the horse while we un‘oad this hay.’
She’ll go, and dough is harder to break
away from than a reverie. I agree
with you on the “ back hair ” question.
I believe in dressing the hair for be-
comingness, not style. But what about
the young men’s style of hair dressing?
A horrible thought strikes me! Theo—
polus, do you wear bangs? A young man
with bangs always reminds me of a.
picture in a story book of an angry lion,
shaking his mane over his eyes to make
himself look more ferocious. Your trials
in the matter of buttons awaken pro-
found sympathy. Why not have your
wife run a shir string round the neck
ofyour shirts and just tie it, it would
be so much more convenient?”

 

CECIL, of OJkWOOd, writes us:

“I was much interested in the article
about the test Professor Moulton gave
of a good book—the number of times
one could read/ it; and his assertion that
ﬁction contained more truth than facts
sometimes. We can not draw asatis-
factory line between the natural and
artiﬁcial because that which is made by
art is sometimes as natural as the thing
itself. Pope says ‘All nature is but art
unknown to thee.’ Another writer says
‘the best of perfumes is fresh air,’ and
adds this is what he calls nature in
writing. We do not like that which is
unnatural in art or in books. I would
as soon deny a child alandscape painted
by a true artist, as deprive him of a
good ﬁctitious story. Uncle Tom and
Evangeline, David Copperﬁeld. Little
Paul, and many of George Eliot’s char-
acters,are real to me,and we could never
do without ﬁction. How much we would
have lost withOut the Iliad of Homer
with its imaginary gods and heroes.
Some one asks what we are reading.
Chautauqua, the course doubly interest-
ing on account of James Joy’s
Grecian History. How pleasant to go
back to Periclean days and see how
much we are indebted to Greece for al-
most everything we have, and to feel
that a philosopher in this age may let
a new scientiﬁc thought escape his
brain without having to drink the hem-
lock. How different the death of
Pericles and that of our own statesman
Blaine, who sleeps beneath a wilderness
of ﬂowers! Man’s love towards man is
the glory of this age, even if some

people do think the world is growing
worse."

 


 
 

 

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The

Household.

 

WOHEN TO THE REEGUE.

 

A little breath went through society,
that hoop skirts were to be the fashion
again. 'We paid no heed. Then the
breath was a strong breeze, and now it
blows hard from all quarters, “Crino-
line is coming.” We laughed at first;
then said No, indeed! I But the barri-
ers are breaking down, and soon the
detestable fashion will be fastened upon
us. Did Worth or Redfern command
it? Did society women say it must be?
Do husbands and brothers sanction it?
What started the thing? I’ll tell you.
The manufacturers and dry goods deal-
era are in league. The ﬁrst went to
make money on a new design. The
merchants are impatient over the small
number of yards that are now used in
the present graceful and economical
dress-making. Without consulting us,
and to ﬁll their own purses, they’ve
been laying their plans and pulling the
wires for a twelve-month. N ow in the
name of common sense, shall we tame-
ly submit? Why should we wear any-
thing 50 unbecoming and immodest for
the sake Of making a few men richer?
Perhaps an accident that happened to
me, when hoop skirts were all the rage
years ago, has set me against it, and is
the reason of this outburst. It was in
the White Mountain region, and I had
been admiring the magniﬁcent scenery
from the top of a stage coach. We
stopped at a small inn for dinner and I
commenced that disagreeable job, get-
ting down from my high perch. A
strong nail had been used to fasten the
seat to the top securely. An inch of it
stuck up, the back of my hoop skirt
caught, and I was suspended between
heaven and earth and actually had to
be cut down by the rest of the pas-
sengers. Was I mortiﬁed? I, blush
now. to think of it. So. women of the
HOUSEHOLD, let us band together to
resist this outside, selﬁsh pressure to
decide what, or what not, we shall wear!
Let us all sit down " hard ” on the hoop
skirt, before it is the fashion.

. SISTER GRACLOUS.
--—--.O.——-——-

THE POWER OF KINDNESE.

 

[Paper read at the February meeting of the Lib-
exty Farmers' Club by Mrs. H. D. Wetherby.]

I wonder if we ever stop to think what

a power there is in kindness! How a
and face will brighten at a kind ward
and a heavy load seem lightened by a
kind act. If we realize it, do we speak
the kind word, and do the kind act?
All classes and conditions of people are
susceptible ‘to kindness, high and low,
rich and poor, old and young are sway-
ed by it, so there is ample scope for us
to use this power for the good of man-
kind—for the good I say, for it seldom
works for ill. As onward we go in the
march of life, we are coming in daily
contact with our fellow travelers, and
than are daily opportunities of giving
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kindnesses, or making them miserable
by our selﬁshness and indifference.
The power of kindness will enable us to
help in this great work, the making of
a bad world better, and every time we
have fostered in one being a desire to
live abetter, nobler life, we have made
the world better. A kind act, accom—
panied by kind words, has arrested the
| steps of many treading the downward
road. Let me repeat a little incident I
once read showing that kindness has
power to subdue, and rekindle the d) ing
ﬂame of reason. .During the days ‘of
of the French convention the master of
a lunatic asylum asked permis-
sion to try a new method for the re-
coverv of its inmates. It was usual then
to treat these helpless creatures as
brutes; to scourge them with stripes: to
load them with chains and fasten them
to the ﬂoors of their cell. Hundreds
were thus bound when the master
thought of a new way and proposed a
radical change of treatment. He espec-
ially recommended that the insane be
treated as patients, and freed from their
chains. At last the convention gave
consent, but the president thought the
master crazy and said he would be mur-
dered. The day came for the experi-
ment to be tried and the keeper ﬁrst
released a wretched man who had been
bound for forty years. This victim of
cruelty did not destroy his benefactOr
as had been predicted, but staggered to
the window of his cell. and looking out
through the tears that ﬁlled his eyes,
murmured, “Beautiful, oh, how beauti-
full” or course there are no such cases
of cruelty now, but there is a chance
for kindness to work good. Perhaps
there is too much kindness shown in
our State prison discipline, but I leave
that for wiser heads. It is said that an
Indian never forgets a kindness, or for-
gives an injury; and- there are in-
stances when at the time of some im-
pending massacre they have informed a
white family that has shown them some
kindness. and thus given them a chance
to escape. The whote brute creation
feels the inﬂuence of kindness, and in
the taming and training of wild beasts,
kindness and ﬁrmness work better than
cruelty. Then who will say that there
is not a mighty power in kindness, and
why do we not use it more freely? It
costs us nothing, and we reap a rich re-
ward in the pleasure it gives others, in
the consciousness of having done some
good to our fellow men. ‘There are
people whom we occasionally meet who
seem to carry about them an atmosphere
of kindness; it shines in'their faces; and
they are persons to whom we would in-
stinctively turn when in need of alfriend
even though they were comparative
strangers. I have heard some people
say “0! it’s all I can do to look out for
myself, without bothering about other
people.” This is all selﬁshness; -if ,we
are all self and indifferent to those
around us we will lose half the happi-
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selfish souls cannot expand, nor feel the
blessedness of deeds well done. while
kind, generous hearts constantly re-
ceive happiness from the good which
they do others. Let us then cease to be
selﬁsh,and.learn the blessedness of doing
good. Is there no one whom by kind-
ness you can reclaim from a bad habit,
none to whom you might lend some
good book that will make them better
for having read? Is there no sick
neighbor to whom you might carry a
little comfort, or something nice to
tempt the listless appetite; no invalid
whom you might cheer with an hour of
bright, sunshiny talk? At all events
we can use this power in our own
homes, we can diffuse throughout our
dwellings that sweet music, kind and
loving words, for ‘Kind words and
sweet smiles are the roses of life; strew
them wherever you go.’ We can
govern the little ones by love and kind-
ness better than by fear, and they will
make better men and women for it.
We can smooth away their little
troubles, and help them bear their
childish burdens by kindness. How
many of us as each day draws to a close
can truly say that through us some.
good has been accomplished, some sor-
rowing heart cheered? J usr. so long as
the world stands there will be bleeding
hearts to comfort, there will be wearv
souls to cheer, and heaven will bless

those who speak words of kindness and ’

comfort, and help by kind acts the poor
and cast down. nd as kind words can
never die, so kind deeds are never for-
gotten; and when we are but a memory,
our words and deeds will live on and on-
Let us then use kindness freely, and the
world will be the better for our having
lived in it, and will be brighter to
us while we are in it, for

“Little deeds of kindnr as. little words of love.
Make the earth an Eden like the heaven above?”

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WE will be glad to have M. L. D., of
Burton, give us some of her experiences
either as grandmother or mother-in-law,
but do not think the discussion of we.
men’s suffrage would be either proﬁt-

able or interesting. The ground has-

been gone over so man v times that' the
route has become a tiresome iteration.
The State Legislature has iust killed
the bill introduced through the exer-
tions of the suffragists, by inserting the
word “male” as qualifying those citi.

zens entitled to the ballot, and evident--

ly the times are not yet ripe for the
advent of women in politics. '
HOG——

CHLORIDE of lead is one of the cheap-
est and at the same time most effective
of disinfectants. It is something that
should be largely used the coming
summer, for it» seems to be generally
conceded we shall have a. visitation from
cholera in the spring, and we must pre-
pare for it by putting our premises in
perfect sanitary order. To prepare the
disinfectant, dissolve a teaspoonful of
nitrate of lead, costing twenty cents a
pound, in a pint of boiling water. Put

two teaspoonfuls of common salt in eight 7

quarts of water. When both are at

solved, pour the two together and whgg.

settled, you have two gallons of sole
of chloride of lead.

   

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