Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1880, Page 12

Amateur Poets and the General Gloominess of Their Works. Benevolence Among Rich People Shown to Be Exceedingly Prevalent. 7 How on Ambition to Secure Wealth i Often Leads to Bad Re- AP sults. |) Somo Facts Regarding tho Sonsoless i Conversation Often Carried on ees + by Women 4 ‘A Pasty Who Thinks that Sufflctonf Alten- - lon Is Not Pald fo the Now Contributors. i i The Disappalntment of 9 Wterary Young Man— 1 44 What Constitutes Troe Frlendship—Ques- Gi {ions and Answers, 4 4 REGRET. ¥ a if, Had T but been with thea to kiss thy tips, 3} “To fold my pulsing arms nhout thy form, 4. Yeould have quenched the fire within thy veins, i And quelled, with love's own calm, tho fever- 4 storm. } twoutd have warmed the fantom, fey hand ' “} What dared to press thy Hds with chilling woight, 4 And snilled Into Death's face and melted him, ¢ Had not tho Inggnrd message come too Inte, dT” gait t but been with thee, of, love, my lovo, 4 T would bayo held theo from tho clasp of death. i My strong, young Ifo I would have shared with thee, Aud font to thoe hope's warmest, gladdeat breath. € would havo knelt beside the silent couch And kissed theo onco, with all the passion i 2 power ‘1, . I'd kept and nurtured for thy shrine alone— «Not solled, but fresh and sacred till that hour. + , "y wou Id have tempted Denth to give thee up, a And bartered with him for ono half my years, ‘ ‘Then cheated him by Hying years of love } Buch hour—so full of billse, so vyold of tears, if MILWAUKEE, 1830, Mepoa CLARK. i THE LETTER-BOX. 3 There nre letters, papers, and postal-eards at this office for the porsons whose names ap- pear below. Those living ont of tho city should send thelr address and a three-cont stamp, upon receipt of which thelr mall will be forwarded. Residents of Chicago can ob- tain thelr mall by calling at Room 9 ‘Tnin- UNE Bullding: Florence, A.G, Gratitude No, 1, . Marguerite, Old-Timer, Eccinese, Telon E. Keto, AMATEUR POETS. + THEIR GLOOMY IMAGINATIONS. ‘Tu the Editar of The Chicago Tribune. ‘ Cricaco, Jon. 22.—The idea put forward by Topsy Tinkle In ‘The Home Inst week con- cerning amateur poets fs certaiily true. Thelr poetry is dismal, and does savor of “ church-yard mold,” “dead hands,” “faded. flowers,” ete., ete.; and she miglt have added other complaints. When they want to ex- press some benuliful thought it Is wrapped In so many folds of gloom, and buried In such o lonely tomb, that all its beauty dics + and goes to sunnier skies, : * 1 knew a youngster, seventy-five or eighty 4 years ago, who mixed sawdust with the corn “ he rave his chickens, Why? I only mean ‘eto offer a few suggestions. ‘ >, Poetry gives a license to the Imagination and exaggeration, and several other Inwless ‘things, It is, therefore, the scapegoat for nany queer, thoughts; thoughts that have srown In darkness, rooted jn the dust of WWeness or {die dreaming that lina sottled on , ho mind; thoughts that resurrect ghosts of old, sad inemarics; nay, I belleve most of them are bogus ghosts, mado from sheets of white Hes, for Ida not believe those pocts pave ever endured half what they protend, Such thoughts are licensed to be exprossed by ntrlek of words we call rhyme, and be- ebme poetry by poetic Heense,” Were the: gxpressed in prose thoy would be laughed nf. ‘Its the means sometake of getting rid of sour idens, ‘There are other reasons: some morbid nat vires love to attract all the pity possible. They therefore piny the role of Msappointed » Jovers in thelr “ poetry.” (low would it i sound to rend thelr dirges of misery In good prose ?) Soniehow, we never hear fhein sing atthe Usappointuents of matrhinony. No, ie that does well enough in prose. If they get 5, any satisfaction from, pitying themselves, - very well, bit I doubt if they get any from the world, The pity that n mon has he keeps for hiimeelf, though he might well pity some amateur poets, Perhaps I um hard on them; surely no one admires more what in beautiful In their Biosloiis and mighty tribute to the memory H Christ hag sald that a cup of cold water given in His namo shall not go unrewnrdeds and how great must be the reward of the rich, upon whose bounty and destitute ones are fed ane mind a pale, delicate young girl, the only ted darling of wealth: life is spent in min! poor and needy, Instend of mingling with companions orin oceupations befitting her social standing. She ern often be aeen inthe averty-stricken quarters of the elty, bend- Ing over the couch of the suffering, closity ing, and with herown hands pr thelr Tast resting-pince, Many hungry ttle mouths are fed, many houseless ones are sheltered, and wanderers Ted to return to thelr heartbroken frlends through her charity and Influence. hers fs not an exceptlonal case, 1 knoy my experlence and association wit! wealthy, They are, asa class, whole-souled, Sreat-heartod, and cheyttat neroxity sa many Thave in arents, whose tt unto the the eyes of the d That v, from the bis even ton fault. NERVA RECAMIER. AN UNITEALTILY AMBITION. WHAT IT WILE LEAD TO. To the Editor of The Chteago Tribune, Citeaco, Jan, .8%—Men generally hold o very igh opliion of thetr own worth and abilities, In which opluton they are justilable If thelr nbilitics are of 4 superior order, en- titling them to the confidence and respect of the communtty. A man who has just enough egotism about him to render him agreeable insoctety and falthftl and trustworthy tn his business relations ts sure to be adinired and esteemed, where the tluild, awkward though possessing the most ennobling ties, would fall of appreciation, But the man with his opinions based on the clouds, and tho aun the objective polutof his aspira- {lons, is out of rench of the respect that lias for Its object such virtues as ellng to this mundane sphere, Thera are n great many, such men tn the world; witness the high sitlarles they are re- avor to tne them extra nd extra holidays abinasterty efforts mes put forth fi order to lengthen out the already burdensome sessions.of Con- gress, aud what senseless sublerfuges are re- sorted to In the effort to obtain the appoint- quent of an extra session, Men in high authority are constantly reach: ing for something Iifghers somethin; shall bring them the most of the world’s sub. stance for the lenst outlay of time, study, and effort; no matter how many poor, creatures are being robbed of the tis of thelr toll to help swell the fund that sliutt roll Into their own well-filled coffers; no matter how many tears and fromm the wives and ehildren who are dependent upon the few mengre coing that are dealt out In return-for the weary days of severe labor. It seems to be the rule the world over that where millions have been obtained millions more are required, and no amount of suffer- ing to the lowly, stands in the way of ac- wen become imbued veigte communities funils for thelr seryl ig that hard groans are wrested complishing It with the engross! altht When William and Cornellus Vanderbilt were quarreling over the Commodore’s Im- ossessions, Cornellis felt deep! that he should be allowed but $ ingome when his brother was pos- of such a fabulous sum, {o,000 He thought it strange that any ono should supposy that he could posstbly exist upon that meagre al- lowanee, and to lis intense gratifientton manipulated affairs in seh x manner that he at Inst became the poss ‘There are millions of poor famblies In the world, who would consliler themselves tho most fortunate people orofan Abundance, in existenre If they erty enough to bring them tn at amount per year, and would enjoy a world of pleasure in adapting It to Who would possess the untold millions of the Vanderbilts if with those millions must rasplng, unsatished, pitl- renders a man a despotic It i3.n noticeable fact that men In all grades of society crave higher salaries than their ‘employers are willing to allow, That 1s natural, and would be justiliable If grasping propensities wers never allowed to Tun away with thelr Jud, them on fo petty erhnes w bring sorrow and suffering In the end. When ment are recelving a fair equivalent for thelr labor ft is folly to refuse to work, and thus deprive themselves and families of the neces- 3 It ts tho fatnilles of those whu- sirike for higher wages that bear the brunt of the hardalips engendered by thelr atul- bornness, not the inen themselves, and It is to be deplored that they beeome so reckless of what belongs to genuine decency and self respeetas to render it hazardous for men to work fer reasonable wages situntions thus left vacant. It is Invariably the ease that women are more contented to Work for n small salary than are men, Look at the thousands of widows who support thelr families by tolling froin carly morn untll morning comes agaln for a mero pittanes in conparison to what the usual strikers recelye for a few hours of labor. “ A woman's work Is never done.” ‘That if aman works from 7 o'clock a.m. until 6 p.m. his responsibility ends He has done enough, and the world may run riot, or the household machinery be turned topsy-turyy for aught he cares, although his wife arose hours ‘to prepare come the restless, Tess disposition that thor ment, and fimpel hich are sure to to nttempt to ¢ and, the wes sina’ Ils breakfast, and haa scarcely rested a moment aince, her work iy not finished unttl the children are all In bed ting i readiness for another day ‘ere wages More proportionate {nh regard to the sexes, women could afford to indouble the time, perhaps, for those who are willing to bravo the opinions of the world and the scoffs of society sufficiently to place themselves In the list of tollers for pay are brave enough to accomplish more than thelr outside toil Jf required. ‘There is a wrong somewhero In tha seale of human ex- writings, or is more touched by what is trily fiathettes but thetr fault itis that we do nat ind more of happiness and sunshine in their works, tis no wonder to mo that the heathen worship the sunshine; would that some of these poets were 0 Iittlo ners heathenish fn tat respect! Belleve an old man; there fg a great deal + more of happiness und sunshine in the World than some of us think, i Ninety Years, THE BENEVOLENT NICH. A WORD IN THEM FAVOR, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cimcaqao, Jan, 97,—" As the poor ara be- comlng more despondent and dependent, the rich are growing more selfish and heartless.” Fhe above quotation from Ivy Oak’s letter of Inst weele in the columns of The Homo attracted my uttention on account of Its ax- treme Injustice toward tho rich, If Ivy Qak will take the thne and pains to examine the statisticaof mission work, she will find therein a noblo record eapousing the cause of “the rich, and effectually refuting the charge of selfishness that she Istence, but, as low buildings and publ and a communit bugged, they will ancy in wages, bu dole out their seanty mites nud thelr abundant harvests, while the wheols of the same deep rut, which is bronder and Jess easily filled » by, bringing in thelr traln n fresh and steadily-increasing and unhealty ambition, as men can find publio ollices to wrangle over, je hun the digerep- ~ the grasping minds gather in of greed RLENA, SENSELESS CONVERSATION. WHAT ONE LADY THINKS OF IT, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Mustxaon, Mich,, Jan. 37.—Not long since Tcalled to sce a lady whose journey of life fs more than half done. She !s poor in this world’s goods, but rich In faith; and, bestd she ls something of an invalid, being c fined mostly to the house, took with ime a friend, n stranger to this lady. After a pleasant and rather prolonged. call we came away. As wo walked home- ward iny friend said to me: “Tam glad I went with you. I could not help thinking, ns I sat there, how happy they brought against them, which Is without. foundation and untrue, Ter ac quaintance among those {n affluent clreum- Btances ayust elther be very linited or she das been so unfortunate as to meet the few yy billy, xeifiah, and soulless characters who, al- rai though ‘wealthy, are adisgrace to the class Rl to which they Delong, and ure Ko considered i by thelr assovlates, for many years I have » Deen Interested and engaged in mlsston-work, and my experience lias been that the rich are ever ready to give ussistince to the are bonoyolent even more than la necessary, ‘T'K Christian love of giving Is contined to no particular class, but 14 enjoyed fn tts fullest extent by the wealthy. Many wretched homes sre gladdened, aching hearts nade happy, hopes gratified, and ambition satls- ted, through the generosity and loving kin Hess of the rich. Look at our chutitable ustitutions,—Orphan Asylums, Nouwsboys’ TJome, Homo for the Friendless, and also one for the aged, our Foundlings’ Ilome aid Woman's Refuge, tha Home for Working- ve Girly the Washingtonian Home, aur “‘iight-seliools for the eilucation of those en- bien throughont the day, our mission Sun- * day-sohools ‘and chapols, bullt and devoted sively to the use of the poor; aur read ‘O01NB, Induatrlal-schouls, eooking: seMools, free Wurarles, and endless charities forother purposes,—to which tha rich con- + tribute so Mherally and cheerfully, ‘These Snatituttons which t have mumed, do they not owe thelr very existences and support te the benetivence of the rich? Are there not chiar: Italo institutions erleuinted alah intended to reach and to sathsty every requbrem need of ell classes of the poor, fron pealing helplesness of infunvy to th Jiess of old age, from the homeless and de- -splsed outenst to the Junocence of childhood, froin the wretehed homeless pauper to the eruggling working: girl? Aru not these places an everlasting monument to the gen- eroolly of the wealthy? Dogs uut every stone a. the bullihing of them speak of the charity which placed them there; every wear: wanderer or Iithy elilld who tinds shelter and hearts ta love them willl dhose walls o Ys" seemed, It does one good to meet such ‘The lady lives alone with hor daughter, Aftera little silence she added, “hoy found gomathing to talk about besides their ‘This brought a little laugh, for a short time previously she had told me that at several places where she had called she had been en- tertahned (7) with an account of tl of thelr hired gitls, andl she sald she did not think such conversation very elavating or and expresied surprise thata woman ended to ben tady should choose a topio which contd bo of ‘ho Interest to her So this had conw to bon sort of by- pus. When we heard people talk lng of trivial and untntercsting matters, sul they wore talking about thelr lived g} jf we ure not all, more or Jess, Inclined to talk about our hired the exclusion of mre senslbte subjec talking of then literally, miny of us ile not haveany f equal {mport; petty detatls of our work Inany aches and Ings of our ned ‘he dolngs vg 3,t0 8, because Kingabout alking about the about our ut the fuil- bors and friends. In shor! talking ubout things that ara of no speclu! iuterest to any one but ourselves, if any one is excusable for talking of pings, tt certainly would be the Ver life is quiet and uniteres! Sorrow had encompassed | and paln ts her daily portion, yot sha spoke not of her suffering or her cares; und, when we wsked after her health, she did not assume with & sinile ex- pressed her thankfulness that it was as well wis, While Lextend to O, D, a hearty welcome, would Ilke to add my vulee to those ot for the old contribu. ors, We would be thankful for a glimps of heir feces ance more, even If they could only Kh tosay “How do ye do? y Beth Buttes tdea of dhne-novel reading her about, others who are cally; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1880—SIXTEEN PAG&N, these graces I Ian novel one. ‘en iC she isright, Tsu pose every one thinks If just as well if wo escape the inenales, whooping-cough, ete, entirely, since those diseases often leave a Insting defect, if, Indeed, they da nog qeve fatal, Supposing: then, this class of Titera- ture, or the read Ing of it, he considered a digease, all would grant that it wou hen good thing if i were banished entirely fron our Jand. No mother bub woud be thankful Wf there wero no sueh thing as measles, whooplng-cough, and kindred diseases, is well, then, to guard against thelr spread, agremote na stances, act hinprobable, this quahy dieser THE NEW CONTRIBUTORS. A GOOD Wonn Fort THES, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cutcano, Jan. 23.—1 remember some tlme ngo I needed a pleco of cloth to mend a dress that had, from skirmishes with bram- ble bushes, been torn atmost to an unmend- able contlitton, An attempt to remedy the tear was to be inndo, however, but hunt, { chawed Bostonian of the ne: search ag I would, no goods Miko It $n | aduiratton for tho Ingenuity of, strength and texture cauld be found. | tho metamorphosis made us wish that It The rag-bng was the Inst resort, and anu foundation in fact. fons ani speech of both nimost smell, too, the alr of the puse fi the reeltul of ment from the pttre, unsophisticated rust be pricked by pins and scrateher! by needtes, mysvlf, and mentally reso! 1 went, until at Its bottom I came become the pore upon nn mero shred of the goods, | a year, 8. A, ML but turned it to necount, As I felt then, 80 I feel now, diving down Into TRUH FRIUNDSILUP, the rag-bag of my mind to find some- WAT IT CONSISTS IN, thing, {fonly a serap with which “to palnta ‘To the Hditor of The Chicago 2tbune Oldways” and her freaks, Don’t imagine for ono moment tint Ldon't appreglatethe | Stprised to thi T hesitate to “Riek against the pricks.” one side of her Held-atass, nud that wos a ite dimmed, All want to do ts to amy have equi strength. Cranding ways enlls for old’ uembers, and seems to utterly ignore the existences of | things as ara contalned in “ Mother Goose.” the new, who feel so out inthe cold when reading what Grandma says, Sho holds that | There ts 9 iniddie ground that could be eare for baby, to govern husband, ete, | gorss that 1 t born “full ete,,—all of which are worthyspace and thine, pc yor ean Nas cn0) ore tt but'should not crowd out What hins been a | Browed,” but that 1 have passed through source of Information and interest to more | the enchanting period of babyhood. O yes! thant one member of Tho Hote, and to more | Ihave read “Mother Goose,” and I am not than one outsider, ‘The Home aga beneltter | ashamed of it; and I remember all about could not be more, serviceable than It has , = 3 heen of Inte—n dash of fun, aline of Pladomy that bachelor who went to London. If you and a verse of advico suitable to all, harmful | Knew me, Idon’t think we woutd disngres what people had to say about firing, | too sensible to take tntich stock In auch foul- or ald It ean allCAsS pF le Ish reading. ontr ourselves on “bangs or not bangs. The mind cannot assimilate itself to avery. Many thanks, Christabel, “Como Iet us thing. and Jt is only that. whieh 1s readily | anew our journey pursue,” ete, We are the poured in. and evaporated that becomes the | most abused class of mortals that Ilve, and I essence of thought. Cdonot mean by this | pope that L. M. and Cushinu will forever that the mind cannot be educated to receive Holt thelr peace on that subject. tonics. In physleal disability a medicine Stylus, am glad tou voi, Your re- nnust bo given, again and ngata the dose tn | mark that 1-was ot {ntended for a “lonely cron, peters senate te jbranted to the bachelor” was indeed consoling: but you all the physic in the world won't cleanse, but gland no dude, uo sbecnues J cavar aopit) will only serve to weaken, ‘Tom asked that some one give his opinion J hold this good in regard to the reading | on “tru frlendship.? What Is frondship? mutter of The Home, Cuke pleases some— } Bintr, in spenlcing af It, says? ables another—whate stories another, Then | yriondship!. Mystorious coment of tho soull Jet sonse aul nonsense plese the reat; a Jt | swoet'ner of Life and sulder of Soctuty) dicious mingling of one and all will preserve | Towathee much. ‘Thou brat deserved of me and strengthen the worthy Institution, Don’t | Far, fur boyoud whit T can ever pays make a cook-book of it, with a “ whut-to- | Oft have I proved the labors of iby Love, wear” neture Hanging to It, but temper it | And the warm cfforts of the geutlo Heart, with friendly chit-chat. A word strengthens Anxious to please, aavord, a deed a deed, and ench is the out. Tom asks what it consists in, and what It strengthen thought, and human minds influ. | tion no better than quoting from Sir Walter ence hunmn minds, Sympathy is a first | Rotetgh: “Thou mayest be sure that he that eotsin to Influence, and whatwillsympathize | will in private toll ‘thee of thy faulls is thy with aud Interest the feeltnzs and cmotions of | friend, for he adventures thy dlsitkes, and others must necessarlly aitect the general | doth hazard thy hatred; for there ure few tenor of thought. If the: foregoing will | men that enn endure if, every man for the be ndinitted ns true, then why not | most part delighting In self-pralse, which ts leave space for the things whith are | one of the most universal follles that. be- to influence one mind prone — to | witeheth mankind.” Tom, L am afraid that what may be dubbed sensible talk, ng well ns | thero is but Ittle in the friendslilp of to-day for those prone to domestic tlk? ‘To uver- | that would stand close serutiny, ‘True come a fault in the home rule or to add | friendship consists In taking a man or wom- one onsts in the desert of home happiness an who ins fallen by the wayside by the hand and comfort has elicited thought and Interest | and lifting them up again Into thelr former —has written baoks—has invented machines, | positions, It consists in speaking a kind If to overcome this fault we must know how | word to one whose heart [s almost broken to govern n temper, nota husband; to care for | with grief, [t goes to the mun who tins mot one’s moral self, not for bables; to make In- | with reverses and offers him nlds It urges tollectual strength, not a cale,—why make | him to look up, to push forward, and to bear roow-for It. Grandia Oldways has not con- | the cold and scornful looks of them whose tradicted all. this, nor has she said aught | hearts are colder and harder than the cold Hee all; but the perusal of ler letter, | silver and gold they énrry in thelr purses. the listening: to hererv and those of others, If a brother has ‘gone astriy it will take tite readers of The Home have bee merciful and | of tho step he has taken, and entreat tender of Inte, they will kindly wlow meto | him to returm | ‘There ta no flattery In say my Hltle say, Don't In your tender | true friendship, Many oman and woinan hearts dub mea" Minerva Recawler” style | has been dragged down beeause they who of woman, but, only awaman afterall, My | once were friends deserted themin thelr hour feelings must be the feelings of some; some | of distress, ‘Cho man or woman who will kindred soul surely will answer ifs to what | not weep when a friend fails, who will not Tsay. Bo that as it may, I know ff you were | hasten to him and do alt In his power to ralac to hedge moe in on every side with house- | hhn up, who will not stand by him when the and husbands, I should soon—nh! very soont | cheer him in his hour of grtef, and who, =become osaltied, Itinakesn yast diterence, | when he lias plepe lids Inst let wit! not cara of course, what my opinion fs: but, for all | for and wateh his fomtly of little ones, does that, when The Home is filled only with | not desorve to bo called a friend, utterly incapable of growth and expansion, | yard says: “I have too {teuply read mankind Bittersweet, I've been cudgeling mybralns | to be amused -with friendships tis a name for something nice to say to pity thank you for that nlshule. even if | tercourso of Interest—not of souls.” it dl Ing high in Society, men who Were respected A LITERARY CRITICISM. and honored, ww! HOW HE WAS DISAPPOINTED, ment. ‘were. for ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuns, friends, Is it noe true that we, as 0 people, Cir0aco, Jan.8,—In theendenvor to spend | nan Nation, are becoming more rapacious, 4 profitable spare hintf-hour last Mondaynoon, | more cold-hearted? I sometines almost lose the elty' and sauntered along tho entire mauiilye, everyting how ts done for polley. length of tho building, scanning the titles, | ovo, truu friendshin ts still rarer.” binding, and print of the numerous volumes | Sons and daughters ure now inarried b the cheap counter,” whore I had hoped to ineans would enable ine to become possessor | played. In this ago principle must yfeld to of, While the works of Shnkspeare, of | polley, Your friends Inst just as long as Milton, of Pope, of Bfoore, of Southoy, of | MOY can use your and wien they lua Laken Keats, of Wordaworth, of Young, of Tenny- | you aside, How are wo golng to tell who son, and of Longfellow wero to be found | our true friends are? They atl act alike. bite hope to reap some pecunlary reward. Yount ute fap Indies will meet anit kiss ench other, and ai the sine thie are porhaps Jonlous and are Ulf annoyed at ad! depriving ine of the object of ny turned on my heel and walked toward seriininating 4 venga for a fancied wrong, V Taman eee Om books ian wee ean frlond? Can you point to’ ong. who ” will paradoxient appellation, vl “An Farnest stand by you Trider.” It hnmedlately occurred to me that this was the book that seventeen young Indies had been hi cestasies over for a fortaleht, and lind lauded ty extravagant termas and had strongly urged ms to read, declaring In the sang breath that it was the best novel | witttalk to ever wrilten. 1 remembered, too, of Inving wron, rendia fuxprale eritlelsinof ff tn the columns and tirtate that he will do better in of The Tnuny, and of seclng somo alu sc slonsto It by some of tho contributors to The then adele Bue fromm public ge Home, and {concluded finally, nuch to the | jands’ and society should bo protected. ; Srv reeclyed nt the hands of the Christian (?) sutisfuctlon of the exasperated c| » to buy. He mo that, I carried ham willy qe that oxic ny to my bachelor apartinents, instead of the works of Byrd the achievement 0 ayoung THD LAWS OF WRAL TIL Indy in the Mloosler State, After the Trugu WIY THEY SHOULD DE LEARNED, boatsing-house meal commonly dignifled by To the Editor uf The Chicago Tribune, nants of a fire, and iunnmediately commenced the perusal of ny Intest purcliase, next week, was “even” withthe washer: woman, had. recelyad a letter from a ludy without dny to call on ane 0 a* of tha — household. ris. over, of | the discomfort of Not gaged inthat oeeupation had not my book fallen to the floor, an ineldent which iny senttered senses to the plensu Wentof my self-nlloted tusk; so thn ofelock tn the marning, it wus completed, lady | first tuipulse was to close tha boo! ond to call down on the devoted seventeen young ladies terribly linpreen= | ‘Cha voles of the peoply says lt the opening chapters of Davtd Copperfield” guy that discase ia the yeault of breakin Was of a nature gxactly sinllars knows,” sald I, “but that tha tas of Ife und freedom from d chapters of ' An Earnest Trider? will as wel pleastn BUCY, CAL! at a ue | M1OTe, Ist & Worse th} coe UN! Ie, ate above all, to discover the passages | thus clearly praving i, ly uuthoress, If the work woounds dn all | schoo! r the smoko of} ® monstrous thing, ond not no neves- my — Hayana must have enuimbort every facully, for to ine thoy wero | 0 by breaking tha Jawa of health. the gold Hells of California, Tho heroes and heroines, saye in rare in- | of healthy parents, aut {f nat impossible, parts, and to mq it appears that Aunt Tans porfeelly: free from sicknosa fo a good old nah fs tho best-tefined character Inthe whole | age, and t work, though faint praise can bo given for | ural death results from the natural Purttan parsonage, so well ed has she been by almost Innumor- | possible to keep these laws: to the able writers, In the scenes where a wontan’s en commonly grows tho inost facile there Is, believe, too muah left for our Imaginations | much to frerceve health. Shall wo tosupply. Onels almost forced ta the con= clusion that the nuthoress was so much tho victim of eacocthe seribendi asto become | we Investigate this little book of setunee, to polled to rely on her Fancy lone for tho ne- ton dn the supreme moment of thelr lives falstead ond Days | The heathen woman, wilhont ono ray of iM and the elimax (?) of her flory. Wo can hot-lo Rachel Guovan’s rapid Hevelnps ic malden of one cliapter into the “eul- ty and our Gos pel, wis he aldry.at ahi had. down deep fnto its depths, among paper, | the sae | orb Going Uleeat ltd rea eone threads, pleces of calico, pleces of silk, to | writer of It, the publisher, tha ravlewer, and {ved never ngain to pager of a novel until it had. in furnaces of ‘Time for at least moral and adorn a tale? against “Grandin | Axx Annor, Mich, Jau. %—1 am Indeed ft that Bachelor should dear old Indy and her maxing, ford, andit | sit down” on me so, because 1 protested is hecause of my deep sense of obligation that | that auch Hterature as “Mother Goose” was ‘The | unfit for children. | He says that my theory truth Is, Qranding his been looking through | ty teaching thom something useful 1s “rathor lame.’ I do not think that they brighten tho other side for her, so that both | Should be taught the “ruto of three’? until they are old enough to understand it; nelther should their ininds be filled with such silly ‘The Home was, fs, and shall he to benefit | taken; but, thon, not being “tho head of a svomankinds a corner set apart for a dine to | family,” it 19 perhaps prestmptuons In mo show how to cut a dress, to wake cake, to | to discuss such subjects, Fi, Inm glad to In- fo none. It didnt hurt us ‘to. hear | very much on that point, for I think you are come of the other, So thought must | does not conalstin, I can answer the ques- have given rise to this thought, and as the | him by the hand and polnt out the dangers wives who can talk nothing but bables, dogs, } billows of life’s seu are raging, who will not. housewife talk It wit become fossilized, and | But how few real friends we hovel Wr you, butcan | invented merely to betray credulity; thy ine dd come from afar, ADGE, And how true 11s. Dhavescen inenstand- ho by accident lost what property they had, aud who from that mo- otten by thelr so-called, Iatopped {nto ono of the grent bookstores of | What lite confidence LT hove left In hu- man once sald: “Rare as is true which {led the cnpactous shelves and tables | the law of policy. They only care for posi. ge tion in socloty. - Their seeming frlendshlp in of the establishment until [ found mysel¢ at a. hollow mieckery, antl pi i they ee alned thelr object they are despised aud find an cdltion of Byron which my Imited | detested for tho contemptible part they have ey are then rently to enst In endless variety, thore remalned not, | Men in business will meet cavh other and alnsfeven the Aitle-pngy of my favorit poet, | Use their friendship os a lever by which thoy tloar, wheru mny eye was arrested by two | oNly watching for an opportunity, to ee through evil ag well ns good report?” I disiika to say it, but we aren Na- tion of decelvers, ‘The history of our country will prove lt. [have only to cite you to tho shameful treatment the poor Indians have white people, Ifyou ara a true friend, you our trent When he hus tone gotulble, mary and if you seo tint ho hua repented, | Hh ne thofuture, | 2%! rae but tf he | 1 jude the wor W you have “washed your | Anil tho name of “supper,” Linounted two flights Macosn, Ll, 1. 16—The vol oj] of ihe. ridiculous which. made De Ms of atulrs, seated ttyaclt before the dead pitti peoplo ly often, at ba aiwaya,' olen of. the During Inugh at her ‘tuthor. Pella Is follawatl by. depression, God, Itts hover the voles of God when'it Pai hile For several reasons 1 was. enfoytn {ayors oppression or wrong, and peraecutes tf 7 cxaleranes ot trout splrits that enjoying for reformors., Tho volca of the people scoffed fue Saul NOt bor uny AE Ui Thad given the ldlady a “stand off * until | at Noah when he was building thonrk, ‘The } they Nave plenty of Intent sense ant good- voleo of the people derided tho Bon of God, | 2 4. postscript, had nn javitation thee | #Ad erled out, “Crucity Him! Crucity Him yp? | gare, vel oat i oe sane I. | should be propelled by steal, ‘Tho voices of | Seise tells hin ay a stolid Indliterence, erie the many rich, gay, and careless who passed hoarters, I Mghted my elgur and watched | by and left the street-child to porlsh, said | {san old mald because the 01 Wy man ale the curling smoke whirl away on Its errand | “Itfsonly a Nitke beggar"; but methinks | cares for Is addicted to vices wi el of mbsehie?, and might still have been ens | the yoleo of the Lamb {3 saying, “Inasmuch tind of watilences to those wha det Nis will | the seauil gf ons ind of peatllence, to those who do Mis will. | tho result o! , repay the perusal a3 did those of Dickens? buy Sadler, who went about iwepling uls- | in tho Garden of Eden, ©, Chat, how could | long ereninee masterpiece.” Bo ut tL went, with a strong | cases, vory often did dt with these words; | you say, oven $n a juke, you were glad uf that | sure now her determination to be Interested, to note every aay, sing be fon lyen thee." ‘To tho cripple | which put the skeletons In your own aid at tle Poul o thee,”— slekness Jy thd ro- | dearth of human Happiticns, but wou ethesdy he aye: “Ein ne. itt y elig'a closet? Tt Ryohad behaved | shoes hnuginable, giving evidenes of gentus on the part of the | sult of win. Belence, vg taughtin our public | sent Instead one of cy tho ak LD originated the flea that the forbidden frult was apples? It seams Bo ubrensounble ta suppose thata wise and kind Father would deny His children anything sn Ingcloua and wholesome, ONKING BEE, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. A MATTER OF PRONUNCIATION, Ta the Rditor of The Chicago 2vibune, CioAqo, Jan. 24,—Will some one of Tho Tome ecortesponitonts please toll me the cor- rect. ron relation of Ouray,—the nag of dD, sary evil, except os men make tt According to ita teaching, If ainat were born the Inws of health wero always obeyed fn his cage, he would be hon dion natural death, and nat- [wearin out of life's nachinery, *OL courae, it is no lettor, but all may do fo in 8 great menaure who are not too poor, And oven poor, people may fio niin he popular creed, and say thatout worship children go to school to learn Hest or shill 1 tho Ute Chict? BALLOW COMPLEXION, To the Editor of The Catcago Tribune, Srneartor, LL, Jan, 26,—Will some reader of 'Tho Home give a recipo for clearing a sallow complexton,—romething they know to be good, and not Injurlous to the henlth ? SALLow. find ont how and why disease Js produced? light to guide her, and without a fatso iden of religion, Inys her body down to be crushed hy tha cur of Juggernaut, ond we exclahn, "0, the poor deluded erenture, thus to throw away what God has given her.” ‘The Chris- tan woman, living wnder the Nght of the ich anys emphatically, “Thou alt not kill,’ places her body under the Juggernaut car of fashion, whieh crushes her, 8 little at a time, wntil the delleate mn- chincry within her fs all jammed out of pine, and, not having roan fo properly per- rorin tts functlons, nutrition is weakened so that she sinks bonenth burdens that would only be measure to a healthy womanyand we call ier death 1 mystertots dispensation of Provilence.” For ny part I can’t eee why we should expeet God to perform a iira- ele to preserve Ife in the one cose moro than in the other, When a youn Jandy drops dead {na ball-room, it ts. v terrl- ble warning for girls to stay away from the ball, but not n word is said of tho suleldal hand which drew the corset-sirings until elr- gillation, ome fuk in the ehain ot lite, Wns to» ally destroyed, A great mur en linve too mitch falsemotesty, whieh makes thom think | 2 tag obtain books containing dalam it [sont of pluce for them to know anything | Slladle for first intermediate seliools; also of the laws which govern these machines | Pnglng-buoks contalnlng oxerulse bonny for that nfo, peaeeatly anid Wonderfully the samo grado? RO, made.” Hut what seletica enn bo mors ele- vating than that which denounces Idleness — A CURE FoR ConNs. fg an fnyeterate enemy to good health, Ped ler ay; The Untedge Celbishts which texches tis to cultivate faith, hope, | Monicox, Wis. Jan, 21.—Render asks for and charity a3 natural and healthful attinu- | a cure for corns and buntons, My remedy Ss Inntg to the vital current, and to avoid envy | simple, and in my ease has proved effective. ud be i suid! lntted been ee nae, algae lhe: snare First pare the corn or bunton slightly. ‘Then, men, Who have spent years in study and ob- | 009 suit piece of letter-paper place a little servation, sry that the physieal exerts t great | pine pitch. Apply and wear as a plaster; re- Influence over the moral, and that bad feed- | new when necessary, Pitch as taken from ing Is apt to produce bad morals, ‘The multi- | the tree is used by pinery incn, and {5 con- tude, who have never given the subject five | sidered the best. If Render should find re- minutes’ thought, ory cut, “0, they'ro hum. | lef from using the aboye would bo glad to ;who ever heard of such a thing??? | hear of it through 'Tha Home, Bub when we consider that the drunkards Conn Docron. . come from two great classes, the averfed and the underfed, and, further, that it is these WIY RANTES CRY, drunkards Ww Ho arow our dats fd puis a ‘Tb thé Editor of The Chicago Tribune, touser, Wo are forced to conclude that the ATLAIO z 20, — = humbug? ma bo right. That all Wfed | tins AAO Wi Sah ace Hie a eRe enildren do not become ‘drunkards ia no ar. i gument In favor of bad feeding, beenusa all | Knock again for admittance, that T may say fire not exposed to very strong temptation, | (having had experience) a few words in be- ani some have stronger wills to resisttempta- | half of the most helpless creatures thnt are tion. Bub just trave tho worlil over and see } born, and whose wail pierces my heart (as it ifyoucan tnd a drunkard who has always | should every mother’s) like nd maintained an erect position in walking and “yt y if. ABRUE,, sitting; who has -nlways brenthed “pure will soon cry Itself to sleep.” Tow air, drank pure water, and observed linb- | that sentenco (in S.E. W.’s letter) grew after its of erallnwast who hay alvva ys eaten | I had read it Turn the paper whichever proper food, Mn proper quantities, ab proper | yy; Intervnda, md tien RTOnee manuer, nl tho pit Ree nh it snyered i ie. wholo.of {bin takes plenty of exercise and wenrs comfort. at it e, ce ot and here tis Monday, and able clothes, If you cannot fnd asingte one, | have said that? Foy fone ald nimother you must admilt that good health is a sure | jie had little gepetleeen it be, anid one who aafeguard against intemperance, And what | eo liad little oxperlence and a small amount if the few finkine nen aro right and" the of patience, [will tell 1. 3B. F, what I know thoughtless multitude wrong? Then how about Lables: Children raiyed on the bottle inany good mothors ure preparing thelr sons | anq° gary quae ihe Baie ind of stomach to becom easy vietins to the rumsetler? | fin the breast And Lind thot paurlaliad How many weo, winsome girls are slowly ee lee etre nd that ponte neod being cheated out af thelr birthright of Inno- a little nourishinent at night, as well as those eoneo? If Lam prone to speaks of woman's pho nurse,—having had the care of both, An weaktiess rather than man’s deprayity, It Is infant seldom, Ir dyer, erica untuss there Ip beentise 1 realize that “the power belind the | Soule Gause for IL They cannot speak as wo this by » How often do we ery out from tho throne Is greater than the throne,” that the | Cnt Mow atten a é from th ‘ CIMNONIG SORE-THNOAT, ‘Ta the Buliter of The Udleago Tribune. CrtoAqo, Jan. 27.—I wish to inquire of 8 person of experience a good meidleine to tse aganinuinlant for a person troubled with elvan sore rant and diMeulty in breath- ng. . jnforming ma of something you kira rf bo good, you will greatly oblige” A Bubsonban, ROOKS WANTED. To the Editor of The Chicdga Tribune, Wintenant, Mich, Jan. 31.—1 would like to have Grandma Oldways tell me if the songs used in the “Hitchen Garden School * aro published, and {f so where can they bo obtained. Will some teacher tell ma where weal or wo of the next generation depends | Sect of some little pain when a ehanga ae te of position is nll that is necessary Jar upon {he presentmother, ant because | to relieve it. Bables d¢annat do ROE Alstosy points from great and good men | thy, | 4 oy niust Iet 1s know In sonic way tht y backkito Nrlee and difercat wnothers, | To prove areuncanifortnble —tlepend upon ieavit : ess, L will tell you that | not ery fursport. Did te ever aceutr to mothe this widespread Ignorance of sanitary mute | ore that to nursea baby when augry or other- ters has caused mo much trouble, Timight wise oxelted will, produce. a. .correspondin tell you of 9 littla white rosebud that Law | restlesness Inthe eh? We also haves pelftey ond dle berate there Nithe a vitally sort of magnetic Influence over them, ane It ihaiek eres? Ponte cic. | depends a great deal upon ourselves whether born with alek nerves and s dyspeptic stom- | aby fs goail or not, provided It Is well. Ant neh, and so passionate that ale almost went | ingint will often. be wnensy after nourish: Into hysteries whonever her will was crosatd ment. has been tuken, from {ts bands being kness of despair Which brooded | igo tight (ag our dresses often ra. afler ih over my soak when AY feared my darling was | joarty meal), Often It inerely wants to turn cursed with an evil temper which should | over: perhaps ts covered tao warmly: per always render pet unbapp and erlpple her | jians'tt has ic, Whon frettulness Is Pra ugeftilness, and of the gla veut whieh eted wateh well, and you will soon. dis. broke in wpon me when 1 found her grow- ‘over that the Hver 1s not acting; the child hug tractable under hygienic treatment, as | tay havo indigestion. Depend upon, one far aa selreuunataniods and knowledge would thing, something lls’ the tt If it frats, anit to x and Wintel 1 heaule Metin | ft {hat mothor who will ‘lt her helpless baby. NOW tligy any WAWHaE A lleatthiye hube ory itself to sleep must bo henrtless, If looking child,” and I chin confidently anirm | “ere is any who is baby afsioad fe Is ae she {proves tn the same Tall Wiehe — NDA, is 7 years old sho wi be a very aminble iy girl. God ling promiseil to, bless our ehitdven, eine BRITE SS DARI, f wo will do our whole duty by then} so let big! ee eta: ok us haye falth in Ils promise, “Then let ug | Danvirnn, In., Jan, 8%—-Q,, of Chieago, add to our falth kuowledae (for Ignorant | Propounds seven questions concerning head alnning brings the same result as willful sin- | ache, with such coolness thatl suppose he or ning), to SUF Knoweteatae Leatuornnee, antl ti sho will remain unanaweredl unless some phy- will not only do right thomselves, but will | flelan who hears the question at breakfast, do all thoy evn to make it ensy for thelr fel- | dinner, and supper, stops in his work to write tow-men oo, Fee ane bard for thein to mM alearned disquisition upon the subject,’ the wrong: Who will not only have sense enough ‘ to make rishtnous laws, but backbone eoneluston of wyatt anny Basmninet wes enou elt to enforce them; who, Instead of ne- i tint 1 3 quitting the murderer on the plea of drunken lendache may arise from several causes, Manny, 8 ial Feggnrdd every runon man ns proyiinent among which aro inflamination of dungerously insane, and Iendly shut lim up ubst $ till he becoines sober. Get us ‘to all we eat pe BAW BLAn OE Ee Lait Fle eoyertias K , of tho periostenm, or of the senlp; obstric- to tt up tha Tallent bitblek Us nok fat i tint tlon in the circutatfon and the consequent con- economy of reform, Let ws Joli hands with Tr ie wyults eneuntatia “sttee ones every good nan who favors retorm, and save | of tho lead or face, and evon of the sensitive our censure for those wonderful logiclins | portion of tho brain Itself; affections of tho whto counsel us to give our sonstobueo, that | vars, ayes, tect, or such adjacent organs, or breeder of intemperance, as a proventive of | ayer by affections of distant organs of the intemperancy; who say fo the youth, *Ddia body, elileily of the atlmentary tubs, But Mite, rather you woulda | aca eye but | the inost common enusyof the ordinary head- oyie xdiling anybody c. “iT tahiees sheweu nels that affect the suffering thousands, for do not drink. but I ihave yet to henr of a whom Capeak, Is neurasthen!a, or neryous drinker who does not chew tobacco and who | Uplily. one knows that the nerves are ike 0 ; Tiyery dia not learn tho habit first. che: _hetving tho subject of listening to wrong | Gxtentine fren ihe begin to Overy oe of Le voices, L will say a fow words in regard to | pody, Hut ail donot kuow. that evon these misunderstanding each others’ voices, From ainuld twigs are composed of «liferent kinds tho Fendi of walngto letter Chava often | of nerve ior ¢, each one of which reaches thought of different Homeltes: “Why she | back through twie and brauch and trunk to has rathor queer ideas,” but when she comes | the very substance of the brain, and to the again, In answer to eritfclam with her ifs | same kind of substance of which the fibre Is ands, and exceptions, Iflnd thatshe thinks | composud. Each one of thes fibres lins Its dust a I tn eee inalority: of ny ister separate work to perform, and it from. any Been 0 xeaitt rank Cushing asa veritable | equse ft falls, thon that work ia left undone, wommnhater, and if 1 did not tink they | Wien afew of the fibres of a nerve are. Ine wore mistaken 1 woutd not say a word in bts | jured wo say that nerve is suffering from stofenae, for LUE Cant, the lov at euitiaran piresia, When the nerve Itself 1s hijured, so yar the Foundation ina food ann hone o wae alla entirely, then wo'say it As pathy From iy point of view, Davo avveral of tha ln - falr Leones trying shies upon camel ven Beebe eat err at rien and thelr friends, whieh were nayer intended | this all the organs oY ihe borly loge thely act- te amor heen iy ald y tnt Hantat | ivity after any averatinwlation of tha brain in 4 0 or | or its great branches, By oversiiniulath donannees the sl 1 elddy iris ey the | wean irritation, ‘Chis, yaw may aye. wes ey rene | tality nenaed aelw following 9 full meal orn fast; from tiie Net tt jy does not ani 2 altting ina dritt orlnacioas room; from ox- One enotig! ft " ie pst dettad a efement or from annul, In fut, where it by what wo seo of It. | thore 1s this predisposing state of the aystem wre cortuinly té just such a elisa of | . girls ay he haa rere why are continuale | BUY, axtrome whatever will brig on the par 0 Tin bed; ¥ ¢ oxyam. y uulataiiing tats for shine and whe glagie from tls view of the cago the treatmont Is Hotlods 1 ean aoe ie analogy: bolween the obvious, Hyglento fs better than medient gisele which Tollewed that *aivtully aweul? treatinent, Avoid all atinulants that arg fol- Amare spoech about the poor womnu’s old. | wet by de prcaiion, AvolLexpasunint ot fashioned dress and the keen, senso | ayurthing that clovntes tho aplrtta, unless It news mist bo observed, : cnet vane be apers with, ono hand | aud | taicen toant and drut oly such articies on U ced as ng them in the other. Now fee aie, alos, el acta freon to aurea COU & patient. ‘Pea and coffee are wvery Wrong to spank af thelr faults, but ener ebisldefed fiytrious, but athe ly 0 rm to be deloterlons; in siel cases hess, au, pide of proper, tli i ae leave hom off. Phe same ‘rule applies to Muttory, thoy neglect to cultlyate the afore ha he tho nvenuey, and hud | ‘This volew perscouted Galltoa for saying tho | sald qualities, and degenerate into mere gual | ogy ielytie Raroxyam comes on take o doso yerfectly lovely” Invana ta tegao my. | oarth was round, and hooted at the Idea of | and nothing wre Many at excellent aan ot orphan (from one-elsith Bruin to one self with, and annoy tho olfactay nerves | jtobert Fulton constructing a boat which | Temalns 9 Hee iy 4 half grain), ad go to bed. If tho firatdase nu pelo Hecate tly ts dows not give rellef in one hourtake guother, the aualities whieh wil make a happy, con- v ENILAM. ented helpnicet, Many an excellont wonn MISCRLLANEOUS e 1 i render HOW CHAT Looks, him unfit to bé a husband and futher, Many ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, ly book: | ua ye ministored not unto one of my neglect- | & good man and woman may afinities | Ontcago, Inn. 20,—As pon-pletures of ‘Tho before | ed Iltle ones, yo ministered not unte Me? them. With this small exception, nothing | Tho hind tadies who superintend the Kitchens | a ‘synonyny for reform, Now, girls, Jui oeourred to Interrupt mie in the accomplish: | Garden School say; “We araonly taking o | piteh in sa wt 81] fow frlendless girls off the streetand tench. | Hi—-exaulsl whom socloly has spoiled, und tai, when it | yo vord " me writers have been quite fushtonable, fa tou lite, ‘Wat the word “anarclage” ts not here {8 ono of Tha Home's favorit, Chat, van eifugion npon that aw— | Belng a traveling man, my business, gomo- thing made up of broadcloth, | thnea call . techs trate Hf al ; 7 alls me to Decatur, Unylng. read ae als, witluh iovky the | Qhut's laughable and witty tetters, 1 ‘After reading the frat two chapters my | 1 them to be useful members of soctety's | jane H warrant all 2 habla witty ra, L nature a ‘4 ibe nts but surely In the great bool of remembrance LNT at ie atoms will su thy on ally was quite Snterested In discover- heads of | itis written; “For My nuke fs did tt | every word of [t.ho majority of volves In | ing the sex of tho “aforementioned 8 de will of | ‘The Wun are i fayur Of jlrting, and, while | contributor, I was -positive — Chat tions, and niy third to read the bouls through, | Gad that Hs creatures should hayg siekly, | Chaya no right to say tt ds for Lremembered that my experlenes with } diseased bodies; hut the Bible and sclonee tint} Wrolig, Ludo say | wasn lord of creation,” as many of your Hsudvorates have used some very strange | teaders witli are, butow hattiry wineonwiieel arguments to prove itright. Ono writer hus | to the contrary, Tmet her ones while make and who | God's commands, God has jromlued length | even gone so ‘ih ng to say thot als the | Ing a flying visit fo Decatur Sho wus at Dy he world has over known fs | thred hte blnek Wilk and velvet walking tile “harness fivtatlon® | wore a large wilte chip hat, finned auth glared osttleh Ups, und Vin *binu-glass jatar was 17 fib, for her feet were Incase a ths dlatnfiust he is exceedingly he! you would never have written of tho | has mopry gray-eyes, lixnrlant brown ise i uve worn plulu, but banged, iy about 35 years of hose humorous eblatles | age, has quiet but pleasant wanners, and 3, bays that’ sin 13 an uuuatural, | which muke uy laugh wll we furget ull about | lust, but aut least, bus a verfeet form. Ln Will some one tell mo how | fret, I wns Rurprised to ch her, yy dt seo Chiat I expect ood Ven fellow who Ahawered Hort Tred a Joy serlptlon of Chiat, Hope the “Inay ty abject to my personul Totter, My Fat ll that most of the places I visit. penn Foal ‘Tie TwnuNs (and they we Wa legion) ore all Interested in Chae ye fy and, a8 thore Is auch a diversity of opt ter, regard to her sox, L wlah to seitle > ™onh Commencta, A NEPLY TO OLD stain, Th the Filitor of The Chleago Tribune LrApvine, Colo, Jan. 18,—Is it po: Mr. Conductor, for any one to dlscove the published lottora In The Home the | viduallty of tho writers? How ty foe that Old Bald, of Englewood, dectarey Tania fraud? She says that Iam A"(y at Chleago bacholor excessively fond of gayetles.” Indeed, Miss Old Muald? aps you can {ifort mo of soine more of ny past history. Prny tell imo of the peek, forms of. Rayelles to which Iam, or was A dicted, TE would bo tnteresting reaanet me, at Jedatk Thora are dontie, HAG things of my past jife whleh Ehave (ut {eh and when I shall enme to write m a moirs for the benefit of the future Ares ait: strictures: ny be of Inestimable vate ing Indeed, J had entirely forgotten that Ry aver been a.“ Chiengo bachelor excess fond of the guyeti¢s.” I do not remembecd ever meeting but one Englewood Tah and is‘ she an old mafd alrenty} She must have been na very shiteed ald mald, for our acquaintance Insted int Sunday's afternoon, and yet she Informs i world regarding my history. Why did is not tell Ono More that I attended aye once upon atime at the State Acrleuiined Bollea in fansing, Alleh..—-OnreMore'sione and that It was ura that I first showed mt aplituda for gayat! ne There $9 a yout \udfea’ geininary nob far from Lansing. would aye sounded more plausible de thinks, to have located ny diysi attons Inthe ny Michigan capital than in slow Chicane iGlva me away,” indeed! Fordive ya beeauso’ of the distance which separa, us”? ‘Think you your fautt (If fault it 1 the more attenuated beenuso of the distance between us? Shrewd Old Maid, who tre you? Do you think, kind ehamplon, at you can -brenk the shell of solid bachelc. hood which encases me, and expose me to wiles of malds, old or young? Never{ [ have not carried myself Itke an ovster to be gaten alive by the mald whocarrlestheoyste. knife. aos Xwnororpg, NOW THE HOME SHOULD m6 Huy, ‘To the Editor of The Chletgo Tribune, Nitns, Mich, Jan. 34£—For the third ting » Inm going to write to The Home, Sots, although I have succeeded in writing ny letter, I could not find the cournge to send it, But L have wanted 60 long to con Among you, and this week Loulss K, 1, writes Just what I’ve been wanting to wrlte this long timo—viz.: ‘Why not make Thy Momo of Interest to all? Although I like the reelpes sometimes, when they are newor diferent from my own, Lam the possesser of four good reelpo books, and there are not many things I cannot find tn some of then; 80, if The Home is made Into 9 recelpt-book, T shalle cease to be a constant reader theres, And again, your object 1s to make home pleasant, and now Tenn read some gyi things to my husband Sundays, which ishts home day, and if The Home contalns nothing but reelpes, It will take away an how's pleasure for 18, a8 ie would be more {ater ested in tharecipes after they come tothe tablo transformed, than before, and 1 an one of the women who belleve something else is required of n wife and mother tha cooking, although there are few woinen who {ako more pleasure tn cooking and baking and trying “new dishes! dian f. Buppose tn our private home elrele noh- ing wore disenssed but reelpes or how to decorate our walls, would it not bo ante. taining, particularly to the male portion of the house? There is such a thing os too much of a good thing. Vartety Is tho sple of Ife. Tt makes our homes piewannt, tty Hot the same with The Home in whieh yor all take such pleasure? Even tho Ittle spats of which Callfornia speaks are gout for uw sometimes. ‘hey call forth our ideas and sharpen our wits, As long a3 we keepour tempera, they won't hurt us on bit, aud think the Conductor knows when “ crouss {sg enough,” and can put a stop to it at th proper thie, Neither do T think Tho How should be all grandmas and aunties. Out homes would be tncomplete. without the grandmas, finportant papus, happy” wie and mothers, cynical bachelor, oli) mals pod quntles, pompous cousins (both sexes) iigh-sehool girls, and even the miteh-abusd babies, Matrimony is fndispengable to ay true home, With divorees and. filrtatian have no desire to deal. But if others have, have no desire to deny them that priviler. If the object of Tho Tome fs to teach ta youn how. to. pst 8 home pleasant and a racttve, Vd ike to know how they are rr ing to doit if they are not made to see mar riagetn allits phases; to see the rocks whee on others have stranded, and know. hovw fo avoid them themselves? And whit fy better adapted to do this than the oplntans of inlscellancots class of people, and what will bring It before a greater number of, peoplt than the columns of The Home? I, for ou protest against The Wome becoming s Uy recipe book, although I don’t want the r elpes exclided entirely, And then, too ike to read Grandma Oldway’s letters, lot the young ones need the advice and alse the correction of these Idud ole Indies very often, So, Grandma, don't withdraw your dearcid face and welcume wards Just beenuse [have differed with you In regard to hay} o tlle light food, such as pastry and other fanc} dishes, put upon the table with the soli food, for we would all milss you, Wher bs France? I'd like to hear her volea onco more, 1 have a good recipe for baked Indlan pul ding, which fs as follows: One quart of swed milk, one ounce of butter, four ezgs, at teacup of meal, ouc-half pound of ralslis one-fourth pound of sugar. Let tho milk come toa boil, then add fradually: the weal, and afterward the othor Ingredients, mix us for a cake. Let all boll for about thre niinutes, then bako one and o halt hows Ent hot with sweetened cream, Tapassal ssTb I tT tron NEW PUBLICATIONS are furnished by the World's Dispeneat Medical Association, Butfalo, N. Yy # Great Russell Street Buildings, London, Ee gland, on terms to Bult the tlines, Aly editlon of the People’s Cominon-Sense Me cal Adviser, about, 1,000 pages, nearly 20 tk lustrations, by I. V. 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