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"n Rood to spond u quiet, lolsuro hour,
Ami trace our kindred In a bird or flower;
To set) wherein wo dllTor. whoro agroo,
In lovos or tato, desires or destiny.
Ono truth U clour: whichever way wo turn.
Wo And mi open hook troin which to loarn
Homo old llfo lost, or higher llfo begun
Homo Kood to copy, or hoiiiu vlco to shun.
Tho Itobln ltcdbreast. boni of common clan,
Him virtues thiit iiro note.T culled hy man.
Knrly ho rises, and on topmost limb,
With naugtt ol enrth between tho sky and
him,
Ills llrst Kind thoughts ascend In roundelays.
And Knrtii resounds with mullow songs of
praise.
Throughout thodny. nnd In no slothful mood,
Ho socks In sod mid furrowed ground for
food,
Ami ll mis In grubs nnd worms his hutnblo
fore.
Nor lonirs for dulntlns from the iincnr nlr.
Btiong nnd courageous, ho desires no feud.
Yet, always ready to (lofoml his brood.
No hnwk so large, or wily snnko so'sly,
That braves bis homo mid dures his Btrcngth-
' to try,
Hut find in him n foe thnt never ylolds
The coiiiiRrlng hero of n thousand Holds.
Ys, well In' loves his homo no spot so dear
Elso why rebuild his nest from your to year?
A Why hasten buck InBprJng, through sluot and
snow
Tho (list to greet Us, nod tho last to go?
0 feathered songster, bird of ruddy bronst,
in form and plumage how supremely drcstl
No blid thnt sing or win bios on tho tree .
Is half us graoolul, or as proud, to mo.
Tho Wlntor lingers till thv volco I hoar
Wjthout thv song 'twould linger all the year:
And. should I live where reigns oternal Spring,
I'd list onch moni to hear the robins sing.
Ahl can it bo that, when I was u boy,
1 sought to kill thee, and thy brood destroy,
Thy nost to shatter, and thy hopes to dash.
And witli thy eggs and young to play "blind
smash'"
Sooner than this right hand, that holds this
pen,
Should send a shaft to harm this bird again,
Or, worso than that, my heart should wish him
ill,
May this hand withor, and this hoartbo still I
O evening warbler, sing those vespers o'rrl
They take me buck to my Now England shore;
They bring to vlow nuain my boyhood home,
Tho woods and pastures whoro 1 used to roam,
Tho stony paths whoro my buro feet have
trod,
Tho schoolhoiiso, playground and the muster's
rod.
Within thy song 1 hear my mother's cnll
Tolcnvo my marbles, kite, nnd bat nnd ball,
Ami out tho wood or on tin errand go.
And find a pleusuto more than plays bestow.
Hut, bettor still. O bltd of lovely wing,
Teach me the song of praise you love to sing;
Lead mo to louvo, whon my day's work is
done,
And groveling cures tholr dally rounds huvo
run,
Tho sod ami furrows 1 nm wont to stroll,
And seek the higher plnoes or tho Boul,
And loam the lesson, so divinely given,
That oaros of oarth obitruct tho vlow of
Heaven.
0. P. Itusstll,in Chicago Tribune,
"A REVERSION: ITS PRODUCT."
"Whntdo you think of that, Roggio?"
said a tall, dark youth to another of th
same gilded typo, tossing him a letter,
lis. they throw themselves into adjacent
scats fn tho smoking room of tho Blen
heim. ''A woman's, evidently," is the an-
t!inv iu Ilia frwmd rrlolinna nf if All'"
he adds a moment later, as ho opens it,
"I have had a few billets-doux, hut
none quite of this sort. What is the
little game?"
" Precisely tho question I thought you
might answer mo.1'
" Never did an aorostic in my life,
Tim. Hut let's see hum! The lights
are as puzzling as ever. Whon did you
get this?"
".lust now, as wo came in."
"Of course, you don't know tho writ
ing of your anonyma?"
"No, it looks too straightforward to
ho feigned."
" A maid might have dono tho need
ful." " Hardly. It ia too much tho hand of
a lady."
"A friend?"
"I don't think a girl would care-to
give one such a possiulo whip."
"Sum total,. Tim. This is from a
young lady you don't know. She must
take a marvellous interest in you. if tho
acquaintance he really so one-sided."
" Exactly; that puzzles mo. Beside,
how could slio know tho very sum I lost
liwt night at tho Phoenix?"
"Thafs easy enough. The Ilchrew
has a tout wherever there's a Hash,'
and such a hot thing as you made of it
would he sent straight to him this morn
ing. "
" Kven so, lie is not likely to havo re
tailed it in Mayfair."
" No; hut May fair, in tho person of
some hard-pressed dame, may have paid
him a visit."
"You're no good, Hog. Too much
of the 'Leggity' has dulled the liner
perceptions ot your youth."
" 1 hot you a fiver that if you go to
Sharp street you'll find Isaac' knows
more of this note than either of us."
"'Twould ho hardly fair on her to ask
n. if ho did."
him
Theodore 1 nncs Montague, called from
early Kton days Tim, was tho second
son of Lord Heighleigh, and had made
life so rapid that his fourth year in the
Rrigndo found him in the hlack hooks of
that irascible, wealthy, hut somewhat
close-listed peer. Ho'had already got
through a vorv tidy property which his
mother had loft him. Thrico had his
father paid, under severe protest, what
other men would consider anything but
small fortunes, all of which had gone
into the gulf that is surrounded by cards
and horses. On tho last occasion ho
had boon warned that if his sufficiently
handsome allowance was excooded ho
must get himself out of tho mess.
For a time tho burned child had
dreaded Hut lire enough to keep in safe
ty; but as with most men, the tempta
tion coming suddenly nnd unexpectedly,
all his resolution vanished, and, begin
ning with a delusivo vein of luck, ho lost
more at ono sitting than ho could now
Itfjjy to obtain anywhere. It was al
ready midnight of Satin day, nnd tho
following Monday ho was compelled to
produce u large sum or say "gocd-byo"
to much that ho found he could not
glvo up without mnkiug life a greater
lank than ho cure to face.
The nolo that ho anil Teinpcrlay had
been discussing was curt chough
" If yon wish to avoid unpleasant
consequences, don't waste another day,
but go straight to him who has helped
you before. Tho ten thousand will bo
forthcoming."
The envelope bore tho Western Dis
trict post-mark. It came from a sta
tioner in Mayfair. Other cluo there was
not.
Several cigarettes and iced drinks had
been consumed since Tim's last remark
on tho subject, when Heggio broke tho
long silonro. which mav or may not bo
taken as indicative of ifeep thought, by
saying suddenly: " I tell you what, she
means your Governor, of course. It's
as clear as mud. Nover mind who she
is. Tho tip's straight enough. You go
on and make a clean breast of it to
morrow, after luncheon, and I'll lay you
a pony to nothing you'll ibid yourself
treat cM, down to tho last detail, like tho
prodigal son."
But tho other shook his head. " No,
Ilea, it's nastv enotijrh to havo broken
my word
ah need if 1
to the old pater, but r
'in
can go and tell him so."
will, sooner or later, my
Others
dear fellow.
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Why not scoro off your
" A bad simile. Resides, he's as hot
as Lucifer and might say something I
could not swallow, though 1 deserve it.
No, 1 must stand tho shot myself some
how." " But how?"
That to-morrow may decide. Any
how, I'll turn in now. Perhaps a quiet
night for once may bring a happy
thought."
But tho next day was well on before
Tim hailed a "Forder." and found
himself en route to the friend of tho im
pecunious but expectant ones of tho
" upper ten."
Familiarly known among his numer
ous clients and their friends by a Scrip
tural cognomen only, ho whom Tim
sought in his difficulty had long cast off
his family name, and with it many of
the traditions and prejudices of hisraco.
Nature had greatly assisted him. Fair,
and not too markedly nasal, his face
might have been pronounced distin
iruished. Certainly his manner was as
pleasant as his appearance. His terms,
though sometimes high, wore nevur
very iiard. and few, if any, found him
exacting as to his pound of llesli. He
was a banker, in fact, though not per
haps of the orthodox order, and pos
sessed some of tho qualities in which
they, as a class, are wanting. Besides,
as not. a few of his fair clients whis
pered, he evidently had a history.
Tim's not over-pleasant thoughts were
recalled by the cab stopping, and, as ho
walked up tho path in tho garden
which separates tho house from
the road in St. .John's Wood,
ho tried to comfort himself by think
ing that possibly tho boldness of tho
stop was in his favor. Tho neat and
rather pretty maid who answered his
ring was as unlike the attendant of tho
conventional money-spider as were tho
surroundings of tho house, outside and
in. Hardly had ho time to cast an ap
preciating glanco at tho pictures and
other evidences of cultured tastes in tho
room, when a tall, well-bred-looking
man entered, and, with an agreeable
smile, said; " Ah! Captain Montague,
just in timo for tho best of things, if
men would but havo tho courage of their
opinions -luncheon provided they havo
time and an appetite. I hope you havo
both at your disposal."
Now, Tim's experience of his host
was confined to Sharp streot; horo ho
evidently placed himself on tho level of
his visitor. It was novel, but necessity
is an imperative master, and tho answer
came readily enough; "You are very
good. 1 have not. long finished tho lirst
meal of the da', but "
" A Mayonnaise and a bottle of Dag
onet's brut will do you no harm. Come
in. 1 am quito alone," interrupts tho
money-lender, as if divining tho cause
of tho soldier's hesitation.
The repast audits concomitants might
have tempted a much jaded appetite.
Certainly, they made Tim forget utterly
what brought him there, and presently,
under tho further inlluenco of curacao
and tho best of Havanas, ho found him
self discussing tho social topics of tho
day as freely as with ono of his own
lot. They had gone over tho unac
countable failure of tho Derby favorite;
tho weather, and tho racing at Ascot;
the last good story from Pratt's; the
next possible phase of the troubles
across St. George's Channel, when Tim
was brought up all standing by tho re
mark, made with all apparent indiffer
ence: "So 1 hear that tho Pliienix
rose, indeed, from its ashes the other
night."
Like the bucket of .cold water that it
was, it seemed to brace tho intending
borrower to the forgotten, but necessa
ry, striking point.
"Yes, it's true, nnd I wish I had left
it there some time ago, but my luck,
folly call it what you will -took mo
back again on Friday, the first timo this
j ear. and "
"You dropped ten thou', or rather
the uncomfortable promise to pay that
amount."
" You know all about itP"
" Why, yes; I should hardly got on
in these days of twice-pledged property
if 1 did not have more than one pair of
eyes and ears to trust to."
"Then I had better bofrink, and say
I came here with the intention of ask
ing your help once more."
"I know that," was tho quiet an
swer; "but how is it to bo dono? You
havo nothing loft, of your own. All you
have or expect from your father is tho
annuity, which is so stricll
triciiy
tied up
that it is useless to talk of it'
" Then," says T m, rising, "I had
better face tho only alternativo ami tell
him the hole I am in. Ho can't do
more than stop tho allowance, which
won't be much good to mo if I don't
pav up to-morrow."
Hut this announcement instnntly
worked an unexpected change in tho
manner of his host. It seemed as if
they were suddenly transported to
Sharp street, as tho money-lender, with
all tlio profession in his tone, Raid:
"My dear sir, you are loo hasty! Busi
ness is business; and I care no more to
send it away than a poorer man. You
havo something to sell."
" I !M ejaculated Tim, with astonish
ment. "Yos; a rovlslon'ary interest."
" In what?" asks tlio other, sinking
into his chair again with an expressive
shrug of his sholders.
" Your father is of a certain ago."
"Well?"
" Your brother is unmarried; falling t
him, you nr
i-o the next heir."
"Sol"
" You shall havo what you need to
morrow, for your reversion and a
promise."
"To do what?"
"Marry my daughter."
Tho hot blood of the Montagues
Hushed all ovor poor Tim, and tor a
moment It seemed ns If he would forget
everything and hurl something harder
tlrm "No" at the head of tho cool pro
poser of such an extraordinary bargain.
Hut, with all his recklessness, ho knew,
at times, the virtue of prudence, which
certainly was contained in tho reply
which was waited for with ill-concealed
impatience.
"I am afraid that even if you cared
for a pauper son-in-law, the young
lady would prefer some one of hor own
choosing."
" All that is my affair, answers tho
father, with a grandiose air.
Tim weighs rapidly the position. Re
fusal meant ruin, utter ami complete,
for even if his father paid up, ho certain
ly would f n fill his threat, and cut him
oft instantly with the proverbial shilling.
On the other hand, he might hao
freedom from a hateful position for
really nothing. His brother was young,
strong, and, having only to amuse him
self, and not oven tho contingent risk of
being food for powder,
matrimony but here tne
And as to i
sharp tmilg
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which shot through him told him that
there was ono who might hear of his
marrying another with something more
than indifference, who might feel that
she had some claim to be considered in
in nny bargain affecting his futuro. Ho
hesitated painfully till he remembered
that his now certain poverty prevented
even tho hope of his offering her any
thing, and then, with a look which
went to the heart of the other, ho
gave him his hand and said, in a
linn, but strangly altored v.oico: "It is
a bargain. As to the latter part, I am
at your disposal after I am oil' with tho
old love, which won't take long under
the circumstances," ho added, with tho
grimmest of smiles.
The money-lender looked at him ques
tioningly for a moment and then, ap
parently satislied with the result, said;
" Very well, I'll prepare in a few min
utes a document which is, perhaps,
more formal than necessary. Sign it,
and you shall havo what you require in
the morning,"
Half an hour later, as Tim drives back
towards his Bohemian quarters, lie finds
his heart is offering sundry reasons for
delay. Obeying an impulse he does not
stop to question, he suddenly alters his
direction, and presently finds himself
on tho doorstep of a house which had
seen him not unfrequeiitly in the last
few months. As he gous up stains he
wonders vaguely in what sort of state
ho will come down much as tho young
soldier going into action speculates on
the probabilities of his needing a. stretch
er. Little time for further reflection is
I given nun, for, as the servant retires,
i lie sees at the other end of tho room
tho tall, graceful figure ho now feels ho
has learned to love overmuch for his
happiness. As she moves toward him
hor fair faco beams with the unconscious
but unmistakable light of love, and
leaves no doubt as to her beauty, while,
with the frankness which is not the
least of her charms, she says: "1 am so
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glad you have come; it is quite an ago
since we met.
Anything but a coxcomb, Tim cannot
but see that the task that is feet before
him is harder than lie had dared to think
possible.
" You havo found it so," he says, ten
derly, us he takes her hand and sits be
side her. And then there falls upon
them both that too eloquent silence
which tolls so much. Of course, she
was tho first to find the advantage of
speech. Rut were things made bettor
as she said, with heightened color:
"Did you get a letter from a namo
less friend last night?"
" Yes," he answered, with amaze
ment. "Do you know anything about
it?"
"Well yes, I forgot you would not
know my writing, and I did not liko to
put my iianio to such a piece of advice.
Hut havo you seen your father?"
"My father?" asked Tim, as if ho
could not be further astonished.
"Ah! I must explain. Ho was horo
yesterday, and as Uncle Philip is rather
deaf, I heard, perhaps, more than was
intended. But," and hor violet .i
soften and fill with teais as she turjis
them on his face, "whj will you be so
reckless,? Your father, though, allowed
thero might ho somo excuse to oiler. Ho
would not condemn you unheard, and
ho decided that if you went, confessed
and promised amendment, he would pay
what you had lost once more."
Poor Tim! So Reggie had been right
after all. And ho? Well, ho had sold
his birthright, his love, his happiness,
nnd tlio sooner ho crept away, like tho
hound, he felt, tho bettor.
"Now for my trumps," said Tim's
host, a few minutes after he had gone,
as he stepped Into tho perfectly appoint
ed Coupe, which ho ordered to bo driven
to Lord Helghleigh's.
' Mr. Howard?'' said the old Peer,
bowing stillly, as ho looked inquiringly
from the card he held li his hand to the
face of his unknown visitor.
" Yes, my lord. A friend -If I may
say so of your son."
"Which?" was tho question nut in
rt tone which did not imply that he ad
mitted tho passport.
"Captain Montaguo."
" Ah! you have coino as his ploador?
Ho has not tho courage himself to toll
what 1 know already."
" I may say at once, if you nlludo to
what happened on Friday flight, that ho
has already arranged tho matter."
"Tho dickens!" said the astonished
father. " Who has been fool enough to
lot him havo such a sum?"
.. i l,:lVo!" Is tho
calm answer.
The old man starts, looks at his visitor
keenly, sees that there is more to follow,
and motions him to a seat. " You don't
look like tlio traditional spider." Ills
visitor bows ironical thanks. " Yot you
arc, of course, up to all the tricks of the
trade. You must know that my sou has
absolutely nothing, and will havo noth
ing but a small annuity."
"Hohas a reversion," is tho short
but significant answer.
" To what?"
" Your title and magnificent rent
roll."
"You must first disnoso of his elder
brother," sarcastically replied tlio
father.
"1 havo; at least as far as tho second
Item goes."
"What! Aglncourt has sold his right
of succession? Impossible!"
"'Tis true, nevertheless. Tho quiet
est men are often the deepest. You
havo always kept him too short. Ho
got into an extravagant sot at Christ
Church. Ho did not care to toll you.
Renewals at ruinous rates and increased
wants brought him to me. In a word,
1 hold tho reversions of both your
sons."
"Good God!" and for a moment tho
ashv faco and tremulous lips looked ns
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versions a speedy certainty, but with an
nfi'iti'l. which tlio nlhiir wondered nl mill
envied, Lord Heighleigh calmed himself
and said: " If this he so, I presume that
3'ou have some further object than its
revelation in coming to mo thus?"
" 1 have."
The old peer bowed.
"Somo twenty years ago I was
tempted to deceive one who might havo
loved mo for my own sake. It I may
say so, 1 did not look what I was and
i am. Traveling in Germany, 1 met her;
she was at tho oaths with an old lady.
j After a brief courtship I married her.
J They imagined 1 was high-born, liko
themselves. My pride and my love com
bined oddly to'forbid their knowing the
truth, which, however, came out sud
denly and accidentally one day when
we were still abroad. From that hour
my poor wife dropped, and barely sur
vived tho birth of her daughter. As
tho only reparation in my power, I
vowed that her child should ho spared
thu knowledge which had killed her, and
as soon as possible I took the little one
to her mother's relatives, who wero not
too rich or too proud to receive hor on
tlio condition that she should bo kept iu
ignorance of hor paternity. My first
thought is that child's happiness. I
know, how it matters not, thatyourson,
Theodore, has it more in his hands than
oither of them may fancy. If I bo right
will you sanction their union?"
' Great heavens, sir!" cried tho in
dignant father, springing impetuously
to his feet.
"One moment, my lord," calmly in
terposed tho other, as Lord Hbighioigh
strode towards tho bell; " I came lor
peace, not war. You had hotter listen."
And there was something in his tone
which made the old man hesitate and
say: "Well! what then?"
" I hold his written promise to marry
my daughter."
"Then, sir, you can call upon him
to fufill the conditions of his bargain
wilh (l MiA CourtuBy whicli speaks
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without my aid. Good morning. And,
voliimos, inn s lather hows Jus visitor
from the room.
Arrived at a houso in Park Lane, Mr.
Howard is shown into a room, whoro
he is not koptlong waiting ere an elderly
gentleman greets him with a cordiality
not, perhaps, unsoothing after his Into
interview.
" Sir Philip," ho says presently,
"what I havo for some timo foreseen
and somewhat dreaded has come to
pass. 1 have tried to do without your
promised assi-tanco, but pride is a stub
born thing, as I have found to my cost.
Will you explain to Lord Heighleigh
that my daughter is your noice, whom
he knows ami likes well; that she is and
shall remain ignorant of relationship,
and that tho reversions I purchased are
but part of what I will gladly give to
seuiiro hor happiness?"
"Ah, father dear," says a fair beauti
ful woman to a tall, handsome man, as
they stand apart from a group on a
terrace of one of England's oldest castles,
"whv were you so cruel as to rob me
for all these years of the pleasure of
knowing you? Tim says that his father
declares you are the boit friend Ids sons
ever had! And I know," ph adds soft
ly, as her hand steals into his, "that
you havo made mo the happiest wife
and daughter In tho world." N. Y.
Uraphic. t .
An old builder assorts that fully
lialf of Boston proper is now built on
piles.
A Voice from tho Kitchen.-
Somo progressive croaturo has boon
tolling the peonle. through tho columns
of the New York Graphic, how tho
happy housekeepers aro to bo " saved
steps." This result Is to bo brought
about by the aid of a moohanlenl con
trivnnco, to bo ovolved from tho brain
of some man who has nothing olso to do.
A still better way to save steps can
be suggested. Men must slop eating
don't bo frightened, brother; so must
women so much, and so many elabor
ate dishes.
If this is an ago of doubt, It may also
bo said to bo an age of eaters; to bo
sure, no ono has, as yet, managed to go
through life without somothltig to cat,
but now cooking is fast developing into
n most complex art. Cooking schools
are being established from one end of
the country to the other, while the ma
jority of the people, especially tho doc
tors, look on complacently and approv
ingly. And for what are these schools
established? To teach us how to pro
paro simple, healthful dishes? No,
ma'am. Tliero is where you aro mis
taken. They aro for tho purposo ot
conjuring up all sorts of complex dishes,
special, wined, braudied, what not, till
one's heart aches, both for tho tired
cooks and gluttonous consumers.
Imagine the labor necessary to got up
the dinners common now-a-days; and ns
for the eating of them, it is tin excellent
way to kill time (llfo is so long, you
know), but abettor way to fill grave
yards, or worse fate, to fill tho world
with weakly, sickly, whining specimens
of men and women. In the good old
days of our foremothers tho cooks had
ono day of rest each week and cold
baked beans; but, sad to relate, wo havo
somowhere road that those davHiirnpasL
Lotus stand up for a .simple diet; lot
us have food more plainly served. Lot
us eat to live, not livo to eat. This,
with small and convenient kitchens,
will do more to save housekeepers and
servants alike from being "tired to
death" and leave fewer miserable, narrow-minded
drudges than any mechan
ical contrivance man may invent.
With simpler food and loss gorging
would come a healthier, happier race,
and, in tifuo, Diogenes' long-sought-for
man might make his appearance. It
must be confessed that things do not
look very hopeful for any such reform
now. I'iating has come to be tho grand
business of life, and tho " best follow
in town" is tho man who gives tho cost
liest dinners. We love our friends dear
ly because they aro so mindful of tlio
inner man, oven the stomach, or at least
it would look that way to a disinter-,
ested obsorver, If such a person could'
be found.
No one will deny that what Is desig
nated plain food is more healthful than
that winch is its opposite. Who over
heard of a horse grumbling and growl
ing his way through lite a victim?
of despepsia, or an elephant with
the gout? Whatever else Mary's
little iamb was guilty of doing,
it never had tho nightmare from over
indulgence at a modern supper table.
No, indeed. Tho animal world has de
veloped neither cooks nor kitchens.
A young lady canio to us, not long
ago, 'with the startling intelligence that
sho knew how to make "Angels' Food."
Judging from the ingredients thereof,
ono would Imagine Unit whatever her
success might bo in making angel food,
she would ho pretty sure to make angels
out of many who partook of the heav
enly results of tho labors in the culinary
department.
Wo do not contond that a universally
simpler and plainer diet would do away
with all the Ills that flesh is heir to, nor
that it would leave housekeepers with
no steps to take and uoxt to no work to
do. Housekeeping will always cause
tired hands and tired feet, as must bo
tho case with any work which men linil
women perform. But wo do contend,
nnd behove it is a self-evident truth,
that it would lighten the labor; it would
lessen the number of stops to bo taken
and cause less care both lor women and
men. women would navo, not on
nly
ltf-
more time, but encouragement to cul
tivate the mind, that divine attributo
which distinguishes man from the lower
animal.
The talk of tho avorago woman is
largely confined, after marriage, to her
wonderful cooking and the trouble I
havo wilh my servant girls." "What
of that?" some excited masculine in
quires; " what better can a woman do?"
Well, sir, if she has a house to keep, tho
very best thingshe can do is to "keep"
it to the best of her ability, but need sho
ho forever "gabbling" about it? Let
her spare the world the recital of her
housekeeping trials and triumphs. How
can she do this if she has no timo to
keep up with the tide of human events;
if she has nothing else to talk about?
She cannot, unliMs housekeeping bo sim
plified, and, though well done, not be ho
complex that all a woman's time and
thought must be give up to it.
Unless we can liw with less extensive
and expensive wining and dining, a
thousand mechanical contrivances will
not lessen the number of steps or
the hard work which fall to the lot of
housekeepers. Always with new ma
chines comes new work. As it was
with the sewing machine, for instanoo,
which was to make sewing mere play.
Mndam Fashion got the better of us
tliero, by immediately ordering a half
do.en extra rufllers for our gowns.
Therefore wo say: Let us huvo a simpler
tood, more plainly served. Let us oat to
live, not live to eat. Let us find somo
nobler way to man's heart than through
his stomach; or failing that, let us
simplify that way and no longer set bo
for him, at tho expense of timo, money,
patience, or, what is more precious to
us, our own life-energy, and our own
hopo of advancement to a higher, mom
intellectual and more beautiful life
hero. Cor. JJurlinyton Iluiokcyc.
