Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1877, Page 10

S e N 3 a e - < e e : e *CARE OV 3 £ v .tem mnst very largely, no donbt, bo act down to “| an ignoranca on the part of the mother, not only of proper nuraing in {liness, but of the method by ) which sound health may be malntalned. ! theactual loss of life, tha amount of sufferiug en- vast number of catca to mismanagement on the things an THE CHICAGO TRID cnstom of earrying new-born chiliren from room to room, and cven from houso (o honee, for exhibl. tlon. _ Thave no doult that many of the nbecure a<well as famiilar direascs of infants bave their THE HOME. TO BATAN JANE. orietn o dn o Ehia . Teprchenaible pracice. , @bave reard your plaintive ples, Nothing 18 mare easy an for And in all sincerity i Knativo nnvfica tobecome " ehited an sariona conceative dleordors may bo thas in: WettaLnawitheds Tinea S thteg * | Qnced. Tt the baby remain for the Arst fow weeka in the room with the mother, the nir there being kent pure and aweet, ond only very gradually In- nred ta changes of temperture. 1€ should bo kept aniet: not unneceasarily toseed aboul or rudely handled, In the eass of the prematurcly-born chllu, these sugwestions of equable warmthand pece fect repore become Infinltely more fmportant, the endeavor phonlil be to maintain a comlition as nearly a8 possible resembltng the ente-natal one, These children I wonld fiave kept especinlly warm and etill, gently pathed I warm water not maore than twice a week, the dally hath being replaced by fannctions of m»«l‘lrfl orolive ol applied 1o (he whole anrface of tlie body, tho ntirse <ittlugr near the fire inean wwhile and”_earetnlly nrotectinz the child from dranghts, Many of these children dic from an fu- rfect development of the vital orzans which are mrmrcro ncapable of a4 proper perforntance of Fot T1o0 am rad and lone, Righing for some faithfnl one ‘Whom I may call my own, . 8arah Jane! My age's Is just thirty-three— Hape ‘twlll enit youton T, For 1 fain wonld marricd be, Sarah Janel Tell me romothing of yonreell Never mind about the wealth— I've cnough for both of pelf, A Sarah Jane! their funclivns, but 1 believe a much laruer pro- Litlenitlensitlons, . poetion of them might e saved with more Ju- What your rank or fame may be, dicione and carcful trentment. 1t from trifiing you aro,froe, I decidedly prefer the warm bath foe Kmm"ln- Saral Jane! fants, the temperatute not being below that uf the rurtnce, As the chilil grows' olderand stronger, 1 yan have a loving honet, lhclhifllh ma; In.'I mm}le eaulcr‘h “The cold lm? I:‘ > cerialnl nvigorating when L) erfec And nro tolerably mart, roaetlon e o obtained, and delleator 1 wlil tako theo 8a thon art, Sarah Jane! 80 1n radness sit no more, Noryonr *‘nnsonght lot* doplore; Fate baa joy for yon in store, Sarah Jans! It 1o this you make reply, To yonr shle 1'll gladly iy, And will quickly make you my Barali Jano! Cmecaao, March 1 F. Monrox.s CHILDREN 1N ILLNESS AND REALTH v the Editor of TAs Tribune Qmicano, March 10.~Tho appalling mortality Among children which is at once tho despalrof medical scienco nud the shama of our eanitary eys- ehildren, nfter the first “‘(‘IP. ay be greatly! benefited by IL, If it 18 carefnlly given. The room alonld be warnt, the akin rubbed dry and made to glow liko a rose, Salt added to the water is use- ful, and a iittle anua amoionia niakes 8 etimulatis bath. \When tha renctlon in doficient, one or th other of theee sionld he naed if the cold bnth 14 at. tempted, They aro equally serviceable inthe warnf th. Always banble to command a fire {n at least nn‘ elecping-room in (ho houss. The wpractice banishing a1l tho stoves to tha garret in the #prin| hias probably been the nceaston of mora [liness tha any other family custom. In our climate there f| not a month In Lhie year when damp. chillly weathct 1n not llable to occur, and in such weatheru fire | essentinl to the comfort and licalth of chitdren ans teeblo aduita, % “An open fato or fireplace Iv, of conrsc, as heaith! ful s« it 1 pleasant, but tn n room wwhere chil ara sometimee lefl alone, 8 cluse stave In far 2nd 8 A0LP+ELONE ALOYE Cotwies nearer beitig abs, 1y safe thon auything olse, sinca oven cotlon ‘ments will not take fire whon brought into transient cuntact with [t For this rea<on, too, it fa of od- mirablo servico In nlring and warming childrex clothcn, “Tho hieat Ia equable and azracdblc, ants fitn can be lw[\l nll night. For sleepiny chamby and common living rooins the soap.atonc stove 1s tho ne pius uitra of Iinvention in thatdirection, J 5 Aste M. sk, M. D. i TURSTAN DIET AND BLUE GLASS, IF Bealdea dured by young children, directly traceablo tna partof tho mother, Is one of the most palnful odncated observer has' to con- template, Ignorance of the requircments of an o the Editor af The Tribuns, ¥ H o larch 12, —Soma time nzo I road o 3:infant; {gnorance of the Indications of grave dis: IeR:f""rf'Hnn ol 1, —sama thio, R i 51‘\ t! suffor parpetual torment, when wo consider how 1! innocant moat young mothers aro of any knowl- }i edge whatever of thelr Important and novel datica? i, Daring her |)incas she gathers o few jtema of infor- §'natfon from the nuree, her mother, or the mothee-in- ‘;i'lnw. or the maiden nunt may be ot hand tof 1t will doubtless ba excellent, but it will bo 1, v trange It it I not adulterated with foullsh whims ; 1 tional cancs, 1 do not furget that a quick intelli- 4' gence can atone for a multitudo of deficié neles,and iy that a 1ttlo good renso will go far to make amends Ffor want of ex perlence, but thls whi fall short of 4 ‘thénced, For tha good of herchild the mother | +meeds all tho pos ittve knowledgo she cau acquiro, ) isuporadded to her awn judgment of what is proper +++ and desirable, i %' years aftcr tho grave lias closed over her child, that %" §f aho had known earlier what she knowsniow, what v £ ' T 9+ kuow xo Itle. The yight and tho fit and nat- "' urat way ia the living out of this life nutil the ripe- [ 1.1 bealdes belng oxposed to the natural perils of In- | 1 [ ) b [ L 1] i L4, % W X 3 {; thoogh she may have nurged and ralsad half a score i of.children, his exporienco s widur than hory, 1 Bliyaiclon 1 good bracilco sees o diseses 1 oo i epl T M| *y onols **bettor off aud perbaps takon away from i ' | doctor, 100, truthcd o4 hia §a to obscrve details, sues #\ ‘haveno wish to nndervalue th: easo and Insbillty to distingnish between these & and those alight ailmentawhich need no treatments | readineaa to accept foollsh counsel without reflec- Ettlon; an casy sdoptionof falacloos theoriesand * motlons not founded tn reason—nil thoro things tell ; “tearfally againat the chancesof thc little one for { i health and cantinued oxWtence. Tliyntcian's Thoughts, " which I read with interdt, expecially that part of ft where ha rpoko of Ltusia SriEiie Tond of thy. Inboriny cinsscs—bluck po bread and garlic. 1lo aaya they aro nstoniehinjiy activo and powerful, and subsiat for the moet (att an rye bread and garlic, and aro full of agiliy, vivacity, and bilarity, zinging blithely over n‘mir work. . ‘Now, Tlike all the good things that are daly spread'npon the **festive hoard,' but that sen- tence, ‘*Theyare full of lglm{‘. viencity, and hllarity," haunted mo, and, “wishing to bo 1ko them, § decided to ndopt their food aud hang ha American bill-of-faro on a peg in the halleof emory. mlllflll{ rorolved, 1 immedistoly began to acty and forthwith went out, and, after huuting in tho hith- wayn nud byways of the city, T sofected the hincl eat_and snjokiest-looking forelgner T coutd o, and employed hin 1o buy the hlackest of rye flhur and mflnu ‘me tho Wackest rye bread his Hitfe black handn conld concoct: nnd “then I departed, even unto tho suburbs of tho city, and called wpon a Geeman gardener, and, after atanchiny hia greadi. nens with a liberal supply of my boloved itreen- Dacks, ho agreed to devote s thne, intelicet, and pateh of ground Lo the ralsing of arlic for my con- umption, And then; with 1 happy lienrt, a buoy- ant step, and, atas, o lichter pockethook, T ro- turned to my abiding-place well pleased with the preliminnry Sreangements, Next day 1 eent delicately worded' and highly rfumed postal-cards to Ullrick, Blenz, and T aden, our princlpie puckern and_meat-pravidars, te)ling thom gently (for 1couliLhut fecl for thelr dixappointment) that they would have to ceuso maughicring and packing swine and the bavino fn- llnbl’ianhi of th]s mandano sphere, as L had become A bright and noh-backaliding convert to the Rus. #lan syntom of diet, and was going to eachew ham antt heefsteak foraver and throw snusaze *to the doga® from whencs It bot I adued 1 was avilling to cou their loss of bo«l- nefa by employing them In tho healthy and frue fgrant puesult of ralsing rye and parlic, My stater and my aisior's husband, afier alenathy eonsultation, decliled that, with the extra money thiey would nccumulate on account of my tom- wrate alet, they would put fa a how window aod Ellflll an addition to thelr louss tho nest summer. + On tho Grst of last month, hasing got my forces in flabting order, 1 bogan the campalgn. ‘What wonder Ly ¢ that the baby dics or llves to ith ad- vice. ‘Thia advice may be wholly {udiciou and crude absurditic. Snch as it {s, however, it the young mother's wholo ontlt, save In exceps Itisa dreary thing for the mother fo reflect, scema 00 simple and easy to learn, that she might have saved the precious Jifo which wont ont so soon, For mo, Tconfers T cannot be comforted far this 1orn of Ilfo by tho trito consolation that the littlo me m for the evll to come,™ 1think that this lifo s a good thini. that its experience s’ needfal for the sym- metrleal roundlug out of human character, and that it 48 o great rojatortune to lase what this life has tu plve, no matter bow far transcending its ene Joyments are thoso of that othor lifo of which wo thomoraing. 1 observed that every ono in my vicinity el'l‘fiur moved away to the extreme ond of tho pew oF woltly loft the chinrch, and 1 anw peopky Toaking at me curiously and cven lmpudgntly, and *yean exeoulingly annoying to ono of my daflcsts ponsibilities. In tha ovening, tho kamo eccnes were enacted, with the differenco that the miulster, after pregsh« nees of olil ago Joosens our hold upon it Thesos convolatiops, which really consolo nobody, aro unly our vain strivings to lighlen the burden of that insupporiable and immitigable sorrow, Death. Anud £o, becanse there aro 80 many mothers site ting nnder the shadow of a groat woo that need not huve been, and becausa I pity tha poor babies, who, | djamim the conzrogation on account of o disagres ahle and disgusting odor that.pervaded tha atdiose fers, Then Lo looked at tae, wusped ontoor wice, and pronounced tho benediction, After such an jasult, Lean assuro you that I nover dark- ancy, aro subject to thosa of oficlousncss and Sunuranco, 1 propose to toll ina fow consecutiva pepers what I know about taking earo of clilldren, | pped the doors of church _agn! No, in sicknews and In health, hoping thas to bo of | indeedt I quictly w nlraw, ond, cetortly somo servico to those who are wiiling to learn, | and foreser, — my weekly nlckel - will bo mised from the contribution-box, md my worsted ¢oge und canton-flunngl rubbita wil never azaln adorn the fancy-tubles of their fufrs, 1 shall assert nothing which has not the sanc- tion of tho best authorlty, and if at any time 1 venture an oplalon or suggestion oppused to ‘Abuiit two wecke ago my brother-ln-law asto the general view, 1 ahall taka caro to indicats that | fatied tho breakfust tablo’ by saying thatho way it s my opinion and fi"c my reanons for It. olng away, e nald business was dull, He health At tho outset I wish 1o urge upon mothers n few | Talling, and he wan golng to soek a more Mlabrions conalderations whosa reasonabloncas will, Ithink, | climafe; and ha doparted that night for Tuxas. o caally apparent. few daya after my sistor gateruil np hes childeen, Do not be too ready to adopt genoral maxime or | and afier packing her woaring avparel ugd «prin) 4nflaxibls rulea for the treatmont of your children, | Jing them liberally with chlorldo of llmg, **10 take such as that **an infant should bave o cold bath | oft tlatwmall of garilc,” as sho unfdullnzly re. evory day,” or that **food should never be given | marked, alio started for Chicago, folldwed by my botween meals.* 1o matialod with principles, and | reproschful glances. details ba governed clrcumstancas, Itqmomber that “conditions ‘vary copstantly, In .casa of illncss, nerious or otherwlec, ‘ou iuay bo #uro 1 folt lonely, and yét my medts tatlony w’tm with roseate colors (fyml. {nr tho oung man to whoin 1 wan uugaged was coming when you hava. chosen o physlcian after o threo monthe® abacuco, -y os, coming Hahot hadly alecard his Aqvica for thALOF the | the ment dayi AL siddenty retjembered tiat well-meaning, but perhans mlstaken, mother, or m frizz wy halr (1 wer it (rizzed, aunt, orneighbor, 1t is trus that tho doctor may | banged, carlod, and brafded), so Iiwett to work Do wrong, but the chances are a thousand o ono fight af love | cyen, aAusl of antlel- Tk Te it THised. Wi g wor Conmiuer Chmt | o e T ey chedice, s pated pleasure on my checks, and furl-papers and r-pina in my hinds. 'ha noxt day, after cating o uhnr dinner of garlic and ryo Lread, T awalted his arelval, sl ho camo; but glas! ho didn't stay long 1o hadw't been In the house but a_few moments, when [ thoughtfally kafd: **Oh1 T've lud uny of my front tecth flled siuco you \vent oway," 4 yes,. notlced it," ho wald, andadding, gayly: **Cbat, you have B Teeth sa fine we m'wh’ mlmcuhcm. behio dumie than the most patete uclghbor, who **50 good In slckneas, " secn 1n a lifetime. Tho things' which encapo the unprofessional eye, and L knows, alw, thelr relativo Importance. 1 ‘speak of tho woll-eiducated physlician, snd wenwible, ool § women whose practical expericnee Is worlh more ot that cirious eyee % than tho supetfciul knowledgo Of (No Lmorant | Iutlel milky way or whitcats v boso stady was s sham and whose di- Just one grain uf gold,"” [} o o e i t i Juct that muatonr doctoring, though it may chance * amatedr, It s wholl * than to run any risk. ' [ " precautionsdesigned o secure your own safety grod ploma |8 ‘a fraud, winh chiefly to indicate tho | 1le pluced hla Augers under ny chin,\ turoed my faco up 10 hix, at tho ssine tie bending forward Lo —why, to take a closer look at that little star of fi:}ld. of course, and then horecolled us If he had cont steuck, whilo a wuddes ashy patencss all his fuce oversproad, snd wmuttering, °* Alr, glve me alr, or I dlo, he rushed to' the deor and taking a misstep fell' down the front etops, Lroku hls lug, and fafuted, When ho rottirned (o conscionsnesy be broke vur engagement, und that brakemy heart. Nut mllrhy!ltlln. who undenitunds iy canutle tution perfectly, llrl that timo and -a new lover will heal tho wound. lnstead of belng disconso- late, 1 am cheerfolly waiting for the nuw Jover to ‘tput In an appearanc aont the old ‘one back bis lettcrd, ring, and a ook of halr, had_my nonozraina put on Lhe package, entwinod witha wreath of onfons aud gurlie, und perfumed with the vame, Deavrted by my fricrds, my church, and my laver, Ialghod for **ncw folls to conquur, ™ and as [ aat a slghing, Hke a fimh of fnspication. came the thought of blue plass. awd I u woment I was standing upon the highest plunacle of the Moun- tafua of Dellght, with the sun of sclenco shining, tull upon me, and the nest lnstant 1 was down In® the deepeat depths of th Valley of Despalr, fo bered that 1 had none of thy **ila that 1l fodo welly i1 an unsafe dipendeucn, aiico b has few principles to gulde §f, und (ta practice is fonnded upon a Mmlted number of facte, and thoro bat imperfectly undertood. ~ Like overything elve uneatistactory when tried by oy high suandard.of protcsslanal art, boy the doctor's directions Liaplicitly, . The ex. “Agency scidom orises whenlt ls safe to put aside Tiis fustrnctlona, Jf {tReciu 1o arlso, to conwult him, evenat the cost of Do not always be doalng children, ‘Tho alight ++ malales Wil often dlllsr(;u under the combined o induences of reat, Niht dlet, and sleep. Do not, o1y the othier houd, lot thy child sufller day after duy when you don't kilow what 1 tho matier, ba- cange you'**don't belleve 1 medielnes.” it is ono thlnz fo glve medicine when it 1 1ot raquired, snd another Lo usae it Judiclously to ward ol or cuntrul serioun discase. Discaurago the growthof crotchets in your braln, and kuep a teachabie spirlt, In any sudden iliness watchitol and carefal, but be cool, 1o not tive way 10 unressoulie frlght, and don't foolishly, 1hiad alost sald wantonly, sactifice your own bealtl in & freuxied sallcitudo to 4o vverything yoursof, thic divease Is one thal runs s wwift coaree sud the | js helr to™; not a pain racke my frame, fovers, Buby's 1ifu s told off by heart-beats, the mother | rheumatiany, bolls, and warts como not nlgh may then well forget berself and refuso to leave | me, wnd, dn fact, 1 ow as well as thie bedelde of herduriing, Lnt If wany days or | alwsys am, for can nusure you that wocks 0re to pars it §s requixite that you obtain -le-:r. eut uutatmus food, gt frequent baths and freeh wle, A ittle careful hosbanding of re- eources at the heglnning, when tho u{mpmln! are d and the danzer not urgent, will somctimes ehable one to b incatlmable servico uta colsly when evervthing tells on the resul Iu contigious discases religlously observe the L have nevor' takeo a dose of medicluo sicce the time § atood on the border line of chlldhoo, and stepped over into the enchanted Jand of ulirlLood, aud escaped at the vame thae from thy clutches of tat awful deapot. King Cuvtor Ol Wil vory tviiont 1 caumot experiment nyon mywelf,” E muttered, as slowly and vaily § wenued wmy wuy 10 the coal-shed: and, os I looked uourn- fully ut the littlo pile of coal ju the cornar, tho sentonce, Il put Uiua glase tn tho coat-sled, il aud that of others, Lt ud coushie® 1ow tho new-born balic. He fs 28 Cgly e s fioz a0d 0ot unliko vne, with his dise propurtionately” large trunk*and 1linbe sprawling wihidy about. ~Fcarcely {n tho world his Troublos have alreudy, begun, “Phe nurse washes th suap 1010 bin eyed ood then ploe i up ghtly bn s dropped from my lips sud scattured my melaneh as the sunshing scutters Lhe clonde, And 1dlfy and I'm lad to stake that T am mow the Kappy pos- sesso of the beat-ylulding coal-mine In the world. 1 have taken contracts to fuzuish the coal-dual all the large Eastern and Westery h 1 got the contrsct becatwe It docan’l cost e bandaze. 1s thix for warmth? A flaunel band | coal. W1 Jousaly applied ie 8 wisearrangemnent. No; not | & ceut, snd consequontly § can sell it cheaper than for warmth. but 1o keep bim In° sbape. Thero i | suy odo else, . Wi, of s Talling ‘sparte. Nature 1t | *“CU3ve sent my sdvance agent to that place which did ol kuow what ohe Wak about when she | 1 known by the clawsical “nawe of Hudes Lo nega- fraulonicd thoro flexibde ¥ibs und thoss | tiate wiih lis Satanic 3ajcaty. e wasa book. elastic Lut atrony andominal wulls, One | sgent, aud L s almost” contdent he whil persuate would think 'they’ were desizned un pure | bis Majeaty 10 disvard wulpbur nud us coal.~ And yose to walntsin tho cobeslom 1 beluve | If hodocs clinch a barguin with bl Lama mady 1 they were, and that they aro fully adequate to that | woman—tnaucially, b{: Idle whils walting fora mes- end, 1advise the motler, when she Is sbie, Lo Not wishini to 106k to that. Landage. Very injuriows pressury | eagv from bofuw, | putblue wlass in one of thewnnth way be wace with ) quite unawstes 1o tho haree. placed & Tocking-chalr with o wesk back Donot bandeu the Laby and (ax yourself with the und sat down to note the elfect. But 1 zeroval snd replacemont of nulicrous strata of d, and, tually, hike Caig, 1 funtsatically wade garncots. The wore shnple | wentoveriuto the **land of N, Aud while [alipt the clotlea sud the fewer, 50 that wariath bosee | the vau futentioually and matfclouly cliauged his cuced, the butter, Lot thirg be sbaolutely no pres- sife upus the chiest, wo cutifuy 1 of straps or weams ubung the vhuuilers sud sriuits, no svolda- blo wrinkles suywhere, The red creases wecn b the teodvr fleak, when the chila o undreesed ‘ofton Lese wituens Lo 1ho crucl fashlon of the aitire. Tae undergarneuts should be made of soft Qauncl, Tu suwmer this way be Bgtt, and, If the okin Iy scnaltive, a vory thin wuslin sy be fus terpoped between Iaud the surface of the bod; It woet Lo recmberncd that jofauty bave but s Teeblo power of genersting Leut, und sru absolute- 1y d&rfl;«lunl upvu comwbuicated warmth. Aud Bere l wet coter wy varucet probest ugaiust the poditivn, aud then Ve blue light fell across fect, aud juat tuak fu the Jittle figer of my vhat band, Aud’l, 0 heavenst lumbered on UNCONICIVLE 0! the awlul truueformation the oforenentivaed por- tiond of oy snatomy were undergolng, At Listl wwoke, sid &s tny glanco rested upon my Nty goger, eleeplly 1 woundered bow [ hap- poncd to fall aadeep’ whtt the rollinz-plu v my bzud; and then my gaze wandered I “auy feet? Oh, Theee's & o on thy Bour. | shouted, and and [ land nezr the door ou the Oppsly uldE 0T the roous aud witl wy haud upoy e kuob, o frghitcud Jouk aud a turobbiug bearty On the following Sunday 1 attended church In' ng about ten minutes, eaid ho woulll be obllzad to. 1 tarned me bnck to ree those fret. bt they wers gone, nnd after a frantie fnvestigation 1 discovered thert pratrading from unier my drees and extend- Ing half.way acros< the poum. 10 an Instant [ took in the horrible ritantian, A sense of_dizzineas eame over me and 1 swooned, and, ax I foll. my head steack the miarble-topped table, and atove it fnto a thoneand fragments (not. my heni, bnt the table). 1 will not tell you of my tears, m{ agony, or my raze. hut meekly ask if there 19 anyibin whero Ahat whil connteract the effects of blue can imazine my foclings when [ Jook gantic feet, and Lien fondly think of other days ‘When they were dressed In nobby No. 2 bonta, Iam in & terrihle condition. for 1 can't go onl and | don’t like to stay In, and 1 feel Ind. 1 wan! to make some calls, but, even If my fect wore nq’ they once were, you can_all soo how ridicnlans f¢ woull he for mo to array my thumb and three Incers fnadelicate pearl-tinted glove, and then earry the other aronnd in A mical-sack. I'hie’only frosh air T fd e at nfunt when [ walk up and down the alleya in the dark, and I'm niways in canstant dread, for 1 am llsble to be arrested ac any nioment ne a teamp or chicken-thicf. With n muttared matediction npon blue glass and sclence, 1 repeat the guestion, Is thero any howe for me on il nide the River Jordan? or amy I doomed to mies ander through this vale of tears with people saying: of mo s Longfellow safd of 1lawathat * At each atride n mile nho measunres ' Yours, quite hope- fully, Cuar. THR T, 1. As h the Editor of The Tridune. GLnNwooD, 18, reh 13, —~The inet meeting of onr Arsuciation was well attended, it being anpars cnt that the mambers were deeply interested in the communleations that would be lald before the beethiren, After the Hestorer had been regularly eirculated and the report of the Secretaty of Bnn- weration hiad been recelved and acted upon, the Prealdent, wno Is comparatively a young man, and of o sangiino temperainent. aaid that he wis pleased to see that our condition bad at last awak- eued an interest nmong intelllgent peopla that was genoral iu Its nature, if not l\'m?u\lhr e, and that Le trusted, to be productive of happy re- Tie thereupon presented and read (n thele lar_order the soveral communications of Sherwood, 1. 0. U, Snufl, Mrs Lady Clerk, and Dewoy. A vote an at onco ordered for tho ladles who had of than s kindly fitenlshed the name and addrees of Aunt Nelly ll\r. the author of the tar-water remedy. Tirother 1., who s a short man, and hae a high temper, being the Orst speaker, said that the suw- gestion of tall was Incendiary awd of a hilghly dangerons tendoncy, ¢4 Imagine, ** said ho, **tho Areocintion adopting her method for removing the Supply Kerosoue and set tire to 181* We wonld, triie, become bright and shining lights, but the city urdinunce prohiblting the burniig of ‘rib- bixh In the strects would deter all good citizens from adopting it," and e very much doubted whether it wonld really be prodactive of. good; he for_his part did not care to foin any such torche light proces<lon. ile was followed by Brother P, wlio has ow of ‘delleate fringe surrounding un extensive table-land of tar on the summit of Nis cranfum, who sald: ‘Lot us lay our heads todether,' but was st once uu{)pfll By n general cry of **No, nol Ordert Tat Bim out,"etc. ‘The Preelddnt, ‘afior he lnd secared order, severely censured Bro. P for sug- Reatinz ench o' thing, a4 it would, i sdapted, bo heondictivo of much neediees suffering and misery. iro, I at onco spologized, and was permitted to proceed. fle went on to sy that he thought that some further inquiry shonld by made into tie man. ner in which tar was to be used, ** It {s evidont, ™ rald he, ** from our oxpericacs, that it ls good to ep the halr from falling out, but It 19 not yeu clenr how i should bo applled. Lady Clerk tell3 e that her head 19 covered witl roft doswn, but that she dld not apply the tar {o her ecalp, ' [Crios uf ¢ flear, Hear,™] and 1, O. I, «ays that sho fntonds ‘to ‘use it falthfnlly, even hushand has to pour out the This fe a. dark anbject,™ eald **andall there vague hintsas to the manner of of ftaapplication arc of alarmtng nature, bLreth- mkl he an the tar began to warm apand relax 114 f2rlp, **ntrnies are belng purpetrated upon ua by s bund of schieming fomales. Lok at Mrs, A, 43, &, who has *freely steafned the tar-water through a flannel cloth and upplied It to her huy- band'ahead* Teaving us n totul oblivion as to whether the flannel cloth or the tar was applied to tho paor ol man's head, And notn ward from Mr, A, G, 8. 1o was, cro this, doubtiess, flline an «numvly grave, —done_to his death by tar- water,” (** Oh! oh!"] Hero reveral members triul to aecura tho Hoor, bit it was finally awarded to prother W, who nsed to comb hia few spears of ha¥ over the top of hla head fn the valn hope of defolving —the world, (This wns beforo At Nelly Bly invented hee remedy for batil- nigs.) le'hegin: ** 17 it pleasa the Conrt, L will a4 '{nur attention to the ulucdlu‘pln]mficd for ro- npving the tar. A1l the information that we have rxaived an to date pointa without doubt to land or feunc of o kindnd tiutura an aur only hope, The wgrostions of the uso uf a Doty washing-mizchine ike Trrclesnnt, and made, T take 1t, in pura fris. Aity. In ft possiblo that o must unolnt our heads %1 the old Jewish rtylo? [Groans and cries b 1*Nover! neverl™] Mt wa forcver bo tha subject foroll thonghtless mirth In oar community, and thaobject of the gibes und encers of the strect buye, Antl not a siutle bear in the land?" Tho dis- ‘cuesion was clowod by the I'rosldent, who wald that he had notieed n 1ittla remark of Mer, A, (L 8, to the effect that If we used tho tas-water tho resnit wunld be a surprlse tous, o regarded thls as o finw picco of sarcasu, The friends of tho Association hiad already fosti- ficd thelr !ur‘(\rhv 10 ity effect upon var honora- hle mombership, but that ho thonght the hrethren wuo.ild bear hitn ont in saying that such anrprisca wera hardly to bo desired, The communications wera then referrod to the Commiiteo on Bxpodi- ents, and the Arsaclation adjonrncd. Thore s u fecllug of dizsatlefaction In’ the Soclo- ty as to the nature of the roniedlies suguested for ramoving tha tar, and T honestly belleve that none of them will e adopted. In the meantime wo nre thankful for the fuvors shown va, and would huni- bly sugzzest thut It 1« quite prooable that one woman in the Steto of Michlznn will have reason to regret her criminal carclussness In adylsing old men to put tar on thelr heads, Can somie ane furnlal us withtho nama of o attorney who realden in 8t. Joscph, Mich,, not retuined as counsel by Aunt Nelly Blyr How Inl\gfi\\'lll it tako the tar to' *! wear off " 1a Unclo Nelly iy allve? Tho old man, does ho atill live? s Wilt somo gontleman who has nsed “tar-water with a satisfactury result (to himsclf, notto his wife) bo so kind us to tell us all nbout jt7 Wil the Avaband of Mes, A, G. 8, commanicate in confidenco to the Assoclation lis own persoual exporlenco with tar? lunpmlulg. g L HEcr, B L A SOTUE RLAUONTER OF TR INNOCENTS." Tn the Fl TAs Tridune, Tus Toine tor af Drer Cuzek, N, March L. —Will vz admit another wembor (o 'Fha Home, aud par- it un ol alatur (oh, not a0 vory old, after all) to ** wpeak and rollevo her mind ¥ X The world Increascs its resources by the discove arles :wulanll{ boing mata In ficlenca, and util- ires thom for 1ta material wol}uzrlly: and a0, 04 the kowledgo of causcs and eifects” makes prog. s, inen onght to learn more and moro of the ro- wilts af certain habits in physical ifo as -affucting ot only thoeir uwn persomal condition, but thal alwo of otherx, and (o ulillze thls knowled:o for the good of the race, It I+ not intended in this articls to attompt any analysls of the hutricats sub- Jectof tha hereditury tranamlssion of cvil habits and vices (s wubjech, from Its lmportance, une donbtedly worthy of the lighest conslderation of buth Clirfstinn and philanthroplst), but merely to apenk of & fow of tho evils of the lae of tobacco, and to mnke 1ho articlo suygostive rather thun ar- gumentalive, - ‘I'ruwk, the great antistobacco nan, bas treated this subjoct from alimost every point of viow, pre- wenting reason upon reason for the upolication of Al tofal abstinence len:lblu it tho uve of tobacen a4 well us the nse of fotosicating boveraged, ' And timo and ugain has the cost uf the usciess Indul. ence been shown, somcething us fullows: Flve cunta a day (the smallest wiin evet used by any one) 18 $1H,25 & yeur: 10 cents doy fa $10,50 20contsa day 1a ST a year efo, ulwo been shown fn wnmfstakeable ggures what could bu galued to one's self or family, In educus tion, Tmprovoments, and urivileses; “and fudeed, the whalo round of culture and comfort, which conld be enjoyed, Lot for the indulgenca of this apvetite, Py d fux lthiness of the pructice tiw alwn been pictured in Janunge, though true to Hifu, 100 revoliing to b repeated, ' Hut nelthor aro are these s 8xpects of the nubject 8t proseat to bo condldered, Mura loss in dolarsapd cents, though conslderuble, 1 uot the greatest ovil connected good nd 1s bractice. It inoro__vapecial) Sluughiter ot the Innocents, ™ the writer wishes to reacnt Inthis article. And, Brst, attentlon fa ealled to the futal eflects to health upon woman, who live In lomes where tohacco (s e, As an Hlustration of the partlcujar phaso under consideration, tike & common case: A youn, lady, with good heslth, and us falr & proapect of long Hife uud happiness ws could dealted, marrics an fiveterats chewer or smoker, It will not be longs before she grows sallow, thin, and shattered in health, it oue saye, sho knew ull this bo- forahand, aud should have counted the cost hefore placiint hurwell Sor 1ife fn the polluted stmosphore of a Atihy chewer or simoker's hove, This may be weasurubly true, but nght hore 1s o view. of tho matter nol to be overtooked. - When the young man camg *'a woolng," he know that bis breath would be offennive to the fale one he wishud to guin for bix own, and that hlepres- ence infght not be repalulve to her, he took exireme fi""' t0 uso deodorizel to restraln himself in the usu of the weod when In. her company, Blie, poor ~thing, did not altogether sealiza tho differcace batwee pursult and p :sslon, = She thought **(hin: wero as (iey seemed, " and that all would be well, But when she becatno Inevitably secured to him the devdorizers wero 4100 Lroublesume and the re strafut wad lald aside; und bow shio wust bear the cunsequences, These consequences are, in o lunger 2 languiduess sho cannob account orvaus euergy, disarmngoment of b and lungs, andu general fullurcot vlum{. Lif bucomes, nut twhat shu anticipated, but a siats of constant 11 heulth. In some cases the vnd v ot lenat in betugreachtd, and the youuy wifo's fricnds, in sorsow and anguivh, lay hier away in her early grave, wouderlng” ut the mysterious Frovidence Whicli removed her from her home. And thoy uever drcaw, loast of all hor husbaud, that her wys- tum had bee gradually weakened und poironed by the fumes of tobucco, “§ do believe that many wives aro sacrificed fu this wsy; but if, Ly caro and Judl- cious treatinent. they lve, tho numbers ars very fow wlhiere goud bealth 18 enjoyed, In moast casve, s eary of wuftering b their portivn. From imauy ine stances, Lelto but vue.” A lady neighibor of infue, whoeu first honie was free from the coutamination of tobicco, and In which she enjoycd ressonable bealtis, a few years wince, for & yecond husband, suareied an fnveterate smoker, 'The atmorphere ot thelr buuso (s always pollutud with the vllor of to- bacco: vven the cluthiog in thorouxhly saturated 1Kl 1t ol the wifo by jusk puasing away with sick prowsch, clogzed lungy, sud geavrul luuguor, Bl I You ! at those gl- * knows an honr af relicf; anid, withontdoubt, her cpndition Is attributavla to the inhalation of it delipate lady, or, indeed, to any one of elther rex, A vRiated atmosphore from other ronrees than tn- bacfo t4mo_nffensive as o bo intolerable, cansing fairinees, naneen, and conghing, and how much intolerablo ought the polsonous fumes of the | Indpn weed tabo considorod, as its fatal cffects e, *Thit this atatement may bo trae, ' ! take any of- | fenaife smiell, and_how slckening | becomen to a wh. In tho sccand place. the minchief ls even reftcr to a more helpless elasn of {nancents, —the are Mt} oncs of the honeehold. For montha the | nectanarily confined to warm, clos , cnoayh ta’be taken Into the pure, 10 ihisclaas, found in homes where the father nsef tovacco, naver restraining hineolf, bnt Alling thohouse with an odor baneful to_tho biitle onca, theletlects are terribla: in_ dironler fo the woak otach, lrritation to throat and lunge, and often 0 '{kcllng the delicate ncrvous eratent an Lo canse corknlslons and rpeedy death, Even the kiss of amttion Ia franght with disease to the Innocenta, &\m above all things, the kis<cs for wife and chil- res ought to be pure,) 1 know a famlly where notene cliild—nnd there are five or #lx In it—is ex- emjt from irritability of throat and branchial tubes, ‘Tl are subject to conslant conghe {n winter, when mog conflned to the house than at othor seasons, andall are frall and pany-looking, apparcntly just- bechuee the father will smoke Inceseantly In “the 1livhyz-roome of his home In the presenca of wifo anfchildren, ¢ weiter has faken some pains, during this whter. In which diphtheria, searlet fever, aud roro thirfats liave Leen 70 prevalent, to obegrve that thike iscases have been muro severe and fatal in th€ hml\ln[niwlu.‘m therg are devotees ollering upiheir abominable Incense at the ehrina of to- Tu pure bomes, thees ditensgs have been micke castly controlled and lees fatal, Hrom closc observation, it ta evident that many wifea and children with diseuned stomachs and Tutks, and dieordured norvous eystents, auffer thesa tihipa from thin vico, mad yet, e I ratd bofore, eatse of sicknessand death s never acknowludy Evpry possible and impossiblo resson s given for thd reault but the right onc, fhut it Ia salil, again, that people got used to these thihes, and do not mind thems **my wife dnd chidren rather ke my cigar and meerschauwm, ™ It i truc that the eystein dues adapt itacll. in some nimsure, to a condition of impurity, but this by no matis proves that no Injuey isrecclved. Andit does seem Imposaible that « flme ever comon whien a yure-minded, refined, and cultured woman ilkes the atmuosphers of a tobaceo-seented home. ller Instinctive delfescy must cxcreise n constant pm- ted against it. 8lie must dread tho Iniliance of thehabit npan her children If, by her care, thoy liveto grow to waturity, And eapecially le she anxtoas that her sone and daughters should not go outto homes nollnted as hers hos been, No, nol Dunot Matter yonr<elfl that beeausa she iakes no ontcry nnd patfently cndures that sho likes It Sho cannot like etther It or thodisgusting tilthiness con- neetod with ft4 usa, It was said tn the beginning of this article that mcn oughtto learn tho eflects of certain indul- Eences upon themselvea and othera, Dut will they? L there mental vigor or cunacience enough lefvin the tobacco-stupeied incbriato to lot elther assert Itself, in approving the right, and ucting ne- cordingly? ‘One almost despairs of the reformation of uny of thoee devotees, ‘Lo habit s na poralste ont aa fale iteelfs Its demands wo imperativo anil climoruin that geatlfcation maat follow at what- ever cost Lo ouesclf or snioring to athara, ‘Then what ia 1o bo done? I candidiy conlesa I do not know, ‘f'he habit bas reached such dimonsiona st wcarcoly & man or boy cun bo found who doen not putl hin clgar In_ your face. regardivas of good manners, or breatho his intulerably polluted breath 1n your presence, regardless of decency, To supply the demands of such a” mnltitude, wholo plantations in our own and other countries are cxclusively devoted to the production of to- bucco, Warchonses ure flled with It and its cur- ing for market, ita salv, and nannfaciaro Into the formn 1 which it 14 used furnlsl cuiployment fur thuurands of Inborers, Almost eévery town of a few hundred Infwbitants hav fts clzar mannlactos v, from which lrehe daily o lot of younz men und hoys in adnifenblo trafning to make more customers for thearticle, ‘Thaey loarn to use It becauro others do, and so thy evil spreads, undernining the health and vigor of thu whole raco of niun, the innocents, us uauul, cndaring the wost sulfering. flut the question #tiilremafna, Whut Ia to Lo done? Perhaps, w had to be done In the temperance canse, the way i tnagitate, and ngitate, and agitate, bringlng cone stanity before the people tha evil of the practice, Elving the truth clear and well-defined, to nrouse the conselenco und awaken thought, ‘Then cons tinua to ght It out, on whatevor 1ing Keems most prumlsing uf g, If, a¥ Uen, Urant sald about the Rebelllon, **it takes ull sumuer, " or a getieration of simers, Much may be done Ly Sabbath and day school teuchers {u fustractious Lo children and youtl in the principles of health and sound wmorality. Let all who love purity, goodness, and the weffare of thele race, cleanso thenielves from tho baneful practice, and help carry on the reform in reaching wthers, My sheet Is full, und [ cloae. ** Manoaner's Steten. Z ' MADCAP VIOLET." 70 the Kdlior o The Tribune. 1 Broasinaron, 1., Murch 11L.—This book (s ful of Intercat from beginning to end, and the duliucs ationa of charactor finer thun In o **.\ Princeas of Thule, " \l‘hlcll“‘lll¥nl|blfl" conceded to bo the moal powerfal and intercaiing of Bluck's novels. There 14 not onu charactor introduced {n the story but i4 the typu of a cluns, and playx tha part unelg- g bl ue fioe with elurmiue iidelites to, natuee. ~dawos Drumiand la Just [mperfoct enduzh 10 b haman; without tha'law of befng biused in his Judgmont or Violet's lova for him by hin sinter's oplufon, tie conceprion of hils nohle, tender na« tire would xcutn_purely Iieal, Thy author has fnely purirayed the faueltul, whinsleal manners W which” Drigpmond’s modesty vellud the rkllng wit, wisduny, and nobility of his wenti- onts, uliing I asanined nsnner appear constitutionsl oven 1o his doirest felends, 3t istrue that Qcorge Miller's positive assertion to Drammond should Bave had great welght agalnet the theories of Mra, Warrenor; nud thu Interview with Violet fmmedistely succeoding Miller's ubrupt departare from the yacht was, in= deed, **romethlivg for 8 man to tink of duriug the rest of his life,’ bl Drummond's acceptance of hla sletoe's views was but notural, How often 1n real Mfe do we not find loversncparated by slight mivunderstundinis, whon thore has besn o “fuller, frcer exclisnge of confldence betweun them than ut that thno hind bleseed Viviet and DenmmondY Tho strengih, forvor, (livine purity, beanty, nid touch- fag wweotuess of theirloye for cuch ather conld nothava beun o axyuisitely plctiirail by tho s thor If tholr couree of true Jove had run smooth, 1t Ja a picturo which should remain in the hoart as one of it choleest treawureas a plettiro of that love which conatitntes tho truo union, without which warringe In o farco to men, nud un abomination unto the Lord, Blalr bas aald, **Ono thing ia cere taln, that, without possessing tho virtuous affec- tiona in a wtroug dogreo, no mon can uttaln eminenco In the -nmlmmnm of _uloquence, Mo must foel what a g man feels, If ho expects greatly tomovaor to Intorest mankind," Judued Dy this rule, Mr. Black should bo honored forand wide, for he has cortaluly obtalned the sublimity of eloquence ln the expression of o love which must **greatly inovo™ evory truc-hearted man and woman. 'Tho mastarly annlgsis of Vin- fot's character 1 tho sirongest point of tho book; the furce und trae wonanl of her naturo glyes one fvod fur thuught in this oroof woman's rights and Lrings 10 mind Wordsworth's ** perfuct wor an," Une sentence In thy suthor's analysis of V| Ict’s love fur Druminond we must dlwsoct, ukln'{ 2« the basts of our remarke that true unlon which cxists between noblo naturos, ** She sow things os h saw thom; sha waa schooling horself to have scarcaly an opinfon of her own." 'To tho firat clause we acquivsce: a woman natirally and un- consclo ccs things with the cyes of the man sho loves when be 1s worthy of her deopeat respuct, and when his knowledgo iw snperior o hors, evon thouzh hls intellect may not be wo, It 16 rure that awoman lsua profound and logical o ronsoncr o man, cven when her sdvantages have bLeen cqual to his; probably hecauss women arrivo at_concluslons rathor "Ly ntuition than by a continued train of ressoning. lub the mecond clanse we cannot tndorse, Mr, Black has made s mistake which slightly mare his plcture of sulnifvaton which 1s the result of luve In natured lke Violet's, 1Mo destroys tho boauty and grice of such nbmlesion by making 1t appear that Vio- it d form no opinlunw, & course showing ness of mind and cbaractor, and depriving her of the pride aud joy of ylalding to ** her lord auil minster’* when she could” not agreo with him, A woman of Violet's nature glorics in submittiug her will as a proof of the powse of love,—there 1a no merit in obedlence which arlyes from fear ur a laock of abllity to think, reason, and argue, Man I8 nover infallibles thi woman owes it to husbaud to be ne erofore, heraell, her children, and her were cchio of sentiments, but to use the mind which God hax given her, if only for the sake of romsining frm to her own convictions whero at- lers of consclence aro fnvolved, Thure can bu no truo unlon whero elther party 14 o nonentity, Mr.. Black gives an Impression of Drummond's hclnfi contunt 1o bave Violet ult slways at his fect, whic! {u likely tomialead his readers into uttributlng to Drunpiond su egotism which iy at varlance with s wholu nature, With this rml»ll. wao proceed to tho discussion af Ueorge Miller's character, which o admirably rupreseuts tho onpleasing but harnless traits of the uyerage young wman of this century, ‘The young Milicrs'of tuls duy sro unll{ classlilod un- dur the head of **clever ful 8,'" the \‘nalucnel of the adjective us applied \g wo deliphtful, oe aves vuo to Infor ull mander of excelleuced fn & very ordinary youth, who ls jucapablu of a singlo intelicctual etort or Bigh-minded sction, although *+hiu own ood opintun of blmself would yuand ‘galust anything wesn or dishonorable." "It palutally true that **seif-cateem, and not sny very high noton of m kecpa many o man froin pleking & pocket,” ‘There are vo many Mre, Warreners {n tho world whose very sweetness and siegleness of nature are thelr most powerful {lluics fn tangling the life-threads of thelr dea friends, that we slgh in recognicing an acqualn ance, 80 much hora b done Ly the oMclous uicds aling of sa affcction which must detormine fu i own way whal lIs best for the object of its solicitade. We fnd wuch to adwire in the charactar of SirJActon North,—hls infinite pa- ticnce and milducss in his Intercourss with women, hls activity and cnergy In business, and his drm. noss, jencraulty, und uprishtavis 1u dealing with mru, {orm & combination of rare excellcuce, Mr, Dtack's description of personal sppearance pows scence tho charwiug vaguencws which captivatos by leaving the {magination of the reader to- 41l up the qutituta sccarding 1o fadividaal faney.’ A huro or . Lerolno froquentfy becomen distaatefui becauvs of a wulon of pervona) appesrance snd characler which Jars vuz weuss of Stnces and banaony, The suthor's passion soems Lo bo for the Hixhe lands, 26 b3 rather hurrice througl bis story until by can lay the scene there, snd ‘then loiters sud 1ingcrs, Nlug on every jucldent, and touching with a tender, roverent” hand the magnlicent wncry, ‘Thess descriptious, for which M. Blick aloww u geuulne love, gho ouo an lupreston, of hat wi on ving, lu A dream, sven an artist danb b« canvas Al Zreat dastica of bright and sober colors, put promirenonsly, withont any sttempt at har- many, he 1alking the while, by a fac-off, dredmy tone, of racke and ekics, Isfands and oantuing, water and birds, 1), nt Yast, tha confused tnaries of an color, and hie talk, blend finperceptibly, d one seea a heautifnl bt Indistinct pictare of those things which conatitnte the snbject -of hid ol litoquy. One polnt we must ot forcet (o men- 1lon, —tite anthor's appreciation of the fact that aa many wonien endeavor to asanuie the style and proslon of @ man in writlng for pobtication wnthl thelr fame b tho hat a literary world (s nnen ve an unacknowledgea kalf-fledied desire that thelr productiona bo conaiderad cuanations from the masculine braln, Tet to that they ar Imbibin, o all We cin congs of 3 We refer the reader to Vioe ‘a novel, in whicl aha #o stndiously endeavors Imprexs tha (Imarinary) public with the bellef the wisdom of & man, or young authoreas! how unconecionsly she os lier Imnulses to hetray the secret of her sex! Vi eclentionsly reconimend the_perisal ** Madeap Violet ™ to both sexes, belleving that n uaturd et bo {ndeed eallons not to derive both pleasure and lenelit Trom the contemplation of such characters as Vlolel's and Drumnmu?.‘-. Cnteaan, March 12, eap and my new g admit mo toa scal In tho chimney: AULAL A CHARITY SERMON, the Edltor of The Tribune, Now Uave piit on vy best bowed apectacles, will yon ner of your charming Home? 1 will not take nuch aprce, and will tey 1ot 1o bo too carrulon 9. but the epirit ovea me to #peak to vome of these dear yonne prople, and I trusl they, an well fl!lll\l‘wl“ klmlly‘ ulge an old woman's wish, Find, to thesa young ladles—nnmareied, mean—I want o y n o few rds, - Iileas your bricht cyes! 1 know o well Kow you enjoy living,—how the sunshing grows hrightor where you are, and the very stars twinkle with ont vy when yon look up at them. | know how the world Jooks to yon every morning, asIf it wors {‘u‘um\vly made for your know how far off grict, and troublo are onl peopl menning shanld ever conie to you, irese” pleAsee, ago scems, and that care, ly wards applled to other 8, Al It acenis Lmpossiblo that whelr dread TEnow how no old helght seens 100 lfty foe sout toseale, ho ape too bright for you to realie, no human good 1o romate for yoitr dariny RYOrs 10 Erusp. for 1 tns onee u 1 know, glel, and 1 have not forgotts Thut beeaung kind leaven hus given you blessing 80 ol 3 une Jonz day of hard, 11 by cept 8 small, Toitve. ing, " which will feave a rony duy. Sl may Ue & weak, frall hni c W ¢ ity on ) b I tanco dolei vt to heron Satmrday nignty rich amd full, o not jorget to ittlo tho hurdon of somo Poor wister, W alid tofl, unss D4 With no ome ex- ail, cotd elosct 1y roumo You can give hee a sniling irl, oblieel by 0 rid-learted employer to stand all day hetdnd his unter, without a° moment's rest, co ur kinfle whatever may be the in<ol tomers, and zradually 4 e And and spirit she ever posacsscd, because the dear ¢8 at home wonld starve bat for the weagre pit. andwlifch many others atand mu{ to aceept If #he fafnts the way, Mok her ua Hitld trouhlo as possibic: s courieond tu ier ns Lo your associates: treat Tirhten I nword of uymimhy. pe heras one huly should trait angtlior; and it will Uring back Lo you a two-fpld bl loaving. If youuro atifl a sehoal-gir] thera may bo soma poorly-clad elassmte who 1 hending all her enoe Kloa towar.d becoming a L to of tcher, that ahe may help Hghten the burder which s whitening the hate hior mother or brinztug wrinkles to her father's Brow, Thero are meny wilys i1 Which you €an hetp he pr ol can appreciate n Indy 1n calico as weil ns nn boak whlch you puse offer to lund It to her, sl do It in such a wa; r, Youcan now amd then siynfew wonds of her echolurenip or lee studious Lits, ar introducs her to. soma other triend who n wille, d if opportunity uifers speak of eome favorile Meo of 4, il IF 8ha s not road 1t, that ing you plensaee by e- 4 u9 theso (and your lgrow with practice), aud take an old woman’s word for it, dear giels, yoa will ind s qul lck Intellect, ns warm, true, grateful benets anong them os ean bu found anywhere. Uesides, our own antures waill enlargo and W eweeter or the eilort, nore bicssed 1o we yuara of costl: much us it 1s fur otve, ion o ilLte WAth your bralne and hands, ns il us liearte. Do your play well aiter wo mony pano Jeasona? Do you not ki B kome other giel whosy eyen grow wistfal when #lie heara others talk of mus.cr Sako someoppors tunlty of saying to hor, ** Mary, dear(ar whatever hel ot r umo [8), 1f you' have e 1o cono to o g0 on Hatirdays for an hour, it wunld be a real pleasaro to start you on your wiy mutsieward; it i won't hurt you any way, and It wl mo to make me review, would woinler §f you could o yol o will b o imercy to Ton't you think “eho e Lho nleasnro n were giving her? And when sho comus, play well forlier as you do for. ** Bob'a Sieter,” oid nct natural oa If hor slatlon was canal to Ot n So 1ell Yull. duars, Lread east on the witora this way will return when yon Jeast expect it much for bralus, now for bands, You bave ail learned how tu mnake nll sorts of pretty things, wud, 1 hope, some useful onvs, tou; bt [ want you to learn to nne g an bay knit real, old-faxhioned knltting, d when yon hava bits of tino, have your noed| d yorn ready, —gaod, servicenblo stocking-yarn, il kit pairafter palr of all fln--.-—unay for Wig wor men, swatlor for little_boga and girls, of 4 und caoning rearlet, pretty wtriped Shakor-yarn, navy-blue, or® whita for the wea ULables. Nover ~fear but there will alwaya bo feet to M1 them,, If yon don't know any 1ittle cold toos, your tnday-scho thiem ¢3 tho Sup-rintondent of , und let onc ba filled with nnts A nnd crudies when he hangs them on the Christiag. troo . the there with no other friend to glve them Havae your cadt.ofl clothes, which will not find a welcomu romewhere, toh fi os, whocs audall, —thers which il Tkecry' a lunian befig wrm cnrn into stanller oncs 1o it pove little s whe azg e nothiu niako your old_dresios 1h~ children of that poor widow on the back strect oV an know 5o well how to ussuine, you wl er cr yonder,uu tiey can cotoscliooland to ehiurch: your ofier 14 wndo In the meuy \\‘ny"yu:; nover offen the most gensitive voul, r you linve begun to do theso things oppor.' Afte tuultics will maltiply, snd you will Invent wuys of mur own 10 110 good and Iw'good more than I conld read’ from the Kl it ne I you, And by and by, wucn your nanies aro ook of Ltfe, o shail eat i ne's volco sayinz: **Inasmuch aa yo have done unto thu least of these, yo huve done It unte Hoping I have not outsalil my vml!:nmul and that llmlupluw Mines will ba met In tio snine sp! prompled them, and heodod ward whom mr heart so warma that I want thom c to it which by tho dear girla to- aaant moniorica whon the: havo only pl aro on tho **sunsct sldo ot 1ife,* 1 will bid you nll good- by, GuANDNA OLLWAYY, Citeago, dMarch 1, —] Prealdent, and who wrota tho i en op ON BEVERAL BULJECTS, Th the Editor al The Tribune, -Now wo know who s ericho Itond,** wo f the iy all sottle placidly down to tho stady o spring utyles, ond the dlscnsslon of the best ways d means of houwe-clenming, It ia cerlalnly uufh 1o make ono shiver to rend of grand ¥peing enlnes of willinery and ilry-goods sloros, with the suow whirling tirough he sireats and the aleet againet the window-panes, stortn wind Euracydon ' sonding dushes of Thoss who sully forth to gaze upon the wrtlicisl ** buttercups and dnlslen, il all tho pretty flowers," and the Worth-y ki tri you new fushlous In ovorskirte and mumiige, may think upou the fate of the uth 10 tho fable, who, having scen on a sunshiny day, a too,ventnzresome swatlow, which he yrocsuded to dimiona of biww er had eanxo to reret it, you hailed os a wure lmvhlm‘ar of apring, at once nter clothing (wheth- to hls **uncle " ornot I know uot), and svon ctiire of this lm‘iul!l\u o unyg wan fo s copy of ** Esop's Fablea, "' over WhiehTwsod to pore whenaehild, —representing him tume, with the dead body of alws veanty cose @ poor litla swallow uneuldo and a frozen brook on the other,—has remained in my miemuory a¥ a warning not to a central flgare, llll'llillrlfiihl n vol urchase ouc's epring bounot vr percales o early, *The 1dca of M arch 0 UOL Yt passed, "t ‘Thore fi another thing happlly sattled also, and that is th lvan," evel Wil httle Fr thocaso of **The Peoplo ve. Alexandor Sul- an,"—where Judge and ‘ury have triumph- shown to sn admiring pu‘lulnc» that accused fs gullty of nothing whut- e, ad 1s reatorvid to his delighted friends th & strong recommendution to the Lighest olicy & gruteful r«(l]lla't gift. ‘U'o bo sure there was s **unpleavuntucws ' In the family of ane rancis Hanford, shich revulted fn his bolig— well—shof, you know—at his own Uu’,lhflld in " hid wife's presence, —thus making unt\unlonlnbla '?r the Hnlllvfllll\m nt o onight not i to ab 0 (3 counxcel to rustore him o U ‘The murders said that M he ofher hud only taken a life, and A In tho case when on Individual stiempte, i ov for Bandy certaluly b 1 cheek, rofuscs 1o present the other also, dese ‘A tow yoars agto thero was qulty thiufa a 1ittle speak his mind about muybody's wifei and, ove all, upan pejng knocked down hae onght not get up, A 1 who, when smitten apon one Lilledd, No wonder tho Jury were affucted at tho patherc srpesle oI the accuncy ha basam of his fawlly. oo, but d " whercus uia soul to last accannt, " An Intellicent jury kad no ditl. Ity In declding which was the greater crinie. tir about (o J man had u famli; . 8. belongedto & ¢+ ho hi Fieht of 8 mun with o rullzoad Uit wian's comipg O second-bist, ua I u nded, to ight corporutions in thia ens cr, the Ind{vidual hav wothing ta' compiswn of, ldden rough-shod over the Mosuic law, —the American Conatitutivn, and thy W caxa of the People,™ prescated by ablo and ene ergetic counsel,—all becauss of the very pecullar views of thoss twelve ** W t-no.\ wen and. true, " bat says our Western poel: uil what did Jones, Lycurgus B, fi'unu Kaows Miserneryy e wniled a bitter smblo ta see, Aud drew the weapon of Buwle, Tn tho {nterim ho slaughters no fewor than twen. ty «three lunocents— And then when Jones, Lyenr - A el Twelve juryisen did iustantly Avquit Rad aet Lycurgus frec. Why will peoplo be s disappoluting! Tast Sate urday L wus reading the lettes of oue of Quill's op, ’r’m. und bad complacently lhuughl‘éo ‘wywolf, fii this young mau writes woll,* when be must 1 Wy s wh o) Uy ksl off witl, ** Al wo are learned " ¢ic, Ium aure be weant, Woare uuFM., but hy didu't he way so, instead of committing that cgreglous. though very common blunder, eapectally u gusge, of all aciuncus? Ot why belted Kolght oran Eurl uover thu midst of s disscrtution on he scicace of lans did ho do ity nd troubsdoars, & lald luuce fo rest ™ Lu the old thine of tournsmunl with & persou of plebelsn extraction, becauss bo ) 0 A ou beacath bim Ty i uow. apiod must comy 11 say to wy lawt ok, As it was then, challeuge to be m out’s equal, and I will k's poor little critle, that ) W TN T very posuible that 1t as well as ther cor- zespondenty, way have untbloklugly used wordi— whether mono or )va-lylluhltd-'ln:l&\‘cl« abuve ber comurehienslons but that only b to & o back what 1 sald In wy former Jetter, Sho uuat udy. She wust vachew the reading of Leaale's e ‘novels, and apoly beol? wslduously o Quilli's **dluat heap of Englishilterature, "—otl ere wise, Welnter's Unabridgel, 1 find Margaret’s Hnshand entertaining, and hope Te will write auatn. T wonder If Panl 11, 14, [sany mure of A gentleman than Gearge Eliot. He, or well deserves the thanke of the ladics for en- deavoring Lo feach them all how to he beantifu whichls **a consummation devontly to bo wished. " Launa Eante, ARRVANT-01L-183, Tn the Editor of The Tridune, Managarirawy, 1., March 13.—And still an- other *! back broken by a steaw.” 1 wonld like to ray to Em's Aunt that, from close observation, I have fonnd that the most vxactinz and Intolorant mistresnea nre those whe In their catlier years wero rervanta themaclyug, although to the public they prociaim themaclves the champlons of hired girls In yonr fsene of the 10th, in The Home, atates that +* fc does not eost more to kecp three than two {f you live well," Pechapa the one who foots the bills will not corroborate her statement, or, It may be, she is hot lrut?l. nnd her hired pirl only constimen what othergise wanld find its way Intat tho elop-pail, Whatéver niny be tho eaec, linving been for a long tinte one of o ** Committeo on lonachold Expenditures," 1 know her .assce- tlon s not correcl, Servanta are costly Ap- pendnges, They cannat be Kept for icss than ¢ week, and as much more shonld ‘l!:l‘d;' Sirel tlers st bo entmerated I ostimating af keeptuzz help. ~ She may eay tha 0 necessity for wasto If 8 un propeely manages her houscholl, But, if she las a lnrge Tamily and un_extensive scqualntance, her soclal wblizitions and other duties preciude et from ex- ercising othier than n general supervision” of her domeatic afafrs, \When an order, trivinl or other- isg, I« given, she cannot foilow up a servant to acelt 1w faithfully cxecuted, ns nuch survelllanco would pecessitate nedrly as much labor as to do “the work (n the firat P|n¢|- & Again she nnr-, **'f'reat scrvants like human be- fnen. ™ Kindly considernllon for their welfare *hould ho shown, comfortable quarters pravided, ] i For thelr extravagance nnd uscleen wasto, minor ny and good food And nu abundance thereof, Rt doea Tinv'e Aunt think such teeatment coneiata in Eivits thom_ tho wido Iatituite they genorally do- mund, such as enjoying equal privileges with the Ialy of the house, and Im\‘lln.‘ free Accesn Lo every- thing, cven to the mistress’ wardrobe and tollot appuricnances down to the tooth-lrusht — Jut heligve **eating st the tablo with the famliy" s n prerogative _ they capeclally nslst shall be granted. I yonr dwelling I commodions, and yon live” in princely Mylt, they nre not so exsctings but IF you live in a1 anprotentions hulldime on 5 noderate income, utiess this end can e attained they coully nssure you *44f they are not good enouzh to cat with yon, lhu{nr\'nwl"wflnunmgh to work for yow." (Fhla ia the exact formula used Dy sil of them,) Thelr cnadnes« 1s not the point involved. ‘They entirely znore the fact that their rocial statns I8 not the rame nd yours, apd that they are employed for thulr serviees and not for thelr companionabip, While not gnests, selther can thoy be like one of the ln!ul(( an your Interests are not identical, They will sit at yoor table and Ysten to the ronti- ments freely discitesed. and the playful hadingge often fdulzed and na seal of honor closen 1ip3, as oftu fure nightfall thoy have ree capitilated all that was sald to other oecnpying a shnflar etation in life. (Let me hiere deprecats the habitany matrons have als forined of making thele tred glels the feading tople of thelr conversa- tion ot informal gutherings and suall social entor- ‘lfilu;num.l«.) Very yucationublo taste s cortainly uplayed, ‘Shrvanta are o honsohold necesnity, ond the av- erage of them are nlno a hounhold nost,—not only careless and nefliciont, but uttorly dovold of muoral principle, often manifesting the basest tn. weatitude, Most of them will desert the kindest of cmployers, even fn nickness, If they arc offered #llxhily tneroased waues, und withont glving thnely notlco. ~ Zealuns friends cspousing thele couso havo attributed the existonce of such a category of faulta to tho teeatment thoy have formerly re- cotvedd, and, to ameliorate and elovats thelr condle tlon, dilvocato the same treatnent for them to \Vllll‘t‘{l ;l daughter or Javed member of a family is entitlod. 1 take lssuo with them upon this point. Igno- rance and want of mornl tralning arc tho caises of theso Inmentable dofects tn sorvants. Meniul labor 14 not conwidered dogrding to the mistress of an _cs'ablisliment, rcl evary inteltigent, refined el shieinka from | the position of a ** hired el Any other work Is preferabie, wlthough Whop-glels And scamstrcsnes are notmore hizhly re- munerated. Why 18 thin Beeause the majonty of ony rervants for previons yeurs have come from the lower teata of society, often from the very 1 drey f hunanity, or from fllitorate parents in unlous circumstances, who, not appreciating the advantoges that sccrue to the cducated, only cara fur tng phyeical comfort of thelr chifdren, who when olil eionch are sent forth to carn thuie own aubslstence, totally unfitted for any avoeation. Housework ia all the; cnnu\'n&: attempt, Thoy nre woll posted In nothing but thtle **rights, " and thelr mistreas’ datlos to them, The prompt pay- ment of thcle wagus - i8 thelr only conceri, ~—not thalr Iack of ability to dischargo thelr duties, In this respeet thelr conacienocs azo dormant., You ara askod to freat them ua daughters, Yon whsli to try tho cxporiment, as_you fool kindly dia- poned to thom, You manifost this fecling on all ocealon, and glvo thom motherly connsol, and make them feol at home. Instead of feeling grato- ful, they minconstrue your kindly motives Into an mpprociation on your vart of “thelr.valuable (1) o Lo *¥yuality und aro not ot afl ‘eatuck up, " In thelr” csthnation, and you And it {iieult to fell, fn_nn tncrediuly shoet Lind, who 3 nilstress of tho sitnatl Amerlcan wirls, ny soirit,are the greatest oud uro fally as limpudent an the Irishe who ara not as woll educatod as other foruigners, Shinll women of culture alono sufler for the lgno- rinco of servants? Ur shonld thoy not be made to foel It 18 not **blisa* In thelr cave, till thuy will Tu willing to educoto thomsalves up loa propor standard, and romove. the stigma that rests upon the namo of **hived wirls™y Those who have shunned the kitchen will then do o no_longer, an social ustractiin will not be the fnevitable conse- quonce,’ 1 fear theso reeults conoot bo attalned until compulsory cducstion Ia universal. Then tho lowér clneies cau be reached, aud when jorls aro required thoro will be fower advartiscmontd readlg thus: **No Amorlean or Irish need ap. nly.* Thuy will learn that thu best way Lo secure thelr righite’ls to respect those of otherw, and they may alyo dlscover that barefaced Impudenca Is not independence, Uusate. 4 or of the hunee cither, ODRIDA, I the af The Tridunas. Orrawa, Ill., March 14 =Heyan, 1 would ke your pattern of the lambreqain you so kindly of- fered, Hend It to P, O, Ilox 102, Ottawa, 111, was at ryan eome seventeen { Ta ago, and well remomber those fountaln wells vou can get up with so littlo troable, UBut Iiryan always made ma think of a tamp-mooting ground; the lund fs so flat, und the houses were small and scatterlng then, witl a heavy belt of timbor on tue outskirts of tha town, lhugn the Becrotary of tho Il 1L A, la satisficd with the attention ho hae recelved of Iato, Was it yonr wives that anatched you bald-headed, or what? Would you lke (o try another remedy? 1f 80, come 1o Ullawn: gu tuthe ines factury, and havo them blow u bluo glass liat on your hesd where the hulr ougbt Lo grow, 1 would adyise Charley's wifoto uso hme-water for worms, You need not £ ta tho drug-store to get it, a8 ny namesake advlscd, hut tako u plece of unslucked Iime tho size of an cgr, pour un a quart of hut water; when scttled boitle for use. Qae tublespoonful in some _inllk 10 4 dose, By mixing Tinscund ol with lime-water you huvo o good lina- ment for buruy, "hu elster that wished Leef-tea recipes bas had #ou sont bor, T will send two more, Cutitup In wmall bits frec of futs cover it with cold wutor and let wimmer two of threo lisurs, Another way~ {n to broll tho meat, then cut it in’ small bits and pour hot water on Ik, and Jet stand s little while. Hudy Melirufscr, aze wu never to hese from you sgaint 1 hopa so, for 1 like {uu: frunk way, - Nora, Clifion, 1 ihiuk yoor [itle say was tho best of ail the little sayy about the **oboy." [ hope it in Juld on the Lable, and for a fuale Jeb mo.ropeat some lnes I reud some years ago. ‘I'hey are worthy to be cherishod in the Innuraiost recodses of your heartt Igme's not merely four squaro walls, Yol Wikl plytures bilog sud gikdedy oo I8 wher wile itlun cails, e witi shiriug heart hath bulided; 2 wateh the falthrul dove, iling houeatl the heayens sbive uey Thoiia ls wherd Shera's o o luvay Alome 1 where there's une to love us, Home's not mercly roof snd rvom, 14 necds something g enduar ik, Uy b whers Ui fear canblod \epu thiere's suulo <ind lisart Lo elreer What 18 Lunie wilh uune to ek, ‘. Nuilg Lo welculiig, hune Lo kroot us? Huio (s sweot and guly sweet Wiiers thierv's oid wa 1ve Lo meet sl BroLad, * ONE TILING TIIOU LACKEST." To ihe Edilor of The Tribune. Ciitoann, March 18, —With tayes for Prestidont, snd The lome department 1o Tuk Cuicavo ‘T'une uxE, whal can bo wantiug o mako as & healthy, wealthy, and fouy-lived people, und fit us for tho Eternal Mauslons? We have kuowledgu of the starey Beavens, Tho earth which carrive und foeds us la‘continuully u&nflu" ber troaaures sud Yoveal. ing to us ber wecrels, hllosoplicrd, chemls alchemisty sro numbered by tens of thuusand: Enginecring, which a quarter of & ceutury ago would have been thought Impossible, and” now secuis 8 miracle, 1o to-dsy tiug rocks from uuder thuses, snd tunoeled whole mountsins of granite. W rlde, eat, aud sle¢p in palace-care av comfortably our own frusidus, T ozone of the ~wmoguisin ~alr can, by new and shwple spparstus, be currled to every bome, however humble, in the lsnd, This Jifc and health giving elcient, so wuch sought by invalide and health-sceXers, on mountsine and tha v carrled futo covee and mines, Allea with 0ls0a alr, os easily a4 tha lantorn which guldes o miner. We command Wwu and distance, and Jivu like Princes in the land. These sro s fuw compared Lo the uncounted number of *aids which this coutury brluge 1o perfuct our bodiss. Wo ayalo oak, what lack we yet? The query fu. rath- er, of what avall nro all “these belps, considering the frailty of human structure? Has ot the bratu 2nd pervaus aysten run away with th rematulor of the body? How and wher are wo to wend bu- manity? Docs ot continued vatching weaken tha fabric? That Gud Jutends purity of stricture scoms fousoplan tuat **they who run duwy reed. * Educate yoang girle in all that pectaing to bodll( vizur sud” endurance before cultl # Teet. The schools must be remodeled nm{ couracs of ustraction replace tho which require wo much memorlainz; kindergarten teaching should never cense. What ' wo learu fron wbservation, of vbject-teschlayg, rematns with us looger thaw that wbleh we learn from bouks or commlt to wemory. We appeal W the hearts sud futelligence of thuse who cummsud wmesns Lo try the expertuent of cducating the howmoless sud OLLA-I the_Editor friendless {n the way suggested. Make Institutions like Soldiers' Homes, or when vacated. na they soon will be, convert them into homea for the * homeless, From Faundiines' Tumes, Orplian Asge lama, Toor-Haousos, Iomen for the Frienidless, gather the children in, and begin a ew education’ 4 lmtlllul‘lf and honestly conidiieted, the race will be in Jess dancer of inherlting the {lls of parents than from the weak-nerved, foclety-Jaded colleze and aem|nmx rrml\mlcn who have "heen reared fn atluence. Al this natlve refinement and calture would help greatly it !Iihtl{ directed; but, os at rosent_emploged, makes lta victims nnable 18 ght manfuily of womanly the hattleaof life, It de- rrlvumem of much which makes it worth bav- n, The m-{ cmmlrylfhl. with her round limbs and well-devcloped body, with right physieal cdnc: tlon, might ta old age keep the advantagoe she he of her city cousin, With naked feet and wet clothing she climba tho hilla nud seatteen the dew from clover-blossoma to find and milk her kine, Inminnand shine, at times when she shoulil be kept dry and quict, her_work In_and out of Joors rocs pleadlly on. Bceds of discase thus wown may “llc dormant for years, f sooner or later, will weaken “or destray. i the clty plrl, poor, dear, darling, can't climb tho hille, or even to the top of her father's mane sion, to sce the sin cut his crescent fn the bluanky or water, The last nignt's danco cxhaanted all hee strength, and ahe mns ll(‘flnlwn{ the golden hours in **closciy curtained ronms illed to fainfneas with perfumes, ' anil awake at a Iate hour, hollows eyud and Innguid, not alwaye in the beat of moode, 1o prepare for the next pnriy or dante, We “heand yn-\vnlu{. on good anthority, of &, warkingwoman ao well and strong that sho kept a8 - her wurk In a largo tnanufactory In this city until Inlf an honr teforo the bIrth of her baby. She Iind hard work to get oxcased, it being near the dinner tine, and not until sho told the over- seer tbe truth would he It her f(o, She had worn her clothing #o loose, no one had ected her condition, When her habe was a few hours old she rent her huaband to her omployer to retaln her position, aa shic only nceded A fow do) for rest and get strength Lo resnme her work, tx, A Inkelligent, thinking women, tudy God's Tatwa In nature, nl allow our bodies to conipass il the sirengih tho Creator intended. Do not cripple or dwarf hiin work, “We may then, and not unt then, hope Lo beatienth to our chilkiren an inhorite once purlfied of sicliness, sin, and crime, which shall Inaugurato the milfenlu Mna. E. G, C—, M, D, = GOOD FOOD—GOAD HEALTIL To the Editor of The Tribune. March 11 am a stranger to The Tlome, but have boen for some timoa silent reader of tho. upinlons of its contribntors npon various subjects, some valuable, nnd somn tnat will nat ear the 1ight of Investigation. 1 am deeply Intor- ested in progressive women, and the eflorls they are making in The Homo department for & higher intelicctual 1ifo and the best methods of conducting household mattors, parficalarly on the rabject of our food, For therg ean ho ‘no good health with eating improper combinations of food, nnd find some recipes nnllrel{ at vas viance “with physlologieal principles or mical lawe. The “first T mnoticed wns Panhanse," a combination of hog'a flost, which nil phyalologists hold untit food for the human xys. tom, and (iraham flonr, os a cheap brenkfast for children, wiose food should be of o kind to build & #oul conetltution, and for naults who may be nufforing from a poor uno from dally repnats npon Aoine form of hog material, Then oatmeal misk with aplces,—why render 1t Injnrions by spiccas When simply mado it 1n o moat healthfnl ‘faod, Thon bread, which, it properly made, I tho staft of 1ife; but **for Lreakfast, tho dough rolled out thinand fried In lard,” and doughnuts, nnother aboination Incrusted'with lard. s it alrngo we scu 80 minny palo-faced children an casy prey to scarlet “fevor, diphtheria, and micasles. where rhylllfloujmfl nwe nro disregarded? 1 would like to know what wood A sllce of pork put_on the neck of a chlld can do when threatennd with giplhithiceia? And then wa nro glren rocipes for lotionw: and yWeshen [n which polsonous articles are wsed. Do not une recipen t! merit except that uvamrc glven ome friend, who probally had no nnwlmhsn of chemical com- - binotlons or” the effect of subtle polmons upon the humnn systen, How wmany **mystorions Provi- dencea* have come to fanillies in consequenco of Iznurance of the laws of bealth Ileavo to higher knowledze to solve and remedy, 1 bellove that mont of the dizenacs the human family aro aflicted with result from a violation of some mioral or llh{ill'lfl law, whether inherited or otherwise, lausckeepers, nhove all persons, shonld have some knowledge of chemistry In the comblnations of food and medicinu for. hinnun 5, of which so many have remedions to offer, I ourschools would tench practieal chemistry to girls, Inatead of wo nuch mathemnties, they” would be hetter stted to enter upon tho dutles of 1ifa when they **iinlah thelr eucation,” Irejolce in the dawnin:zday Ittdl- cated Wy the nehools for danghters o lesrn thoart of housckeeping, in England and our own Iand, when girtw may not entor wifchom! and motherhood fg- norant of the dutieannd laws belonging to thora situations, ~ For, nithoogh they may have tho wealth of o millionaire, which " {8 n boon ra ardently eought in theso days, that ono may livo a scltish, udcteen 1ifo, they cannot limore or depntizo the dutles of motherhood. For in this department If they **Sow to the wind, they will reap the whiclwlid, " This bringe mo to.8 sithject of the highest intercst, chlld-life, ‘‘the neglected class, " not in [ts outward adornings, for there Is mora thau onough attention given to thats to t them the signiidcance of shanis; but the proper In- teront and direction of thelr buddin:e Jifo. The most linportant vurlod ‘1 whon the foundation of charactor lu lald, but toooften crushed nnd dwarfed by unconeclopn lgnorance of mothers and tenchers, 1 will not oecupy more time at present upon Nbla™ subject, which lnterosts mo so .Ienr-:(. A reform 1a yot to come in a more symoathotic and eazefnl culturo of child-life, Thechild 18 cever fathor to tho man, lind boys and girls can never mako fgod men and women. AW, hat have no WOMANLY OBEDIENCH. af The Tribune. Ject has boon worn almont. tiireadbara In the col- umns of Tho Home, I will venture (o make a’ few rage remarks on the question. of womanly obu- dienc { have just read Mra, Cap. Brown'slete tor, and 1 thinkii splendid. Ifer viows on this alt- absorblng subject ara what T should supposo with a fow exceptions all noble-minded wonten with no- blo husbands wonld have, Although I have never had any experlenco in matelmony, I will, as 1sald before, ride on this occaslon to ‘make o fow ro- ke, Lifa, my felends, is compoded, ns youall well know, of hopes und fears, of oy and team, of oodness and badness, of sorrow and gladness. W #ronono of us perfect and wo are none of us allke, aud, thank lfnudnull, we are uot. Whon peoplo Iminigrate Into the' marrlago state, they Tiust not expéct to wilde mnoothly und gracefally along on a ea of roso-water (n o gilded bark, nor go tlylng over flowery yinins In palace-cars, for somes will find that It willbe a storiny road, an old fmuwmigrant wagon or o ono-wheeled vahiclo to creep slowly along in, and tho dusty roadslie willt bu teaming with 1ifo 0 tho shinpe of wrasshoppers, tirmutalus, beetlos, and acorplous, iut tuke & crust of contentment, Life wounld not bo worth having If 1t wers not for a little variety, 1dowot bellevo any oo ever heard of o well-regulated family not having thele triale and tnbulations, and of thoso trials ani tribulatiuny not belug sametimes verhally ex What f Cleopatra did not Llack Hinaldo's boots when hearked heg to, 12 Is no #gn they will never be blacked, What If Rinaldo doce not get Cleopatea bier now apring bonnet whon sho awks biin 10, 1118 no sign that she will nover huve anew epring bonnot. And it shie does occamionnlly oppear ut the broakfast table with hoer hair un- comnbed, 1t doon “not nnmh!.'lrll{ follow that she s untidy and {indolent. What It ho dous vccasfoantly .« sho not a right totyrannize over him? If sho ccaslonally disobedlient ond kicks «n the traces, hu wiay tike hiv rights and disubey andkick in the traces too. T sbonld notlike averythime to be In a4 pscific stato yery llm&’. ahowerd bring May flowerd, you know. 1f Cleopotra somethmes gots impaticntund scoldy, is she o virazo? And if ho retallates womotimes, e he 8 regulur old cnrmudgeony No, Huchrad coses only occir when it or C. la too lazy to help do the aplciny, und thoreby add varlety to conjugal blins. There needs to be un even distribotion of ths sour and sweot, Ho take my sdvice, dear fricnds, make tho scaled balauce evenly, When Cleopatrs frowns, do thou frown aleo Rinaldo; when she minlles, wmilly ulso, or a Jittle befors who dues, Judiclously though, Do uot, if you valuo your' own happl- nvss, set tho port of un ubused saint, commency, depend upon it, you will have tv bo & saffering angel al) you life, “\Whena woun gathers hils beautiful roso bio must expect to fAnd thorns, aud when & woman, —well wa all know the moit nmiable of tl wculines are nettlos anyhow, As the huvhands of sumu uf the ladles who *write for The Homo may think that rather unj 1 will add, by way of an apology, thess llues: Even the snowflake lcts a shadow £ A8 10 Lhe varth It softl 0 rest,— Bo1nay the whitest, swectest souls ul il Bouin sumetiuies wrung Lo tioss st know them Flattery will do a great deal, take my savice. 7 £ tyraunleo ovar har, i I you o MMORE AROUT READING. v iAe Bultor of TAs Tridune. MaTrooN, March 14, ~Nowadays, everynoly Teads the muwepapers. Bermnous, seaidale, **'Fhonghts on tho Liniverse, politics, my apinlon on finance, snd yours on dumestic economy serve 10 make up tbu hiead-lines of the average edition, ‘which places within the reach of every houschold & knowledgo of "lmaplt and events of Jucalcalable Jmportsuce, The newspapor of ta-day is the won- der of our ers, and yet amoug all tue roml Bugges. tions made through” the colwinns of The Houme a4 towhere to find prodtable resding, no volce e ita favor, Can 1¢ bo that we ure un- ) educator thy fawmily newspaper lat The reader who constantly pores Over books, bue comes by-and-by n vuc-sided theorist. 'I'na mold from thue covers of his favoite volumes clini to hlm; the cizar aslowly turus to mshes ou hls lips. Not so with the wide-awake wun with cos- Iull?ollllu viows boru of newspaper reading. There fx th complaccncy and wssurunce of uvne who abuiibi 1o sin ctehoe 1] clgur dlssolves {5 Aiw, carling wroatlin above bis heud. 1 wauld rather converss ten uinutes with 8 woman who reads the Jopers, than o halt day with & grecdy deo- vourer of & Cllcnlnflm‘ library. **Dunlel” Do- runda' marks au epoch ln literatare, but it Is eix munths old, snd why docs overy vther person you ryect blandly fuquire if you have read if, untlles- poration in an uutinel fi; hour incites you to rus ty, ¢ That you would 1ike to put su end to Danlul heronds. " Thiv roioark, having cowe to the car of some of your bretliren In the chorch, belte d I thvology than lght Jiterature, you ar horrified by Sadidy yourself regarded a4 **a mu derer fu heart, o caut of tho day 1s the rig: matoly about books Which we have all got ot our uéers' cods. Mre. A talks witn © M. sbuut tho Darwiolin theory, She knows only that Darwin Lelloves that we 8s & racs yprunz from monkeys, My, I rejolne tuat who haa lately been reading up Bmeceouw AN, says My, A, that *Qrversoul ' le R paly