Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1880, Page 12

arte ee "THE HOME. : ‘ w the Work of the Kitchen Garden School Is Pro- “' "". ptessing. ante | fe areca . & Ohatty and Interesting Letter on Varioua,Topics by Hitter- ae , aweet.. - How d 'Deluded Doctor Was Sct Right by a Practical Woman. I "Phe, Delights and Disadvantages of Life on the Pacific Ooast, ‘Hothereinbaw Defended by a Person Who Appre- i datos Their Position. ; Questions Anked ahd Answered—Hints on Pv ‘What to Read, Ete., Etc. \ LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD, - Up from the garden comes to mo A rippte of laughter, clear and gay, . Where, with tho birds, and becs, nod towers, Baby Florence has played all day. Baby Florence en moagquerade, Mnby Florence, peltte ant sweets Clad in searlot, from yellow curls +» Dowh to'the dainty-stlppered feot. Scarlet mantle to hen: of drese— i Dresé that fs bfulded And ednrict tooy i+, y Beartet hood or tho winsome head— + ft Shading thd eyes of Inughing blue. ““Littie red sos on the pretty fect . ‘That bnve walked on blossoms for four fect 3 yenrs. + Lfttle Ited Rtding-Hood—asister’a wee girl, »_. What do you know of sorrow or teats? ‘Tho azure eyes havo never been dimmed, . _. Phe yellow curlaure ag bright aa the sun, yo the fresh red mouth knows uv curve of grief \O'or battles And triuinphs all unworn, i _ Stay in the gardett’s tangled nmze Baby girl with tho atin In your Hair; | - Beyond the gate tan wild, dark woud, { + And wolves aro lurking to sole you there. + The wood is tho world, my bonny gitl, .. Abd tho wolves are tho messengers of Fate. * Abt Little Red Riding-Tldod, glud and sweot, ‘Wander not out of the garden gate, = FANNIB Ditisconty 0 >) DWE LETTER-BOX. There are letters, papers, ant postal-eards. “at this ofites for the persotis whose names ap- i! pear below. ‘Those living out of the clty ‘* ‘yhoitld kend thelt fddress and a three-cent » stump, Upott redetpt of which thelr tnall will ‘be torwarded. Residents of Chicago can ob- ‘falirthefr mall by calllig at Room % ‘Trrn- . Uxt Building: Bers. ‘Old Timer, Mnrguerite, Holon R. Keio. Qoinese, 0% THE HOME CLUB. THE MEETING LAST WEDNESDAY. 14 (ha Edttor of The Uhitago Tribune, Cmbaco, Jon, 15.—Tite Trinune Home ie Club meat yesterday pursuant to adjourn- is ment, the Presittent inthe chair, ‘The most ‘ ‘of the business tratisncted was In regard to thd Kitehbn-Gneder School, ns that echeme is now odenpying the attention of the members: -4o the exciuston of Jess impottant subjecta. The dchoolis In a flourlshing condition, the sesatona lasting from 10 o'clock a.m, tintil 19th, every Saturday, nt No. 99 South Des- plaines street, under the effictent leadership bf the Prealdceht of the Club. - The sessions fre not private, and ench Saturday finds uimbers of Ind tes. In_attendingp from. all ary of the sity. One should be there Preity atio'clock to met the necessary dea of Its workings throughout. ‘Those who are late misé the first exdrelses, and hus recelve only o partial idea of how tha hoot f carried oh. The schoo! ts ceria! ly % suieedss, and tts portlot of the work in propre " forgottan by those who learn the thus -early in youth Tho Work is iad outin rhyme, and each stanza talli its own Btory as reminds the tits in hamds - If, mothers would adopt ther as furdery, thy es iu the place | o! other Gouse’s nrdtodles, L thik if would be o tost Aseful Innovation on, the Hlents of that mbelent individual, Ie would be tenchtn ehitdren the proper ‘way fn which wor! sould be pecoihplished, aut would bo just ag effec! y retained in the meémory, atid Also ansiyer the purpose of those questionable sdlttles, —that of soothing to repose, Wiha 4 we nre teaching our children let iis fae theént Sothethinhy that Will be of usa to em in after fey and any one who has be coe nequninted with the manner in which the work {s Infd outin those rhymes cannot fail to; sce that a-thorongh committing to piemory. of'them would be’ of invaluable TVice fo the child when Yeats had brough hen te t}eome-when her owe housekeeping abilities would lis put ta the test. Not only + shonid-the phildren of the poor linve the berioflt of this teaching, but every chill who 44 axperted to become the heal of 2 hose. hod, should become scgualuted with the Styled TM Mossi 80 plainly in our school, The next thing to be dunsideréd is Whetlior Bs aro sole oO fecalse: sufficient assistance rom the public to enable.us fo earry on the sthvol, -We can keep the tinchinery rune ning sincothly while in worling ordor, bus. svu cannot keep It In repnir aang the cotn- ing years, € have set the bail In motions +} ! some one please touch It gently and send ‘te Httle further oh its Wily, and 8 euch irfendly hand accelerate its flight intl! the. added Impetus shat have acvotuplished the Jong-sought, But never acqitired, ccsider atin uf Fenitus pe potual motion’ After disposing of the business i hand, ye Clu adjuurned until the second Wednes- ay ik February; ORLENA, eee i > ace A GENERAL TALK, } apULakp iy ny berretuwret, . To the Editor of The Onscago Tribune, * Sr. Josmvuy, Meh, Ju. 14.—T laven’t any fliling imiticntar to Kay to~lay, L just waut to ellp in for onc moment te gee you all, and peshans ask & qiiestion or tivo, then kiss my OHgUrtlbd to youi, and slip out Again. I feel ever. sa, guilty In coming without bringing anythlug nice with me, os Grandia, Uhlways suagustod. I suppase I feel ike the gamin who crawls under the tent to sea te gipcus. sree } TP havelet aby gingot-bread reedpos, nor aiy Temnédied for: weak. hings of bashfuluess, or ‘untinished pooms, Iwould tell Thomas F. Wwhint Ate thd Seve Wouders, bit he Wil probibly recelye iuformation from a dozen others. ss ee : 1 haven't any rules for brhigtng up chit- dreix, (Baty Matid Hhways tlods about right without. thuch training. * Sometimes she riaches out het Mttle hands for tha moon, and WH Bay! “NG, baby cni(’t huve the moon; fs d long wiy of, Svel Kitty Oat 19 looking at 4p favs slig doesn't reatli put hei land for tts Mpnuley ého'll yeagh ft ous to you?! And yo Mind Decoites Intoresto ‘unl forgets the moun. Porlians ete's nny wi evel tren tethoughe in this; tl! atte Bohites RAST SRG a tad BE fall i can ‘tuslly bo voted. - Burt hall's dre cat ly 4 olny to preach). “ 11 haven't duy consdling, words for youirs pileriusj—in fact, Pm rathue a young pil- eclil imyself, Addl, my dear Grandina, 1 ak BY suppose yOUNe Beep ja were the very Jast perdons bn the world to. ne ndyjee, i Ay very porey jot to by ably to agtes with ‘te dear tron 4 ip ‘ondtsoning * alseugsidns in ‘The paiee Thu ie exmed nine abou Irting, babies, molielors, aud sin, wer new Beford, ‘Tp fie the arguments {ive been extrcfiely Interesting, I'm sorry to be compelled to say tls; L ktlow ft 18 horrid to be "oud? Jn ‘dD cinomnbir thnk my dear ~ WGyearotd Avis; take the vite of << gonie bad four years your-sehlor, and never 2 glory In that virtua are If yopt.ge opt wit! i pe study, of mgilelne, becaidfng wise, ‘afd learned, ‘find all: that, Bowt's yuu dura to hilichany of yaur wisdoni Du your utquuintunces and friends, Jf it S Haye a. oatlely spat pend -Itoto The Me, OVEL a ross ples plitne, when Ou IyY # ulstaken fur sone wisa old grandmother, he fevaut an ulte mt b divorce, an ds Tian Te THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: and nO one qyilt fnistrustyou ara a horrid Ip with an Idea, ‘his Home {s a wonderful blessing to soma of us who would never date to bo wise any- Where elsa; and to some, my dear Conceited Little Fool, who ould hover think of being any advice Sr condolence. I flatter mysolt Tam equal to the ocension, unless my abill- tles are ess versatile than I have ever be- Neved,, feccavt ia a term I hovo never, fet applied to my clreumstances, Perhaps, ko Gen, Taylor, Tam the kind of a fool that has a fool nnywhere else} and some, Forty Years, | not the faculty,of knowing when he or sho ates would never think ot bina male BO Sal is subjugated and ought to own up whipped, anywhero 080; and nag, Frank Cushing, for Mr. B.'s crookedness u this: Ho hellaves gone are Nould neéver be anywhere clase, hy 18 every ono so fmiablo Intetyt I haven't geen 4 real, nico, Renninie, spirited qubrrel for sevorn) week: ‘o be sure, Ajax nade some rather polnted remarks to For! Yeara, but they didn’t xeem to make much impression, was sorry for that. I thought the abuties very forcible, and then T did so alf so cynical tak constructively and operatively, m Icltchen-stove Is thie counterpart of the brie! fireplace of his ancestral halls, and when he builds a fire the bnek-tog is foregone con- clusion, It may boon a mitiaturg scale, as the contingency of the fite-box of A No. 9 stove demands, but it {8 nevertheless a back- log, and it stenins, stews, and sizzles with all the strength and effectiveness of its tradition: wanttosca Forty Years angry, Tho only | ary predecessors, Do [tly nud ¥ Not LI thin {uisike shout him is. Stat provokin 4 ty its panenkes on the cold hilt of the grid- indifference of his. It always glyes ono such | die, min he hot side, eat my crisp, well- D, cooked ‘Sreaktnat with doublo relish, and watch tho disappearance of the putty-lke circles from his plate, and gleofully antici. pate the xequol In which [shall haven hand also, for I stir up the doses ha must swallow as digestives. (L wonder how many will see you to ander away to mest othor friends; the polnt of this narration. But I shall know, should keep ya nent me, and nigXe you talk | for about néxt week there will appear some- tome a very long time, thing ike lintf an nere of dissertations, Ting any one weloomed that Sam, who fell | planations, npologivs, elaborations, disquist- into The Nome so gracefully? Ishould iike | tions, theories, argumonts, evolutions, and yery much to ask him a question if he will | Involutions on the one filustration 1 hive not deem It presumptuous, Low does writ- | employed. Como one, comeall,—there is not ing upon diverso Bubjects ovinea womnn- | a woman in America whom Nature .and ox- perlenee has better fitted to revolve all the shafts sone genius can supply.) Ollve Green, you did men deat of good, and but for you this letter would never have been n tantalizing impression thal he's master o! the siluation. ahall noyer feel satisfied seith ane Homo until I see Forty Years jownright angry. Madge, ny deut girl, i¢ you touched my hand Tor‘one Ute wmnuto Pahoutd not allow liness, please? Dye just been tending something by ‘Thack- erny. What a peculiar sori of a writer her ser ae wwiele ey hie ath writ Twish you would send your ad olover women are. wiel and L ritten, 5 id sendy ite ywonen ‘ouls.” TLow we all reject that for. dress to. Hox 1.230 Javkson, Mie IT have mula, aid denounce the author as a bitter eynict And yet, way down deep In our hearts, how perfectly We neree with htm! If not, why are we so distrustful of a clever womans and so ddad sucte. shu is setfish tnd egotistleal and generally unlovables And if A Woman is sort of simple, why are, we posl- tive, without proof, that she 1s nifectionate and nite? It's in wont fully popular fal- Incy—Is It hot Raven Hair’—Oils notion that the education of a wonin’s brain necessitates the dwarfing of her heart, I want to say one wotdto One tort who wrote such an earnest, Wenrty sdrt of letter, Lfound this verse the other day, Did you over see It? Ithink n part of It ts so beautl- ful and a part—so trite: O what a thing ts lovol It vometh from wbovo, And seltleth Ilke a dove—an some, Tut somo tt never hits, Exed¢pt to glve thein fits And take away thelr wite--ob, bum! Inn't it delightful? ‘Mr. Forty Yeam, [always knew that tole. one would get mo into some sort of rottbie, Idldn't want it put Ingo tho house Inthe first place. I don’t belive In_ these spondertal inventions and Improvements of things. ‘They’re sure to explode, or sot. the house afire, or toll secrets, or do something ad, But foe the. feat ‘reche atten fiat invention ening Into tho house yott ought to juve seen what niarvelously gainted crowd we were, | upounhlll’; Infact, it isnothing buthill, and By the way, 1 nave a stiggestion, after all, | In sceing {ts sights one Is elther gasplngly go- Grandina, ‘The best way to mike our homes | ing af, ub, up, tntit in apparent danger of pleasant and “heavens on darth’? and all poking one's Road throught ié floorof Heaven, that, is to furnish edch ono with f telephone. | or else petting down, down, down 80 far that No doubt we are very fudliferent to public | the soul is filled with disinal forebodings na to opinion, but, after all, that thing has a wou- derfully soothing influence, I tell you. You should hive soon the reform itworked in our house, Whenever Jack: wanted a button sewed on, he would approach on tip- reasons for making the request. Y. 8. To thosa who comprehend the drift of the bulk of this letter L would suggest os an antidate for thelt woes when founpied to niake additions to the aggregate of misery In the world, buy or borrow Ruskin's “Sesame and Lilies” And Mts, Millock-Cratk’s © Youn: Mrs. Jardine” and fortify themselves agains! temptation, Serlouely ahd solemnly, only they will be zomembered who belong to the band specified by the Revelator when he said: “ Thote are hey which have come up out of much tribu- latlon.”” | “Verbuin sap, ote. AL A. W. B. THE FAR WEST. Ts GOOD AND BAD FHATURES, Tb the Edttor of The Chicago Tribune, Cricaco, Jan. 1%—Before visiting Catl- fornia I had a kind of yaguo idea that I should find the atmosphere nroand San Fran- elsconll full of tittle shining dots of gold duat, which would dance alrily about like métes In.a sunboum, and, a3 a matter of course, nuggots of gold would be quite freely | distributed about the streets, and it was rathor a shock to my sonsibilities to find tho elty onveloped In a yory commonplace fug, while the nuggets were minus, San Franelsco 1s essentially n “clty set the chances of ever getting back again. ‘Tho clittate of San Franclsco {8 not a pleasitnt one. Raw, chilling winds are yery previe lent, and it has the peculiarity of being warner in winter than in summer. I was tog, murmuring so sweetly: “My dear Dut, | there towards tho end of June, and suw will you Be tli snow oa avo, the pone: mafy ladies in pealakin CANE oh nes lense BeW bill Oy Ol ON IN, it across the bay front ie sco, tou?” fie nbnidoned hits somowhnt. too tho santo. reintion. tod that freo use of Bible quotations’ when his collar wasn't atif enough Sundsy mornings. Ilo quit breaking chalrs and tipping things gen erally when another: youth shanéed to wilk hoine with his sweetheart, And once, when Dan way cracking butternuts,- hoe actually pounded his fingers three times before ré- marking, quite unlldly (toward tho last), “ Dam-lt—is a Gerfaiin word.” Tread Inntimerable Sundas-sclidol books avout good little girly who went to Huaven, Thalf “hoped I shotitd go eaven pretty enone it wae so awfully incontveniont to have i and beariug Bredoklyn dovs té New York, is the charmalns Glty of Oakland. Unlike San Franelseo, Oakland Heg low on the shores of iy bay, tha slope of the land being very gtadual to the mountains beyond, Here Is a region of delicious, perpetual spring, and here tho flowers bloom out-doors the year round, Jlow they do grow, to bustirol I have secon fuchsins and hellotropes five nnd six fect high, perfect innsses of bloom, geraniums equally large, and 1 was much surprised to aca Woe yastardiam dexeloped Ito-a visa covering feuces with as prolific and sturdy a that horrid sar Hstening to everything a per- prowth hs the hop vine with us. Itisa Bieat son sald ordid, And whonever Roy called | tyaveler, shat wasturtium. I once saw 0 of an evening to «discuss the. weather, or clump of tt flourishing ftia small way ono crops, on nny such interesting tople, we elfhor | barrun rocky polit ‘ot luttd, rising out of the avolded thaé rooin or he cut the conneoth Gulf of St. Lawrence, One day, wille walk- cord, and T ted it up fn tho morning. We | ing in Oakinnd, [caine to ntiilapidated shanty werd not partial to Inquisitive Dime Gron- | in ant uncared-for lot. A maxnificent En. avis bg Jnghe miltako s bueegs for a cies, glish ivy Mfis growing all ovr the rouse, and —ns Fay . ieby a duut-leap there bloomed a lovely ido think that was dxtremely absurd of | énlla iily. I.stopped, and when I thou, Nt zou ar zs ory Soar Nisle refleation wor of all the frantic, soul harrowing efforts, b hall conv’ 4 prevale) made in my life trying to Induce my eating to abdut the 28th. But even it tt did sed ike ut forth wen one Mhisteable budeot nll tlie kiss dancing along the wire to you, Cdowt | Limp rhad wasted on. some stelle ivy, L think yott recelved it very graciously, do | wished I were a dog that I might sit dowh you? ITTERSWEET, and how! kt myself, pai DOCTOR'S D ILM A. Oakinnd has another very pleasantteatures it is the only place in the world, so far us A.WOMAN'S ADVICE ‘To jist. know, where one can ride trom, morning un T thé EdUor of The Chicago Tribune, H JacKsON, Moh, Jan. &%—I have wateli¢d til night on the cars, right trough the heart of the sity, without paying'one cent therefor, ‘The Home for the Idst three years with inucli, ctirlosity and interest. It {is quite probable thé City Fathers insliting, ‘on that condition 8 that there is in niy imefital-organtization & 1 hefora ntlhg to. Central Pacitie Rallrond tho, privilego of | laying 9 fouble trait of pone oF ptt fen pireats, atronk peculiar to Itself, for, as I have voad | 7 TAnS Tun Chery Lt oe ee its: atone and pondered the miscellancous inatter pro- ving al. all important cross-atrents, ut to tte sented by tho mass of correspondents, my | end of the wharf, » milo or so from sliore, to thonglits have cornstunily reverted té aginall | connect with the ferrybonts from Sait Fran- incltont that cama under my observation | cisco, and return, On Sunday trains run yenrs ago in blessed Verniont. A celebtated | More freq ently on account of th oracle of thé Universalist Church, contem- ti plating 0 second venturé into matrintonlal labyrinths, found himself in the toils of a Indy who rewarded his zcaléus did tinrtmit- atunber of plenles which occur thatday, Tt would be x sag thing In the people of Call- tihg cflorts to win her favor by a eu- prema indifference smounting, nearly fotnin to ainend their calendar thus; Friday, to contempt, lie was + thoroughly -pdt- Saturduy, Pienie-Day. One who Itas not beon thore can hardly realizo the difference in tempurature In even half x duy’s Journey from Onkland to the in- terlor duriug the summer or “dry senson,” lexed. Lonored, upright, * -btalniess, ho knew his record to be; ho had won 8 finme artd poaittori that merited respect, It his absorbing passion did pot ant he waswholly ata loss to tifidérstitid 118 witit of success, Now, dear Mome sisters, wouien are not all allke, and Dr. B., in his perplexity, applied to a mutual Indy-friend for fipolud jon.of she vexing problem, P eture-gal ery of memory Lofton stand’. before this spenkin; tableni. Six feet of the noblest manhood visn-viswwith a slight, frail creature upon delleate facé betrayed thé wishingd of the mischievous spiri¢ within, Sha longest to hidulge in all the fin the occnslon awakenttl in her, but the tense, palned expressidn of hgang face touched her, and she sald peat " "Dr, B., you inay be a successful student fu human. nature, but yau do not know any- thing af woman nattre. Lot her alone thres weeks.” ‘The straltel eager look vanished from his face. His janly dignity Inv ested. him once more, and, with movement and bearing. of a Kin; fie reached fol lis cot Ss fe We left the coast Inn serene state of mind, nd arrived in Snetamento on the vate of distraction froin the dust and heat, and It is not much batter in country Places allthrough the Bustamante and San Joaquin Valleys, Late In fail or early in spring the weathor 1s beautiful, and I dld nat find the rainy s¢ason unplersat in the Aummertiine rafn rarely falls, is burned drier than stubble in our driest autumn, the dust is something fearful, nnd thete ls but ttle green to bo geen save that produced by aftificial irrign- tion, while over head, week after week, Is the same dazzling expanse of sky, with never a cloud to temper the stin’s flere rays, People talk of the benutles of a cldud- lesssky! Ah mel how near Leame to bins- phemy when one dear to ime lay parched with fover wider that banka ky Ath all tho air hot and dry as the breath froni an oven, aid never even a passing shower to moisten the atmosphore. Wore St not that there ts generally 8 fresh, breeze from the const every night 50 that there is a chance (2 and hat, tok fh) ive df the Indy, and | of rest, tho'unucellimated would fara badly, turned fis face homeward. She had fur- | Another discomfort to any ono accustomed nished the key he needed, and, winding him- | to the free uso of. ico fs the ditfleulty iu pro- curing ithete, Of course there fs uo natural supply, save that jritleh ls picked down from the régions of elernal snow on the mount- alng, and it ly quite expensive, Thorg is an artileinl Ice manuficturing company in San ‘ranielsto, ‘This Sacketnénto Valley ts one of the gar- dou spots of falliontia. Nero ary great vineyards, and whent farms, and fruit ranches where grapes, oranges, limes, fis, almonds, pomegranates, and other semi- troptiteal roduets grow profussty, to sly nothing .of tha fruits with whieh w famillur in our own gurdens, ‘The gr want ig lack of water In the dry season, Piteront uxpedients are resorted ‘ta to ob- taih {ts ‘where priettenbln it Is brought down from the mountutng ti, frst eating ennals, and When needed tet Into the ditelies whieh in- torsect the fluids, each lund-owner paying for it at go thuch per cuble foot. L know o! one gentleman who set up a stuam engine ln the creck near his ranch for Urrigating pur poses, and another, who devotes bis tine to grape culture, who uses large gine beservolrs mounted On Wheels, which gre tiled with witer, and driven in turn to each vine, Now, Lwottld tke bun information, Wit sony ond tell vid why It Is that, the effurts of mndtour pools whieh appear in the eat. Umns pf the dally press are generally, #0 Very disinal? Why dro they so full of allusions to. “ehureli-yard mold," Mh hands? “faded Havers? “aching hearts,” “ bilghted hopes,” and other pncumfortabys things, to- guthor with pathetic appeals to Soubody notte mind weeplig over somebody else's self up with it, he took precious guod cure not torundown again. In mueh less than the .preseribed time, his iNusfon was dis- pelléd, and thé wuinan who had inade a p! Ay thing of the inost preclous Bi ‘Time's tide lind Gver washed (6 her feet had nothing left but his Well-eaindd remorsé,. Tum aware of tho flaw in the second pro- mise uf the extlogiatn prestnted to Dr B., butecaretul thought willexhibitthe game in the evidences supplied by fi lnrpe proportion of the correspondents of ‘The Home. . f haye satin wonder and queried {f the day will never dawn when men and women will awaken to the fact that humanity demands thelr earnest, Sonsslontlous a tention, Ihave read 'f) i ELOn wu lottery and wondered if the writers Werd lypleal of the real proportion of the world who. pave no nifssion bus fo alr thelr pet prejudices and advertiso thelr own isappolnting and humiliating experiences, ‘Deite friends, you may bo ignorant of, and Indifferent to, the fact thut you have effect ally wound up sole of the best minds we had among u§, and that you have deprlyed ‘Tho Hunie of the ald of “soma of thi nyost clea-slghited, unselfish help inthe world, Tknow of one whose pon, wlelded in, hearty, earnest effort to better womankind, did more than any other to give The Jlome {ts popu larity, who meé with such scoring from those -who, |e the! did not indorse all per views, were bound by common courtesy to treat her with respect, that ala is as dead te The Home als if hor hand -was cutaff, Sho wrote ono of thé inost valuable Jette has yyer A dn ‘The raat wash appeared In ‘The Hom vas her ust. Sho waa it iinmediately , after, wud upon her recovery her friends ‘showed her the avalanche of opluton she had preclpltnted upohherselt, In connection with mnore than one popular publivation, controlled and nidlitaine watly by men, she halds an honorable and profitable posttion. . It is an -awful commentary upon existing soclal con- [tlous that men as a rule respect women, but tor 9 womans opinion of another wom ay, alas! i - iat We, py wey of so pbresentln, iy argue ment as fo make it have oll the elfecé 1 de-. tlre, pave something to say about my own domestic perplexities,. I, au driven tho verge of despair and Gesperation yy the obliquity of Mr, Bo. Jam obliged to put {tin the elugular iumbeF becauso of Its al guint. dty. Otherwise ets perfection «-afact whtel 1 aunotnecs with a‘ great deal of self-cou- piacenvy, It fg auch @ Eribute thd uniert ccuracy of my Judguient in wy selection o ay husband, are ome “Be tt understood that £ do hat supiilleate grave? Don't pocts ever eo anges Ina cheettul ight? Are the skeletons in thelr closets go lively that they nitist sturiially prs tor thelr dahving ? Is it that they would sheer At they could; but that the poetls lyre Is bub attined.to melancholy and the charnel!-house ? : Thope the kind wishes whieh I reeejved ona New-Year’s card from a meniber of Home will returti to the sounder threefold, __ Torsey TINKLH, WHAT TO READ, AND DOW TO READ It, TW tha Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Decatur, Il, Jan. 13—Tha subject of “ Authors; or, What Shall We Road,” tg vue of great importance, and letters from sone of The Home contributors upon that subject would be, beyond all doubt, very eutertalu- "tis said that throofifths of all the books taken from our publia Hbraries by subserlb- ersare works of fiction, The anme may bo sald of our oltcuiating Mbraries. Outside of Azines, otr religious weuklies, besides 0 score of weekly atory papors whoso readors in the Ageremts must becounted by millions, and the question arises, for fletion far greater than (t should be? to account tor taster, especially in literature, yet Netfon is tho only brinch of literature tn hich nll tastes ent is Sa the renson for Ita widespread popitlare rending, but to draw out an expression of opinion as to the relative merits the novel body, wo Aredependent upon our own ex. ertions for & vigorous mind, requires more labor to build then tho phystent structure, we should not on that account shirk the duty we awe to the suparior part of ourseives. solld and siibstantial food we eat that elves atrength to the botly,«-not tha snices, spices, iG eouitents ofthe cruct It 1s the sume with je mind, henee the necessity branch of Hternture, wherein all the fune- tions of the mind muy be fully developed and exereléed. fauents cannot be loo careful in chooslug thon. could tal standingly upon a historical or sclentific aub- reatters who devour the weokly story papers 4 with such avidity; but when growi-up mon and wolnen can seo nothing more teimptin; in Mterature then tho papers refdrred to, I pity 4 iiterary: {raining What motu flutrhgental to Iiterary culture chan the, Hinds Ing of Ruowled ge hove they gained? What Indell- blo Impressions have they retained? their memory been taxed to atd them In thelr calm moments of refluction? [fear not. wonder the att of conversation fa not culti- vated,. If the renders of such Mterary trash would devote the thine a better and higher class of literature, and remember what they read, they wold com- bine pleasure and proftt t othors, and feel at homein the company of Intelligent people” tho present age of cheap literature ant pub- lic Ubraries, nro wo obllaud to confine ourselves te any Head one, thing ata thne, and think over an cpltome of everything that, tins taken pluck In the past. month or soto ft, change off, andl take up Dickens or Scott, Eliot. ypu were ron you havo Inilulged in tt tale you'll fiud enjoyment in Don Quixate, 1a solemnity of the other. should over visit London 1 shout satisfy myself by seeln, euch day, for if short thne, Twould remember nothing but the fatigue which it ocensloned. vice In rend ing. Home woultl try find It yory effective. Ike dpoor relation, or a bad penny. Olt tmy esteemed friend, thou knight of the a 1, do not ornament thy benign phiz with thal prithee, in the hour of Its birth that stento- tian sigh, which, coming from the direction it does, might be taken fora harbinger of 0 hor’wester, thus causing my noxt neighbor (who does not tend ‘ ‘Lico's - Almanne’’) to borrow my new dolman and appropriate my derby in readiness for tho “bilazard? Out of consideration for you, Mr. Conductor, and tho members of The Ifome, ’'ve kept myself “bottled up,’ ag It Were, for some time, and, as nr natural consequence, my spirits are in quite a. state of oment toute to The Home, hoping suins ecotomic- ally disposed person tnay sed Mt to preserve nid for a few weeks longer. ances, but, ta r Mnost protninent and iuinerous at this partic- war season; and, Ike rhowhatisin, are cape vlully troublesome in wet weather In tho first place, I belong to andam a part of the th with but Jittle or no hope of a change, Lean but submit, A countty where It rains all thé week when it beat frisnd, witose handgoine brothor is one of my particular favorlts, and likely to hap- pun ii negidentally during my visit. “And the mud, the benutiful mud! Deep as the plot In a dine novel; profotind as the smilo of a sueceastul candidate the day after olection; and black ng the frown of nn editor when a new contributor Is ushered into his sanctum, A proinenuade of ten steps on vue country rond would fill a dead nan with disgust, One: ginnes from my window and tho iuere con- enveloped In ennunt. notes of "Un the Blue Danube ? get mixed, and sound Ike Aeouatonerneigt ot "Yankee Doodle” and “Old avcordion, with atin-hora accompaniment, ‘Then £ begin tu thifk 1 need son statitlal, and try to read Herber} succeed in worryltig through two plusald binek. and white gurb, [seo un ovil- shaped pond, The « SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1880—SIXTREN PAGES. the other day, where 1 was engaged in tho exhilorating Pirenlt of darning rocks, “QO Bob! Lm so awfully lonosumo, I —stop at nothing short of n full, satlafactory, and complote vindication of my client. GrauaM. wish you'd stay indoors, and talk to mo a these we Are met with adelugo of fiction tn | whtiey? Yimplored, ‘Chis appeal met with 3 ANSWERS. the shape of the chenp editions of popular Tuthe a cool recoption, 80 Tallady Minted QUESTIONS AND. : authors, Add to this the fiction in our mag- | at the bilss of having some one read Shak- M To the KAltor of Tre Chicago Tribune, Cmoaco, Jan. 9.-~-Will any of tho kind ladies of ‘The Home tell moe where to pro- cure Tue Tawunx Homo cook-book ? Mangenr, speare aloud to me, while J apwoul he buttons on his Immaculate cont, but Cywas humilinted to find that this sugmestion mot with oven 1 sadder fate, for it was nipped In tho bud witht the vory unfeeling remark that “Some folks Was atwral spoons on old Shaky, but for his parthedldn't go a ved on him’? ‘Then 1 proposed enchre, well knowing that he had a articular weakness for the Rams. * Fortune favors tho brave.” He consented with s very condescending alt, and gallantts took tho first deal, thereby helping himself to three foes and two fioke, Fonerounly, tying ine e 0] "80 id I, 8 not thapopular demand Individually, Tanswer, itis, It ts diMerit WHAT 18 IT? Tb the Editor of Ths Cateago Tribune, Cmeaco, Jon. 9.—Will some one ploaso in- form tne what the Athenoum Bureau of Lit- erature is !n Now York? Is itn literary so- Clety, @ publishing association, or what ? Louisa Lonxx, 0 gratified. Evidently Ttisnot my desire to deprecate novel twoaqueens and three elghts. poasesses in AMTOnLiNE fustriotion when com: | reluctantly, watching the havoc ho wns — parod to other branches of literature, making With his aces, “you remember that ABUFFEREN'S REQUEST. While we may inherit or possess a healthy | fittie aketeh I wrote in the Scribbler’ Trium- Tp the Editor of The CAteago Tribune, pee well corge Barrett sent it ton riend of his in New York, who, Hking tha plece, hing witten to me, soliciting a corre- spondence for mutual Improvement,” “What would you do ubout It?” “Do 9” sald he, thumping his right-bower on my loft, with ait emphasts that nently upset tha tabla, * whys T should think aven a. girl could solve. ‘that enizing without stratntn, her imental callbre" (this with a decided Cmcaco, Jan. 10.—Wil some render of ‘The Home please inform mo what will cttre corns and bunious,—I am suffering drend- fully with them, and can eearee|y whik a step,—and obliga REAVER, and although it up the mental It is the TORM WANTED, Tv the Raltor of The Chicaga Tribune, It ean never grow strong anid on oan Caeare Eau Crainz, Wis, Jan, 8—Wil somo yirorous under an exclusive dict of fiction. “It ksi’ . "res ¥ " 4 hore hee DUE few authors wlio ean. vividly | Sue ors, san Rude Why what, nent tee | Fender Inforin me whore tho poem com- {mpresa us through the pages of a novel, | would a’ follah think of @ eltl that would | mencing “something 5 follows, can bo for i mors generous found ? write to a nian sho never saw? Besides, the respectabhiity of our family must be. pre- served, and a thing of that kind might In- volve lt,” ho replled with an overyirtious air, L thought, considering that’ he writes to nt least six of tho unknown fale, “You ought to kiow, L answered with gn insin- unting look, ** just whut, a ‘fellah’s’ impres- sions ire In acase of that kind, pad if itis damaging to our family respectal ity, why I've no donbt the F, R. must bo writhing in its last agonizing gusp, and it would be mer- elful for me_to deal a final blow, and pub it out of its misery,” “ Look here, sis,” he sald, throwing the cards on tho floor, and kieking the table over, in hls ex- citement, “yo take a distorted view of things, It’s ‘all right for me to write to and go with any ono! please, Filrt with the Great Mogul if Tenn and want to, Drink, amoke, chewy, swear, be vulgar, slangy, and, in fact, anything [want to, sv long ns [’in 8 gentle- mint nhout If, You seo as long as ’m toney, and stylla, and keen myself ip to snuff, the fellows are nearly all in the same bont, hance, they’re not ugoing to “give mo awny,” i fancy’; and the girls hel hell every one of Jem, at the very sight of a nobby fellow, with © enne, on eyce lass, and a cigar, while these slow old conchies, that never have any fun and spend oll their tine trying to get ready to ge married, and be a respectable eltizen, get tho cold shoulder all tho way round, “But No one cin plead poverty as nn excuse, in you're ngirl, my dear,” he ndded patronialhy- y, “ond the fair sex Is awvfitliy wenk, hence he World condemns everything it doen; and, jvlilattinng Whoa, Emina,” he took him- self to the brary to write a“ mashing ” letter to “May Garland,” and left whe to my maldenly reflections. Sitrncr Worpswortn. MOTHERS-IN-LAW. A DEFENSE OF THEM—A PLEA FOR A MOTHER-IN-LAW, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Omoaco, Jan, 12.~0 what thing 1s man! Valn as the leaf wpon tho stream, And flekle us a changeful dream, he remulns ever constant to his first love— folly. The divurce court, with all tha mod- ern improvements, has never succeeded in divorcing a man from his primitiyo foollsh- ness, probably becnuso there was no incom. patibility of temper.’ Many proofs of the supreme folly of man must occur to all who read these lines, but ong fs sufficient for our purpose, Can you conceive, of a greater folly than that shown by man In his use of the imagination? Given an lnagination, ono. would suppose he would use it for his own pleasure, conjuring up things ngreeable, or at least harmless. But, nos his first act is to people all waste places with bugaboos,-— vain creatures of tho {maginntion,—for the solo purpose of frightening hiinself. One by one the monsters of the past—" gor- gons, hydras, and chimeras dire ”—fell be- fore the heroes of their day, Commeroe drove the dragon from tho desort, the siren from tho sand, and the grenteerpent fromthe waste of the sea. Civilization had banished the more horrible of the hobgublins, when sel- ence came to the rescue and Iaid the wehr- wolf, witch, elf, demon, spook, and goblin forever at rest. Ouly tho sheeted ghost wan- ders about the cold world and tips tables and materlulizes at so much a seance, Ono would think that man would givo up tho atruggio. But no! The ladian, Ku-Kluxy, ‘Turk, and Zulu ure of course agreeable to his horror-loving soul, and he makes the most of them, But they are, unfortunately, confined to certain localities, and overy man cannot expect to find one'under his bed at night. fan has accordingly cohjured up a new terror; itis Mother-ln-law.” Do you hear ‘There ts a womnan—sho {a old and broken; Her only hope Is {n the Sacred token Of poacoful happiness when Life ja rer . Weedi cata the shila o thet the ehitd can Olt, hen school<lays are over : BOORS AND BANDAL WOOD. iterature then becomes our taxt books, We Te the Fattor of The ‘ilesgs mean SAvoy, Ill, Jan, 123—Can any one tell mo where Iean get a cheap copy of Dante's “Inferno”; also, Homer's “ Odessy"? 1 few yollng men who T hayo met but ver: Kr fntellkgantly ‘and under- with ing ject. Idon't desire to find fault with youthful who wellearmed Grevkn”” homo, Is sandile wood among the finports of tho United States, and Js {t so expensivo as it aed to UUs 10) who 18 “non prpna”? To the Eulltor of The Chicago Tribune, Onrcage, Jan. 10.—The question is asked dally by the Indy renders of ‘Tur Tinuns, Who fs “Don Pedro”? and for their Infor- ination Twill state that Don Pedro Chatderon de la Barea was ao celebrated Spanish drani- atlat, who was born at Madrid in 1001, and died at the good old age of 80 years, Mus, PAULINE. “ROOER AND 1," To the Fattor of ‘The Chigago Tribune, Geneva, Wis. Jan, %—Maria James, of Milwaukee, asks who is tha author of the poem, “ Roger and I,” or “fhe Vagnbonds,”* Itwas written by J.T. Prowbridge, and may be found In “The Varabonds and Other Poems,” by J.'T. Trowbridge, published by dames R, Osgood & Co., Boston, Mass. In HAs Manual.’ J, Inck of ba their can em | for uch a flood’ of Insipidity? Whit Ilas No ven to its perusal to fo themselves fntl for thelr lack of knowledge, tor particular ne of rending., Variety should ethe rule, By all means avold cramuing, ‘Also history, digest It well, for history is TEMOVING MILDEW. To the Hditor of The Chicayo Tribune, Donugury, In, Jan¥ 13.—Florence asks for ateclpo for removing ten and coffee stains from linen, Boiling water poured through while dry—the Iiien—will remove the stains; if not, wait until spring snd spread on the lawn. Such a cotrse of troatment will blanch most anything, ‘To remove mildew: Dipin o sulution of chloride of Ming, the fine polnt here being to have the solution nist Btrong enough to removo the mildew ‘rum the Hnen, not the Hnen from the mil- dow. Maup Menepirin ABOUT FLOWERS, | ‘Mo the Faitor of Ths Chtcugo Tribune, Newron, Ia., dan. 14.—May I coma into The Home with a question or two? Can any one tell ma where to find the poem, "The Winds of March Aro Wumuing Their Part- ing Song”? What can Ido tostart my amaryllis bulbs? They are tho formosissima; have never bios- somed, though I Inve had them two yenrs, and show as Ilttle slgns of starting ag when put in the pot the Ist of November. And let ine commend to all flower-lovers the dear Nt- Ue Roman hycelnths, I planted two on Nov. 11, and: they were In bloom New-Year's Day, each with two splkes of ten blossoms each, and one Js puttlig up another one now. Has any one tried the ellanthus damplorli or glory pea, and with what success? Crayon, { you have doveted u ‘Thackeray or George Pothaps you did not smile while ing the dry detalls of history, Taving effected a change, yow!l laugh. If ie ware of the Oru- humor of ono will counterbalance the Lwas once told by a gentleman that if 1 one thing of importance attempted to sce It all in a Lhave experiencett the value of that nad- And if the renders of The the prescription they. would OB, A GIRL’S LETTER. HNOTHER AND SISTER, To the EAttor of The Chteago Tribune, Vinvex, Ul. Jan. 9—Well, here I am, waste-basket smile, and smother, I LY IT ALONE. ‘Mo thé Baltor of The Ohtargo Tribune: Cimcaco, Jan, 7—I ania reader of Tho Tome, though never Intrading before, Ido 80 now, hoping to gain a little Information re- garding my baby boy of 14 months,~—an un- usually good child during theday, and appar ently healthy and well, but so restless and wakeftl atittght that any suggestions from experteneod mothors will be gratefully re- eelved, With a feeding-bottle and Nestlo’s food he hag thrived so for, but has no teeth through, He Js fed at Intorvals ation; heneo £ ym Of coursd I haven whole catalog of gilor. Ing the yeor around, thdy ate much-abused female persuasion (unfortun- | itand not laugh? But £tell you thatin some , mittely this Is nota seasonable inconvenience, | locitlitles you cantiot say the word without uf four} pours Alntiny hints ey te Ht theta ull the your round), but ns over linlt | ratsing a Inugh, just ns your schoolmated Tis the nig te inellnation Is to sit up and play, but by constant turning, hushing, -ete., ‘that 18 partially overcome. Now will séme ono kindly tell mo how to avold all thig, thus securing for both ehild auld parents necessary rest? Ez. io world {s suifering from the sume cause, | laughed when you “sussed” thy teacher, 1¢ iN so daring, and it sends puch f dear Httle delightful thrill uf horror into the hearts of your audience, thee Now, Lam far from nssertlig that usurp- Ing, Evranniteal mothers-in-law are not to be found, bat they are found, na you find bot talled mutes, few and far bétween, From the very nature of the ense, the evittence on tho paint at Isstie fs nell. There are no statistics that we oan appeal to, and the mere general prestunptlon that the ferocious moth- er-In-luw exists, Hike the proverbial skuleton in every house, is, ax 1 haye shown, un- worthy of attention, Man isin the hablt of erying Wolf] wolf!” without, due provoca- ton, und cannot be believed, Morevver, the testhnony for the prosecution fs vague an Unsitlatietory: Itearsay evidence, construct- ive propt, and anonymous statuinents being rifled out, whet fy there left? How many witnesses will come bokily up and testify to. wrongs and oppressions actiiully Inilicted on them? Not many, 1 warratt fou. Bealdes the general worthlesness of tho evidence against my client, there uxists much cirenmatantial evidehee In her favor, First, ee previous good characters 1 wit] not men- (ion the fact Uiat for 5.000 years after the be- ginning of history no teal! ony aeulnst tho reputation of inuthers-in-law In geiieral ts upon record, But L will show you that the fringed with drooping pratrle | character of uy ellent ia such that she could grass and graceful willows, and baying near | not be guilty of the acts charged in tho in- is contran muskrat house, On closer ine | dletment, “A dutiful wite, an exemplary spectlon 1 behold myself “done up’? in | mother, she has brought up her daugiitera so brother Bob's Iunting-sult and rubber boots, | tant even the proseeution ein say nothing taking: delibonie alin at a tine Hoek of ducks:| against them. Uiny client were a cltizen of Atty the skill of as bloodthirsty Nimrud, | some places where il the women were Whenny dayatrenin dissolves Lptneh myself | kuowntoe be shrews and tormogents, this to seu lt ® Lain really nnd fall to ponderig | polat inight require proof, but the universal on the total depravity of the human race, | good elarneter of Chieago women shoult endow them four minds: with all the vir- tues of tholr sex, Secondly, L propose to show you that there Then [live in tho country,—a ets Aturted, and Invarlubly starts on the day hiaye an favitation to take dintier with my TIE SEVEN WONDERS. To the Editor of The Chicago Triburts Joraer, Ill, Jan. 1—About twenty years ago a private party of merry, happy girlsand young men were seated on the deck of a Mttle steamer gliding,down the Potomac. ‘The night was cleat and pleasant, aseng was proposed by one and seconded by atl, and ond followed nnothor until the shores echoed with tho harmony. How beuutiful it all was, and I wonder now If we appreelated It, I only reinember wo wero a metry crowd, and seemed to enjoy the happy ime, Qnd soug Was sung, 0 new onc at that tines “Twas off the Blue Chonites, ‘Ono pipeline autimer day, T stood upon the quirter-deck Yo while my tlio nway, Scelng a reference to the song in ‘Lith "trinuse takes me tiack to that time, and wish also to ave the words, a3 one vorse is all Lean romeimber, Ie ‘fa enlied “ My Last Cigar.” Can auy one give me wotds to a song beginning— My home, ny home, my happy home, « amy over, cver dear tome, Where'er Dam, whore'er L roan, My heart atitt fondly cilngs to thee, The “Seven Wollers of tho World” aro explained In the cyclopedtas published by Appleton, Twill name them: Tho Temple of Diana at Ephosus, ‘The Mausuloum, orectud by Artomigia to Mau- alot, ‘Tho Pharos of Alexandria, ‘The Coloass of Rhodes, winplition of a walk makes me seasick for tu how, On recovery 1 find myselt quite In vain i try Hew Ing, ‘Tho very pietures on tho music, rending, ‘t th ut mo tn derislon, ‘Thy wall wink and Cuhdred ? played on the cihlng sub wacer, 1 pages when, to my_ surprise; the suhblences: bealn ic run In together, and, Instead of LH, S. in lids you Now, thore's Bub,—he's my brothwr, hist of know, tnd sometiines. Pat hint to my: triuvances, but i’s after lie has worn my r hae Pyrainide of Byypt. cherish pangs fora woustachs (his is iy | is in this case nn entire absence uf motive | THe 4 an interesting state of earty Infiney) or used | forthe erline eharged. ‘hore {s absolutely: inion dumpled, nd Mungiog Gardens of Np all my exude cologne fo drown tho seont | no prool of mallee prepense, Even the cont- | ‘Tio statue of Jupiter Olympus at Hulicarnas- ot those nasty elgurs, or gotten into my ave- | plulnant testilles tint my client was chietly aia, retary and read iy letters from dear Aus | dastrimental in inaking the match, wileh, gustis, or Charles, or Ilarry, that I place on fs has sworn a thotisand tines, made hin 0 the roll of honor. By the way, Auguatus & {ligppy min for. life, ‘The only opposition Co. represent tga trinngle of my attections, |.cameu from paterfarititas, with whom he A.ond Hare fe hypotenuse and C, ia the | acknowledges he 13 now on gaoil terins, base, And yet towards fata boor, woman, to Endore Augustus’ beauty and dash; Tad- | whom’ he owes his Ife-happiness, and mitre Harry's wit and keeniess; while In the | whom he admits hee ‘utly ndinirod during sHentehambers of my heart L sit li humilta- | its courtship, ho haW bears fn unidccounta- tion and reverenes before the shring of | ble hatred and version, ldeclare to you, Charles’ sublime manhood, his pure and Bunclauien, the more 1 exaniine the matter noblo prinelples, and hig grand Intellect, He | the dbeper is any respect for my client, 48 the day, Angustus the glad, bright sun- | Moved by naught but an unselfish deslre for shing, fd Hany tie exh erating, flower: | the happlness of others, slic encouriged this Jaden Southern breeze,—all so necessary ta | mateh, khowlng It would bring to hurselt ; Aunty Beiiwan, * GOOD LITERATURE, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago ‘Tribune, Rinaevinwe, Ill, Jan, 13.—Roxy and Ger- aldinc have called for a course of reading for home, As no ono else acems dlaposed to answer thelr request, £ will give o Hat of uuthors whose works might prove auiuéing as woll ag Instruetive, In the broad fleld of flotion so many cholce constitute. the, happy’ sinners all> go | notutig but consunisly, With her eyes qpen | loWers are blooming that It 1s almost tinpos- necessury to woo the gentle — flow. | to the iHteet of her aeiton upon her ‘owe hee aibly to udhere strictly ta tholutter of the ré- ors from earth's colt bosom, to die | pliesa, she consented to become a mothorin- | quest—a “short lat? spire the Uttle, silverethroatcd ‘songster, and to kiss the cheek of the downy pouch {UH ft blusiies rect with joy, | Wow stale any: thing, no matter haw good ft ts tn dtnelf, bee cones when itis an nichanging, {uaaaey gy manotonens certality! Because like buck- Whent cakes ant sirup, nust 1 always eat the to the utter uxclusion of ull tie other good things my palate ernves ? ~ Methinks L would soot. wrow sick, and die of sturvatlon. Beeause [love the scent of Sprhig violets mist L suffer tie Ineonventone ‘of huving a bunch of thom tle to my chisel aw" fixed [gute for the thie of scorn to paint hls stow, utimoving filer at! Conilder, gentlemen, the disastrous effect of a general retusal on the part of Women to become mothers-In-law (which woul assur. edly follow. such gross persecution) and pring in your verdict wecordlnglys has beet sald, and Lbulleva without contradic. ton, thatto bea imothey is thacrown of womanhood. But deep retlection has con: vineed the that glory of womanhood iy not complete unless ahé becombs alsy a mother Scott, Dickens, 'Thnokeray, George Ellot, 1, 13, Stowe, and Hawthorne are all masters of thelr art, and cnn hardly fall to plese, In Batt arent der Lost,” Scott's “Lady of the Lake,” Longtallow's * Evange- un ‘Konnyadn's old yiis of the Kin r) w and Maud,” Cam sure will prove iuteresting, For solid readlog, Emersop’s Essays can not bo excelled, tit ny ophilon, while the works of Washington Ltying are written 1 0 lished and elegant style, au phoutd imiliar ‘or the yoting folks, Loutsa Tn-taw. Seeking her own happiness only, a fo all. probosels forever, while nity. arth za | Wouran nay becomean wife and @ inuthes, But ML Alcott's " Little Women" and * OleBush- wandors off in silent longing too aweet, bing | what save that consetousness ot wellafoing | foned Gir? wil be fountl very entertaluing. Della B. H., Tecan send you the words of the gong, © ?'Twas off the Ble Canaria.” Thomas F,, L cannot furnish the Addresa hyaclath, a modest Ilttls plak, o superb rose, 8 gurgeots fultp, a splendid’ inbotose, ora pale, pure ly? < : Mothinks tiny azony ivould beconic so mad- which fs the consthit, and often the only re Ward of virtious actlohy, tah support 1 Wome an through the gyleyous trinl of! becoming a no dening that fit nly dita extremity 1 fet pict etter Sauna who could i restate eee te ep etbertany pean ert tata en n y L would posterity ns vho could Hat upprecigta | ds engaged In lstribut a ors puneltutlie eyes out, clasp a clothes-piit on guncrous iisinterested actlon, Bo nut ‘ad- | ambig the prisguers In. but State Tons my patrician nose, pucchuso a hand-organ ful al gullty before pods and inen ‘0 an Bmonkey, and " Pande over the worka fry inoet al Hirt sin, ifeatitude." But my nionuinent of constancy, Dost ike the ie {y anucvessary, yolL are then, nal and 2 am certaln thet he would ba much pleated to recej¥a any) contributions in that Ine you might seo tt to gend Jil. Hy ods dress ts: ‘Yhe Ruy VW, A. Matthaws, usta, By communicating with Nun yonca it re free transportation for yutir’ reading Bety Durron, icture ?? xutes, ahd gratitude fs io stranger to your » reantts - Onde reminded -of the eet you erive: from the ‘yunerows selCsactified of mothors-in-Liw, you wili—you canuet help tt ah consistency, thou art Jowell” . a i g Of consistency always remind tne uf Bob. fle came aint the aitidnnge nur matter, jaye read the two Ilfads, and wish to follow” THE PUZZLER'S CORNER, {Original contributions will bo publish this department. Correspondents wil} pl send tholr real Hamoa with’ their noms daie® addressed to “ Puzzlor's Corner.” Avoid 0} lets words ns far an possible. Answors will b published tho following week.) ANSWERS TO LAST WERE’S : Non NEB TUR, MANFRE DONT, A R ety BPEBEOCULATIVE No, 1,000, No. 1,010, Polygon, Kaniry, No. Lat. 710 Friend, No. 1.08, Yatayhan, No, 1,00, Bikhora, No, 1,041, Pharmuclat, Bltzle, lawitchmat, draught, minh, doulheaver, rou. inbout, scerctary, boo. * ny ideale. iis No.1,0i, A sonhorso fs 1 senhorse, When you soo hii In the acky But whon you see him fn tho bay, A bayhorsa thon fs ho. —_— BTAR—NO, 1,043. 4 From 1 to 8, a pilarim’s staff; 2 to 0, an ant Bola bit Pte, a pluinber's tool) 6 ry place whero flax {3 prepired for uso} b tod scribes this paerines It oatehes you, Unvana, il. Poxca, SQUARE WORD—NO, 1,04, Probably; a dim; to felter; te grant, OsnKkosn, Wis, Bwattoy, SQUARE WORD-—NO. 1,015, An fone part of a ubufels suddendy; to dy Be uttery; 8] at H le. GeewanDe tie Pe oO Miah 1 Os, CHATADE=NO. 3,016. ‘When I was a youth, and went to school, ‘With tho tirst L tried the toys to fool, The second was the first thing I henrd, Hefore | could ovon count the third. ‘vyho second, third, I have heard called before if you boar the whole, you will say Encore" Cutcada. ERK RIDDLE=NO. 1.047, Beareh through the annals of Arabic lore, And thon, If you van, my mnystery explory; ‘Detlng ull the power Lim sald to possess ‘To nlleytate ills und to soothy your dlytres3, ‘Tell mo, too, whothor I have such a churn As will always praserve you from mulady\ harin, Cin you think of a word as long ts my finine. (For lettors cleven ure Just whut f ulin); ‘Anil ono vowel only wiinso sound ean be heard In pronouncing tho whole? How yory absurd) NELBOR, JI], NELSONIAN, NUMARIOAL ENIGMA—NO. 1,048, From 1 to 6, the whole is fur, Also fur 3, 4, 5; My 7, 6, 4,6, aim pore Ry ennnot long survive, Ifnt this rate L yo, “pwill KML hor sure, J know, And thon a drondfal iy u 4,4, {iloovered o'er th clotted gore, “pywoultl bo w fourtul blow. For pardon I woulll 4, 3 by Aud to tho whole we'd gayly drive, ‘To view in part The works uf urt— We'll go oxtwt nt lve, Funron, It. Tow ean, ENIGMATICAL PORTS—NO, 1,018. te An obstruction and patt of thé Joeny BE relative and a springs Wy 0 hindrines and are, ) part of 4 wheol and u hollow muutullic vexsel (0).n meonstre, to watider, oud a rolutive: {! Tulors and 4 moadow; (7) toruminate anda a 2 Onigado, TIDDEN ANIMALS—NO. 1,009. iy be Tsald Harry was il), I only meant hobat * Tho author seca fame ahead. : Dany d kind word turhoth away anger. How case loves n downy touch. 0 land Ja ve ; Nutgon, Ul. HAL Meas. CORRESPONDENCE, 4 Aunt Luoy, olty, anawers Nos, 1,031, 1,608, ant ‘Ne tan, Netgon, Til, mistitkes & Ponts: as ora’ Polygon” but is Corrookus to Ne 038, 2,000, 1,003, aud 1,012, ‘Thanks, - Em Altech: Fond du Tne, Wis. found thy “Polygon, tho" Friend,” tho " Yataghan,” “Elihors." He also knows tho acahorso wast seahorsu,”.cte,, in the cryptogram, M,. WalJenn, Canton, Ill, siya the cross ¥H “real good,” and sonds a real good anawer, ‘Tot “Kantry was infased, and a fow of the trate positions, The reinainder were O K, THo Dromlvs, Gutena, Ill, made no mistake in the tangled threads, from tho cross to bt “aenhorse.” They found a place for every’ thing, and everything was placed properly. Cvnchto, Burlington, Wis., could not intss Tor head's now dopurture, and read it vorreetly, Sho is wlgo correot 28 to Nos, 1,037, 1,093, ant 1,09. Tho little puzzla {4 thankfully recelved. i. F. K., olty, avails himself of the carliest op aE a SRS a the hurdegt in the list,—the ” Kuntry ” 2 ay whet bothered Béveral purzions, ‘huoks fur crypt. 3 Garth, Paxton, IU, stole the timo from tht busy cates of houschold duties to answer last week's bill of fure. ‘Pho lady found nothing Ue answerable, and goos on the record once inott with a clout seore. . Mr. B. Us, Btoivard, M)., put in gonig hard work on tho rors, and dint" tered ie, ata out nizzle {n the Hat to trip hitn up wis the '* Kaa: ry of Hentda, and he rogeets that hy coulda mnke that ont, ‘Cho Lae genticinan acoopt thunks for contributions, ‘ Punch, Urbana, UL, explains hla fiilare to answer the cry Nograth by euytug ho bus yo ad: mlration for that partlopiur work, ovidentl{ thinking “the gate not worth the candle, ‘this ono 1a the only puzale unanswered, 6 thoge sent are correct. : Popinr, Oshkosh, Wis, solved the Met under difluuitids, and yaVo hor spiro timo to the put zles. Hor success was oomplute, the last ee] coming to her “in silence and darknoss, onabling her to sleep peacefully. Beoova, Braidwood, Ill., starts off with the Lit foot crows, and came werow Mothing In the lt that he dova not RNS OrGUETOGLy ANOS Poult gon" for “Polygon”, Ouiy and nothing tnore. Much obi! ised for puraluy, a Hontda, Champaign, Ul, atiows tho Mal rvs in wil (a fongta, brouteh, and thiouness correctly us the uuthor himself, He tnds t romulning eovyen nuswors but mefeed te Voice aginst uryptograins, Lie should be: “No cryptograms, by bod! Invent what no fellow can tind out.” ie tho other vurrespondents, howevor, taku x! tw the eryph be aerial Quirk, Catro, IL., never falla teyote be apare moments @ Corner, but doen iiways send in his rosulta, Thiy week taokled tho crypt firat, ago novelty. and unses horsed it at ance, He touk the dlamund tie tho cross, and then anawered the romutning Bp zea, except the trips! itlons. 1 Muto Fy sont instoui of * Frignd—fend,” and that i error of Quirk, Puzzles tiankfully recelyes F Towboad, Hilton, IL, answers Nos, 1,037, }i and Su and also answers the quory uf Poplist in this wher ie Hoplar rememberdgt™ | 1t weobis to ime now 'The name's quite fumiliare Large up io Wait Hoplare arqw there, I trem: ‘Tung? ‘Voll dio, will yer) to ety pose foe cau drop OULO! this & ss ebemalvaie.d iGatiors®™, Watcomer waves _ OF coursy you srt ae Bnona Opanagra, Dixon, Ill. regrets bor % absunce, ‘writes followar “I wad Db Bissod th ‘told Wa tough old goo i bud ‘3 = Ol 1a noithoe ie bturied away by Miu bik rave fev Troyourted by i from twisting | the twistg that. tho twistore twined:” Bho {a ylid to whleume Poplar agnin te the tanks. ‘Tho unawots sont bY y ioe thu leat DUN Of fara sre enttvaly eo ol ere ST auich tothe aouer Seuy tor puazles sunt,