Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1880, Page 12

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1880—SIXTEEN EAGES. nnn en : THE HOME. ‘A Chapter on Gumps, by One Who Understands the - Breed. ‘California Explains Further Con- cerning the Dutics of Housekecopers. Faota About Old Contributors “and New Ones, by Aunt Lnoy. ‘Some An Interesting Letter on Floriculture ‘ in Gonoral and tho Camellia in Particular. Soveral Commanicationa Bogarding the “"\) “Alleged Sadness of Life on This Earth. ints for. Chore Entertatuments Wanted—The Hiseries of Servant Girly—Reform fa + Dress, file, Ble. NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS. If Monusehold Nonentlty will send her nanie, instead of stinply her Post-Oillce ad- dress, the letter tu this ofles for her will be forwarded, tty” Porlurene, of St. Joseph, Mich, Is informed that articles on flirting are not desired. ‘The sitbject was written to a standstill some tins ago. 7 LETTER-BOX. THE There are letters, payers, and postal-eards at this ofiice for the persons whose mimics ap) pear below. .’Those living out of the city should send thelr address and a three-cent stamp, npon.recelpt of which thelr mull will be forwarded. Residents of Clileago can ob- tain thelr mail by calling ob Room 86 ‘Inu une Building: # Household Nonentity. Mirkim 1, Dean, Feinese, Melon B, Kieta, Oa Timner, 4.G. Marguerite, ‘i GUMPS. #OME FACTS CONCERNING THEM. To the Ed(tar of The Chicago Tribune, Cuesune Varey, N. ¥., Feb. 16.— Not mumps id Nor dumps, But lumps of ponderous tlesh. Entirely original? | L fell upo' the neck of my old friend, whoin 1 had not seen for years, and we ci- braced. “Ts It thou?” “Behold me, Issachar.”” “T wonder that I knew you with those eye glasses,” “0, ah yes!—and I put them quickly out of sight, for Jt was In H— (a little town of 7,000 inhabitants in Central New York), where eyeglasses worn by a young Indy with a passable face were vanity, and a proceeding counted ns—tet me coln a word and say— “disrespectable *? as—as lo write poetry— there! And, lest you condemn my shnite as absurdly forced, let me hasten to remark that, at the present. moment, I know of no greater crime, in the eyes of a country town, than to write poetry, goad, bad, ar tndlifer- ent. [N. B.—Tbe Muse had better go to the elty, If the Muse would be wooed.) “But, returning to Issachar and the eye- glasses. “You're from the West now, aln’é you, Max ?” (Lin positive she gald “ain't you.) “They don't haya bears where you lve, to they ??* “Q yes, Indeed they do, ‘The bears parade our business strests every day, and bulls too, Issachar; We have both bulls and benrs.” My friend taoked hard at me for a min: ute, then changed tho subject, saylng: “Well, yuu seem to have some style dn your re y “Now, Issachur was’ a dens, good girl. As Dick Veudoye ways, “Shoe meant well, but she didn't Know? and for all her sweet, pretty face, and well-made house-lress, sho was inelined ta be gninplsh,—which brings ie baok to my starting-point, 1 do not belleve tie word “gump" ever graced or disgraced the authority of Webster or Worcester; but the thue is near, 1 hope, wile Metlonary-mnakers will recognize its worth, fe , Gump are persons slow of comprohengion and narrow of imental seope, who are plow- ding through the world In a dull way un- enlivened by any tittle spica uf nme variety; who expect the rest of the world to plod along in the sine manner, snd If any ‘one stap outol the beaten, preseribed high- way,—be It to seek a iiigher or 1 lower foot. ra ready to raise yoices in horrified remonstrance; who exist on all dldes of the word, and in all parts, to be encountered upon each corner; nnd who rate one’s good- ness by one’s clremnspeetbelinyior, Providence has kindly ordained that this cluss of people should mostly be found tn the country or in small towns, and but few of them in large cities, where we would not ba avle to walk through the streets were we to constantly come bumping bodily and mental- y agninst these not yery electric mortals, in the country there Isat east plenty of Tyoin for them, Dut city Ife catches up in Its nolsy, whirl- dug, every-day mill, and ellps, and: slashes, and Lininiiers, and. siuoott hi : ness which wlll creep upon a pe qneets few other persons, tossing hhn down: brisk, easy of perception, and agreeable as a Tew penty, -Hinaghie Roblngen Crusoe must have been, horridly stupld (ufter. Jils Tsland-ilfe), just the sort ofa man to stand gaplng at the aky ond strovt corner, for you to run against when you want to eatel the traln—or the ductor, Perhaps: Friday propelled a tittle energy Jute his master’s tetlons, however, “Pell ne about amne of the trends fused to know tn the neighborhood, Issachar,”? 1 begged, aud wo drew our chairs closer to the grate tire. For though some of tho petty seondnls to which T hid that day been obfiged to Hsten had kindled tn my heart a strange fire of Sontenpt which threatened to destroy the alfeclion lingering there for my old Tome,—the incendiaries bad | but purtistly succeeded, anid better judgment was. already at work extingulshil he bhaze with buckutfuls from the calm river of memory, Tssnchar was vating pop-eorn, and could not converse like an anctioncer, so 1 had patlence, and trivd to jog her recollection by quoting: Some aro marriod, dome re dei, adding parenthetically, “But Nottie Green ds neither, for Lmet her at the mitllner’s this morning, and she delgned to notice mo with the renurk that L jad jinproved since leaving “What cutting reply did you vouchsafo?" srigikred my companton with a touch of gar cna (for, sho dlita’t think I could be very witty--and she was only right). “Tdon't cars to eut green wood,” said I, lipshediately feeling shame-fuced ove) tempting even such a poor pleco of humor, “Na, L only told Jive thatclty ife improves any one. vy wish she'd try Jt,” erled my friend Ino Durst of contidence; “1 hute her!” Laughed, “You knew Mattic Fields?” asked Issa- char, recovering herself, Yes Indeed? wlint of her 2"” “Oh? nothing, only he’s dead? * Dende? “Very dead, She married a man named Brown, and dled two years later, leaving a Hittle gir}, that ono we saw this morning with ity erandinotier.”” co ow strange ft seems 1? Muttle's baby with its mother’s blue eyes and dimples, atid Mattie dust and ashes We were girls tozether at school, such a very Yule while spot Where's Wut Lowls? They wore greqt croviey, ds sha dead, too? Is everybody ual ? “+ Dear no, Max; she ty married and has two. children.” “Oh! Quite different, And Fannle Pepkes 2" “Alive and well, Tho witty girl of the owt, “Then Meayen prevent me from meeting anaiichny, i HA hie will readily a her; any one but the village wit In the shape of a young lady! Talways feared Fannie would turn ont remarkable in some way, but Mid not think it would bo as bas as that. When she and To used to come home fr school together, she was nover cont unless she could rap oat somebady door, or ring the bell and run away agnin before the door opened, And other tlnes— what odd things ehititen aro—siie and Tattle aud Matte would: fui tra sort of Masonic affection (with no great many tremendons secrets to Whisper encht ather), and, by cast: fig contemptnons glances and throwlig out uneompllinentary hints, convites me that my room was better than my company, when Sioa kl lease they ina condition of blight and broken-heart, “why! said Issachar, “didn’t thoy Ike you? Mow funny!” - “T dowt know, J was always clean, my clothes were good, nid L never had warty honds,--a8 they had,—nor did 1 chew gum.” To be continued), (ie ‘That settles it,” declared my companion, should Ira ewed Buin * Perhaps,—but my tastes were otherwise." Phen Issachar’s tongue being loosened, eran to ramble through the sewing s0- y's store-gossips What tila one had dane to cause talk, How Lint one liad walked can- trary to the rutes of her ebnrel (at least peo- ple so surmised from existing: clrenmistnnees) and what the other was about to do. Final Jy, the chrontele had been read down to the Dottont of {ts last offending pages past the orphan-lad who entight and stow hls nelgh- bor’s Spanish chickens to make broth for starving sisters pasta mother who vonunived fo save from ppscn her only son who, in breaking open his employer's inoney-drawer, had broken the law, and was lidiug from [ty past a worn who trimped the town-strects night long to wate her inebrlate husband after his enstommry carousal at the corner wrogeery,; mid down to another. woman whose previous fife had been pure 28 summer oak, but who, having beer betrayed by the wan she would have died fora well-to-do-fariner,—had taken adrink of that which by made from the seariet poppies In the meadow, aud thus pone up toa pleasanter nitistde, where there fre no“ gumps”* to drive to death. “Stop! L ered, “don’t tell me another word! [hate the country 2? “Tinte the country? Why, Max, how nar row-tminded you have grown 2? Tnarrow-nitnded? 1 popped to gasp and think about it, linpossible. “No,” [went on, “1 do not retract one word of that sentenee,—not a letter,—not even the exclamation point at the end} Low ean you live In such a place 27 “Lo not understand youl You thought ita nico cnovigh ph hen yor lived here,” she erfed, waxing angry very correctly cone cerning her home, “Then [will explain, that you may under: stand why J spoke so forcibly, So lsten: You aye lived here all your twenty-two years (" Twenty-one,” Interfects Lisacher)— ex pardon—Liventy-one, then, but one at bourding-school, and perhaps some weeks’ visits in welghboring eltles; and odo not wonder if you love these grand old heayen- reaching hills, this beautiful river, whose aimnmner-psalin iy eternal, and. this sky that mayhap seems bluest and sweetest Just here where It rests upon the Iill-tops us tenderly a3 another's good-night kiss upon, her dare ng’s forehead. | Nay, 1 can understand, though [speak with a stranger's tongue, and lovk through eyes that have grown allen, This valley is but a beautiful garden, where human hearts should glow with constant pence, i they are brim- med with petty diseards;” where loving kladness should go out from each to each, as that of Drathers und sisters, yet in its place are known striving and jealousy; where at every step we should draw the breath of freedom, yet the alr Is heavy with suspl- clon; whire there should be rest, yet 1s un rest forever and forever.” ‘After the foregoing, 1 eame back to earth. “And even fhe veople Lam stopping with. This morulng Thn Peters drove by in his un- eouth old sled, and: 1 was for running out to beg a ride, ‘The ‘folks? were horrified. What tik it would cause! Perhaps what seandall AluckI And yet give me, thot sme old sled fora ttvely Journey, with the frisky nag kicking up the Toosenvil snow as wo go shooting down, the hillside. Ilur- rah” our souls rise heavenward in the keen, ptro wtr,—far above the idle gossip aud tale-benring, the ‘whut a certalu per- son told mo about a certain other per- son,’ and al tho freshly-diseovered sins of others that otter n Uttle while belng whispered In the unwilling curs of a devon’ truth-seeker would turn hin from Presby- terlanism to Ingersollism, I tell you, Lloye this beautiful garden—but [hate the suaily that craw) about, nourished by its: verdure! And, O Issachar, the ‘pity of C1? that here, shut out fromthe elatter gnd wear of eltivs, those grinding, thundering engines that enrry the world onward,—here, where tho beauty of the Jandsenpe tn the sunlight is lke the sinle of Qod,--there should be found: the Teast of all blessed frecdom and tho most wn- ehristlan bigotry?” L turned to Issuclhar for approval or assent, and she—1as asleep! Max, A TOUSEKEEPE’S DUTIES. BY ONE WHO KNOWS, ‘To the Bditor of The Chicugo Tribune. New Yount, Feb. 13,--1 feel entied upon to say a few words In Tho Home ti-day. ‘Lo be yery prosale and common-place, always Bip posing thatthe understanding of duties {sa prosale, common-place thing,—the prose of Nfo that leads to Its pootry,—Idr to thurough- ly understand and perform our dutles will lead us to a belle In duty per ae, and “bellet In duty is belief In something that upholds duty; that is, In the existence and ultimate munitestatlon of au overruling power of goad,” I fear, though, It will be rather a diMeult matter tonnke L, E.G, understand the due tles of n housekeeper, le is very evidently not the business manager of an establist- ment. L have been a housekeeper, neither mantuamaker, milliner, talloress, ladies? malt, cook, loundresa, chambermald, nor waltress, but a gentlewomnn superintending her own household and all these yarlous eu ployinents, and I know of what 1 speak when siy it requires greater executlye ablilty, greater mental etfort, If he plenses to putt on that bast, than bookkeeping,—t position Tselected as regulring greater nent effort, than that of clerk, —for J understand bool keeping, a9 every. head of whouseholdshould, Tam’ glad to know he agrees with me in sone thiigs, but searcely know it Eshall be able to convince hin that Tam right in this, when he knows so Ilttle of women’s duties and cares as to suy TD omentloned sowing asa trade In Itself. Does he not know that sew- Ing Includes not ono trade, but many? ‘ho uy of men’s garments,—couts, vests, Knowledge to be a trade (2), ‘The making of women’s dresses another, sincy men undertake It, Women's bonnets another, as surely and certainly ag men’s hats. ‘Then there are men's undergar- nents, of which some men wake a spechuty trade, Shoes, also, aro sewed, — Suilmakers there are, saddlers also,—all sewers,—more than 1 care to enumerate, But he tells me that a bookkeoper's duties are ditferent every day, “while In house: keoping the fuctors employed being always: tho sume, ond the results well defined, the performance requires only a Umited amount of mental exertion, aldiough considerable attention is necessary,” 2 unaat bee, leave to diifer, Te Uiinks because he has hits breake fast, lunch, and dinner regularly every day, that is sll’ thore fy to attund to; but L mist Inform Im that ina propirly-reguiated household avery day hing its diferent duties, he propuration of the ments golng on regi Jarly ghrough Mt all, and the care of tho ehildr®n, or supervision of thelr nursumald, If they are left to a nurie’s enre, Tut each day’s dutles vary, and no most aiuto polat must be forgotten, by the oF secing eye. There fg more mental etfort quired In the proper supervision of a house. hold than lina bookkeoper’s dutles,--with a double set, of books (please underscore those last six words),—iors especially when the housekvoper is, ae sho should “be, the disburser, and keeps her books as regularly as any other of her dutles, Now, every one who understands both matters will ere with mo that tha every day's dutles of bookkeeping, aro mutch tess varied, iuuch more janthomatically the sume, than thoss of housekeoplug, even should tho mistress of the house uot put her hand to any of Its labor, When she hus to perform it ull, then Tsay it needs something nore than tho talent of a bookkeeper or clork, or even a Dusiness manager, It needs all those tulents combined, 1. H.C, must you know how to make a coat in order to in- struct your tailor how you want it made? Or niust you understand tho process of making lint or a pulr of sliocs tat you may know how to order them made? Are you obliged to understand the business of a Iuyndress In order to have your shirts properly starched and froned ? Lhereforo ifs housekeeper hus aeook ft 1s no more absolutely necessary: that she shoutd practleally make o pudding so that she may order her cook to mike one, Ab, yes, “if young people of both sexes” would do ox they ouglt.—a very alguiticant and wil-eimbrachis tf.—if there were more sen- sible marriages—moro sensible people to if—but why go throw the long ist Let ua make them fower—let us make men not expect tao much from op wife—let us make them inore tenderhearted, wore chival- rie, more unselfish, considerate—lot us make women more responslble, more thoughtful, more reasonablo—let ts muke men and wom- en both Whit. they auigttt to he, forbearing, charitable to each other's faults and tall- Ings—let us convince ourselves thoroughiy, once for all, that the faults and failings are ndt all on one sldy—ihat weare all laperfee! or we should not bo here, Let us_ not exacl foo much, but be lenient as we would wish to bo lenient ly dealt with, et men remenber always this one sentence written by a won an: “That while praising the | Pilgriu Fathers for theirnoble endurance, not to for got that the Pilurim Mothers endured tho same sulfarlteae with the udditlonal burden of the Vilgrin Fathers themselves,” Can yon make the application? 1 fully agree with L, 5, C.’s Inst sentence. “Selfishness, egotism, fH-temper, and the want of eammon sense on both sides," —that fs it exnetly,—the whole thing ina nutshell. May [t notbe that these unhappy marriages: are permitted in order that we hinys Urough them, ain patience, self-control, forbear anee, ant other of the qnalities that Bo 10 the bringing us upto the fail measure of a mian,—that is, of anangel? = CALIFORNIA. AUNT LUCY. THE OLD AND NEW, Tb the Editor of The Caleago Tribune, Cnrcaao, Feb, 15.—Some years ago [ knew alittle girl who went to the mountains in New England to spend her summer vacation, Upon her return L said to her, “Bessie, did you have na good the 2? “Oh, yea,” sald she, “perfectly aplendid. I dida't intss a meal," Ready wit a good appetite for every meal proved satisfactorily that she must hayo thoroughly enjoyed the fresh mountain air and the rural exerelse of a country visit, Now, Ike Bessie with her visit, In all these many Weeks that lve formed almost a com- plete year since I wrote my last letter to 'The Home, 1 have not missed the reading of ‘The Home letters, and although tastes differ and we ennpot all sce or think alike, we cer- tainly have the power of diserhininatton, and, Jt the Dill-of-fare is not exnetly to our taste, there isso much yarlety upon the table that we can &lince at the dish and pass it by, and indulge in something that better suits our faucy,—probably the discarded dish willbe Just what some one else wants, The older Writers should be very enutious In their erlt- ielsms lest they intimidate the new-comers, and cause them ty leave tho table. t does, Indeed, seem as if every one night by this ting have learned the arto cooking, and could dispense with recipes; besides: there are a legion of couk-books aftont all over tho land; but there is many a young housekeeper Who, with her inexperience, enn fall even With her eook-book before her, there ire many fittle hints and sug; dropped tn ‘The Lome that would mal of an impression thin 8 score of books. A person uy bu sincere In the desire to know how to doa hit of fancy work, Some one ts willlng to tell her, and af course no one but the person asking need read the artt ele, for there Is plenty to rend besides; so pray don't find fault, Some onu else wishes to know howto muke yeast, or good bread, or rolls, ete. An experienced housekeeper raises her hands In holy horrer, “Don't know how to make bread!” Why, of course, she dov’t, She isa young bit of n thing.—seareely left the school-roum, whi olne Gne asks her to be his bride, and where was the thug for lessons in housekeeping? She has but jast entered the new school and boldly declares her lgno- rance and asks for Information, Walt it sho Tits dutd the: ee uuetenes of tho uld housekeep- er, and, Instend of asking, she will be ready and wilting to impart knowledge, dt iy fortunate for the young men whose salaries are. very Ihnited and who want a sweet littly home of thelr own, and a bright little face to welcome them, that the one they choose for a companton docs not desire to commences housekeeping where her parents left of, but is willing to conumence ut the very fuot of the ladder and slowly and surely ascend step by. step, adding to thelr house somothing new and pretty as the purse will allow, Some of the readers of The Tome may de- sire a serap of povtry, something that perhaps hus Impertectly been Fagin ther ears for days. Ifany one can ryghtly quote lt for her it WHI be kind, and, of course, perions know Ing it need not rend It, or, If they do, make ho remarks, if Chat wishes to remain perfeelly incog, to ‘The Lome friends and readers everywhere, we can form our opinion as to the sex, and ent read her (thore, you kuow my oplulon) let. ters, and enjoy them tov, and If she is happy In the ‘urave-yards? of her imaginations we are willlig that she even write about ghosts! —and ff her brother-in-law has a taste for pea milnee ples, we are more than willing ne should ent them. But we know that he must be a doctor ur he woukt not advise such a plain dessert. df Forty Years chooses to fill up his letters with Imbienge words, what care we, while we have upon our library table Webster's Une abridged, : ‘These new names and new faces! ITow strange to us the old Home seoms, but we still cling to le with a fond tennelty, for wo ovensionally recognize an old frien who car- rley us back to the long ago, when ‘The Home seemed a wee bit more social nnd homelike. [hope the wanderers will return, byeand-by and tell us what they have been about so long, and give us the bonvilt of thelr tong vacation. Ausr Lucy, TUE TYPICAL YOUNG MAN, HI6 WEAKNESSES EXPOSED, ‘the Editor of The Uncago ‘Tribune, Cuicaago, Feb, 22—What do Tho Toma folks think about # Hterary club, composed atthe boys -und horrid men (bachelors, ol und young), vio will measure Intellects with Wgh-School girly, young ladies, and matden Judies, age agalast age? If our gentlemen frlends fnslst that the Indies Isten to their views on learned subjects (ag they did some the slnee), they must defeat If they can the woman of equal age, and not cast slurs upon a school-girl whosu taste for sulld reading hag nut been formed. No ane expecta the lad of {5 to read sclontifie essays; then why showld # school-girl (her entire thie being devoted te text-books) bo censured for not being conversant with books that It hus taken, ages for authors to compound? At 1h ing Mterature wd history been mustered? You wotld certainty preter tliat your young stus dont ghoul know more of ah author that of iis Wdens, ‘There aro as many learned womon 13 men, {f not more; but our brothers will have nothing to du with a blue-stocklng, a strong- infaded wont, or one Interested In polities, A Wonk must remaln within her proper sphere and not fidulge in unwoniuily pure sults, shy does become Interesied in philosophical, sclentitle, lous oF IHerary subjects, she must not expect the learned young quan to eonpare ideas with her, He js ke the overgrown selwolboy who always whips asunaller boy, and, when hy reaches manhood, SUI ingsts on dyhting where there Isa possibility of victory. . Quite right, my triend, “Don't yenturo beyond your depth,” as has been sald tn The Nome qilte frequently, ALLS yours of ngo hoy extremely Iiely to be dull at his books; at 17 he sueers at the girls; ably he Is usually: outof-sehool aid In somo business, Iu prac: dees twilig a cane, wears a Nght overcont, cultivates a deep cough, und thinks he is manly. Atidhe ts so very wise, uboya the conmion herd of inanidnd, and fondly tine aghies that ho has amustache, At2 Young Ainerica nukes tove to the girls, cally om “dulnles,” aduires tholr style (at least, of a certaln few, whom in atteryears he erltielses beyerely for Jack of Dralits), When he ix 2) there ig no house large enough for hhu; and, for six months or more, his trends ure made inlserable by a contemptible swell, Probably ho has been enguged a number of thnes, and really thought each chosen one a divinity, No stares at the pretty faces, Mrte with young ladles who ever even see hin, tells how the girls all sinile on him, aud lives ino fool's paradise, until he suddenly wwak- engto discaver the remarkable (rath, the cruel fact, that he 13. only an ordluary saa after all, und notone of Nature's noblemen, Uo then becomes melancholy and aerfmonl- ous, and lashes Mls tongue and pen against tha Indies, blamtng thei for deceiving him, ‘Thoy know that'to Indulge nan’ vanit makes htn goud-natured, and an illenatured nan Is much worse than 8 cross-gralned old mald, for the dattery and airy nothing whieh are whilapered Into willing ears are re- pald tenfold in better coin, Such are the young men who think they understand the demands of public opluion.? rn Leat's letter was beautiful, ‘Vopsey ‘Tinkle, Heree with you, for I don’t like glaomy: 8, and Amateur Poet reminds mg of “Dismal Jemmy.” His letter nude me think of “all sorts of infseried.”" Pendenals, start the ball rolling for our is awkward and ¢lub, Don’t you aduire the Newceombs and Pendennises nore than Yantty Falr? L intended to go to ‘The Home meeting Wednesday afternoon, but, of course, the rain. prevented ime, Todo net know ag £ should have been admitted, but was In hopes of seeing some fanillinr faces. If at the next meating a aulet gray-eyed Quaker appears, you will admit her, won't you? for tt will bo PRISCILLA, THE PURITAN MADEN, FLORICULTURE, THE CAMELLIA JAUONICA, ‘To the Editor of The Chicage Tribune, Orrawa, IIL, Bub. 1—A few woelks ago alady raked some questions regarding the cameliln japonica, and, as L eannet now ree qaull Chem, perhaps a general talk on Us fa yorit plant will not prove unliteresting. The first knowledge we have of this woudrously venutiful plant was given us by Father Kamel, a Moravian inissionary who traveled sargely in Asta, nnd saw the tres growing in China, and tho plant was Latlitzed Into Camnellus In honor of him It {Is really 0 native of Japan, whence Its name Japonsea, aud belongs to the genus of the tea plant, At first tho cultivators were unsuccessful In its culture, ns they treated it ns a stovo plant, and experlence has (aught ua this eannot In done, Faney, if you can, those beautiful blossoms growing ons trea twenty-five aud thirty feet high, as thoy do fn thelr native soll, What would be sore beautiful as thetr glossy overgreen follugy towers above us, dotted with thelr — mngnificent blossoms oof serlimsan, = buff, whitte, red, yellow, variegated, and — blotched, and must render them one of the most beau- tiful features of san Oriental Inndseape? Could we beliokt them, our small plants of a footor two in bight, aud our diminutive palms, woul shrink inty - insignificance. One comfort remains to: us we cannot see them, and were ours as large we coult nob take Liem fn our homes and wate and enre for thet as we now do, A. kind friend once sent me whatshe thought was a camellia, nud Ltreasured Jt as comlig from her, and after a tine learned ft was an orange-tree, It was doubtless the nilatake of the florist from whom she obtained it, So I filled to see the beautlful blossoms which I hoped to, The dapanese use the seed for cooking and medi- cine; and from some extract wn oll for anolating tha hair. In our Southern States and Cullfornin: they grow Jute darge slirtths, and need no” protection in winter, wilh teaches us that they ure quite hardy, pithough great care tust be observed, for ff the least frost: touches them we lool in valu for blossoms, They tre propagated from. seed, cuttings, grafting, and fnarching. 1 wottld not advise any one to try the seed, as they are sometimes two yerrs In starting, and may be very Inferlor when the blossom: appears. Grafting should be dons In August. nnd September, and Inarehing in July, The endtings nay be started unde glass, Care mitist nlways be observed in watering, as too itech or too litle water will cause the buds to drop, and the tempeniture must remain eyen, and there be no sndden change of any kind, or the result would be the same, Water thorougliy, und turn all water from the saticer, as they ate very sensitive, and sour soitlg always sure death, ‘The leaves must be sponged frequently. In Ets native woods the camellia grows tn moist, slady localities 5 therefore do not put [tin dhe sun, and, Hf the buds are thick, plek off the small wenk ‘ONES, that the blosseniy may not crowd cach other, Never touch the buds, ns they blast so easliy, ond do not sprinkle ‘when In bud, but apply the water to the sol] and sponge the leaves If necessary. If your leaves are spotted, Ht was caused by sprinkling when the sun was on thom; care inust here be ex- erelsed also. People think them dliiicult to succeed with, but we are told they are not, Teannot say from uetual expericnee, os £ have never ralsed any, ‘Thoy need bul little heat or sun, and J fall to see why they are not more generally cultivated in window- gardens, They aro usually expenstye, but hot more so than many other plants, 4hey will-div If you give too rich asoil, There are soveral of the evergreen shrubby varie- tes whieh do well in the dry aly of our living rooms, Ong of the best Is what ts known ay. Plitttaporiin tobtrachtnenaty; Ht ins a bean tiful glossy, dark color, rleh follage, tnd mine now has over sixty clusters of buds, some opentng and some still forming. ‘The Idugsom iy white, very fragrant, and my small tree is na great favorit with me, and fragrant, white Sowers seem to be in greater demand | than any other. If any one ean tell md how the plants are in- reused L shall be pleased lo learn, A dlorist tried Inst sinner nine diferent: lips, wad in various witys, but was unsuccessful with all, Ithtnk Isliall try layering In the alr when summer conics, as that Is the only way left me, Anolhor iavorlt which Is now In dioom isthe Mrs. Jolin Sul primrose; [bis pure white, and tho blossoms as double as roses, beautleuny fringed, and Is such 4» useful Iittle blossom. There hag been but little recently In ‘Tho Tome regarding plants, but as tho season Is now neatly here ta commence work, wo shall expect to seo more, Can any one tell ine Where I can obtaln seer CUanthirsdampterl 2 The for n few years, and I am yery. desirois of obtulning s vine for next whiter, and one that will repay ine with its pecullar blossoms, ‘This has been a favorable whiter in uany re- speets for plants; not as many blossoms, per- linps, ng If tho sun shong more, but few com pared with lust whiter have lost their plants by frost, Of course some few dled; this we expect, and wecarry away the em} ptyehair, and dolng thus, axclains ° Well, E will start a, geruilium or begonia in that, for L distlke tnpty, spaces In my pant home?” Anil how well some begontias bloom, L have ous varl- ety with the stalks containing the blossoms nearly a yard Jong, and so full of blossoms that £ was oblixed to tie it up to keep It from falling off the shelf, and it did bre branch from its next nelylvor, a seal ylu. ‘Phe blossoms aren dellente pink, and thoy strew their delleato leaves fur and near, Some plants well repwy us, and others, for some Unknown cause, are tfailure. For ex- anple, L have two geranlums which Hye be side ench other, und have the entire winter, ‘tho hain and sun fall on earch alike; one hus ten Lirge clusters of blossoms, and the other shows nota bud, but fs growing rapidly up ward, Each is ueveptuble, for ong gives me plenty of foliage, and the other bright senr- et bloom. Do you ever let some plants ran wilt to see what thoy willdo? Aimusime, fs it not? particularly In vines, ihavea green and white Wandering Jew, which grew two yards Jong, trailed on the floor, and Leut it om. Iam now s what some Kenilworth ivy will do, is Is Deautiful little ving, And you can teach ft to go any and every where; and how persistently It will steal In phe background In the dark, and grow go tong and whltel Tt ia always in bloom, and keeps one picking olf the seed calla Stay Zs You ask me. what Tink Kills May Zu: You ask me what T thi of Aondehty formed In youth, and if it is not more listing. L will Urieily say 1 think I fs, uid some of youth's dear trends will ever remiin treasured as none othargy por- Haps; snd one reasun {s, that tt recalls so wuch that Is bright and happy in our life when time ts long and merry-making our postin. But even some of them prove ailso, and ting reveals the skelcton tous, It fs Marder to find. this true, for wo thought we knew them, and thus we turn to those of more recent date, and iid aven in later years that. firm, true ffendship awaits us.” Iels best not to make too great a contidant of any one, for “famillarity breeds contumpt,” agi {t wo wish to Reape bearet lat us be the one to commence it Jealousy destroys many so- called trite trlendships; and then, who war iy commenced, cach must: fight thelr own battle, and too often falsehood flashes Uke powder In the air, and, if ong friend is under aillmitions to nother, It often creates dis- cord, And if one minis heard berathiyg an- other youinny be sure he owes Im a klid: tess, and fy Wylag to lower iin in the esteem of others, fie very coutlous Ja forming frlendslilpss and take heed of a speody pro- fessing friend; love Is never lasting whlch Hames: before iF burns, “Acts speak for themselves,” and [ profer an acting to 9 pro fossing frlemd. Prtemdtship requires facts, and is made tust by Interwoven devds, One feela most nt tusa with old frends, as they do with old shoes, Puun Lia. LIFE’S SADNESS, A SENSINLE LETTER, ‘To the Kdltor of The Chicago Tribune, Oakwoon, Mich., Feb, W.—L am a strang- er, but Cshould ike to Join ‘The Home els- ele, Lhope you will not meet mo with an extinguisher for my dhn literary rushlight. Ihave beon ‘thinkIng of tha tendency of . this age to plilosuphize and moraltze, It ty not md new thought: It tg subject of debate Inthe schools, whethor ¢his philosophizing spirit Is antagonlstic to poetry and to Iiter~ ature as anart, but the antlsclentitic and souglovliug ‘Thirty Years, and tho gloauy slelaee of Auatour Poet, brought it up aguin, ‘rhe world has passed frot {ts childhood to its youth; from Its sweet, ballad lullabica ant pleture-books to inquiry and study, AC an onal literature begins tu seug and grows on into thought, ‘The charming artlesness of those quaint old Dallads is Linposstble now; an attempt to rovlye Jt would bo only an nifectation, but our growth In this respoct, le scoms to me, 19 not to bo regrettod. Wo could not spare tho old ballad pootry, bub we would not give up tha mantier (onesof our best Inter pacts. And shall wo eireumseribo thelr range, and Jeave thon only description for thelr field? As for “glvlug us more of Nature,” has she wny grace or Beauly ing yet remialng une sung?) Never had mistress auch loynl lovers as she fds fr her pouts. Alnal for mediocre talent in the ninoteenth eenturyl “All the world docs not ie before (where to cligose,” for alt these many, way years men have been thinklng and welting, util sunshine and slnging birds, the beauty of woman, the “aweet country girl? the milkmaid, and her juatie Son ele, ete. have been sing and sung, with all manner ot Shanes Sait upon the themes; sung by the Highest pentus, and sung so well that no one dare elaim the thought again, although it may belony cri ay surely as it eyor did to gone, pots dead a " nallty is ong of the requisits in litera- Jd is fullot exeellont books, anal The § and no ong wants ualinple hash or relist. lence to be original requires 0 while ne- quaintanee with books, with other people's thoughts, to avold serving up thesane Mite fo perhaps aimuch poorer style, and to avo! il the charge. agiarisim. We huye thoughts which wo find sumetines Uhat somebody elo has written out, and we feel alniost like ne- eusing tho writer of fraudident dealing with us. Premember, in wy early school essays, tndlng “tlte” written over some of my shutles that was guiltless of vopying, and that Laupposed ny owe peculiar property t and f fatiey that iL should weite Uitte pours on pastoral subjects, there were some marked originality of wordlng, some strike ing application, same thoughttie undertone, sitnething beside the rhyme and rhytin of atinny skies, and maidens’ eyes, and sweet wild flowers, they would go hte the edilor’s wasteu-buskel, and he, tn preference, would give the public a selection frau Burns ar some ong else, who lived long enough ago fo hays a rheht to those then unelalmed thaurits an mutch helter. ‘The reading of Huxley and Darwin will not spoll the trite. pret AL Nutuns, anbinate and inanimate, will not be less beautiful and suggestive to him beeause he knows con- stituents and proportions, the forces at work and inethods of growth, beense ie his delved with the fualoutst fd) peered {nto mysteries with the naturalist. ‘The best thought of our best thinkers should make ft self felt, and he who dispatages the philos. muleney of thought outside of echullanges George Elliot, Wordds- oft Topsey Tinklo and Ninety Years, jy tho luttes must have the fountalu, of perpetual youth In his heart if it ty frolicsome comiculliles that ho ernves, or else he must lave found life so sad .that, aecording to the Jaw of compensation, he feels that tt fs high tine todnyenehange, Life is pretty much the sume in all ages, Where, then, ald all the mirthful lines come trom; the Joy, even, that we find among our Writers? Life, was snd enough to Cowper and Lamb, but the former pave ws John Gilpla, and who lias not enjoyed the humor of Ella?) There are hitmvreus pages in every library, aud many of them written by those who drained the cup of bitterness, but with sorrow as a con stané guest they mde the world fairly hold its sides with laughter, : Some of us are amateurs all our lives, but if the amateur by young, the atmosphere of this latter half of the nineteenth century, is not so heavy with facts as to erawd aut’ or crush out the natural buoyancy of youth, A moony senthientuity may well bo de- plored, for there fy a wide Utleronce between sentiment and sentimentality, Pathos is not necessarily funereal. “Life [s sad” Indeed, and calls for serious living, but our serlous- ness ww! 2 much more wholesome and healthtul If cheerfulness and livehter be not put tinder the ban, Stage ag you can, but do not court dark melancholy under a delue sion that “Odes to Sorrow and Blasted Hopes,” and “Pears,” and “ ‘The Tomb " pre- suppose a superior order of genius, * Life lg sad,” but there Is @ great deal of sunshine In ieatter all, ‘Chere is much tole ing of sad kuella, but there are some merry chimes, Hope silles just ua brichly, evel if as deluslvely, us she did centurles ago, and above the graves where my dear oes sleep Js not merely “a vague hope and a tra- dition,” but in assurines that takes tho poison frou the sting and lets hia lycht that drives away tho shadows, Tarroo, who doubtless wrote thei WANTS A GUAVIs OF 718 OWN, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Tiypr Panky, Feb, 14.-Whata tremendous bombshell Amatenr Poet has thrown {nto the quict encampment of The Home! Tam a total stranger to it, yet I cannot re- sist the temptution of coming to the defense ofa. P,, and asking a few questions of his adversaries. First to Topsey Tinkle: It scems that, so far as she is concerned, sho has nlinost lost sight of the provions question, and descended to a personal attack, Now, I want to asic ‘Topsey Sf she can truly and honestly say her Ife is and has been a perfectly happy one ? IC dn the very midst of her geentest Heasxures there was nota gaunt, dirk, spectral shadow continually havering before’ her eyes which tented to detract from the present joys and male thet Leis enjoyable than they would be. withon! % Again, what ts. trie liappiness? appl Agi hat $8 tris liappl ? appl. ness for which In this Ife we seek In yun? ig lt the laugh, the joke, the passing jest, the frolic of the hour, die merry, Nght watlysty of tho danee, the slelgheride, or the freedom and excitement of a sail over tho dashing vil- lows of Juke orsea? Nol 9 thousand tines no! ‘Fhese are but tho rifts of sunshine breaking Gough tho clouds of Mfe and make hig the trials of the morrow easter to bear because of thelr recollection. But it is not happlucsst Amun, ie llfe sweeter “for the tral and delay’? Our greatest pleasures wo know are those of antielpation, but remem- ber also that “hope deferred mnketh the heart slek,” and delay cannot imake life happier, b airs down nid crushes the ssptrit, ren mntiolpatlon, tf too dom de layed In Ita fulfilment, will pall pon tho heart and die-of its own weight, Nature ty said, ‘Vopiey to the contrary notwithstanding, and if she will please to tell me when shy ever found it “jolly? 1 will point out to her tho thine when she was in her Jightest mood of envelesness regurd- ing tho toils and cares of lite, With wit cutting sareasin sho comments on what she cannot dispute, descending Trom the sublime to the riienions, from the grave to the crennitory and medical college, and dovsn't the grave tecelve us even thend And does the term “grave” mean shuply Interment? Is {t nob. rather a“ povtle license??? Lfear ‘Topsey has overstepped herself fs surensin. ‘There can be nothing qenlian or ghast- Jy” to the pure heartin thinking of the grave r & z snd death, for it mens to that heart nothing but relief from trhids und sorrows, with a vague uncertain hope of someting better, Mabel tg right In saying “it ts wicked for folks to bu discontentud and sid all the time,” and there has been nothing sail thus far to onesures such Inoods, for none deny that itis our duty to put all tho sunshine possible into our own lves to reflect bright less (ato the Hyves of others. Bow i8 quotes “Every cloud jas a silver Maing, aid otruce Mne was never written but dees thi prove life Is not sad—does It aven say 40?) Again, who ts com paling that the world ts full of sudness, asd woul! hues wny difference if any one did com- platy How does sho know there is a bright and beautiful world where pai and sorrew are never known’? Low doce she kiow we shall surely meet all our frlends above? Can shy see farthor than the grave, nui how does she know thers {3 Bometiatiyg beyond 10? That ly utterly lara, ho hus but the saine feelligs of all mankind, Whether civil- fad oF savage, hops for the future, und y bilnd falth of what she knows absolutely nothing. ‘The ‘hope Js in all hearts, and that hope ty go strong in some they call It fulth, Nature ls full of msusic and sunshine, 1 ad- alt, but is not te aweetest musle that which strikes a chord of sadness, and belts to Mfe un almost forgotten memory of the heart ? Lhops T, Te and Ninety Yours: will appre- clate Srv, 0. 23, dlowett’s © teft-tand erank,! Ninety Yours must be an elderly gent, for he lots hisnself duwn very casy, suas to keep hia conselenoe clear, ad say Lt wasn't back- down, for he adinits that life js sad, ote, and stontly asserts what noone hus denied or will deny, But { suppose ft ly all on account af Wa poliby: ots te pnd i linea frente of hobby-horse: g ‘ridden to death, Je hia att healthy ¥ Hauny, STILL THINKS LEK GIOOMY, To tha Editor of Ths Catcago Tribune, Hype Pank, Ul, Feb. 16,—Once more I fuplore a hearing, In order that I inay retire tength of n street in the most squalid pire, gracefully from tha battle my Inst communt- cation has invoked, ‘The facatioua remarks of Topsey 'Tinklare- jnind ine of ong who stands ta vastbanquol- hall, amid Mashing lights and brilliant com pantons, quaMtng deep draughts of wine, and shouthig aloud songs of joy and pleasure, atriving to forget In tha desperate gayety of tho moment that on tha morrow he dies, Ah, when the revelry ts ended, and the cold, gray dawn steals through tho windows of the disordored room, the song des won tho lips, and allanice fallanver all, Of whut avail thon tho fulsy Inppinoss of on hour's forgetfulness? Dark thoughts Intrude then that cannot be put aside, Lito Is sad, aud To not for a momant suppose that ono of my opponents thliks otherwise, fndeed,: tho gentle tady who writes from Lyons admits as much, and she only inikes one dnistake when she Biyst “You will surely meat all your friends above.” ‘Tho wise assert nothing that exact yee Cannel prove. The true meaning of Ufo fs found only b: those who atrive ta mike tho lot of thelr fel- Jow-men brighter, 1 walked yesterday the tho city, past blocks of frame Dubldings de- caylng with age, and with an avil look, Oh, IF you could have seen tho faews tint vod AL ny from the wilows of those dweltings,—faces so horrible with erlie, ints- ery, despalr, and the marks of terrible pas salons shudowad forth upon then "Mirougt open doora Do egught glimpses of children half clothed, and with their xoung, limbs pineued WHh hunger and Ine with cold, ly ng oulstretehed pou dirty Moors, I raw haggard women with braised faces and dinds ka the claws of a bird of prey, gathoring up bite of cont from the street that thoy might for onee waror thelr ghastly boilies, Dare any one assert, that these pene arg happy? Of what avall ts thobeautifal sunshine when yho are starving? Does who does not feel for others? Who, then, Js happy enous to Bay that fife ds not sad when such wo ts at our Ferg dour? Life is a continual strugele, and that ibis asad ondls proven by the Taek that we who have Jost friends by desth would rather dio ourselves than call them back ngtin, although we know not where thoy are, re. 1f wo wero contented, what would be the motive thit finpels us higher? He who fs satisfied with his tot does not progress, Alxbel Rankin says: “One who Ives 0 hee and nobie life ins no fear of the grave.” sy hat aittogs thie person has a disordered intellect, there lives not one to-day who has no feat of the graye. Mind and body are closely bound together for thelr mutual welfare; and tho bravest tremble at tie thonght of death. Tf Mabel lag no fear of the grave, she Is a phenomenon, NT, siegesls that I take 1 “trip to the seastle.”” In reply I would say that Uheve aleady, been there, T have stood at the head of the harbor ini jaunt fishing town, and Razed itt the shuttered selooners as they came beating up the bay, some of thom with flags at half-mast, Dhave heard the ery of wild-eyed women when the storm-beaten barks drew In, and they Knew that husbands or sons would return no more. I am not by any means a misanthropo, neither du I sneak along life's pathway, moistenlng tho wtoaphers with tears” o£ only wish to remind Ninety Yeurs that those who ride hobby horses naually ride then to death, and to assure Box 4Sithyt, In place of delag a? snappish old bachelor,” Loam only: 22) which, for a man, is not eo very old. have, huwever, lived long enough to con- elude that In order to be truly happy one niust be either angel or fool, Paun F, Browne, MISCELLANEOUS. POEM WANTED. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Monsourit, IL, Feb, 17,—Seolug so many requests answered, Leome with mine, WHHL some ane send me the poem entitled “Teterodoxy,”. written by Florence Perey (Mrs, Ellznbeth Akers Allen) for tho slrt Review several years ago? I nover heard but these two Ines: Whut to me were gates of pearl, {f they parted thee und mor What tho streets o fair and golden, if I walked thom seeking thoc? A complete copy of this poem was sent to Taira Sessenger by Arrow about two yours ngo, but twas not published in ‘The Home, ag a fF inuny hoped tt would. Stamps and sineere thauks will be returned to any one sending the above to my address, Musapona, CHURCH ENTERTAINMENTS, To the Laltor of The Chieago Fxbunes Wrturra, Kas., Feb. 10,—Something lke two years agu the subject of church unter- tainiments was discussed In Tho Home toa Jnited extent. Will some of the Momeltes give me some new suggestions on the sub- ject? Some one then described some beaut! ful tableaux or allegories, 1 tink represent- ing “Tho Seven Ages,” or else Jean Inge- low's “Songs of Siren.” Ldo not remember them, but would be glad to hear fram that same writer again, Dwant anything out of this ofl beaten track of oyster, fee-ercum, necktle, fantom, pound, ote, festlyals, At Trnedlate reply from any and nll will be gratefully aceeptled, A very few of us wish to devise ag many plans for ralsing funds to build a church ag we possibly can. Willsome one who is thoroughly posted on the subject of kindergartens send ine thelr address? Evia G3, A MOUNTAIN HOME, To the Editor of Ths Chicayo Tribune, Breexennmar, Col, Fob, 9,—1f I cross the Range on my snovw-shoes, and come aratnd to the back door, may Leame tn? It has been many along day since I had the pleasure of reading ‘The Home, having exchanged a Chicaga home for ous In the mountains abont a year ago, LT have beon lost without the doar old Trimunn, Now that Lhave come down from above, L cat stay very long. ow sultry the weather ly compared” with our Colorado climes but. thon ie rymembor Chleago a4 aM sunnier resort, Hlow many would like o povp into a mining-eamp 2? And. how many of my falr alstera wauld lke to go prospucting ? ‘This ts truly a grand and glorlous country, And Its beautios eannot be tald in w breath, Should any one of the“ Hoselles wish to know more of it, address: Mouutala Home, cara Home Department, and 1 with soon uiake you all want to come, to ottr siniy, silvery home, BNOW-SIOES, WIGH-PRICKD BEHLOOL-NOOKA. ‘To the Editor of The Chteago Tribune. Sr. Louis, Mo,, Feb. 17.—Thera fs 0 ques: tlon Chaye long wished to ask: Why ds it that school-bouks are so high in price,—so. very high that poor people can soarcely pra- vio thelr children with the books required to attend the publte school ? The State, county, and school districts have control of the schools in eyery othor departuent, aud why not of the books also? ‘The schools are for the benefit of the public, ai shoul be for the poor especially, yet tho benellts are placed almost be yond thelr reach by tho monopoly the manufaepure and alu of it schgol-hooks, Why must this bo? Cun noth- ing be done by which books can ba muds go cheap ng tobe within the reavh of paar est und hnmblest that need them ? Parents who are In good ¢iroumstances find the sehoal-book expense quite a drain Upon the family purse, Le we could suv the necessity of this condition af things wo. would jiot murmur, But there is non, If tls matter ty not to by reachod In any other fern why campot the Legislature act upon ft in some way? ADI was once {n tho past brought bofero that body to reduce the charges on the Pullman Sleoplingcnts, That could, with reason, be thowght nonv of thelr business. A person—iich oy poor—who wishes to make # Journcy ts not competed to ride tn a pale ace-car, there belng other ears wt his dls: posal, art very wil anes, too, Ifa ehtid ta to be eduented, It must have books, and none other than the very books which are so high in price. Hore is a posatbla reform,—one which will result ty good te thousands, "Tite Truuve Is usunlly irst and foreman tn all good and reasonable refoyius. Letsume one or any suggest ® mnetho or methuds by which ftean bran ght abant and the people will rise up anid call you blessed, have some tdeas fhout a way in which this might done, bul would rather hear from othurs, Anothor question of Jess Importango, but great enongh to desire an answoy from Tho tome writers, Is this; Would a town or country resklence, pulnted stone colar, with trim iy in binek, be handsome and in gand TYE taste? Y trinines, Lenny cornice, cle, ‘The outside Biduas to be ‘atone! lee Will some ono give us some fnetruction on the use of culd or hat water forthe abhnents common iia fainily, so tliat u mother cun bu her own physician and provont ai tugs from sant! causcr, erloy 18 Blok. : Aa-ZA0, REFORM IN DRESS DEMANDE ‘Ty the Edttor af The cites Te Citcaao, Veb. 1%—Tho dress of Ninited as it 1s in color and style, exe hfs that: nnd something of his chatnet wherens our dress, without there fy ty ; telsure, ortglnatity, aud a heavy prego, is most a failure, A gentleman's sult, wilh . ita garniture, hall Meth, and of thick, dum bio material, expresses service, ge, ‘O nee ag unilimtted in color AS. NaLure itselt, rivet tug solic aud gland iw chatige of form, at presses—what? S se, or beauty, Ah”, itgiduality of the Weare. eats OF tay. are ho question buon, vine of tig Puralers Comer fo thon, ear lidles all, please real ay " question. Let 3 revolt from Ta inaNet 8 lh Intest style.” Let me quote from Trt ving: r “ Seulptors and painters do portralts or fouls ft the ClITONE stg net for the enrrent state ia transtent. Wi dol nG toalny; It will disgust to-morrow, Tle i. the artists throw over tl Bhonteloes gore alla searfor inautle, whose perfret plivity and graco place tt Leyond the Teac} ‘at the shops of fashion... ‘The rot of Cannitin fy stl olegant for Beateleg et None of us really enjoy this changin, transient way of dress; yel no ow ri way ont of the thralldoo Tam nea reformer av fenulary hut hav qutiek WHI fall tnta ting with refornt Ty or rE a fest es nent Mas Neilson was here in # Night,” a young Judy sald, itwshing. eelth spoke, a8 well she might at so. fenrfiil a tren, wont, “UL wish wo all wore that dress," ya Ter ereING iy (tg holy. mul slauvehing ruin o| He fy Nor to the y rig of Viola tn ths second youn i Sngalaly tig ‘oun ladies, what lf you, this t rt 1830, orgnized'a Miss Neilson style of dad Lis. Annie, RATHER DISJOINTED, To the Editor of The Chicago ‘Tribune, Minwauxee, Wis., Fob, 16.—That is right, wateh your nelghbors! If it were not for your timely enre they might go astray, ‘Therefore nover relax an eifart to keep then “headed ght.” An eye slugte to thelr hap. plness will be of groat benefit to then, and teaye you leisure time to improve your own, imperfections, White you continna your vigilance you feel that you mre fullitling your mlsslon to svelety, Do not allow. thei to nove without tho gentle guidunea of your varefal, nnd. Keep your eyes open wile, On! yo critics, wo knot yours 1s the straight nudonly way, for have yo not sald it? you do not comprehend the frets then deal in supponttton, A Unicly filut or two will help your friends wonderfully, A litle fiction ts ‘the splee of Hfe. Dow't fur the world hore the rod; you might spoil the ehild, ‘The ttrmer the position of your nelgh- bors, the more laboriously must you work to uproot them, If they are led to express an honest conyiction tpon any subject, thelr re murks are revised gud nilseonstracd witt they would not, in fusties to self, acknowl edge them, You purposely misapply thelr meaphig, When jour nelehbors ire feeling Idndly toward all mankind. out, coues ¢ treacherous Dade frou tho knife of the erlte and gives tham a stab, If we alt think the inatter over, thora fs, after all, adeal of comfort to bo derived from it, + Tho true. and’ {ust erltle we have much re- apect for, Gentleman or lady, weeanreadily determine by readhig what they py write, Anarticle written with kindly fecllng dees not need solf-mraise Hes Inserted throtgh it to eonyines the reader as to the suchil post: lon of the writer, We all, syawtttliely ier haps, toll our own story, Our neighbors’ position will bo judged more by thelr pollie and friendly minuer than by wiint the critics may say of them. : ‘The cartl’s dopendent on the will of Goi. Thon why, O Critis of tho Uni sl ‘Shon allotted go mitch wladom ton few of ‘Thy poor, humbleservants 2? ‘Thow hast not, that we know. ‘They hava assumed ‘Thy Rewer, (?), and tried to force ‘Shy sceptre from "hee, Mndge, I perused with much pleasure your klidly weleome to new contributors, and thank’ you for reaching outa hand of welvome toomany who would like to feel “at home” among you. Orlenn, you tuo, must be an. honest, ectrnneteni thy led woman; not egotistleal, not selfish, Florence, you ean remodel your chair—for a hlue-room, and make It very pretty, by frst painting the franework bie; before the palit fy dry fnsert some tiny leaves aud vines. Whon perfeetly dry, varnish with white varnish over the whole, If you wish the sent made now, you can fill Tt with bathingorsen-grass, Ifyou lave It; sg Insert aapring ta tho centre (f you lave one hand Tf not, tho batting will da, Cover the seat nteely with blue, plaln, or fignred worsted or colton goods, as you prefer. Cover simouthly, and put a full puff around the. edge, You will find by following Unis plan that you will have a cheap, attractive, and comfortatle chair. You can use elther pre Por aril Heli leaves aud vines for decorating te ‘rane, It’s a tro saylng thatone must go away from home to hear the news. As] perttsed the heatlines of ‘Tho Home, Feb. 1, 1 Fearned that was mother of i fully, Nothing ike knowing Jt in thne. 1 have been welehed down with eare ever since, At least ten tong years have bean atlded te iny Ife In n few short hours, ivy Ovk ‘TNE MISERIES OF DOMESTICS. To the Eitor of The CAcaga Triburic. = Cintcago, Feb: 12.—It 13 written, “Ife who murmurs at his lot Js We one who bares his fect to tread upon thorns,” LT wish only to relate © bit of my axperl eneo; please do not consiler ine a black sheep or grumbler {1 the dear ome. T went among strangers to do general housework, ‘Tho Indy of tho housa was Il. Moy “girl? had toft hor. Sho was blest with a fow small childrgn, © Her house was be contig nan uninhabitable condition, Sho had anurse who would stay for a tine, but wouldn't take pity aud help her? Wasn't Latrong? Surely L was onpable of golty ahead and taldng tho care of a housebolt upon inysalf for awhile at Teast} 1 had done ag much in the past and might again, Although somowhat out of the routine, lay ing been engaged in othor pursuits, Con cludlig T would domy utntoat for this wonl anand hor Familiy Tarrlyed nt ove, and wis Joxfully revelyedl, tradually the home woren different aspect, With good dinners and clea surronndings game ‘chverful faces and a happy spirit Hhraughont, My Inbors wore praised and a pasee ty appreciated. «Twas snttatied, ale Lough’my vores ached from over and can stantexertion, and I felt imysott fase drifting Into Ignorance and comparatlye lwolatlon, de cause, from lnek of care for my porsonal tp pearance, L had even no time for gmail wee tal bnpravement, FE was nda to feat myst totntly unit to" ngsoeluto with Antellixent ehildien. Poor mal My room was cold, and without a curtain ta tha window Newt my bei, ‘tho autalde bilnd was hall gone, a articles various wore stored near me whel notinuss, [vould nobalt in there when T dl not feel Ike: retiring, It was oxtruvde ant to burn fuel for my econ dation tn tho kitehon, and the members of tho funily were jn the dlining-roain, whifsh wae used ‘for a gitting-room, too, 1 was hot neoled with the nurse, Onee L wasinfo mt Linight git in the dining-room, ws tho, the dren were using the kitehen, and, with $n Impression of buing highly honored, ae thors and ridlenlously rewd "THe TRS E Agaln, when brushing ny teuth, one of ie children remarked upon it with great. 8 prise, a4 he did not know “girls” over that. ‘Ln A thousand ttle ways, iw + mado keenly to feel my subordinate positlo and almost that Lwas “in: diagraco, whlly foollahly thought: any. wark lionorable an dlasurvliys of respectfil encoursgument. lex At nsf my uuilstress becoming eonva’t cent, tho nurse loft, and I, worn out. woul havd gone atvo, bud tt was belleved 1 a falgned Mines, and, alyeo there wis 80h ainleulty and dolay {a uctring ano! hor ait could leave where L had thought to ito = well and aly such credit. to myself? bast L pig chiar ty L ought to stay ayd do the could, and 1 dit. " on bocombng better egualuted, I four ny mnlstreay very much of i lady nt hen, and one who bad “the | literests her those moet cr sanatdorod | betirs own, Sho had been — th ¥ terrible ordeals from servant guns wie represonted themselves well, und been nin im and again tormented by tho Jawless Bet, i rm sho mlght wleld volumes, and she expect potting from my ut ae Shiv hal betty strongly profudtopd that te was with alt! eu Leould’ convince her that Leven meant wer by her. ‘Cus waa E yicaiselously compe Ne to bear tho reality of the nsaurtlon Hat aN thing or nothing was goo guough for 4 hire 8 gl i cannot sce why housawork should 4