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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCHT , 18ST7—TWELVE PAGES. for {t1s raid that ** what {sone man's meat is another man'a poisan.” 1 was very norry that ono of the siaters shonld advise Annio It “to drink Inger beer {o eanse her to gain featr. Teansider that & phyrician or any other verson wito prescribies sueh atul atrongor deinke takes a fearfal responels blifty upon hinmelf, little knowinz what fearful but [atent appotite’ he ay be calling Inta life. Don't take offense, alster, bat if yooe consclencn willallow you todrink it, drink It quletly; don't recommend It Lo othiern, 1 winh Martha, Marin, and Molllo had given a de- seription of thelr ofi-aloves, and told un whether they wery portable or not, and if they sincl] of gan or smoke. - | Inoked at one lnst aamnier, but do not know the name of it, 1t was smnll enough to be set on a chalr, but had only ono lsmp, cunse- quently wonld onl 1, bake, or fry atonce; some one who tried it raid 1t wonld nat heat fiat- {rons suMelently, and that it should s a great do- - slderatam, 1am glad tho piant tovers teil naof thelr pots, and am delighted to learn that Epsom paltsnrea sure earv for green lice. WIH Kenn Tuckyy pleaso tell ng_how much to give each touso for a dose, And how to pget him to take it, [ have been troubled thing.” Now, why does not Mra. T, fnatead of Jaughing in her aleave at Mra, A's protensions, ex- « plain to her that the monkey s only 8 link in the \'fimnr:. and not the theary itsclf. llowerver, there ¢ are ko many Mea, A'and ro few Mea, [i'a that the ¢ geformation wall have to begin deepor than thnt. Why khoulit porsons, because thay are familiar with a few anthorn, naxnma that they havo r’nnfled perennial fannts nncnrnlni, and bore thelefriends with quotations, day after day, from their favor. ftea? Farther than this they nover go, tnnicss the Zentennial han beon visited. Then, Indeed, yon mny hone all bout oleaginans Jolanthe, and-"how tired they were, ¥ 1l of eant whe will not scknawledge whal bellevos, hut how many of - ‘our 8 will own __thelr secret _preforenco for ‘*The Woman Ilator" 1o **Danlel Deronds," = Ccorze Eilot markes Gwendolen do an -impalsive thing, and then stretchan your patience over threo pnges of morale izing, while Reade makes hie moral point tsclf, and amures, and_ cntertains. ** Danlel Deronda ' tcems with morsl and mental philorophy, and its characters are mero metaphyelcal lay-fignres. ~ Aro novel-readers, as & clasn, metaphysiciana? lilstor; is moro entertalning to men {han to women, but ft, the only sure foundation for o well-stored mind. | With the "little pests till this winter. Last lien iy Tather mado me read Rollina* histary | 18l nfter h'§nnimi‘ my planta in-doors, 1 volnmo after volnme, small type, aud dry as dust, n‘nt‘fllefl- and ~ when ‘the tirst onos made fo n little girl. ) thonight **my lines woro fallen in el nppesrance 1 got some tobacco B dot 1 mot think g nawe 1t was | and eteeyod on the stove; then reduced it fill B P aTicing wp the pyramiua of Ezypt* 1never | SUout the culor of weak ten. With this [ washed wish to try ik again, but the knowledge ol iy plante, wetting boti tdon af the lesves; g{ulned thereby wilt atick .to me through life. owa- dnys, Macanlay, ¥roude. and others hnve presented historical loro in sach cxquisite reting that like a suznr-coated pill ode can take it withont knowing it. 1 llko Ruakid, ' Mill, and Mins Martincan, an Incongruous trio, and very instrnctive, It is a8 good uln%m cullivato a'tasto for miscellnne ading. The first novel T ever rend was Lytior Last Daya of Pampeil,* and { Pave taken an intereat in Koman antiqaitles from that day to thie, ~Ttead Carlyle, Emeraun, Irvin: Talmage, Bwing, Hawthorne, Holtand, the stan: ard mpgazines, and respectable newapapers, in ro doing gain practical knowlodgo , eat! """K 1o yourself and to your aseociates. Time enouph to read Darwin'e *“Descent of Man "' nfter you have gained a general knowledge of common facts and well-known books, besides it requiresa scientific mind to comprehend Durwin. ~Eolomon sald: With nll thy getting, get understanding: that s, learn to obkerve.’ Use ycnr eyes and ears. Perhnps ** the certaln man, bieeding and wounded Dy the highway, " for wham we have rollef throuih the Fathier, 18 **just on tho other slde," and wo may live A largo Jife by miniatcring to him, be- “ cause every kind of knowledge brings the eon! into followship with humanity and with God. then watered them well with it, and have not seon”| n_green lonsa since. 1 wonld not recommend tho weed for any other uee, Will anme‘one Loll mo §¢ Chineso primroses wiil blonm without any sunshine? Unfortunatcly, my sitting-room_winilows faco thy north, and nota crnnium or fuchain has favored me with & blossom in winter, 3y pinc oxalls has been maro kind anil my yeliow “one In how budded, anda_small seazy-leafed begonin has hloomed twice, 1don't knoiw the name of 11, but tho bloreomn ara & lovely pink. 1 woild like ta knnty what plants wiil bloot withont sunsliine.. iy callns each hiad one hlos rom, hut the buds must have been formed before they left the sun, for tbqugh they are nice and thelfty, they bloom no more, ‘Thank yoi, Mea, Jo<cphine L., for the rule for breakfast cakes. I will'te them when I got romo :n.hul.-r flonr; that [ have would mako such cakee | olll. i 1 uxe tho beat wumm‘-num I haveever secn, and if any of the alstors wish for tha recipa, I will give it Inmy next. Vinaines HAWTHONN. SOMETITING TO RBAD, ETC. 70 the ne, Cutrano, March reserved Auic M, lialc's **Courso of Reading," I nm ablo Rosa DARTLE. | {obive Snulf the required liat: It iAan follown: L, 3 MERTS, ' Engllah_history, Iovertson‘s Clatles V. ; Rollin 7oine’ Balior af $hd. Trivune, S Oibban: 1Rdme, Mneauiny, and Atre, Strlck: Frezronr, 111, March 10.—Some ono of The | lnnd's Lives of the English Queens: Life of Johne Tiome circle anggested that thoss who were trying ( sun, Durke, Reynolds, (oldemith, llnnnoh More, line nlafllluml ‘send in their exporicnco. 1 have | and Fanny Warney ; Waiter Scoitand his romances; had tho bne fever as woll as 8 groat many othors, | Works of Bpenser, Chaucer, Shkapeare, Emereo Lowell, Longfcllow, and Iiryaut: Darwin's ** De- scont of Man '3 Huxley and Tyndail. For thoso interested . fn nutural listory ‘sho glves thers: Aunsalz’ *} Methods of Study In Nutural Hietory," Tilgginson's ** Out-of-Toor Vapore," = Wilson, Uoyg. Johin Barrouzhs, L rs, AL I, Y.—Siiver, 1o Lo kept nico shonld never be washed fn anything but clear, tepid water. Wa hava read wondeeful accounts of the Influence of blue rays, how they have limbered eheumatic Joints, caused the **Iame to walk," the **biind to reg,” rtatted a luxurisnt growthol halron the bald- I:li 'of heads, etc,, otc., but did you over hear that these mild-effnlgent Leams would transform the nrosiest person intoa Milton or a Shakspearet Well, J¥WII o tt=fact. - Listen while antd you a tale § fold, For several weeks 1 have dally bathed In § For cleaning silver, 1 rocommend **American O O e re s ou aafk whitt iy, dincase ear. | Cornndutn Sliver Pollah, ™ whiclt {n casily applied,. Well, tny friends all'sald **lack of bralns, * and [ and gives tho aliver a boautiful lustre. : guees they ‘wero rights at any rate, 1 L‘nm:fudfll to 1 want to ask K. wha floater is, 1 haven't the_ slightest Iden whother itis n buat of & largo onv. It may bo n now name for the dovendaf #0, Twant i, Lecowso Zue's doves arg probubly slck with_mcirlet fever or diphtherla, Of courso they would catclt cold if they leit home, Perliaps A Heador wonlil ke to know how my halr becamo curly. 1willtell you, tn the first” placo it was natirally ko, but after being cut two or threa times fry thia panacen for all the 1lls taat flosh 18 helr to, ond s ‘the days and wouks rolled away many fhoughts camo fo mog but oo day they tank 3 diss tinot- form, and\l know that T conld writo a poem upon which T could mount up, up, up, untl I stood on somo bowildoring Liefght from which Tcouldlnok down, down, down, pon Homer, Shakepeara, and Byron. But Lendexys oted to crush thore thotghts, a8 1 did riot want to Tuake lfonmor or Shiakspeare feel Indly, for' like then, but they would not be crashed,'and then [ knew that my doatiny was a fettled fuct,-tiat, atrugale agalust 1t na I would, it had boen decreed thnt I should welto 8 poem that would make mo famous through all the coming yenrs, and henco I bowed my heatl and gracofully yielded to fate. 1 nlso heari a volca (I don't Know na 1t wns from heaven) saylngunto me, **Write,"—and I wroto: Duckwheat eakes arn good to eaty 4 Everywhers 1 poam; - Borihuini “lesacs, butter, too; 1'm golng bume. 1 read tho above -lines over and over ngains .anid do you wouder that thoughts of fiture grenthess haunted my brain? For 4 not my thema Nublimes do not theeo vords find a rosponse in overy heartt But not Jong did [ ponder, "1 eelzed my pen, und again I wrote: Burkwheat cnked are smoking hot, Fow daya, fow daye, Procrastmation {s the thicf of time, It has been wold, and_ulas! 1 hnve found It truu in my caev. My tuuxo has gone to find theso smoking cakes, und Low withont her ean 1 o rhyme fur daywy Somothiu whispers liuyes; but avaunt! Tow cun T iy without niy muse? § will hung my horp on the hrldge, and o the banks of th deep-rolling Tecatouiva 1 will alt e down and weep, * Iy whoso soul wan filied weith sublime, posticul thoughts, at now plunged [ the lowest depiths of despalr, "The dark waters hinyu Koue over e, und from oy faint- ing hicart 1 #hont, Jo thero, s there balin b Uilead? ¥he returning breeso brings back the nuswor— Nary bulni, "B, waa tired of entla, Ths following your, whan my Yinlr was neacly nix fuctics Jung., Fwus taken witih the typhold fover, Upon uuiting Dottor iny hale Degaii to come dut, and within a month £y head “wue vory bare (1 dlin't uss tar-water to bring It in), ‘1 prosumo you can fuvigine how chasmluz T lovked without my hair. 1 had often heard 1t xaid that ono's aie ultmoat Invariubly ‘cants in curly after this fever, I lind wob tired af stralght halr by this thne, 5o | watchicd iny lalr from day to da until it was fong enough to determine whether {t was atraliht or uthorwisa, 1Lwan utherwise, And ‘now, a6e year or more slnce my mickuess, T havo very thick, curly hulr. 1 belfeve Mght halr gonor- 2lly torng dark ufter the fover, hut inine did not. Tthink Paul 1, B, very fuaulting {n anying that +igirls who bitethelr nails are nlways crons, " Iint then, ns longna Tain not obliged to beliove I8, | will forgva him thls time, 1 have s fricnd, about my ate (do not think it fa mysel?), who *bites hee nally,* and the more shu bites thom the mory atmia- e abo bocomus, > > Yea, liryan, Tdo want tho pattern of your lnm- Treqtijns, nnd If you wil] send 1 Lo the oditor, ho will, 1trast, furivard it to Jus destinntion, In tho dircctlons I-lenen oxpluin **apattor-work." Can any onc ol we how fo make onnir-custleors habging-basket out of writing pflmn BRY DLuk CAUDINAL, HOW TQ GET 1M, Tn the Auitor: of The T'ribune. *Qutxer, 111, March 12, —(f K~— wlalics to ro- duce lier flosh 'she must **keep hor eyes open, month: abut, aid boly In motlon,” {, e, slecp xer{ little, eat sparingl and cxercise a good eal. ' 5 - % Vico voran, for acqdiring rottandity of figure, thero tanospecifics but perhaps the nearest approxinu. ton to one (s a clicerful, contentod disposition that \drives dull care away, i 3 = RICK T1OUSE-! Tb the Editor of Pank AviNos, March 12, . the memberwol Tho Jomu for comi (o the rencno Wwith stich ramnion, but 1 seem habo to begume bewitoered with the veriuus t{plnlu.;: llhliuw m‘n v“B&mu_ pc‘r\gim!. !rmvpefi:h'n ta!ml[ux. n;?"ihr‘nltgu uuggsplanks b ving | feottem,” Whow 1o apiro 150 cxlats, Uy A AT s PAELYE Por af btz A grasibilng ot I & lud wnttor worse, 1 fear you will beali to think o lacking i Ju wcomed tho ‘the atmosphere of thetr homes 18 pervaded by a ;;Im’ll winama thut infocts every one within te in- ugnce, e . Vegetatlon could as well thrive luxurlantly on the bordars of the Dead Sea s happincss dwell in sucl a howschold. ‘An Mko cures 1lke, it Is to bo hoped all who havo *thelr belui in the blues will teat thoeficacy of blao Tirig i thy sunsbifno will cuuae tho leaves to yellow, | gloss, which may cnablo them to take o new, de- Tainwnys lave watered mine In the moming, bo- | parture, € caura | had read that was the nroper thne for dolng Dot and Annfo It.—There 16 great wisdom In tho so, ancdethe sun always shincs on them In the | old mlnilluli 8“ Laugh and grow fat.*' 2 wnent when | confews that, as i imous “uplnion that T pave them too much water, 1 went to the athier extremo fur 4 week, and had wore yullow leaves to cut R thun ever before, - Howover, Ahfnk now that I b e tound the happy medium,* T think ielle upuke Lo the point when shesald water- wornng when it shined at all, Suufl s mistakon Wil ‘rlcnlc to infornime whorg I cati pro- fn supposing that uny plants stand n ** puddies of | curo the ** K. W, 1L " froning board which ehe so water?; | nover water thom cnough to leave | highly recommends? = One upon which wliirly, the rth muddy, ur water stunding in | dresses, and plain clothes can be froned nlcoly Isa tha soucers, wscept my el which seoms | great dosidoratum, w enjoy it But, Snufl, T am surprlsed to hear 1 huve socn tables that oporate with hinges, but in ou aiy thut (he st of this early springtini bs too ot far them. 1 supposed the hotter the better, and have becn In the lablt of wnwlluF my flowers stand about frum one place to anotlicr that they might ot tho aun sl day, Merino says: **Koop the air of the reom molst."” Can thut he done where you have furnace heatt liyacintho puve ek yaluable inforniation, sudaysuonus itls warm onough to get now carth 1 shall ru-pot mino accurd- ipto Lep dlrections, though they had new carth fitho fall, sud plenly of {ml-n_hmli put i for drajnuge, Hut how 1s thisy She bas suchnice pritroaus, hnd speaks of sprinkling l\wmd.fllfi.’ and in (Lo next letter Aunt Fanuy, who seains be very successfnl with planty, w{l 1t e voi fnjurlous to primrosca to wet the foliage." would lke to ask Hyaciuthe how shu removes the dust from priuiross feaven withuut wetting them, ack, who ¢ o rathor uusywpathietic creature, vays tho Lewt thing T ean do 14 ‘To throw them all out of doors, and fifuted that it would give bim great pleasitre to assist In the operation, hut I treat his advico on that subject with silent contempt, Milie 1§, ~1ave you tried the followlnk renicdy for boilsr seraps i little hard soap off from o bar, patting on or removing artcled the end nal to ha rafsed, which {4 un objectionable featuro: busides, they conld not bo adjuated at difforent helghts, Women shiould havo every |;lbur~ull\‘lll‘fi appliance within thelr means, Not all ual labon, but drudgery 1lke waahing and 1raning, makes the most vigurous of the sex promaturely old, 3len, with thelr customary pood sensu, lishten thelr work by numberlons mechanien) devices and Ingentous machinca; and when will women, capeclally house- Kecpers, appropriato more of thelr teans for such purposes than for fashionable, ussleas gew-gaws sud **purploand e linen 't Avainuorocs. CURE FOIL OIB THROAT, v the Kditor af The Tribune. Cuicaao, Maorch 12, ~Iluving had u great deal of experlonce i tronting tho throat, feel that T must coime to the Tront I you will allow mo this privi- lege. 1 cured ay “ittle boy of sore throat six thinea I ons wintér by the 4o of ‘o wmisture of golden weul and wlycerine vreparod and used In tho folluwing muni pwonful of golden sual and two of glycetine: make a swab of wolt Tuen secuted to o whalevono end, and the enid of and \work ito it as muich brown sugar as whil mlx | Naet frugady dipthle i tha mixties and careful} With 1 Bpread this mixtare on o small piccouf | wash tho Thedat, belug aure to wash all cankare clowh, sod apply over the boll axa plaster, Pro- | sputs; ropent tils threo or four times dafly, In Thte h freh ono when needed. Thia will draw it, | scverd canos follow Winnle's directions with re- nd bring it e an cod sooner thau {t would bring "l:{t{‘::u'l'llrmk, unly shnmer It in vinegar ofi); ¢ thro u it Pmnunu a clear appearance, chlldren oy woll as throat. Wheru thoro 1 Ing, feed croaw,” 1t bels clf, ' Meg and Beshi~If you dealre any more diroctions fot funicy-work, 1 can toll you low to make besut. ful rugs, In knfiting, with russcls-carput ravel- ings, - 1t 1aa guw kind of work, OIL-4TOVES. To Ae Editor. of The Tridune, Aunowa, 111, March 12, —Yermit mo to make & fow remarkv on thie subjoct of oll-etoves, Ever ulf sro subject 1o sore rost diffieulty In swallow- one of tho ust sustalucre Tover hieant of at such timo, Iogree with J, W. It sbant the only way of maklig beef-tea, but i broko two wlass jars Lofore T found out_that Ialiould havo lofs tho cover off until lhc&lr wus perfectly hot. Y. C, —-ll( wllllr[y wiy Infestod with ants at ona timo, but [ outirely 10LET, 1l I have mado them o ‘banlsbed them Ly covering HEr "'Jifx‘:f;,?:v\’l S bec | (ho shiclvea with red hoppor under the pajicrs. Brouzht from out thelr fret crud furm fnto some- Yot your cambric in & paitlul of water, aspoonful of sugar af lvad bias been thing neaver porfoction, I'huve tried each new woul: fiftech minutes bofore washiug Improvenicnt as it came oat, baving had on trlal four ¢! Something waa wron, in o thin starch watcr, Thiv 1 0 foue diforont vurlotion, Somcthiuig was weshi | 2000 iy 1o freat ol doutiful vasih-gadi. i roous with the smuil of the ofl. ‘The Can anyone tell mo a cure foragoe? 1 have been suffering with aguu esery litle while sinco Just summer, and [ ean't got "fiedicive to cure. I wil} ho relloved for a while, but as woon as o damp da; comes It makes ite sppearance, -My halr, whicl Sununor King' waa very good, but thers was too much of It, ut & !wr 850 T saw the notice of the **Florence,” Findiug suvoral polnty uf uerlt Iu tho description given it the clrcu ““l‘ tuok uny for b week.' At the ond of tho weok | was muro | Was oily and soft, 1s now dead-looking, and breaks than satimed,—1 was delighted, At iast 1 had | ot the wuvst caretul comblag, found o atova that wus lu:.II.Llllllpl-. cloap, per- | Wil sumcone tull ine huw to maka & plain snd fuctly free frotn odor, aud, bost of all, thuraughly ultiling all that was prowlsed for it in tho way of pretty beud-rest for 3 Targu casy-chale? cutinie and cooking. And' it la a Avur Lisoie, perfuctly sofe, Tho resersolr 1 of caut jron, with no sol- ANCIENT RELICS, dered fulsty o melt, unfl1 the fame s To the Bdiior of The Tribune, . scparated from It by '8 non-conducting | ~ Cinicago, March 14.—With youe kind permission plate, 1 can do everything with ftthat1can with | I wish to ‘address tho ladice'of Tho Home, We an urdinary couk-stove -nfi never have the poom of | bave been taught, and are bLelng tangbt, through o pages of snclens hletory, sacred and profane, ‘l‘:&dlln“llm living blstory “of Iu-lll’, that if we gexe, #0 to wpeak, into wn vcean of tryuble, we Will soe woman at the botiom of it; at o fountain of joy, aud herdocds eparkle In wvery wprays at 4 bler of sarraw, aul she v the chicf mowrner; In suc. Ceas,uhio (a8t buth bottom and top; abe can make s worely of your elovation; can drag you to degrada. tlon; and ncourage you Lo pepseverance in Loth of myaclt overheated. Yot with wann \wo tuoms ona chilly May or Septemboe evening withous any trouble, If thre readers of this article bave the wivh to know more ahout tha atuve | will refer thein Lo the Chicazo agentsat 4% Clark wtreel, lllswrw | Broa. the name I bellove. 1 wondee I ¥ Young 1 keeper™ lins comi- mence to wake her own bread yet. T havesecn but one reply to her plea for help, "{2' when the heater 1can al jed thst, 1 would llke scnd | theso; in sbort, she 18 tho gulding-star of the fhg bae et dlivront “ono. 1 bavo s | world's debtiny: . Mor chict power liew I persia- taken olght great, white, utesming loaves from'the | wlons in fuct,a! 1 of the wost wiriking qualitics of ate oven uf my **Golden Crown,' and, lika every | taction have Lbeen and aro to bo fouud fu womans olbicr housskeeper, | . suro that bread made (o | kind, Tbe subjoct ia Incxhaustible, but fear of auy otber way would nut be ope-Lalf aod, Al | cucroaching on too much space compols wo for my thoughts ot Howers sud wardens uried bo. | tho vreeent to be hlle:l Now for the subject of thls preludo; Many of ou no doubt visited the Centenulal, I did, ‘sud ts chicf oblect of attraction wnd study t e was thy Castelluni collection of anclent veilcs, You whil sew by last weok's Jarper's Ih-nhu{nwuuwun sxhibitiau it pictare ylory of o 1 Metropol: Itan Muscoun ™ Wil not the lagles of Chicago and meath a (0ot of snow. Wil somo one please tell me where I cav get 8 cutting of the old-fastloned ridal-rose, that our motbers and grandmothens used Lo havo in the window with gilly-flowers and Fosemazy? ’ Mga, Josrinxe Lo oW e ribune. conveuient airroandingy huportuno thosa u whose \m Murcs 12,—Tho lettors from | charge the sold sulics aro to briug them bers forexs Husbsud, Madyo Madcap and her | bibitlon? A moze intereating volume of Il)ullr‘lll.t‘l anclent bistory § um sure you cannot. lettera of regucat, ung and all of . you, and sce if Wa canot bave them brought hero for dur benedt; You will never regret haviug sceu thew, aud bl 1 nd the Secretary of the B. i, A. amuso ingly, sud If tho latter tries oll the rem- fliisitciatrs bt s o ] ut it o @ 1nus! Sturere e OeIL X hupun"&wm report progress, | Wish I could convey tayun the Luppiuess It gavo 1ng 820 {1 K. teica J. W, H.'s milk-curs for obeeity | | to view aud study ] s how Flonged totouch them sball wang to know what edect it bos, §langhed | butthere woasprinted card, “‘haods of,* and over %, for | belung 1o the clasd of adipodo sivicrs | tha ho whivpored me Wwho would gladly grow lcag, and 1 haveslways | the rame, kept haudls pectful distance. found that tho cocstant use of MIIk fora few wecks | 1 spent six duyw ut th Centeralal, sud gove threa will 8d veveral pounds to my weight, and Tavold | of them to this departmant, and 1could slmost wish $L wse more thau I ke, on ihat account, foram [ I'badgiven thew all tucre, | 1 wunttoses thoin \ohry fond of it. Once, 1'1':""“"'\“"1“ ooy ) p‘lm Bulu, nlnu dlu“;-\ !u:’n“uu:: u:: “.’L?,?’i?,‘., I. “nml;r:u where , OF O o oh, 1o v 1 e, th Tutcevals, P eaerar® Bty poands 18 vy ¢ yufortaiatu oy 0 uttend tho Couteunial, ~yeur's Uuie; but upon_golng Lo wnother pisco and [ and thosy who were not. . T o ot o YathE | Soon regalned tweae | - Now, dear ludy resders, T am, for one, galng to t po Bat 1t way aflecs othurs’ difereatly, | adurcas 8 letior OF zoqueat 0 tLo vartles lu chargy 1t was perfectly straluht, ‘Tule just sulted, for I.| d af tho rolice that they b bronght here, bt slone t can consummate notninz. Wit you Jotn with me. and ona and all of yon write? Loy that you will virit them and {ndtice your friemls, and T nm_wure it those who have once viewed them will lang tn do o ngnin, Do thielover of art in onr city reo any wny of devising meana to et them here?” Are the married men willing to form a club for the purponet Willitpay? llelpine, ladies, and perhaps when the hundredn of felters go ponring in on thn managers of the museum, they will strike thelr Dreartnand throw np thelr hats and shont, ** There's milllons 1 1L, Earnesily yours, A SWONAN. P9, ~Tertians I'd batter menl'! » litle domertle cconomy with this, sa I will give you my recipo F ey wlth sxorbltant. gan-hille. - Uho keroncne—our gas-hill Inst month was 83,50 Josa than the month provions, and we uscd at Jeast®wico the amount of gas, Conundrum? w. DUCKWIEAT OAKES, It the Editor of The Tribuna, Joxeanono, 1l,, March 12.—I presime I havo no rights which the ladles aro hound to reapect for Intending mysclf into thelr dopattment withont an invitation, a1 1 ata e bachelor, Hut some one fn- quired of a philonophot ance how he como by an wuch knnw‘ml e, Ha replied, ** iy asking qries. Uona." Now, | wish some cookery information. 1 have reanned the columna of The “Ilame for it fn vain. Itian good recipo for buckwheat cakes. I have eaten almost all kinds of hnckwheat cakes In my time, from Grangor down to Palmer ifonse Takon: My experionco in, tnivsn they arc just ight. they are all wrong. Wil some gond, moth- erly Iady, who hns & hoy of her bwn, come to the rescuet Thave s cook, but she don't just uniler- atand how It is done, ' Some one might say the proper rocipa was ‘‘get married,” but then T wonld havo 1o liave a cook all the rame, and, In all rohability, Mra, —— wonldnot know hat the rouble was if th cakea were hcl\-ilor tough, nne Jeas ‘‘Mamma’ was ot nd to give the reqnired informntion. As an _instance: & marriazcablo {mmfl Indy of this placo had her **ina" called awny rathor unupeclcdl{. and was left without a cook to do the henors of the supper-table. With commendablo Intentiona she at once set about making her dhcle ’“‘PN‘ by & good lurncr. 8Sho made rome corn-teal cakes, and folled to take the Lran ont of the menl. gentleman, with becoming meekneas, afterwarda nid (when **ma® camo hame, and discovored'the frouble) he thought there was romething wrong, an they rather **stuck" Ir. his throat and refused to be swallowed, but was afrald to objoct at the time, and rald, **Nicacakes.” Mr, Editor, pleasercnew my sabscription for T Dairy Tningxe (which I huve read .fot years). T conldn't cnjn{ my buck= wheat cakes, whon 1'get tho roe Iru for them, with- ont n copy of The Trinvxy, with il vigorons m for Iteform. 1 do hupe Tiblen his a good cook, with just the reeipo for cakes, n8 ho sorcly necils comfort and consolation. 1wonld slso like a good Fecipe far cooking codfish. 3: RusTrcuss, POt MADGE MADCAP, To ihe Editor af The Tridune, ~ Monxrxusint, March 1L —Madeo - Madcap, I bava been smusing myaelf to-day trylng to makoa. sclection of & dozen plants sultable for your stan: but it is almast llke trying to tell which child you Jove wost. 1donot want to leave onc ont, " At laet I have succecded In resolutely shuiting my egcu on all the pleading besuties, except & gronp that I have piacud on tho table, 'These areold Iriends of mine, tried and true. They arc all freo lovmers, most of them of the ocasleat caltore, and ngke a showy collection. Among- themn are o geranfunx, © ench one thu very best of ta kind, the lintry King, the lovellust of acarlets, beaide which all others ure dim, Mustar Clirstine, the king of pink gemnlums, Prince of Walen, heantiful salmon tipped with white, and Enow- finke, o very dwarl white geranium. My little 1aut has thirtcen clostors of tloweraon it. ho(.‘:numl:unlummllul, Aryluie iy carmine, spicy, fragrances white and red primruses; ouLlosdwart - Fercefcat, and widto Abutiton, This laat i much more dexlrablo for the house than ihe teal Abutiton; the flowars are largur, tho loal mach prettier, 'and _does nol graw coneva and rank like tho other.. 1 must not foreet Text ery lnrge nnd fine, light the” Pink Oxalis: this {s a perpstaal bloom- er, 1t has such 8 cunning habit of folding up s leaves at lwllll(hlhnnd you eannot deluda 1t by oy aetifclal lizit, howover brlght. Only for the god of day wil It unfold them, . winter-blooming tuchlz, ond f Teavel ranfagm mako up the number. st 18 indls pensable for bouquets, You o I have & prepon- deranceof white towers. 11hink this destrable. The hondsoment-colored bouquels have -6 large propartion of white. . Mary I. Dradiey I3 the suthoressof the beautiful povin** Heartseave,™ You will find it in the Feb- ruary number of tho Aldine for 1872 the Sea." **The Littla Ilero of laariem Green, emary, "+ Out In tho Woos, " etc., nre from her charming pen. . She writes pruso also, Aunr Faxsy, $BUMMER RINGY AND PLANYS, v the kdilor of The Tribune. Ravexswoon, Mareh 1U,—1 make my bow and takea seat, 1havo never been hiere before, but sl 1 fec! acquainted with you all, so I will not #tand on ceremony. but will say what l4 in my mind, and then make my exit. 1 have o **Sume mer King" ofl-stave, and conelder 1t invaluab Mino s sinzlo, thongh they come doublo, I liove. 1 can heat water very anickly, whichls muchbetter thun Lutlding a bot fire In a'large stove on o swnor day. I iron, bake, broil, ete., with it, but do not pretend to coak o great many things atonce. Last summer T used 1o coal, eXcept to warl, or on extra occasions, when I got up o largo dinner. Yon have no Idea what a raving I found T have been o much Instructed In tho **plant 1lna™ that I am golng to tako tho liberty toask & few guestionn, 1low - shall I treat my oleander to make 1t Lloom? Do {4 fluod to-be Lept twut? What will provent }hlo"lcuw‘; ’ul my sellver gerantum from dryiug sna alling of Peru-Lonf—Can T keep ferns next winter with- ont having a box made on purpose for them? Do ot us hiear fromn you agnin, for yon writo us if you have bad succe: ond (lke Chat) know il about Wil one of tuo ladiey pleaso g‘l’vu ‘mo a good recl- Po for molanvea-cake or glitgor-broadt 1 have o splendid recipa for glnger-cooklea that Plekles gave me. B Lexr, CONCERNIS( TII WER ONRS, 70 the Editor af The Tribune, Curcaoo, Muarch 12, —1u reply to Men, M, M, 1L, Tcan givo the essurance, with a warm heart, that such 8 youn mother with so_great a reaponsibility hias ny carneat sympathy. From the ovservstion and experlence thiat 1 havo bod, T should adviso: 1irst, that great care should be taken to securg mnilk frow one partienlar cow always, and my intoreat would lead nip s far as to sco ‘for inysell Lhat sho wasn gond, healthy bovine, kept und cared for under favorable circumatunces, even to the dry con- dition of tho barn and fren clrenlation of the sur- rounding atmosphere, Then 1 should alwayw keep tho milk in 8 cool, clean place, ond in ‘a stone jor deposited Inside & wtill larg stone veseol, with the Intermedinte wpace flled with a sirong saline solntiun, —nll of which could be attonded with but little trouble and might be the means of saving the llfo of onc of tho dear bablew. ltaleing babica on the bottlo s o hazardous procecding ut best. Kmm"f that there in n margin againet your succcss should rurve 10 sharpen year eal “to adopt the mode which has Titherto been - tried with good results, For colic, propare a salutlon as followve: One pint rajnwatcr: uno ounce Lorax; oo gunce copperua; Gni oulics gum-arable: ane dmchm. vermillon. To bo ap- Plied uponthe spinewith a fina cazol'a-hair brush, Euxexur, hae OLD, COLLAR-NOXES, To the ‘Editor of The Tribuna, Warzatoa, Ind,, March 6, —Lookiug over an old punber of ‘The Ilome, § noticd au earnest inquiry from enmo ono ow to what use to make of tho empty collar-boxes scattored profurely about, our houscs, A round collsr-box maked {ho Lost balr- pin-recelver L havo orer scen, The cover ki nut used. Cover the botlom aud “sides neatly with soino merino, or anylhlug canvenient, tso colur of the worstad' to Do usod, scarlet belng the most serviceable, Crochet In '5“‘ zephyr, & ."IP to cover tha. sides, and wsew it on. Wil the box witn bisck curled halr, such as upholsterers use, Crochel o clrcalar pleca for 4 tap in the open-stitch, finfuhed with shelly, tack- in it on tho_covored edgo of the box Just inside the shelts, Y havo used one far yeaps, nnd recous "mend §1, not so minchasa ll\lm(nl besnty, butas s most convenlent compunion to the tullet cuxhlon. Can any of tho Indlcs tell me whers I can get necdlo-threader? That nay not bo ite market but it [4a Hittle {nvtrument to asulat poor oyos nl.hron!luir needive, —not maching needive, Lut the 01d-fashloned kind. Ihave huard of such a blossing, but bave sought for itin vain, so I come to the Uencral futelligence UMce, 4 E. DicKINsOX, A CURRIE POWDER. 7o the Kditor of Ths Triduna, Ciicann, March 13, —-Pardon niv, ladies, for not ving the recipe for currle powderns I protuiscd, 0 busy with my studies thut L have very i ne: Quie ounce ginger, vne ounce mustard, one ounce pepper, three ounces coriander sced, threo ounces tumeric, one-half vunco cardamoms, one-fourth_ounce cayoune peppur, one-foutth ounce cummin seed; pound fine and slft, Thiscan bo prepared atauy drugniet’s, 1 vouzio 0o give & recipy for resl Boaton brows breadt < Thank you, Laura Eatle, for your sucgeation with regard to und:ln‘(. T have been fu tho habit fii ;‘:l'll‘.flll occasionally when mcrely using my Waa It exactly genorous (o satirize Another Stu- dent's lotter in the manuer Quill did, as ho wrote for informationt « Ollye Gregu, will rm bo kiod enongh to tell e what books g gicl of 10 should read jn connoctivn witl bher studies, and recelve the thauks of Beuoon-Gint. BOAT YOR THE COMPLRXION. ‘T the Editor of Tha Tribune, Ciscadio, Mareh 12.—Will Psui H. B, please tell me I washing the faco and nmeck with Awerican Culgste & Ca.'s voap docs suy harm. 1 dun't llke theldea uf uot waslfug my fuce whth soap, uud yot 1wy mother aad several otlicrs have told me that »03p is fujurious to the complezion, 1 am auxlous to knuw, becauso | don't wang to ) cotaplexion (wiich i none of e best by any wmeans), and yos' I want to use soap. Bowe people think uno way and sume auother. A Luve trivd that ciunawon oil on my warts, sud atrange o say it did no good whatever, nmlrmnu; er oti]) 16 did ot bura oy at alli in fact 1 didp't Feetit Twmelt It though, ] vhall try carbuilc acid ucst. I have trled caustic potash.” 1% removed thres, sud did no good to tho othurs. BWERT BixTREX. BALT-RUBUM CURR. 70 the Ediior of The Trivuse. Wannxx. 3ll.y March 14.—1 owo au spology to thosa who ssked some tiwe 2o for thy suit-shuw recipe, 1ought to have replfed sooner, but 1 ob- taln'iny recipes from wy husband, who'ls 8 phyei- clitn, abd ba has peglected W write 1t for we uutil Bow, owlag tu & prvaa uf Lusincss, This week 1 received n request by mall from E H and hrrewlth sendv: Calomel, two deachma; oxide of 7ine, two (dricms W guaces: ix Rands ot nichi, ar won, which €an be cipe for 3 where it and khake v Wauh in the ohtaineil at any drei st Some time a0 1 rent_to ‘Phe Hopee a ro tpiced pudding, and, thraugh # misys #hionld have read une square Toaf of bakir's bread, 1t read *ran: wqnare 10af of baked,” making it sound 8 ittle ridiculons, as one would hardly uec bread unbaked. Mnw, €, TO NENOVE SCALP WENS, o the Edllor of The Tritxne. 1loomenaLL, March 12.—~1 have long hoen o faithfm realer and admirer of Tz Tnisvse, but have never screwod miy coursga up to jmdt tho right plich to write you a lctter, but ecelng In your last cdition of The Home a request for rome method for *remoring & wen from tha sealf,'” and, belng the possessor of 8 remedy for that aifiiesion, [ et aside nll fears and boldly wado in 10 rescue o fellow creatare if it 19 In my power, Now, Innnirer,. your attention for a_moment. Rnb the wen thoronghly night and morntug with simply aalt and wator. . Boraro and rab §4 harl andwell, Keep Lhin up for aix months or more **Jet patlonce have hor perfect work,” and 1 3. sure you that at the end of n year ut least every veetize of the wen will have d! mn»uml. Annle 1t ke if some one will tell her what to o to yet fat, Take plcnl{ of exercise In the open air, and dtink a pint of milk every nizht just ?»c- llm.‘mllrlnT. 7y “} Annle. 1 have never known it to fall. . [t is eimpio and harmiese, and can do you no injury. ISDIAXA, INFAXTILE COLIC, . o the Fditor of The Tribune, Manssop, Wik, , Marchi 12.—To the tequert of Mea, M, M. 11 that sume one will send her a recipe for collc for hor twing, 1will ray that moot.tes 19 he Lest thirg § ever uved. It glves Instant rellef, and the liitle'onoe falls Into a sweed sleen, Get the soot nnt of an old stove.pipe; it should be hard and free from salies. Four over itsame bafling waler; thendraln off the toa, and sweolen a litls #0 1t will Le:pleasant to tuke, ' Give two or tirea tablespootate. It haw a mmoky taste. but ia nol at oll dleavtceabie to take. Au old Feotch woenan told mo tbe ramody, and I have never known it to ol Idonotthink T ehould have been tempted to Teave plearity’ and appear befora Lo reudure. of ‘THe Home had 1 not fult called to do so by that eymmathy vhich oue mothier fecls towards anather. Twant to tlank **Winnie" for her kind instroce tions In remzd’to taking bablea mafely through the summer, Muw, E. A 70 the Kditor 3f $hé Teih v the Fditor: & Tribune. Fort Warxg, Ind., March 10,—Milite B., sule phur and cream tartar will efle and othier sruptions of tho skin, when adminlaters et In smul quuntities and af proper intervala, ‘Take it thice euccessive day and then dixcontinue it'for the game Tength of time; repeat till cured, The propcrtions are one deasert wpoonful of sulphur to two cram tartar and n teacup of aweetened water, [ose, twa teaxpoonfuls three tmen o day, Whoro fa e . W, IL Iruning-lonrd manufactur. ed, and wiat {4 the cost of vie? **1 could a tale unfold " i3 repard to bosom-boards and **stretel. ern" that mirctch entirely in ona dlrection, und to tho diffletlties In froning nice drensee on 8 tably whero one alile 18 rumpled as fast s the other i #moothed, 1 think fromn the description of the 1t W, 1. borrd 1t fa what 1 long hase sowght, but naver fouyd, WANNRUWOMAN. ually dcnm bolls " LEMON PIE AND CUATARD, the Edilor of TAs Tritune. 3 Wrxows, Nk, Marcl 1i.—As ihin fs the reason of tho year when wo care ot for lemun ples, § wish 1o give the readers of 'I'lie tHume two good re- cipes for icumon ple, Tako thu yolka of thice exzn; ono cup, ¥ sugar; ono cup of wateri une table. spoontul of flours.tha Juies and grated i of ono lemon; 1\1;1 oll up togeiher; bako as custards then Deat tho hites of thie (hree epus o 8 froth? sdd three tablspoops of sugarsiput on top; bake a It brown. . Leusont cuntard=Tiwo lemans, grated: one-half paund of sujar; onesfourtis pounid uf bitter; beat ogethier to @ creal ¢ pint inlik; two table- wpounfaleflonrs four gy, beaton separately; odd the whites the luet thing.” "Thesa, tre ood recipes, hut, as we have uscd them rd'lonz, would b ¢ver so’ much obliged for svmething new or differont. LONNIE. ZOILET-BOAT—CLEANING SUARNLE." v the Editor Osnwrosy, March L. givo o rclpe for making plain white toliot swap? What kint of potasti should b used? What ahomd be the preportions of potash, water, and mutton- tallow? duguld the Ingrudieits bu Lallud, ud Low oy ‘or the benedt of Bolle, I give Mrw, 1lenry Wara Tleechera recipo fur tuking stalnd from marbls: Make o aidxtare of one vunce of suda, 4 piece of stone-lina the nizo of n walnut, quartarof 4 pound of whilfizr, and thy sume suiount of soft roap. Boll thero together ten minutes, und thun pot the mixtury on the warble while hot. Leave thld on twenty-four hours; then winh off with clean warm lish ret with soft flannal, ead then with in. Dantixeus DINGLEDT, VEGETAILE GAILDEN. : the Editur of Yie 1ritwne Caticano, arch 14, —WIil some of Tho 1lome derf tell flow to_uinku 4 Vevetablo parden fora mily fu the eity? Of course 1 know it 1Y Lo madw out of duors, Lok how shall | pre- pare the doll aftor it 14 dug upr Whantgarden tools nra notesary, ond abont how fnuch stiould they costy - Wnat shall first be sowng anl when onghtl o bogipt Humebody 'uhmwu roply to il these quustigns fn platn Eugl win red e |eoramt at Lhis wor “Ph youlis person who anks 12 bruabbiy with mike If carly, [ informod that it wil o bl ooner than cutin make £ curl, but ft WIL make 1L very healthy, and abundant, TO BANISI ANTS. In the Kditor of The Tribune, Nroaa, 111, March 14.—11 Y, C, 8, of Jackson- villo, 1li;, will pnt caniphor ‘gam I the path of ants of any sort lhuw treat, 1 bave kept ¢ for fAiftecn lfckory-nuf should not, not Torey, Lea, will beutu precipliste ro- uttine o plece as Jarce a» o op of the augar, WL Aunt vars by un the Jerusha pleass tell us how 1o melt together the articles numed | hier recipo for siarck pollsht 1 have had the quantity she speclies standing on the buck of niy kitehen #tove fur o day and o balf and It is harder than it was when fisst put theee, Ylease suawer through Tho Home and obliges WAL PLESIL WORNMS. v 1he Eddor of The Tribiae. Citicanu, March i, =1 have read Tho lomo with a great desl of utsredt Ian. I am much obllged to Panl 1L 18, for bls excellent lettars, cwulull{ the one on hair, but thero Is anc thing which baven't seen mentionod, aud that {4 how to cure those ltsle black spots’ which sometimes come on the fuce, and which some folka way wrocaused b sl worine under: tho akin, It auy ove cap tefl nie somothing to do for their, 1 whall be very much -obliged, ~ And, In return, If_any one would like & pretiy slipper ‘ense, L bave o pattern which I will wend 20 auy onu who will send ber address through tho colamns of thls puper. Lva. UELF WANTED, Tu the Kditor of The Tribuns. Des MoiNgs, Blarch 12, —1n your hut Baturday's Nomu I noticed a communication from Myrile of- fering Young louvekeoper a letter of slvice In re- Haru to hogselold expenae, 100, a1 8 young ousskeopor, althiough not the vno referrud to, but 1think If Myrtie ouly know how muny unics § have been on the verge of disteaction, thy mpged edge of desparr, and all the rost of thosc dlsiual placea she would extend a Ilul¥lM hand in this dirvetion ahho, Wil she please Inform me If s letter would teuch her addrcescd yrtio, Dundee, DL 1iko ay cxperlenco meuting with her, Enprzsiey, 1 would 1IAIR DRESSING, . Tv the Edlior of The Triduas. Cutcann, March 14, ~1 uu real glad Fou hrnmu‘zht np tha all-fmpurtant subject to complew & Jady's tollet, I the halr is tasiefully dresscd, no matier how plain tho drese ls, tho change {s wonderful. Une way {s 10 coll tha hair quie high wnd then Lavethreo curle, vory short, divectly vuder, An- ather way, if your hatr is long curl it. tic it at the neck with bluck velvet or slbbon. 'Thoe French twirils & very neat way, but becomlng 1o few. Mupons, Ihope you will succecd In selecting frow o fow wayu | havo mentionod. DotLy Vanoey, 7O UEMNOVE MOTII BFOT?. Tribune, spots willsend o ‘T Tiinexg she can get wy address, I can Insure & remedy for removing toth; 1 Las been used by & physiclau bolonging o tho family and nover fatled to accomplishthio deatred end, Uene crully onu boitle ellvcta 8 curo, but In- very bad cascy the second one haa beea roquired, A Togre ounce bostls sulls for 7G cents biese, JERUdlA, INPORMATION WANTED. To (h¢ bdllar of The Tribuns. Gyugsncua, I, March 12, —I have been an fne tereated readér of ‘i Tlowie for several monthy, Would Iike Ars. Josepline L.'s vxporionce with gilboves, but o' ot knuw Yot addrcun R urths ris Dicase inform wmu. the price ol ol +* b ta be had? ing " uud where the; N ) Al-?, how shu wuults the top pl v ‘é‘i‘;‘.’.‘i‘k‘. u; GLASS AND PAPER PASTE, s ihe Kditor of The Tvibune. Cuscano, March 13 —Will sumu of ‘tho readers of Fhe 1fume bu kind enough to tell pie how to mako prste with whici papes can by fustuued to glassr Notblog 1 beve yob tried will make them udbero after thy pastu Is dry. A, CHAPPRD JANDS. Tutha Nlitorof ks Tridkne. Osuxoss, Wis,, Murch Ii.—! me of the L b e sl & LA ¢l e uils whore she cay buy r ¢er gloven Wiy ea, uod aro thoy durablot 3. £y " HAI-DYS WANTED. | 20 the Editor of The Tribuns. uscago March 13.—Con sume enper of The }L.rm ¥ive'mo & kuod Fectpo for turuing dark sud alr darker? Vleass obligu a constant rcnfi:r. Y. i DY, —— As the result of & year's study of tho fauua of Pyrto Riw, Dr. Juan Gundlach and kerr Leo- puld Krug have vollected four spudes of bats, tyee of wiey, 163 binds, tweuty-Lwo or tweutys tircu reptiles, many frosb-water lishes, 153 ard tero) wore thao 80 woths buttertilcs, putles, su! y-tive orthoptens {3 bewdpters, forty-thres neuroptees, 100 lyimeuopters, und 162 dipters, bealds arachobly, yrispods, wud radlutes . | The Tridene. . Al Puul -1, B, please h o - ouo lettor, forl o hatr twisted doaghnite will om out of my sugar barrels TIE FASIIONS. Spring Bonnets, and How to Trim That Useful Article, Gloves of Kid and Paris Thread---Colors and Pricoe---Lace Mitts, * Popular Hinfly for Trimming Mnslin Wrappers-e«Little Glrls . Dresses. 4 Narperd Posar, ‘Tha new honnets are quite smallof them- relves, but are given ainple size by thefr abund- ant trimmings. - The capote, with eoft drovping crown, ond the Normandy, with high poluted truwn, arc most often scen. More distinguish- el-looking than these are the broad square erowns witii close dreoping fronts; pointed Muttier-Goose crowns have disappeared. ‘Tusean Lrafds of gecpest etraw tinte, lace strws, Milans, and Legliorns are the cholcest noveltics; fine French chips arc als largely Imported, and are llked because they are light, soft, and searce will make the yellow Itaifan bralds nost fastifunatie. Bilk bonnets, plafn on the frame, or tlee gathercd and shirred as capotes, and Normandys, arc also among the cholee selece tions. White bonnets, trimmed with very Hght colors, are the rule for straws; the exceptions ore black chips, trimmed with the new light ehades of yellow, green, ur red. Black Jaco lLonnets of piain or of figured net lald plauly on the fratne are wnouy the mostelegunt of the linportations. JIOW TO TRIM SPRING DONKSTA. ‘When rithion iz uscd for trhmming, it Is from two tothree inches wide, and is usually satin on one elda and groe-grain on the other, It s ar- ranged {n grent clusters of loops with ends In- tdented In pothts massed on top of the bunnet, 1s plain nround the crown, and is croased behind to furm atrings, which are either streamers at the back or striugs to tie fu front, accordivg to the wearer's fancy. Many of the fluest bonnets have curtainbands of tho brald behind, aud the crown s almply tritmed with 8 shinliar band of brald over an inch fu wldth, piped on cath edge with satin, and shaped Into, & amall bow on the curtaln band, It is in these fiug pipings that satin ap- pears more often than i larger masses fn crowns and bows, as it is rather licavy for sum- mer bonnets, Velvet is scarcely used at all, There is very lttle face-trdmmiog fu any of the bonnets, yet the greatest variely is scen tuere. Thua fuside sotng is u soft wreath inale of the crushed petals of roses torn from their stems, Innnother s an fuch band of founda- tion plaiuly covered with satin of some becomn- ing color n which a gold vrnament is plnned Others havo a foll pufl of satinor of gros- grain, Moy lave a tulle ruche with only golor glven by the ailk lnlug the brim, Three rows of loops of satin ribhon on inch wide s another face trimming, One miliner crowds ten voses of three shades fnside these closs cottage brims, ‘There arg Quaker-shaped bonnets abrolutely without Lace trimming, Others urs capotes with two frills of straw lade alinost as fine as thread-lnce, anil be- tween these Is a ratinbandean of tiiteul, flamme Ao Vesuye, or other stylish shade. Twists wllk, kuots, and hows, with holf of ove color and halt of o contrastine shaide, are also usod, but, Iike tulle ruchies, these uro not uew, Among the most popular thin stufls for taim- "““? are guuzes wich ‘bara or stripes of plush, orof chenille. These are ucwer than tue Mexis caltre xauzes, and nre used for trimmings, and also for veils. The vell {s passed over the face and fronkof the bomnet, crossed behind, and tied under the chin, and s enld to bo in Egyp- than atyle, Onoof the richest trimmings for fine Lexhorn bouncts' fs embroldered gauze, much of which hus chienfile-work upon it,” This Is stmllar to the trimmings itnported Jast scason for evening dres It I8 passed mround the crown, and forma striungs, ‘The oruamenta for bonnets are of pollshed yelow gilt fin Rebulse sunice desigus, or ol st mitxed with pearl or with gilt. Small brooches, clusps, rings, and buckles, are st used; Lot these ary oll very carcfully emyloyed by the best milliners, ns they niske a bonnet have & tawdry look when they are profuse, Kound hats have narrower brims than thoseaf ony std are Jest pronounced Io shupe. Cypting gauze veil trimmingz shade hats for theconutry. It Is very up with earuations or popples X NEW KID GLOVES, . Kid gloves for the spring retain thelr long- wnsted shapes, and are eusirely without fanci- ful stitching or ornainent, belng werely bound ot the top with white kid, whils the stitehing on the buck 1s alnply that 1nde necessury by uver- stitching the thrie seamu, which s doie “in sitk of the samo shado ns the kid, Gloves long enough to require three or four buttous at the wrlit are most used fur the strect; evening and frotn six to twelve buttons. A caprics of the moment with yonnge ladies {5 that of wearluie Ton black kid gloves with Ih{ht evening dresse: they liave the elfect of making the nd look small, Gruy i3 the leading wolor for strect gloves, and 1s shown In great vorlety, begionlng with pale French ::m{‘.’gulnzthrou'.: blue gravy aud steel gruy down o the dark lron gray sud ik shades, Fine drub and. putty fil cs are chosen by Indies of taste, beeuuse thoy are of anobtrusive hues, ond the varlous wood colors are populur for the samoe reasvn. Cream-color I8 more used thuu ever, and deeper yellow shades ara now fiported, such us a straw, malze, and even bubtcreup color, to mateh the bonuct trimmings, Ink shudes are soll all through tho summcr for tnornlng wear and for traveling. Piukish lavender and ma- rine are offered nirain alter Loing dropped for o time, Gloves fastened by unu button cost §1.603 |D¥ two buttons, $1.50; and by threo buttuns, §2.10. Loug gloves for full \ress cost from #2.85 up t0 ¥5.50 0 palr, Undressed kid gloves ure almost snpersediug dressed kid for strect wear.. They are brought out Ju mediu ana fn dark shadus of pray and brown for guncral use, while for more dreasy costuuies are the stylish light drob shades, bull, and palu French gray, For eventng are white undrussed kid gloves, snd for deep mourning soft, dull bluk gloves of undressed kid aro preferred to all others. ‘They comu e the long llul))lu shapes and plain styles used for dressed kid, and cost, for thoso with two buttons, $1.50; for three buttons, #1.25; for four buttons, €2. Castor gloves aro Hked for truveling, beeause they arc soft and pleasant to the hand, thick enouwh to vrotect It, und are very duranle They are made (n the stylial shupes Just noted for kid gloves, Misscs! ploves, lnstencd by oue, two, or three buttons, conty i the samo colors and lei;:m a8 those wori by lulics, snd cost from $1.23 1o $1.85, ‘There uro alsu still smaller gloves known os nfauts’ ¥ gloves, For the sumner the novelty wiil be long, white Lo mitts that reuch up to the elbow, These ave very inuch worn in Parls at present, and hudies who have been abroad are Introdue Ing them here, ‘They cost from $2.55 40858 nalr. Black laco mitts are atsy fmported agalt, und are richly wrought iuside the hund as well us outsfde. There are threy kinde—tho short, tho medium, gud the long initts; the first is without fingery, the second has half fingers, and the thinl ary uluw’? with regular long flugers closed ot tho end, They vost from 50 ceuts up o 87, Among fabric gloves aro the long Parls thread Bloves, with clotked wrists and fin, ) B smonthly tinished as a Balbritvon stocking, ‘These catne into favor lust year, but the supply of theuy was goon exhausted. Now they are shown {n the popular drab, gray, brown, anc butl shades, also m pure white, and in black tur wmoarviug. They are 1 a pair. Enellsh thread gloves are shapely aud duruble, and cost 55 cents 10¢ thes with one button, 60 cents for two-but- ten gloves, and 80 ceuls for those with threo battous. Mirsca’ aud childrew’s gloves come fn the Frou English thread, lke those brought jor ladlve; thuse wish withuut shrink- iy, undare not faded by persplration. White sloyes ure upwlnlli‘h tor Hittle yirls. For raveling wo Eugllah call-skin gsuntlets, em- brofdered ¢ the cuflaju the prosounc Euglish vomen liko: prico 8175 gauntletaless showily embroldered cost from 75 centd to §1.50. g WLLSE MUSLIN WRAPIERS, The newest whito wuslin wrappers are made of nanaok, trimmed with bauds of Hamburg ingertion and platn or frilled edging. They are In Priscesse shape, purfectly lnlnln down the froutand shtcs, quits nareow fu tho skist, and ate thished down the middie of the back ‘zy a Princesse pleativg set fu below the Marguerite wakt low on the touruure, aud forming o fan tral, ‘The fnsertion i3 placed straight up each fruit, crusses uver the shoulders, aud is in vach of thy three seamns that ghape the back. o otbers it hus the oullive of & sueque that 1y Toager fu front than behind. LITILE UIN1S' DEEYSES. The Princesse dress {8 belng wisle up for lit- tle geirhy! surmuier wear i gray und bull’ lnens, white repped |l|l£llv. and i dark blae lUnes triwued with white enbroldery or Suyroa lace. It ty fustennd 4o frust, s ouly Ll thitog, and pliable; it the love for the novel and the.. of or seart s used for pretty whion choses of croam color and caught- full-dress gloves are much louger, requlring e dren's dresses. amelloration, ‘The peddl Ingg,—with ernmme, blunketed offed, palnted, who bore it, and know it, would peddier enters thls tntrodueing and s first foot-rot we brought hLers by soles of cournged ferent sources, flock of 8,000, un hroxy. hamls, the slies away'; aud tho paled his loves the shieep. esafly caughi, nnd with an ol Nowhere i tial, I have found size. five inchies in dopth Is a wkilied Laud he learn faster t feet than eitl tice, will mako operative far @s away, follow, neeesary. rol, the work I8 all washes it off freedom, accur beime alt dre "fl‘: redderied with 1l tween his leg crock. the first dipplne, {n tho sam ! In well €an acut freu ou spp therefore cool, and sometimes has box pleats dawn the front. These pretty dressea hang all the welght from the shouldera, are fn onn afngrle and are as suitable for the street as the honke, all of which sre desirable things fn chil- FOOT-ROT IN SHEEP. How to Extirpate It—Letter from tho on. AL €, Wales, of Ohln, Correspandence of The Triinne, Massitroy, 0., March 10.—%The sheep hasa golden foot,” says the proverb, Unfortunately, it too often has a rotten one also. isy of course, arecoguition of the well-known fact, that the shcep always enriclies the land it grazus. ‘Tho three great enemies of succesful sheep-husbanary east of the Rocky Mountains arcé Brst, doge; eccond, buck-peddiers; and, third, foot-rot. I name themn [n the Inverse or- der of thefr malignancy. ‘The laws of this and most other States, touch- Ing the protcetion of shcep fromn the ravages of dogs, are slinply barbarous; but they are likely to remain much as they'ars till farmers intelll- vently, actively, and unitedly demand thelr In the meantfine, it does not be- come then 4o #it 1dly down, with folded hends, rupinely walting for tardy and uncertain legis- lation. The best remedics at bandt are vigilance, strychnine, o trusiy rifie, or a double-barreled Lreeclrlonding shot-gun, charged with wire-car- tridges and No. 3 shat, g ers are more pestiferous than the dogs. They have doye miore damnage. When wno considers llow they have perambulated tho cauntry, cheating, Iving, swindiing, and deframd: tielr poor bucks, t0 pampered, petted, coddled, staffed, and sheltersd from sun, wind, and ruin, , coated, jocketed, amd Comwall-iintabied, shieared, and bedeviled, that the very mother several mothers who sucklul ity would not itbe toomild aplan to make this a standing rule: BIOOT 1M OF THE 8roT"'{ But all the other sins of the peddlers are venial compured w!l::l:.]llm. they commitied in g(\' 0 Brown," whose soul I8 marching on, Alasl the some of bis sheep's feet were [n bad murchiug order), thew of the firm of Perkins & Brown. of Akron, Oy In some sheep they lm- ported from Baxony i 18—, out, aud the country was reasonably clear of it il the Incursion o the peddlers following the high war-prices for wool. brondeast frow Vermont to Texas, In their track they left Hmpln;i floks, and dis- wool-growera: nud, lal folds and short-lved peit-factories, the Statesattempted to siay its progress by Jegislative ennctients, with ahuut as _much cffect 25 had the cowmnands of King Canute upon the ristng tide. All other causes combined have not diminished the runlur of glieep, b one-third, as has the dread of this have no doubt the nunber of sheep cast of the Miaslsaippi would double in the next five years §f farmers could be assured of freedom frowm this pest, No such usaurance ean be wiven, Though not g0 prevalent asen few years ago, the chances are that it world moure of leas ‘Infect any uew large flock that could be gathered: froin dif- Few bave sutfered pecuniarily from It more than I deal with I, it ';llmmmhlly rulned o valuable he apeak words of chiver to fellow-flockinasters,— t0 sbow hiw the disease can be kept under and cured, with less trouble, aud ot less expense, than Is commonly supposed. There {a nothing new about the plan. It s sinply the way which an experfenceof several vears with nuierous reiuedics, and with hand- ing over 15,000 sheep, hos moet eflicacious. what minutcly, beeause attention to ur neglect of detafls often makes the difference between s ractical success and o fadlure, To begin vrth; K:I. the flock-owuer put aside all *lotlons,” “eures,” snlves, soups, crets, They are oniy o Lo will warit but two medicli PERSEVEUANCE AND DL In tho next pluce, the curlng of thing uot one man in A thousand *can do by Tl must take hold of it with his own Tie will not find thetask nfragrant one, nor i dainty, Tae peculiar odor, e sullcring of under the knlfe, the exhibition of the BUTER, 1L, W They wil }um-y through pesfeetly. Bui the owner wi bolt to the odor,—its offensivencss will pass lectfon that the pafn of the kulle Insts but a short time, und is necessary pennanent rellef, will reconclle him to the teni- porary sufferiog of-the anlmal. _He will learn to cui bis patient, not na old Izddk Wulton fin- it, 4 tenderly as If he loved his worin but boldly and “tenderly becauso he This I the &ny I would ndvise: HIs flock belng in the told, let b confine with a hurdle thirty to fi{ty fn 8 space so that relf, aud b nseltants, without crowding. As the undertaking will be a tedivus oue, be had make himsell us comfortable us he can. this rewson, he witl do well to have an asslstant who swill dress the hind feot, hind feet are not so thick as those of the fore feet, aud a littie usu teachos onu to dress tnem quite ns esslly and conyvenicotly as the fore feot can be done, Il aml the asslktant should cach have a chalr, andat least two good, sharp knives, tone to % ) thoroughly kuod tool wore essen- most reliable, und thetrade-number 7,170 thubest. Euch operator will want a pair of stro pruning-shears for toe-nivpers, and the unoe & thie hend o pleco of keel or red ters’ blue chalk lsnot ‘Thete should be o croc] ground by three stakes, aud contudning four or BLUR VITRIOL AND 10T WATRR,— & crock, beeatse tho vitriol would soon destroy s dron or tin vesacl, orawooden one bound with fron hoops; aud Aof water, because it soft- cus and soaks Into the foot hetter than cold, but chictly because hot water will dissolve just twice as much vitroll as cold, and the solution bueomes doubly etfective. Tho two vperators belng scated, o third man —n catcher—catclies & sheep, sud, tumic| places it partly en fta back, with its head bo- tween the legs of the or todress the hind feot whils ho attends to the fore feet, 11 hml:l are hegluners, they will er would alove, aud they will soon learn to work together better than singly, nud with & great -nvmg)uf back-breaking lubor, All now depiuls upan This i3 an urt that cag only be ucqulred by prace No mmount of mcro verbal instruction ono proticlent. surgery, As the shell s loosened from the foot, and must be cut, Wheru the disease oes, the knifo must even to the halr of the foot, and the cuttiug off of every particls of tho shell 1f It there be w spot 1eft no larper than the point of & ‘»hv. covered from the vit- rot cuds the bloud beging, Thouuh it 1s Luest to cut so that aslittle blood may flow us may be, for the reason thut tho “clot “of blood provents uevess of the vhflo: he blowd s not Otherwlso objectlonable, the heginning, It 1s best to make hasts “slowly. Pructice will enable the operator to cut with 6 keely passud ta the cateber, and dips bLoth fore feet in the Bhauld there be blood o tho feet after off with a ry, sud dipped aguin, shicep in then reversed, and tlx Vo Y. &mng through the flock tho Arst timo, it ls DIF ALL THE PEET, i sound ‘and lawe, Ju subscquent dressings, | Aip only the Jawe feet. The sound feet yeceive u little salve, the sizo of a Juxcl-vut, mndte of lard, and cuough Hncly-pulverized vitrtol to ROYAL Abscluteiy Pure. Th T = thie gol eateli The proverb clston i wi of Cacll Trot Its bieth | 0 autalochied, stulihle- who, perbaps, wius ome of "I g Vermont buck- farm, the foot-rot. The new of fn this regon was Jobn Brown (“Old Jonn It gradusily wore They upread it | S3000t Bverywhero ter on, empty me of discase. Before I had learned to purpose of this paper is to oved the casiest Iwill deseribe it sone- wortli, b 1TRIOL. the flock {8 o too much for hired men. the {ol-, ond do It_im- 1} accustom him- | 10 to ? they will® bo L Liave room for them, him- best For The hioofs of the ep the knlves fu. order, the Wosteubhal kntves the 3 carpen- tLulw 80 good, but will do. R securely ‘staked to the of a solution of wuather, operntor. 1 ho [ o*clean’t rhic wlrl mwvumu othcr operut- comparing nutes and how the knife s uswl, It i nothing frocs, simply less. the aml diseaso ust, snd worse. Where the and the tlow of blood loss “of a lm}u n and rapidity, Tho feet tho face of the luurE s and the animol Ho takes tho sheep bee they - shopld be wq}glud \o ¢ hind fect treated Sl BOYAL BAIKING G Y IS Powder 1a csome. repared opon scicntifc IS Foceved s apecial Contoasial ow, cnclosing 3 ceu batampe I the tcl'i{. Lefore sore will be well. wl of disorder, were dressed, fha wetness or dryness of the pasture, whth perature, ete., cte.” It uvery fout found sore now waa not thoroughly trimmed, or, for soma reason, the vitriol did not reach the bottom of the rot. The sheep must bx: grune over an at first, exvept that tho well feet iy Lo salved Instend of belug dl‘fled; suru ones must be even more critleally e: and nared’ down than at first, and carefully dipped. Two weeks later, the same porform- ance muat berepeated. Aft be very fow lame slicen. The flack-master will now roverse the order of lis medicines. 1L WILL NEED MORE FPERSEVEIANC and leas blue vitriol. . vvery week—tliere will bo one, two, three, or four new cases of foot-rot to the hundred. ‘Theso must be taken In time, bofore *they are far uum‘:fh o stemn-pipo. tici, and for the purposc ution. r do the dippine. In working all aay with the sharp knivcs, the uperators are almost sure to cut and nick their hands. These places would certalnly be found by, the vitrlol, and oc- casion no littfe pain and discomfort. As tha ceatcher handlen no edged toul, cur the aanie Janger, ace that the sheep, in ita struggles, does not splash the vitriol-water into his cyes. The ef- fect would ke painlil, but not hurtful, to the orguns, The reddin face In & mark to tho catcher that the sheep has heen handled. Tot mayhe turncd out, and a new *‘house! brought in. % Mr, Randall, whase remarks upon foot-rot are the most sensible Yonatt and other Europeans, with thelr poul- tlces, Landages, boots, cte., b seneleal and Intpracticabie,~Mr. " Randal that the shicep, after dressing, shonld be kept for twenty-fuur or forty-elght hours an n d finor, M etpericneo does not corroborate this, No one whe lias watched a sheep on'grass fonr or five howis after a sorc foot has been dipped can doubs the CONTINUING ACTIVITY OF TTIB VITRIOL, 1f he kas any donbts, let hiin make a small in- is own skin, and placea drop of vit= riol-wrier in it After it has hod time to dry, he will find the vitrdol sufliclently active, note | witlvitanding an; he may give'it. “If the sheep. remalns fna dr, ntece Gl the applleation Lecomes drled on, Link it is a1l that is needed. Nothing more can Le dune for the sheep for twelve or fourtcen ay n that time tho wounds of tto knife will behealed; new Loof will be grown where the old. 88 cut awayi and v color It a light blue, placed in the cleft of each fnot aan preventive, caglly l\pr This 15 cheaper, mars eifective Tt Is best alivavs {9 have the he does not In- Int 1t beliooves hin to rmancntly of tho When all have been dressed, tha fu ve scen in print,—thoee of heing_shinply non- says ry )y rubbluge, or even waslings, from 6} to 95 percent The dopend upon tho extent the skill ‘?fl.ll which the feet tevw her of hizh gross or shol mifl morally umnm thm, but the xamined tor that, there should Every month—perhaps along to infect the others. One ways carry his toc-nippers and i him, y ppers crock Y""‘k“"' and a tea-cup for a crock, hing (s just about stamped out, he should dis- cover at the sane moment a solitary lame foot, and that his houso was on fire, it is & thing be can turn over in his own mind whether he will dresn that foot first, and put out the fire after- ward. No maon with less tban 500 nhr:e)-n Mut heean havehls knife In his 1f, when tho haa any bus- joot-rot moro arthest, it s bothered w'i.Lb or, At vel he lias ove';ql not unlikely that his flock will continue for a Jonger time (n that condition than o nelghbor sald vvery flock should be in, via.: “blessed with a Bitle—just a littlo foot-rot," as that would lnsure {t the attention it would otberwisa be apt to fall to recelve in hary hurried times. vest and other TILR COAT OF TNE CURLL After they have become used to the business two men, with a third to cateh, will dreas 1, sheep In threc ‘days. Ikuow two very well- skilled hands who, lnst summor, with a catcher, and o fourth man 10 dip, careful #heep in two days. But that was uncommonly hiard and rapld work, and neither of the four hankered day or two alterwards. For 1,000 shecp, thirt pounds of vitriol for the frst, and as mug more fur the uext twoor three dressings, fa enough, Buppose you use 100 pounds, <13 Is Iy dresscd 1,600 l‘or actlve out-of-door cxercise for o the quantity, 10 cents per pound. Your dealer tmay charge 15 cents, Thon you atent wares, and so- | have far 1,000 nlu;YP: 5 > | or five aund oue-half conts per head, os the hoav- d“!-x:. n_aud & SHRC. | fob hart of the expense. d VITRI QOF TROUGHING. A vitriol trough should bo at least tiventy feet Tong, boarded u) boards, nallud on trough, and a plank from twelve to twenty feet long on which the sheep walk on leaving the trough. The purpose of the plank s to vateh the' drip from the trough. the depth water ns hot s ¢n bf tho haud, foto which has been put as much vitriol as the water will. dissulve. My own trough s forty feet long, and the water heated The sheep, after belng roughel ' two or three thines, will Jearn to, murch ua orderly aa o file ofsoldiers. Thetrough™ ~ will not cure o’ discas skilled houd and u sbarp knlfe will do that. But it bas It place, and is usclul in it answers an excellent purpose In washing, shear- ing, and other bus; disease {n check, o Fuot-rot {s warse Ib wet weather than in on wet pustures than on dry, hilly ones warin weathior than fn cold; i tall on short pasture. to attempt ita curc in July or Augus wait till tho frosts of the lutter part of Beptewms ber or October, the zround be frozen or covercd with snow, {s the esrly spring, while the ground is cool and the grass short. Thin sheep are more ensily cured than fat_ones,—lambs and nursiug, cwea easiest of all, with dressed and matehed th sides to the fnslde of the tho fect and return ft to The trough should v fillul of three luches borng Nothing but n It times, aud will keep tho prevent Its spread. fraas than I'would not sdv nmll%onu t. tier ‘Tho winter is o good thne, (£ 8o The VERY CONTAGIOUS, case {8 The 'virus is very goluble In water. * T supposo one badty-aiTected foot contalna polson enough to charge asuflicicut quantity of water u which mtdlp o thousand feet and give them all the Being a local dlsease, it does not affect the flesh for mutton, nor the production of except ns it bereditary, Indeed, I think there ia & tondency: in the dlsease to wear out, and that lamba from. fout-sure mothiers ars more casls those born of sound parcuts. llow long tho polson will retaln ita Infectious powers, I o not know,—probably for some DLies, Iuhhi wool, fmpairs tho health. It s now cured than. ears In stas. uud places sholtered lave no doubt but that tho raln snows, freezings, and thawings of winter will. effectually wash it not necessary to plow such felds o make them from pastures, and that ft la. aguln, Thoagh with 5!!11& (Gods unnamed, an Nover god wus kuown 1o Who hsd not hia devotees 8o I dedicato to mive, e leru fu voree, wy temple-shrine, “Tla not Ares, mighty Mars, Who can give succass 1t wal *Tis not Murpheus, who Guard above us whillo wo aleep; “4'lu ot Venus, iy to gl 1uil ta thevo, und otliers, after Momus, gleceame god of Laughter, q)n!rlmu would guard my heslthi Plutus would insurs mo wealthy Moroury looks after trade; Hera wmiled on youth and malds Al aro kiud—I bwu thelr worth, Aftr Mowmus, god of Mirth, Though Apollo, out of spite, ,umuk nwn?omg'mu of fght] . 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