Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1878, Page 10

n THZE CHICAGO TRID UNE: BATU DLCEMBER THE HON ANNIE'S DOLL. *Tis the My before Christmes, sad this wintry forenoon, e apcak of the blest day whichdawns on os soon, While our two-year.old Annle is playing to glec, Wilh the homely Pag-babyahe holds on her Enes Tiow little knows she that hut (a the next room (With cheeka that outvie the rose in its bloom) Ir bidden a beaateous wazen doll, In size almost as the bady tail. . O canld she but know of the aweet surptise, Which to-morraw wiil grees her waking eyes, What dlegust for rag-babics she'd quickly acqulrs, Of their now endless charma how soon she would tire, ‘Would our Joye scem #a bright as they come one by onc, Would the tasks of lifa be so falthfally done, Cuuld we know, O hearts, of earth so fond, Of theglory of lieaven a step beyond? Ob, 'tls well as wo Journcy. thro' life's devions ways ‘That we cannot one moment our earthly eyes ralse, Ta cateh e'en & glimpee of the falr land that les, Uaseen except by Immortal eyes, Louiea Tatn. NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS. Contributors should always send thelr real name and address with communications, It willsave e conductor much trouble, and save a vast amoustof manaecript from the waste-basket, . a% Madpe Madeap, one of Tho Home's most sparke ling and welcome contributors, fs heard from, briefly, this week after o long sllence. Tho sub- Ject she briefly alludes to fa worthy of more ex- tended discussion. ot Some of the most acnsible words concerning the matrimonial question that have appeared during tho discusston of tho suhject by The Iome con- tributors are sald [n the letter of Californls, pab- listed to-day, oo Oppoponnsx preachen a sermon this weok of #0 orthodox n character that even thoss who have heretofore found fanit with her irreverence muat admit its force and strenth, o Mns. BrasE, Cnicauo.—Scnd the packsge to this ottice, and st will ve forwarded, o FRrANCE, MILWAURER—] dress to this oftice. forward your THE L I'ER-BOX. ‘There are letters, postal-canly, or papers at this oflice for the fullowing persune. Thoss llving out of the city will pleaso send thelr address, and the matter wilt Lo forwarded. Itesidents of Chbicayo cun obiain tneir mall by caliing at Room 30 Twinusz Building: Lesrning, Madge, e R, Mary &, L., Mrs. A, (pottern agent), Uard Tieury C, Fish, M, D, NEW YEAR'S WINE. A PHOTEST PROM “TiDDIR!! Citicago, Dec, 25,—Merry Chtistmas! Merry Chrl:tmas tooll! 1am sitting by the grate teyiug to read the coming year in the bnignt coals, but [ can'teccit. 1don't mean that last sentence for slang, as you know thot {s tabooed in The Home, 1 wonder how muny of us, ae we sat down to o well-apread tablo to-day, have thought that an- might Snd us situated far differ- Elghteon bundred and seventy. «lght la deawing toa close, sud many aro taking s seview of the months tihat are past to wee where thev have made mistukes, ond resolving that they **will never do wouny more™ durlug the coming ear, 2 "the d1y will soon be here when good resolntions will be 1 order, and every une will make several zesolutions that will be broken bolore the new yosr counts & weok from oif 11s roll, Uf courre, nearly all the ladies are to receive their gentlemen fricnds next Wednesday, and I wish to kay a few words to the Yonng lulles, and vld iadics, also, you have it in Your puwer to help the young tnen to keep one gooa Tesolve by not offering inew any aplrituous or mslt hquors, wine or clder, wheu they give you a New Year's precting next week, 1 havo hieard many a nian say that his first glase of wine was taken from tho hand of a on Ni Ycar's Day, 1 bellave that the custom of oflering wine or cider tocgllurs I8 nog as provalent as it uscd 10 be, but yet mafly think that they muat nave wino or will ke constdered **odd," aud, of course, that would be dreadful, 1 suppuse that many will think that I am yoing to extremes ju the marter, for 1 snould consider 1t a Iasting disgrace to have any gentleman ever say that ho touk hiw fArat glass of wine from my hands, 1 have secn vo much suffering accastored by **the cruel woluch of the cup* that whenever 1 huvo the oppartunity I fecl sa if Lmust make my feeble prol syalnat it Oli, ladied, young and old, fashionable and un- fashionable, do not have liquor in any forni upun your tables when yon thraw open youe doors to your frieuds next Wednesday. 1f you must have wine or nothing, have nnlhln:k and then you cun dispense your smiles and bright ®ioncew Tmore frecly, and they will prove just oy 1ascinating as the most sparkilng glaes of witie you coula offer tnem, Intemporunce, llke n tidal wave, sweops over our luna and dcktroys the homes and happiness of thousands every year, and it cun never be checked untlt the lules take we much Interess In temper- ance ag they do i working unreadable mottoes and other '* funcy work,* Ladles, rosolve that you will work ayainst ** the wine whicn it I8 red in the cup, when 1t stinieth llke an sdder," Hapuy New Yeur toahl] Yivois. DROPSY, Y GUNAIKA'S " viEWS, Cmicago, Dec, :U,—1 want 10 epeak & few en- couruging worda to Countey-dirl's friend, who s sutlering from drapsy, Boms general facts wera #iven last week, but the tenure of the article was not yuch as would be eatculated to inspire hope in the mind of tho suflerer, [ cannot agreo with the vulnlon of this writer rogarding the proportion of tiese cases depending upon oruanic disease, In- aced, as **drupsy depends upon an obstruction of she yenous circulatlon, and a4 thesa oostructions Ao certainly more olten congestive than tructural, why ghould the former not rank the latter cause of dropsy? I will go farther aad sy that dropey 16 oftens rcault of generul debility and amewia, and in thess casos feshnply Dature's plan for maintaining tho vitality of tne Mloed by throwing ot the watery excess, This Sorm 18 Havio to occur In the codrse of any bro. teacted dlseave, characterized by mal-uuiritlon, or s the result of ntroduciug Into tue bluod salts ©f smecnic, mercury, porhaps souio othor metsle, Agaln, diopsy rosults fro inflammation ol s rcrous muinbrate, snd oeciies llllfi Lo thus wroduced i) av by obstruction of tho portal cireulation, Hemedies whould, of courve, bo sdapted to 'th hey yet thie woulll bo of al acpendent upon arganic dis- 0 &dmit the frequency of the vecureente of drupay, inuependently of “serlous atructural leston, and henca its_curahility under Judicious treatment, thiv consideration becumes of the bieheat imoortance, 1 must believe that ¥implu Jurd of tunc of tue veneral lympiatic sya- it e often productive uf auasarca {u this way, ‘fue wated of the Llood Le supolied to it at frregi- iuz intervals througn the allnentary track, with & cunstant Hablity 1 temporary excessor defelency. ature wil peamit neither of thess conditions 1o 10 the bload ju healtn, hence & cousiunt in- ungo of water Letween thess two svis of Veascl, of water poured intu velns boing fwmediately alstributed the 10 remain until calied tor, PORNE 1ho fome of tne lymphatic ayateis to becoio Impeired, It caunot revpond per- dcetly us in bealth, and the blood, Isihng of ite full aupply from Lhts source, calls tor it Ly Incrensed thrist, —& prominent symptom bu dropsy, Int itabie condition of the arr sttendaut wpon th uet stuge of Caucer of tho breast. we ba wuple of drovsy resulting from uislignani disease, fuiiuaing the coursa of the lympuatica Into the sxils uud down the arm. ‘I'bls eilusion wight ba refeired to preseuro i the axila, but ot the sligug- sl aphedrancy of venous conzeation fs wet with tn ahy stuge of the case. No Felicf cat bu aftorded 10 hese Casen,—utich cure,—but 8 great deal may be done furdropated depeudiug upin pen- wrul lus= of tone of the Jymphatic sysjew, —a miere. 1y fuuctivual lesfon. i vu Liuch ub.cntion {5 sometimed pald to getting speedidy rid uf e sccumulstion; whera rolief te thu ouly ubject axpected to be obtained Botbing ueed e ¥ald, LUl Whicre 8 curo fa contemplated the puwcrinl hydrogoque cuthiartics are not the best “UEUie to ewmplug, even 1 aacites, snd |n anasarca & Judicious selectivn uf aluretics cluav, Of the forwer clasd, per 1he wost objectionsble, aud wlao most em- wloyvd by uatks sud patent-mudicloy e tu make & rabid 1Uresson Upun the disesse, These men rustiin. an L were, *Ywhere augele foar o tread, ity thelr *tyegetable trucors,” by which the bower Of iho sbeorbents {e aifll fure Auerluwered, aud tho patleut’s chances of recovery ptiuduettly diminiaved. ‘fhcre sre some uxcep- fuus i bydioguque catbartics, uolabiy spacyouns tanusbrivnl sud crotou ull, which Increass tho Punsr uf the atsorbeuts, sad’ are curative lu very minall Coses. Luey are spociully sudicated 1h sruites. For apgesica, s addition 10 eliber of thy atuve, the atnpulopais quingetoiia fs unsurpssscd. 1t uctu as & touic, diurctic, and direct stimulant 1o the Jywplatic wyatem, - AD infusion Of the recent Vlaut ticaves aud viue), oue tu two vunces L the vl ol watcr, thy wiule 1 be taken torough the day, or of 8 reliable Buld extrect frum vno-Lalf ta GLo Graclu theve tuuce s day lu 8 lutle cider, If auy other dinrcuic 1o sacd, e polygouuw puca- B, Lydiauges, polylrichum juticeperisum, of D ULaniLe Wik L ealisfaciory. One Luiug 1 poriant ta this copuection: If tedsare used they el Le preparcd flons e foceut Liry, usiug cold “i by place of Gotwater; 1§ Rad extract, tiey sivid pusseus By propariics of tho plant. o canc af aoy doatit apon these points, ofl of Juniner ar good gin mas bo osed. The dose of any of these except the Jast two 1 the same an that of the ampelopsis, The bload aknuld be eariched with iron nnd otherwise well noncished, The ro- treating abdomen ahanll be foliowed np with a bandage, and this shonid never be neelected. Alio in anasarca, the eAme plan employed npon the fimbs s highly adrantszeous, but requires the manipnistion of an experi. Mauy had casesof dropay havo been cared by these and simiiar meane, anil every one Ia entitled 10 & trinl of the best known plane for accomplisn- ing thls most desirable end. Organic diseare should not bs too readily assumed, nor mpon in- sullicient data. UUXAIEA, GOD IN NATURE. A BERMON KY ''OrPOPONUX.” Rocrronn, 1., Doc, 84,~To flinstrate Stan- ley’s dessription of herole mdventara through equatorial Aftica in 8 dark map, typlfying the night of barbariem which, from an early antiquity, has enshrouded the inhabitants in the shadows of an impenetrable cclipse. There extends a lominons line from Zanzibar to the mouth of tha Living- #tone aerors this map, which resembies an (ntrud. ing sunbeam dividing the darknens of a dungeon. Thia intersection of lizht dofines the rouie of the great explorer, snd the pathway of eivillzation across an hitherto nnknown continent. Ilntarn life, tnto whicl wa wera introduced without onr consent, and from which we are certaln to be sum- moned withont our scaniescence, In its trinmphs and defeats, struggles and vicissitudes, Is striking- Iy fllustrated in the history of Btanley's expedi- tion, which 1llumiined the empire of heathunlsm with the golden trail of elvilization, The progress of sclence, Christianity, invention, architecture, and jurlspradence, procecding from rude beainninge {n man's undeveloped state, and exhibiting magnifcent achlevements upon the shore-line of the centuries .wo follow down tho stream of time, finds a similitade in the expe- riences of the reat discoverer. The ollgrimaga of life, fram the cradln to the scpaichre, is not a dile- tary tamble through fluwvery avenues, where the Acnisen eaperience toe intosication of uweet aroning, and where imaination on the mountain of hope presents to the enraptured viston tho panorama of reyal palaces Mitle thelr awelling domes abova the higllands of the fature. 'The voyae of iife {a nota sercue paweage ina pilded sballop blown by the Lreath of apicy breezes over fii- troubled waters, ‘Cho Itiver of Timels Interrupted by Intant focks and treachorous bars, Dauvers furk in its roaring rapids aud mweecvlng cataravts, 1t 1 tho Divine method an) order of creation 1hat human existenco should realize its highest attain- monta and fullest deveiopinent in Ms gladfaldrinl strugylos with the resistonces af extornal nature, Whure thero oxista nu antugonleme of mind nnd matter,—no Jaw of ncceasity to lash the inteliect 10 glorions achievements, —ncro clvilization glime mers with flickering light. ‘Tne hizhway of the world's provress hus iuvariubly extended atong the belt of «ue conl-bede, stone-quurries, cotton- felda. forest-bellr, and tron-nines. * Human progress 13 cu-equal with the mntitinlicity of hee man wants, ‘The 1:inence of climata muildes tha clvilization of races sad limits the range of their Industries, ‘Tue boomerang of the Austrslisn and the mitraillenso of the Frenchman,. the pictured recurds of the Amerlcan Jndisns and the Lritien Encyelopedin,—into which the clvilization of tne agen has neen fucalized,—aro indisputable evi- dences Lhat whatever develops intelligence and retines social Intercourss has conlormed 10 tho condition of local surroundings and the obstacles fo ho overcume, The sphers of invention asmong sll mnatlons has been vizcumneribed witin the limite and porsibilitlenof thelr Industeles, There ix no Jucal need nor necessity which would stimulate a Lap- land 4 ize the principlen of a llolden's fce-machine, 8 Fee)eo Islandee to perfect an Amers tcan basc-burning stove, It would require & cen- tury of civilization to enabie 3 Patagontan to con- struct a plano. or a nalivo Ethloplan to transinute alcel, gold, diamonds, and rilver Into the mechan- tun of o watel, “Fne clvihization of all races i reglatered in the products of their inventive goniud ami the accunplivhmenta of toelr litersture and fine arts, Architecture, maele, liternture, commerce, man- nfactures, Christianity, puinting, snd sculpture, revenling the most elnbiorate evidences of intellect- unl progress, have flourished with the most ro- markable vicor in the belt of the tomperate zones, Tho revelations and discoverien of svery epocl of tho world's history have been the Intlurescnce of Its collective tutelli and inepiration, tursting kG bisoi wil utlug an arona jualcative of jts irituality und esthetic prozress, Earth and wan in the spners of the flest formae ton wers creatioon of unhonnded possibilities, Ncience eatablishies the faci that thers has beon a correlution between the organie and luoreanic Pugreas Gpon var planet. i the pencwis of tue earth’s Inhabltable condi- tlon, ichthyusaurl, plestosaurl, and ptoroductyls —slgantic monsiers cewling in the silme of primeyal Jlakes and ovcans und darkening the atnvepherc—swarmed o countless numbers, n the firet ruds epoch nvented pulytholem, jmuge-worship, sacriflcial methods of prupitiation igion, — like Sclence, has thrown olf successiveucrusiatlons of error and superstition, until nuw, in whis noouday of modern clvilizatiun, the Goavel religion of hue manity hos superscdod “tha Actions of tne anclent Thautiatargists. The Temple of Apollo has long lost s costly magnificenco; theowls orthe desort neatle their young in it archives, while not a vestive of ttie byoliline books huve blown down the corridors of "Lime, The gruves of Dodona have hushed tholr nracular volces, uud the tripod of the Delphic shrine {s ns muto s the race which consuttud them, Tho old mastudous of the Sliurian age have Jong become extinct, and animals of & more cum- plicated natomicul’ structurg bave usnrped thelr places. o, tog, hae man's ‘Thelsm changed with the formulas of Nature, Polythof was succeeded by nionothieism, and propitistury sacrifices puvecd away among the higher' ruces with tho subiimo avent of the Crucifixion, Mo iutimation of immortality occurs In tho Mo- mnic dispensation. That wus & sauriun uge of il nlul;'y. (Over 4,000 years passeil away before tie full splendor of the greal Inmimoua fact irradiated tho world {n_the ulterances of the Mowaiah, It b truo this veln of revelution, in earller erns, crupped out fa_the suvline phitosopliics of Plato, Socrates, und Cyruk, but, I1ko Jho oru i ita rocky snrouy, It manifested not ita fforce and granaeur tll an aftertime, "The doctelny of iminortality wasnot & sadden revelation, 1t bsd been steng- #ling for utterance, as tho fires of elumbering vol- canoeas have struggled to burit thelr barners, for centurion, It had been bloraoming on the tede of knowledge for cycles of nyos, but it flnlllf’ aps d | fruit, the result of nd apiritual unfoldment, fu the practl phllusophica of the Diviie Nazaresie. Every sy tem of relizivn and acience drops fn tine \te mythy and traditions as the reindvur whods his antire, “The sun, the tountaln of the life-giving for the animainnd vegetable kindome, was worshiped as & gou until acieuce uniolded 10 thy world th mistry of the sunbedin, and extractod tha ng tion of u bursonal deity fron the Persizu fre, wan can dseluiiate Lraths tranacending his capas Lcs, By more thun can & sponge ausurh the uces Hurvey's notne standa immorial on the records of true fame, and the vlood stlit continues to frolic in crimeon streams throuith 1ts living channcly, witle hin [earned upposera st forgotten, tialileo lives 1n the bright page of Listory, und Lite memory will biaze nloug the Held of astronomical researcl on lunz aw the moane of Jubiter shall endure, Hin ro- cantation did not for ous wotment a-rest the revo. Tution of our plunet. Newton hvea In - urlghtest ilulgence of the world's bunor, for Jis nasme fs s on the (rescoed walle of 18 Oupusurs havodisapbesred des Of Impenviravle ubseirity uhuld how the great discoverics of selence atand apart and alone, rvtug u above thy valu of rdie nury eveots, and alony the highway of progre e, in the majestic xraudeur of fue pyraunds, The nvention of movable types hae wude knowledgs ubiyuilous upon vur planet, “lhe teleyraphic al Dbaves hus almust annihilated space and ti acrve its electrle spine, llko a spider’s wob stretch- ed around the glube, i elther side 1L extents 1 rumitication of nervem, forming 4 network of ag notie seuaibiitties, puiiativg with hunan fotelll- genre, e vimpla contrivancs of constructing artesian welis hus cunveried the anndy duserts of Alzicrs wtn the tropieal verdure and besuty of Valism- broza, Stewid hae become tho world's obedicat elave, Thwhop 1 uley proplesied that the Lime would conu when boats could he propelted without wind or Gurs ‘Thie Inventlous of Fufton and Watts wera without doubt swimming sess of thought in Herkeiey’s mind, sud the engine of commerce was atrewing wid (ancy with Haked of fire, As we deseend ihe dechivity of Time, let ns for a mument retruspect tho grauual jwvrovenieut in various departments of scieatifio fuquicy. The firot rude devices for navigatlon wore the Talt aud tho **dug-out,’ which the sava ened with willows, and the leg which he hollor out with dee, eho WeT u.-,urm 1dess of the fuating armaments and formidabie ouvies which In these days curry terror 1o tho navlo 3 originated "In the Btune Aye, wnen fock was con- verted {nto lwplementa of sulf-defense snd culluary wiensils, for crashing nute and sevds, Under tog Avsyrian and Egyptian dyuastics 1t aveumed strange and grotewus type dn the creations of winged beaste and aymbolical monstrositios; slsa {u the crectlon of mawsive pyrawlde and huge monu- liths, Under the Urecldn and Koman civilization the urt of wculpture beckme & cryatallized posu in the Parthenon which crowned the sumimit of te which of the auclent eheplicrds, s wore & propbecy of the of the worl subline comporition Tuu feru iew ol urchiteciure 0 overbausing o\l sud the suote 3t cave, Tue prebistoric races got thele conception of rooled dwellings fruw tncse prineval reso: The vrog- Tess of architctusc Jown the centurles 1s distin- kulsbed by theae memonala: Firet the cave, theu the adobe hut, the wizwum, the Jog-kouse, the awelliug of stone, conceete, and burut clay, covs ercd with thatened rools; tne odifice of sawed lanber, thou $hy @atble pulace, whose colutns Livwsun put with Coriuthiag cugitale, and whose Vaot pruporclons CORIUTIA e thy Ligheet deals of aymuctey sud deauty. il the cantributors to Th i what wauuee the wreal artfale producs their works? Firet tbey develop thy ides by assembiing ull the shapes of beauty aud divimty in the Lalls of wetioty, ‘They Bush befors their spinitual concep. tions us lowers beuutily usture unier the geoiyl autluences of spnsg. Thewr ideny ere 1osg become the cwlediucut of wavy furs of par. Howo considered cauty, ‘Vhiue i Lls secthilng mind Phidiss smelts the beausy of fve huncred Spartzu gods 1uto bie o Fanaa-Athens. S0 Michacl devieol the uwial $0ew of Gud fur the Vetlan, snd Kaphael pictured o fale, she drew the angels and ears were turned to his dear Cecilin **s down to e her alng, ey'f‘:'" g’ nl fiction mnst becoma an ex he arifat's merson: 2 ternal realization. He lnbora for yoars, painting out with penitential brush what ‘once amies ha painted In, nntil ot hurln: work apjcars com- —tne holy queen of art. Ni‘: there ig as bezntiful elatnary slambeeing in the inrisible marble of the mountain ax ever adorn- ed the stoalos of Phidwaor Praxitiles, #0 In this erade and undoveloped humanity of ours le latent a divinity as pure as_ever radiated from the conn. tenance of Chernbim. ITamanity requires consid. erable chiseling and pollshing befors it can revenl the perfection of ita pomeibilities. 1n the geome ofapiritnal and Intellectual planes and snrfsce Ate {rregnla) oivons, which woald puzsle defanct Enclid “to measare onr substanco and de- termine how much there was of nv. But every act of nersonal refurm hewa awav rome incrisstation velling the divinity within, Great tenths and sys- tems of phtlosophy In minde of low mediocrity are like stones in the stomach of an ostrich, affording no nonstahment or Asaimilation whates: One solemn conlemplation of immensity and T close, Follaw the ey of the great spaco-penétrating telencone nt Cambrldge Into the vast hails of crea- tion, to the nebulons glimmer visibie in Orion’s bolt—God ia there, Foliow the eye of tho marvel- oas microscope of Nerlininto soni¢ Infinitessimaliy small ccll of matter; and nehold the awarming myriads of inscct life congregaling there--ihat 18 another apartment of the Creator's worishop. Pracure A metaphysical micrnacope of time, 10 dj- ¥lde 0 sccond inta its billlonth segment—or A met1- phyrlca! teirscope of time to travel back into mil- Ieniniume and maitiply the duration of a aolar sy, tem by Iteelf to compars un immcasity of tim stlll Delty is there in each elaps' millennlitm stream of “centuries—'*iila *theeo! conterminons with tho all of space; lils ‘now coeval with tho all of time." Orroroxus, Dox 1,184, CHEAT LIVING. V' DEANSIR' EARD FHOM, Loaaxsront, Ind., Dec. 10.~—1am glad thoe snb- Ject of cheap living has not been crowded ont of The Home entircly, for 1o moatof us it isan ex- ceedingly Interesting one. recelved a card from a lady In Springfield, Til., but 1t had been written with o vencll and was o nearly erased that I eonld not make out the name and conld scarcely make ant tho meseage. [ slionld Tike to know (€1t was fram **Who Am 1" who respunded throush Tho Hooe, several nonths ago, ton Intter of mine, Weil, ** Whoever yon are, I will do what 1 can for yon. 1can't benefit you much, howorer, not knowing wherein our tasies differ, L would advias von to mnke as few plea a2 posal- ble, and (if you ike them) use cuokies inatead of cake, Uro ‘chesp vegotables, such as potatoes, turnips, xquashos, etc,,evers Squash, if proo. erly caoked, murkea aa excellent dish, and is cheap, Make as few Dlscnits, pancakes, mufline, ctc,, as for thuy aro very dear compared with Use such articles rather ne s luxury, Buy {ollr meat in hulk, #s ib 14 A grent deal chenver, For_dinner thia cold weather § flke to have a dish of hot sonu or & stow waiting for my botter-balf, 1 alwayw ihink he goeanway feoling better-natured, than if [ warmed op what aita in the cupboard, 1t you will write agaln to me, sending me particulars and your nama and nom de plume (1 want alf that write fo me to do_that), I will answer with oleas- ure. lere Is w way to mako pancakos that ks bet ter than to use egvs: Take ane quart tlour, atablos spnonful of sugsr. one-hnlf teasnoonful salt, two teasnoonfala baking-powder, -~stir wall, Then #tirin warm water enough to make a thin baiter; havo {uur griddle very hot, Tlafe M., 1 have falien fn love with you, Tdolike toucea woman try to helpa ing husband nlong these hard times. but In vatn—far your promined lotter Lot us hear from you und ** Domestle Keonomy ™ often: and Mrs. May Ensel alao. 1 have a recipo for moinsses cookics, withont eggs, that [ar excels any sugar cookles. Does any one wish It? Aunt Helen, I am with you on the Sunday-work ques. umlv. Those writing to me pleare noilcs my new address, Slatarn Tfattte and Winnle, 1 you never recefveit my letter aud pattcrns, how dld you knuw my name? Lxaxas, BEAUTY. +'8" JOKES CONCERNING 1T, Davesront, 1d, Dec. 23,—'Beanty {s only skin deep." Handsome 18 that handsome does," Whoof us plain folks have not had theso most agyravating adazes nsed s a salve 1o heal our wouuded fcellngs when we wers smarting under the sting of neglect, vur hearts achlog for even s tithe of thu attention lavished on one more comely ter or friend!—while we, on account of some onal defect for which we wers not responal- not helng consalted when the order was glven for our face and figure, wore left athome, lke poor Cinderella, to console oursolves ns could by conning over 2omo of Sulomor ings aboul ‘‘fOeauty belng deccitful, etc, In spite of all moralizing, the fact ia undeniabla that beauty Is deslrable, It gives Its possessor thousand sdvantages ovez those whom Nature ha deult more uniggardly with. The youug, tho old, the wise, and the foolish do homape to and nc- knowledge its charms, and would not scorn ita jirta, Far s reason In Iho ltome Department of iix TIIBUNE we hear the reqnosta for depflato- ries, inquirics a8 to bow much aracnic people may tako and leave 1110 In thelr budies, requests for Jo- Huns to remove freckics, dyed 1o darken or acide 1o bleach the halr. baving Lut one end in view— improved luoke. Fur this roason artists are called 1n to In somoe degreo ropale the defects of Nature, And, altor all, ‘! unadorned beauty," *‘charms of the min eic.,—1s thers anycrime ln trying to make our- Aelves more attractiva to tho eyea of those we luye, or, indeed, toany una with an dye for the benutifnly Why stiould any one go through lifa niatmed, halt, or bilnd, when arms and legs are (o be had for tne huying: when baots can be constructed to longthen dowao tue shruoken limb; wheo a wkiilful oculist by oo deslcate cut of hia keen knifo can saver tho curd thet draws the ey il aakow, or sunply the milesivg black, Llue, ‘vr woft gray oryan of vislon that by diseaas or accident has feft tno face onty & pitiful, painful thing to banold? And s IL & hoinous crime to be '+ upholstered, " 88 Uupopanux baw it, it you are all anc-sided, ond your poor dresaniaker ts at her wits’' end how to make the cresa #t you? Jf you have any qunline of conuclonce " on that dellcate snbject, fust test the matter, ae far ua the strong-mifded sex ¥ con- by sticking the very longest darning-needle iuto the ahoulder of your father, brotuer, or lover, und yon will nutice that they do not give one whit It to the cigar thoy nave ‘in thele mouth, But they will blame their tatlor, —ho ig the guilly party In thiis deceis, On! well, be, too, has broad shoul- dere, und can pear it 1 havo ween otherwiso ote tractive women (men Lave 8 hirsute appendagu on the upuer 1ip thas Lelps them vut) that §t would have ‘beon positive enjoyment to have seou nolens rolent pinloned 1u a deatal-cialr while taose mon- strous incisors that have bLee: gnintare to me were rumoved one Ly one, ‘Chen (he poor thing plessurs of shutting bor mouth for nce whe shed hor Biest molare. Thera has been Hat. k. 3 's_than u have an ugly #pot to be an eyerore Lo our friends, chubua{ [ Bot hike tno embryo man that made his frui visit to 1he baroer, and when tho **tonsoriat artivt" asked [ * Wall, suy little inan, how do you want your balr cut?™ wald, ** Oh!I with & nico llitle round hole u the top, like my pap Hut w all au- mire hitls round holts an tne to craninma, A tresa naded (o our scunty back jock, 8 frizelo or o thiger-pafll (und how pretiy they aea in eray hair) ouyht 1o hurt nobody's feslings; and certainly the ok ensembis will be mure pleasant to the oyen of all people of thau & llitle hard kaot guiltiess of weverely plaln that the poor creature | tha eat_ tiad licked hee upper atory. 1 brings we (o the last but not leass Imporiant subject of comploxion, Tsunouec it Js just an unpsraouable ton on society in geeral, to re. an nuaightly mole, ur hat remindd one of a tult un the upp suulg Loardives chap would euvy, Uk! mo, wo; let Nature tuke ite coure 2 ¢ Heaith ju tho grund cosmetle, Iint I obsrva that rule ta not correct. Women, 1know, who are marvels of health Lave oll the detructing annoyances 1n as grest & dogres as their more sickly sistirs, Enamellog, rougeng, patel decorations—diabil—in the way of ¢r ete,, 10 fact ali kindn of face-fre I left ta the aiage, as there it belun: nywhete, 8a L Laveroad that tue ligoting of ' the siage ros yuirenit, elye the heathisst complexions would Juuk ghaatly, t of our toata One of tno very handsomest elrls I ever knew used ta rub Lez ' f With ® coarse crash towel unti) I feared to rt from tho vorvs, and did 50 every morning after she had wasned with s0ap. simply rubbed o tbe outer akin, whict is but & Inyer of desd culls, and lefs thu soft delicate akn beueatn glowing frowm Wit seemed harsh ireatment, Ye ty Iu something to be thankful for, Away back lu (ienculs, though Leah wi *tender- vyed," Jacob loved Itackol far the best, \Why? Liccause aho was besutiful. 5o tuget her bo did chures foF Labau seven years more, and they scems td buts few days to bim, because be joved be Whyt Because sho was preily. n morw wodera times all overlook Mary Quaen of Beols® sing; call thow frailties, weskneosca, auyihipg bub eus. Becausesbe had o bewsiching ‘ face and kruceful Sgure wo can easily thirow the Wwhite wentle of charity vver her deeds of blood, Ber foulty, her Matsous, her conuivance st the murder of her husban 1n wy childish day 1 felt, ogey sl that bateful ofd Kooux lor tnakin; olty Queen cry, aud Diany of us buve she tears bu youoger daya ut the thouvbl head belug laid on Ul | bora of the beauty we porirayed by tho pen of Buy for her ruulln\lbt homely vld mald, we have only execrations. We cug bolleve auythiog of bur, for she had red balr, was no be: ul{ was Jeulous, selun, vain, sud juconstant unly been Lhe possessur of ou enchanting face we would beve thooghs she secved ber lover Lasex rigt W sigo bis death-wacrant 1t would have bovn then 0o elork (0 bave excuscd all ber bad couduct. Spcakingof red halr, naybe 1 bave ot been sacked on accountof baving that haneful bue banded down Lo me by sume spiteful ancestor. Uae of the frs, thinge writtvn oo wewory's tablet was shedding tears occauss Diy brothur wadu bo- Beve b wirmed bis Lsude st my Bawe-colored pate, and used o play bo burued uis tingers av badiy e had to apit un tuea Lo cool Wiew. How the bitter teaes deluged my face; how 1 bated 1y *tworcel op!™ Red ald vivid scarlet wers synouy- == mous Lerwe du thoss daya. A rooster's comb, & red cow, evvua llaine (o e plowiog Frate fe- wind.d e that wiy Gaic was that coluz. | 1L was uo camfart to me that {tenrlad, or that kind snt Jadies +omelhnes atroked my head, It apoticd the careve by saying to my mother: *<Hew 414 your chiliteon come 10 have such diferent-colored hairr Aftor 1 grew older. and it toned dawn a hittle, someboiy that 1ked me callea it auborn: how happy [ was, Even naw, when tac e of *‘sere and yellow lent has came, and **eilvar theeada ore among the gold." L enn't hielp withing I liad Been tho owner of biond locks and large, s0ft blue eyes, inw'end of tho mall anourn peepers (for they are nolther black nor brown) that that same bad big brother once called **ferrel eyes.” Ife lives in zausnty Chlcago novw, per place for all Itllln? brothere, ays of nuid had heard of the verlest quack that ment to stretch small ever, I wonld h a long distance and allowed him Lo practice hinart at my expensc, if he had only promired me n pafe of the larye, beaming. lustrons, liquid ones I had read of and hoard ndmired, Butadien to my awn defects,—my market was mada long ngo, That other Elizabeth 1hat weote '*Gates Ajae” hax promised it wilk all bo right *ovar thore, ™ wil have T planners,” a0 why not biund hae, violet cyes, nud be minus freck for we read there 14 na sun there, Spenser That {8 tene besuty that doth argie yon o b divine and born of hiensou,y sseds beris'il from that falr spirit froin whomn all trae And perfect beanty td At Arst ) foceed. £alr, and what lle fair hath meites Allotner falr, like flawers, untitaely fade. After all that e sald abont heanty I fear he has thie true viesw of it, Ladies, you know, have s rlht to change their mind, M. E.W. CALIFORNIA. TIER VIBWS ON MARAIED LIFE, 8Ax Fnaxcisco, Cal., 1he. 16.-~1 bave been reading **Joun's " letter in The tlome of Dec. 7, ond under Lis influence comes back to me an ex- ample of his apparent doctrine. I have in my mind the firet murried conple whose relatfons were to me A revelation of the possibie horroraof a mareled Tife. 1 regrot to say It was not the Inat. The huse band A jealons, seltsh, exacting tyrant; the wife a crashed aud sbnsed slave. They wora ataying for atime inmy house, andthe remark was hisone day In discussion: on know it s the highest honor 8 man can pay & woman to ask her to he his wife,"” Born and bronghtup In a family where Lhere was perfect freedom, no thonght of domiuation on elther slde, where everything relating to the family was fully discassed hofore actlon, I had married s nosc tendee and noble man, who thoagnt he could nover repuy me for becoming his wiios who conaidered It the greatest trust and the highes| honor & woman can confor onn man to consent to bo his wifo. I wna suverelgn witninthe houso, ho suverciyn without: yet fn every important action In either realnn e took eweet” connsel togother, BEloging 1o it our best suggestiona: sonietimes one counsei prevailed, vometiwes the othier, but always what both coustdered wisest and bost, What won- der then tust tuis feat experience of 8o very dif- fe t A maried lite should bring out & hitherto ansuspected bitterness in my nature, and the re« markanova wan llke a lighted maich to tow, or rather to keroeene, and the explosion rather atar- tled bis jordship, An honor, perhaps, Thers ara marringes and marriages, Is it an honor to be mado a sluve? in itan hunorto give up vyery thouuht, word, and actlon to tho conttol of ane nelther higlior nor bet- ter than yourself? M hena man takes s woman who has been carefolly and tenderly nurtured, swhiose thoughts and oplulons bave een reapected in her home, and nut only deprives Lerof ber freedom, but treats her liko a beast of burden, o it n? mlmnrl 1 beg leave lo Lave my donyts on the supject. ‘Thie quotation given by Jobn, **Thy desire shall be to thy husband, wnd ho shall rule over thee, " 18, no doubt, an example of toe wrong em- rluymenlol the suxiliaries *'shall " and **wiij, " ikl- lhlo"l-‘r.?l\chm-n. who cried out when dwwmlnu: T w Intended rown, nobody shail save mo,” 1 not as & command, but propnucy, which, as every one knows, hna hind i iteral fulliment, and 3ta day Is munifeatly paas ingaway, A troo martiage fuwhere neither desires to rule, whore the husband and wife are one; not that ono tne hnsband, nor yet that one tho wife, but s united one, each Lappy in making the happis nesn Of the otner; each ylelding to tua atlier, and laying aside all seldstiness, oull wives under tho bonds of tyranny,—to Johuw's wife, and any other who I8 expected o subine everly thought, word, and act to u ruler,—i wonld say, It 18 batter 10 bo the uppressed than the oppreseor,—rpiritually better; but ob! tuke care that oppression doce not make you-—l want o mild terin for llare, cheats, and deceivers— wo will say hypocrlies, and avove all Leware that you do not, wider uppresuion, Lring into the world suns and davghtaers oredisponad to be liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers, ‘The world has esougn of such brought Into it by such means, Ilold yurr- uelvos with a mighty brivle, und kewp the inner i froe Ly coustaut awplration to ilim who sione h Puwer and right to govern, lemember, too, that n that other world to which wo muat all go, and for which this i but o preparatlon, tuere ls peefect frosdom, And that In ‘that world the choracter we have hero made for ourscives la all wo have, Jodea tuen whose fa beet: tha hard tyrant or the gentlo, submliesive woman, 1 avinotaureiuat, to aloving heart, this Is not the Ditterent of the trial, to sco such churacter forming and hardening, and to know of a very trazh that he wa havo loved ia carulng for blnwell o much d trouble; for, unul ull aelf is cast out, all hardhess and desice for domination elini- inuted from the will; thero can be no heaven, —for beaven ia Jove, and love is heaven, . Lovo, the do- alre for the happlucss of otbers, not the desire for our ows. Catironni, FLORICULTURE, S0ME UIIARDY PERENSIALY, Hinspaur, 11l,, Dec, 23.—* Rennle, will you please give in The Home a list of cummon names of flowora that will bloom frum early spring until late In fall, My gardon is small, snd I would ke them to bo perenaluls, for 1 am tired of buying and sowing seeus every apring; besides L have such poor luck, Lorrie, Horbacoous porenniala’smbrace all vlunts, the slema of which dle after mataring the secd, and shoot up again from the roots the nextspring. Theso perennials sre the plants our grandmothers laved to cultivate so woll, inciuning, among others, that grand, pinc-white, dellcinauly-fragrant iy, L. candidum. Of lale years thelr cultivation has boen sumewhnat nuglos owing to th brilliunt flowers, or gacdy follage-ph wiad to obierve an Incrensed interest in the old fashloned flowers, Home of the most robust kinds produce magnificent doudle flowers of evory con- ceivable hive, 83, for instance, tho Chinesa peony, Bullyhock, and dlanthus. I'a good selection of peren ade, & continnous display of itowers will be had all throngh the scason, commencing with the littla myosotls, or alpino forget-me-uol, &nd the sowy dicentra ar blecding beart, and end* Jug with the chirysanthemum, which are now ju full blugm in tne window, although the greund Is cov- wred with suow, ‘T'o &ld Lottie and otherd of my floral frier.ds I will briofdy duscribe a fow of the best sorts, llo]- woaderful improvewent lias been made ince 1 dret learnud to grow tbe ' KFOW coarsu and nd It wae o T to voo 8 double llower, Now thoy scldoi hight or more than four fe wiih vesutitul fluwers of Y Atoufte, or mon donble as 8 rosu, 00d, called frowm the Ouwers resembliug & cowl, Tha flowera aro blus aud white, Adlumnia fe_one of our native climbery, bapularly known ss Allesheny vitie, quite harav, ' Antrhinam is the well knowa snap-dragad, Fiorists hava improved this plant lwcaselys 1L1s now to_be ‘haa In all kinds of m’""'f; und stripes, Bloomu from seed the first eat, Dinnthus: In thls clavs we have the walls nown, ever-popuiar aweet Willlam, oue of tho oldest fnhabitaute of the garden, 1t {a eanlly rown fromn 'd, and sports its every fmag- uaole color, many esrly da; possessad uuy i rodus the next sumimner | had thirty-two sbades —notwo allke. Anmong the dinthus we have D, Chineals, or China plak, & favorite \with al} flawer lovers, and | should do injustice to my eub- Ject did 1 pasa unouticed the wagnificent D, dida. matus, or disdein pink. Thls owo |s of recunt jn- troduction, Lut oo which produces such beauti- Tuity marked flowers 1 unhesitstingly récommond, It fa Bost fo prutect the disnthus famitly in wint, with & sliglit coverine of loaves or litter, Diyita! or fox giore, is quite & statoly plaut, £68 continue in bloom for a Jonyg while. Delphine fune usually last from June (o November. ‘Fheir Mtowers ary \'cr‘ brilllant, Everlast- ing pea is & perrectly hardy, besut!ful cliniber, Flowers vink, white, “and purple, llonesty, or satin plunt, ie o0 ola favorite; the soed pods when dried ‘sre qyuite oroameutal, lpomopsly, though lurd{.l excellent for window culture la 'winter, Easily grown from seed, “Fho foliage la praceful, reavmnbi m)’m-cyruu vioe, sud tue dowers sro vranye s rlol, a1 P i this is the well-know Canterbury bell; coluz, blne, rose, and whito. 1 haa almost Iotfinllfll Aquilegia Of columbine, popular and well known vverywhere, It comes very 'true from voud, fa pertectly hardy, snd nceds no protectiun, ‘Pliere ure muLy olher berennials, a)l worthy of cultivation. 1 have simply nuvied those il know frow practical experience will pro eating to the cultivator, Lor- L will send to Lottia o any reader who 1e Interested in the old-fashioned fowers seoas of all | bave described for 25 couts, OF auy 8ix Varielies sulected frow tic sbove foF ong diwe. This will Just wbout pay postage and sta- tignary, —the socds are freu. Heitz, the leal you sent 1o wes so dried out as to bo uurvcognizable. Leaves seut to e for ideati- Seation sbould be wrapped 1n oil paper ur set ja [ Can send 30U the cypres Yino sceds, dolh red aud white. Boak them’ in cumphorated walce twenty-foar bours bLefore sowiug. ‘The passion flawer, though comuon snd casiy grown at the Suuth, W clussed ns 8 wreendvuse percunial. The ould po suwn tu shallow Loxes illed wita L sud, whenwver puselole, started with ke & brick ot it geadually warm o the stove, then piuce it uuder Joue sced- boz. Do this as frequently os possivfe; wuccess will reward your efurts, 1aball vive some bints on water-cress culture Dext weok; bave plenty of the secd. Haviog now Feceived an abuudast supoly of Uiy-of-the-valley pipa,—thc meibod of growing was given two oF three weeks ago. —1 offer them in exchange for fancy work, saifable fur wy ssnctum, such as & Wwall-pocket [or uewspapers, snd, 10 those wla bave notbiuz ¢lac to scud, 1 will puttwo lu & box sud forward postpaid (o une diwe aud & slamo, Kesxir, Loz 101, SMALL GIRLS. | TUELL GUUD AND DAD FOINTS, Muwavrkrz, Wis., Dec. 28.—**Unce more tho gate bebind we falle.” 13w bery avalu. Do yoa kuow? I fully ezpected W Lo called o drivenng after my cfuelon charmed [ was to find that eome girls agreed with mel **No maro on the malrimonlal question, 1y frowns the Conducior. Paor man? too much lave hath madoe him mad. 1don't nlamo him 8 bit: T think ha Is extzamely scneidle. How tha endless wranelibg, biekering, dispating, and inanily must have Jaccrated hid’ deticate suscents- bifities! Dat whet are we girls going to 1alk about? Wo haven't houses to take care of, 90 we don't want recipes for ginger-bread, or petterns for tidles, or dlsseriations on Sulomon's precept, or any of those litlie home-trifies the matrons ery out for. DBlot ont dress and matrimony, and what have we poor forlora dameels leit? Men, at loast, seem to think that |8 the sum and total of feminine conversation. Dot. wonderfol to relate, 1 have & great passion for books, and would throw up almoawany fascinating engagement fora new hook: dric.a-brac ls agother tempier of my femining s One or two of the girls [ know are masfc-mad, Another paints, another writes deep and exhanstive essays, Ho form the Candnctor of The Home that hin restrice tlan, caudos more happiness than pain, stravge lo relnte, Siater Flo geems to be In tribulation over smail boys, 1 fully sympathilze with her. There Is oniy one tling equal to them, and that §s small girls, 1 2w not alMicted with a brother, but I have n dimin- tive sister,—an enfant terridle. She has a face 1tke a flower, with an Angelic soul amiling from the great innucent biue eyes; long golden hair and & shell-complezion make her & cherub but alas for appearuncet H8he lu the torror of m{ life, No intelloctaal problem ta too mightlly for her precoclty to grasp; no mccret can elude the vigllani crafiiness of her nature: no myatery 1a sacred to hor ltrevercnce. In fact, she ls°a Sphynx mortal soul canuot fathom. rance 18 et epltume of all that ia veantiful, lov- abje, and wonderrul, but that doesn't provent hor from revealing the secrcts of the prison-house In the basest manner, ‘un'n an aw/fo) nulsance, vou al- cli uncarfly hours, ” she confides to ono unfortunate masguline, **France was dovesd. fuliy cwoss this morning, " artleaely to anothor. And to stlil snother, **rance made Margle get her & 'normous lanch after you left last mght, Bnt thta i nothing; only & dally occurrences on) adrop in the bucket of her ncuteness, Thouyl with &ll my fanita sho luves me still: this doesn’s rmvnnl Lier from acoing sald faults with an nppal- ing clearness, aud retailing then *‘vromlscuons® with the diahol— I mean, Divine artlessness of chiidlvod, Whatcan I'do? Call upan sgonized wwitle, aud turn off the remarks sirily nnder tha Raze of earncateyces; yot I sufer. **The world may think me gay, for my feeiings*T smother," out [ anller. ** Bolls 18 penclling her eyebrows, and will b down as s00n 8s #h= puts sowe teed on her I she announces of & friend to & waiting adurer; and Belle, who, with or without, thess adjuncts s teally remarkbly styllsh and strikine, contos down auulmx‘(ly. fo wonder why her whilom sdmirer is so ik, £ +*Do yon lave me, little one?" asks my, Httla friend sudie, winningly, of this dreadful in- fant of olire, befora a half-dozen of the *bays, ' ++Not 1do nat, ** answera Florence, with beaatiful frankness. ‘*You're 80 spoony,—1 saw voaapoon- inz with Fred this fternor. 1 fink you'ra ixiotic, ' with tho bavy-patuls that will cing. And, while we summon mamma to transport hor yonuge eat hopeful to moral wreatiing and seclusion, Sadie, Who is privately engaged 1o Fred, is cuvered with confuaion, Sha In n great trinl to all my frlends: but when tho litlle hiead in pillowed on my shoulder, and the firea drcamtul wyes Jooklng up to me, 'tho liltle ands caressing my fuce, and the soit, red lips marmuring how she **lovea slster France, ihe Ueet alntor 1n the world, "—do you euppose 1 think of the noxt alarming freak that will starile my foul? Hhe s adeorllttls miduet, Lombulm her her in prose and sone, and langh at her nanghti- nees Dut for 'a that and 'a that, Slater Flo, I exiend you tha right hand of fellowshi| TFluiteroudget, conalder your hond shaken: you are a penibio girl. ‘1 do iry to always luok at the bright stde: but ah! how hard it in at times, Lelts Worth.ngton, I will be pleased to weito to you, if you will only'welte fiest, A retiring dispo- sition I8 my most prominent eharacteristics you hava porhape noticed my tinndity, and 1 think you will tiot Liealtata, Aunt ¥anuy's advice wan very sound and womsnly, ‘lliers are few of us but what might profit by it if we would,—but girls are such un- reasoning, unressonable crextures | Gypey's Slator, don't you think the Condnctor would sllow you 1o write a leiter descriptive of Lockport! Ithink ull The Homers woald find st tateruating (even If you haven't a Harry to divide {our rapturce), and the gnnu girle havo had so itlo to ‘sny thnt ft will bo refroshing to sce the Ataweet girl-gradiiates” como forward to the lights, Rlarict n tiny hand 1o tawping ot the door, a bird. like vaic cailé, **France, 1 want to kis you good-night. " How can I reutet? Ly-by all, 'RANCR, retty TIIE IOUSEOOLD. A LETTRR PROM * cupio,” b Garxssuna, 11, Dec. 23,—Farn Leaf {8 right, a8 usual, in thinking women should Lave all the wodern Improvements In housawork relfef, and [ will make a sugwestion to thosa who hate troning- days on account of the heatand waste of fuol to keep the Irona hot. especially In summor, 1t 1s to have 8 tin or sheet-iron cover made any size want. ed,—1t will not cust over 60 cents,—large enough to cover thres frons at a tlme, .and made of shoet- iron, which s best, as It dosa not bura tho hands, You need not usa out ane o two sticks of wood at & time, and much heat s saved that otherwise would bo lost, I have done a laryd jroning with smail armful of wood with tho nm!l my ¥ cor have 8 paste \int wonld keoy Tero 148 recip for a kind' fhat will Reop & yours Dissolve & tablespoontul of aiam in a quart of wurm water, aad wheu cold stir in as much flour ns will maka it thick as cream, mixing tho four ina x-g: cupso that it will be froo from tumps, uch powdered resin as will lie on a dime, aud throw in 8 dozen clovi it Put a teacup of boiling water in a tin, and pour in the mixture and Lol ffteon minutes, If cooked in another disk of _holling water, it will b lcea lmul{ to burn, Lot It dry awa, aad, when needed, dissolve a lece n 4 little bo; ing water, 1f housewives would hiave an old ac. count-book and ink-atand hundy, sud write down At unco any and all recipes, medical or otherwise, that titey fecl must be good, a doctor's Lill would be snved more than once, 1 think as much of mine as of my fine llbmr{ I must eend in my recipe {ar rice pudding: Onecup of rice 1o nine of mitk: oug cup of sugsr to one of rice: nutmeg and sulj to taste, Taku out as xcon as the rice 14 done, so the pudding witl not he dey, It 18 it for & King, Tu thoss who can aflurd it rafsing can be leufi. #ud thoee who cannot afford »o mucn milk can do a8 do uften. —use halt mlk aud half water, Wil tue lady yu Aledo, ik, who wrato to ma for a end ber name again, ments, [ have at last got aud one oiher lady of Uar: onding until the weather tor 1 wiil nob i nor, milder, but will as er sk 8o neod not send heard from you, " Dld reply to your offers of wanted sced of suap-plaut, Cunso, er you nut sey mI royuest, tn roeds, elc.? NECIPRS. Fonr Waywe, Ind,, Dec. 10,~1 hava read that iho following pri tlon 1s au oxcellont Lair-dyet Cryatals uitrate of utlver, ona-elghth ounce; aqua aminonls, one-fourth ounce; pure water, three n). ow can some oue Loll mo whetner e of sllvor is us dungorous to the healih 8s sugar of lead la? I will watch anxiously for & reply. TWENTY-DEVRN, Ciitcaao, Dec, 14.—1 have tried several recipes which havo appeared in The lloma lately fur ma! {og cream candy, but witbout much ucc: One of them lg the followjug: **Four cups of sugsr, one cup of water, two tablespoons of vinegar, vno \aolespuon of vaollilaj boll thirty minutes without stirring, When eool enough ta tonch It was s loo compound plessant enouyh 1o the taste, hut fu- poveitle to pull. Wil suy one be kind enough to tell we what tue matter is, aud obligo Caxpr-loves, English bri ake—Take one quartof dough frow the rlsiug of white bresd, and kncad well into It two ouncea of butter, two of brown sugar, und elgbt of currauts; warm the butter In one cup of new milk. By the additlon of an cunce of ba! ugar, OF a0 e4g of Awo, you may mwake the v beiter, A teacupful of warm’ cre: proves it very much., It 18 Leat to bake it in 8 pan, ruther ihan as & loaf, tho outslde boing loss hard. L;nmum pe d aplces may Ls added. betto 1l in Foglish ban—Rub four ounces of butter futo two pounds of flour, four ounces of sugar, nuteg, of 0o, as you like, a fow .I:mluu P ul pure, i dessertspoonful of caraways iul or two of cream 1ato 8 cup © tuch good nilk ne will maka thy sbove futou liu paste, Se It to rise by a fire till the oven bo ready. (Loy will quickly bake on tins. Al A, B, B, Sovrn Bexo, Tod., Dec, 8,—Will Jumplng Joan Pplease give the recipe fur sugared slwonds, vaull! carawals, 30d ¢ocoanut-balls, sud recelve thanks lor them? * ANNa, Ixuiawarorss, Ind., Dec, 7.—Beansle, horo la my long-promised recipe for those ecosomical corncakes, 1 iske one piut of coru-mesl and scald with not quite & quart of bolling water; whea cool add anotbor plut of mesl sud & large bandful of tlour, Illlhlml s tablespaontul of liquid yvemst. Before bakiug add one-fuurih of a tesspoonful of suda dissolved fu_But water; bako as other corue cakea: let thems ralse overuight I for breakfust. You will ind thew guod. Please try thom, Juxrixe Joax. MISCELLANEOUS. LADIES IN STRERT-CALS, Cuicaco, Dec, 23.—Deaw Hoxxires: The com. Plimeuts of the season at this werry bour, for the Spint woves me t0 Joyful uttersuce, and § darcu't say u3y. And, besldes, tho cold weather ought to wakeus sl huppy, Who cares for frozen now sud ears when the alelghs Jinzle sloug as suc! merry rule and the strect-care Gl with laaics wrapped tu (wice their ususl elze, slibough sowe of titem do acka Dtrle frosty? One good woman. th olhier day, rat onpo:ite” 1o me and criehed nn Inolfensive young girl nta n cornar, kaying ceusti: Iy, **Move along,” sud all becaase she dido't wanl to At Dol u pentleman, and Tsrenre I don't aco why, For Fd much rather I t by thio gentloman than by her, for sive wi homely and angulur 84 u cook-atove, and ho twas: well, nb mater: cach to his taste, 1int then the way'ladies do crowd the care, nowadays, snch fan itle, aud the way tne men go aslcep and nod in thotr seats us perelatently as doge fightink floa: And peehaps the comparison 1n a Hitle ontre, ')l escape nofore the ladies scold me, and tho rest 'To be continned. ) P. 8,—Wa |hn1l be dolighted to receive all The Tfome gentlemen at onr house next Tuesday, ? Mavax Mabcar, LOOK 1T U Gareanuno, 111, Dec. 20.—Anything that mey tond to Jimit, If not, in fact, to pravent, the spread of disease, cannot fall to be of interest to readers of The Home. The increased pravalency of dyphe theria and scarlet faver in portions of this city and near subrbe has led me to commanieate the results of teats &nd usage of ozone as a disinrectant, mads at my own honso at & time when some kind of ma- laried fover was pravalont on every hand, Its ueage proved entirely nu-{acmr{. and oot escane from diseaso can scarcely be nttributea to any othi causc. It hn been 8 wonder to me that Its use nat mora generally thoughtof to provent the spre: 1f, In fact, others have d ba interested In any |nformation It in such cases, " I was led to Its u from 8 recommendation that camo to m{nfl(lcn from Prof, 8, A, Lattimore, of Rochester Usiversity, n chamist of anquer ttoned nuthority. Aa claimed by him, from ex- periment, an oxona (gencraior vroduces ozona in entire pu uch a3 will not only provent f thie contagious discases, but which, If u sick room, will appreciaoly sasist in mitigating the foree of the diseasc aiready contracted; and which fact has led to its general wse inthe Eost inschools, hoapitals, factories, nnd private houses, \We have been looking for nome toat of Its chatacter and eM- uc{ and its introduction into Chicago, Why will not some of onr chomiats or physiclans give it theie attentfon? If it be uot aa claimed, let it bo known; if, on the other hand, It witl contribote toward the prevention of di 1o any apprecia. ble cxtent, and thos provent disense (rom assutn- ing the wpronortions of an epldemic, the public should know of it, and it ahould be at once intro- duced and put within the reach ol the many faml- lles now and at all times suffering from these ma- complaints. Jerransox. ILI-ADVISED GRIBP. Jrrreusox, Wis,, Dec, 20.—1 ones called npon & mothor who had loas a beloved daughter by desth, It was afowdays after tha funeral, I found her walking the floor, wringing her hands, and crying aloud, while huddled togoether in one corner of the room were two little girls trembling with fear, Ifelt much sympathy for the mother, but no language can describe my feelings for thos Iittlo children, This {8 an extrema cuse, it Is troe, but thenwo all have seen children whosa hearts have been made more sad than necessary by mach occarrences, Death 14 too often presented (o thoir oa the King of Terrara rather than s & kind augel sent to take the apirit to a mora beantiful bome. 1 thought chen, - wnd still think, that thut mother was not only very unwise, bat that aha was o axtromoly selfish, Some poople excuso themselves by lfllng that thoy are 80 nervota thoy cannot control thulr feol- Ings; but I belleve they can, at least to some ox- tent, If they only have the will to do so. Dy this Ldo not mean that we shonld restrain onr tesrs when the heart {s overflowing with grief, bocause At such times Lhey are the greateat reliof possible; but let s present the cloud's aliver lining to chil- drun, even though our tears are flowing the while, But 1 wish tosuy a few more words of that moth- er, a8 a warning to others, fow years Intet one of theqo children wes removed to the spiritusl world, and all through tho enila’s slckness her mother wore an anxious, worrled expression of countenance, and was contlnually expressing her fonrs that she, too, would bo calle sy, The consequonce was, the child was frightened from the clunlmunccmont of ber aickness uatil hor re- moval, LIPZ IN DAROTA. Rocxvitre, Dak., Dec. 16.—Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all of The liome readars, and while you are all enjoying yonr good Chriet- mas dinner think of Bed Rock and the balanco of the Biack Iillites, sitting down to tholr feast of bacom and roust venison in thelr Jog cabins way outbers in the drcary Ilille; for they ars drears and wild at this season of the year; tho tops of the mountaina covered with anow, thetr bases and sides with pino trees. To you dwellersof the prairle States thoy would nodoubt be grand, but tome thoy sre only areminder thatlam spfar away from what I stili coutinge to call my home, denr Chicago, and about the only time I can for- get that [ wm not thero ja when K receits tha uesr old Tiinexe and become immerded lu tho columna of 'The Mome, If any of the Homeltes are over- stocked with reading ‘mattar, old or new, papurs or iaguzines, they wonld be thankfully received. In s previous letter 1 stated thut I would send specimeny, if they would send the postage, to al) who desired them, 1 now makae it ugein, but I cannot write to each ono separately, glving the partical lity, etc., a8 it would ro- quircs wer oll nquiries 1 havo ulready received. 1will now stats thi 8 cigar-box full for about 00 cents pos! ? and 3r, Il A, K., thanke. Mary Gold, did you recelve yours? Letters addressed” to_my nom de plume reach me all right. Brv Roex, 4 LITTLE ON MATRIMONY. Dartavia, 11, Doc, 0.—31, E, W, nas advanced the idea that **the next century will contala mora happy wives than this," becauss & **thousand a nues are npened to her that twenty years ago wers barred and bolted.” This 1des, 1o e, scons ere roncous, I cannot hut thinic thatthe thousand avenuea will unfit woman for her alletted sphero, —that of & helpmoet and comfort (o her husband, “T'o be sure, & ’DIIII‘ woman should be quallfled to earn for horoelf a livelihood, ur she e not Atted to marry. liow can @ woman more becomingly do #0 than in tho duties of homo! Thore le always s domand for good wurk in the kitchen, in this laco o woman miay fit hersolf for the wdrk God Szllxned her to do, 1faho 14 Lo be & farmer's wife, thery v no battor place for our young frivad than & farmor's kitchon, llere sho may tearn to take un interest in Paullrly. aod occasionally go out and atlydl\rl‘ms he wnftking, ‘Tbeso should be & part of er daties, A woman ought not to neglect litorature, She should read the best autiore; I possible, study her husuand's favorites. Wwowian's provr work 1e at home caring forand bing her little ones; not doflling horself with the fimoa of tho court-room, or subjecting hersolf tothe gare of an audience. John, wo admiro your straight, Scriptural arguments; Adam firet, hon Eve as on auxiliary. A woman'saim in this wortd should be to 8t horseif 10 be a tviper and companlon to & husband, CaxvivaTs, BIS AND NIER CIULLBLAING, Qnexx Day, Dec, 10. ~DId the members of The Ilome ever lot a littlc girl of 11 come to them with her aches and pains? I do hope so, for I ani sutfer- 1og, oh, so dreadfully, with chillblains thas some- times I can baraly study or play. 1had them last wintur, winter bofore, and the winter befora that; and now they have bugun sgaln as bad as ever, Mamma has tried o thaught waybe eman would tol} me w sure omo somotlmes, whon my lue- ro not 50 dreadfully bard, but I to have my kind mamma dear-old grandm: called old wetting-hens, I don't think it 18 nice to call names, do you thiuk it is, Mz, Conductor? Please don't put me In your waste-basket, for my toes burt droadiuily, Bis, WANTS 4 POEM. Gxxeseo, 111, Dec. 18,—Will some one pleass Bive the poem commencing, ** The day wilh cold Reay foet clung to the sbivering bille ™! It was weitton duzing the War, and I thivk the title s **'The Uallad of Clarlbel,” Iam vory anzious to sccure 8 copy of it, Yos, Uppoponux, the world hse many sueh as you weschibo In your lottez of Nov, 8, bub wno and what are thoy? 'Tis a happy fact that such women pussess litilo or no induences, for the equare coin- wan-senss of humauity loo¥s straiylt tarough the bissk without auy infury 10 the optic nerve. Aud 80 voapeuds arid a lover's kise: Lord pity shem all, 31/thads T toxton, O whist snall we doy l{‘onl live The Howe, all, aud a Merry Christmas to Miss NxLLy O'Vannsre, WANTH ETC Cuiwaao, Dee. 4i.—WIll Learner vlcase sond prescription through The lHome (o rewmove ** black- besds and borrid plmples 't « ‘T0 rein0ve ants, satursle the bosrde around thelr pluce of entrance with torpentine, and you will sce Lo worv of the little pests. Wiil Jumplog Joan please send reclps for vanilla caramals? Lonexa. MiLwauxes, Wis., Dec. 23.—I want to thank Grandwa Oldways for lll:,uu the object of Tho Club, snd I would Jike to ki to whom ar- H:I::lnr"lul THonie fair cuu be seat. 8. B, M, Byeutixg, 1, Dec. 12,—Will some of tho s ol'l‘hl:l 00 tell us whero we can find the words of that beautiful poem of B, ¥, Teylor’ Cotnmauttag, ** Bo Patiest, Ob, be patisaty Guar, Ixptawsvotis, Ind., Dec, 23,—Kennle, pleass tate the price of the pips of tha Iy of tas valloy, 80 § will kuow bow much to soad. Al#o give price ‘of nigut-blovming cerous. " bt e 0r7awa, 1., Dec. 23.—Wiil some oue intercat- ed fu kuitiing laco give direcuons and design fora oartow edgs fu The Home, sad oblige Kxirran. Wavenry, 1, Dec. —Will some reader of ‘Tue Howe tell wo (1) why **Thu Hetzute of Abra- Bam' are wo called? (%) The oldest pabdlic bulld- fuz lu thy United States? (3) Wby the place e:ll- fax i associated with the nlace of eternal pun! meat? Any ohs who wilt anewer thess will ool AL 1 STERN JUSTICE. The Preafdent of n Phitadelphin Natltway and His Cashier Sent to Prison for Ten Yoara for Haviog lasned 10,000 Slres &1 Fraudulent Stock, PladeloMa Record, “John 8, Morton, stand upt" “Bamuel P. Huhn, stand upt The two men who, but a short timo azo, were honored and respected, stood up In the Criminal Court yesterday to recelva the judgmunt ot the law, Each face was & study, Morton held his head high, s if to brave the storm, Huho ap- peared almost unconcerned. Two weeks before, Hubn, inachat with a Jeecord roporter, ex- pressed himself us almost certaln that Morton would got threa years, Y"hlw ve, ** whils [,” he added, *will” got two yeafs and a balf," ‘I'ifs tor=knowledge was the ¢cause of his uncon. cern—but how bitter the dlssppulotment {n store for him| Judge Thayer adjnsted bis eyeglasses, cleared bia thraat, and then apoke: “Jotin &, Morton and Samudl P. Rubo, o tha 14th of Feuruary, 1873, you severaily pleaded Rullty to a bill of tndictment charging you with the fraudulent maklog and issufog of “a certifi« cate of stock for 100 shares of the Weat Phila- delphia Passenger Raliway Company. Although the indictmeat charges the fargery of but 100 sharcs, it is 8 well-known fact, and, fndeed, it pears by your uwn admisslons, that the actusl amount of these issucs was in the neighborhood of 10,000 sharcs, & quantity which, at the par valuo of the stock, ammnunted to about £500,000, Iconsider all thess transactions, however, u3 part of one offense, and I presume, and, Indeed, am advised by the prosecuting on‘ecr, that it is tlie intention of the Commonwealth that, what- ever the punishment {oflicted, it shall bo for tle whole ofiense, -The offense is onc of the moat flogrant of ts kind cver commiited in this Commonwealth, Yon wera the chosen guar. dians and trustecs of the stockholders of t corporation, to whom _ they conflded thelr inter- ests, and iu an hour of temptation you betrayed that confidence and tyrougiht widespread ruln on those who had trusted you. It {s nccessary that Tshould any this much that It may be borna in mind that, i the punishment which the law imposes be gruat..it oy be remembered that the crime itselt is gre & For the offense of which you have been con- victed It {s the sentence of the Conrt that you, and each of you, do undergo an imprisonment In the Eastern Penltontlary for the period of ten ycars; that yeu paya fiuc of one cent to the Commonweslth; and that you atand com- mitted until, the sentonce is complled with, About ten months’ havo elapsed since ?-uu pieaded guilty, and it 1a but Just that the time durfog whicli you..have been in confinement shall bo considered_in the jmprisonment fin- posed upon you. Your sentence will, there. (onh date from tno day oo wulchi you plesded Rutlty. o . ‘The men looked at the Judgs for & moment, thon at each othet, bowed their heads, and aat down. Durlng the delivery of the scntence, which was in & calm, clear volce, not a muscle in their faces moved, and only when his Honor roferred to the fnfamy attactied to the crime did Morton’s head involuntarily bow. Whea Morton and Huhn resumed thelr seats, oan effort was. made to obtain Judge Thayer's permission to bava them tuken to- tha Peniten~ tlary fn carriages by thelr felends, but this his Nonor declined to do. E. 8pencer Miller, Esq., Mr. Morton's counsel, requested that Mortog be allowed to rom{n tu Movamensing Pricon and procure some vhkliiable papers which be had lla(l there—* and his clothing,” added & young lawyer. ““Ilo will not need any clothiog," repHed Counsclor Miller, sadly; * thay will glva him & new sult out there,”, The request to revisil the prison was denfed, bat the Court ssucd an order on the sutnori- tles to return to Morton his papers. When the biz, wide gates of the Penitentiary wero swung back, au Lour later, the Laylug of the bloodhounds tn the yard was the first sound which grocted the ears of the party, Thers were Tipstaff James Erickson and Deputy-Sher- ilts Wildemore and Gordon, who sccomipanied the men. The officers bade their charges “good-by,” and then thoy were taken Into amall spartineht known “as the *‘recelving- room.” “Adjoining this is the pen where ths bloodlounds are kept, and uo sooner did the dogs hear the wovyments of the men in the room., thanthey-commenced a furlous barking, wh(l:h"m'%fizfln’fl\ml thefr departura, Warden Townsend airceted Morion to ueg op to the desk, wnen hie begaa to catochiza him, “Your named”? ¢'Joln 8, Morton,'” was the su- swor.' Then followed a serles of set quostions as to birthplace, business, winding up with: “ What were Jjou seat here fori" “Furgery1? ‘Theslinple wordseemed to choke and strangle In ,':“I"ND""K tocome out, but it was uttered uickly, 3 % Removing his right shoe, his foot was meas. ared, and then bis arms wero bared to ascertaln if there woro aoy idetible-lnk marks or scars, The color of tiie eyes, hair, position of the cheel-bunes, and othtr’prominont polnts of his features wore noted, #nd, while he was engaged in conversation, one of the keepers quickiy threw a largo sack over the prisonur's head, en- voloping bitn to the waist, Morton waq directed to follow the ofllcer, and he walked up and down stalrs, in and out of corrldars, to another room, where ho was divested of ail clotbing and the sack romovod. e wus then given & bath and afterward 8 new sulu of clothing, the prison garb, ‘Tho apoarel the prisoncr wore when he untercd was nacked away, the number on it correaponding with that of Morton's cell, which is up fn the “nine thousauds," the exact num- ber not bolng revealed, Acain was Morton's head enveloped fo the sack, and Morton was marched arunnd aod about through the corridors and finally Innded inniscell. Iere he loses his name, and John ‘8. Morton {s unknown to the littie world in which ho has s0 recently taken up & residence. Hereaftor o wiil be kuowo by his number ouly, ‘Tug cell Is o plainly, furnished apartment, and iere Morton remalns for twenty-four hours, his only cumpauion belng a Blble, which lay on the tablo, and tbe printed rules of the prison, whidh are suspeuded on the wall. Until to- morrow Lo secs 1o ono hut the keeper, who fur- nlsbes his meals, After that le s put to some honest employuient. lmmediately after Morton had been dlsposed ot, lulin steaped up bafore tho Warden, nod be underwunt the samu treatment, 'Ihe men wers not abaved or thelr halre cut, us it 13 8 rule uot to heap any Indignitios upon o prisoner, and uniess hu request It this par of the verformauce s omltted, s Thus the prison gates: end the history of one fll tho greatest criwes Pldsdelphis Las ever BOWL, . THE NEW YEAR. Is he dylng? Yea, and fast, How ha shivera in the wight] And the river awooping past Gurglea at his sure affright; + Langha and gurgles at Lis moan A ho liea there on the grogud— Cold, and dying thera aloge, Whitle the wind beya liko & hound. And the black night ataaltby creeps, Silently, spd weied, i Aud the crucl wator leaps, And the sky niocka back at bio. How the wind atesls throagh his rags, With nuunud.bfmnu wongs! Ang the frost crawls In bis beard? faoroid manl tls eyes are dun With the wa of death. Alas! Nouo dotti minlster Lo him. None doth soothe bim in his pain, None doth wipe bid toars awsys Lorg, furgotian, and berats, 1o will dis bel 1878, re the dsy, BAnvy Darscotte FARIEE rcimstan s 8000 _tu grow , TIM IR0 1! DU WAy 80 ¢Oyciually R I 0 eav. N .- .L|1I!‘l‘la!l‘v'l \OUY thy Pateut Trads BEEDS, SHEHEDS, LOWES {UETABLE, afl the Buest kiads, UN- oS EeY STAT S Plkie vett bk T ie.bid BEELS, surs 10 Krow aud give satisfactiyu. ow cattlonua for 137 Jurt uat, 3ad will be AAILED BEE. beadforlt, E. WYNAN, Jit, secdamias, ocxtor __PHOTOGRAFIY. BEST PHOTOGRAPHS Sheapert. BTEVENS, Practical Ihotos 20 years’ eaparlencd, duca th uier bl PR . luduceiueuta tor a 1