Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 13, 1877, Page 10

10 " THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13 1877—TWELYVT PAGES. THE HOME. EDITORIAT, EXPLANATION, Anont half the Jettera ta The flome contaln the camplalnt that varloas othera have been arbitrarily refuscd by the editor. This i1 true. 1f the con- tritmtore wish to remedy It.they can. The number of pages of averngs MS. necessary to fill the ex- teeme of apace aliotted to The 1lome §a 150, This week an augregate of over 400 pages has been roceived, and coneequently 230 have been destroy- ed. Some lettern have been of twelves or fifteen pnzes; these have nearly all been sold by the poand. The person at preeent In charga of the devaciment readn the short letters first; and, oth- er things being equal, will approve two or thres rhort ones before ono long ona, becanse more friends can thus be heard from. The intcrest of The Tlome deinands (1) that its contzibutors leave out all prefaces and generalities, and (2) #top 89 ®oon an poesisle after the second or third page Thua more than twice as many as now can be heard from; only a very few will feel abured and ney- Jecteds and tho Incrense In varlety and tmprove- yaent In Intcrest will surpriss and satiafy the readers, e LETT -BOX. ‘There nreInttera {n this affice from the following. named contribatare. Thoso Intended for petsons Uving out of the clty whl bo forwanled by mall nupon recelpt of nuldrees, Nesidentscan call or scnd to Room 24 Tr:nuse Bullding and get their lot- toras * My Wife and T, Mee and Beth, Mixees Kit and Kitten(3), Svlvan, Aunt Lon, Jachelor, Kitehen Devates (2), Yiddle, Mre, Ur)rna.}huuon. ’lgi.‘-lln grueu\u en. Co Ciy i Birdle and Lilile, Mo, J. Al T4, Tlack and Blue Sicep, MOTIHERS GRAVE, 1In the Lrichtest, greenest comer Of a church-vard far away, Whoro tha dalsies graw tho fafcest And the children love to plays Where the snow lles while in winter And tho violcts snonest spring— ‘Where upon tho yew-tree's branches Cheerfully the robins slng; ‘With no stone of whitest marbte Carved that all the world may ree How we loved ber, how we monrn her, That ehe'll ne'er forgotten be. No! 14 nceds no scnlptured tombstono, Marblo alab, or cross so falr; Nought I needed to remind ns That we lald onr mother there, Let the wild lowers bloom above ft, Let the children langh snd play, And the birds upon the hranches Which bend o'er It alng all day, Think you that we conld forget her— We, the children of Lier care? Think yon that to leave hor name oat Of our childish evening prayer ‘Was not like our loss repeated? Can you guess the weary palo Tt I8 to know that nover May wo hear her voice again? Ah1 wo strive amid our trials 'To bo irm, and calm, and brave; Tiut we algh with ceaseless longing For our rest by mother's grave o M, WINTER ORNAMENTS. Tn the Editor of The Tribune, Moxnag, Mo., Oct. 8.—Little Ida and Bell Rtons have returned from a country visit to thelr grand- ma, and brought with thema great basketful of rustic treasurcs, which they have begeed **Annt Carrle " to belpthem make Into Chelstman preaents for the dear **mother™ and other friends whom they love. Perhaps other liltle glrls and boys would like toknow haw to fashlon seme of these beauties, aoch, for instance, na the **grass foun- tain," or o ruatic basket flled with growing grass- A very amall child thut Aunt Carcio has among her nleces makes o great number of wonderfully Tovely objects with these concs and sceds; alio Avith various other simple materiale of which § will tell you, from time to time, for Ithink all childron shouid learn to love the beautiful planta the pood Lordjnves us, Butthis cone fonntain or basket. lan't it lovelyt Waell, to winke it get & number of corn cubs and allftla boardabont clght Inches square, on which bulld a basket, just as you swonld a corn- cob liouse, or *‘log-cabin faehion;" then stand cng cuney, (or othor carn-cabs) npright closely round the rides (Inelde); then poar In sand untll 1t Is full, and make it quite damp; alvo sprinklo sand (u all the scalesof a numbor of cones, and pie them up in the sand until they stand Jiken high pyramid, witha pretty cone on the top. Now sprinkle sand all over, und then, with a brosh dipped in water, norinkle it, and while wet acatter grusa-seeds of several kinds (homp. canary, flax, murtard, or any other kinds you may “have), Sriuklo the whole with water, and place in a dark close cellar for threo days, sprinkling it overy m ‘Then brink it out to 8 sunny window, and saon the lovoly preen wrazs will appenr, and *oot bu a lovely sizht, whbich may ve kept flonrish- iug for many weeka by daily sprinkling, ~ - A charming object for the breakfast-table on Can you Chrinumux muming 1a 8 tumbler-garden, gotanold *‘castaway' table-caster? It mo, you will have a most auperb gardens but If not you can mako o resl beauty by placing several tumblers on o dish_(threv In 8 soup-plate, with a broken goolet stood in the centre, upon thielf innor odges, e vory pretty). Then fill both dish aud glassos witl r. Put round pleces of cotton-batting to Nt « tumbler, aud sprinkle sand in the alsh; then Jay the cotton on tup of the glasses so thag it just totiches the wator; now on oneplecoscatier canary- sced, on unothor hemp, on the next flax, then waler-cress, and on the sand lay nioss, with soins cuttings of moneywurt, It you can get it, or a few puas pressed in here and thore, Fat it into s dark piace fur a day ortwo, and fo afow days the tiny wpears of grang of varlous kinds will begin to ap- pear, and voon the whole will bea mass of lovely preen, in long, waving plumes; and if on Christ- Jnas you take some putly, or wax, or ovcn dongh, stk rull little balis, thon put slender wire stems In cach, and dip them in malted white wax, colored witl carmine of purplo powder, thien cluster thom and minzio ameng the green, it will bo wonderfully Lenutifaf, A living crose (s snothor Jovely object which every one will admiroandexclalm over, **Oh! how Jovely ™ **What a charming cross!™ **Oh what a uve of a pretty thing 1o that!" and all the other cxtravarant sayinge that mln’ P'WN' delight In. ‘To mako 1t get somae pleces of old hoop-skirt wis and two pleces of flat wood (ltke a lath cut in half Jengihwise), with which form a cross by nailing & pleco twelve inclios long to another picca only nlx nehes. then pail this ocross the long une six lichen {fron the top; then take o bowl flled with wet wand, into which place the foul of the croes, 5o as to brine the cross into ‘mxpcr vroportioa (for which the long part is leftno long), “Now take tho wire znd tlo it frmly to the foot of the cross, taking 1wo long pleces and puttlug one on oa: e tisen wind them around the whole cro nd 1 you wish it 10 Jouk rustic wind candlewick round ilo wire and alp it 1nto melted beeswax in which . you have stirred cnouch Lurot umber to make it quits thick. Tuls wiil look like tre twigs if you t‘n knots in tha candiewlck. Now our frame 18 ready—then morely press s hiandfu) of peas, eithera rarden-vecetable pea or the lovely aweet pea, sold in 10 cent packages, Tiiacy fu % dark colfer OF cluset for three day put into a sunny window for & few days, an the beautifal graceful vines will commence clioib- Iog about, stresching thelr preity branches up over your frame, and suon cover the whole with green- nees and beauty, An exquisitu centre-plece for the Chrstmas Lreukfant, dinner, oF supper iablo fs caslly made, and will well repay you when you hear ** Fapa™ ond **Mamwa* and all the other folks cxclaim charming, plendid,” ele., wicn To make tLls you uiust get u vuse or gublet, some scarlet It ounces of watercress and lazseod; four acorns, Now your pan ia to_bo turned npside down, the wholo of the outsldu coversd with 1ed tha also cover thu vase with 3t, sewing it ruund it as clinely ns may be, but o few pleats or gathers will notdoany harm, Next woak your sced for veveral Loats, of till 1t is sticky; then dip the van and guvlet In water, and, when wet, spread yoursoaked +ceds all over it loaving uo vpot uncovered; then vt the pobiet un the ovestarncd pan, Uil the goblet with water apd tying thread around cach ncorn, of ifthey bave slems tie them (which is bitter), snd sunpeud thew over the goblet to within half an fuch of the water by bending s plece of wire or Wwhalebone and rlnelnw It in the ‘waler, then tylng the euds of the thread to ft. Place tho whole in o warm dark place for two weeks. when the wholo surface uf the pan sud goblet will appear covered with & wmase of feathery green (il you have eprinkied lie warface each duy wilh warm water), uud from the acorus lung roots will striku duwn utuyle water, aud uoward threo stralzht, elegant l.lll[u vak treed whil risc covered with the. wost per wbject. 3 you can find, hold them for waiter, thew take & sharp pon-knife uf scissors and cat about wue-third frons the emmall cad, ewpty the yolk and while into a bowl (fur Hsidget's Caked), and 811 tho shelf carefully with Camp vand; inlo which vress a pea in the centre of a pioch of maursudia vioc, or a mornlng- ylor'y, tu auother, br you may fud & tluy furn per- iais for onc, and 1hle would bo charadog: them aprinkle gruss, fHax, rice, crues, or any fine secds vor the surface. Next, crochet with searlet, pluk, lavender. or brigut euicrald-green byr (that will look pretty over the wh! just larpe enougn to hold the shells; maks ¢ taswels for the boltom whero the polnt coice a4 a f0)i round the top; taen fasten slender corde of twisted zepayr for atapeuding them, sud you Lave the cuteat bavging-buskets imagiusble, Tuke & 1o ur picce of wire, \wine zepbyr round it (ur worsted ‘braid is better), favton o busket ot ouch €01, snd hang it by a cord tied in the centre. Svon Lhy decits will sprout, sud you will Lave,oh!sucha tastoncs cover cra nels wet them, rese, ar masiard, Jovelr meht, Three o gether maie a_pre Gaila with brizh-colored eoak seeds of finx, water 2ty 17e! and caver thckly ! then pot inic o dark tioser nntll Rnroure:l. wetting them each day. When covered with zreen, and looking like lovely halis of muss, snapend then in a window by corda fastened to the top whora the round piece of rannel 1e enthered todcther. Sprinkle wiln warm water each daf, and they will zeow for weeks, Anather love hanzing ornament 4 made by seiecun: a oo shaped tnrnip or nta-bsen, and. woupine a hoje trom the root-end, nutil only a watl suout an inch thick is left, a1 the hole swith fine sanly, hut gond, rafl (enrth Ir1m the wrods §s best), ani In it plant 8 morning-giory, or star-ipomeea, ana hang it by four cords, bassed ihrongh the skin, I o runny window. Soon the pretty vines will go elimbinz np the corde, running n race to res which can et 10 the top fAiret, and ‘at the same time the tarnin wiil thootont from telow. ani the delieate whito and pale-green leaves turninz np round 1oe eides will look Jiks some raro china baskel. Or \ake carrote And bect roots and manage in the rame way, and_you may have equally lovely baskets, Agttn, take the rialks of cabhaces. place the root ©nd In n Inr of water. caver the jar teith flannel oe raw cotton, enturate i and covor as thickly an pos- eible with any of the secils before named, and soon you will ‘have a very singular but beautiful nbject, for the cabhage wili send forth lotg white and green carled foliace In form of n cone, which, rimng from the ecarlet and green covered receptacle, ia truly beautiful. so nnich #o that we hase seen hundreds of peraons atop dnring the conrse of asingle day to dce the wonderful- lonking **hangtng barkets,* an they hony in a windaw of a buey cltv stre nd many would ealt 1o ask what that strangs and beantfal plant was! Ta think of saying, **Only n cstbave-stais." ** Annt Carrfe “ has a Iitile friend, once of hor finmemua nleces, who fsa reat Jittie florist and un« deratands a great deal abont plants and their havlte, Now, you may be sure that in summer she han beds lied with choica fowera, and 1 winter tneranny windows har mamma xives her are full of eraniuimne, fuschias, and many other neetty things, §50t fcre Ia one thing she never Torgein cach fail. ani uhnt {s to make preparations 1o have the chan- o dellers, and any hanzing ornanients, or the pict- ure-cords even, covered and draped with Inxuriant vines, Now o not exclalm: **Oh? yes, but T cannot pet them,” or **Ob, mamia will not let me have any pots abont the chan- delicrs or plctures, for in watering them [ might injnre theie beanty!™ ~ Aunt Carrie would Hol have yon give tranbis in learning to lote 1 era: and Iittla Katie docs not do no—but just listen 1o what she doca do. A soun as she accs the first sweel potatoes bronght into the kitchen she asks lier inamma (or the cook, perhaps, ) to let her take some of them Lhen ahe ariccts thoeo that will fit nicely in eotne round tin cans (which, by the way, she always has pretilly panted and oramented with rome tastetul piciares, and fonr holes made in the ton far cords o pass throneh); these aho nearly flis with water anil then places her sweet polatucs 1n them, and fora month or mare thess are kevt over tho kitchen etove and yery warm. ‘When the vinesstart out she hangs them on the chandellces, or behind the plctnzes, af froma win- dow, or perhapa atands o very pretty ono on bracket, 2l very soon sha has the must exqulsitc vines clamoering about over cverything, o that whien Christnine comes you would think yon were In & suwmer-garden, Aust Canng, P FERN-LEAF TO TIIE CIHILDREN. Ta the Editor of The Tribune. F Citicaao, Oct, 11.—Lad!es of Chicago, Wright's Qrove, Evanston, Ilyde Park, Englewood, 1lins- dale, and other suburban villages, I thank yon moet heartlly for your kindnesa and conrtesy cx- tended to me while In your midet, and regeet that 1 bave been obliged to refase so many of your kind invitations. Tlie reception which yon kindly cx- tended to ma at the Sherman Iluuse'on Satarday, QOct, G, was a pleasant surpelse, and an occaslon which will ever ne remembered ns aray of sun- rhine which came shining torough the busy life of onc who was endeavoring W arrange oar llome in such a manner as to maka ita welcome visitor in (he many homos where it has entered. and that it may contiaue its good work of instruction nnd amugement, Many thanks for your kind words of encourazement and cheer; and [ am truly thankful for your offera of assiatance In our new work. Mine Is. no_enviable position, bat, with ¢o many seilling asslatnnta, we will try and do some good in this busy world: and If we only make one family mote comfortable. only 2ave ‘one poor girl fromn the error intv which abe has failen, surely our labor In not In yain. We have formed some very pleaeant acquaintancer. enjoyed the social chats, and trust one nuinher way continuo to Increusc, To the gentlemen who have expressed a desire to becoinn membery, wo will now respond: There in & place for you inour Iome, and we trust we nmiay find yonr names wnrollea benide that of mother, sluter, wife, and friende. One asks, **Can 1 be- cone & member of The Hlome without belng a con- tributor tor Tha Home department of Tk Trin. uNeEY" Araln I reply: There 1 not room for all to wwelte, but yon may become members by makin, appiication to the Presldent or Seeretary. who wil refer it to the Commlittee on Membership. Not only tho older portion of the famlly are weleome, but even the little oncs, whom God @es given us to cheor and _brichten our piltrimage, will hero find a corner awalting then., Weo hope to do some. thinz for theae 11ttle homelcss oncs whom (God has nent in our midat: snd cannot our children save from thelr bank enongh to onable thewn to enroll thelr namen on our Luok, and incrense the fund, that we may do something to save these neglected onen from auffering and_want? Each onu oxerts rome influenco! Little Ones, strive now 1o direct youra in the right direction. I have soma very retty letters from soine Littlo Friends, and I hope may hear you are each embers of oar Home, Littlo Flossle, | trled to find you: wentupto the fourth-story of ti:e bullding i1 which yon fold me you lived, and, after looking for the numbeor of ‘your room, was tolid by a poor woman that yon had maved ono week pravioas to & distant portion of thocity, Iwas "7 much disappoloted. but If yon will writo mo, and { can assist you, 1sha)l be only 100 happy todoxo, Let an work fof the 11ttlo ones, for we aee if wo +*take care of the penca tha ponndr will take care of thomselves, ** 1do not mean )y this to necglect the older ones, but weo wish outr Howme to not only Increaso in numbers, hut in all the hizher attributes; for as tho years roll round and death takes one aad anotber from our wldst, may the Ilttio ones tako our place, NIl the vacant chalrs. and continno our work in a menner acceptable td God and man. You can_learn from our imparfections, and thus make our Homa mora perfect, and fncreaso its interest thil {t shall be wought for as & Liavon of rest by many 8 sorruwing, falnting pligeim. Weo do not expect to Snd a poe- fect Homo i) we reach the oua awalting us just beyond tho river; but let us strive to maks this as near perfect an ft can be by endeavonng to assiet the unfortunnte, turning a deaf car 1o gossip and alonder, Jealing lonfently with tho err having charity forthe imperfections of others, and tha en+ tirc casting aalilo of relf for tho good of othora. Becausn wo sre debarred from certatn ploasures Ia no resson why we should not be pleased to seo others enjoy thom, 1f you are so unfortunata as to ossees o jealons disposition, keep it locked n your ‘heart, and 10 oicrcome it with’ Jove. When you sed your frionds sur- rounded with thinga which you wonld gladly possces, bat which for 2omo good reason you are deprived of, do not sit sullenly by and muarmuras Frovidenco for the deprivation, but detormine that you will enjoy I8 becanse tiey do, and in o doing you will soon b able 0. drive the ** graen-oyed nonster" from bls lurking-nlace,and find that you are jufinitely more happy when endeavoning to make otners 80, Our lionie coneists of wany . willine, happy workerd, and a ono has come to its with the encouraging wi What can | do that wiil asulst yon mostr W lleve we cun do same good, and our alm isto dothe **greatest good 10 the greatest numocr." The object for which wo shall work i yot undeckled, but wo wish to da much good, and when wo have a aulticlent fand 3 _commencement we aball begin our would like to commenca immedlately, for thero scems to be erent need of i8] but thisis impossible, and wo would do nothing hastlly, as we wish to do that fn which ol vhall be fnterested and all tako a part, t it, If pasnible, b sume- thing that shall rellove woman of the burdens under which whe .is now laboring, elther by owletiug her 1o uin a livolfhood or by giving hor o home where sho may find xome comforis of which she would otherwise have beea deprived. And now wil) thoso distont fricnds who have cxprusscd so much Interest send us thelr names, and each one make it an object to send a many names as possihleof their family and fricnds, wid inay this new Home whicl wo woold uuile in for othiers pariak of tho ponce and happi- vurown? Surely it wil | bo o pleasure—as wa it by ur own fAiresldes—to think of this Homa Which wa kiave made for others. Comie, then, and BAmst umatonca? As | ey ‘‘good-by "' to you all, § would not forget to rewurn many thanks to 1he gentlemanly nroprietor of the Sherman louee Wholias kindiyofured ua the use of hisroomeatail timew, and in wo cordial a manner as not (o be wjae understood, \We fell it was an imnosition 1o ine trade s often til) Bxenred by you tiat we were al- waya welcome, Hoplne to ineet you all at & not distant day, 1 will say u kindly ** goud-by, " Frun-Leay, = BTRANGE WANTS, T the Edltor of The Tribune, Jurixots. Oct. 3. —1 have long been an Interested reader of Tho lome, but never until now ventured ta present myself within its hallowed precincts, 1 have obssrved with 1nlerost your numerous dlsqui- sitions on miscellancous toplcs, and have impliclt confidence In the ability of The Home wembers to answer any question, howover difficult, that may bo proponnded, I come, therofore, asking in- furmation on & subject that nas long cugaged my thoughts and attention, a subject to which 1 have nuver obtalned iafactory solutlon, although } Lave Introduced 1t umlnl and q:‘u:lu: 'uh'!enm (l‘m d st differont tinios. What is true reGine. :I‘l':lllll ;nol‘wlul 'aoe- it conalst? What aru the characleristics ono 4nust posseas to Lo truly and really redned? Education and refinement ai not synonymous, neltbor are good birth and refin went. Avao illustration of tue above, laten: Not lung alnce 1 was luvited to vislt o friead—u young laay, well educated, beautifol, refined (ut léast so abe fs consldered by the world), aud a womber of the cllte of tho city in which she resides. In socl- cfl and In public gencrally sha 1s all that & perfect fady wunld wish to b but fo evory-day boie lifu, OhYhow 1 wasahocked at this refined younz lady’s sctious, and at tha vapressions that emanated from ber. Agalu, fau acqusinied with g washi-wowan who has o daugbter, puor, 1enorant, smi homely, Yol alic breacrics tat mdescrioaoly charm called fefiuciaent, aod when o ler prescnce 1 cunwot rofralu from thinking that, ol though fotellecsually, soclally, ~ aud fnan- cially her superior, e le my superior lu reBnement, l’lmm always had an urdent desire 10 Le coualdssed selucd, but sw iu doubt Whelber Tam arnot, 1 hope theee doadta sinall be remoyed when | heat swhat consituzes true and genine re- finepent. 1 do not netong to the *‘happy ret' of whom Dirck Sheep makes meatiow, but am the most nilseralic, nRhavhy, s0d wretched creatnre in ex- fatence: not, however, misery of my prescnt conditton v angmented by the fact that 1 helong (o that nnfortanate ciass *twho have sesn better days.™ We have e denvored by every availahie means to lu-eg np IR pearances,” anil disguies our poverty from the world, and have euccceded admirably. We_have also gesmmed a clieerfal cxterior (inlfke Black Sheep), hut benesth it there Jies a heart plorced witha eword of arief, mancled and bleedin °Uh! puverty, what ruin and desalation are wroucht by thy antiring, refentiess hand? 1 forl assnred that ihe ladies of The Home have kind and generons hearts,—hearta tilied with ecompaedon, hearts overdowine with _sympathy for happy creatores like me, cutapassion, renuest yone sympathy, but let it bo'maniferted [n a_sabstantial manner— tunt for me & haadand, —rich, well-educated, and kandamne, T have atready remarked that we had succeededadmirably In disguising one poverty from tne worid so far; now, however, inatiers are hee commy ¢mbacrassing, furnitare s wearing ont. carpete lecomine tliirendbare, dresses have been tarned npside down, down side up, and wrong tide oat, Now, what {210 be done? Afier due reflee- tion, Tean think of no matner for repairing our stiatteredl fortunes (and restoring happiness **that was onra fn the doya of yore™) that _ecems propis tions anve one. and that one s to marey a rich man. ‘There are doubtiess numerons rich young men in Chicaga macnunimous enongh to marry a family (a8 Mz, Gramdconrt did in *‘Damel Deronda® i1, however, tao Iadien of The Home are not a ousinted with any such 1 hope they (the ventle- men) . will step forward and introduce themeelves, Derondu, Tlike you: are yoa rich. weil-edaeated, and good looking? \Where la the brother with thy *teool hundred thousand 't 1shonid like to make his acnuatntance, Every ono gives their ns»ln(on of old matds, so T will give mine. Old wnlls from cholce are not called ol matds, but nre designited as ** malden Iadies, " and | agree with the gushing yonne dy whoanys, **They ara 100 sweet (oe naythineg:” but old takds from necesaity are the mont morose, crabbed, aml croas creatnrea in existence, and aro 8 nalsance to thomaelves and every one with whom they eome In contacl. I do not desire to belong to elther clase, “\\'lll’wme one give moarecipe for Chatlotts uns! ‘The anbject ** faney work *' is recelvl: Umilted amount'of attention Iutnlf. P it. [ ehould 1iko patterns of all kinds of pi ure namenta. All who are kind enotigh to eend, please respond through the columaa of The Hotme. Di Venyox, EANLY DAY’S EXPERIENCE, Ta the Editor of Ths Tribune. Citicann, Oct, 3,—Well, of course we ati went (o the Conventlon. Buch arubbing up and putting in order, not of our wits, as It dues not requira vory bright ones to ook on and listen, but of onr wear- ing apparel, ®o ns not to disgraco The lfome gath. cring, Flrstly, wo went toallthe openings in or- der to know by comparison how much better it ls to be intellecton] than fashionable, and that we might rejoico that wo nrc not as other women aro— givon to new clothes and ablo to buy them. (Mem, ~Don't try this recipe—it don't work well, ) Then we tumcd onr stops homeward. Walking sheeoishly in, our porly toak the frat '*capvaynant 't seats, perfectly overwhelmed hy the conviction that the entire audicnce would rixo en masse and exclalm with ane volce, ‘*'Tisahel" There I8 the lovely Diamond whose Tofly sontimenta beautitnlly expressed fully mirror wy ovn. And 'tla shie! mweet Annie Mariar, whose perfect pancakea have soothed my Inner man, and whe! dear Aunt Johanna, whose ‘extract of wild cat'a foot has cnred o cancer enloyed for fifteen years, and fervently trusting that dnring the ore denl through which Lrite genlon woald bo oblized to pass that our hack halr woull stay up and aur ull-backs malntain Its inteerity. No snch dls- urbance ensuing, we suililenly remembered that Renlus waa nover appreciated in the lifetime of the ndividual, and, concludiag we could wait awhile, rained nur several pare of orbite And aaw—rwhat did v0 aco?—an areay of male and femalo talent on the pintforms n largo nudlonce, mome tables with n display of fancy nrtleles, Wa maw the kind and ° matherly “face of Mrs. Hale: Fern-Leaf, who looked just as we thought ehe would; and Kenn-tucky, who proved to ho & man. Soon we heran to recuguize otner friends, Ges of the oceau and hillalide sparkled uroond u sweet flowers bloomed near, and beieht colors daz- rled ns, Tha dealre to kuow by sight those whose wrltings wero fumiliar was strong, in nany cases amounting tg euthusiasm, and one of ns #till hea a wsore wpot in the side caused by a poke from sharp eloow of the momber from Thnbuctoo Cou: ty, Tenn,. as whe eavarly inquiced, ** I say, which of them "cre wimmin Is Anber?' We ivon't xay anything ahoul the speeches. All the women have read thown, and the averago male (1 cama near veriting mule) mind has noared o far sbave such thinue that there o 1o uee in trying to bring it down, ‘e sentiments cxpressed wore fine, and scamed to portray that fnheront toslre of the fomalo heart to have everythiug mafeh; at least 80 wa thought until we heard the gentleman speaic, when wo dincoverad that they, too, matchod, ft was all off the same piece, sid triamed with the #ame trimming, Mon are always great ana noblo,—lot ns never ray otherwliee, lest Sire. Cap Drown be rosurrected todetend them; but ~low bie it spoken—they aro not often amuxing, Wao nnw by Tre Trinuxa that, aftor the speeches wera made, the wheels within whesls did not run a8 smoothly as thoy might have done, Too badl If only on sceount of the inevitable ** I told you so* of lookers-on. Let ushope that tho storm will pass by, Ro- member ** we ara all poor creeturs;" make np ond he merry, ‘Wishing to lunch for the beneft of Bt Luke's, wo passed into the hall, pald the good-natured littlo doorkeeper, aud toal our placos in the linw, Tha door of the lunch-room openluy for a moment, wo uu}chz aulimpse of aulight woman nta contral table, ravenousivdevouring grapes. We thoaght, Bhe has reached tne destort; soon will we take hor l\lncn. Ten tninutes paswcd; wo Baw hor agaln hrough thu open door; (ifteen minntes later, and wo were golnve, when there camo d oud we wero carried in ited in front of this t American Tunchi-cater, Onr eyes wero dxed on her hirhorrar, Hlam, cake, vandwiches, plckles, grapes—grapes, gicklna »andwiches, cake, and ham, = She settled ‘tho knife and fork question® then and thoros both went to lier mouth with the measured regu- lIarity of the tread of tha choetly horse In tha *¢ Leonore " which Prof. Mayo played so beautful- ty. 8ho hoeded no one.” People inado unpleasant remarks about hee. A patient and hungry-looking man surveyed her first with astonishmnent, then with Indiznation, then fn 8 dazed and helpless manner, and went away, 5111 sho ata on and on. The room was warm, not to say hot. We cond not move; were crowod and poshed. ‘To make the tune pars, we told atorica; wo tricd pnnning. We pursunded onrsclves that we wero undergoing the treatment for corpulency called ** Massage, " nuch In vogue Inthe higher ‘clrcles abroad, —the Iatest thing out, you know, —huat in vain, our eyes turned tawards her by ndreadful fascination. At laat, when we looked to soe her fall down dead, she arose and Nittad away as alrily s n eprite. Shado of ulapiael or, It the old gentleman is too b { s sttond to us, ¥ill you, Mrs. Hale, tell us how that woman could nave devonred— made away with, put nut of slght—anch 5 quan- Uity of fomsl, with 1o appreciable increase of elzo or welght? What was the principle ju her that de- Mroyed that of geavitation? ‘Phe anbject is too for us, —we give 1t np, bat shail nover b lllc~ nzain Ul conscienco forcen that womsan to mako reatitution to St, Luke's Hospital tn tho sam of $14,05, nomnore and no lesy, for that lunch sho ate, lilacls, and Dlack and Diuo Bheep have written fad Jetters, If written in slocerity. 1t §s pitifol, and all shonld tey to tnd aod help them. Thials the one province that no one disputes with us—the earo of the sick, ncedy, and dlacouraved, and thesa seow aad casce; and think they haye the imonopoly of truuble, In Amerlcano ono's stato s determined for life, A few cara may sce them the ** Ladles Lofty " they wish 0 he, anil they both have chilldren (they write of (hem as though they waro curses), inwhoso lives they may liva over thicir own. What do thoy know of the empty orine atretched zenmln;ly forth for the litlle onee death hus taken? What do they think of the brave wonien who, with grim spectros on thelr own bearthstouce, go with aching hearts and atfent 1Ips to miniater fo juet such complatning oncw ua these, knowing (hat “thelr appesrance wil b criucised, thelr uotives wlscanstrued, thelr very religlon ridiculed spd U Eanuy Day, AREVENGEFUL DETFENSE, To the Editor of Ths Tribune, Thauwoo, 1il,,Oct, 8,~1Is it not about timea champlon was found for the modern mother-in- law? The way that poor lady s reviled by all classes ‘would seom to mark her one of the clect for per tion, Stale witticl more {nsipia than atale beer, are funy al ber, alrily as one dings old boots at yagubond cats. Coarse insoleuce lu in orderin every puny parazraph of every farthing amm. Slen who can never i thls world, nor in the dim vossibilitics ot ths next. hooo to Lecome guntlo- men, wpver at ber, aud bandy thelr brutal jests, while decent people are silent in hor de. it wald_to thelr everlasting ot and applaud b o lu tlers nothing sacrod o this sget Has 1t come lflslll that womanhood snd mother. buod combloed are withuut honor fn the lanat llcuuaum-ru our hives after the code of the dark auew, the days of chivalry ond Knight-errantry, if Ahis lu the product of wudern clvilization. A nation yutlawinz sud cheering over vile jests Bta woman's expensc! Daily papees, that should be the organs for educating the masscsto some kuowledye uf hunor, prouity, and purity, pander- yet these women cannot Nz 1o (h sl that selects & woman sad a mather ~ihe wrget of its fun-waking! Do wonder the whole social cconomy ls out of vrder, and trickery and cogruption walking ln bigh placcs In & nation whero revercuce snd re- shect arv out of date. | B not & very old womas, but 1 can remember 1o e whon cbildren werd taught to rovecenco the wzed; when young mion were chivalrous, and old Wucn were gentlemen— ) izt and to motherhood us the coronstlon that 1oadv o wownu Queen of Ileaven, Dut to-dsy it 4 but tho vxcentiun that proves the ruly to fnd Hittde boy s doding their bhats when uld people puay thiein, OF younss men keeping silont when ibe est at womane Cxihoco fe koing ity counds, ot old smea robuklog levity, ‘What if mothors-in1aw are sumotimes disagrecable. kicciuso some trecy boar sour apples, fu it well to condewn all apple-treca? Because some dealore bring poor butter 1o market, doca i¢ follow Lkt thesv is Louo but peer butier beautltul deferonce 1o woman aa her ner T am refined, but necanes of poverty, Tho | maded dn lew: nart—cnrrent or wehatever You mnay the face of the counterfeil proves ihe genuine: and an amone women, the fact that there are disacrecable, sharp, and exceedingly un- pleaeant mothers-in-las only merves to prove }nm. ae n clies, they are uprcht, loval, and oving. Did you' ever stop to think nf all that ja Invalved tn the term **Mather-in-la A mother han received from Heaven ileaven's prircst Avor—n precions hahy. Ske has brooded averevery motment of s infant ilfe. She has stood in the next place to Gnd to It nlways, She has nuraed §t tnrongh terrible tinersos; ahe has montned above lis drooping head, and felt her very *unl exhate in anenteh at the palior that seem- ed ik« shadow of deatns ane has received {t back from the arma of Death with a love increased ten- fold; she has gnided and controiled, molded the will, and diregted the understanding: prayed away temntation, and interposed her own bosoit to tae dar of besetting sorcows, The child has grown to womanhood, rear as her own soutl to the moth- ©f, na necesaary to her happinesa asthe sunshine 8 to flowers, " and behold! one day In elepa o dapner youth and heckona her darling away! \Where love leads the way, foolish (1) pirls will folinw, anil the tnother'n heart is rabbed of {tadrensure, Given aver fnlo the care of astranger—the Inmb for whom the mother's in- most heart was the tender fold! 1 declare, when 1 think of 1t, 1 wonder thero 17 & sane mother-in-law extant! 1wonder they are not all raving Bedlam- ttes! What i# & ljonces robbed of her whelps com- pared toa mother aeprivetd of her dansbter? Anl wnite, the vision grows upon me of the yonth who #hall one day came wooing ry gitl. 1 Lehold his sonirka and hia wiles, his sllurements, hie biandishinents. his fascinations, and, an I muse upon them. 1 feel a =trance “transformation throughunt my being, 3 am suvace, where erst 1 waa gentle: ackd whete I was wont to be aweet; agnacioiie where.l hiave buen uniforinty Jamb. ke and I fec) A dexire to warn that yoang man to keep away! It will beralest for you, O youth of that tereihle future *to avotd my neighborhood, 1am not goln: to ree my girl go forth at your bid- ding withont n moreal protest, and if yon” have not maahoud enoogh to be tender of the mnlhcl[un are ronding, —if the aced muat be accomplished, — to be fenfent of the Iaults that spring from a holy jeslousy, forbearing with the incoherencies of na " rtale “that ia akin to Innscy, ana conxlderate of the heart that waa the cradle af n love that Is only approached in ita divineness, its nnseldehinose, nnd ita pnrll‘r. b{ the love of tiod to man—then you and 1 are destined to a bloodless warfare, that ehall And its Nag of truce only in the whita bannerof Death, Wil Hyacinthe please Inquire at the general de- 1lvery fof a lctfer? I misiald the number of hee box,” Wil the mother of Mra. St. (icorge please rend me her addreas? [ wirh to return n certain artiele, with oiuny thanks for her thoughtfal kind. ness, Address me st Highwood, Lako l.‘nll\mty. ni. MBER, JUVENILE THEATRICALS. To the Editor of The Tribune, Crtcano, Oct. B.—1It I8 with great reluctanco that 7 take up my pen npon & eubject which haa rocatved the approval of manyof on? best citizens, but which appears to me, notwithstanding, to be adan- gerona innovation; all the more so, because it haa " been introduced by rome of our lending Indles, and wears tho white mantle, *'For swcct Charity's aake," I zefor to the production of juvenile plays In our theatres, with fancy dancing, in character, and all the nccessorics of the stage, by children from tho ageof4to12 yeams, tho preiticst and most intelligent that can bo selected, ‘Nothing can be more bewitching In effect than theso falry-liko performances of the wee folks,and $ho peneroun patronage accorded them rendoers It almost cerlain that others will e beonght out ern tha winter 18 over, to nasist the mnch-deserving :lm! n‘l(vmyu ovarburdened charitable fnatitutions of he city. It Ia’ for this reason that T have hesitated to Inen‘ll. becwnso T know how falthfally and nobly the lIndles who conduct these institutions have worked and beeged for the necessary funde until Lhelr courate ta well-nigh exhausted, and any new deyice to make money I8 indeed & welcome ono: bt let mo ask theee ladies, and moro cspecinlly the mothers of the chilidren, Can wo afford to maka money 1n sicha costly way? \Will it pay, In the long Fun, to harter away the Innocence, lhn’purll}, the delighiful artleesners and sbandon of child- hood nta doller a ticket? What will he the moral and physical offect nf these porfurinances upon the little innocents? Physiclaus tell ns that children need regulae, sim- Fln habits, and freedom from all undnn excitement, o produce healthy brains sod bodles; fur those children who alrcady hiave thelr school duties to attend to, all the preparation for thewo entertain- mente, tho study and relicarsale, must come out of thetr hoors for recteation; and to tho nervoun, highly-doveloped childron of the nresent day, more mind than matter, thls f» “n heavy tax pon the nervous syatem. True, It may ' not bo noticed as lH’“llI‘fl moro than tha' aplrit and animation with whlcl children entor Into nnything of the kind, bat some day the effect will bo ‘folt. Forcing children, like plants in a hot-bod, 18 one of the irat canses why Americans maturo so rapidly, and then commence to decuy st the top, in middle life, How many English statesmnen aro only berinning thelr career at the age whenonrsara closing thelr life-tark, ‘This s one way in which I think su n‘:ll:!l"lnln- ut to m; mind the effect apan thelr moral charnctorla fae more neriona than the tax upon their health. Now da not misanderstand me; 1 have no objection to dancing, recitatfonn, tabloanx, or anything that instructs or amuses chlldren, when (nduiged in at school, at homo, or at thelr partics; but when you put them upon the stage hofore an sudicnce, crowdud from pitto dome, tho circuinstances aro {idely altered. " Aty ano who bas ever appearod befors a public sudicnce knows the effors it re- quires to bo thocentieof athounand eyes, and that, for the time-helng, your individuality censes, and you biecoma the propesty of tno pubile, I»nmd and gln(od by its plaudits, or hurt and mortified by its rown. Nothing Is dearcr to the human hoart than sp- lause, and many an older hoad has been turnod y {ts ayron volce, What ls_inoro seductive to the ounk thiu tha attractions of tho stuze, the tinsel, ho lights, the elamour, tidt allures but to deatray? Think you not thot theso little men and 1itf ‘women will bo engor to repeat this it Jesson of theatricul Hifo that thoy have taken? O motnors, Chriatian muthers, what is the sced you aresowlne in these littls' hearts? Lo thoy come back to you as lrusting, as pure, a8 childs ke na (hey Wera boforo? - Drossed in silk and *owolu. with all the airs and afectations of young udies, think yon oar Bavior would gather them into 1ils arme and say, ** Of such 1s tho Kingdom of licaven™? In years to come may yon not sitalonoand mourn that yonr children have “left the privacy of homo for the fascinution nnd Fnbll:lu (»Pmuul_:o' that, instend of 8 quict 1ifo of usefuinees in tne sacred rl’uclnctl of liome, they havo chosen the brief brill- aucy of acarcer which, in almout every cane, cnds in darkness and’ obecurity; and, blitcrest thought of all, that when theso children wero a8 wax In your hand, to mold or to mar, yoa thoughtlessly Rave thom tho first lesson In wrong, —ilirst tanghit them to strive only for the npplauso of man, Do not forket tho sxceodinit preclonsncss of your 18, —that you cannot ercapa the holy respondibli- ty of motherhood, —that yoar infusnce miust bo for rood or ovil, and that You are sowing thy sead which somo day must bear fruit. **Sown in tho darknoss, or sown In the lght, Bown i our weaknoss, or sown in our might, Unthered 1n Timo or Btornily, Bure, ah) sure will the harvest be," . Cacros, WOMEN IN THE EUROPEAN WAR. To the £dytor o) Ihe Tribune, Pronexce; 1., Oct, 2.—1 feel somewhat timid In introducing wnyscl! a stranger to Tho Iiume alaterhiood, ~Hat fecling you are both charitable and Jiberal, Ishall ask of yoa that you make room furone more, The Homa comcs to us now n woekly guost, filling our hearts with dolight as we read its columns, where each oan In thelr own way contributes to our moral, intellectusl, and physical improvement, % 1t comes with al) the welcome of & familiar friend with whom wo may hold converse without rea- traint, and from whom wo inay rucelve gnod coun- sel and advice, piving new stionyth and fimpetus to lifo, cheerfully umging us onward to fuldil the various dutics assizned us, Ad shls 14 my first,and do not know but it will Aind Ite way §n'o the waate- basket, I will pot tax your putience beyond enducance, My mind hae” boen filjed with con- ficling thoughts In rezard to tho ‘Purco-lusslu war, fsumctlines wish that Turkey may main- tain her Integrity a8 & natlon and repulso Russian Wilh coriain victory, ‘Then ressoning from . ane other standpoint, 1" feel justided in admiting to mysell ter defeat would “be boneficial to her in wany ways, and to the world at large a causs for univenal rojulchm. My reason for taking this view of the subject I, tiiat In the defeat of Turkey woman fe ewsncipated from her thealldom sad warse than slovery. ‘' baremn and ‘seraglio are dlsmembercd; men are 1o longer Kinze; women no longer sloves. In all agcs womnan has been the central stae of civiil- zation. 'Through her L dlsseminated all the rofin- fo intluences of cultury and Intelliyence; as she becomen educuted, clovated, and rises Lo thit doe #rou of perfect womanbood far which wsho was in- tunded aud dostined for hfl her Creator, man also rlses in thewucale of being and manhood, eyinciug thuso nodler tralta swhich distiuguiah and laces bim above the ordlnary level uf srimml urce, Leb us hope for the emaacipation of ‘Iurk- Ish women, who azo permittod to five vuly because they can do menlal sorvice and adminlater to tho svnsnal pleasures of thelr lords. Lot us hopo that whatever the foundation be on which tae Croas Tusty, that it reach Luyond the Crescent, thurehy Talaimg woman, fordil’ not Christ make hor an ox- ample of whatshe mlfim became, thoails fallen, desplaed, foreaken? flu becamu ber friend, Hfted her up, ana placed berat foot of th wlhore morcy and parden wers free. 1 can hwagine the joy uf those Turklsh women when their minds sbali becowo eolightened sud thele hearts cducated 1o receivo thy pasiion of the nd become trans. 0 Cruse, Mutvat Frizxo. PROBLEMS, Tv ths Editor of The Triduas, Cuticao, Oct. 12.—1 have determined to face thal wplint dragon of yours, the terrible wide- mouthed, over-hungry waaty-basket. Is thia mopster ever Alicd? 11as ba beon knuwn, after do- vouring for a Baturdsy luncheon half the Inmatos of The Howme, to ¢ry enough? HBubposing weo sboold send slong with each bard-wrought mmagu- s2lobaa suual Guaglly of $be orizinal with its T ernsures and additfons, conld yon or wowld you kindly cram toat into your monster's thront, and fling fhe MSS. over the threshold of The Homo before W, B, micht fix his eclesor-teeth In {1t Plesno imagine Christlan circamventing his nnreasanable giant, or Jack of our snort-dress worship outilanking with seven-leagne boots the pudiding in which he was to he a raisin, and yon will have mentally Photographed mea I coustruct this, which my military brother ealls & ''drat paraliel.” to ap- roach” your position, 1f T euecced, T ehall not ariher “hla martial simile by blowing you Ilr. bat will simply toss ihie notice from our besieginz force bver {he nm,‘mvu. I notice In The Home lately A fearch after anb- eata for [ninredabate, Arit line disctianed whether ave [a beneficta) or destractive to women, why not reason aato [ts eects on the oppoelte next’ Wo are no longer inere pawns to ha wacrificedd for the rafety of the Knights and Kinue, bnt are doctors. authars, snrgcons, dentiste, and Ansthing cise that 8 man ever wad or can bo, Inetend of heing merely Arrive. 1o recelve an impression, and bo either broken or moliled by Il, we are hecome poaitive, and capable of flm""‘ the aforreald mold down over masculine huads, “Asto how many of theso are squeezed into nropershape or teetotafty cencked hy the operation in 8 query wo lome sintces may tues about # hittle, and eet the right afde of. And then, while working away at this prohlem, e can advance ns & united band 6f brave hearts a little way into the near fnturo, and sktrmish aronnd Ilow best to uso wicely the power that 1s tolling neater and nearer to our feet. When that enffraga comes, we #hnil seitlo the temperance uestion In lora than one monn, And e nearchng or another xiant Deapair Lo mnke war noon, \Wh nnt revive the old eurfew bell, with an amend- ment. Every huaband caught out after the last 0 o'clack stroke to be nrreeted an n vagrant, Whata hurrying and searryingt there wonld " be nnder tie eastieht in lien of present hracings-np against Jamp-posta and attempls to convince it that it's ‘+er good feller, " DRAGOXDANE, FERN-LEAF’S RECEPTION. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cimieago, Oct. 1. —A cool October day, with snun. 1ipht and noft winde chasing sombro-hued clonds from thelr stations in a bine sky; n hovy af mywect. volced, pleasant-faced Jadics clustered togettier In the spacions parlars, with **mare to follow ' com- ing inatthe open door each moment; and—hor- .rorsl—no one to report the meeting but my homble seif. I, beluga very modest, bashful yonng person, they stand me on my head behind the door to chew abrand-new vencll and take notes. Firat expe- tlences In reporting sre as bad as speaking In pablle, **Never mind," remarks ono of the la- «ies enconragingly, **yon know there mnst al- ways be a ent attempt at everything, even stand- ind on one's head." "** Be snro to spell our nemes correctly,” interpores a secondd, and with frantic {’nyl take a big awallow of paper, which I have een chewing nervously, Selahl 1inuat give ‘attentlon. Mes. Dr. E. G, Cook {8 addreeaing a few exccllent worda upon the nnrpons of our Mlome. This lady sdvances an idea of originating & Hlome echool to cducate poor young girla as nurses for the sick. [If I were a poor young girl might Heaven dellver me from buing cducateld for & nurso; haven't patience cnough. | ‘The aforesnld plan meeta wnh(hnmn:‘h approbae tion from her Nateners, wiho only refrain from ap- plaading because thelr gloves (or ** pull-backs ™) aro too tight, Aunt Nancy rises tosocond themotion, A from this gealsl lady Is nlways in order, so sha ls vociferounly checred with criea of ** llear, hearl” Betore 1 fargot, let me Anuotnes to you, nhyo Home contrlbntors, I know who Chat’is, Dut I have not the allghtest intention of making public my discovery without Chat's foil penalesion, So reat eaay in your arm-cheir, Chat, and snare on & Jittle louder than before. 11vaas about to remark, Aunt Nancy concluded by an nareenbleadjuration ta us afl in favor of imcrcy, churity, * and good decds (especlally women to women), . **It's too bad that yon are #0 hungry,” says sympathizing Yiddies; **don't chow that horrid vaver, hero's a nice bite of apruce eum." T turn a reprogchfnl glance upon her, **llow conld you Insult me with that banefut word cech *}Order!” cries Widow Dedott, ,!lmmllml on the table; **you're a pretty reporter!” [Tho adjective sarcastic, of course, ] Fern-Leal rolates her thonghts, and, among others, revernl pathetic lttlo atories aro rocltad of sorrow, sickness, and mirery, There are ao many unfortunatos in thin world for whoee hoarta the clock beats slow, and the long days drag, and the long nishts frown, whils falls tho heavy bitterness of wo, and none come o comfort thenl. You knew how tlio old song goen, **No ono to luve me, none to caress!™ That tella the atory briefly, Then o haye mora epecches, and a genoral good time for oll but the tmprompta scribe. Anion; those present are noticed the plessunt faces of Aunt Lucy, Aunt Mary 8,, Mabel, Kate, Montlo, Maine, Cbat, Margarct's Tusband's Wife, Mes. Hopkins, Atre, Itobbins, Mes. Willlams, lird, Warren, Miss Cone, the Missca Cook, 3iss Drom- ley, Miss Evans, Dr. Ennis, and Messrs, Wormood \d (1ibba, besides many others, **Poor thing! it's tired; let it off now,” ateals unon my renses, and thoy lct me off, on condition of my bulldostug the editor into Inseeting thls trifiing account. 1 flstter mysell it sounds about 84 8 Tninuxs reporter would inake it read, 1 mean to send In s nica story ahout a telegraph oparator, whoao dainty fittlo wife hung over l“o ottice-railing ovory day, and gavo her huaband a kian nvoet us honey betweun oach click of tho in- atrument, ostonaibly hecause sha loved him, but in reality to keep the protty girls from comin? in to fiet with him,—at onco *‘driving away the nnughlr wanps and eatlng the sugar.' 1mean to pat this forth in support of ** Loye a blesing to I‘I'unk!nd.“ and show how blesscd tbe operator i 7y B. Freo, I have a word for you, Mavas Mapcar, ltep. Pro Tem. IINTS ABOUT BABIES-==TIIE NEED~ ¥D CURE. To the Editor of The Trilune, Cuicago, Oct. 7,—I can't stand 1t aoy longer, I'vo choked myscif off for noarly a year,and, at tho risk of proving unwelcome, I'm golng to join the contributors to The Home for a short chat, Last your I lovk up the gauntlet, opposing friend Ros- siter's views on polsoned sugars, but all I want, to eay on that subject s, that I collected nearly 100 samples of sugar from the varlous grocors about Chicago, and carefully analyzed them, A promi- nont chiemlst, who ls a particutar friend of mine, followed me in my cxaminations, and our results agreed In finding none—absolutely nono—of the polsons supposed to exist 1o sugar. Let this bo the funeral sermon on this subject; for with this I drop it, as I do my old nom de plume, Ano. Now for somethlng to intercet tho many patrons of The om Dables have been objects of the most intonse ad- miratlon to mo. Evor since I was blg snongh to adinire snything I have always loved them, and they mo, and have yet to see tho crying baby that Tcun't quiet. Isay this, not egotiatically, bus in- tendingto encouragethe ma {,lurv 9, disconraged muthera who find it Impossible bo anlet thoelr chil- dren. Ue encouraged Ly the fact that I, whoam an awkward, bungllng, rough man, can quict any screaming chlld; and 1f I can do this by the aid of tho few hints posscer, why may not you, who are gentlo, tender, lovable—in short, mothers? 1t 18 tiicaa fow hinta that I want to lmpart, If our good editor will aliow ma the space, Tho frst rule I want to offeris, lixa all that are to follow, exceedingly simple, but very important., It _Ia this; Don'y allow your Laby to” acquire the Labitof crylng. 1 mean b that, to vbserve every meana In° your power (and every one knows nomething about taking caro of bables) to stop its crying. A baby naver cries unleas it wants some- thing, or laslck, Itacry expressing its wanis, Now If you don want the mument the cry e glven, but child to o screamiug wnd yelliug, it will saon acqulre the habi ou‘do little clee, When baby 18 hanery aud crfes for food, fecdit, according to the regulations that I shall jva fusther on; if its cluthing requires changing, attend to it af Taking o delay whatares weet: ow ecp. or i bo kept burning. all night. When your baby's wante Lave been attended to, 1 not sick or hungry, 10 fou luy It down on & micely warmed pillow {t will go (o aleop and not ‘wake until tho vroper time. ~ Nuw don't laagh, good ald mothers, when 1 tell simplo things that you know very . well. Recollect nat thid 18 for tha bencdt of those who do not know. and thoy are legivn; for o an extal practics among babics 1 have nevor yet seol 8 nurse or mother who knew all hiute and practiced them. Next week L'l ive you the rewmalader of the hin 1 must stop now be- cause wo intist have variety, aud [ must not im- posa oo nuch “T'" thy lieml nature of our vditor this time, Desldes, 1 want 10 givo Mra, B. U, Jenooit the ‘‘cure” wsho asked for last Boturduy for hor daughter's *‘awelled neck,” The young lady probibly has itre, an colargement of a gland in tbe neck quite culnnion awonz girls between the axes of 14 and =0, It fe alwoat invarianly cuced If Laken easly, though many mothods mithrl 10 bo irjed before 1he succcesful ona will be found, Bumetimes wearla a picce of biack velvot or & string of beads aroun he neck will cure the trouble, snd, as this la hann- less and does nut iutorfere with otber methods, 1t slould be tried at unce. Then peint the throat with difuted tiucture of fodine, and kcep Lhis up antil coneiderable irritation is produced. If tlns duea not care, drop the tiacture of ludine snd send to some hotmcopathic Jharmecy asd pet two drachmy of the secund decimal of the fodide of worcury, O this teko o powderas largu as o smatt pea four tiniee o day, If nune of thaso care, If y2u will send youraddress 1 will forward a letter with tho romalulng methods of cure, which will ccupy 100 much space for insertion. ‘Those given are the woet important of all, and will probably proye snccesalul. Docron NiL, EDNA ON PERFECTION, v the Editor of Ths Trivune. Cuicago, Oct. 11, 4 Wisdom sits sbove, 3 Tovmost 1n Heaven; she laits light, its god, ‘Though groveling miuds forget her ofts Beelag but this world's idols. The pu: Becs ber power; aod o youth wo come ¥illed with ber sainted ravishment, and kaecl, Worshiping God thruugh bior swevt sitar-fres, Andthen is knowledge good !" Yes, dear sistord of vur Homa, that 1s just what ‘wo want —somotbing that will elovate us 'to s bigh 824 Boble aphess. ‘These la, 1 imagine, seldom & of theee day when at sts civee bat tie most of o1 am one lea wiser thin gesterdar, that s the cavo within one fimited circied, what, then, will be toe reault of fifly, eixty., or an han- dred minde, each belnging ita mite and unrclfiahly layin: it before na? Liow can we but galn wisdom? Knowledge, you know, 1 pawer, | care not whetner it he in the oroper manner of roaeting & turkey (in which by the way wo ahali all be interested erc lang), thoughts upon Beethoven's rondias, the wonaers of asteonomy, or Shakspcare's chnicest rolnction=, If wo ace eager and anxions 10 tearn, onr minds will expand and readily accept nll thatin offered, The knowledee of the fow] will satlsfy otr appe- tites. 1 mention this first, rememberinz the story of the little girl who, when upon arkinz for 8 penny for bread, received a tract, very good at the right ‘l‘mc' bul then she was not ready to receive splritual nod, Decthoven gives na the hlgh senan of melody and hsrmony, What would the world bo withont thene? Astronomy admoniehes us o that which lies yond the tars. Last, but by nomeans lcast, Shakepeare verifienthe thought that *'Poctry I8 the blossom and the fragrance of human knowledge, human thoughts, hman paesions, emollons, Inpzuage, ** What a home we can innke if we nll come {n_the tight spirit, Of coures, we want charity, bat let It be chicly toward each other, Let s make it an attraclive that the ciub-houres snd salgons will Lave to close their doors in utler disconragement. Bistern, haye yon ever observed in our usnally well-fllled ® concert halts and lecture-rooma the rzarcily of yourg ment Hlero mnd therc we ses ncattercd throngh the honse a gray-haired fathor with two or three daughtera; to that elide a group of Independent women; whers nro the ercorta? Step, Il you \.l:nae. to the door of yon club-house, whose briliiantly lighted rooms ‘cn- #nare and attracts or, if yoa will, to the fashion. abie gardens of onr cliy; the music, they say, Is the nttraction there. 1 nppeal o’ the yoang tadies of our land, Do we realize the Infincnce we have, or nught to havo, over theae aur Drothees? Come, let us be up ane doing. Let un nadd to our hiome all tl 1s good, trie, and beantiful, Don't let s low the oldur oties {0 do all the labor, and thus rightly clalm the )aurels, With Excelslor™ for our motto, come with willing hands, ready to teach and be taught, o that the world will be purer and better for our glorious Ifome, g DXAL it i BUT WIAT ABOUT 8T. LUKE? To the Edtlor of The Tribune, MiuTox, Wle., Oct. 8.—1 am & conntant reader of The {lome, bat have only once befors veutured Into its chatmed circle, and, though you wers good cenongh then to pablish me, 1did not Intend to come agaln. But the ** cacoothes scribend, " likoother evlle, krows by indulgence, and Iam afeald if 1 don't givo you **a plece of my mind ** my innocent family may recalve a slice of it,—and not spread with jolly either. Iiuman nature, and especiatly tho rofter half of It represented by woman's nature, must find vent eomowhore. I have read all ambout your Conventlon, and am so sorey I not there, Now I should Tike to have scen—embodied I havenodoubt inont- ward forma worthy of thelr inward beanty —the wiftod apirits with whom my soul has long heldad- miring and reverential commanion, I was s0 ex- cited on tho Baturday night aftee reading the firat report that in my dreams I dld see them. Iseemed n eplrit to stand at the portal of the hall, and, as ane permitted to belold, but not enter, 1 viewed the charmed circle whicl flled the sacred inclo- ure, 1 eaw cach falr spirit wearing the badge which distingmilshed hor to an admiring crowd, and surrounded by all the heaatifu) aud vseful things whose **rocipea’ shiohad contributed to reliove nud beautily tho world. The alr wasfllled with crowns, lambreiuing, tar-water, book-warks, anchors, match-safcs, and halr-pin holders, and over all eonred, as well a5 his poor atulfed wings would per- mit. that hapless dove whoso cruol doom nas drawn tears of pity from **cyes unased to weep, " Innocent of n‘l gnile,—not “cven liko Darkis, ;fl'wmh '—he has become the Wandering Jow of 8 race, On Lho tables below I eaw the ambrosial dishes provared for these happy beings, - dishes whose swoetneas was wasted on 1o desert air. After having heen permitted, eveninapiritonly, to view such n gathening. it scems like Ingratitnds to ventare ona remark not In unison with its beauti- ful harmony: but mankind—by which 1 mesn womankind—is but a larrer Oliver, ulvngc naking for more, The dear sisters who accen to have been lEumDrl to the Convontion avpear to have fuifilied their duty so far as **culling upon it to heat ser- mone,"~and they bave written very dolightfol ro- an all nbout cach othor, —but where, oh where, a poor St. Luko nil thls time? 1 hope he will not hevo to go to painting agatn for the benefit of bia hospital, Perhapa it is too soon o cxpect tho Comimltteo to descend from an ntmasphere of el quenco and roul communings—a feast of re: and dow of doughnuts—to the prossic facts and ures which form the hard earth (it 1lived in Chi- cago I aLould say the mud) of our exintencn; but, afforall, wo_toust hava this foundation to build upon, and I wonld like to know if tho Gonventlon ulted in giving St. Luke an additional bit of it, —nllunqfi\ ovon to rest his little tos upon, ~or whother, Tiko tho canventions of tho sternor rox it ina sl endod in words,—resolutions and nytual admiration. And what s (his now organiza~ tion for? 1 havo etadied falthfully the differont Ietters, but I live fn tho country, and country pea;{h are proverb- Ially **slow," and my " natural organization In- tonsifien this ciasa defect. Liko little Patorkin, I can't undorstand *Ywhat they talked each otlier for.” Do pleass vxplain. ‘I know the stronz minds of my vex, and partioularly that portion of it who frequant The Home. 'Thoy do not waste words, They never speak withoat thoy havo something wortli saying, Now, lot us have a clear vxplanation **Whatitisall for.," Iamao sorry 1 havo o recines to sond ycu, Ains are noarly sil for the inanszoment of {arge family of children, and It takes o much time to practico them that [ really cannot sparo any to yrite thom out. Mns, PAMELA PAntinon. MUsIC, To the Editor of Thé Tribuns, 1, whowrite, am a lover of musle, an 1gnorant ‘worshiper it mnay bo, accepting my place near the portals of ner Temple, while other hapoy, gifted souls moy almost touch her altar; appreclating and undorstanding best when she ainge in simpler strains; enjoying still, but needing an wnterpreter, when slie comes with her more complex combina- tlons of hatwony, Icannot *‘seo Lhe rose fade or catch tho rustlo of the plumage of the blnd' In the notes, oa my friond avers ho can, when somo mas- ter vialiniet plays, **The Last Rose of Bummer, " or **The Mocking Bird," But I am nsked to wgite of music.' At the very outset, when 1 wonld fain pegin with a definitlon of the word, 1am st staudstill. 1am not satiafied with the definition that calls it **an sgrocable nolse,* Lut I can give no botts 1 know that It was barn **when the morning stars sany togethor." 1t was woood to earth ubal, 1t 18 vomething tho ma- Jority of mankind sconts to shiare in common; it clings e man when aleht, Learing, and evon reason 1n tied, and s ono of tha. flrat things man learue to love, 1t knowa no sex, no rank, no oation, [ had almost sald it know no age, thinking of how Miss Kellogg saug tunce when # months old, and Slmo. Anna Gishop cave concerts when over 70 years old, It aways alil Lint, and beast; beauty and deformity itiful iideousneas, like Dilnd ‘Tar ts posecssion, It accepts alike il man's vocal organe, tho throal of bird, the reso- nance of metal und wood, the thrill of string, aud vibrutions of air, It sdapts [teelf with faeflity to days of peaco or war. Springing spon. tanevusly to ono' lips In joy, it dues nul jar on the hoart when griof overtakes, It can fift the heart to highee and geaver Lthings, as well as invite to the merry danre, 1t ls sweet in simplicity and glorions In nowt complex combin: ‘There are those for whom music has no charm, though these src rurc enough to excite remark when found, : deserve plty rather than the stigma_of *‘fit for treuson, stralagems, and apoile,” ‘Fhero are volcolcas ones, compelled to worshlp —wusc from ar, having uo incenso to burn uwpon hee snd “there 1% no sadder thing than ** to know notes but cannot slug." Music ks linked many a name with immortality, and will he one of the blisscs that await un when this mortal shall put on immnortality. 'This much 1 know; but it docs not belp we to de- i xo [ do not linger on it. ke that I know of on musle are Engllsh by *+ Muslc and Morals,* by Dr. Hawios, anthority un mualc, and ** Masic aud Nataro, Gardner; for Infonnation coucerning compol read a book by Miug Barah J. Tytler, called ¢ *M: sl Compuscrs and Their Works. The beat mos novels are **Charlcs Anchester,” hly Mlse 5 J. Bheppard, and ** Consuclo,” by (icorge Sand, Thete Iulm an American story called ** The Ho- ano," whick follows in_thefr footsteps, though very far Lebind. Goflschalk's **Notes of & Plaolst" arc also charlng reading. E. @. Daxa, —— A WELL=GROUNDED COMPLAINT, To ths Editor of The Tribuns, EBxwepur, Oct. G,—Ulackie, i her lelter of last week, expressed not only her own feellngs, but 1hose of maay others; it wonld be & satisfaction for many Mome correspondents to know what 18 consldered 8 neccssity (o insure & lctter belng published; it Is certalnly very discoursging to bave 1t thrown into the waste-basket, Quae very fntelligent Jady friend of The Home has been com- pletely dlscoursged at such treatment of her let- ters, and othera complain also, We who have had editorlal friends know something of thele teh sod responsibilities, do nos have the fajutest idea that our llume editor s w0 partal to agy of us as (from cholce) to *leave out " and "Put in.'" If ho choge for menil, Blackio's brigh felters wonld cortaloly dad aplace. But willlie lot us know *‘why isthis thus," and on what dsy aud uf what length our lstters must be, sud bo seotto him. fu order to wako suro of thelr appearance? Poor Home editor, Lo 1auet recelve such quantities of epistles as to miake bim craxy, Aud now a bright thoughs strikes —that **temporary inssaity * 1s the cause of IS B prortaa, aid et . N. G., of Plorl ou recelve my lot- ter? Theone, did you? o:lnn{.:nnh meblz heard from ma by (his liwe, *¢Jobnny's Pspa, yuut baby probably tnkerite bly +* .yunL." it that is the causo of his crylng; bat, like Kitchen Devutee, §doubt that.—he may not feel well or comlurtdule. and that is bis Laby way of saywu so. 0! all you wboars advocates of the rodand blows! Has you ever lost litlie ones, B4 sowma ol us_have done, you would be very carcfal notto treat lightly the'surrowa of a littlg child! P, 8.—T0 the correspondent woo wishes to know what 10 awusu boys with at bome, I woald suggest nauslo (4f thoro s the loaat tasto for it) as ope ga- fuling sonree of amase:n We can weel art ian'blenainzat homio, Gameaat aren F easant and nrefniamusamen —CYen car. If oniy played at home, can do ni harm, ¥ very fond of boys, Ana Wish to make thom han ! §t fa'n fact that we are not generally ne kunj thein an we ahould be. There arc tan many 40 Murdstones " in the world, with lice wantis 13 minner of Welcoming poor lttle David Coypis! *Tdon’t genvrally lika Loys; how. d'se o, B L. ABOUT TIHE CONVENTION. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cricann, Ocl, 5, —Much haa been sald ten concerning the Iate Home Conventlon ofa Iandatory character, yet I doabt f those of the con. tributors who were abeent can form any adequats tonception of tho splendid snccens of thia th Orat of The lloms Conventlons, Lot us hope for **more to follow." And lct us also strive, ih rough Tne Taisuxe, to make The Houfe the heaven n fact whichit laIntheory. 1t I n question of somg Intorest whether the advancement of civillzatioy is not dircctly dus to tha Influences of the home, ,As the snnlight lends eolor to the plant exposed 1y its colden shiower, a0 man recelvea the color ang n fact thy batanca of hisnature from the mora) catinary, and soclal influcnces of the home. flow \mpoartant, - then, that tho most approsed any economical method of Improving nlr that entey, into the ‘‘make-up '’ of & home—social and oth, wise—shonld be made knotn to the world throy: Tur Tanuese, the champion of the home and | feader in enterprise and sdvancement, At this point we become conecionn that w have ~Just tho thread of onr discouree which thread we proceed to plck np, and {acf on & few,more words about tho Convention, and we havo done, Ladiet, did yon pep the magnificent floral display, —{ha pift of Dr, Ey. nis, of lowa, —which flowerawers uniar the chargs of our hanored friend Forn-Leaf? Did yon mee; Aunt Lucy and recelve from her that kinily gree;. ing eo peculinrly her own? 1learn that there way turned ovee to the Treasurer as ’nnuedv of male, ete.y about 8200, which {3 well for St. Luke's Many thanka are dus from Tho Home to Edna fop the bright smile and silvery voico which preeteq shoppers at tho tablos whore was displayed for salc the fancy work contrilited by the Taidiey. ang which was in part undee ber chargo, Ladles, thy enows of many winters bear hearlly upon my shoulders. Startiine an the fact may appear, [ wyy not preaent at the fall of man, hat Tam present |y the autumin of life, and think it but appropristy that T should with tha kind}iest Seeling fof all oo seribe myssIf Octongn, P, 8.—\Wonll you Itko o first-clase recips for broils, only kuown to tho writer? ——— FEMALE LADOR. To the Edilor of The Tridune, Cmieaqo, Ocl, 5.—1 have been a roader of The Home, and it has beon tome rather smusing, not devold of Intereat, It Tam a fam!ly man, Thy question of female labor has been mooted. | ‘would make a fow anggestions rogarding employ. ment. Vo have fomale clerks of all kinds, fem; printers, tallors, ete., etc., why not have female painters, especially fn tho sign department? Thery nare soma few shops largely encouraged all the yesr round whereln female labor could be used. 1 am aware that the exporiment has been tricd, and, forsoms cause abandoned, not for want of talent, no, rather, I should eay, from Inck of good gov. ernment, for whera tlie sexes have becen mized in the employment & fiippancy of manner ofteq occurs, and neediess famillarity, which ought 1ot to' be aliowed, proving finafly dlsastrons'to the employer and detrimentsl (o the falr sex. Now, It {s'a well-known fact that tnousands of dollars are annually expended in glans aigs verilsing auburoan boards, 'milk and oyster s 8ll of ‘which femalo lapor Is capable uf d when rigldly utilized. II such work could ba d by the above labor they woald be beneffted, patrons likewlec, as agente are more of leds can. Yasslng, and theartisan reccives ronnd fizures, 1 mako these siteestions not to tho detriment of male labor, but that tiioy should.sharo up (In com. mon phrase) witl the female a portion of what they aro capable of doing. If thin shuuld micot the favor of business men, why not ind somo tnterest. cd and gonerous man who can giva or lease at small ront a suitable room in the business part of the city; and, with wome co-operation of 7 Ilome, " employment mligat be furnisned for the coming winter? Parxten, HIYDE PARK AT THE CONVENTION, To the Editor of The Tribune. Hrps Pank, Oct. 3.—It's o beautiful night, and as I was sltting on my door-step, all alone, the thought atruck mo now will be a goud tlme 1o writo my letter to The tlome, After meeting you all at the Conventlon I felt as if & ought not to he eilent any longer, and continno to **hida my lizht under & bushel" (so to speak), bnt would write, and by so dalng add my mite to tho general fundof wit arwladom. 1wentto the Conventlon flled with delight In anticipation of so much plcasuro fn meeting my favorite weltors, ‘The cvening bofore, I went out, at nearly dark, an ored somo ferns, With my packaze in my addressed o very vect-looking lady, Can Il)u ell mo which 18 Fern-Leaf, pleans ¥ How giad lv;n:l.nl:‘u: not a bit surprised, when sho replied d ot 1am anre wo wore all correct {n our Judgment we had formed in our own minds of how slic woald secm. But, for fear some may not llka to boso pubticly dincussed, [ will not be personnl, but ex. rull my pleasuro at meoting tha sisturs with whom have long folt ncguainted through thoe infere change of thouyht In the columns of Tier Tiinexs, [ have heen scarcely abla to walt for Saturday to coumo that [ micht read my paper, [ huve mada it a rule Lo nttend firat (o my louschold dutics, then, while putting baby to sl nol). to look over 'Ihe flome.” 1have made aomethinz nico that others may llko, ‘Tomato Jam or saucar To nine ponnds of ripe tomato, skinned, thrce pounds of brown sagar, three tablespoonfuls of gronnd clnnamor onc of allsplco; and one and'n half uf groun clovos, add a litlo salt and anc quart of vincgar to bo holled down to the censlstancy of jau, | {‘Mnk 1t very nice of a cold night, fordes, with hot eult. . P, 8.~Imight have writton more, but my licht went out, and the baby woke, and I had to tase him, Mizpan, and weit. JOHNNY. To the Editor of Tha Tribune. Drooxrvarox, Oct. 4.—I have boen waltings longilme, **for tho rope to turn right," and now must ekip In and tell Johnny's pa what to do with the youngster, Good Dr. Ryder Is right; achlid 1s naturally good, and becomea evil by education, and Johnny's pa told mora than ho suspected, per- haps, whon—, Ah, welll ho 1s mistaken (s supposlng him toa young to trals, A Dbaby two woeks old plainly lo- dicates ita management during that time, having begun to make up that *‘bundlo of habits'* which constitute the man. This bolny the case, when we find & child showiny traits woich Calyiniata refer Lo poorold Adam how shall e procaell to bring him back to a stato of native Inne- cence and purity? In two words, e just and fira ‘The child's faith In your moral intogrity, and heace {our Influence over hilmy, depend npon your aoility o undorstaud this and act upon ft. * Close olwern: tion will confirm nio in the nssertion that nin- tenths of tho sorrows of parents, aa such, ~thas wounds sharper than 8 norpodt's tooth, —rualh frow & want of strict Justice and unflinching ra- ness o government. Leaving the furthor discussion of genorsl casce to others, § furnixh sn infallible recipa for John- ny's bonefit: Whon he ‘‘straighiens biwacll out” **begins to cxerclug his Jungs,' turn him over on the warped aido and apply your hand st the rate of about one hundred per minute, #s if Jou nover intended,to stop. Do this, notangely ut fesricsely, and In consecutlva cases, until & cure {# clected, as 1 warrsat you it will boin s very short time, 0 pood resulls from half-work n breaking 8 child of & bad hatit, Cortain puntehwent must follow every offense, and while 8 parcot attempl to correct & child's bad tuniper he should be careful nut to display the mamio quality, Try;the reclpe Witliam \Wiadsor, and let s Best fromyon, " KxrsuirNce. A BEIRBMISII WITII TIE COOK- B 00K, To the Editor of The Tribune, Caicaeo, Oct. 10.—1 apprecialo Tho Homo, and to prove my apprecistion in & small way I bought the lomekesper's Guide. I wanted an oatmesl aake. The reclpe lonked encontaging, so simyle and easy; *‘Ounecup rather fine oatmeal, lh"“' cups water, stirred togethor and allowed to awell. 1went right away snd stirred thie oatmeal and wa- ter hard, and left Jt to awell whils [ utadied tho balance of the recl) T waited half an nour and thon examinea tt. It badn't ewelled. The waler looked a littls milky, but the meal lay in a lunp at the bottom, looking as beavy as my heart beaan to fenl, for it was nearly 6 o'clock, Flive minutes biore; still no wwell. Then, lo deaperation, 1 Xanrnd it [nto & pam, witli *aall of course,’ and rushed it into the oven to gro: Virich brown." 11 baked half an huur, t0F quariare of an boar, and wasn't **rich brown " 8% all, bulum{ and &% odden. discoursged f",l litie polots sticki t. with funa) up all over ut it on IL. table, snd it was a beautiful aurprlse, mebody sald it was equal to 8 good dish of vats, sud & asughly girl lu.w“lu:d using ll’Mlduui' mat or nutweg-grater, M, Mra. Y, 3rs. B, Mea, Auybody, docs oatmesl over ewoll. and is 3 month sufticient thine for the process? Where L\M: the **rich brown' coma froc? Can you buy it Who will tel) how to make vatmeal bread, with the rare, nully Uaver of the Scotch cake? and ovbliso A Nzw Face A MISTAKE. To the Editor of The Tridune. Miwavkzx, Wis., Oct. 7.—Words fall me 19 express to you my heartfelt thsuks that you, Inthe kisdness of your beart, have aliowed us so uch apace in your valusble papor. You are siwaré with us In our waking momeats, snd may be fuo the dreams of some fajr onc. Ther, ladies, thatd the way. Just bea little sweet to the editor. [ have found the secret aud will sharg it witls J03. 1 have been to the door befure, but failed 10 Kc" in. Now m:now—uus dun't spread up the sol “"3?‘;‘“"}','“, begine at home.™ vradies, let us live up 1o that'old waying, and extend o hand (utfli sometbiug o ) ‘to Dlack and Blue sbech. 1 bave seot my mile to the editor for ber, sud bo! Joull will g0 and o likawise. And, les e bed