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[ETorThb ladirs' iiomr Journal.] her fearful pain. And now when at last he came for her and helped her to grapes, and after din CHAPTER VI. and put bis arms around her and took her face ner wheeled her for an hour on the broad plateau, THE SPRING FARM. between his hands and looked fondly into it as he stooping over her once and caressing her white THE SCHOOL MISTRESS questioned her of her health she felt that he was hair, which he told her was very becoming, and The setting sun of a raw January afternoon was By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. unchanged, and thanked her Father for it. He saying no more of the girl seen In church that shining into the dingy school room where Maude Author of " Tempest and Sunshine," " Lena was delighted with ever thing, and sat by her uu morning. The Alllngs had been late and the rec sat by the iron rusted box stove, with her feet on Jiivers," etc., etc. til after lunch, which was served on the piazza, tor was reading the first lesson when they came the hearth, reading a note which had been brought and asked her of her life there and the people in in, father and mother and two healthy buxom to her just before the close of school by a man Copyright, 1887, by Daniel Holmks. (All rights re- the neighborhood and finally if she knew of a girls, followed by Maude, who, in ber black dress, who had been to the Post Office in the Tillage at sesvedj. Capt. Ailing. looked taller and slimmer than he had thought the foot of tbe Lake. It was nearly four mouths "Capt. Ailing," she replied; "Why, yes. He her In the car, and prettier, too, with the bril since she first crossed the threshold of the log CHAPTER V. lives on a farm about two miles from here and liant color on her cheeks and the sparkle in the school bouse, taking In at a glance tbe whole we buy our honey from him. A very respecta- 1 eyes which met bis with such glad surprise in them dreariness of her surroundings and feeling for MISS. RAYNOR. ble man,I think,although I have no acquaintance that he fet something stir in his heart different the moment that she could not endure It. But with the family. Why do you ask?" from anything he had felt since he and Grace she was somewhat accustomed to It now, and not About a mile from Laurel Hill, a little villagein "Oh, nothing; only there was a girl on the were young. The Aliings occupied a pew in front half so much afraid of the tall girls and boys, her Richland, was an emiuence, or plateau, from the train with me who told me she was his niece," of him and on the side, so that he eould look at scholars, as she had been at first, while the latter top of which one could see for miles the rich, well were wholly devoted to her and not a little proud cultivated farms in which the town abounded, of their"young school ma'am," as they called her. the wooded hills and the deep gorges all slanting Every body was kind to ber, and she Had not down to a common centre, the pretty little lake, found "boarding round" so very dread I nl after all lying as In the bottom of a basin, with its clear forthe fatted calf was always killed for her. and waters sparkling in the sunshine. And here, just tbe best dishes brought out, while It was seldom on the top of the plateau, where the view was the that she was called upon to share ber sleeping finest, an eccentric old bachelor, Paul Raynor, room with more than one member of the family. had a few years before our story opens, built him And still there was ever present with her a long self a home after his owu pecnllar ideas of archi ing for ber mother and for Johnnie and a life tecture, but which, when finished and furnished, morecongenial to her tastes. Dreaming was out was a most delightful place, especially in the of the question now, and tbe book which was to summer wheu the flowers and shrubs, of which make her famous and buy back the old home there was a great profusion, were iu blossom, and seemed very far in the future. Just bow large the wide lawn in front of the house was like a a portion of her thoughts was given to Max Gor piece of velvet. Here for two years Paul Raynor don it was difficult to say. She bad felt a thrill had lived quite en prince, and then, sickening of joy when she saw hint in church, ami a with what be knew to be a fatal disease, be hud proud, loo, it may be, of bis notice of her, sent for bis Invalid sister Grace, who came and minutely her cousins had questioned her with •lead stayed that witli all him his to lirr^"tjw. the last, b" finding' been afterloft to he hes,was witli a request that sns 'voulW make tho CV*' s, was. A relative most likely of Miss Raynor, as the pluee was caned, ter uanie lor a portioO of whose pew he sat, they concluded, and they t the time at least. And so, though city bred and ! their cousin of the lady at the Cedars, Grace Ray city born, Grace had staid on for nearly a year, nor, who could not walk a step, but was wheeled leading a lonely life, for she knew but few of her in a chair, sometimes by a maid and sometimes neigliuorB, while her crippled condition prevented by a man. The lady par excellence of the neigh her from mingling at all iu the society she was borhood she seemed to be, and Maude found her so well fitted to adorn. As the reader will have self greatly Interested In her and in everything guessed Grace Raynor was the girl, .or rather pertaining to her. Twice she had been through woman, for she w is over thirty now, to whom the grounds, which were opcu to the public, and Max Gordon had devoted the years of his early bad seen Grace both times In the distance, once manhood, in the vain hope that sometime she sitting in her chair upon the piazza, and once would be cured and become his wife. A few days being wheeled !n the woods by her man servant before the one appointed for her bridal she had Tom. Bnt beyond this she bad not advanced, been thrown from her horse and had injured her and nothing could be farther from her thoughts spine so badly that for months she suffered such thau the idea that 6he would ever be anything to agony that her beautiful hair turned white; then the lady of the Cedars. Max Gordon's letter nud the paiuceasedsuddenly, but left her no power to beeu forwarded to her from Merrivale, but had move her lower limbs, and she had never walked created no suspicion in her mind that be and since and never would. But through all the long her friend of the train were one. She had years Max had clung to her with a devotion born thought it a little strange that be should have first of his intense love for her and later of his been in Cauandaigua the very day tbatshe arrived sense of honor which would make him loyal to there, and wished" she might have seen blm„ but her even to the grave. Kuowing how domestic the truth never dawned upon her until sometime he was in his tastes and how happy he "would be in December, when her mother wrote to her that with wife and children Grace had insisted that be had called to see them, expressing much re- he should leave her and seek some other love. wet at Maude's absence, and when told where But his answer was always the same. "No, she was and when she went, exclaiming with en Grace, I am bound to you just as strongly as if ergy, as he sprang to his feet, "Why, madam, the clergyman had made us one, and will marry your daughter was with me in the train. — a little you any day you will say the word. Your lame blue eyeu, brown haired girl in black, who said ness is nothing so long as your soul is left un she was Capt. Alling's niece." touched, and your face, too," he would some "He seemed greatly excited," Mrs. Graham times add, kissing fondly the lovely face which, wrote, "and regretted that he did not know who with each year, seemed to grow lovlier, and from you were. He got an idea somehow that your which the snowy hair did not in the least de name was Grey, and said he received your letter tract. with you asleep beside him. He is a splendid But Grace knew better than to inflict herself looking man, with the pleasantest eyes and the upon him, and held fast to her resolve, even kindest voice I ever heard or saw." while her whole being went out to him with an "Ye-cs," Maude said slowly, as she recalled intense longing for his constant love and com tbe voice which bad spoken so kindly to ber and panionship. Especially was this the case at the tho eyes which had looked so pleasastly into her Cedars, where she found herself very lonely, not own. "And that was Max Gordon 1 He was go withstanding the beauty of the place and its sit- ing to the Cedars, and Miss Rayuor is the girl for whom he has lived single all these years. Oh-h !" "If he asks me again, shall I refuse?" she said She was conscious of a vague regret that her to herself on the Septembermorniug when Maude ?trangerfrlend,wasthebetrothedhusbandof Grace Graham was alighting from the dusty stage at Raynor, who, at that very time, was thinking of Oak Corners, two miles away, and the carriage Max answered indifferently, with a vigorous puff and study Maude's face, which he did far more her and fighting down a feeling as near to jeal she had sent for Max was only an hour behind. at his cigar, which Grace always insisted he than he listened to the sermon. And she knew ously as it was possible for ber to harbor. In the How pretty she was iu the dainty white dress, should smoke In her presence. "She was very he was looking at her, too, and always blushed same mail with Maude's letter from her mother with a shawl of scarlet wool wrapped around her. pretty anil very young. I should like to see her when she met his earnest gaze. As they were there had come to the Cedars one from Max, who as she sat in her wheel chair on the broad piazza, again," he added, more to himself than to Grace, leaving the church he managed to get near her, said that he had discovered who was his compag- which commanded a view of the distant lake and who, without knowing why, felt suddenly as if a and said, "I hope you are quite well after your non da voyage. the green hills beyond. Not fresh and bright and cloud had crept across her sky. long journey, Miss ." "She is teaching somewhere In your town," he glowing as Maude, who was like an opening rose Jealousy had no part in Grace's nature, nor "Graham,'' she answerd Involuntarily, but so wrote, "and I judge Is not very happy there. with the early dew upon it, but more like a pale was she jealous of this young, pretty girl whom low that he only caught the first syllable and Can't you do something for her, Grace? It has water lily just beginning to droop, though very Max would like to see again, and to prove thought that she said Grey. occurred to me that to have a girl like her about sweet and lovely still. There was a faint tinge that she was not she asked many questions about She was Miss Grey, then, and with this bit of you would do you a great deal of good. We are of color in her cheek as she leaned her head her and said she would try ana find out who she Information lie was obliged to be content. Twice both getting on in years, and need something against the cushions oi her chair and wondered was, and that she presumed she had come to at during the week he rode past the Ailing house, young to keep us from growing old, and you if she should fiud Max the same ardent lover as tend the weddiug of Capt. Alling's daughter, hoping to 6ee the eyes which had flashed so bright might make her your companion. She Is very ever, ready to take her to his arms at any cost, or who was soon to be married. This seemed very ly upon him on the porch of the church, and nev prettv, with a soft cultivated voice, and must be had he, during the past year, seen some other face probable and no more was said of Maude until er dreamingof the hot tears of homesickness they a good reader. Think of it, and If you decide to fairer and younger than her own. the afternoon of the day following, which was were weeping in the log school house of the Bush do it, inquire for her at Capt Alling's. Her name "I shall know in a moment if he Is changed Sunday. Then, after Max returned from church district, where poor Maude was so desolate and is Maude Graham. "Yours lovingly, ever so little," she thought, and although she and they were seated at dinner he said abruptly, lonely. If he had, he might, perhaps, have gone "Max." • did notmcau to be selfish, and would at any mo "I saw her again." there and tried to comfort her. so great was he ment have giveu him up and made no sign, there "Saw whom?" Grace asked, and he replied, interested In her, and so much was she in his This was Max'6 letter, which Grace read as she was a throb of pain iu her heart as she tried to "My little girl of the train. She was atchureh mind. sat in her cozy sitting room with every luxury think what Hie would be without Max to love with her uncle's family. A rather ordinary lot I He staid at the Cedars several days and then around her which money could buy, from the hot her. "I should die," 6lie whispered, "and, please thought them, but she looked as swee t as a June finding it a little tiresome said good- bye to Grace house roses on the stand beside her to the costly God, I shall die before many years and leave my pink. You know they are my favorite flowers." and went hi3 way again, leaving with her a vague rug on which her chair was standing iu the ruddy bov free." "Yes," Grace answered slowly, while again a consciousness that something had come between glow of the cheerful grate tire. And as she read He was her boy still, just as young and hand- breath of cold air seemed to blow over her and them; a shadow no larger than a man's hand, it it she felt again the cold breath which had swept BOme as be had been thirteen years ago, when he make her draw herj shawl more closely around is true, but still a shadow, and as she watched over her when Max was telling her of the young lifted her so tenderly from the grouud and she her. him goiug down the walk she whispered sadly, girl who had Interested him so much. And in a felt his tears upon her forehead as she writhed In But Max did Dot suspect It, and pared a peach "Max Is slipping from me." way Grace, too, had Interested herself. In I ~ 2 THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1888. aud through her maid bad ascertained who she few helpful v.ords from the father or mother, and safety of the State principally depend. It is a starving man. The Compound Oxygen that I was and that she was teaching in the southern the incentive to diligence is higher when the significant aud ugly fact, that among the girls of used over a year ago did me much good. I wanted part of the town. And there her interest had child knows that improvement brings pleasure, this order, the stiougestfeellcg against "binding to be moving to some other country all the time, ceased. Bat It revived again on the receipt of and negligence, pain to the home circle. themselves down" to house aud home-keeping and could not control myself about eating and Max's letter and she said, "1 must see this girl In those happy households whose members exists. In the upper walks of life there is a tacit many other things. I find much relief In these tirst and know what she is like. A woman can may spend the evenings together, the family slt- understanding of the requirements of station, or respects alter using the Compound Oxygen." judge a woman better than a man, but I wish Max tiug room should always be bright and cheery. an enforced regard for the rules regulating en A volume of nearly two hundred pages, on bad not said what he did about our growiug One or two lamps with strong light should be tertainments aud hospitality, which pushes the "Compound Oxygen — Its Mode of Action aud Re old. Am I greatly changed, 1 wonder?" provided, and two or three tables for study and newly-wedded pair, perforce, into a house of sults," — will be mailed free to every inquirer on Shecould manage her chair herself in the house, work. Each one should have his own chair their own. Among the lowerrauks, povertydoes receipt of address; and if particularly interested and wheeling it before a long mirror, she leaned or corner. If the lessons can be learned the same kiudly work of "ranging" its married in the cure of any special disease, a monograph eagerly forward and examined l he face reflected earlier in the day, so much the better, but If not, sons and daughters in the rooms of its tenement on that will also be sent. Address Drs. Starkey there. A pale, sweet face, framed iu masses of a "silent study Hour" should be observed, as it bouses, no matter how small or how straightened & Palen. 1529 Arch 8t.. Philadelphia, Pa. suow white hair, which rather added to Its is in the large boarding schools. The father and the beginning may be. But the middle class is youthful appearance than detracted from it, al mother should be ready tooffera low voiced ex free from both species of pressure. though she did not think so. She had been so planation of a knotty point, or an occasional help Let us see bow this happens. According to the proud of her golden hair, and the bitterest tears over the hard placcs ln the paths of the little stu traditions of custom, while the youug man has she had ever shed bad been for the change in it. dents. This mnst be done with judgment, not been provided with a trade or profession, the "It's my hair," she whispered sadly, — "hair giving the scholar so much aid that be is not young woman must be bred in idleness. No which belongs to a woman of sixty, rather than obliged to use his own wits, and yet making the definite or useful employment of time has been thirty-three, and there Is a tired look about my oltcn luvolved phraseology of text hooks clearer marked out for her; and a system which would eves and moutb. Yes, I am growing old, oh, to the puzzled childish brain. Too many lessons be considered suicidal if applied to the sons of a Max ," and the slender fingers were pressed are acquired by rote, parrot like, the words con family is pursued almost universally in regard to over the be.iutif ill blue eyes, where the tears came veying uo real meaning to the learner. Even the the daughters. Even if this same want of appli HEALTH s" so fast; — "Yes, I'll see the girl," she said, "aud dryest tasks may be made interesting by a few cation aud waste of time is to be found In other If I like her face, I'll take her to please him." words of comment here and there that will parts of the world, it is much more glaring aud PRESERVING She knew there was to be an illumination on breathe life into the dr , facts. dangerous here, since, according to our rules of Christmas Eve in the church on Laurel Hill aud The study time over, there maybe a pleasant society, leisure is not hedged about with equal that Maude Graham was to siug a Christmas au- hour of reading aloud. There is no better way watcluulness and care. The youug girl of the CORSET. tbem alone. than this of making children familiar with good old world Is surrounded by precautions. She caution-do not I'll go, aud hear, and see," she decided, and literature. The trashy, sensational stuff that is docs not leave the school-room, or the safe seclu let others lead you Into when the evening came Gmce was there In the sown broadcast over the land does a mighty sion of the home, except under the guidance of buyingtlons, as worthless this is the IORIGI mlta- Raynorpew listening while MaudeGraham sang, work in corrupting cot only the moral instincts mother orgoveruess, until a reasonable maturity NAL COILED WlRK her brlgnt face glowing with excitement aud her but also the literary tastes of the youth of the has tempered inexperience with sense. Up to TionSpring Corset Elastic and money Src- full, rich voice rising Higher and higher, clearer present day. Parents should always Insist that that lime, she has been fostered in regular habits will be refunded to wearer and clearer, until It filled the church as it had their children read uo book i except those the fa both of mind and body. Our pretty delicate afterHot perfectly four weeks' satisfactory. wear. If never been rilled before, aud thrilled every nerve ther or mother has personally examined and young creature is allowed to mix, from the be For sale by DRY Goods 1 of the womau watching her so intently . found desirable. There is plenty of good and In ginning, the dissipation of danciug parties, srlll mail, post ape paid, H "Yes, she is pretty and good, too; I cannot be teresting literature published every vcar that, theatres, aud fashionable calls, with the rigor of KGLISH w; MUSKS. SaTTBBN. 85c. $1.50 ; NURSING, il.50 ; i deceived in that face," she said to herself, and children mav read with profit and delight. Such mental discipline, until her frail frame begius to when, after the services were over and Maude works aathoseof Elbridge S. Brooks, or "Histor show the wear and tear of nervous excitement. came up the aisle past the pew where she was sit ic Boys " and "Historic Girls;" as Edward Upon her early emancipation Irom school, mat NEW MODEL ting, she put out her hand and said, "Come here, Everett Hale's "Family Flights;" as the Bod ley ters become even worse. Tlieu begin the loug, my dear, aud let me thank you lor the pleasure books; as the stories from Virgil ; Irom Herodo idle, days; the purposeless promenades through you have given me. You have a wondurl ul voice tus aud from Homer; as Hawthorne'6 "Wonder streets always more than sufficiently full of BUSTLE and sometime you mustcome and sing to me. I Book"and "Tanglewood Tales;" as MissYouge's temptation for the unoccupied miud; the silly Formed bv Crossing am Miss Ray nor, and you are MaudeGraham." Young Folks Histories, and dozens of others faucy work which makes pretence of occupation the Wires, thus This w is their introduction to each other, and give instruction in mythology, history and travel for listless hands; the poor, showy accomplish stiff,avoiding unyielding tbe use side of that ulght Maude dreamed of the lovely face which iusuch aclianning manner that the child gains ment, poorly acquired and badly practiced ; and and bnck wires. C' Of.es had smiled upon her, and the voice, the saddest information without being aware of it. Nor need the light reading of foolish stories. This last is when tbe wearer lsatt- and sweetest she had ever heard, wbicu had spok they be limited to what are known as children's sometimes a greater evil than the reading of ting,place Instantlyand resumes on aris Its en so kindly to her. books. With a little skill in selection most of a vicious book would be; for while the latter ing. Hold by all deal Two weeks afterwards Grace's note was brought Dickens' masterpieces may be read aloud to mlghtsting into autagonisin some latent senseof ers, or sent post paid. to her and she read ltwith her teetupon the stove them. They can hear near! v all of "David Cop- modesty and rightniindedness, the former in for AO Cent*. hearth and the low January sun shining in upou perfleld," "Old Curiosity Shop," "The Tale of sidiously breaks down every barrier of pure taste Weedsport Skirt & DRSSB Co.. Weedsport, N. Y. her. Two Cities," "Great Expectations," "Pickwick- aud leaves the » ay open for wickedness to enter Miss Raynor wanted her for a companion and Papers," and the Christmas Books;" parts ol unchallenged. In tblsway, another fundamental friend, to read aud sing to and soothe her in the "Dombey and Son," "Our Mutual Friend," principle of healthy social life is violated ; which Music Given Away hours of languor and depression, which were "Nicholas Nickleby," aud many of his shorter declares that every advantage shared by the in many. sketches; Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales,"Irv- dividual shall be paid for in honesty and honor To Introduce "Woodward's Musical Month "Iamlonely," she wrote, "and, as you know, by some return iu kind. Musicly" (91.00 In every per year) famiiv und having our new a piano Catalogue or organ, of Sheet we wholly incapacitated from mingling with the iug's stories. Cooper's "LeatherstockingScrles," This pernicious idleness Is the hot-bed which will, on receipt of 20 cts. for postage, send free sample* world, and I want some onewith me different scenes f ruin Shakespereand hits from many Eng recruits the racks of "anxious and aimless" with t«n complete pieces of our very latest popular Voeal from my maid. Will you come to me, Miss Gra lish and American poets. The Iliad, the Odyssey, young women, who look forward to matrimony and Instrumental music, full size, (11^x13 Inches) ham) I will try to make you happy, If money is any and the Encid read aloud by someone who un as their only hope of continuing the indolence printed on elegant heavy music paper and would cost derstands how to skip judiciously will impart a 94.00 at THE music stores. NlftHT-HIRD'S We also publish <001.\(i.tbe latest success, object I will give you twice as much as you are knowledge of the classic epics atid a taste for they have growu to love, and who are ready to A very popular and beautiful waltz song mailed for 00c now receiving, whatever that may be. Think of them. The elder children may take their turn in enter upon what should be the holiest covenant, it aud let meTiuow vour decision soon. the reading and thus gain practice in that most withjno higher thought than the mercenary de WILLIS WOODWARD At CO., "Yours very truly, rare and delightful accomplishment. sire for a fixed position and income. No cravlug 848 and 844 BROADWAY, X. Y. "Grace Raynor." The Angers need not be idle while the reading for love, or companionship, or intimate friend "Oh," Maude cried. "Eight dollars a week and is in progress. The sewing and mending will be ship; no fond conception of unselfish devotion, ESS KGKAVED CARDS BY MAIL. a home at the Cedars, instead of four dollar a doue more readily fortbe p.easant accompaniment which shall shareln struggle and victory, softens Our Engraving Department offers unequalled week and boarding around. Of course I will eo, that, tends to divert the miud from the tedlous- their hardened hearts, ft is all a matter of specu gravedfaclfacilities Plato for andWedillnj 50 Lards, and $1.00. Visiting Send Cards. for Sam En though not till mv present eucraEement expires. uess of the bandijrork. The old fashlo.n of In lation or foresight. Even the sweet confidences pieple Sheet. This will not be until sometime in March," and structing girls In every variety of mcudiug, from which Sliuuid make the days of courtship happy, BITIKB "PApSrS BY MAIL. ' she began to wonder if she could endure it so loug laving a patch by the t bread to durningstockln£s, are changed to ungenerous plans and bartering* We Bel fall grudes of Writing Papers by and, now that the pressure was lifting, how she arid teaching them how to make thelrbwn under which shall still further pander to self-indulgence. the Pound. It is the cheapest way to buy. had ever born it at all. clothing hasof late fallen sadly lutodisuse.Theplea Asarulc, thcyoungmiu lslikeclay in the bandsof w theYou quire, get nearly for same double money. tbe quantity A/11 the thanNewest by But whatevermay be the nature of our surround urged that girls have so much more studying to the potter. Instinct leads him to desire the Papers and latest Styies. Send for Sample Book. ings time passes quickly, and leaves behind a do now than was formerly required of them can founding of a home and of family ties; but so \VM II. HONK INN CO., 007 I ..L P1...1 sense of nearly as much pleasure as pain, and hardly bold good while the same 6chool girls find many motives of interest, of economy, aud of LEADING STATIONERS, 3ZI AlCII OlICBI, when at last the closing day of school came, it abundant leisure for parties, theatre-going and ease[ are placed before him that he wavers and PHILiADELPHIA. was with genuine feelings of regret that Maude fancy work. Each girl should be expected to do compromises. The boarding-house, or the hotel ■a m If n well on small Investment. Magic said good-bye to the pupils she had learned to all her own mending and lend a hand in aiding shall be the refuge for the first few years; the II Sj Sf SJ Lanterns, Stereoptlcons, and Views love and the patrons who had been so kind to her mother with the household sewing. The child uest-buildlng shall commence later on. It is the I\W MmMM Wm %0 Exhibitionof all grades and and Home prices, Amusement. for Public her. may rebel against it at first, but sbc will be grate old story of Adam and Eve. The woman tempts Send for 152 page ca'aiogue free. MCALLISTER, (To be Continued.) ful for the training and skill in her after life. The him and he doth eat the bitter fruit of the tree of M'F'G OPTICIAN, , 49 "' Na-"sau St.. New York. • . ability to darn linen anil stockings, to patch gar knowledge. f FOR THE Ladies' Hums .1 or una I,. ments neatly, to hem, fell and overcast, to cut Alas I he little dreams that he can never enter aud make her own underclothing and even to al paradise, after having once left It. The first INGALLS' HOME MAGAZINE! ALL THE YEAR ROUND IN THE HOME. ter her owndresses will not fail to be of real val fatal mistake was in placing the idea of happiness A MONTHLY, devoted to Art and Fancy Work ue when the girl is a woman with a home of her outside the home circle in the beginning, and LIDA and M. J. CLARKSOX, making the paltry pleasures of unearned leisure BY CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK. own. Tho cheapness o f ready made garments in exclusivelyThe Popular for Authors this Magazine. of Brush It Studies, you want etc., to write keep large city shops will prove of little use to her if preferable to the honorable, care-won joys of the posted on Fancy Work, Painting;, etc., you WINTER EVENINGS. her lot should be cast in the far West or South or fireside. From that time the wrong direction has sliou:d subscribe for In trails* Home Magazine. even iu remote country tow ns in the East. And been taken. The self-denial which should help Bend 6c. (three 2-c. stamps) for Sample Copy. Preml With the first of January comes the settling with all the alleged advantages of ready made to make home lovely and life nobler, the pure urn Lists, etc. J. F. ItfGALXS, Pub., Lynn, Mass down in earnest to fie Winter's duties. Up to clothing, the fact remains that good materia], liappiuei-s of bearing and rearing children, are Christmas, there has been a certain vague unrest, made up at home, costs le.-s in the beginning and thrust into the background as unpleasant and owing to the near approach of the holidays, with wears better in the end than auy shop work. unpopular things, to be hated, to be dreaded, aud MONEY REFUNDED their countless diversions. There have been pres There are uo raw edges, skimped seams aud to be keptawayaslongaspossible. If by chance, lf-PALM K.OSM lO-the ents to make, and festivities to arrange, and the botched hems on these. V>me unwelcome little li e shall have meanwhile greatest known Beautifler thought of the firi and recreation ahead lias had an While boys are usually exempted from a share struggled iutoexistence, inspiteof well-laid plan does not prove perfectly satis effect upon even thesteadiest heads. This feeling, in what is known as "woman's work," there is and wise forecasting of events, it is received with factory, to remove Tan, Yellow that their elders have in a slight measure, Is in no reason why they should not be taught a little resentment, with ill-will, or at best with poorly- tensified with the children. With all, there is a use of feminine implements. One need not go bo dirguiscd annoyance. Tho tender heart and Spots, Pimples, B!ackheads,an d decided sensation of flatness when the New Year far as to teach them to knit stockings, in the Ger loving arms which God has intended 6hall be the thosedreaded Wrlnkles.4 years has been fairly rung in. The long weeks that man fashion, but it would be a blessing to many first cradle of the infant, are wanting; and references from ths most prom, must Intervene between this and Easter stretch a man if he possessed enough facility with a nee though, later on, love and pride break through inent women of our day. Price out before one like an arid plain. It is no wonder dle to enable him to sew on a button without per the unnatural barriers imposed upou them, the $1.00. Send for Catalogue. if the transition from the holiday gayety and ex forating his thumb adozen times in the courseof cloud never entirely lifts tram the child's inner MRS. C THOMPSON, citement to the hum-drum work-a-day world, the operation, to repair a rip that would otherwise consciousness. Before even it was born into the 240 Fifth Avenue, New York. both the younger ones and the "grown-ups," grow with as'oundingrapiditv.orto mend a sock joys and fears of this mortal world, while yet iu shouldmanifestthe reaction in depression audoc- in some other 6tyle than by tying a string around that state of intimate relationship which exists casional crossness. the liole and pounding the lump thus made flat between mother and offspring, it has felt the in Steam Engines, 35c. $8 Organettes, $3 The best remedy for these complaints may be enough to allow of the stocking being worn. fluence of her w ant of sympathy and spirit of MUSICAL. OPTICAL, ELECTRIC, MECHANICAL WONDERS. found in that panacea for most mental Ills and Apart from this, boys often have some occupa rebellion; and this distortion of Its moral nature .r^pTBjr^r^^rT^I.ANTKKNHiVIEWS^ not a few physical ones— steady and systematic tion such as drawing or wood carving that will has prepared It, In turn, for the same abominable *l W ■if SU I SJ.N'-y imdH. II. Calal°gutw work. The prescription may seem severe at the keep their fingers out of mischief. This is the weakness of moral sense in the future. > | L'il\ M W MMti\ 1K1IW1 L J mauicu 8. s, H. i-uiwuk, bought ix • outlet, but it seldom fails to accomplish a cure. time for cutting marked extracts from papers, Mary Elizabeth Blake. Tuere is n itbiug like a regularhabit of employ pasting scrap books or mourning postage stamps CHOICEST OF ALL FOR THK ment for miking the dayB fly swiftly and cheer dried leaves and flowers, or photographs. There Fresh Air. COBB'S Toilet and Sath. fully, and it is the only thing that never palls is almost always something that can be found to We do not condemn the theory or the practice Complexion Prevents Hands Chapping. upon one. Pleasures become stale and even weari do, if it is nothing more than winding yarn or of resorting to fre6h air mountain retreats, quiet Sample postpaid, ii cts. some after a while, but a strong interest in any worsted. country homes, seaside rambles and bathing, or SOAP. A. H. Cobb, Boston, Mass occupation will generally insure continued good Every evening need not he passed in this man the various mineral spiingsas restoratives to fail spirits to a well manor woman. It goes without ner. The variety of a little music, ol a few games ing health. No doubt there are many who have saying that recreations must be iuterpersed here in which all can join, of charades gotten up on been greatly relieved by all these favorite resorts, :ind there. But If theold proverb holds good that the spur of the moment, of a candy pull, of im and some very justly claim they have been cured. Paper Flowers. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," promptu little suppers of apples, nuts and pop But the number is legion that find no comfort, no The best 2">-cent Paper F'ower outfit Book of In the c mtrary is equally true. corn, will break up the monotony that is always relief to their weakness, their aches, their pains, structions,ples of Fiowers over madeBtxty samples, up. Patterns Imported and paper.material Sam for Children, however, cannot be expected to take to be avoided. By studying such ways and means, in such grasping at straws in their i fforts to save making one dozen Flowers mailed, on receiptor 2.1 cts. this view of the matt r. To them, amusement the long Winter evenings may be made delight themselves. The following letters illustrate this With this1 outfit, a person can soon learn the art of appears the chief end aud aim of existence and a ful and the home fireside rendered so attractive point and show the wisdom of the one most in making MADISON Paper Flowers ART CO., IWadfson, Conn. "good time" is their supreme desire. They have that neither boys nor girls will feel tempted to terested in the case. to be trained in the habits of system and to learn leave it in search of less wholesome pleasures. A patient in Grand Junction, Tennessee, on PLAY THE PIANO AXB ORGAN that pleasure is all the srreater when it Is the ex April 20, 18S6, wrote the following: by using Soper's Instantaneous Guide. Any person can ception and not the rule of life. That they may [For The Ladies' Homb journal. J "My family doctor said I ought and must go to aidplay of a atune teacher. on either No previous instrument knowledge at once orwithout music the re leiim this more qulcklv, the parents should share CONCERNING SOME PITFALLS IN THE Hot Springs and stay there months. My good quired. Send for book of testimonials free. Address ill their occupations, feeling aud showing a vivid WAY OF HOME LIFE IN AMERICA. brother came down from Middle Tennessee to see Charles C. Hearne, P. O. Box 1487, Now York Interest in everything that concerns their child me, and he also tried to persuade me to go and ren's home and school duties. The best educated spend three months at the Springs. I declined ARLOR GAMES men and women arc those whose home influence to do so on the ground that I knew more about For the Win and the Otherwlne. has supplemented what is taught in school, in The principle obstacles in the way of home life, Hot Springs than either of them. I just simply ovenlng— AentiTtiilnment. sp'endld collection Bright, of fresh, "0 round cenr. games i < incise, for stead of counteracting it. The responsibilities will be found, upon investigation, to be placed told them that I lnteuded to stay at home aud fully answering the question What Shall We I»ol of parents arcnot shifted when they have put their there in cities, from among people in the middle use Compound Oxygen, aud be where I could ge C bus tiled us follows: Games with Pen and Pencil, boysand girls In the charge of experienced teach rank in lilc, and— I shame to say it— by women. fresh air. I believe three mouths at the Springs, Games of Thought and Memory, Games of Action, ers and supplied all the necessary manuals of We will therefore first consider the race traits taking that contaminated air in all the time would CatchSold by Games, booksellers, Forfeits. or sent postpaW on receipt of 50c. study. The nomeihing that is still lacking can belonging to this class and condition. The Mid kill me. I have been there once, and it was a O. M. HUBBAKD CO., Box 697, Rochester, N. Y. only he found in the ready home sympathy that dle Class in America, more even than in any fruitless trip, aye worse. On the other hand I must await the child in all its worries and joys. other country, is the one which forms national have as much confidence in Compound Oxygen, School.uiaiutrue., Club ATabloaUX, Parlor. Bestout (,, <.„,., ~_ The hard lesson becomes easier by the aid of a characteristics and upon which the welfare and as I would have iu giving beef and bread to a PLAYS loguefroo. 1. 3. Dssuos, Chloago, 1 JANUARY, 1888. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 3 [ For The IjAdies' jiomb Journal.] vatory with its wealth of leafage aud bright flow ship. That she has made a great financial suc hardly be able to say it afterspcndlng au hour in MARY J. HOLMES. ers, and everywhere are rare pictures, delicate cess of her work, goes without saying. For watching almost any of the "well-bred" girls of mosaics, pieces of statuary and rare china. These many years all of her stories appeared first iu to-day. America's Moat Popular Woinuii Novelist. are souvenirs lrom jouriieys in foreign lauds, the Neie York Weekly, to which, (until the death — • Her Winning Personality, Charming Home winters iu the south and summers in all sorts of of the editors) she was bound by contract. For WIVES' WAGES. and Iiife as a literary Worker, Devoted Wife delightful resorts, for Mr. and Mrs. Holmes arc several of them she has received as high as six and Social Favorite. great travelers. The library is aptly furnished thousand dollars, relainiug the copyright, Mr. Some members of Sorosls have been arguing and very inviting lor a book-worm or art-lover. Carleton afterwards bringing them out iu book that wives should receive regular wages for their In the upper hall, among unique furniture and form, to meet with an enormous sale. household labors aud responsibilities. Undoubt bric-a-brac are also some well-Bllcd book-cases; Where all are so popular it would be invidious edly the fair creatures richly deserve compensa and opening out of It, the pleasautest room iu to make comparisons, but with the ones mcn- tion of the most generous sort. Nothiug can be the house, is Mrs. Holmes' writing-room. She is tlonet', "Queenie Hetherton," dedicated to her too good lor tliem. But we foresee boundless very regular iu her h.ibits, spending the morning frieiio Mrs. Julie P. Smltli, of Hartiord, Connec possibilities of disagreement aud difficulty in any from uiue until twelve o'clock at her desk. She ticut, (a successful author now deceased) ; schemeto adjust their remuneration on the colu, is never so happy as whi n weaving her stories, "Mildred," inscribed to Mrs. G. W. Carleton, hard, uuseutimental basis which is accepted iu because, as she Ingenuously remarks, the men "her of the starry eyes aud nut brown hair;" the ordinary business world. No laws laid dowm and women iu her brain-world, never thwart her. "Rose Mather," which was a Btory of the war, by Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill would work They always do as she wishes. She writes fluently, breathing patriotism and pity on every page, and satislactorily in such matters as these. The in a large baud, which makes her manuscript look "Hugh Worthiugton," a story of Kjiitucky life harsh, unsympathetic theories aud precepts of like a legal document. which comes up to the war, are pfrbape most political economy would be out of place here, She is a communicant of the Episcopal church, general favorites. The new story, "Gretchen," and the inexorable logic of the pitiless law of and willingly labors iu the cause of morality and proves very taking, as might be confidently ex supply aud demand must be rejected at once. religion. She has charge of the childrens' Sun pected of anything from her pen. Mr. aud Mrs. Couluyou expect the ardent young lover, who day school, which, under her direction, is a most Holmes contemplate spending another year burusto lay the whole world at the feel of the attractive place. She Iras no children of her own, abroad, starting in the spring, when they will incomparable object of his adoration, to calcu ! but is very fond of young people, especially girls, travel during the summer in Norway and Sweden, late calmly the condition of the wife market, \ often giving them parlor tal ks upon art and other and live the following winter iu Egypt. The and to try to balance the Inimitable treasury of subjects connected with her foreign travels. Carleton's arc now sojourningon the Continent, graces aud virtues which his Chloe possesses, So she lives, gracefully combining domestic, where Mr. aud Mrs. Holmes expect to join them against the common currency of cold cash! literary and social duties; by her systematic in during the season. But it he were compelled to do it, if the system dustry finding time (slightly paiaphrasiug Those who are following with eager Interest whi^h Huds favor iu the eyes of some thoughts Shakespeare's words), to the story, "Spring Farm," now running in The less and giddy members of Sorosls should be "Keep house and ply her books, welcome her Ladies' Home Jouknal will, I hope, find their come the common law of society, think what friends, enthusiasm augmented, and their respect and wou.d he the consequences to the unhappy young Visit her countrvmen." admiration increased, if it were possible, by this men I Of course prospective mothers-in-law sketch of the author. won ul conduct the negotiations, andln the flush Personally, Mrs. Holmes is a most winning, aud ardor of youthful passion the Impetuous Ro- even fascinating, woman. She is tall, with a Flobine Thayer McCkat. meos would be eug. rto concede everything. The slight figure, which yet escapes thiuness, and her consequence would be that the rr le of wages for movements are very gracelul. Her large blue h on the ladies' Home journal.] the bride would be established on such a scale eyes shine forth intelligence and sympathy, her OLD-FASHIONED MANSERS AND NEW. that the bridegroom wouldspeedllybccome bank- h'air is abundant and of a dark brown color, aud , rupt, aud iu penury aud disgrace would be Mary J. Holmes Is the author of some twenty- her voice in speaking is rich and full, quite Eng BY KATE UPSON CLARK. Lo bilged to look lor the rest of his days for sup- six widely read, distinctively American and phe lish iu tone and Inflection, aud in charming con ' port at the hands of the rapidly enriched partner nomenally popular novels. From the time when trast to the harsh feminine voice which is au As the pendulum swings back and forth, so of his sorrows, who having earned her wealth by "Tempest and Sunshfne," '"The English Or American characteristic much to be deprecated. fluctuate our manuers and customs. Very likely her owu exertions would naturally look with phans" and "Lena Rivers" appeared, she has Mrs. Holmes has au avcrsiou to personal n - the present era of what may be called informality, scorn i.ud contempt on the wretched being who been an Indefatigable worker, and has sent forth toriety to a degree which few authors feel. She may be succeeded by one of ultra conventionali was uuable to emerge triumphantly from a brief the numerous stories which are so well known, lias a shrinking lrom the public discussion of her ty. Still, to some of us, that Is not a disagreea struggle between capital andlubor. with a rapidity of production only perhaps private affairs, and the attention which the men- ble prospect. It seems to those who happen to be Even if there were uomothcr-lu law In the ease, equalled by Sir Walter Scott, who threw off one tiou of her name calls forth which is as rare as it subjected, just now to the 6way of the "society and the young lady'sexactlous at the outset of book a year until the novelswhich fill along shelf is admirable aud truly womanly. girl," that almost any manners would be better married life were uot extravagant, in too many were comDleted, andhe oeaaedfrom sheerfatitrue. She has never permitted the newspaper noto than those which are now in vogue. homes bickerings would surely arise. After a Mrs. Holmes' stories are of a domestic character, riety which so often in the case of writers runs Mrs. Whitney says in one of her stories, that year or twothe husband would come home from and whila not so intense as if more highly sea ahead of their honest reputation. since the sewing-machine aud other "labor-sav his day's duties with the latest quotation of wives' soned with sensationalism, are of a liealtliy moral A few facts in Mrs. Holmes' literary history ing' ' contrivances have been invented, there is wages", aud insist that he was paying more than tone, and, as their history proves, of abiding in will, I am sure, be of iuterest to the readers of really no saving of labor at all; that we are now his income or the state of the market justified. terest to the reading public. Au estimate and this sketch which the exigencies of space reduce "whizzed to death with work," instead of being, Resentment on the wife's part would inevitably comparison from the statistics of a wholesale to a mere outliuc. as in the old times, quietly and peaceably tired lullow, and the difference of opiulou might ulti book store which supplies the trade for all the up "Tempest and Sunshine" was written in 1854. out. mately result in a strike or lock-out. It certain per half of the Mississippi valley, shows that next Good novels, and especially good American nov It seems as though all our modes of living had ly would be difficult to find a satisfactory board to E. P. Roe's works, Mrs. Holmes' novels are the els, were scarcer then than now. It was only kept pace with the machines. Certainly, the of arbitration to settle the dispute without viol most popular of any American author. It is a three years since Mrs. Stowe's great work, "Un 'noisy, undignified and offensive manners of ence, for in a matter which touches so intimately tact that more than one million copies of her cle Tom's Cabiu" had sprung forth, armed with some supposably well-taught young womeu now homes, hearths and pockets, neither party to the books have been sold, and that their popularity the right and impelled with its imprisoned fire of adays bear to the old-fashioned ways a similar controversy would he willing toaecept a decis shows no sign of waning. As testimony to this, inspiration, and awakened a universal iulerestiu correspondence. ion by outsiders. Wives' trade uuions would her publisher has recently brought out a paper southern life. Mrs. Holmes' storv of the livesof A half-century ago, the chief branches taught spring up all over the land. Concerted attempts edition of "Tempest and Sunshine," of fifty the two beautiful daughters of a Kentucky plan young girls In the better chtss of boarding-schools to raise the scale of wages would set households thousand copies, which is already sold and is to ter, with Its thrilling action and life-like pictures were manners, and, as they were called, the ac in an uproar all over the Uulon, and nurseries be followed with similar enormous reproductions of a slave-holder's home was eagerly welcomed, complishments. We have all heard our mothers and reception-rooms would be deserted by Sister of "The Euglish Orphans," aud "Lena Rivers." aud in au lucredibly short time was in the hands and grandmothers tell of the change that took hoods of Locomotive Housekeepers, who would Old Dr. Johuson once said: "What pleases of delighted readers all over the country. In Its place In girls who staid a year or two at such a go to and frostirriug up strife and dissension in many, and pieaseslon" must possessscmie merit." conception, characterizations and denouments, place. From being (what the girls, according to hitherto peaceful families. Dlrelul would be the The question of Mrs. Holmes' right to an almost "Tempest and Sunshine" is olten pronouueed these stories, always were, then ) shy and unform conclaves of discontented matrons aud woe and unrival ed place among the writers of fiction was the most artistic of any of Mrs. Holmes' w orks. ed young damsels, they came home self-pos anguish would fill the land. Marriage would go long ago settled. Certain it is that, the browu and blonde lashes sessed, deliberate aud well-poised women. Cer- out of fashion lu a generation or two and Soro Mrs. Hoi mes' maiden name was Mary J. Hawes. of all the Impressionable girls of thirty years ago taluly, they made grauu old dames, in their de sls woTOTTTTUss away, consumed by the flames of Like Mrs. Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke aud others of were wet with tears of sympathy for poor, dark- clining years, as we all know. We cannot help public indignat ion and wrath. This now happy our authors who have been particularly success browed Julia, whose tempe8tuousspiritall events wondering what kind of old ladies the "highty- and flourishing Republic would be divided Into ful in deliueating home li e, Mrs. Holmes was of seemed to conspire to arouse in unlovely pas tighty" girls whom we are rearing nowadays will two great hostile camps, one of trembling bache New England birth and extraction. She was sions, ami the childish delicacy and purity of make. lors shrinking from the hated bonds of wedlock, horn at Brookfield, Massachusetts, aud was the "Sunshine" who, however, woji less sympathy Not that these girls are worse than their grand and the other of fierce-eyed spinsters, resolute daughter of Preston Hawes. from the readers, because she seemed to have ail mothers. It is not that. They are very likely to enchain the melancholy victims. Soon deso Her father was a man of intellect and a pro the blessings of life. That it wonderfully main every whit as good-hearted, and there Is no doubt lation would cover the earth as a garment. — New found thinker. tains Its hold upon popular favor the facts before that they are just as bright, and that they know York Tribune. The Rev. Dr. Joel Hawes, one of the most given attest. more about solid geometry and German Gram celebrated of New England divines, was her One year later came forth the story of "The mar; but their talk issoloudand slangy; their father's older brother, aud Mrs. Holmes seems to Euglish Orphans," like t,.e first novel, published feet are stretched out so far in company; they A SPLENDID BOOK FOB OIB1.8 have largely partaken of the intellectual force; by D. Appleton & Co. It was warmly praised by yawn so freely and throw their arms about so wild faith in human nature and almost psychological the critics, and received from the North American ly, — why are they pot more reposeful, and quiet, The American Girl's Handy Book insight into the moving springs and desires of Review, (than which there was then no higher more dignified ! the human heart, which were a family character literary authority), the following notice: "We We suspect that these manners may possibly 'How to Amuse Yourtelfand Others,*' by istic, and made her uncle's preaching so potent, have not seeu Mrs. Holmes' previous novel, but be the result of what is really a creditable desire. LlNAby i he & authors. Adelia 8vo.B. Bsakd, J.UU. with over 5QUUustratiun» searching aud fruitful. with this we are charmed. * * The pathetic The girls are becoming . so learned nowadays, MARION KARI,Al\T»8aysofthebook: "I con From her mother, she inherited the romance, element which runs through a large portion of what with the universities and literary societies, sider It one of the most entertaining and yet most prac poetry, and love of the beautiful which round out the story is highly wrought, yet stops short of which are springing up everywhere, that they bonesttical works pleasure of the to kind commend I have itever to 'ourseen. girls' It gives all over me and adorn her character. mawkishness, and would coustraiu even reluc have, possibly, a feeling that in order to seem the country." She is described a* a precocious and sensitive tant sympathy as far as it goes. The comic veiu "jolly" and truly "feminine," they must dissem J.OIISA M. ALCOTT writes: "I have put it child, more fond of her own companionship and is worked with equal success aud equal modera ble alittle bit, and not scare the young men with people,down on us my I have list ofmany good request** and useful f oradvice books from ior myyoung lit dreaming out the pictures and fancies that came tion. The characterization is exquisite, especially too strong au appearance of erudition and lofty tle friends unit their anxious mothers. Iam m< sthtippv into her active mind, thau of associating witli as far as itcoucerns rural and village life, of attainments. Their parents seem to uphold them to * ommend * ••The your Amcrlcim very ingenious Boy's and Hundy entertaining Book,'* book In* other children. Her imaglBation, the creative which there are some pictures that deserve to be in this dissembling, if 6o It be, for thereis no in * valuable for boys. |SM0; The two books $5.00 faculty, was alive almost in infancy, aud at her hungup iu perpetual memory of types of hu dication that any great efforts are made on the Sent unywhere upon receipt of price, postpaid, by earliest remembrance her little brain was buzz manity fast becoming extinct through the agency partof the elders to check the aggressive exuber ing with the germs of what have since become of steam and telegraph. » * * Moreover, the ance which characterizes the manners of their CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, tier mental offspring. She went to school at three story tuus gracefully constructed and written, young lady daughters. Ht-Hi Broadway, lew fort years of age, and studied grammar at six! Imag involves without parading, and inculcates with When Evangeline had passed, it was said to be ine it, ye kindergarten-seeking mothers, who out obtruding, not only pure Christian morality "like the ceasing of exquisite music." When would save your darlings from any abstract iu general, but with especial point and power the one of our modern young ladies passes, with her A MUSICAL FEAST mental effort I depeudeuce of true success on character and of reeded cress, her spiral bustle, her clattery little is always before the readers of Dltson & Co.'s adver" But she had a head for mathematics as well as true respectability on merit, and the absurdity hlgh-hceled shoes, her bangles and bugles rat- tlsementa. letters, and although her slate was often written of the plutocratic notious which In some quarters tliug, it is like the passiugof— shall we say Hi— THE ROYAL SIN6ER, ao-'-)"« close with the rhymes which would pop into her arc beginning to deform American society." a circus procession. All of the old, charming euviuK .-»»ny»"tf tutu IfBook. complete, It Is wellprac'leaJ titled, and also Inter- for volatile little he^d, she became so capable iu all In 1856 was published another story called ideas of woman that we have had given us by the use lu High Schools. the common branches, that at the age of thirteen "Homestead on The Hillside," which found a poets, — and they are not such bud ideas, — vanish Advanced Piano Players have been much pleased she was installed as the youthful teacher of a ready market, for the author of two successful at the souud. Can't women walk any more with with PIANO CLAHNICS ntl.OU) which hiis sold district school a few miles from home. Here she novels now received the grateful assurance that out toppling and tilting! Must they have noisy, ICS.large y.((I.) Other and H>l Clussical .\U booksPEOPLE'S aro tOXe CLASNII CLASS H had a varied experience as the little "school- her work bad touched the hearts of the reading rattling clothes ou i Are these things to match fob riAXO, turn. marm" with the big blue eyes and the golden public and found the appreciation which is such the fashionable manner, which, as we hme 6aid, IIUITm VMPFC (5n cU- OT |l*>P«r*>«J by L. o. hair, at whom the older boys looked first with a rich reward and inspiration. is noisy and "smart," and entirely lacking In UHIILU TUIULOi Emerson, a most attractive now contempt, aud later, with still more embar.issing Iu 1S57 appeared "Lena Rivers," the third what usedto be called "refinement" aud "deli School Song Book, witli a large collection of new song* admiration and devotiou, aud the victim of the popular success achieved by the author In four cacy/" PUII ftDCU'C nitnCU (30 ct»- H«l Per do«.) by now-many-years-otjsclete custom of "boarding years, and the name became a household word We do not ask for what Mrs. Browning calls UnlLUnCn 0 UIAUCHI, A v * M miner, i- ii new around." wherever a story of domestic life, pure lovely a nature in our girls "tamed aud grown domestic collection of the Bweetest Sunday School Songs. She was possessed with an Inspiration to write, heroines honorable and tender-hearted heroes like a baru-door fowl." No, let them be full of Any Book Mailed for the Betall Price. and saw her first article in print at the age of and the final justification of the right, could ob spirits; aud let them learn, and wax proficient Oliver Dltson & Co., Boston. • fifteen. tain a hearing. in all that goes to make brains fine and hands She was married when quite young to Mr. Each epoch has its vintage with a bouquet so skillful; but with it all, we beg them to retain AGENTS WANTED for the LIFE OF Daniel Holmes, a young lawyer of Richmond, delicate as not generally to bear transportation enough of the old-fashioned womanliness to sit New York. The uuiou, happily still unbroken, lrom one decade to another, but many of the quietly in company, especially iu strange com HENRY WARD BEECHER. has proveu an Ideal marriage. In the combined rapidly growing army of dissenters from the pany; to learn to keep their bauds and feet still: by Thos. W. Knox. Ad Authentic and Complete History affection and respect for each other, and the spindling intellectuality and the dull dead level to understand that slang is not necessarily wit; irll,of bin all Life others and WorklO to from1. The the «.»•Uradle and to Cheapen. the Grave. Splen Out- mutual helpfulness and intellectual compaulou- of polished frivolity and cynical iguobility of the and to move about, enter a room or step into a didly illustrated. Mb like tcitdtire. Distance no hindrance ship they enjoy, it reminds one forcibly of the modern school of fiction, will continue to believe carriage with ease, moderation and dignity. If for tee pay the Freight and aire Extra Terms. Send for ctr- married life of Mr. and Mrs. Browning, Mr. and that the novel fulfills its highest mission, when you must bo dashing, dear girls, "dash" In your alar>. Adare>iUAUTPOK»PL'U.C0.1IartA>rks were published bv G. W. Carleton, with diary, "i« the clement of good manners," but Silver. Bras* Tablet* and Easels with Wood, Brass <»r ol color; the diulug-roum op. us into a conser whom and his wife she had au intimate triein!- Geethe wrote this some years ago. He would Onyx Tops.

Hlb4w! \ 4 THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY, (888. "Round the corner! Come In, everyone of THE CHILDREN'S PAGE. you," she called, and the others came shyly out of tbe darkness and came up the steps. "Come right straight In," said Miss Cynthy hospitably, "Iwant to 6ee you all and thank you," and as they trooped in and She shut the door she said, looking at her basket, "and here's another pres ent, 'Pickles from Tom Nichols.' I declare — come right In here In the sitting room and we'll all have some." "Oh," groaned Tom to himself, "ain't I In for it, just," while Sam gave him a poke in the back, which added to bis anguish of spirit, because, being on good behavior, — Indeed the very centre of attention — he couldn't kick him back. So into the sitting-room tbey all went, and Miss Cynthy got a pair of scissors aud cut the j strings. Tom shut his eyes In his desperation ;— what would his mother say! He wished himself a thousand miles off. The next second he wished himself ten thousand miles away, for Miss Cyn thy Instead of the expected shriek said, "Oh, vou dear boy 1" and she caught him by the shoulders and gave bim a resounding kiss— two of 'em — one on each cheek, before Tom had time to wink. Nine little girls nil in a row I Evidently "having a (rood time" over something. What is it, do you suppose? Can you guess, children? We He fairly staggered, then he opened bis eyes can. we""e knowknow JustJust whatwhat isIs thethe mattermatter withwith them.them. TiieyThey areare soso pieaseapleased atat tnethe meaIdea oof a "Children's Corner," that they are tairly "Jumping for Joy." and stared. There were no wires. MissCynthy So will you, when you see how we try to please the little ones from month to month was lifting a package which looked like a box of candy out of the basket, and a piece of paper, I For tho LADIES' HOHK JOURNAL.] elded upon tbe bat and costume Duce should "Look at that verse," said Tom wisely; "here, and she read aloud, DUCE DAWSON'S BELT. wear when they went to the hotel to call, and she I'll read it,— 'Pickles from Tom Nichols.'" "Pickles from Tom Nichols, knew Mrs. Bruce would exclaim at the likeness "High old verse, that," said Bill Lewis. "Is It Turn to candy mighty handy. A Story for Girls. Duce bore to berat that age, a bit of flattery that pickles, though, honest?" With good will our faces shine. always pleased her. "You see," said Tom, "If it Isn't a pickle when Take me for your valentine." BT AUGUSTA dc BOBS A. To her surprise, however, Mrs. Bruce waived Miss Cynthy opens it I'll— well, I'll give In beat "I guess I will," said Miss Cynthy enthusias ceremony and was ushered into Auut Roland's en out" tically, aud she looked as if she meditated an Duce Dawson lost her belt. sitting-room one mornlDg without waiting for a Kitty made a sudden hurrv to open the door other kiss. Tom got behind Sam Lyon very That of itself was not such an importaut affair ; formal "first call." and turn her face aside, and they all started. suddenly. the belt was merely an ordinary wide moroceo After warm greetings and final arrangements Tom had Benny, Sam had the cat, Bill the chick "That's a lesson to me," said Miss Cynthy, "a one, and Duce had" lost many a one before, but for the journey, Mrs. Bruce exclaimed, 'And ens, aud the girls took the jelly, the flowers, and real lesson — I remember when I called Tom 'a when it was the cause of her losing a dellgbtfui now, my dear, let me see your pretty protege)" Bill's valentine. pickle of a boy,' and he's gone and given good visit, the matter really assumed a certain degre* With not a little fear lest her darling should "I thought Ned Reed was coming," said Sam for evil in a lovely way, and I shan't iorget It." of importance. not be prepared to be presented thus unccrimo- to Tom as they started. Mrs. Nichols looked proud and pleased, Tom This was the way of It: A letter from Aunt niously, Aunt Roland sent word for her two "Oh, he's got the colly bobbles In his right sheepish, Kitty elated, and the other children, Roland had been received, and naturally bad nieces to come to her room. leg," said Tom. Sam especially, rather mystified. caused great excitement in the Dawsou family, They appeared directly; Annette exquisitely "Why Tom Nichols," said Kitty, "he's got a Suddenly Tom spoke. "MissCynthy," hesald, for Aunt Roland was their Great Mogul: She neat and dainty In a pretty garnet morning dress sore throat— there's nothing the matter with his "I'm awful glad you like the candy, and I'm was a widow, rich, childless, and lived in Boston, that fitted her fine figure to perfection. Her dark lee." flad you've got it-but it wasn't me gave it to you. three most important facts. She was on her way hair smoothly rolled off her brow, and In her "Hear her," said Tom, nudging Sam as they t wasn't my surprise at all — It's a great deal South, and had written to her brother, Mr. Daw- hand a strip of embroidery. Altogether a pretty started at last with subdued chuckles. It was a nicer than my surprise — mine," he faltered a sou, that she should make tbem a little visit as picture of neatness and industry. particularly dark corner just around tbe corner little, "mine, wasn'ta good surprise at all, It was she passed through their city and perhaps ask Behind her lounged Duce. Poor Duce ! She of Miss Cynthy's house. There was, as Kitty a joke — you musu't praise me — I meant to plague his permission to take with her on her trip, and had been reading on the bed ; there was a thou bad said, a hall window there, where Miss Cvntby you," aud Torn fairly drew hie hand across Ills possibly "borrow for a year or more," one sand wrinkles in her blue cashmere morning always kept a lamp on a shelf; because Front eyes." of his daughters, the youngest she recollected robe; unbelted, the skirt hint; and trailed In street was so dark, she said, and just bevond tbe "Tom," said his mother, crossing over to him was her namesake, Ducelina, and she hoped she j ungraceful folds along the floor, the lace at ber window tbe darkness seemed very dark by com and putting her hand on his shoulder, "that's should like her for a protege, throat was torn, her hair was onegolden, tangled parison. spoken like a man. Never mind, 'all's well that This proposition, as well as the Invitation, mass of bangs and braids, and her lips and checks The children huddled together just there, and ends well.'" Tom looked at Kitty, and she made a decided sensation. "Times" were very were daubed with chocolate caramels. She was Tom, who was first to leave Benny, crept care smiled and shook her Lead. "hard" in the Dawson family; the two elder not an attractive picture. fully up on the piazza, tied Benny's chain to the "Well," said Miss Cynthy, "I like you better boys were off at college, and It took the greater Aunt Roland bit her lip, but presented the door bell, and then gave It a violent pull, which than I ever did before, Tom, — you needn't mind part of Mr. Dawson's income to keep them there, girls to her friend, who she felt was severely gave a wild clanging plainly heard outside, and telling me any more, — It's all right, I was a cross and Bud bread and butter, to say nothing o: criticizing Duce — as she borsclf would have done ran as fast as he could to a post of observation old thing — and you ain't a pickle at alMshake bounets aud dresses for his two girls and wire at lu her place. across the street, where from behind the trunk of hands on It," and she gave him her hand. As home. Therefore, when Auut Roland hinted at Duce blushed, painfully conscious of her dis a great elm be peeped out. Tom took it and shook it, he vowed he'd never adopting one of the girls "for a year or mere" grace; she had not understood there was a Presently the door opened cautiously, and Miss again play or try to play a practical joke, and he the proposition received a warm welcome. stranger In her aunt's room. Thoroughly Cynthy appeared, or rather her head did, looking almoKt kept his promise to himself. Mrs. Dawson cooked up from the letter, and ashamed, however, of her slovenly appearance, down at the sill, in search of the objectionable Miss Cynthy's ccstacies really couldn't be de gazed admiringly at Duce's pretty face and she glanced down at her dress aud said In a dep valentine she felt she was sure to And. scribed. Sbe couldn't decide which of the val figure, aud thought with a grateful sigh that ber recatory tone, as she lifted the trailing folds of Benny gave ashort, glad bark, for he decidedly entines waB the nicest, and she said the "poetry girl really deserved to have all the pretty adorn her in ussy gown: objected to being left alone, and jumped up Is just splendid." Bill's valentine was a lovely ments that would naturally follow Aunt Roland's ''I lost my belt, auntie." against tbe door. First Miss Cynthy started back paper dove balanced on a green sprig and tremb adoption. There was only one thing to be feared ! Mrs. Bruce chatted awhile with both girls, but and then she said, "Why Benny Banks, what are ling and quivering with every breath of air, aud Ouce was a most careless anil untidy girl, Duce was qniet and dull. She felt that she was you doing here!" the card with It said, "One good turn deserves Nut If it had be: i An="tte, Mr--. B^lnA i>»<\ u'vler a clo'id. When Mrs ^ruoe bode go*->d- Tl'^n she not*e«d *hnt he was tied, rudeaine another," aud Btil said, "Mother found out, Miss itesignated, Mrs. Dawsou would have had no morning to her friend down stairs ••> the door, quite out and took the chain off, aud then she Ci utby, and I'm ever so thankful to you." qualms, for she, like her mother, was the very she said: said, "Why, vou'vegot a letter on — have you got Miss" Cyuthv patted bim on the shoulder. "I'm personification of order and neatness, but Duce ! "The other one has the prettiest face Ducelina, ;l vaieiit he :" aud she led him iu and shut tbe glad I thought of it," sbe said. "At any rate," thought Mrs. Dawson, "Duce Is but I don't wonder that you have chosen the ex door. In a second all the children— Tom too- After some of Miss Cynthy's famous ginger very pretty, and Aunt Roland Is such a warm quisitely neat and pretty-spoken little girl as your pressed closely up to the window. They saw her bread bad been handed round and finished to a admirer of beauty perhaps she will he blind to all companion aud protege. I envy you her company. read the valentine, and then really and actually crumb, they all said "Good-night" and left her but her loveliness." It's too bad, though, that she hasn't the beautiful take Kenny right np in her arms and hue him, with her new pels. The cat would spit at Benny Todoher justice, Mrs. Dawson had endeavored face of her slovenly sister; but of course you and then she went off down to the sitilng-room, who wanted to be friendly, so they bad to be shut to "bring up" both her daughters to habits of never could put up with the companionship of a leading and calling him, where she passed out of up separately, the cat in the kitchen and Benny methodical neatness, but Duce was Incorrigible. slattern." sight from the window. iu the sitting-room. The chickens were let Her things "never stayed put, like Annette's," Mrs. Roland did not correct her friend's mis "Now the kitten, quick," said Kitty. Tom left out In the wood-shed, and at once went to sleep 6he would excuse herself in declaring, when ber take. She corrected her oimi, and that day invi that and he put the basket np on the door-sill, on the wood-pile, and Miss Cynthy went to bed Mamma lifted her eyebrows and scolded Duce for ted Annette to be her companion lu her trip and when Miss Cynthy opened it, which she did happy. "So different from last year," she said the whirlwind state of chaos her bureau drawers South, and her protege for a year, adding severely, very quickly. — almost too quickly — the busket to herself us she blew out the light. All the chil and wardrobe were usually in. "Perhaps at the end of that time, Duce may so far rolled to her feet. She read that verse too, by dren went home happy and glad, Tom said as "How can you expect to have pretty, fresh have corrected or outgrown her untidy habits as to the window, and tried to open tbe cover, but it soon as the others had left them and they were ribbous and laces and skirts, Duce," she had ex warrant my inviting her to visit me. without my was tied on, and she carried the basket off. safely In their own house. "Now, Kit, I know claimed that very morning In despair; "vou never having any fears of feeling ashamed of her care The chickens were left next, and Bill had hard vou're at the bottom of all this — how did you do seem to think of smoothing out, or folding up, or less appearance." work to get off lu time, — indeed sbe whs so quick It?" shaking, auythiug you take off. Aunt. Roland It utmost broke Duce's heart, but she could not that he threw himself oS face down iu tbe snow "Easy enough. When CoU6ln Ben was here will be shocked to find vou a sioveuly, careless help feeling she deserved the reproof. under the edge of the piazza in tbe deep shadow, last summer he gave me an old skeleton key be young lady, and depend upon it, she will not "It was all because 1 lost my belt, and looked where Miss Cynthy couldn't see him, even when had and that opened tne door; and I wasn't desire such a companion for she Is fastidious to a solaukyand horrid beside Annette's trim figure," she stepped fairly out of the door and looked going to have Miss Cynthy's valentines spoiled, fault herself." she cried, v-ben her mother told her what Auut about. aud so I put in the candy Aunt Margie sent me Duce shrugged her plump shoulders, pulled her Roland bad said. She looked surprised and delighted when she from New York last week. It was so lucky I twisted overskirt around straight, and thrust a It served as a good lesson, however, for In the read the verse, aud peeped into the basket, for hadn't eaten it," she 6aid reflectively, and then pin tnrough ber tangled curls, aud laughed out year of her sister's absence she so assiduously that cover was fastened with a hasp, and then she she told Tom the whole story that we already irood-uaturedly. cultivated habits of order aud neatness, that sat down on the stairs, as if to wait and be sure kuow. "Ob, Mammadoar, please don't scold any more; when Aunt Rolaud brought Annette home slit and catch the next ring. Tom drew a long breath. "And you were be l'mgolugto turn over a uew leaf and blossom discovered the change at ouce, and was so pleased, "Oh dearl" 6aid Kitty, "I hope she isn't going hind the trunks the whole time' Well, I'll never Into such a prim little Quaker lady, that Aunt she kept her word and took Duce back to Boston to stay there." ay again "girls can't keep -secrets." Roland will fall in love with me at once." with her, aud says she shall keep her uutil some Tbanks to Mrs. Nichols she didu't, for Kitty "I'm glad yc. ou thought of such a pleasant plan, Poor Duce! she did try; but, oh dearl it was oue interferes. heard her mother call her. "Miss Cynthy, come Kitty, "laid "Mrs. Nichols, and I'm glad that I so much easier to just toss hat and gloves down Duce is very well contented to make her home iu here, please." have a boy manly enough to do and say what you on to a chair, or over on to the piano, when she with a kind, indulgent aunt. She talks some When she was safely In the room again tbe did to-night, Tom." came in from a walk; or jump out of a little flut times of her old, careless habits, and says she flowers were left, and after that the jelly, and That was all, but It was quite enough for both ter of lace and ruffles and leave them lying a hopes all the girls who hear her story, will profit last of all Bill's valentine. Kitty and Tom. As for Miss Cynthy, the chil white pile on the floor all night. And everyone by the lesson she learned when she "lost her belt." For each Miss Cynthy had a broad smile of dren of the neighborhood came by slow but sure knows, feathers and fringes aud ribbons and welcome, — but Kitty was sure she had tears in degrees to wonder how tbey ever had tbougbt ruffles, will not look pretty and fresh, very long, [Fob The Ladies' Home Journal] ber eyes, when she lifted the beautiful pot of Miss Cynthy cross, and on the night before the if cured for in that manner.. MISS CYNTHY'8 VALENTINES. hyacinths out of the basket and took off the "dreadful Fourth" Miss Cynthia slept In peace, Aunt Roland arrived in due season and "took" • paper that covered them. for the boys decided unanimously that up on to her niece Ducelina at once. BT KATHARINE B. FOOT. Bill's valentine sbe didn't open in the ball. Dowd's hill would be a much better place to fire "She looks as you did at her age," said Mr. "I'm so sorry, girls," whispered Kitty. "I cauuon than on anybody's corner. Dawsou to his sister when he saw the admiration This was greeted with applause. wanted to see what sbe would do." [THE END.] In Mi s. Roland'B eyes. "Here's the jelly— don't tip it," said Kitty, "Now," said Tom in a whisper, "for my grand "Yes, I believe she does, thank you," replied "and here's the verse that goes with It." surprise— I'll leave that myself. I hope to pa The dolls we offer for only 10 yearly subscrib Mrs. Roland, with a smile. "Here's some fruit of the currant vine tience she'll open It In tbe ball." ers, seem to please the girls as much as anything For a few days Duce was very particular and Made into jelly— 'tis better than wine, "I guess somebody will be surprised," thought we have ever offered. The printing presses giv nice in her toilettte, but before long she forgot And the boys and the girls are all sorry, Kitty laughing softly to herself. Well, it wan a en for 15 yearly subscribers, and tbe real steam her new-made resolution, and a soiled collar, And make apolojorry, 'grand surprise." boats for 10 subscribers, has induced hundreds rumpled overskirt, or frowsy head would cause And all will De your valentine Miss Cynthy by that time was quite sure that of boys to secure these splendid premiums, with Aunt Roland to look quite shocked. She noticed, And hope the sun will ever shine." the children were keeping a watch upon her to out spending a cent of money. The girls seem to too, that Annette was always watching her sister, "I never heard of " prevent her from catching them. So she on her think Miss Alcott's famous books, given for only and putting a pin In here, or pulling a string off "I know what you're going to say," said Kitty. side began to plan. Taking a shawl which she 8 yearly subscribers, are the best books ever there, and at last Auut Roland began to feel "I bad to make a word to go with sorry— I tied over her head, she very softly opened a Bide written. See full descriptions in the December qualms over the feasibility of selecting Duce as couldn't find one. And I was bound to say we door on the piazza which ran round two sides of number. The things arc all given you free for her companion for the trip South— oras a protege the bouse. Fortunately it opened without a only showing the Journal to a few of your either. were sorry, 'cause we are." sound, and she shut it softly after her, and stole mother's frieuds and Inducing them io subscril>e. Annette was always exquisitely neat In her dress "Now there's only oue more basket— the flow to the corner of the house, where in the deep aud so orderly and methodical iu her ways — but ers—and here's their verse, shadow sbe waited and listened. Presently she then Duce had such a sweet, coaxing way, one •'Here's some flowers heard a sound, and craning her neck round tbe S50O IN CASH could forgive her everything, and besides she was To smell in the hours, corner, sbe saw a boy juBt about to put something Is a neat little sum of money, and will be easily so very pretty— audeveryone said looked bo "like When you're alone, down on the door-step. Miss Cynthy was lithe ber Aunt Roland 1" Mrs. Roland was quite torn When dead are these flowers, and active and strong, and in a second sbe had earned by some one of our subscribers between in her miud as to which of the gli Is she should There'll be summer showers, Tom by the arm in such a tight grasp he couldn't now and April 1st. Even four hundred and fifty invite to accompany her, when a little thing de And more in the garden be grown." wrench himself away, and Miss Cynthy said, dollars, for tbe second largest listof subscribers, ckled the matter. "That's sweet," said May Lewis. "Now you're caught," and opened tbe front or $400 for the third, would be very ac One of her Boston friends, a >Jrs. Bruce, was to "Now we're all reads," said Kitty, "and we've door. The light shone out and Miss Cynthy said, ceptable to many. It would buy some very nice join her ju Philadelphia, and with a party of six, got to be as still as mice. Hold Benny's nose so "Well, Tom Nichols, is It you who have been dresses, or pay for six-months schooling, or pay start for the South. She was in daily expectancy- Be can't bari^-^it's a mercy roosters don't crow giving me all these things?" off part of the mortgage on your home. It would of a note announcing her friend's arrival at the at night and the cat don't mew loud enough to Tom was so utterly astonished that he could enable some woman to greatly improve and beau Continental Hotel, aud Aunt Roland felt a secret be heard. Now come, let's start." only gasp, "Yes'm, some of 'em — the others are tify her home. delight In anticipating the pride" and pleasure "Oh, hold on," said Tom, "£ve got a basket." lound the corner." paysoii'sjlnk is the oldest and best. Established^ with which she should Introduce Duce to h'er So up he darted and in a minute down he came "It was mean of him," be said afterwards, years. TJsedwlth any clean pen. Qoallty alw.iyse urji- friend as her pet and protege. She had even de- with It. "What's in It I" they all asked. "but he couldn't face the music all alone." form. Every stationer keeps it ana recommend-* rt ' JANUARY, 1888. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.

[Fob Tbe Ladies' Home Journal.] never known to fail. Instead of Boap, — (or In When your own subscription expires you c TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR. addition to soitp), use Soap- bark — the same stuff atleast, find one friend or neighbor who woi: THEFTS you use for cleaning silk etc. like the Journal for a year. Send her nar Breaths. Get ground Soap-bark (not powdered but coarse with your own renewal, and choose a premiu Sound) put one pound in a quart of water and for two subscribers. We offer quite a number 11 down toa pint, then strain and bottle the good and useful articles for two subscribers. liquid for use. When bathing add two tablspoons- Yes, breaths I DoD't turn away your face — I fulof this liquid to about half a pint of water and know all about it,— yours "w a little heavy at sponge the arm-pile etc well. It will make a fine Keep young children iu out of the night air. times &c. Ac." lather, remove every trace of odor, and is perfect Most babies are fed too often and too much. 1 have been noticing some things on this sub ly harmless. Baby may be suffering for a drink of cold watc ject for years, and I really believe that out of Now to return to this breath business. I take If you think not try quenchiug your own tbir every dozen women and misses in this country, it for granted that you will keep your mouth and with luke-w arm milk. eleven and seven eights have breaths which arc teeth clean — even should your teeth be somewhat "off," — perhaps just the least bit heavy, and per decayed, keep them cleau, use a good big soft haps the regular "knock you down" brand, but brush, and ordinarily cold water. Of course not at alt events not sweet. cold or uncomfortably cold, but just so that BEAUTIFUL Did youever notice a cow's breath! Why 1 re you can rinse out your mouth well without mak member when I was a small lad in aprons, kneel ing your teeth "tingle." Castile soap Is the best WOMEN ing in front of "the Han ford heifer" one evening dentifrice i know of, and then about twice a In the United states, Canada in the milking yard (what a lov«ly old place that week use a tooth powder made of Powered Borax and England wear was, and sucn a smooth close grass carpet there 1 oz, Precipitated Chalk 2 ozs, (don't let tbe beside the stone wall under the old "strawberry druggist give you Prepared chalk, it is 'often £600D SENSE" apple tree,") watching to seewhat she was chew used, but always contains little pieces o f grit) r\ CORSET WAISTS. ing so solemnly, when she lazily closed her eyes Powdered Castile Soan 1 oz. I wouldn't put any THOUSANDS NOW IX USE. [For the ladies'Home Journal. | a moment and breathed out a long full cyclone Wlntergreen or other flavor In, as the Borax will BF.ST FOR HEALTH, INFANTILIS CONVULSIONS. (perhaps it was a sigh, but it really would have leave toe mouth dellciously sweet Any good Economy and Heatity. started a wind mill) and I caught it full in the druggist will put this up for you for say fifteen Buttons Of at I Ill.NpH. front Instead BT CHAS. N. COX, M. D., BROOKLYN. face. cents for the four ounces. Use a wooden tooth IJt Be sure your Corset is Why I remember it just as if it happened only pick at least after every meal, — neverlet any little stamped 'Miood Seu»e." Nature:— Every mother stands in dread of yesterday instead of fifty — yes as I was saying, particles of food remain between the teeth or in ISOLD BY Convulsions, and every uervoiiB symptom evinced that breath jiTst smelled of new sweet milk,— I the cavities of the teeth and gums. Now we by the child, whether it be twitch of a muscle or have been reminded of it many times since by have tbe mcuth all right and we proceed to the every LEADIN6where. Bond RETAILERS for Circular. turning ol the eye is watched with greatest smelling a baby's breath — now If you never had "lower regions." anxiety. the felicity of sitting in the grass before some Did you ever notice what a "knack" the air has _ FERRIS BROSilunDfwtmn Almost everyone has seen a child with a con melancholy-faced, but sweet-breathed old cow, of picking up odors and carrying tbem along! 3 11 llroixlwnv. NKW YORK. vulsion, or spasm as it is sometimes culled, at you certainly have experienced that almost as A June breeze comes to you loaded with the FIELD & CO. Chicago, some period or other, and its outward manifes full pleasure of holding in your arms a soft, chub scent of that tree load of apple-blossoms which It K.\ AM \ 1 - tations are so well known as scarcely to need de by, clean, sweet baby boy. And don't vou know passed "en route." scription here. A convulsion is characterized by how he kissed you right on the mouth } bow be (To be continued.) spasmodic movements, varying considerably in puffed his breath into your very nostrils! Hadit severitv and extent; and as to the parts of the been a young lady who was kissing you, she would body affected. They may be slight and confined have reld her breath a moment, lest you should Editor L. H. Journal :— I wish I might impress ' to a few muscles, as to those of the face, hands discover the very thing about her, that you were upon the mothers, who turn their eyes to this or feet. Convulsions of this degree are often endeavoring to conceal from her about yourself. delightful Corner, the importance of having the called ''inward convulsious." These spasmodic But baby! — Bless your soul, what does he care. children do whatls best to be done, even though movements may even be confined to one side of With a breath as sweet as my herein-before-men the children themselves do not understand the the body; or more or less general. The severest tioned (that's the way a lawyer would put It) reason why it Is best forms are generally accompanied or followed by "Hanford heifer," he lets his breath go "where I am not a grandmother, by any means; neith partial or complete loss of consciousness. It listetb, and you catcb the peifume thereof, er am I tbe mother of a large family, but! do All of these various forms are but different and you hug the little fellow closer, and think own one small boy ; an d the lessons I have learned, degrees of the same affection, varying with the Oh 1 that I had such a breath." Now I have tbe (and am still learning) about "men and things" intensity of the cause or the nervous suscepti assurance to assert that you can have such a since became, would fill volumes almoBt without W* art children who cheerfully join in the chorus bility 01 the little patient breath! "Just as sweet as a baby's." There Is number. When PACKER'S TAR S0A P is the subject btlir? us, Mortality: — Considering the vast number of probably no good reason why your breath Sometimes he wishes to go out to play when he Mama tried ill the rest. childreu who have convulsions at some time or should'nt be sweet unless you have some organic bas a slight cold, and does not understand why So she knows ft* the best. other, the numberof deaths which occur directly or chronic disease, say consumption or catarrh or mother should say No. Aiufwtliufch wilh del(eht when she Idtfiprs it d pr us. from this cause, Is not great, and I think the bronchitis or a cancer, etc., etc. "Tbe sun is shining, the yard is almost dry; milder forms are not usually fraught with so Don't think for a moment it is all the matter and, mother," he says, "I will puton my thick rhuch danger a? the anxious parents and friends of the mouth and teeth,— why,— I'll tell you my sack aud my rubbers, and I know I shall not catch fear. Nevertheless they are not without danger, experience of last Sabbath evening — the incident any more cold." But mother, looking beyond and the more iutense forms are very often lol- which led me to write this letter — and you will the present, sees a possibility of damp feet and lowed by death, or serious after-effects upon the understand better what I mean. sore throat, so still say s "No, my boy, I want you Ringer'sRingingRecommendatio nervous system. Well you seel weut to church — somethingquite to stay in until the coldis better." Causes: — The causes of convulsions are pre unusual of late, for we bare been having such a Do not let the children tease you Into yielding, PROF. SIDNEY RINGER, in his "Hat disposing and exciting. Predisposition depends siege of Typhoid and Malarial fevers thi< Summer becanse afterwards you will be sure to sav, or Book of Therapeutics," 11th edition says: upon heredity, temperament, nervous suscepti in our neighborhood, — (and that reminds me I think, "I am 6orryIdid it" "1 generally find It useful In all form bility and general condition of the child. The want to write a letter to you about Malaria as Sometimes afterl have refused him something, Immediate or exciting cause is some irritation, soon as I get time — It is such a cursed fashiona he has come to me with bis chubby checks all of Children's Diarrhoea to abstain froi which may rest in the brain or spinal-cord or ble ailment and yet it is real too — ) stained with tears which have fallen in profusion, milk, and to give Instead, barley wa some part of the body. A brain or spinal irrita Well, as I wassayingl wentto church last Sab and said, "Weill I guess mothers do know the tion is obviously the most serious. It comes bath evening,— I found 1 could get away for an best and I am glad you kept me In, because I ter and veal broth, or chicken brotl strictly withiu the proviuce of the physician, and hour, and besides it was a missionary meeting might get tbe diphtheria then I would have to or. BEST OF ALL^ NESTLE'S FOOL will not be further discussed here. and there was to be a noted D. D. lromtbe city stay in lor weeks and weeks, and I guess that As to an Irritation in other parts of the body, and they would pass the hat twice and all that would be the worst" WHICH I FIND THE BEST OF AL it may be in the gum when a tooth is trying to sort of thing you know, and so I went. Of course It does me good, lean tell you; ai>d nays well FOOD. FOR CHILDREN WITH GREA force its way through that structure; it may be the church was full, and of course the first hymn for all the hardship of refusing. In the stomach or intestine when these organs was "From Greenland's ley Mountains,' and of I have lived long enough to know that the child DELICACY OF STOMACH AND IN are struggling with the pulp of an orange, a course the folks just shouted — why I think I ren like us very much better, even when they TESTINES." green apple, or some equally indigestible mate caught myself even, making a sort of sound, but grow away from the years and tbe stature of rial; a pin-scratch which has irritated a nerve- right in the pew behind me was a voice "that was childhood, if we have them do the things which [Eng. Ed.pp.S19. Dietary Article No.83. Am. Ed.pp.47i filament In the sKiu may be the source of irri a voice. ' ' How that girl did sing— not an Intru best, whether it pleases them or not. Food Tbe byabove one emphaticof England's commendation best known ofmetlical Nestle's autho: Ml tation. In fine there is no part of the little body sive, over-prominent voice yon know, but such a 7 have lived to bless tbe day, ties, will be appreciated by mothers who are perp-exi which may not be the seat of irritation, causing sweet, full, natural, bird-like song> and yet so I always did not have my way. br tbe mast of boastful and exlravaKant advertisli a convulsion. strong anrlsympathetlc that it seemed to tempt With this original, dreadful rhyme of lnfunt foods, to know which is really TheBks Prevention :— The general health of the child all the other voices in the vicinity to join in with I'll stop my pencil for this time. sessYour ran physician merit towill elicit teil you from Nestle's Dr. Sidney Food Klngcr must su< p<] should be kept at as high a stundard as possible it The owner of the voice stood in the pew be Madame Isabel. unqualified words of approval in his work on Ther to lessen the tendency to convulsions. It should hind meandjustat my leftband. I was real cu peutlcs. be kept out-of-doors most of the time iu pleasant rious to turn arounda moment justtoseewho it Ed. L. H. J. :— While perusing Mrs. Herrick's sample If you on hove application. not used Nestle's Food, we will send y< weather. was, although I was almostsure it was thatyoung experiences with nurse girls, I could not fail to LEEMIXG A CO., Hole Agents. Everything tending to increase the nervous woman from Philadelphia who has been visiting thlnkthat poverty, after all brought itsown com 18 College Pin. ... New Yorl susceptibility of the little one should be guarded Nate Hawkin's girls for a week or so. Well the pensation; fon most of the "Mothers Corner" against. The vicious habit of frightening chil next verse came "Whatthough the spicy breezes mothers,— (yes I dare.say ten to oni of them—) dren into obedience which many nurses — and, I Blow soft o'er Ceylons' Isle," are obliged from necessity, if not from choice, to am sorry to say, some parents — have, should be and visions of tropical scenes, — warm, perfume- care for their own little ones; Hence they have absolutely interdicted. The nursing baby should, laden balmy air, — half-naked lazy negroes, — ham no fear of a lurking brandy, or laudanum bottle. if possible, have nothing but breast-milk. The mocks, — fruits,— cigarettes, and all that, were In a recent article on tbe care of children by child which has been weaned should only be al meandering through my brain, and I was wonder an eminent Western practitioner, I read the start lowed the mostnutrltiousdlet, consisting mainly ing w hether I should put Five Dollars in the bat, ling statement that city babies did not die be of cow'b milk until two or three years old. It or save it for my long contemplated Winter visit cause of city air as people supposed : but because should be remembered that a child is not capable to Florida, when Shades of Lubln ! a waft of warm of city care, or the lack of care, rather, which they of digesting starchy food much before It is two breath caressed my left nostril that made me long received, at the hands of their hired nurses. Mrs. years of age. Two articles — bread and potatoes to stop living for a while — or at least to stop Herrick's experience corroborates his theory. — which are given too much to young children, smelling. Onions! No. Ouions would have Who can for a moment expect a peevish babe to consist, for the most part, of starch. If the baby been a dream of delight in comparison, and getfrom an hireling just what Its little suffering suffers too much or too loug in cutting a tooth, a Limburger (that accomodating old cheese which oody needs, only a mothers loving intuition can .physician should be* sent for that lie may relieve one can find in a dark cellar without a light) a give this. And this subtile recondite knowledge, the pain; for, usidSf rora the unnecessary suffer regular nosegay. is, perchance, a sixth sense which God vouch ing the little patient might otherwise undergo, No, Dear friends, that breath was reeking with safes because of the babe. there may be danger of the irritation being suffi odors from a dim pair of lungs, a dirty liver, an Certain it Is that mothers of known poor judge cient lo cause convulsions. entire outfit of dirty, neglected, uncared for in merit iu other matters possess this gift In a great Do not be led astray by the foolish prejudice ternal organs aud reminded me of nothing but a degree, and from their large experience they can some people have against lancing the gum. When super-aunuatedchim, aud thatabomlnableDreath best instruct others. this little operation is done in a proper manner was the identical vehicle which carried that glor The exact modus operandi of performing a task by the physiciau, it is never productive of harm. ious voice, for I turned at once to discover the can best be given by the one performing It. If Moreover it is unattended with pain. Indeed, I cess-pool whence such noxious gasses emanated. my babe were sick, and suffering, from whom have again and again, upon lancing the gum, seen She had just opened her mouth to let out the should I seek aid! From grandma B who has the little sufferer who had been crying for hours words "Aud only man is vile" (I agreed with her "raised her ten children," earing herself 'or them, before with pain, stop immediately and soon fall so far as the breath is concerned) and I was sur or from Mrs.. G who has always kept nurs into a geutle 6leep to recuperate the powers prised to see a set of white, strong regular teeth, es, and has such delicate children! Then dear which had been so heavily drawn upon by the a pair of red lips, and in fact a fresh, inviting Journal sisters may we thank the Lord that the torturing tooth. clean lookiue mouth I The face was fair to look hired girl question is our only bete noir. Aye I Worms do not always seem to harm the child, at— a little sallow perhaps, and a litt le dark under let us rejoice with joy unspeakable that we are but they are intruders, and if they are beiug the eyes, but almost as iresh as the average, but too poor to keep nurses for our darlings. passed,"especiallv if the child seems not well, the On my ! that breath 1 Jack's Wifb. physiciau should be consulted that they may be Now this is only one instance and I give it be gotten rid of. cause as I said, it started me on a train ef thought Treatment: — If a child falls into a convulsion which led to my writing this letter, but just think DQ YOU NEED S500T the Unit thing to be done Is to see that it does not for a moment, over your friends and acquain If so, isn't It worth your while to try hard to Injure its tongue by biting it. This may be pre tances, (commence with your self and your own secure that sum April 1st, for the largest list of WARDS It O 11 K. Complete. 1 vented by gently Inserting asmall, fiat pine stick family) how many are there who have good, sweet six months subscribers, as per our offer to The most : stylstyl I111 Ish perfect lit tltiK garments 1 between the teeth. The next thing is to induce healthy, unobjectionable breaths! And then try club raisers! If you fail to secure the B 'to be had. In I .rant outfit 1'.' B patterns, 60o. I relaxation by placing the patient iu a hot-bath — to believe mewhenl saythata bad breath is near short c othes, 12 pat. 50c. directions, am*t mat'r'] requi 98 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit— the water to cover ly always the result of carelessness and culpable first prize, you may win the 2d of $450, or the 3d ed with each. New England Pattern Co., 8 Rutland V the entire bodv except the head. Alio* this bath neglect of the body— the inside of the body, and of $400. At all events you lose nothing, as every club raiser will be entitled to as many premiums THOMPSON'S srPPORTER PANT* to last 15 or 2<3 minutes and then wrap the child you may have a breath like a baby if you wish. as his clubs call for. PATENT KNEE Pulling off of BU iu a blanket, not stopping to use the towel. Did it ever striKe you, that the internal organs TONSPREVENTS & the tearlnsrof the 6II1HT WAISTS. S. By Mall, 85c The hot-bath w ill oft-times stop the convulsion of the body needed care and attention just as Tbe most scrupnlous aare should be given to NO elastic band or be t. Send for Circular. without further treatment. Buteven though the much as those which are exposed to view! Would the washing of Laby's bottle and rubber nipple. Edwin Thompson, Box 1C70, Providence. R danger seem over, it is generally better that a you think of letting your hands and feet, and Tbe long nursing tubes cannot be kept clean and doctor see the child, for this may be only a tem limbs, and face go for even forty-eight hours un therefore should never be used. Wash the bot WOMEN READ, porary lull. Some serious irritation may exist washed! Don't you know how you labor with tles and rubbers In borax water, and afterwards which his skill will detect and enable him to re your arm-pits! and bow it does mortify you to in clear water. A good way is to have two bot Heads and Faces; How to Study Them; move, which, if left alone, might soon cause have anv odor of perspiration about your person ! tles and rubbers anil use on alternate days, keep Amonuallustrutlona.ouly.Wc. of CHARACTER B> at book READING. out for you. 00 paces, \eryint< 200 irreparable mischief. Just here let me digress a little to give some ad eating. Sent hy mall. L'stof "Books f.i Women FBI vice to any who are troubled with the "perspira ing tbe ones not in use in the borax water. FOWLER ft WELLS CO, ?7!> BllOAnwAY N; DO YOV CONTEMPLATE MATRIMONY? tion smell." I know some women In my prac Our 1887 and 1888 Stamping Outfits combined, Sneffi PROF^RICE'SSELF-TEAOII- tice who have been tremendously annoyed by makes tbe best aud most complete outfit ever de IINIIS INtt K.KTKM. All can learn music One of our large cash prizes April ^st would this cause, aud no wonder, for It is disgusting es vised. All the editors of The Ladies, Home •w Wwl w without tbe aid of a teacher. Rapid, prove a great help in starting housekeeping. The pecially iu warm weather— no amount of soap TAUGHT. SELF correct.Notes, chords, Established accompaniment*, twelve years. thor- second, third, fourth or fifth prizes, would be audwater Beems to help the matter, but should Journal say they have newer betore seen so com onprh bossbass laws,laws, e-ft.e-e. Tenl'e lessons 1 n«. Clr^ars very acceptable to any young couple just starting any of my readers have experienced the same an plete and practical an outfit as we now offer for free. Q.- S.- 8ICE MUSIC T ills 08.," |4S BUI* gtjgaj, CHICAGO. out in life together. Why not try for them! , noyance, let me advise a remedy which I have only four subscribers. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY 1888.

Shell Pattern for Mittens. more. Divide the stitches Id half, place one half Antique Lace. against the other, bind them off together, thus Make a chain of 21 stitches. Cast, up 14 stitches on two needles, and 21 ou forming the sole of the shoe. Iu dividing them, 1st row— 1 d c in seventh stitch of chaiu, ch 2, the third. care must be taken that the widcucd part be at 1 d c in tenth, cli 2, 1 d cin thirteenth, ch 2, 1 dc 1st row — Purl 2, k 1, over, k 1, over, k 1, over, oue end of the needles. I have improved on this iu sixteenth, ch 2, group of 4 d c in last four k 1, over, k 1, p 2, etc. by making a sole of Brussels caipet, lined with stitches of chain ; turn. 2d row — P 2, k 2, u 2, etc. flannel, nud bound with dress braid. They are 2d row — Ch 3, 3 d c in top of last d c of group, 3d row— P 2, s 1, k 1, (blud the slipped 1 over invaluable lor walkiug on Ice, aud very warm for cb 2, 4 d c under cb 2, catching 1 st, d c in -it h d the k 1), k 5, n, p2, etc. ridiug. E. R. F. c of group, cli 2, 1 d c iu top of d c, cb 2, 1 d c iu 4bb row — P 2, slip 1, k 1, bind the slipped 1 over Woodbury, N. J. top of d c, cb 2, 1 d c, cb 2, 1 d c at end of row ; the k 1, k 3, u, purl 2, etc. turn. This makes a good-sized mitten In line yarn. Old Fashioned Shell Tidy. 3d row— Chain 5, 1 d c in top of d c, ch 2, 1 dc, The inside oi bund can be knit plain or seamed. ch 2, group of 4 d c, catching 4th d c iu 4tb d c of I knit pl.iu. Four rows of shells and 3 of purl Cast ou 74 stitcbes; seam back the first row. previous group, cb 4, t c iu cli 2, ch 4, group of for the buck of bund. Mus. J. Chidbey. 2d row — Kuit 2, narrow 4 times, thread over 4 d c between last two d c of group; turn. ok, Medina Co., Quo. aud knit 1 until you have kuit 7 slitcbes and put 4tb row— Chain 3, 3 d c in top of last d c of thread over 8 times. Instead of knitting the 8th IEPABTMEJIT OF ARTISTIC SEEDLK- group, cb 6, sc iu 5, 6, 7 stitches of t c, ch 6, Sweet A'iolets. stitch, commence narrowiug, aud narrow 8 times, WORK. group of 4d c, catching 1st d c In last d c of then thread over and kuit 1 as belore, aud con group, making 2 d c under ch 2, catching 4th dc A very pretty, easily made flower, Is our clue tinue until you get across. If you have done it [ABY F. K.N'APP, Editor, In top oi d c, ch 2, 1 d c in top of d c, cb 2, 1 d c Violet— a small group making a very pretty right, you will have four to narrow at last, and 2 No. At L,lnden St.. 8. Boston, Mass in 3d stitch oi chain Ave at end of row; turn. Christmas token for mamma or sister. One sheet stitches to knit plain, like the first edge. Then of purp.ish-blue paper costing 5 cents, will make scam back, kuit across plain seam back again, Terms Used in Knitting. dozens. The flower Is composed of five petals, making 3 times across, between each row of nar K— Knit plain. P— Purl, or as It Is sometimes called, has a bunched-up appearance; it can be nicely rowing aud makiug stitches. Trim with edging, learn K or K 2.tog— Narrow, by knitting 2 together. Imitated Iu all but the fragrauce. Should any >ver— Throw the thread over the needle before Insert- little sister desire to try this, and the Daisy or Iriuge. Mrs. E. 8. W. ngilwavs In the to bo next considered stitch. This a stitch, makes In a the loop succeeding which 1? mention! d in September Journal, 1 will make a Box 1157, Greenfield, Mass. •owsn the or back rounds. of the Tw— stitch Twist to be stitch. knitted, Insert andknltas the need usual, e Violet and Daisy, cut paper patterns of both, and n— SUP a stitch from the left hand to the right hand send correct shade of paper to practice with, if Match Receiver. leedle wltboutknlttlnglt. 81 and B-Sllp and blnd- they will send me address and ten cents. Have Spool cotton No. 10 : fine steel crochet hook. illnone stitch, knit the next; pass the slipped one over any of you tried to cam the Tissue Paper Outfit Make a chain of 8 stitcbes; join. •t. Indicates eractly as a Inrepetition, binding off and a piece Is used of work merely at the to saveend. offered by the L. H. J. as a premium? I am sure 1st row— Ch 3, 13 d c iu the ring, join in ch 3. words "81 1, k 1. p 1, repeat from * 3 tlmes"--wou d be oue hour's work amoug the neighbors will secure 2d row— Ch 4, 1 d c in t p of first d c *ch 2, 1 d MulTalent to saying si f, k 1, p I.-sl I, k 1, p 1,-sl 1, a 1. it. Try it. You will be delighted with It. c iu top of next d c; repeat from star until vou Ex Tog means together. G. R. P. have 13 holes, ch 2, fasten in secoud stitch of ch Terms in Crochet. Box 1200, New Brunswick, N. J. 4; tliis gives vou 14 holes. Ch-Chnln: a straight series of loops, each drawn I Engraved expressly for The Ladles' Home Journal.] 3d row— Ch 2, 1 d c in first bole. *ch 3, 2 d c In with the hook through the preceding one. 81 st— Slip stitch- put hook through the work, thread oyer the 5th row— Chain 5, group of 4 d c, catching as Pansy Lace. next hole, cb 3, 2 d c iu next bole; repeat Irom hook draw It through the stitch on the hook. 8 c— in previous groups, ch 8, 5 s c in 6tb, 7th, 8tli, (Origiual). star through the row, ch 3, and join iu ch 2 at be Single Crochet; having a stitch on the needle (or 9th, 10th stitches of ch 0, ch 8, group of 4 d c in Wind the thread ten times round a lead pencil, ginning of row. threadhook) putthrough the the needle work, through and the the stitch work, on tho draw needle. the lasteroup; turn. 4th row— Ch 3, 8 d c In first hole, ch 1, 3 d c In De-double croch t; havlngtho stitch on the needle, 6th row— 81 st bock 3 stitches, ch 3, 3 d c undej- slip off, and, without breaking, fill with 25 single same bole; this makes a shell; make a shell in nut the needle through the work, and draw a stitch cb 8, ch 6, 8 s c in 8th, 9th, 10th stitches of ch 8, crochets; fasten together with a slip st, chain 5, each hole; you will have 14, Join in top of ch Sat through, making two on the needle. Take up the ch 6, group of 4 d c under cb 8, ch 2, 1 d c in top make 24 double crochets, with 2 ch between each beginning of row. Repeat the 4th row 15 times, thread again, and draw it through both these stitches. of them, (or 1 double crochet in top of every aud you will have 16 rows of shells. Wneedle 1 1 or tnkeuptheTr-Treble Crochet;thread as having If for aa stitch, stitch put on thethe of d c, ch 2, 1 d c in 3d st of ch 5, at end of row ; other single crochet, with 2 ch between). Make 17th row— Work 10 d c In each shell, catch with need e through the work, and draw the thread through, turn. three of these rings, join them as in sample. s c between the shells. mskln- three on 'he needle. Take up the thread and 7th row— Chain 5, 1 d c in top of d c, ch 2, 1 d Make as manv of these "three rings" as required 18th row— Work 1 sc In top of each d c. Run £ro«£draw t hrough theiwo two. remaining. then taAe up8 t the c-Short thread Treband draw e Cr-i- It c in top of d c, ch 2. group of 4 d c under ch 4, 1 for length of lace, and joiu the top ones together a ribbon one-half an inch wide iu and out between chetnike treble, except that when thrwhree stitches I I c in center s c of last row, ch 4, group of 4 u c all along in a row. Then begin at the last endof two rows of shells lengthwise, pass it across the :SSthrough on twothe stitches needle. twice, Instead it Is ofdrawn drawing through the al thread1 three under ch 6; turn. the piece, ch 6, aud fasten iu topof every double bottom, and up the other side between two rows it once. L to-Long Treb e Crochet; like treble, ex- 8th row— SI st back 3 stifc lies, cb 3, 3 d cuuder of shells to match. Tie a bow and suspend it by oeottnat the thread Is thrown twice over the needle ch 4, cb 2, group of 4 d c under cb 4, ch 2, 1 d c tbe ribbon ; run a ribbon in and out below the Seiore inserting the latter In the work. The stitches In top d c of group, cb 2, 1 d c, ch 2, 1 d c, cb 2, row of scallops at the top, and tie a bow with ire worked off two at a time, as In treble. Extra Long I d c in 3d stitch of ch 5, at end of row; turn. very short ends. It gives a pretty finish. Set a workStitch-Twine as the treble the cotton stitch, three bringing times the round cotton the through needle, 9th row— Chain 5, 1 d c in top of d c, ch 2, 1 d two loops four times. P-or plcot; made by working c in d c, ch 2, 1 d c in d c. ch 2, 1 d c in d c, ch 2, small glass tumbler in to bold the matches. If three ohnin. and one single crochet in tlrst stitch of the group of 4 d c in ch 2. This completes one star, you wish to make one oi silk, you ueed have only or spider. Commence for second star from 10 shells round, therefore you will need but 9 d c second row. iu the rinir, instead of 18. M. F. K. Will some oue tell me how to clean gentle D. C, put thread over the hook once. D. C. — Thread over before making the st. men's silk neckties I E. M. H. T. C, thread over the hook twice. J. J. P Can any sister give directions for cockle-shell Handsome Scrap Bag. •titcb in crochet? P. J. M. Medium sized crochet hook and a ball of No. 10 Narrow Crochet Edge in Novem' ,ber Number knitting cotton. Ca6t a chain of 8. using 1 to "Subscriber" would like directions for crochet Corrected. "turn" with, crochet the other 2 with Afghatst. ing a three-cornered shawl. Chain of 9; turn. Widen at end of every row (that is, every other If "Mrs. P. H." will send her address and a 1st row— 2 d e in 6th st of ch, ch 2. 2 d c in row in Afghan st) till tbere are 25 or 26 sts; then two-cent stamp to me, 1 will send her a nice pat same; this makes a shell, 1 d c In last st of ch. [Engraved expressly for The Ladles' Home Journal.) keep these straight along for 33 rows, theu nar tern for bib, that we use and like very much. 2d row— Ch 3, shell In shell, ch 6, fasten with crochet round both top and bottom edge. Then row, matching the widened end, narrowiug down Miss Susie "Haddex. slip st In loop made by turning at end of row. go round again with 8 ch caught iu the middle of to 1 st. Make four of these pieces. Theu take Rice Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich. 3d row— 12 s c under ch 6, shell in shell, 1 d c every 6 cb in the preceding row, with a purl of 4 red worsted, and crochet iu single st all around at end of row. ch between. Now the bottom edge Is finished. each piece, then a row of white yarn with thread "I S. :"— Directions for "crochet shoulder 4th row— Ch 3, shell in shell, ch 6, fasten In the Go across the top of the piece with 8 double cro over, a row of red in single Bt, then lulsb with a cape" were given in January numer of Journal, little sp^co Ivtween shell nnd scallop, turn, make chet la top of every 8 ch In the last round. Turn row of red with thread over, and a ch of 2 be 1887. Perhaps you would only need ten points 6 s e under eh 6, ch 6, turn and fasten in middle and couie back with ch 2, aud fasten with a slip tween. Tliis makes 4 rows around each piece. in your cape, ornine might be large enough ;run of scallop in 3d row; turn. st in top of every third double crochet in the Work Initials or name iu one of tbe strips, and a ribbon between the points. M. 5th row — Make 12 s c under ch 6. then finish preceding row. Turn again, put 1 double cro vine in the others with red wool. Fasten these the half scallop with 6 s c, shell in shell, 1 d c at chet In every 2 ch in the preceding row, with 2 pieces together, bag fashion, sew on cords and Zouave Jacket. end of row. ch between. M. S. tassels to bang by, and cords and tassels at the Oneanda-half or two skeins of Germantown 6tb row— Ch 3, shell In shell, ch 6, fasten in points where tlie pieces are joined. Anna. yarn, — according to 6ize — two boue knitting space between shell aud scallop, turn; repeat Spiral Hair Chain. needles. Cast up 40 stitches, knit plain garter from 3d row The Egandlne stitch, (back and forth) a strip that will measure D C— Put thread over before '''^m hook In Take 16 Btrands, (25 hairs in each) using the Bouquet. Atkinson's new perf um e. This superb twice round the bust; sew tue ends together; \ the work, over draw through 2 stitches, over, figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, place the figure 2 op illation sweetly recalls fragrant ' S5 wiss-"- flowers.« — TS. Brl|] right posite 1, aud 4 opposite 8; put 6 opposite 5, be ewets, n a setting of perpetual snow. after it is doubled up and sewed at the eud, 6cw | draw it through I. tween 4 and 2; put 7 half way between 1 and 4, and 8 between 3 and 2; then place the strands across the table, over the numbers, and com STAMPING for EMBROIDERY. mence braiding by taking figure 1 in the left hand, figure 2 in the right, bring 1 round to 2, and nDIPPIO 9. f>fl 'C patent transferring papers are 2 to 1 ; then 3 to 4, and 4 to 3; then 5 to 6, and 6 Dtllbu 0 (b OUs O Just what everv lady should use to 5; then 7 to 8, and 8 to 7. Commence at one lostampThey stamp her onown plush, materials velvet, for Batin.embroidery linen oror painting. any ma- as before, push the braid together, boil it, and terlal bv passingawarml: '-->n on the back of the pattern. dry. This will give a very pretty chain, and 1Book sheet showing containing 41KI designs 25 designs x3 Inches t .15.35 cannot fail to give satisfaction., A. V. W. 1 20 .25 Austin, Texas. 1 u ^ '•: .25 1 1(1 5 x7 " .25 Baby's Crochet Bib. 1 s for tidies All for SI. OO fl.40 [n answer to "Mrs. P. H.'s" request, I send a OH I «.«.S &; CO,, pattern which has been used, and admired by 104 FrankllnSt.,New York everyone who see6 them. The material can be of Finlayson, Bonsfield Perforated Patterns for Stamping & Co.'s real Scotch linen thread, No. 25, or MONOOKAMS AND DESIGNS TO ORDER. Morse & Kaley's knitting cotton, No. 14, with Pattern, ^ ^T^xWoUS, spool cotton, No. 10. for the border. Makes SOS Sixth Avenue, K ew York, chain of 7 st and work back and forth in d c in the back loop of stitch, increasing by crocheting PERFO three stitcbes iu the middle stitch of each row. RATED STAMPING PATTERNS Thi6 will have a ribbed effect and twice across Our Illustrated Catalogue shows 3.i>00 makes one ridge. Make 31 ridges. Stamplng.KenslngtonChoice Design* to order nini J ,u-tr;ifrom. Painting. Tenches On 10 stitcbes, at each end, make 16 ridges, to Sent free for 10c. to pay postage, It you form the sleeve, ami fasten upon the bib, 4}$' mention m. this .j. publication. cinmxg a co.t inches from the ends. Carry the poiut between 148 W. 5th si Olttclaa**., O. eacli sleeve over the front of bib, hrst crocheting a border all around bibaud sleeveB. For border: 1st row — 1 tr, 1 ch; repeat. THE DANA BICKFORD 2d row— 2 tr, 2 ch. 2 tr all on 1 tr ; miss 1 tr, FAMILY KNITTER. and on next tr make a shell like first. household, Knits everything of any requiredquality, texture, br the 3d row— Shell (2 tr, 2 ch, 2 tr) under2ch of 2d and weight desired. row. DANA BICKKORD PllES'T. 4th row— 1 d c under 2 ch, 6 tr under next 2ch ; 795 Broadway, New York. AUK.M'8 WANTED. [Engraved Expressly for the Ladies' Home Jouwial.l repeat. 5th row — 3 ch, 1 d c between each tr. Finish up the middle of one side, leaving an opening at Crochet Macreme Waste Basket. off with bows ol ribbon on each sleeve and on the either end of the side, a quarter of tbe length of Make a chain of 6 stitches, Join, work seven point in front, and tie behind with ribbons s»ton the side, for armholes; crochet a scallop all rows of 4 c, wideuiug occasionally to have the half an inch below the sleeve line. If any fur TO THE LADIES. round it, also round the armholes; turn back at round lay fiat, then work nine rows of single ther information is desired address A good wife, daughter, or sister is always on the neck for a narrow collar; fasten in front crochet, then put 2 d c iu a st, ch 2. and 2 d c'in Hattie Willard Wetmore. the outlook for any article that will save the with a ribbon bow. This is merely to protect the same st, (this makes a shell) skip 3 stitches, Waverlt, Ohio. money and temper of her gentlemen relatives, shoulders, and comfortable to wear under a make a shell, skip 3 stitches, make a shell, ch 8, and by so doing she is very apt to increase her jacket. M. F. K. skip 8 stitches; repeat from star seven times, Polish Boots. own supply of pin-money. Collars and cuffs are which finishes the row; work 16 rows more like among the greatest sources of annoyance and Chamois Skin Shaving Case. the last, stiffen same as cornucopia given in (By request.) expense to men. They wear out quickly, cheap Noticing a request for directions for Polish linen won't last, every washing brings even the Materials: 2 pieces of pasteboard 6evcn and November number of Journal. I formed mine best piece nearer to its end. Collars and cuffs one-half inches in diameter, cut round; sheet over a large milk can. One can shape them to Boots, I send the following: I have often knit made of l.INKNE, while ncnt and stylish, save wadding; o le-qu irter of a yard of Surah silk; suit her fancy; put ribbon In and out the open them, and found tlicmsatlsfnctory. Takc4stecl tliis trouble and expense. If you can't purchase three-quarters of a yard of ribbon for bow ; two- spaces, and a large bow on the front; a bunch of needles, number 4, four ounces of tapestry, or them at your dealers, send six cents for a sample dozen bells, third "aud fourth sizes. Paint or cones, glided and bronzed, looks pretty on the yarn, used d ,uble, two colors. (I used German- set of collars nnd cuffs, with Illustrated catalogue embroider one piece of the skin; cover the front; cover a round of pasteboard with felt, and town yarn and liked it). Scarlet and Mack have free. Show them to your husband, father, or rounds with a thin piece of tbe sheet wool, then put it in the bottom Tor a lining. a pretty effect, forming a shoe and stocking on brother, and they will quickly see their advan cover over with tbe chamois, drawn tight as you Single crochet: — Insert the hook through the the foot. Set up 34 stitches in the scarlet, on tages. The nddress is : would cover a pin ball. Line with the silk, finish work, put thread over and draw it through, then each of three needles, knit 2 plain stitches ami THE REVERSIBLE COLLAR CO., each piece and joiu at the top; sew a ring to hang put thread over and draw it through the 2 stitcbes 2 seam all round; continue ribbing 3 Inches in it up. and put the !>ow ou tbe embroidered side. on book. depth. Begiu to widen once on each side of one 27 Kilby Street, Boston, Wlasa. Sew the bells all round the front piece, (easy so Double crochet: — Put thread over the hook rib every other row ; the ribhlng must he contin CORSET— Elegant.Healthflil.Comfort- tbey will swing) a large one, then a small, and before putting it throuch the work, then thread ued and as fast as 4 new stitches are made.anew DUPTEX2 able,Durabie .e.Durable&warriiNted. <£ warranted. DescriptiveDescriptive so on. Fill with white tissue paper fastened in over, draw it through two stitches, thread over, rih must be made with them. Widen tliusoD each Catalogue free. The Dun.ex C Co. 218 tilh Ave. K. Y. by sewing a very narrow piece of ribbon (a half draw it through two. M. F. K. side of the same riball the way dotn, until there LAAllSH1 TUU HEEL..— Agents wantr are 30 ribs round the whole. Tie on the black, ■ . .,„ed everywhere.everywhere. 22 dm.mil. " maiiedmailed " torfair $1.(10.U.OO. a SttmvlrSample — . ... Mo..lOcts.lOcts. yard) on the inside of the back piece, and t; ' OITI PAHI.OB OHO l> BOLD 1'OK continue ribbing without widening, two Inches NOVK1 TYWHKK).CO.,24Congro»sSt., Boston, Mass. it .u. Perfume it if you wish. OX I. W S48. lio 1 Bee page 'JB, December number. JANUARY, 1888. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.

[Fob The Ladies' Home Journal. J ways to decorate eit her cloth or napkin, is toout which do not get rough in working as does filo und sprinkle them with saltand shake the feat he] INTERIOK DECORATION. line the design iu winch the damask pattern is selle. in the smoke. Add cobs ami salt from time t< woven, by working around it iu outline stitch, A new linen thread Is the Harris "silken flax." time, ami be sure to shake the plume well, turning BT A. K. RAMSEY. with filo-floss of two or more contrasting colors; It eomes iu all colors and has a bcautiiul silken every part in the smoke. The harder you shaM this is especially suited to a running design, hut lustre. It is said to stand washing beautilully, the feather the better it will look. Be carefuj care must be taken to choose a pattern not too but it is almost loo new an article to have been to bold it farenough from the fire to keep it Iron Intricate for that makes the work almost impos thoroughly tested. This, like tbe Pearsall's silk, burning. The livelier the coals without blast A favorite filling stitch is the French knot, sible; on the other hand the Isolated figure is not is imported, aud noneof the American imitat ions the better. I have tried to make this plain, j which is also used in regular embroidery in ways improved by such treatment. The tiuger-bowl cau equal them in beauty and durability. They thought my plumes completely spoiled till 1 where no other would 6uflice; as, ior instance, doyley is now a matter ot course and though it cost more but they are economical in the end, tried this "method. 1 saw a milliner wash • in working the heart of wild roses, daisy centres, is of no earthly use, except to multiply the small since they so amply repay the labor which must, white plume once and re-curl it this way, and 1 the heads of stameus and pistils, or the black cares of the housekeeper, yet it is one ol the del in all cases, be bestowed upon hand work. looked as uice as new. She washed it in sudfl berry and strawberry among fruits. The thread icate touches which add much to the dainty ap and rinsed it in clear water, and Bhook it rigor is brought through to the sunace of the material pearance of the dessert-table, and it looks as If [Fob The Ladies' Home Journal.] ously until about dry, and then shook it ovel and held as if for a plain scallop stitch, then be the doyley had come to stay. WRITING LETTERS. the smoke. tween the point whence it Issued and the )K>int It is usually made of fine sheer linen— the finer where the thumb holds it, the strand is twisted the better, some workers preferring linen cam How few people in this world are prompt In twice around the needle— so as to make a little bric — cut into a square of eight inches to a side, their correspondence I How nearly universal, in spiral. This must be done close to the design, aud cither hemmed, or fringed, to the aeptb oi this matter, is procrastination, — with all its re else the knot will hang too loose. The needle an inch all around. sultant disappointment and vexation; some DOCKETATLAS point is next Inserted nearly, but not exactly, at Any amount, and almost any kind, of embroid times even continued until a feeling of shame ■ OF" #1 BYMAIL the place where the thread first came to the sur ery is used on the doylies — sometimes they arc determines the delinquent not to write atalll face ; the thread passing down through the little worked all over, sometimes with only a border, It may profit us to consider a little in detail ■ THE WORLD f 1 rZf\& spiral, draws it into a compact hard knot, lying and oftcuer still with a single bunch of fruit or a the reasons of this too common failing; for per I 91 MAPS & 112 PAGES OP (fv/ close to the surface. For simple ornamental spray of flowers; they are generally done in out haps it is due to causes which a lit tie thought ■ TACTS ABOUT ALL COUNTRIES tilling It is often wise to double the strand of silk, line "stitch, but often have the design regularly aud resolution may euable us to remove. or crewel, and not twist the thread around the filled with the genuine crewel stitch. Some of That one cause is in some cases lack of time Is 1VIS0N.BLAKEMAN &Co.7^^%-RK needle but once; them are masses of drawn work, while others undoubtedly true; though not nearly sooiteu as where a grainy-look again have drawn work above the fringe only, or itis offered in excuse. For theoldsayiug"wbere's ing surface is needed around, and in, the deep hem — in lactone hardly a will there's a way" is as true of tluding time this method has deci sees two sets o) doylies alike. Among the finest to write as it is ol sundry aud various other du ded advantages, and shown are those of Bolting cloth, with an Inch ties, and many people waste more than the re for beginners it is wide hem; on the centre part Is worked, in white quisite time by their neglect of "odd momenta." also a quick way of Blo-floss. a spray of flowers which seems to have The real reason Is more often a curiously pre learning how to make been carelessly thrown on the material, so care valent dislike of this particular kind of work— iu We beg to announce the comple the knots firm and lessly, indeed, that the blossoms and leaves run many persons a positive dread, — not often form tion of a new Steel Plate Engrav even, and how to out over the hem. The work is of course in half ulated" into words, but none the less real. In the ing, designed for us by Messrs. leave the connecting solid outline, at least, though the full embroidery hope of overcoming this feillng let us trace its JOHN A. LOWELL & CO. It is thread neither too is best, and, when finished, the thin doyley is laid origin and nature. long nor too short. over a square of pink China silk (exactly the size With some persons it is largely due to imper pronounced by them the most ex Allied to tne French of the finished doyley) which has been previously fect education or lack of practice iu the several quisite Calendar which the engrav knot is the old-fash fringed to the depth of an inch on every edge. kinds ot knowledge useful In writing: Iu the er's art has yet produced. ioned 'bullion stitch,' Many ladies make their doylies of China, or meaning and proper use of words: grammar, or Size, ii x 14 inches. now so seldom used except in church embroid Suran silk, using many colors in the one s«t, but correct construction ; rhetoric, or excellence of We will mail a copy to any ad eries. A long stitch is taken across the stuff, taking care to have them all of the most delicate style; and in the perplexities of Euglish orthogra (the length of the one needed in "bullion") the shades. The silk doylies are embroidered too, phy; — much less ollen in the mere art of lortuiug dress upon receipt by us of iocta. needle passing underneath and coming te the and quite as elaborately as those of linen, but the the written letters. Except the last two, all these in stamps, cash or postal note. surface again in exactly the same place from gorgeous creations are not as artistically correct kinds of knowledge are required iu conversation, DO LIBER, GOOD ALE & CO., Boston. Matt. whicli the stitch started. The thread is twisted as the plainer work, since they are too elaborate us well is in writing. In all, the study of good around the needle ten or twelve times — just as for the purpose they were Intended to fill, and text books aud ol correct' authors, conjoined in the knot— the number of spirals being deter merely suggest display. with practice, Is the best guide. One of the newest ornaments for the table is But often a more serious trouble than that of mined by the length of the stitch first taken. the epergue cloth coin position lies in the subject matter; the dif The needle Is drawn through the little roll ol — simply an em ficulty is not so much how to write as what to twists— this .being held firm and steady by the broidered linen say. , MP thumb of the left Hand, — the point is inserted at some eighteen Note that this difficulty should never arise in the other end of the But stitch, the long Hue of inches square — business letters — iu which may be included such I^LLUSTRATELWAAGAZINE twiBts being drawn to lie firmly on the material. to be laid iu the social communications as invitations, accept The stitches are worked as close together as pos centre of the ances aud the like; lor in these the writer has a will bring you Treasure- sible, and, if nicely doue, present an even suriace 4 fir CTS. Trove for three months, on 01 fine ridges. table, under tbe specific subject, and, after due rcfiectiou there I ^\ trial. Wek know if you once see Treas- The buttonhole stitch taught in a former arti epergiie, or, if no on, has only to express as clearly and concisely A urh-Trovb, you will not be without it. cle has two varieties which are largely used in epergne is used, as possible, the facts, instructions or inquiries It is $r.oo per ye has 36 large pages ; endorsed covering a background, where cither the material under a vase of which the occasion demands. It is therefore gen by teachers" andand parents everywhere. It Is a will not admit of darning, or, none of the darn Bowers . Here erally in reference to letters of friendship that splendid magazine. Established 10 years. ing stitches give sufficient color to throw forward the embroiderer people complain of not knowing what to say But Better now than ever. Premiums for clubs. Send the design. In the first of these, called "box and the colorist these same worthy people find no such dearth of for our new list. Valuable articles for a little work. stitch" a row of ordiuary buttonhole is worked may revel iu subjects when tuey can talk orally— face to face n&cni& Arrnnfc areTREASURE-TROVE very successful in into introducing schoofi across the material (of course, avoiding the de their work, for —with their friends;— why then can they not al and families. Liberal commissions. Mention thu sign) the thread being left rather loose. Below no design Is too most as easily write! paper. TREASURE-TROVE 25 Clinton Place, CO.. N. Y. it a second row is worked, but so arranged that elaborate , n o In most cases the cause is a false estimate of the vertical line of each Btitch in this row shall color too rich propriety in letter writing, — the idea that In start directly above the centre oi the horizontal for this trifle, writing one must mention only matters of great line of the stitch in the upper row— this pulls the whose purpose er dignity or importance than in conversation. horizontal line down a vcrv little hut it serves to it is to make a bright and glowlug centre to tbe But except remarks — ill-natured or otherwise — make the work the six-sided box design, which it festive bourd — the design must be big, the color about the sins or shortcomings of other folk, MASON & HAMLIN becomes when this process is repeated again and mutt be gorgeous. which generally one should avoid whether writ- again, as in the illustration. One of tbe loveliest of these cloths is stamped or talking, aud except further matter^ for which The cabinet organ was in with a pattern of interlacing orange sprays — there is not time or which are too long or com troduced in itB present form The second variation, called "brick stitch," leaves and ripe fruit— iu a flat conventional de plicated for correspondence, anything about by Mason & Hamlin In 1861. changes the hexagons Into oblongs, or "bricks," which we should talk we may properly put into ORGANS. Other makers followed ia by making the horizontal part of the stitch al sign. The leaves are worked iu half solid 6utline the manufacture of these most twice as long as the vertical part, and draw with dark green filo-floss, the fruit with orange our letters. And in fact, ai a rule, just in pro Instrument*, hat the Mason & Hamlin Organs have ing it too tight to allow it to sag, as in the box color in chain stitch, starting iu the centre and portion as one's letters resemble tVe writer, and always maintained their supremacy as tha best In stitch. worked round and round to the outer edge, which seem almost to recall the very tones of his voice, the world. These make the last in the series of filling is strongly marked by a row of rope stitch in a they are the more prized by the friends to whose Mason & Hamlin offer, as demonstration of the stitches, aud next month's article can take up the darker shade. The desigu Alls the linen almost kindly indulgent consideration they are submit nneqnaled excellence of their organs, tho fact that interesting sub entirely, but wherever the background is exposed ted. Therefore, as between friends, the first rule at all of the great World's Exhibitions, since that of ject of the vari- /'■ It is tilled in with "box stitch," in pale sea green. tor fluent and pleasant writing is to write Just what Paris, 1867, in competition wi h best makers of all The epergne cloth is hemmed, or fringed, on each we should probably say, beginning with what countries, they have invariably taken the highest ous Persian and side and may be_ further decorated by several ever seems to us most interesting or important. honors.uuuuio. Illustratediiiuouatcu v.ucatalogues free. a Cretan stitches, Mason & Hamlin's Piano which defy the rows of drawn work. Sometimes mottoes are When, however, oue is not writing the first let Stringer was introduced by efforts of all be seen meandering in and out among the designs, ter of a series but answering something pre v luusly them in 1882, and has been ginners to imi such as received, the rule just given may well be modi pronounced by expert* the tate or even un "The Ho6t Loves Best fied by the excellent plan of replying first to all PIANOS.; "greatest ' improvement in ravel until their /((((((IKKHli A Cheerful Guest," matters in the letter received which need or in pianos in half a century.' vite attention, before introducing anything new. A circular, containing testimonials from three simple secret is or, "Go, Gather Ye Roses While Ye May;" but It ought not to be necessary to add that tbe hundred purchasers, musicians, and tuners, sent, louud out. these mottoes are not often prettily lettered and best way of doing this — perhaps the only proper together w ith descripilvecatalogne, to any applicant. From Christ therefore they destroy the artistic value of a way — is to spread open beside one's own paper Pianos and Organs Bold for cash or easy payments ; mas to Lent is, design. the letter to be auswered and then treat its sever also rented. in most towns For the tea-table a waiter, for the urn, cups and al topics in the order either of their occurrence and cities, the other paraphernalia for tea-drinking, is no longer or logical sequence. But, evident as are the pro MASON & HAMLIN ORQAN & PIANOCO. season for social used, and in its place is an oblong of fine liuen priety and convenience of this method, clearly 154Tremont St., Boston. 46 E. 14th SL (Union Sq.),N.Y. 37x20 inches. Unlike the epergne cloth, the tea- 149 Wabash Ave., Chicago. gatherings of all cloth admits of but little decoration, and this many people need to have ltcalled to their notice; uescriptions. Of little is done in outline stitch with French work lor how ot ten ou reading a letter do we look in late years the entertainments, in the average ing cottons of red or blue; It is generally suffi vain for even a reference to some ono or more home, have been becoming more frequent, and matters which we had mentioned aud thought of DIAMOND DYES. more simple in character — we having copied, in cient to" work a decorative border or perhaps a much interest, — andhow often does this neghct, a distorted sort of a way, the Alternoon Tea of spray of flowers across each end of the cloth, and aunoylngand wholly unnecessary, extend even our English cousins, and the eutertaimcnt of a it is to be hoped that no one will use the design to cases where we had asked direct questions 1 luncheon, a diuner, or at most a small supper of tea cups arranged as a border, with teapots Except, therefore, communications which have party is fast taking the place of the elaborate af- scattered, here and there, iu their midst. In the certaluly nothing calling for response, preserve lairsonce considered necessary if one "enter similar cloths used under the meat dish the same each letter received, and, when time permits be tained" at all But, in proportion as the ceremony warning may be given in regard to the carving ginning a reply, open the letter so kept and treat and extent of these hospitalities have decreased, knives and forks, which arc worked as if lying in turn each matter requiring or inviting com the daintiness aud care lor table ornamentations around the edge. It is worth while to make these ment; then add whatever else your fancy and has increased, and this condition has extended cloths pretty, *and nothing short of a pretty, judgemeut suggest as appropriate. into the daily life as well, where the table and its graceful design, daintily worked, will do this — Whether the Tetter when auswered should or decorations, down to its commonest article, is knives and forks and cups do not admit of much should not be preserved thereafter is one of tbe the thought of every woman of taste, the theme grace when treated conventionally for the em hardest problems which arise to perplex us "in FOR SILK, WOOL, COTTON, of many volumes, the work sometimes of genuiue broiderer. this naughty world." and one about which the and all Fabrics and Fancy Articles. Any one artists. Who needs, uow-n-days, the suggestion In all this work on linen the fineness ot the f .resent instructor does not claim to offer any can use them. Anything can be Colored. that a table-clotli should n«ver be laid over bare material must be insisted upon. Itis not enough ight. But letters which are to be preserved may boards, cut should always have a thick soft cloth to go into a shop and buy some article already for greatest convenience be folded to a uniform 32 COLORS-IO CENTS EACH. underneath it? This undercloth may be of heavy stamped, but the . size aud marked at the top edge or corner in red woolen cloth or of the double-faced canton flannel worker should ill] I iuk with their writers' initials and the dates, also now so generally used for the purpose. The And for herself a >~ .1.1 JL-1A if preferred, with two or threo words suggesting Remember, these are the only Pure. Harmless woolen cloth is expeusive, but it is softer and flue, even linen, their most important topics, and then filed away and Unadulterated Dyes. more pliable than the canton flannel, and if noth and having cut with ribbons or rubber bauds. ing else cau he afforded, it is possible to have an it to the required The propriety of writing won Is bo often sug tBeware of other Dyes, because often Poison old blanket thoroughly washed out aud sent to size, by drawing gested by our friends, In postscripts and other ous, Adulterated, Weak and Worthless. the dyer's to be dipped a bright red. The red the threads to T wise, that it needs not to be urged here. But We warrant these Dyes to color more goodn. ucdercloths) impart a warm, lovely glow to the Beeure straight I there ts another good counsel not often given, package for package* than any other Dyes ever linen above it, but many housekeepers prefer the hem,edges • ,or should fringe *- with which our exhortations may properly be made, and to give more brilliant and durable white ones, slnco they are more readily washed, ended. Take enough trouble to learn the time colors. and leave no stain on.' the upper cloth, if, by ac- it as desired— using, in either case, a small dainty of collection from the nearest post box, or tbe cldcut, a cup or glass is upset during a meal. hemstitch to fasten the hem down, or, to over other usual means of reaching the central office, THE DIAMOND For dinner, the cloth is, de rigeur, plain white, cast the head of the fringe. II drawn work is to aud when a letter is finished do notunueccssarily GOLD SILVER with no ornamentation but its own damask pat be put on it should be done now, and, after all lose time in getting it into the mail. Inattention bronze and copper PAINTS tern and Its own quality— which Is the finest the this, the work is taken to be stamped in a desigu to these details may cause a letter not to leave For gilding Fancy Baskets, Frames, Lamps, purse cau afford. The dinner napkins mutchthe the worker has herself chosen, and which she its place of origin until Monday which by a little Chandeliers, and for all kinds of ornamental cloth in plaiuuess and any one who has ever used embroiders Bmoothly and delicately. Then, and care might have started the preceding Saturday. work. Equal to any of the high priced kinds and the generous seven-eighth napkin will ever, wil only then, will she have a really lovely piece of Hills. only 10 cts. a package. Also Artists' Black for ling, return to the tiny squares which are some table decoration, and no one who has ever seen Ebonizing. times offered you. such will care much for the articles which remind Sold by Druggists everywhere. Send postal for For luncheon, the cloth may befringed, with a onv of the work of some artists who are said to HOW TO CURL, OSTRICH PLUMES. Sample Card and directions for coloring Photo border, in colors, either worked or woven round "p:ilnt by the yard." graphs and doing fancy work. it. Sometimes the whole cloth is embroidered The silk used should be filo-floss— the imported We have been asked many times for a method WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Burlington, Vt. with a rambling design, with isolated figures; article made bv Pcarsall and marked Eastern Dye of "home-curling" of ostrich feathers. We give but generally, the border is sufficient. Lunch is the very best in the market. It can be relied below one whicli was recently published in the HOW ONE MAY LEARN TO PAINT napkins may be small — though the large ones are on to wash if carefully handled, and has the ad Yankee Blade: with water colors for $1.50. including Instructions and always preferable— and may be embroideredeven vantage of being spuu in longeven strands which Have ready some corn cobs and common salt, material*. ThW whole outfit, costing less than a single and let tbe fire in tbe cook stove burn down un lessonTemple from Place, a city Boston teacher, or will may be be senthad at by our mall office, on re 2fl When the cloth is plain. One of the prettiest are easily separated into several threads but til you have a good bed of coals; lay the cobs on ceipt of 11.50. ft. W. TIl/TOX

•500 IN CASH grown insensibly to ignore the difference In years Please tell me in your Journal, how to var HE UDlESMiOME JOURNAL existing between them, thinking only of the nish a cheap chromol 1 have mastic varnish, Is offered for the largest number of six months pleasure the friendship gives. but know not how to proceed. AND subscribers up to April 1st, 188S — every yearly All this has done much to engender firmness Where can I procure samples of polished Ash PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPER. and steadiness of purpose in the young, while at and Cherry such asareused in making furniture? subscription to count as two six months sub the same time It has brightened and made beau What shall I rub rose-wood with to restore the National illustrated famlt journal. scriptions. $450 is offered for the second largest tiful, the lives of those older, and has certainly- polish without injury ? MRS. LOUISA K.NAPP, Editob. list; $400 for the third largest; $350 and $300 for been greatly to the advantage of all. Answers to these queries will be gratefully welcome to a Southern Admibeh. rI: J.MHt £^^7'} Associate Editors. the fourth and fifth largest Hats respectively, NOTICE TO CANADA SUBSCRIBERS. and so on for the twenty largest lists. For full "J. E. M. "gives the following experience In Published Monthly at 435 Arch St., particulars see the December number. We are obliged to make a discrimination in peanut raising: — regard to our Canada subscribers, when sending "I shelled the nuts, aud planted them two inch PHILADELPHIA, PA. Now let our club raisers go to work In earnest, premiums. Below is appened a list of the only es deep, two leet apart in the row s, aud the rows HE CURTIS Publishers. PUBLISHING COMP'Y and we shall soon have that million sub articles which we can send by mall. All other four feet apart- it was the first day of May, the scription list we have planned for. With increas premiums must go by express, and pass through soil was good rich soil aud slightly sandy", they ing circulation we promise great Improvements. the custom-bouse at the expense of the receiver. were plauted near the corn field and wereculti- Rug-Maker, butter-knlie, sugaivshell, outfits, eated the same time as the corn, three times, L'ermB: 60 eents por year. 25 cents tor sli month*; We are planning an entire new dress of type, a tissue paper outfits, lace plus, color boxes, books. they were hoed twice. In October they were Ailvertislrmnuly or In clubs. .ruteo two dollars per Agate line each In- finer quality of paper, to enable us to use a much turned up with a pitch fork and let lay in the rtlon. Heading notices, four dollars per Hoe Nonpa- finer grade of wood cutting, and to increase the A WEDDING OUTFIT. sun three days; theu I picked seven bushels of 91 measurement. Address. nice nuts. We have raised a good m.my everv L.ADlES'llOMK JOURNAL, number of illustrations; engaging the very best One of our large cash prizes, given April 1st, year, unless the squirrels dig up the seed just af PHILADELPHIA, PA. artists to be had In this country, and perfecting would enable any young lady to provide herself ter they are planted. inscriptionRenewal* expires, can be sent and now,the time no matter will be when added the to plans for new departments, and series of arti with a first-class wedding outfit. It could be alto which tne subscription Is already entitled. cles by the best known and most popular writers easily earned within the next three months and "Editor Home Journal:"— Under the head is well worth working for. If vou fail to secure of "Correspondence" iu this mouth's Journal, I u."'1!? n,!??i,T^ys sont of elation of subscrlp- in America. $500, there Is still a chance lor $450, $400, $350, see that "H. L." wants to know how to prevent 1 ;., I. .r""e"'.M ... -t is Immediatelylu,me'dlutelr discontinued.dis. $300, and so on. black ants irom getting Into her pantry. 0II I noncebe sent Is for required extra numbers. to stop the paper, and no bill OVER HALF A MILLION. I do not know how to prevent them from go NOTICE TO PHILADELPHIA SUBSCRIB ing where they wantto go, but I do know what Receipts.— Tne fact that jou receive the paper Is We have printed 525,000 copies of the Sep ERS. will make them waut to stay away and if the tri ictiy.proof Ifthat you we do bare not received receive your the paper remittance promptly, cor* tember Ladies' Home Journal, 510,000 copies al of it gives her as much satisiactiou as it has rite us that we mav see that your address Is correct. each of the October and November Issues, and A discrimination in the rates of postage to city given me, I shall be very glad to have her aud subscribers, is made between weekly andmonthly every one else, know about It. eErrors.— wlli cheerfully We make correct them them so If does you everywill write one. to and us. 700,000 copies of the December issue. 300,000 periodicals, to the great disadvantage of the Take asmall dish, a saucer or sauce platcwlll ry to write us good-naturedly, but If you cannot, more copies of the December number will be do, and put luto it a small tablespooniul of su len write to us any way. Do not complain to any latter, for, while the weeklies can be mailed to ne else or let it pass. We want an early opportunity printed later on, to supply new subscriptions as city subscribers for one cent per pound, month gar, stir iutoit as much Tartar Emetic as will He 1 make rlsht any Inlustice that we mav do. lies cannot be mailed to city subscribers for less easily on a ten cent piece, just a good sized pow they may come in dating the next four or five than one ceut for each two ounces, except where der. Moisten slightly aud set the dish wheic It months ; also to supply newsdealers, and orders the subscribers go to the post-office for their mall. will be convenient for the ants to find it. They do I ark VU Row. "."■'"" Room No. I:' 1. Potter Balldlnc, 88 for single copies in answer to our advertisements. This regulation REFERS OXL Ftosubserlbers not care to come hack for more. Mrs. L. W. S. Every copy of the above-named September, Oc in the particular city in which the periodicals are W. S. NILES, Manaobr. published. As the Journal In its present form, Editor Ladies' Home Journal:— In the June °urN,<;w»/c'r^omce 18 fOT tne transaction of busl- tober and November issues has been mailed to a uss with New York advertisers. weighs over two ounces, we, being located in number of your paper, which came into my Subscribers should not addresB any letters to that bonajide paid-in-advance subscriber. PHILADELPHIA are, therefore, obliged to bands, I read an article on the "Kindergarten," IBce. ask our Philadelphia subscribers twenty-four which seemed to be the beginning of a series, and NOTICE TO TRIAL SUBSCRIBERS. cents extra, for postage, unless the paper is ad which seemed to me, in Its directness, minute dressed at the post-office to be called for, or to ness, and the profound insight It showed luto Philadelphia, January, 1888. Owing to the immense demand, in answer to any post-office box. REMEMBER, this refers Froebel's system, as well as spirit, one of the to Philadelphia subscribers ALONE, and to those most useful things I had seen ; aud tbnueh I Was Subscriptions must begin with the number current our 4 mouths trial offer, we are entirely out of in no OTHER city. not told the name of the author, I divined It, hen subscription was received. We donotdate back, having seeu her in her own kindergarten; and I yen upon the most urgent request. September, October, and November issnes. We PRIZE WINNERS. want to see the subsequent numbers. I also shall therefore be obliged to give our later showed It to a lady of Brookllne, Mass., who said In the September, 1887 number of the Ladies' she should Immediately subscribe for yourpaper, With the December number all subscriptions subscribers on this offer, December, January, Home Journal, we advertised the Journal for and I suppose she has done so ere this. The su eut iu upon our advertisement for 4 mouths tri- February, and March. the balance of the year, on receipt of only teu periority of this article to even the best I have 1 subscribers ended. Now Is the time to renew cents, and offered six cash prizes for the largest seen elsewhere iu the newspapers, consists in its orone year. Please be sure to state when send NOTICE OF OVAL. lists of trial subscriptions. $200 lu cash waB the plain, practical character, showing what 1s to be ng, whether your subscription is a renewal or first prize, $150 the second, $100 the third, $75 done. I think if the whole series continues lu lot and thus save yourselves and us much trou- The publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal the fourth, $50 the fifth, and $25 the sixth. The the strain of this one, it will be called for aB a ile at the end of another year. has leased the new six-story building (with the following is a corrected list of the prize winners: volume. Elizabeth A. Peabodt. exception of the ground floor) at No. 435 Arch 1st, Miss Agnes R. Pattou, Phila., Pa., 1231. Jamaica Plain, Mass. When complaining of non-receipt of paper, street, Philadelphia, to accommodate the demand 2d, Wm. L. Ripley, W. Medway, Mass., 1095. ilease state whether you are a yearly, a sis for increased space in which to comfortably trans 3d, Victor Coffin, Charlotletowu, P. "Editor Ladies' Home Journal:"— Trem nonths, or a trial subscriber. This will avoid the act the greatly increased business of the Jour E. L, Can., 965. bling though I am as 1 remember the myraids of lccesstty of our writing to you, to ask the ques- nal. 4th, S. T. Fairbanks, Weston Ohio, S03. letters that must of necessity fall iuto your waste ion, and we will be enabled to turn to the prop- For the past year, we have been obliged to 5th, Mary H. Valentine, 136 Essex St;, paper basket, still I feel impelled to add my tes irbook at once, for reference, thus saving much crowd an enormous business into a space entirely Bangor, Me., 858. timony to the merits of your valuable paper. line and trouble on both sides. Inadequate, for the reason that we could not find 0th, Mrs. L. M. Jones, Blunt, Dak., 095. It wasealled to my attention by a neighbor just the building we needed, la a desirable lo Now who will secure the $500 cash prize for the and after once subscribing for it feel that we How to talk well, and improve your grammar, cality. We not only lacked store-room, but we largest list of six months subscribers at 25 cents cannot do without it. My children read it, and is clearly set forth in '-Ease In Conversation, or were obliged to run night bands, for want of each, up to April 1st, 1888? Probably very much my husband reads it, and all unite iu sounding Hints to the TJngrammatieal," written by Mrs. room to put on a proper force In the daytime. smaller clubs than the above will win our April ItB praises. We enjoy especially the short sketch Emma C. Hewitt, and published by the Curtis With five floors (135 feet in length) we shall prizes. es and portraits of the various noted writers and Pub., Co., Phila. The price has been reduced to have ample room In which to handle our half think it a happy thought. Everybody is interest 35 cents. It is a most useful bookto any woman million editions each month with comfort and We are sorry to disappolntour readers by omitt ed in all that pert ains to the private life of these desiring self improvement. Tells you how to dispatch. The first floor is handsomely fitted up ing to publish this month, the continuation of famous personages. talk well iuSociety, howto acquire ease and cor in black walnut partitions, ana counters with "Our New Minister," by Josiah Allen's Wife. I wIbIi to tell the housekeepers my method of rect expression, and points out hundreds of Sn- glass tops aniAra68 fittings, something after the The author has been very Bick and unable to at cleaning oil-cloth. I have a square under my suspected' errors in everyday English. usual style adopted by banking Institutions, and tend to any literary work. We hope, both for sitting-room stove, that I am using for the third coutalns the general counting room, private of the sake of the readers and that of the writer her year and It has never been washed. It is worn It amazes us to sec reputable journals accept fice of the proprietor, premium department, and self, that she will soon be sufficiently restored to some, but looks very nice yet. I take an old ing advertisements which they must t«o» to be engravers rooms. The second floor is occupied health to resume her literary duties, and give us Turkish towel and a broom, and rub the cloth fraudulent. It is their busituss to know whether by the associate editor, and a force of sixty or her articles, in uninterrupted succession. briskly, this removes all the dirt and dust that or not their subscribers are likely to be swindled more clerks, who have chargcof the subscription sticks to it, and itlooks as bright as new. I rub by their advertisers. They do know it, but they books. The entire third floor is given up to the CORRESPENDENCE. the zinc the same way. Thi6 saves labor and the can not resist the few dollars such advertising mailing department. The fourth floor is used oil-cloth wears longer. Try it sisters. brings In. If they do not know It, such editors by the compositors and the accessories of a print "Miss Jennie Phillips" :— Address, Ehrlch Eotpt. are not fit to conduct public Journals. It's eith ing room; while the fifth floor will give us our Bros,. 8tb. Ave., and 24th. St., N. Y. er knavery or luck of brains; there is posi much-needed store-room. The building is en "Ladies' Home Journal" :— Here are a few tively no excuse for them. Certain concerns in tirely new, and modern in all conveniences, is "Mrs. O. C. Aldrich" :— UBe Naptha for hluts on Home decoration which may be of value Mass., and Conn., are advertising stamping out fitted up for our express purpose, and presents a cleaning your kid gloves. "Electro Silicon" for to your readers. fits at ridlcuously low prices. These outfits are handsome and striking front of pressed brick, your brass lamps. To make a lovely white and gold chair with found to be utterly worthless. The complaints with terra cotta trimmings and heavy cornices. "A New Subscriber. Perrio, N. M.":— plush trimmings, take an old fashioned rocker that, come to us, tempt us to expose half a To all our readers we extend "a cordial I invitationI March 28, 1867, came on Tuesday, and April 26, with rush or cane bottom and straight hack. dozen of these concerns. One iu particular, in to call upon us In our new home. 1860, also on Tuesday. Cover with a coat of white lead and a good clear Conn,, advertising Itself as a "manufacturing varulsh, mixed. When thoroughly dry, take a company," gives us more trouble than all the "OLD MAIDS." "Mrs. 8. J. Dodoe, Wheaton, Md.":— Con bowl and stir one half part plaster of parls and reBt put together. The proprietors were notlong sult our advertising columns for knitting and oue half whiting together with water until thin ago arrested for using the mails for fraudulent Mr. Fink, in his late work on "Love," demon embroidery silks. as syrup. With a large clear bristle brush go purposes, and fined J250 In the U. 8. Court at strates, among other things, that the heroine of 2d. We don't know where you can get waste thoroughly and rapidly over the entire chair. Hartford, in addition to fines of $350 and costs the popular novel is no longer as young as she cloth. When dry' this will have the appearance of white each, paid in a Boston Court. And yet In the once was. Please inform me where I can get a book of In enamel. face of all this a big "woman-trap" may be found Life, in fiction, with all Its exaggeration, is structions on wax work; also ou zephyr flowers. The cauc portion of the chair must now be Iu a half dozen reputable periodicals, thepropi ie- but the exponent of the times after all. There Will "Bell Patterson" inform me in making a treated to an application of brilliant gold paint. tors of said Journals hiding themselves behind must be a certain amount of realism In it, in or bairchain wbetheror not she runs acord through The contrast is very pretty. The chair maybe a printed slip which bids their subscribers be der that it may pay. Therefore, if society itself, It! Sadie. farther decorated by a cushion of blue or terri- wary. were not undergoing a change, we would not B. C. : — If you do not understand making cotta plush. Think ofitl the double dealingof It I for It cer find this same change In works which deal only crazy shells, I will work a sample and mall to To make a chair of antique appearance for Hall tainly amounts to no less, to induce a man to ad with fictitious characters. you, on receipt of ten eents. M. F. K. orlibrary, secure an arm chair of substantial ap vertise in one's columns, and then bid the ve y It is gradually being conceded that a woman's 20 Linden St., South Boston, Mass. pearance, with astralghtback if possible. Cover people from whom he might hope for good re life is not lived out by the time she is twenty- with coat of the followlug composition. One sults, to be cautious about answering the adver five. It is dawning upon the youthful mind, "Ed. Ladies' Home Journal": — Mrs. A. R. part of Lampblack, and one oi Burnt Sienna tisers. that a woman may live to be thirty or even forty, Calver can get "Waterproof Fibre Cloth," suit mixed thoroughly with equal parts of varn isn and and still have the fire of romance burning In her able for hot-beds, cold-frames, pits, etc., by turpentine. When thoroughly dry cover flat heart; and the school miss of sixteen more rare sending to "0 8. Waterproofing Fibre Co., 56 wood work ou the back with Llncrusta Walton We have our usual little sermon to preach this ly sucars, when her aunt thirty-five dares to South St., New York. They will send samples glued on. Should the chair he straight back take month, but fromthe volume of letters lying be think of marriage. upon application. Mrs. T. M. Paschal. out the connecting slats and insert a board of the fore us which might serve as texts, we shall se This change is due to pressure brought to bear Castroville, Tex. proper size. After it is thoroughly secured by lect only two or three. in two different directions: first — the re-Incor Blackstone, Mass., July 16, 1887. nails or glue, apply a panel of Llncrusta Walton, Here is one lady who says, "I have discovered poration into geneial use, of the good old-fash Editor Ladies' Home Journal: — Please tell leaving a width of three inches all around. Ap that my papers have been going to some one else ioned word "woman." There are no longer, as me bow to clean paint brushes from the paint, ply panel or 6quare of same design to seat. Now and Bhe refuses to give them up." there were fifteen or twenty years ago, "old also how to keep paints moist, after being mixed I for tne decoration. A ter painting the Llncrus Another, "No one pretends in this town to re young girls ;" women, young and old are women. They dry in twenty-four hours after they are ta Walton like the chair, take brouze powder and ceive a paper he subscribes for, for the mail car A girl of eighteen is a girl, our. she is likewise a mixed, and I have to throw them away. liquidize it by mixing with equal parts of Bal riers refuse positively to deliver them. We all young woman iu general estimation ; a woman Your youthful reader, "M. L. B. sam of llr and turpentine. With the bronze go go to the general office to get them. Every one of twenty-five is the same. [Clean your paint brushes with turpentine. over the raised portion of the Linerusta Walton, is complaining." But the most Important factor of the whole Having done this, dip them iu gun oil aud brin

pt. flour, 3 eggs, % teaspoonful soda, a little once a fortnight, and did Dot pretend to confine ets there should be a narrow, sliding panel lor a salt, beat the whites and yolks separately, and themselves to the making of salads, but their ventilator, to oe kept always open, excepting add whites last. Bake in a moderately hot oven "prentice hands tbey tried on" croquettes, rolls, when sweeping or building the fire, thus securing THEPRACnCAL and to be eaten with butter and sugar or cream chops, chickens, oysters, blancmanges. Jellies, a free circulation ol air, that the contents of the and sugar. cakes, creams and sweet dishes iuuumerable. closet may always be kept free from rust or Orange Cake.— 5 eggs Once in a while young men were Invited to par mould. 3 cups sugar take of these delicacies and the meetings The kitchen should have plenty ofllglit and ven- % cup butter were always delightful. Another Cooking Club, t tT.it ion at all times, a transom is a very handy 1 cup sweet milk more ambitious, engaged au old country farm thing tor all kitchens. However, the best mode 4 cups flour house for two or three weeks one Summer, and of ventilation for a kitchen would be to procure juice and a little grated rind ol oue orange. provided with chaperones and cook books did all a board lour inches wide, and as long as the Break the yolks of eggs In a large bowl, add their own work, that of the kitchen Included. width of your wiudow and as thick as the sash. the sugar and butter and orange juice, and beat The chief fault in most of these clubs, so far Then raise the lower sash wnd place the Doard un with the hand until light and creamy, then add as practical benefit Is concerned, lies in the fact der it edgewise. Thlsleavesan opening between milk, the whites of eggs which have been beaten that they devote their attentions rather too ex the two sashes that cauuot be penetrated by the to stiff froth, and the flour into which has been clusively to fanevcookery, lusteadoi tothe'plain, elements. A kitchen should be ornamented by Bitted 1 teaspoonful soda and 2 of cream tartar. every-day food tbat every one should know how a light colored paper, or white wall, thusgivlug Bake in 4 deep jelly cake pans. to prepare to be well versed In housewifery. Most the room a home-like appearance and also help Icing For Orange Cakb.— 1 cup granula cooking clubs give very little real instruction in ing to have it per.ectly light. ted sugar, the proper methods of cooking steaks, roasts and This gives but au imperfect idea of the most 1 white of egg stews, soups and vegetables, or ordinary pud important peints to be observed iu arranging juice of one orange. dings and plain desserts. your kitchen. Should there be no room near the Putihe sugar on the Btove \njust enough water Cooking classes are managed on a different range for the Iron-ware closet, it must, be made to moisten It, (if you put on too much the icing plan. For them skilled teachers must be pro just opposite, under the "dresser," or kitchen HOME COOKING. will be thin and run), let this boil till clear and cured. These usually deliver a series of demon crockery closet; and be sure the ventilator be will spin a thread, have the white of egg beaten stration lectures, in which they not only give di made to the upper and lower part of the door, as Original Recipes, Contributed by Journal and have some oue drip the sugar whileyou beat, rections for the cooking of various dishes, but above mentioned, if the pot closet and "dresser" Sisters. aud continue beating until it is thick and white, also carry out their own precepts iu the sight of must be combined. then stir in orange juice, if It thins it too much, the audience. The cook likes au open "dresser" to display her Apple Sauce.— (by request) Pare,core and cut beat in pulverized sutrar till thick enough. The pupils buy tickets for the course and at tins and crockery to the best advantage. But do up two quarts or less of apples and add cold wa This makes a very large and delicious cak tend the lectures armed with notebooks and pen not yield to that point, for if it is open, it will be ter enough to not quite cover tbem. When boiled cils, with which to take down the words of wis impossible to keep the dishes free from dust, wheu soft enough to mash with a wooden spoon, add Chocolate Cake.— 2 cups sugar dom as they flow irom the lips of the instructress. sweeping. If possible have good sliding doors. sugar to suit the taste, grated nntmeg may be 1 cup milk A regular bill of fare is announced for each les Adooron hinges is alwavs swinging, girls will added or a little lemon juice, as you may prefer J£ cup butter son and the fees are not heavy. Sucbawell known carelessly run against it, and manv broken dish for flavoring. 4 eggs cordon bleu as Miss Parloa chargesonly fifty cents es will b'c the result. Have your kitchen a model Lemon or Vanilla Ice Cream. —(By request) 3teaspoonfuls baking powder, a lecture to each student. of neatness and handiuess, and you will alwavs sifted into 3 cups flour. Both clubs and classes may be so conducted as be happier. D. A. W. One quart of cream, one pint of milk, one and a Mix according to directions for Orange Cake. to confer subs'tautial good upon their members, half cups of sugar, flavor with large table Bpoon- Prepare icing as fororangu cake, insteud of us if practically managed. The best guides, are ful essence of lemon or vanilla. Beat the cream ing orange juice, scrape down a quarter cake of standard cook-books, that contain clear straight to a froth, stir in the milk and sugar thoroughly, chocolate, put on the Btove until melted, then beat forward directions. There are many of these. ASK YOUR GROCER flavor, freeze and pack lor two hours. into white Icing and you have a nice chocolate Among the number may be mentioned Mrs. Mrs. Liucoln in her "Boston Cook book" tells cake. I also send a Rorer's "Philadelphia Cook Book," Marion Har- FOR us that in preparing ice cream, it is very essen Chocolate Caramel Cake. — 1 cup suga land's "Common Sense Series," Mrs. Lincoln's tial to use the rlgut proportion of coarse rock cup butter, "Boston Cook Book," and Thomas J. Murray's sail, to have the Ice finely crushed, and to beat cup sweet milk, dainty little volumes, "The Book of Entrees," FLEISCHMANN & CO.'S the mitxure thoroughly duriug the freezing. 2 eggs, 3 cups flour, "Breaklast Dainties," "Puddings and Dainty The melted ice and salt should surrouud the can, 1 teaspoonlul soda dissolved in hot water, tuen Desserts," "Fifty Soups" and "Fifty Salads." and should be drawn oil only as it floats the ice. put on the stove one cup of milk and a half cup of The "Universal Cook Book," recently Issued, UNRIVALED Use oue part salt to three or four parts ice. Put chocolate, stir till dissolved, then stir into it 1 also contains many excellent recipes. Any or all in a layer of ice three Inches deep solidly packed, cud sugar and the yolk of one erg which have of these books may be procured by sending the then a measure of salt, alternately until the freez been beateu light, boll all together and wheu money and order for them to any large book er is full. When the cream U thoroughly cold cool flavor with vanilla. While this isoooling beat store. pour it into the can. Turn slowly at first and af up theflrst part of cake in the ordinary way, add ter ten minutes more rapidly, till you can turn the cbocolote custard and bake in four jelly pans Compressed uo longer. It usually takes about half an hour. Ice with white icing giveu for orange cake. (For The Ladies' Home Journal.) Remove the beater, scrape off the cream, and beat This is the most delicious chocolate cake one ABOUT OUK KITCHENS. and pack the cream closely In the can. Put a can Imagine, but a little "harder to hit" than the Among the thousand andone things required to rork into the opening In the cover, and lay the other one. Given In answer to "Charleston." make home neat, tasteful aud baopy, Is a well cross-piece over to keep the can down in the ice. Let me know how you like them. proportioned and arranged kitchen, Cover with a piece of old carpeting wet In the M. V. Shannon. Some are so large and "sahara-like" that one Is salt and water. Editor Ladies' Home Journal:— In response bewildered and lost in the "wilderness," called a Yeast. PHILADELPHIA ICE CREAM. to "Charleston's" request for chocolate cake, I kitchen, where everything Is loBtand nothing can 2 quarts of cream ; If thick add send the following recipe : be found : where the spider weaves his tiny home, The best and imrest leaven fur Bread, 1 pint milk. 1 lb pulverized sugar and the rats and mice forage unmolested; where 2 cups sugar % cup butter the servants, imagining their sins will not find Molls, Biscuits a nd Cakes of all kind, 2table8poonfuls vanilla. 1 cup sweet milk them out, construct great piles of clothing, brush whites of s eggs es aud brooms, to be put away when "I have and without an equal for Scald the cream; melt the sugar in it, and fla 3 cups flour time." In others one cannot but feel "cribbed, vor when cool. Freeze as above. The cream 1 teaspoonful soda • cramped, and confined," just to step Inside. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. should be very sweet and highly flavored, as both 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, mix soda and Nothing so disconcerts and discourages the new sweetness and flavor are lessened by freezing. cream of tartar in flour wife as to be introduced into the "hovels" To make it lighter and more delicate, whip the After mixing add 4 tables poonfuls grated choc called kitchens cream until you have a quart of froth, and r.dd olate to one third the batter. Can be baked In Long dark kitchens are often found in city- Special attention is invited to our the froth after the cream is partly frozen. Many three layers and iced, putting chocolate layer in houses. These are to be disliked, owing to their prefer to add the whites of eggs, beaten till foamy, the middle, or made into a nice marble cake by murky, dismal, and discouraging aspect. But YELLOW LABEL, which Is affixed to but not stiff. Use two, three or four eggs to each alternatlng putting spoonfuls of the dark and likes and dlslikesare usually controlled In build quart of cream. light batter in large pan. ing by master builders, who too often arbitrarily every cake of our Yeast and serves to Orange Marmalade.— Take six oranges three Perhaps some of your readers would like an assure those who employ them, tbat a stairwav distinguish our goods from worthless lemons 3 qts of water and six pounds of white easy recipe for making blBcuits. cannot rise by easy ascent, with broad platforms sugar; cut the rind of the fruit into quarters 1 qt. sifted flour for resting places, or that a closet cannot be Imitations. peel it off, then cut it into dne chips as thin as 2 heaplngtablespoonful s Royal baking powder made where one wants It; and although oue dors possible and divide the pulps Into small bits, re 1 teaspoonful salt. not believe a word of it, yet being ignorant of moving carefully the seed which may be steeped Mix powder and salt thoroughly in flour, then, their art you cannot gainsay their statements. In part of the water that is to be used for the handling as little as possible, make Into a soft Husband, when you build your hou6e,allow your marmalade; put the chips and pulp into a crock dough with one pint rich sweet cream. Roll wife the privilege of planning the kitchen. A and pour three quarts of boiling water over them about three fourths of an inch in thickness, bake long table closely fitted to the sink that no water and stand over night, after which pour the inaAofoven about ten minutes. I have used can drip between, Is much needed. It is better whole into a preserving kettle and boll until the this recipe for years and never failed In having to have It fastened permanently to the wall and We nave made a specialty sine* 1877 of srivlnif as PREMIUMS ta chips are tender, then add Bix pounds of sugar delicious biscuits. This recipe makes twenty bis made as wide as the sink, thus forming a sort of thoie who GET UP CLUBS or purchase TEA ami COFFEE in larva slowly and boll the marmalade until it jellies; cuits. Jean Craig. shel f on which to clean vegetables, dress meats, WaRE,quantities, 4c. DINNER Teas of andall kindi TEA SETS, from 30GOLD-BAND cents io 75 rents SET8.SlJ.VEft- per pound. this is delicious, I make double this quantity Editor Ladies' Home Journal:— Seeing In poultry etc., by having it close to the Bink you We do a very larpe Tea and Coflee business, besides sending out every spring when the fruit is cheap. A.L.O.P. the Journal a request for the recipe for making will be near cold and hotwater, and so save many TERSfrom 60 as to Premiums,90 CLUB ORDERS with $5, each17. and' day. f 10 SILVER-PLA ordei TED CAS Dear Slsters. — Here is a recipe for makiug Marsh Mallows, I will send it. steps, leaving no excuse for not having things SETS with 110 order*. DECORATED TEA SETS with WHITE $11 order*" TEA elderberry-wlue. Measure the berries and bruise Dissolve 1 lb. clean gum Arabic in I qt. of wa properly cleaned aud attended to. By carelul GOLD-BAND or HOSS-ROSE SETS of 44 pieces, or DINNER SETS them, to every gallon adding one quartof boiling ter; strain, add 1 lb. granulated sugar, and place washing and cleaning It is very convenient to put ofcarry 1 18 the pieces, targest with stock, $20 orders, and do and the a largest HOST Tbaof other and Premiums. COFFEE busi We water, let the mixture stand twenty four hours, over the fire stirring continually until the sugar dishes on wheu washing and drying them. Then ness, in Boston. Send postal (and mention this paper) for our or longer, stirring occasionally. Then strain off is dissolved, and the mixture has become the con when all are cleaned aud washed properly, they alsolarge CASH illustrated PRICES price for and our premium premiums, list, at of LESS 96 pages, than containingWholesale the liquor into a cask, to every gallon of liquor sistency of honey. .Next add gradually the whites can be placed In the receptacle with fewer steps Prices. As to our reliability, we are pleased to refer to the pub adding 2 pounds of sugar, first dissolving the su of 8 eggs well beaten, stirring the mixture all and consequently in a better condition. Under lishers of this paper. GREAT LONDON TEA CO.. gar in hot water, or at least partially dissolving the time until It loses its stickiness aud does not this shelf or table, two drawers are needed, with 801 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. it. Let it be until it Is through working, then adhere to the Sugars when touched. The mass several compartmeuts— one for polishing materi bung up, or bottle it. A half gallon of good whls- may now be pourad into long, shallow, tin pans, al, whiting, chamois-skins and all articles re kev to ten gallonsof the wine is an improvement. dusted with starch, and when cool divided into quired iu cleaning metal ware. While the sec Blackberry wine is made the same way, only small squares. These squares may be covered ond may be used for Btove polish, and all tbe nec the whiskey is left out with a coating of chocolate, which makes them essary dishes used In keeping the stoves iu order. Hoping this may be a help to some of the read verv nice. A board over the sink, and extending from ers, lam Yours respectfully, To prepare the chocolate %ofacake of Baker's thence the whole length of the room, aud between Constant Reader. sweetened chocolate, shave off fine and put it two and three feet In width is much more eervlc- German Potato Salad.— Boll potatoes with into a bowl, 6et In bdlling water, to melt. As able, and far neater than plastering or paper. the skins on. When they are cool enough to soon as the chocolate Is sufflcieutly melted dip Nicely painted and grained, (oak color, we think handle, pare them and slico very thin, sliceing the marsh mallows iuto the chocolate, giving the best for kitchens) it is not easily defaced and an onion with the potatoes; salt, pepper, and each square a coating of brown, using a fork in can be washed aud cleaned with ease. On the vinegar to taste. Before serving, heat a little handling them. If desired the marsh mallow upper portion of this board, hooks and galva meat f ryings In a skillet, pour the vinegar on it paste may be flavored with vanilla, or the paste nized nails must be driven on which to hang the and let it get hot; then pour it over the potatoes may be dlvidedinto two equal parts one half fla basting spoons, ladles, skewers, cooking forks, and serve. vored vanilla and coated with chocolate and the and spoons, chopping knives, cake turners, gravy A Vert Good Wat To Use Up Cold Meats.— other flavored with lemon. E. D. B. strainer, but dishcloths — never! A friend sug Take cold beef, veal, chicken or any other meat, gests tbat a shelf above this board, would often For Sale Everywhere. the more variety the better. Hash It fine and [For the ladies' Home journals be convenient but the great temptation it would See that la on each mix with two eggs, two crackers rolled fine, a lit COOKING CLUBS AND CLASSICS. prove, to throw many things upon it, "just for a full name ELECTRO-SILICON box. tle grated onion, mtlted butter, pepper and salt, moment," would tar over balance all good derived ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE. to taste, form in cakes and fry in butter or nice BT CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK. from it. THE ELECTRO SILICON CO. 72 John St. New York. This table should be carried from the sink up drippings. Grated onion is nicer for hash than "How are cooking clubs organized, and what , to the next wall, aud as uear the first wiudow or chopped. book or books are best to use iu a cooking class? the adjoining side as possible. There cannot be Breakfast Omelet.— Three eggs beaten very Please reply through columns of Ladies' Home too much light upon the sink or sink-table. In light with one tableBpoonlul of flour, add 1 cup Journal." Mrs. T. M. Kell. the corner where this table and the board, above ot milk, and turn iuto a well buttered cold spider. The interest that has been taken of late years mentioned, a case of small drawers set iu the Set on the stove where it will have an even steady in housewifery and especially in the culiuary art wall for salt, pepper and spices is very desirable. heat, but not to burn, and let it cook — perhaps has made cooking clubs aud classes very popular. This also saves many steps, being convenient to half an hour — or until the egg sets, which can be The cooking club, as it is generally known, con tbe work for which such articles are used, aud told by trying with a knife as the custard be sists of a certain number of women who band therefore more likely to insure neatness and comes firm, scutter the seasoniug salt, pepper, themselves together to study and practice cook guard against loss or waste. a little chopped parsley, ham, or any seasoniug ery. The members of such an association may This table and the drawers should be on the left THEGREAT CHINA TEA CD you prefer, then Blip the knife rouud the edges be" young girls or married women, anil it is some hand side of the range if the water back is placed Oive aicay as premiums to those forming clubs for and turn one half the Omelet over the other, put times even composed of children. Their usual on that side. On the other side ot the range we andthe sale Toilet of ItieirSets. TESilverware, AS and COFFEES, Watches, etc. Vinncr, WHITE Tea on a hot plate and serve at once. custom is to meet at a stated period and prepare need to have nailed acleat, about live Inches wide, TEA SKTSof 4fl anil 68 pieces with 810 and 818 Brows Bread. — 1 cup molasses a lunch or supper^each one taking charge of some and two and a half feet from the floor, supplied withorders. 813 Decorated anil mii orders.TEA SETSof >TIM 44 -tV « I SOM pieces> 1 \^pt. sour cream tion from Shakesphere, "My salad datB, when I have a laundry separate from the kitchen. for us. 8enc1 for Pnimlum lA»t and full particulars yi pt. sweet milk was green in judgment." The members met At the top and bottom of all doors to such clos I ATLANTIC TEA COMPANY FUcnourg. Man. JANUARY, 1888. 10 THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.

the bounet are lolUed back, so as to form a close- tittiugcoil, a few folds of China crepe foim a STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER'S QUARTERLY. border in lront of creamy pinkish fawn color, while at the side is a large cluster of spray feath 50 Cents per Year with Premium ers in various shades of subdued beaver brown. Htrawbrldg-e .V Clothier's Quarterly Is one of the largest and cheapest Fashion Magazines pub For information thanks are due Sharpless llshed. Each Issue contains: Brothers, Philadelphia, and C. C. Shayue, New . , ( Original, . ( New, I Latest Styles York. Literature- Interesting, MUSIC and Fashions- Described and ODD COLORS AND NEW MATERIALS. ( Instructive. I Choice. ( Illustrated. The newest and really the most Uncommon AND A COMPLETE STORY BT A 1MIIIM1 \ KM WRITER. hues are those termed the feather and f urcofors, complete The Winter fashion number. news anu Just gossip, Issued, by contains: Miss May 120 Forney papes; aud 1000 others;Illustrations; Illustrated colored artic fronlsplece es of pcrnian of latest nt interest styles: which are illustrated in plain thick silks, surahs, on home art, need ework. and domestic economy ; the say Intra and dolnvsof the ( raze Club; Miss Juliet Corson and soft woolen goids, Henrietta aud Nun's on cooking; seasonab e cantata, "The Earth Is a Merry-go-round," by Prof. H. A. Clarke, of the University of veiling, plush, veiVct and velutiua. Some oi I'ennsy.ranta. etc.; also an Illustrated slory, "A Thousand Years is but as Yestonlav,' written expressly for these delicate shades are known as blue fox, gol the Quartrrly by J ulian Huwihorne. Each subscriber can choose one of the following premiums: den beaver, king-Usher blue, grebe, — a pale grey flecked with silver— ibis pink, colibri red,like the 1-CRAZY PATCHWORK BOOK: 2-VOCAL MUSIC BOOK: breast featbersof aru by throated humming bird, 3-1NSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOK: 4—DICTIONARY OF STITCHES. aud bird of paradise" feather yellow, with a STRAWBRIDGE A CjLOTHDLR, smoke pearl dove grey. [For the I.adiiw Home jofrnai.. Green Issaid to be one of the most popular 8th A Market Streettt, Philadelphia. FESTIVAL FASHIONS. I colors, but like heliotrope, green must be iu cer Please mention this paper. tain shades to be becoming, the very light, aud Stately Styles In Fur. For The Season Of very dark tones being really the safest for bru- EXQUISITE EVENING GOWNS. Snow Storms. Toilettes For Mid- Winter En uette or blonde. Amoug the new greens is The Old Fashioned Santa Glaus tertainments, Opera, Concerts, Receptions, Ocean, an indefinite, dull blue green, etincella, For elegant evening robes a most beautiful Balls And Parties. Beautiful Materials For a stllllighter shade,, aud undine is auothergreeu fabric Is a heavy silk, with cream ground, coy- In Modern Headquarters. Ijovely Evening Gowns. Novel Conceits In tone. ered with boquets of small flowers, worked lu AN IMMENSE. _BU I LDJ NO FILLED Dress Ornamentation, And Charming Deco Plush is unusually popular this winter, and as metallic threaus, of tne natural but subdued tone WITH CHRISTMAS GIF . S AND rative Fancies. Itcouies iu many of the light colors, It is used of the flowers, with tasselsof tine metal beads de NEW YEARS' PRESENTS. tocotnbine with other fabrics, the plush form pending all over. In daylight the tones are soil Appropriate for Young and Old, Rich BY MRS. JAS. H. LAMBERT. ing the flatdecorative portions, panels, piastrous, and dainty, but it is wheu worn beneath the gas and Poor, Men and Women, Girls vests, collars, and parements. Seal brown aud or electric lights, that its glimmering brightness and Boys. The most decidedly elegant and expensive seal plush, are alike iu shading, but the seal is realized. Something suitable for all ages, and all conditions, for wraps, presented for tlie glorious season of ice plush of the best grade is often mistaken for the Clinging, soft materials are largely in demand individual Needs, Kami y Kequlrcnients and Home and snow, aretbose of fur; not the harsh, heavy real seal fur, while seal brown plush Is more for eveuiug wear, because they drape more artis Decorations, fur of days of vore, but in the skins of baby ani- silky in appearance. tically thau the heavier fabrics, and the beauty TOYS I TOYS! TOYS! mals, so carefullycured, * and -■ exquisitely . ...,!.. dressed, The materials with the velvet pire, are said to aud style of a dress now depends much upon Beautiful Dolls, Doll House** and Furnishings. Me that they are fine, so: t, and pliable as the richest be more enduring than plush, the sun ace threads the drapery. As an example, a dress with illk chanical Curiosities and other Toys. Entertaining plush, hence, it is no longer necessary for the being shorter, they do not getso deeply pressed foundation shows cream crepe dc Chitic lalllng Games. garment of lurtobe cut iu the old lime regula down as those with the louger nap oi plush. carelessly, but always gracclully about the BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! tion straight sacque form, lor the modern pre- Velutlna, the new velvet pile fabric, has been skirt, while the bodice is crossed "from the left Fairy Tales and Story Books, Choice Gift Books for pured skins can be shaped to tit the figure, as brought out In black, aud all the rich day aud shoulder by a breadth of the stu£t,which seemed Children and Grown folks. easily as other rich materials, and the only rea eveulug colors, Including the beaver browns, to lose itself iu the side folds. The sleeves are Stationery and Writing Desks. son that the finest furs are not used as draperies, with a beautiful bronze, aud any quantity of new formed of a series of puffs tothe elbow. Such a Perfumes, SoapB, Toilet Novelties, Dressing Cases is because of their high cost. and Kaucy Goods. Superb long cloaks, and elegant redlngotcsure and antique blues, also Sultan, ruby and cardi dress is simple, becoming, aud comparatively in Handsome and Artistic Creations, in China, Glass made of tuny seal skin, and these garments with nal. expensive. and Ciocks, Silverware. Watches and Jewelry. Odd fancies In Gold Velutina although but lately introduced has One of the so-called aesthetic dresses for au ev and Sliver Pins and Earrings. Rhinestone Novelties no trimming save the buttonsare valued at $500, already been included iu the list of standard fab ening party is made of white Indian muslin in I, no* Pins and Ear rings, with Ornaments for the and $700, while the same garments finished with rics, to do service In lieu of the more frail silk striped vriib lace insertions, and a gold braid Hair. Bri iant, Beautiiul und Inexpensive. a band of the finest sea otter cost at least $1000. velvet, which Velutiua so closely resembles, threaded down each insertion. Over this a Greek Scarf Pins, Collar and Cuff Buttons fur Gentlemen. Exceedingly graceful visitcs and manteletsare wheu a fabric is required to form costumes and bodice and tuuic edged all round with lace lu- Ridley's Millinery Designer, 20 Cts. a Copy. made of fur, in the same styles as those of plush dresses, that are to be subjected to harsh usage. ertion, threaded wlthgold braid, are worn, be Hats, Bonnets and Caps for Ladies, Misses, Children and other fabrics, and the mantles of fur have Besides being handsome, aud spend id wearing, ing secured at waist line by a gold band. and Sealskin Babies. Cloaks, Coats, Jackets and Collarettes. the characteristic long fronts, and short back, Velutina has the ineritof costing less thau auy Gold c I asps are on the shoulder, gold bracelets Garments, Huts, Mulls und Boos in the new aud stand now to be noticed in all the new models. The of the reliable materials used this winter for above aud below elbow, aud a gold dog collar ard Kurs. sleeves vary in shape; some mantles have the dresses or for fancy work. round neck, add to the effect of the dress, and Fabrics, High-class, In beautiful medium-priced Silks, rich nnd BrocadeB, inexpensive wonderful Dress comfortable allng sleeve, others have a shorter Justhereit may be well to hint that while our the hair of the wearer is to be arranged a la P.ushes and Velvets, and all kinds of wool Cloths and smaller sleeve, but the most elegant sleeve 1b models o I costumes and dresses are the produc Diana, with a gold cbain colled twice arouud Sp eudki Wearing Specia.iies, Ridley's American long and pointed, reaching to the edge of the thuis of thu most noted artists in Europe and the head. Black SI ks. $1, *L25. $l.5u. $1.75, $2, $2.2,>, $J.50and |8 a yd. cloak skirt. America, such as Rcdfern, Worth, and Pingat, it A handsome black dress for evening wear is Patterns Present* in forCotton Servants and Woolen and NeedyGoods rangingFriends, in Dress price Numbers of small mantles arc made In snblc, is by no means uecessary forour patrons to make made of point d' esprit, with the edge of the from #1 to 16, according to quality ami qunntity or ma sealskin, mluk, astrakan, beaver, blue aad black the garments iu the materials spoken of, which skirt embroidered rouud, and festooned instead terial. Woolen Dress Stuffs by the yard, 26c.. .-0c., 36c, fox, and also iu less costly furs than these. are generally high class andbigh priced, for exam of being hemmed. Under this Is a skirt of black 40c., Shuw.s; 50c.. GDc., Scotch, H5c.. 70c.Blanket and Tic. and and tmirat.on up. India Shawls. Tight fitting jackets in seal-skin are popular, but Beaver and Woolen Shawls, costing from $2.50 to $5. others equally stylish and reallv more comforta ple, an imported dress in navy blue Lyons silk satin edged all round with a deep flouuee of the Higher grade Shawls from $5 to $10, and up to $15, $20. ble, are the jackets with loose fronts, either sin velvet, for a Miss of fifteen, cost $75.. This cos same tulie alsoembroideredaud festooned round $25 und $j0. gle or double breasted, and tight fitting at the tume was made with plain full skirt, falling in the edge. A full bodice has satin bows on one Materials of all kinds for Fancy Needlework. Em folds at the back, and a short aproa. in front, the shoulder, aud satin sash sound the waist, which broidery, R 'ady-made Crochet Merino and Knitting. and Musiin Underwear, with back. basque had full plastron front, and curled leaf sash slightly loop3 up the akirtououeside. out ide garments for Ladles, Misses und Children, Seal-skin mantelets, with pointed ends, trimmed back skirt. Velutina was found in the Very This dress made in black tulle, or any plain Boys, Gins and Infants' comp ete outfits. with beaver, and pelerine sleeves open nearly to same shade, ten yards cost $15, and a good art black material, and trimmed withstars aud cres Decorative and useful House-KuniJ.shing goods for the shoulder in front, and alsotrimmed with bea istic neat sewing dressmaker reproduced to vel cents of silver will be beautiful for "Night" to Kitchen,Par or. • Dining-room, Siitlng-room, Bea-room and ver, are amongst the newest and most stylish vet suit and furnished the lining* lor $10. The wear to a fancy dresa ball. Ifmadein colorsor Smoking Jarkot!1, Dressing Gowns. Cups anil Fancy vetements of fur. neck and sleeves were edged with narrow white cream it la lovely foraoeiables, oraiiy evcuiiigeu- Slipp rsfor Gentlemen. Deep collars of fur, round or pointed at the plcot edged ribbon, ending in rosettes, hence, tei tatuments. An exquisiteconcert toilette shows ForShoes further and Stockings facts and for details, all. send 30c. fortheFall back, withlong narrow mantelet ends in front, or the entire cost of a lovely costume was only a tunic of pale blue silk poplin with loose panels, and Winter numbers of finished off with boas, are novel and convenient $25. edged round with large pearls, and opening over as they can be worn with any mantle. One of the prettiest wedding gowns worn this askirt formed of white lace flouuees. Under bod Another fancy is to have the cape cut in the ice of white lace, woru beneath a swiss bodice of Ridley's Fashion Magazine shape of ahaliitskirt, with cords and gimp serv season was made after adrcssof Sicilienne gar The autumn number contains family reading, in ing for epaulettes, the cords being carried across nished with orange blossoms, that cost $150 to the blue poplin. structive article , valuable information abou< standard the frontand allowed to fall In a double chain. import. The copy robe was of cream Bilk-warp One of Worth's church dresses is of silver-grey materials and the season's novelties in dress and The muff is generally of the same fur as the Henrietta — varnished board brand, at $2.00 a moire, over a skirt of silver-grey satin pe- household goods. mantle, however, many ladies like best to have a yard — witli its draperies fringed with sprays of kin; the wrap to wear with thisdress isa Main- THE WIXTER MAGAZINE muff made of velvet, plush or the dress material, orange buds and blossoms, knotted into thegoods. teuon scarf mantilla of moire .velvet bordered Has ChriBtmns Stories. Sketches, Fashion Articles, The entire cost of this dress, makiug and trim with grey feathers. Household Hints, und Poems, with paves devoted to trimmed with fur. The novelty is a small muff, ming included, was less than $50. An exquisite theatre dress of pansy faille Fran illustrations, descriptions and prices of Toys and other with a carefully concealed pocket-book section, 8tTll another of our described models inexpen chise just iroin Paris, is open iu front to show a articles sultubie tor or a purse. sive faille Francaise, with plush embossed fabric tablicr of ivory satin which is morvellously and HOLIDAY PKESEXTS AND GENERAL FUR AND FEATHER TRIMMINGS. for combination, was prettily duplicated in a exquisitely embroidered with fine beads. The SEHVICE. Fur is certainly the most fashionable trim cheaper faille Francaise at $lT25 a yard, and the long-waisted Anne of Austria corsage opens in RIDLEY'S PUBLICATIONS: ming for costumes, mantles and even robes aud $1.00 a yard stamped brocade, which the lady the same way over a bead embroidered ivory Ridley's Millinery Designer, 25 cents a oopy. rendered most effective by outlining the lloral de plastron. Rij>ley'h Fashion Mrga/.ine costs 16 cents for the ■tea-gowns. Chinchilla aud beaver, arc reserved Entirely new is an elegant dinner or reception Holiday number. 30 cents for the Fall and Winter for bandsomo mantles, aud for dresses, which signs with embroidery silks, and gold and silver numbers; Each number 60 cents of a this year's valuable subscription guide for price. out-of-town have wide bands of fur round the edge and up tinsel threads, creating beautiful result by add buyers contains reliable data in styles and prices of the sides of the skirt, and fur ornaments on the ing In the flower centers a few steel cut crystal, the season, with, noteworthy selections for all the year and Incandescent beads. This dresswas made at round. corsage. A kind of fur fringe, with macarons and pen- home, and the cost of all materials was $30. For samples of dress goods, Information, price lists dauts, all made of fur, proves quite a novel and and the magazine send to effectivetrimmtngfor mantles, aud cloth redin- Wanamaker's gotes, made with bell-shaped sleeves and full Ewd, Ridley & Sons, skirts open In front, are bordered and edged with The largest Store in the World. The Dry Goods Grand and Allen Sts., New York. bands of fur in some cases, but the most stylish Sharpless Brothers partis biggrer than any other Dry Goods estab HeadFashfoa Article, Holiday Hints and Answers vetementsare finished with ornaments made es lishment in America. to Correspondents, in this Issue of Thk Ladies' Home pecially toharmonlze with thegarments. Mixed Suitings: every fibre that isn't silk In wool. Journal, and piease mention tnls paper In letter of Among the specimen garments presented il Eight coior effects, a brownish, a greenish, aplumlsh. advice to E. Rldiev & Sons. lustrative of various adaptations of lur, may be and so on Nut the stuffs youyou look for at 37^i\ Only noticed ablue velvet operacloak, lined through Sales of Specialties 11 SImmroclfriultTngs-. Jailing*. otbey were TheseTnr 50c. are some of the effects toilette in which tbe upper garment consists of out with ermine, and a saphire blue velvet gown brown red-splashed gray biue-sp'ashed auovelrediugote, which opens over atablierol with trimmings of the darkest sable, while a love TOR olive rod-sp'ashed blue red-splashed puffed black tulle, studded with jet pendants ly tea-gown in a neutral shade, Is exquisitely All-wool; 4:-ln., i>7«c. It ha* been 50c. and trimmed with Ion" loops of moire ribbon. garnished with bandsof grebe. Every newness In DreSB Plums. One from twenty: Velutina In white orcream color, forms a most SeritoBlue or 'i will black H.alds, ground 86c. plnided and 75c. by sharply contrasting {Concluded on opposite page^) dainty evening dress, which Is beautifully Holiday Presents H In. stripes. IL trimmed with chinchilla fur, creating effective, Broad and narrow Raiding Btrlpes lighted by bright soft andpleasing contrast. Another fur-trimmed will continue until the second week in Blue'andnwnlle colors, 00c. comprisingoffered auy where a Tailor-made for the money; Waist wonderfully effective upon Priestley's new silk now, and during the year Self-colored Check and Broken Plaid, each 13 colors, u>erfect-flUing) and sufficient ad warp Henriettaln cream, but decidedly the most French 65c. Ottoman, Both have and been Ottoman 8Uc. Foule, each 14 colors, 65c, ditional material to mat e an ac unique and beautiful gown made this season is French Foule Serge, 14 colors, 65c. , lOco.ors, 75c ancompanying ordinary skirt,fir us for pattern. the price New of of the silk warp Henrietta trimmed lavishly with Solell Jtaye, all the liked shades. 75c. 85c., ^. strlcsand muterials, marvelnusly Serges des Dames; like fine diagonal ladles* Cloth, 75c selling. Prices from $8 to $.10. Impian feathers, the metallic greens, browns, 1888 85c.. $1 and $1.:5. Particulars and samples upon ap bluca, and gold showing brilliantly upon the Camel's-hair, a dozen colors, 75c, $1 nnd $1.35. Every plication. dainty background of this high art material. will be sent to any part of the United States French one ofPrinted them ml-wool.F annels. Every dot. spot, stripe or .H UM V 17\DERW£AR Another feather trimmed specimen is a long zigzag with Sateen exactness. More designs, bold Adapting to the form— per/ect- cloak of ruby velvet, Intended for carriage or er, prettier than ever before, 65c. >>■■). Un ike the customary evening wear. The s'.eeve pieces of this wrap FREE OF COST FOR TRANSPORTATION. Seal Skin c.oth, 60 in., $8 to $18 per yard. loose,men's thatuncomfortable, aresoid everywhere. under ar- are covered with French knots In black silk, OddAll sorts forms, of odd Km-. combinations, 75c. to $60. Short Skirts, in cream, light-b ue, creating a frise appearance, while the back and Correspondence solicited concerning any materials, Stiff Feathers, painted I Stiff Open Feather pink, cardinal, with Surah yoke, fronts are trimmed with the black braid guipure Plain Gauze I Colored Gauze, painted $6,110. now so fashionable. This cloak has all its edges or made-up articles of Dress, or for Household Service. Painted Satin I Colored Satin Also Short. Skirts ut$3.25.n cream, If samplOB of Dress Fabrics are wanted, please say If Marabout, tipped I Ostrich Long light-blue, Skirts, inpink, black, scarlt cardinal, t. gar bordered with bands of black ostrich feather- you desire silk, velvet, p:ush, woolen or cotton goods. Ostrich, painted gauze centre. net, gendarme-b.ue, seal and flues, which trim beautifully. Hand-Knit and Woven Skirts; two from Fifty; $1.25 to iiavana-brown, dark-green, $4.50. A charming opera set, consisting of mantle Write at once for Coi $3.50set**, for every Woven; best make $5 for and Hand-Knit. shape. i \ in ic v i s i s and capote, has just been completed for one of All-wool, cream, light-blue, pink, Suggestive Price List of Arti So Let «>f Bustles,the Handkerchiefs ! 5c, to $LSX stand for all the other Linen scarlet. our society ladies. The mantle Ib made of pink value. A handful from a houseful. High neck, long sleeves, - $1.87. tinged lawn colored plush, lined with silk in cles Suitable for Christmas Women'Bprtnted,$ldos.; Men's,$1.80doz.; Women's L50, rather a lighter shade of the same color, and white, $1 dor; Embroidered, 15c. '• '* sleeveless, - 1.37. trimmed with bands of beaver. This wrap Is and New Year's Cifts Low neck, *' 1.25. adorned with epaulettes of gold passementerie, TO Don't send for "Dress Goods Samples;" a Drawers to ankle, - - - $2.50. forming long bretelles poiutcd at the back. The bushel basket wouldn't hold them. Say as near ** below knee, - - 2.00. cunningly set sleeves nre gathered in tothe wrists, as may be what kind of Dress Goods you want Part cotton. In cream only, and the whole cloak Is most becoming. SHARPLESS BROTHERS, j high neck, long s eeves, $1.63. CELEBRATED The little bonnet accompanying this mantle is Chestnut & Eighth Sts., Phlla., Pa. JOHN WANAMAKER, I Low " neck, " sleeveless, " -- -- 1.35.1.25. ELASTIC BOX SUITS. entirely novel iu shape and make up. It is of PHILADELPHU, 1»A. j Drawers to ankle, - - 2.00. Slush of the same pinkish fawn tone, richly em- Be sure and mention Thk Ladles1 Home Joctbnal Be sure and mention The Ladies Home Journal In beiowknee, - - 1.75. ellished with gold embroidery. The sides of In letter to Snarp.eas Brothers. etter of advice to John Wanamaker. orset Covers In black, ligbt-bme, cream. I1.3T 11 JANUARY, 1888. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.

Rivals the Sewing Machine Festival Fashions. In Usefulness, c., chine for cutting them. Make a p eosure of ymr pro e egnDceandarethfmo!*t(iura eay, our correspondence Is notcoufiued to out-of- UPHOLSTERY. fession and gratify your customers by testing bJe Corset known to the trade. town readers; we are constantly receiving notes 100 pairs Oriental Chenille Portieres, elegant this groat labor-saving invention, this season, at your Thev are adjustable over the from city friends asking where they shall go to designs and colorings, worth ■J.UH own home for :*0 day. Free of Charge. After 30 hipt an beby made strap to and fit arty buckle, form and tn- find certain lines of goods desired, or mentioned 250 Fur Rugs, white and grey, u6x72, best qual thendays' return trial, if It. not Send worth now ten for timesValuable our Illustratedasking price, ity, worth $5.00 each, ingln;stantly.They have do require bones no to break* break in our fashion articles. Mail Orders thoroughly executed. 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Sites over brief space granted, therefore we respectfully fectof all and Send durable 2c. stamp button-hole. for sample of Price work withinand full reach par 30 Inches extra. suggest a visit to John Wanumaker's store, where In Fashionable Food, Prepared and ticulars, dnd mention Ladies' Home Journal. THEDtPLEXcORSET one side of the immense building presents a per Preserved, Delicious Dainties The Smith A EookMfo. Co., 16 East Uth Street, N. Y fect mosaic of exquisite tea and dinner sets and and Curious Confections, co., sis si . New York, X. Y. other articles In china, in high art pottery, curi Boxed and Bottled. ous ceramics and modern novelties, consisting of Visit the store If possible. If not write for Monthly the most delicate creations for the table, aud for Price List of Unique Table Novelties, aud Kino Stand beautifying the home. Considerable space is ard Groceries K. BRADFORD to CLARKE CO., given to tbe odd and practical articles in glass, Chestnut A 15th St*., Phi la.. Pa. 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brown when seen in the sunshine, and their tex this statement. It will grow uudcr most unfav great propensity for drying out, though she gives ture is such as to make the name of velvet very orable circumstances, but of course I do not ad ft plenty of water, seemingly. Perhaps- tho soil appropriate. By all means have some Marigolds. vise any one to Belect it 6ffoH.sc it will aland abuxe, in which she grows it is too light and porous, and One of my first memories goes back to the for I want everyone who tries to grow a flower to does nothavo "body" enough to retain water for Sweet Peas that grew year after year in the gar give it as good care as possible, even if it will do any great length of time. Mix some loam with den by the house where I was boru. In those comparatively well without it. 1 advise it be it, if, on examination, this should prove to be the days you would find these flowers in every garden. cause I know that it will give pleasure, and that case. Or it may be that the pot is so full of roots But for a time they were lost sight of almost caring for It will help the amateui to learu many that much water is required to furnish all they wholly. I remember of writiugahout them some things which will be of benefit to him in culti cure to drink. I have not found this plant one years ago, aud I said: "Some time there will come vating other and more exacting plants, which he requiring a great deal of water. It is one of the a reaction among those who grow flowers, similar could not grow well at first. 8ome experience most delightful of house plants when in bloom. to that which sets so many wild over old china with the more robuBt flowers will enable one to Its flowers are small, and of a pale yellow, and and bric-a-brac geuerally,aud then the Marigolds take iu hand some of the more delicate sorts, not at all showy, but they are very sweet, aud the aud Larkspurs, the Gillyflowers and Sweet Peas with good show of success, but without some fine, abundant foliage is pretty as a moss, which of old times will regaiu the popularity which previous experience in floriculture, lie would not it somewhat resembles, at a little distance, asthe ought never to have been lost, aud you will find be likely to do much with them. One must work slender branches droop over the pot. It will them lu the gardens from which they have b»en his way along gradually in floriculture, and he bloom during the winter and spring months. banished, and Angelica will say, as she does to should begin with such kinds as do not require I have ncvergrown the other plaut asked about. day, over a Queen Auue cabinet or an old carved such care as he is not able to give at first. By Mrs. E. D. : — This correspondent has a plant chair, 'How lovely 1 I never knew tue, were so selecting the sturdy sorts, aud studying them, he which » as given her us a "Japanese Lily," which [For The Ladies' Home Jocthnai,] fine. They are ever so much nicer than modern gains by degrees the knowledge requisite to a puts up leaves very much like those of the Hya TALKS ABOUT FLOWERS. ones, areu'ttbey !', audshewillgather Pinks aud successful cultivation of ail other kinds. cinth, only much larger. I am inclined to think Hollyhocks to put in the cracked chiua pitcher The abutilon is always a pretty plaut. Its fo that her plant is a Hyacinth candicaits, as her BY EBEN E. HEXFORD. that has becu hunted out from its loug repose in liage is attractive enough, in Itself, to make it an description answers well for that plant. I know the attic where grandmother consigned it to ob ornament to auy window. Large, abundant, of no Japan Lllv with leaves at nil like tho?c of Some Good Old-Fashioned Flowers. livion, as she supposed, when its day of useful bright lu color, and easily kept clean, it gives a a Hyacinth. If the bulb is smooth and like that I am glnd to see the growing Interest in old- ness seemed over. Speed the day wbea grand cheerful look to the room. No insect attacks it of an Onion, only not so flat, she may be pretty fashioned flowers. Glad because it shows a ten mother's flowers shall be as highly prized as her If other plants arc at band. Itsefdom becomes sure that what she has called a Lily is not one. dency to discard the much-prai6cd but little- discarded china." Aud what 1 wrote then Is a sickly. And niue months out of tho twelve it The Agapanthus umbellatns can be wintered in meritorious sorts lately grown because they were prophecy which is being fulfilled. And those old will be in bloom. Its flowers are a'ways bell- the cellar, or can be kept in the window. It is "new," or "fori'ign, 11 and a return to old favor flowers are "coming to the front" again, and— it shaped, pendulous, aud borne on loug, "slender an evergreen. ites, and it indicates ao advance in taste, and is well. stems which throwtbeinoutwcllfromthe leaves. I. M.S. asks how Tuberose bulbs should be shows that many of our amateur flower-jrowers Sweet Peas should have a corner to themselves There are mauy varieties, in several colors. wintered, and if the old bulbs will blooma second are Inclined to cultivate whatever is worth culti to be most effective. A coruerin which they can Some arc orange veined with crimson. Others time! I put the bulbs in a paper bag, and hang vating without regard to its antecedents. Time he sown as early in.thc spring as possible. Api il are pure white. Tboclear yellowsare very pretty, up in some room which I know will be free from was, — and not so verv long ago, — when to sav is not too early for t hem. Frost does not injure aud one of the*dark purplish maroon sorts should frost. It is well to wrap each one in paper, if that a flower was "old-fashioned" was to banish them. They must beput at leastflveinchesdeep, be iucludcd in all large collections. But the you putthemawayln a place where there is much it from most gardens. I have never had much in onlur to let them send their roots down well, prettiest of all, to mc, is JtotaeJIorum. It is a dampness. Bulbs which have blossomed once patience with those who claimed to he lovers of below the dry upper soil, and they should be rich shade of pink, veined with darker color. It are good for nothing, after that, except to raise beauty and could see nothing beautiful in a sowed quite thickly. As soon as they begin to is a most profuse bloomer, and makes a very at young plants from. flower that did not come from other lands, or was show an inclination to climb, give them some tractive shrub, if given proper training. In order Mrs. O. W. Wilson writes that she sometime not something that ''everybody could not have." brush to cling to, if it happens to be at hand, or to make any Abutilon compact and bushy, it is ago asked some questions of me, enclosing a Beauty is everybody's property, andnoone ought easily procurable. It doesn't matter if it hasn't necessary that a good deal of pinching should be stamped envelope lorreply. Nocommuuication to try to make it exclusive. If 1 have a hue flower, a very attractive appearance when first stuck in done while the plant Is small and voting. Nip has ever been received. All letters enclosing I want others who love flowers to have one like the rows. The Sweet Peas will see that it is cov out the top when you want it to branch, and stamps for reply are attended to at the earliest it, and enjoy it with me. If my neighbor does ered by midsummer, and nothing else suits them when other shoots start, nip them off, aud keep possible moment. Those in which questions to not want it simply because I have it, I suspect quite so well as a support, as brush. They will up this treatment until you have as many be answered through the Journal are sent are that he docs not care for it as a flower, aud I cling to it as if they had an especial liking lor it, branches started as you think will be needed to filed away, and are answered in their turn, as cannot help feeling that he cares more for being — as I think they have, — and do better with it for make the plant what you want it to be. If you soon as they can be accorded space. "in the fashion" than he does for beautiful thing6 a trellis than they will on a fancy one of painted waut it to be a miniature tree, let it grow in a Because of the beauty there is In them. With wood and wire You willhave a hedge of beauty straight stem to the height of two or three feet, Over 6,000,000 PEOPLE USE him, to be in fashion is to have something other when the butterfly blossoms come. And so sweet ! and then begin the pinching-in process. Allow no branches to start below the place where you want the head of the tree to form, and secure as many branches there as you think necessary to make It compact and bushy. The more branches .M.FERRY&CO. you have, the more flowering surface there will are admitted to be be. It will grow in any good soil. I generally he LARGEST give mine precisely the same earth to grow in SEEDSMEN in the world. that is given Geraniums, and from their vigorous D.M.FERRV*Co*i and healthy appearance thev arc well suited with IUuttrated, lit- it. scrip t i v tit Priced. If I were asked to name three of the best vari SEED eties of this popular flower, the list would be this : ANNUAL Rosaeflorum, pink. For 1888 Snowstorm, pure white. Will be mailed Laura Powell, soft lemon yellow. FREEtoALL pplicants, and to ANSWERS TO Ql'EKIES. last season's custo- "Occident" wants to know how to grow Ma- Itivalwthlc. ___ without tciH. ordering Everyone it. using Garden, Field or Flowar Seeds tihould send for hernia odvrata. She finds that her plant has a it. Addrcsi D. M. FERUT &. CO., Detroit, Midi.

Manual of Eve™g GARDEN

in this season the grandest ever issued, containing three colored plates and superb illustrations of everything that is new, useful and rare in Seeds and Plants, together with plain directions of "How to grow them," by Peter Hen derson. This Manual, which Is a book of 140 pages, we mail to any address on receipt of 25 cents (in stamps.) To all bo remitting 25 cents for the Manual we will, at the same time, send free by mall, in addition, their choice of any one of the following novelties, the price of either of which la 25 cents : One packet of the new Green and Gold Watermelon, or one packet of new Zebra Zinnia, or one packet of Butterfly Pansy (see illustra tion), or one packet of new Mammoth Verbena, or one plant of the beautiful Moonflower, on the distinct under MARIGOLD. standing*, however, that the party order people do not have, and in proportion as a flower I Iu all the garden you can flud nothing sweeter. ing will state in what paper or magazine becomes common, his ad.niralion for it grows Ifyouwaut flowers for the vases iu the parlor they saw this advertisement less. Tnisis all wrong, and indicates a luck of you can always get a supply, after June, aud up love forflowerslorthemselves. If real merit had to the coming of Irost, lrom the Sweet Peas. In PETER HENDERSON & CO.,35 * ZST£iat st ' been the standard by which flowers were Judged, using them for boquels I prefer, always, to keep for some years back, many kinds which grew in them »y themselves. They require a tall and our grandmothers' gardens would have never slender vase, aud the steins should be cut long been thrust into obscurity, but would have held enough to let the flowers stand up well above the their own with any of the new ones, as they are top of the vase, and droopabout to suit thelrowu fully able to do, when they are judged according wayward, but always artistic, fancies. They to the standard of beauty. know how to arrange themselves graceTully, anil Among the old flowers which rejoice in a res it is always best to give them the cuauceto do it. toration to popular favor, the Marigold stands The prettiest ones, to me, are the pale rose well towards the head of the list. colored ones. But all are pretty. The fashionable "craze" for vivid yellows has And another good old flower is the Morning had something to do with this, for many like to Glory. Talk of your Moon Flowers, with their have the same colors in their garden that they pallid beauty. They never had half the charm have in their clothing. But this flower has about them that the purple and blue and pink enough merit aside from this coincidence ot and white Morning Glories have, on a summer color, to make It deserving of a place in any gar- day, when the carlv sun coaxes the fragile petals deu. I have always admired a rich yellow, aud to unclose be. ore the dew has dried on them. It The aim of THE STOBHS & HAHRISON CO. is to keep abreast of the times and supply their customer* have written a good deal about the fine effects has always been a fancy of mine that all Morning all that is new and desirable in their line ; and it is conceded by all that no house in America carries a more varied to be obtained by its use in the garden, or iu bo- Glories were white, ouceupon a time, but a rain and complete stock. If you want Choice Tested FLOWEH and VEGETABLE SEED sure quets. It tones up all other colors, and bright bow got tangled among them in some mysterious ens them, as sunshine does a shadowed room. It lashlou, and sonieof them caughtits vivid colors, to give satisfaction, Grand Roses and Beautiful Plants, the best of Apple, Peach, Pear, is sunshine materialized, and whoever would and have held them fast ever siuce. 1 never see Plum, Cherry, Quince, Grape, Small Fruits, Ornamental Trees or Shrubs, for lawn, garden, produce strikingcombin itiousof color, and bring them without thinking of that line of Tennysou's park or street, do not fail to send for their VALUABLE CATALOGUE, containing over 140 pages and out each one most forcibly, must use yellow in about hundreds of illustrations. They arc conducting business on a magnificent scale, growing a quarter of amillion order to accomplish this result. I am forciblv "The horns of elfland, faintly blowing." of Roses and millions of Fruit Trees and Plants annually. Have been in business over a third of a imuressed with this fact, by visitiug my conser If, as the poets tell us, — and it seems to me century and have won a reputation of which they have reason to be proud. Have 24 large greenhouses heated vatory, and taking note of a group of Chrysan they ought to know, if anybody, — the fairies play with hot water and steam, and are using 700 acres of land. If you want the best at honest prices, order themums in one comer of it. Most of ths vari midnight music on flower trumpets, these must directly of them and save all PAINESVILLE, eties placed there are of the inaroou aud dull be the flowers they choose for their sweetest THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. crimson sorts. The effect is much the same as "concourse of sweet sounds." LAKE CO., Ohio. that produced by a cloudy day. I put a pot o Planted by a perch, or beneath a window, they yellow ones among the darker colors, andlo, — a soon >wver a large space with luxuriant growth, miracle 1 The group becomes glorified. The one reaching up to a height of ten or twelve feet, if BEST HOME PAPER IN AMERICA thing lacking has been supplied. The rich beauty strings are given them toclimb on. If you want of the dark colors is enhanced, and brought out a screen, or someting tocoveran unsightly fence, ItOrdinarily, Is a plain the statement weekly issueof an ofhonest a dally fact. paper. Is esteemed to be merely a digest of the vividly by the contrast, and no other color could or an old stump, vou can select nothing better weeks news, pulled alone for rural readers. do this so Well as yellow. White would have than this flower. For cutting it Is worthless, be THIS This is nut true In reference to the WERKLT PRESS. It is specially edited by a helpe.l to lighten the heavy effect of too much cause It Is of such delicate and fragile texture trained corps of writers selected tor the purpose of making the dark color, but it would not have had that sug that a slight touch Injures it, and it soon wilts BEST HOME PAPER IN AMERICA. gestion of warmth and brightness which was and withers if taken from the parent vine. To It Is adapted to the Improvement and enjoyment of both sexes, of all ages, of every Deeded. be enjoyed to the utmost, it should be planted NOT family whether a resident of the City, village or country. Wherever a brave show of Intense yellow Is re close to the house.— about the porch and veranda, Not a word of crime or impure suggestion In any part of the paper. quired, then, I would advise the use of Marigolds. and the windows of the rooms mo-t used, where It Is an old paper, aud carries its age and reputation equally well. They arc easily grown, comparatively hardy, the beautiful flowers can look in with theirchcery BRAG Now we are seeking a new and a largerclrcle of readers. As an inducement to this end, bloom during the entire season very profusely, good-morning to you, at the very peep of day. we will send the and by a selection of varieties you can combine I always feel safe in advising the amateur flor several shades of this color in a manner to pro ist to try his skill, or lackof it, perhaps, on the LlUli:s'WEKKM UOMEJOtH.Mt PRF.SN, Subscription Sub. one one year, year, »1, 50c. and Ji "oin«Roth, one«"»e year,year, oneone Snbmm*, ■riceprice, mi.Bl.UO no duce a very pleasing effect. The "velvet" sorts Abutilon. We have no flower of easier cultiva Sample Copies of the Weekly Press furnished te any address free of charge. are exceedingly rich in color, being a deep gold- tion. I do not except the Geranium, in making Address, THE PRESS COMPAM , Limited, Philadelphia, Pa. 13 JANUARY 1886, THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.

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One cannot prior invitation she can say, "Thank you, but I This Elegant Impor'-ed Work Box, something that no give exact directions of "what shall be said and amengagedfor thlsdauce, or "Thank you, Mr. — lady en rail to be dt lighted with, we had made la ! done" as it depends upon the intimacy that ex has offered to be my escort this evening." free. Europe specially for in, and only by ordering a very ists between the parties. Your good sense will 8d. The lady will stand within the door until large quantity have we been enabh d to procure them direct you what to say. the carriage is announced. atour a subscribers.price which permits Each box us contsl"sto now give 1 Packing them Needle, free to 2d. Address your letter to the editor of the 4lh, If the lady does not desire to be assisted 1 Bodkin. 1 Steel Crochet Hook, 1 Ivory Cti chet Hook, paper, and at the head of the sheet, write in full to or from a carriage she need not be. but It iB 1 Steel Button and Glove Hook, 1 puck Black Hooks * Eye , 1 nack White Hooks 4 Eyes, 1 Box Toilet Pins, thedepartmcutat which you desire youruuestious the usual custom for the geutleman to offer his 1 Box Hair Pins, 1 Reel White Cotton, 1 B*<4 Buck to be received and answered. Giveyourf ull name, arm, and forthc lady to accept it. RHEUMATISM1 CURES Cotton. CO Best Needle", 1 Box While Plus. 1 Box and direct to what name or initial you desire the "A. B.": — 1st. Ii) leaving a house where you INDIGESTION Black Pins, 1 Box Safely Piss and 1 Silvers ThlmMe. have been paying a visit, you should shake hands Remember, we send this splendid Lady's TV ork Box answer to be given. free to all who send us 86 cents for one year'B sub Inquisitor :-lst. The correct way to help a lady with all the ladies if they offer their hands. And Professional men assert that there Is hardly a dis scription to The Home, a large, 10 psge paper, full mount a horse, is to have the lady stand beside if one, who is a guest, is to leave town before ease which Electricity or Magmetlsm may not bene of stories, household, kitchen, laundry and fancy work thesaddlewtth her right hand on the pommel, yon call again, you should express your regrets fit or cure, and ihev dailv practise the same, as your notes, an Illustrated page of the la est fashions, poetry, and her left hand on tue geutlemau's rigut shoul at her departure, In cordial terms, ^nd the lady own physician will Inform you. fun, wisdom, Ac , Ac. Five subscriptions »nd nve The celebrated Dr. \V. "A. Hammokd, of New Workfun, wisdom, Boxes will tfc be , «c. sent for rive $2.25, NnumiM so by getting Tourx.,„ der. She theu puts her Telt foot into his hand, will probably offer herhand in bidding you adieu. York, formerly Sn i jre<-n-< iont-i al of the United of your friends to sends with you, you will secure your and with his assistance springs upon the horse. 2d. Eitherexuression, "goodnight," or "go„d States Army, lately lectured upon this subject, and own paper and Work Box free. This great offer 1. To dismouut, the lady puts her left hand upon evening," is correct. advised all medical men to make trial of these BiadeeolelYOWII ■ ■ MH - ..- r«M to... introducei „, nuin «.„, i,,.,.. H«w our ii". i, sper....,^r Address,ArMreHS. the gentleman's right shoulder, takes her loot 3d. when calling on ladiesin other towns, wait agencies, descrlhlng at the same time most remark yeople't Publllshing Co.. Boston, ftl as*. out of the stirrup; aud he puts his hands under for them to offer to shake hands, both in enterng able cures he had made, even in cases which, would her arms, and lilts her down. and leaving the room. It is a woman's preroga seem We hopeless. have received thousands of testimonials from ™ 2d. Stand at the left hand of the lady, and tive to shake hands with gentlemen or not, as she patients all over the world, endorsing and com BLACKHEADS AND give your right hand to assist her into the car pleases. phletsmending containing our goods. specimens We will cheerfullyof this iestlmony send pam If PIMPLES, FLESHWORMS. riage. To assist a lady to step out of a carriage, 4th. A gentleman should leave a visltingcard you still doubt. offer your right hand for her support. when be calls upon a lady, either by handing it PRICK LIST. less, "Medicated pleasiiut and Cream" absolutely Is the MlIBE only known, and Infallib harm* e 3d. When passing your plate to be helped a to the servant who opens the door or by placing fiOffUlap Standard Belt. ...full power 63.00 cure. It positive)/ and effectively removes all. clean, second time, at table, lay the knife aud fork at it upon a plate in the hull left there for that pur NerveKxtra-f.no & Lung Red Invlgorator Satin '*•* $5 \ 10.00 6.00 complete y and for good in a fkw days only, leav the left hand side. pose. He should also enclose his card with any Corset* i SI. OO, 1.50, 2.00, 3.00 ing the skin clear and unblemished a ways. For those 4th. If you are a guest atthe table you should Christmas offering that he may Bend to lady Hair Kruahea 1.00, 1.50, «.00, 3.00 complexionwho have no as blotchesnothing else on inthe the face, world it can,beautifies rendering the not fold up your napkin, but leave it beside your friends. When Introduced to gentleman, and be ChestFlesh ProtectorKruBliei* full power 3.00,5.00 3.00 it CLEAR, FAIR and TRANSPARENT, and Clearing Pl5th. Messrs Harper's Brothers publish a book coming friendly with them he can offer to ex Throat m *r 2.B0 Itedy of to all cure muddiness and not and a paint coarseness. or powder It to 1b cover a true up rem and change cards. Sciatic Appliance " 8.00 hide blemishes. Mailed in plain wrapper for 30 cents upon "Decorum and Good Manners," by Mrs. E. 5th. In retiring from a large party It Is suffi LegShoulder "" M" 5.005.00 In stamps, or two for 50 cents, by GEORGE N STOD W. Sherwood, that is highly recommeuded. cient to bow politely when expressing the pleas DARD.I K ri KDruzcWt. l.l - w 12*6ash Niagara cures M., Freckles. Buffalo, N,Tan, Y. and My Mrs. R. F.lst. We have not published such an ar ure you have received. Aud if the hostess or KneeAnklets Caps M** 5.003.00 makes the hands white: sent postpaid for 30 cents. ticle as you allude to, in "The Ladies' Home host offer the hand, shake it cordially, but not too Wristlets " 2.50 Journal. roughly. OfficeInsoles Caps, all sizes, 8R3.00; per Sleeping pair Cans ** 3.00 .50 ON 30 PAYS' TRIAL. 2d. White or buff table cloths, bordered with 6 tli. In walking with a lady in a large city If Suspensory, the Genuine Article, full power 5.00 THI8 NEW colors, and Daplvins to match are used for the the gentleman keeps on the outside, it is a pro Hair Curler, 50 vt». Tooth Ilrush 50 breakfast table. White double damask for the tection to her against the crowd, but in small Improved Elastic Trusses, M Double....Single 5.003.00 ELASTIC TRUSS dinner table, with napkins to match, and red, or townslt matterslittle on which side he walks. ANY OF THE ABOVE SENT ON others.Has a Pad 18 cap different shape, with from Self- all colored plaid table cloths, with or without fringe "M. G. G.": — It Is Impossible to answer ques AFPhoVAT., postpaid.' "on receipt of price, with adjusting R&lllncenter.adapts for supper. For breakfast and tea, tray cloths tions In this department the ensuing month, as 41 cents mldd for packing or registration, and we bodyItself while to all the positions ball In the of cupthe are employed to protectthe tablecloth, aud mats the Journal is alw ays printed a month or six guarantee safe delivery into your hands. Bonn ^ presses back the Intes- are used a"t evcrv meal. weeks in advauce. Will refer you to previous ar will be refunded if not just as represented. Remit ^tW tines lust as a person Nettie. 1st. When children of the age of thir ticles printed u|>on "Wedding Etiquette," which in Post-onVe Money Order, Draft, Check, or in does with the finger. With hKht pressure the Her currencyordering, kindly by Registered mention this Letter paper, at andour state risk. exact In nia Is neld securely day and nlsrht. and a radical euro teen meet on the street, there need be no strict gave full details. size of waist when ordering Belt or Corset, Make certain. It is easy, durable and che'ttp. Sent by mall. Cir etiquette concerning whether the boy or the girl 1st. The bridesmaids congratulate the bride all remittances payable to culars frw. K6CLESTOK TBX88 CO., Chins*, IS. speaks first. and groom after the parents. GEO. A. SCOTT, 842 Broadway, New YorS. 2nd. If a girl of that age wishes to send a boy 2d- 1 1 is not necessary for the bridesmaids to N B. Each article Is stamped with Ihe English , tourBone. Meal.ovrs a birthday gift, there is no rule of etiquette to dress in trained skirts because the bride's dress coat-of-arms, and the Dame of the proprietors, grind; — 'Oyster Shells, prevent her doing so, but she should consult her is cut en train. THE PALL MALL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION Graham Flour & Corn In the mother's wishes in the matter, aud be guided by 3d. If the bridesmaids' dresses arc white, they them. A book, some handkerchiefs with his ini should wear white slippers and gloves. If $5 HAND MILL ^ST' tials embroidered on them, a whisk broom case, pluk, blue, or yellow, the slippers and gloves ESTABLISHED 1801. keeping Poultry. lOO Also per POWER cent, more MIIXS mode and In or any thing of her own work, applicable to a should match the dress. <»- . FARM FEED'MILtiS. Circulars andtestimoniais boy's needs would be approDriate. 4th. The first bridesmaid and "best man" cu ■outonappl'c't'n. "WILSON BROS. Easton. Pa. 8d. A skating bag is made of heavy drilling, ter the room first. or awning cloth and cut the length of the skates with plenty of margin to turn in, and run in a GAT'S -EYE casing for a drawing string. Consult The Work With our new 1S88 Embroidery Stamping Out Table Dep't for directions for crocheting an af- fit you can stump more than athoueand patterns, BARRYS us it contains A Set op Designing Patterns. SGAHF-PIN ghan. Also the Fashion Dep't formaking wash dress With this set any one can design thousands of es. Simple skirts with a deep hem, and three or bcautilul pieces for Embroidery, Tinsel Work, dark. I have a limited Ft»K oniy, aim uu" ";';,'„„- five tucks above it, and ayoke waist with gathered Painting, etc. No experience needed — a child can only 44 eta., nnst paid. The same in Ear Drops, chnlcoj fronts and hack, aud a wide belt, is a neat style do it. An Illustrated Book shows how to make TRICOPHEROUS raMn-f, fiat Ms*** J>.<"»» ' «*•■ . Trj* ""r*1' * , for cotton dresses. To mingle check ami plain patterns to fill any space; all the flowers used In U. lllTAMMEXi Mlneraloglat, PenTer.CoL cloth, mak« the lower skirt of plain goods,and the embroidery represented. Everyone who does collar, cuffs and vest, and the over skirt, waist stamping wants a set, which can be had only with FACIAL BLEMISHES. and sleeves of the checked material. this outfit. the Larpest Establishment in tho World for "Mabelle Marsley":— It is impossible to ans andtheir Scalp, Treiitmuiit. Superfluous Facial Hair,Development, Birth Marks, Hair wer questions under two months, if they are sent Moles, WartB, Moth, FrecklefL Wrinkles, the last days of the month. Thus, your questions ARE YOV Hi DEBT? Vittincr,Red Nose, etc, Acne, and Pimples, their Bl'ktreatment. Hesds, Scars. Bend were written Julv 80th. when the AugustiNo.of the llOo. for book of ,V> patres, 4th edition, Ladies' Home Journal was already Issued and Why not make an effort to secure one of the Pr. JOHN" II. WOOHBTRT. the September No. ready for the press, so they cash prizes?. Subscribers are very easily secured. >8T Established North Pesrl 1870. Sty Inventor Albany, of N.Facial T. could not be answered in Sept. No. The small sum of 25 cents would not be refused Appliances, Springs, etc Six Parlors. A gentleman should carry his hat In his hand fur a 6 months trial, alter once showing a copy of when he enters a lady's parlor,aud the lady should the Journal. Any woman can spare that much. not offer to take it from him any more than All you have to do Is to ASK for It. he should offer to take her fan, or handkerchief. If he wears a top coat, she should ask him to lay it aside, and let hiin throw it over a chair, or place CUSTOM MADE it upon the piano, and if he likes, put his hat upon FOR THE HAIR 1L If she prefers shi) can say, "won't you put pAtfT$ PASTS & Th« Oldest and the Best. Fastens the hair where Ithas your coat Into the next room?" Thatis if she ob l" r»Q Vorts to Hatch, $2.25 agency to fall out. renews Its growth where the jects to its remaining in the parlor, as you state miroi Th nve disappeared, preserves its color In spite of V» AND age »lckne*s Vmdsorrow, 'and makeslt (however harsh) 1 Scarf or Luce Wo, 1 Stone Rlnp, 1 Chawd B«od you "N. do. J. L. K.";— 1st. When paying ceremo FULL SUITS «t as flexible and glossy as silk. i Rinff,8T & Scrap PWlM * Ve«ei,Boolt Flirtation ■ nious visits you should give your card to the ser Popular Prices. Iftft Kmbossed Pictures & ISO Trumrer Pictures all I AEiepttniSimiplM, lQe »«itia, SwHwii.Ct, vant, who opens the door, to carry to her mistress, 100 different. 15c. C ARD CO., Montpelle- WbfT. do yoa orii.r and she will afterwards place it in the card bas Otdrr f ket, which is usually kept upon a small table in theT»ur B*r fttnta 1 ra1 0 Fi^T. the front hall. at t 2d. When a lady has set apart a special day of _ Made. ANY LADY GAN MAKE $100 the week Hi-ou which to receive the visits ot her „ _rycinU them for by u.oiplei, undine friends, itis not customary tooffer refreshments. rnlei for mM.or.in.iit If she will talie a little troume nnrRFKFEP* 3d. The Chicago ttre occurred upon the 9th. and.bowing other bow particular,, thl. It of "Retta" October, :— 1871. 1st. It does not matter upon which ££Te Tto obtain the immense circulation, yet the number oi -Bpers required to »onnl side of her escort a lady sits at table. The gen BAT STATS PA1TTS CO., 30 Uivlij St., Boston, Hail. ious Issue of ONE tleman will draw out a chair for the lady, if a can secure MVE I THOCSAND COPIB8 every month. The great waiter is not in attendance to do it, aud take the LADY AGENTS permanent rAmiiirhoiit t. rising every Interest State in wBicn the Onion isiuiuiuraim toward the .» HOUBB- ^.js-b- next seat himself. employment Queen and. City Rood Skirt . salary, and KipSSmUB ^ha» encouraged tho publishers to make extra- 2d. In passing through a crowd or in any place selling iiKQuec Supporters. - ample where there is only room for one per»ou to pass ouIStpckiiiuSu; .fit tree. Adciress Cindhuati ho land. Tne " the gentleman will precede the lady. Suspender Co.. Cincinnati, a lam< ■rwlth departmentsdevoted to HOUM; "C. A. C.":— Better wait awhile before you BO m m - - 'EK9. Fashions, Dressmaking, Needle write for the return of your letters, something Wo (rive as a present this uniorseen may have occurred. I/.ttle Gem Basket of Wax "M. L. B.":— lu talking to your friends about Flowersto any one (price sending torty us cents)a club your married daughters, unless there is great in of sixteen four m nths trial S SotcoveitK! expense of entering the name and furnish- timacy betweeu you, give ibein their married ti L tosubflcrli our JM-pa"0 era at teninonthlv, cents each con tle i e whatever their husbacds' names may be. taining stories, fancy house "A New Subscriber" :— 1st. Iuvltatlous to hold hints, etc., The name of barely covers postage expenses ns\iia| a wedding In a church, and the receptiou at the ourmuguzluo Is i.s best con house are not answered nowadays. If you ac HOME HELPS & HINTS, tents. CHARLB8TOWN, MASS. cept you leave your card on a plate placed fur the THE HOUSEKEEPER purpose at the eutranee of the house. If you LADIES! decline, you call within a week, aud also leave a MEDICATED CLOTH, "The Rational Com „ edited by MAtTDB |»™^Mc^^ C*2d! A lady can attend a wedding alone, if she Dlexlon BeaullMor." removes Pimples, Comedones ••Kit Clover," " Monnle Moore," Mrs. Alice M- CrocKett^ jjr ^ Blnkerd, Geo. E. Hilton, Crowsfeet Sailowness and Tumors: Prevents Wriii iammonu. . , . , has uo escort. k.es-renders produces the skin natural, soft, clear rosy and nnd smooth, p ump cheeks,hnsy touse, and Lady Housekeepers all over the .^an^wlllirSSml11 4th. When wedding cards arc received you no" ) ute y harmless, and a ways effective. No Drngs, culatlon of any paper In 6hould call on the reception day, or if you live Paints or Powders, but a simple appliance t hat never year to New 8ub«crlbe- every . thing In use in jLWtSfrtHM^SS?^ «3S «™-^^ at another town, you should send your card In fatet! St..on receiptBeautify. of Sent price, by 30 return ets., orma 2 lllns.a'ed for 5Ucts. Pack J. P which comprises Inearly every an envelope upon a reception day. Or if you BKtu« l Druggist. No. KHlgh St., New Htiven, Conn. prefer you can let the Invitation remain unac References: Any Physician In New Haven. brt among your ineuus. J"M3ulfMm. knowledged until your wedding comes to pass, also then send your cards to the parties. We do not ____ yon will receive hundreds of Samples, KE answer questions in this Dep't, through the mail. tendingFREE lOo silverCatalogues, to have Papers. your Magazines,name and address ete.. by "Miss C. Nlldt" :— It may not be Improper for a young worn m to correspond with her gentlemen friends, but it is unwise. Unless she is engaged S^r^l^e^a to marry a young man, a young womau should be very careful what she writes to him; aud it Is AM MA EVERY MONTH. far better not to write at all, but if the parties CJ "/ RIli,::; live aceitis waited THRU months for ten cents. •re very wellknow to each other perhaps uo harm may arise from the correspondence. 'T)alBy 3." :— 1st. No gentleman would claim THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1SS8

iPor the Ladies' Home Juuioai.j forward to the eventful evening of December the wash,'— which raised a perfect shout, aud seemed THE FAMOIS CUSTOM-MADE HINTS ON MONEY MAKING. first with pleased expectancy; while 'the Hall,' on a par with doubting if the wearer would accom where all extra doings of a secular character plish much with the scrubbiug-brush. The price PLYMOUTH ROCK $3 PANTS BT ELLA HODMAN CHURCH. went on, was thoroughly renovated aud adorned. was ten dollars; aud in a very short time, the The Committee sat with closed doors', and care magic word, 'Sold' replaced the announcement (Full Salts and Overcoats.) fully wrapped aud boxed goods that were con 'For Sale.' Owing to the present stantly arriving yielded nothing to the closest Many of the aprons were very original in de uroat depression In Wool First, she wondered if she dared to do it, and outside scrutiny. Wild stories were spread, but sign aud extremely pretty in effect; some were Hnd Woolen Goods, to next she wondered if itcould be carried through. getherey market, with thewe havetight monbeen She had read of an lgnoraut little colored girl no truth leaked out; aud the bewildering surprise painted, some were outlined in embroidery silk, of the opening that took place at the appointed some were cheaply and daintily put together of ablea great to discount, buy For seme Cash, linen at who, in order to help a sIck mistress, went time was not weakened by previous expectation. muslin, lace, and ribbons. Numerous were the of wooiens th..t hitherto around begging bits of silk and ribbon, and then By seven o'clock, an eager mob had gathered work-aprons, with their turned-up receptacles hired women capable of making thi-m up into at around the door; and as December chose to ap for implements and materials; and numerous tractive forms, but whose orders were few and pear, thatscason, iu a guise ill-befitting her age, — were the candidates for aprons of every degree. DO YOU WEAR far between, to do the work for her. having wrapped herself around witu a solt, Lazy These dress-preservers were fashionable as well They were glad, poor things ! to do it for very atmosphere better suited to September, summer, as useful; and then, as people said, 'they made little, and they did it well; the articles were tak — blue skies, aud geutly running brooks, with a such nice presents.' ing, and the fancy stores pud f.ur prices for them. corouent of 6tiU green willow-leaves, smiling and A central point of attraction was a circular- PANTS Little Miss Africa had certainly displayed an ad simpering like Juue herself — an original incarna shaped counter, on which were displayed rucli- mirable bead for business: now how could her tion of W inter that greeted them soon after en ing of every degree aud denomination, laces, have been too high prieed impecunious white sister utilize this ideal tering, roused the wildest enthusiasm. silk bandkcrchlels, and all kinds of ornamental to be made Into S3 pants. She turned and twisted it in all possible direc There are people who are good for nothing but 'finishings,' perfumery, toilet arteiles, etc. Samples ol theBe goods will tions, — saying once or twice, "I've got it.'" when to look pietty, yet they do this so admirably that Quantities of these things were sold ; and as, be found In our package of she had not got it at all, — until finally It arranged they seem to have furnished their excuse for be contrary to the usual custom, gentlemen's Bmall- 20 samples that we mull tn Itself satisfactorily. Why had not she thought ofany Six address Ccnti, upon together receipt sooner of that visit to P , and the charming ing; and the golden-haired, blue-eyed damsel, artieh'8al80 were provided,— not forgetting fine with self -measurement blank and (asaspeclal Induce- state of destitution Into which that respectable who had beeti selected 17 Medora's artistic eye to handkerchiefs, sleeve-buttons, etc., the lair town was plunged in the way of entjrtaluineutst represent Winter belonged to this class. She sales-womau was kept busy. free. If you cannot WAlTforsamples.tell usatmut looked too ilkeonc of Tennyson's dreamy maid A good selection of books for old and young, whatleg stylesuud Hli> tou mensures. prefer send together us your with Wnlat, S3 nml Inn.dp 3oc. for There was much substantial wealth in P- , ens out of his Idyls and her canton-flannel robe with a view to the Holidays, with photograjih prepaid express or postage, and we will guarantee sat a great deal ot comfort, and not a little old fogy- might have becu 'white samite,' cut square in Albums, and etchings and lithographs in simple isfaction. Ism. Tucked down among tho hills, aud rather the neck with a bordering of silver braid around frames, received a lull share of attention: and a EVEKT BUYER OF OUR OOOI>8 HAS off from the great centres, it was a charming, the square. After being introduced iuto it, she chubby-lookiug boy had been furnished with a THE PRIVILEGE OF RETURNING picturesque, and eminently healthful place of was dabbled over with mucilage and peppered pairofgreengogglesand apretcrnaturally solemn THEMM«l BACK FOR HIS ANY MONEY CAUSE, .OR AND ANEW RECEIV- PAIR residence ; the inhabitants lived to be fabulously The American Express Go. (capital twenty million*) old, and this was probably, in some measure, with glass and mica. This gave hera very frosty expression, and stationed under a stuffed owl, to will cheerf u.ly reply to any Inquiry sent to their BoBton owinglotUeirneverbeiugexcited. They seldom appcaraucc, which her necklace of filagree silver dispense these wares in an appropriate manuer. omee about us. and the wny we treat our customers. went from home, yet tho doings ol the great did not dispel. Her flowing hair was ornamented The whole thing seemed a sort ot Joke on a gi FLTMOVTH ROCK PANTS CO. world came to thein through the medium of pa with glass beads tied ouat Intervals for snow- gantic scale, and people were put lntoa good hu IS Summer Street, Boston, Van. crystals ; and her cap of steel-blue velvet had sil mor by these devices for their amusement. pers and magazines; aud this made them capa ver stars dotted over it. A portion of the long hall was partially cur HOW TO ble ol appreciating beauty and pleasantness wnen WlNTKR'smanner wasfreezing, — the result of it was brought to them. tained off for a refreshment room ; and to and P was really virgin soil; almost the only careful training, as In private life, she was rather from this most attractive retreat flowed asteady dissipation being an occasional "Fair," where given to a chronic giggle ; and she dispensed Ice stream of hungry and satisfied humanity. There commonplace articles that every oae made were cream and frosted cake without tho slightest ap were few homes in P where the last meal, A new book containing plans offered for sate, audcaka so well known that it proach to a thaw. Many people took more of whether called 'tea' or 'supper,' wasserved, that and specifications for 85 houses, these commodities than was good for tnem, prin evening; aud full justice was accordingly done all sizes, from 8 rooms up. Sent did not need to be labelled with the doner's name. cipally to have the opportunity of gaziugunre- to the excellent viands provided. The first act post-paid on receipt of 25 cents, Every one in P went to these Fairs, because proved at Winter, — whose cash-box grew heav of those who passed the canton-flannel portals by j7s. OGILVIE * CO., there was uothing else to go to; and a respecta ier aud heavier. But the sunshine of prosperity ] was to stare hard at the artistic table decora 31 Bow Street, New York, * ble sum of money was usually raised for the did not melt her iu the least; aud although her tions; and the next, to join In the game of 'Puss- 'cause,' whatever it might happen to be. A role was a silent one, she carried it out admira in-thc-corner' for a seat. The Improved Drinking Fountain was the latest 'fad — not so bly. The central ornament, which every one pro much, perhaps, in the way of offcrlug refresh There were other attractions as the spectator nounced 'beautiful,' was a round sugar-box cov ment to man and beast, as to be a sort of poem advanced; and at the opposite end of the long ered with brown muslin, and then massed with "RIGHT SPEEDY" in stone at the upper end of the town, draped apartment, a model of the Drinking Fountain trailing vines of Ivy and Tradcscantha; outof CORN SHELLER. with vines and blooming plants and suggesting that was to be, looked wonderfully natural in this rose a solid mass of pink and white Chrysan Will shell the largest nnd the old English custom of Well-dressing at Wit- smallest corn perfectly ; paste-board and brown muslin, with vines, plants, themums, pink, white, and green, being the pre shells 12 to 14 bushels per tuuttde. etc., to deepen the illusion. But besides being a vailing colors of the table. The pink and white hour. It is the bent hand All these thoughts flashed through Medora's Driuking Fountain, itwasalso a Lemonade Well, Chrysanthemums were two pots of growing Mieller made and scIIh brain with great rapidity; and she promptly de — with a little Kate Greeuaway boy aud girl on plants lent for the occasion by Mrs. F , ana the fastest. Warranted for cided to make an attack upon P through either side to dispeuse the popular beverage. their natural blossoms were so skillfully supple 5 years. Price, »5, or hand this vulnerable point, the Drinking Fountain. Every one seemed resolved to do all the eating mented with artificial ones, that the addition was somely nickle-plated, 86. She sat down at her desk, and seizing her strong and drinking that presented Itself ; and coppers not suspected. To carry out the character of De Big Discountsto Agents. est weapon, wrote au eight-page letter to her and nickels poured so steadily into the well as to cember, frosting was used lavishly, and mica and If no agent In your vicinity, friend atP — — , In which sho set forth the ad threaten the necessity of calling for an extra bar pounded glass glittered wherever they were not I will send Sheller. express vantages of her scheme— to herself,— promised rel ortwo of lemonade. likely to come In contact with the viands. Ice Said, on receipt of price. ten per cent of the profits to the Drinking Foun The wares displayed down the length of the cream and jellies were made pink and green with _end for circular, tain— aud claimed M rs. F — -'b co-operation and room were handsome, cheap and in exquisite raspberry Jam and spinach; and the layer-cakes Curtis Goddard, Alliance. 0. substantial aid. taste ; everything being arranged artistically, and were beautiful In the three colors. On the first reading of this epistle, the recip setoff against a suitable background. Some few Several delightful dishes were presented at ient was vastly amused at 'Meflora's latest.' For cravings of human nature, and especially female this feast which had never been seen in P that impecunious person had been struggling nature, which are seldom gratified, had been ful before; and thcRe secured a ready sale forthe with original ideas for a somewhat lengthy peri ly catered to; and among these a weakness for small receipt-book provided at twenty-five cents. od of time — the result of these contests having shoe-bags, and various conveniences, was promi Tho coffee was like nectar, and this was made by thus far proved the reverse of cxhllaratory ; yet nently recoguized. With the wretched little clos a peculiar process, — that was, at the same time, she always came so gallantly to tho field again, in ets that prevailed nt P , these and other re economical. LADIES that shining armor of buoyant hopefulness, that ceptacles forthe disposition of small belongings People stayed until a late hour, and over two- 1 your Ran pea twice a year, tops c her friends and well-wishers, although prepared were an actual necessity ; and the eageruess with thirds of the articles displayed were s, 'd. As a week and you have the finest-polish ed stove in the forthe worst, could notqulto subdue a faintex- which they were appropriated was a flattering those not expressly manufactured to order, had world. For sale by all Grocers and Stove Dealers. pectatiou that adverse fate might bo vanquished tribute to Medora's discernment. They were not been taken conditionally, on a very liberal com in some oue of these endless encounters. The only useful, however, butabsolutcly pretty, rich- mission, they were easily returned; aud very few present scheme had more to recommend It, more looking cretonnes being used in their manufac things could be called an actual loss. When OUR NEW 1888 balance as it were, than Medora's usual flights; ture, and the prevailing color perfectly matched everything was accounted for, andevery bill paid and Mrs. F , after some reflection, took it in in worsted braid for binding. — including ten per cent for the Drinking Foun hand with great earnestness. Some handsome ottomans were made of boxes tain — Medora found herself in possession of the STAMPING OUTFIT FREE! The originator of the plan for charming money with hinged lids, affording an admirable recepta comfortable sum of $230.43. She had also the Tha Ladle** World u a mammoth ls-pajre, 64-colnma outof the poekets ot the unsuspecting inhabi cle for magazines and papers, or pieces of Work, pleasure of knowing that she had. given work to JlluetrtUed )';■•". derotad to stories, poems, UalM' fancy work, tants of P seemed to have unfolded a pair — according to the character of the room iu which those who needed it, aud that the fragments of arthygiene, la tic needle-work, juvenile reading, home decoration,etiquette, etc., liouss-keaplDfr, etc. Its pabllntiera, fashions, of wings, which oore her here and there and every they were used ; and the brass-headed nails with the refreshment-table hud furnished unwonted wishing to la trod nee it Into thousands of bomea where It la not where at once. Sho found herself in odd places which they were finished gave them quite an ele feasts where comfort, setting aside luxury, was already taken, now make the following unprtcedented ofer; sometimes, and made mental rjotes 'or future gant appearance. A few wall-cabinets wero much very much of a stranger. She thought that, cn Upon receipt of only Twenty. Ave Cent*, ire trilt tend The reference; and thedensestupidlty of workers in Ludlea*ire viU also W tend. oi-ld Free - Thrt-e and post-pt Months, and to eery tub"-- ibet admired aud quickly purchased — being the work the whole, her scheme bad paid. Outfit, containing the follow' i, ottr"itlroty new 1B88 now .Stamping1 patterns: receiving ideas that were at all oue of the beaten of ayouug German who did it weir and very • 1 Alphabet, 1-ln. Mgh,l Doc's Bead, SaMn., 1 track simply amazed her. In return, they looked cheaply. Small tables, too, that proved very pop Do you want to improve your grammar, to Girl at Tlay, Mo. high, 1 Spray Asters, e-ln. upon her somewhatosa bundleof explosive ideas ular, were turned out by the same skillful bauds. avoldhundredsof common expressions, that un high, 1 Clematis, 6x6 In., 1i: Horse's ■ MJ4x3 Head, ■ ■ tn.,41erga »u In., that wero more startling than pleasant. They Truly had the affair been called 'composite.' consciously tell the talo of lack of breeding or 1Com Design to Designs, for Prayer2 Ont- line Designs, ft-ln.blgh, were willing, however, to take her money, and to and somebody said that it was like a very small education? do you want to know how to talk 1 Cluster Strawberries, S-ln. high, 1 Sr>rav execute her work without understanding it. Centennial. There was a Japanese Department, Sumac. S^-fn., 1 Pea- cock's Feather, 1 Calta Mrs. F was a leader society atP , well and sensibly In society, how to acquire ease Ml y, 4 in., 1 Chicken, 1 berries,Panay, 8-In.,3 Lc*r 1 Design*. Cluster and she usually persuaded society to fall iu with which encroached on its Chinese, Indian, and in conversation, what to say and how to say it? Cherriee,l Girl Boiling 1 do. Hnop, Straw- 4- In., 3 Sprava Wheat, 1 her plans. Like a wise woman, she began pres other Oriental neighbors, with a broadness which Then seud us thirty-five ceuts for a copy of Mrs. Frog. 1 Spray Perns. 3 Pauale\3 Lillee. 4-ln.,l ent operations with tho young lady clement, - rose superior to uutlonal lines; and this was pre Hewitt's new book— "Ease in Conversation, or Bachelor's Buttons, In., 1 Design for lllbbon sided over by Mr. Yo Wing, a young Chiuese gen Hints to the Ungrammatical." It will teach you Work, 3 Sprays Daisies, 1 Vlnra, Cluster 1 Spray Daisies, Oats, 3-4- which almost invariably has things its own way ; tleman of great promise, who ran away from home wha t you want to know. It is a most invaluable In., 1 llloy. Japonlea, 4-1n.,l and { several other do- and to this portion oi the community, the idea at a tender age, and was now striving to raise work, and should be In the hands of every wom signs, making In all 45 Elegant Pat- otan entertainment was wonderfully alluring. the wherewithal to run back again. The same an who has any desire for self-improvement. terns for alt kinds « of embroidery, There were so few entertainments in P that good taste In the selection of articles prevailed amounting la' actualtotn.75. value, Alsol If por-Box a novel species of Bazaar seemed a perfect wind Powder,chased separately, 1 Pad and Book of Inetruc- fall. It was to be held, tooon the first day, or here as elsewhere; and while there "vas nothing ANY YOUNG COUPIJE tlons for all kinds of Stamping, In rather night, ot December, just the time extravagant In price, everything was good of its cluding Inatructlons In Kensington Embroidery, Lustra Painting when people begintothinkseriouslyof Curisttnas kind. The most popular feature was some very Intendlnghousekeepingln the near future, wotlld scribedand Crazy a bove Patchwork. free to every Remember, one scud lag we SB give cents the for entire a three-months' Outtit de presents; and tho Season itself would be repre questionable Turkish candy; deftly made on a find $500 in cash a very convenient commodity. subscription to our paper. This Outfit i* entirely new, and mnat sented In such an uuusual way, with other de certain oil-stove In a certain third-story back It might be earned by April 1st if the two inter not be confounded with the cheap catchpenny affairs advertised b*- room, and compounded of honey, sugar, rose- ested persons should both go to work to secure others.Do not miaa.Flvesnbecrlptlonssnd this chance I five Outfits will beseot for tl.at lights too numerous to mention, that it almost water, and fragmentary almonds. But, like the that prize. Wo furnish sample copies to work reliability, we refe r'lance to any I Satisfaction publisher In guaranteed. New York, An Address, to our took their breath, away to think ol it. But all wonderful remedies of a medicinal character, &H.MOOKE A CO., 87 Park Place, New Tork. were bound over to secrecy, and the secret was 'children cried for it,' — while their elders were with. Should the $500 prize slip through their wonderfully well kept. not above coufessine a predilection for this for fingers there is still a chance for $450, or $400, Remnnntsof New B ack Sewing The matrons and older people were pleased be and so on down. LA r^ •aw"ia? I■ ESiksa^sF ^sy*\an,i"M gtzes, sent by mall posti sort- eign sweetmeat. So, Mr. Yo Wing smiled con 3 ounces . itage for cause they were not asked to do any work for this tinuously, aud distributed endless packages of tUc.;pre-paid: 1.5W) yards 1 ouncefor30c.;2ounce»forffic.;3ouuce8 in one ounce. Hend stamps, postal note very original affair,and the compounding of those 'deliirht' to old aud young. or money order. Address The National Bilk Co., venerable cakesand antique delicacies was an item A Targe table was given up entirely to child P. O. BoxbW Hartford, Connecticut. not to be desired; considering this, it was real ren's toys, books, games, etc; aud these bad all OLD COLD. 1 Send now as this may nut appear again. ly liberal to promise ten percent of the profits for been selected by a 'master miud,' and bought at the Drinking Fountain. But housekeeping P the lowest wholesale prices. The Lilliputians If the renders of the Ladies' Home Journal will USEFUL BOOK generously offered its spoons and china to grace fairly swarmed in P ; and it was said that iret out their old go.d. or sliver, old Jewelry, and send Perfect Bread, the festal board that would be spread for every It Iit mall or express to me, I wi.l send them by return A Kt v to 4'oo.klng, £5c. on bright days, the side-walks presented au mull a corlined check for full value thereof. Six Cups ofCoffec. *5c one'seutertainmeut ;andil graciously approved of unbroken line of baby-carriages. Mindful, J. H. JOHNSTON, ISO Bowery, N. "tf . Leanoni In Candy Mnklng, AOc. charging twenty-live cents for a ticket of admis therefore, of this important element, Medoracol- Any <>ne of these l>ooks sent by mall sion. locteda solid phalanx of temptations which no SctofKcrap . Picture*, one } postpaid, on receipt of price, or the four for HI bv No one seemed quite to know what it was all parent with half a heart could resist, and stromcd HIDDENCARDS KAMI CARDS <>b* and . Aem<* out!U. all for r.nlj Clark VV. Bryan & Co. publishers of GeOD Hut'BE- about, nor what would evcutually become of the slender purses with a variety of cheap but FUN Uo cents. CAPITOL CARD COMPASY. Cot ambus, OUo. KEKPtKO, Springfield, Mua: other ninety cents on the dollar; but Mrs. F fascinating noise produces, aud active dolls and eloquently described thecntertainmcutasa 'coin- animals that only required to be seen to be ap OUR LITTLE ONES AND THE NURSERY ■ postte' affair, and said that it was on the plan of preciated. a Women? I Exchange 'with variations.' As few A small adjacent table, like an annex, was con of her hearers knew what a Woman's Exchange stantly surrounded by an amused and admiriug THE PRINCE OF JUVENILES. ESTABLISHED IN 1867. was, they received this statement with an air of crowd : for here were displayed dolls' garments being qu ite at home in the matter, and Mrs. F of every description, in grown-up fashion, with a The most beautiful magazine In mat A specimen copy and Premium List was not called upon for any further eulighten- regular 'opening' of Paris millinery. This table ter and illustrations for chil sent to any address on receipt ment.Shc volunteered the fact,however,that many had been entirely supplied by a partial invalid, dren evor published. of a two cent stamp- the articles for sale would be the work of reduced whose wouderf ully skillful fingers fashioned the ladles with gifted needles, and brushes; aud that small garmentssobeautifully forall sortsof dolls, RUSSELL PUBLISHING CO., 36 Bromfield St., Boston. Mass. the refreshments would be 60methiugqultediller- that scarcely a child iu the place who could get ent from those usually seen In P — . to the Bazaar atall, went away without carrying Medora, too, who was favorably remembered, one of them with her. would be there to help with the entertainment There was also an apron table; and this was which she had suggested herself, and many of pronounced 'perfectly bewitching.' One of the whose friends were contributing articles lor the prettiest girls, left, after the snow-maiden had sale, as they needed the money which it was becnselected, was attired in one of the prettiest hoped to realize. Among these friends, whom aprons prominently marked 'For Sale,'— and this our financier had much on her mind, were one or apron was a poem. It waft made of cream-white SEaBURY'S music mender. two arti9ts of admirable powers but little origi surah, and painted with Wild Roses, that wreath For mendlnx A. torn 1)1" Music. It V IU Jlank .r., Bills TBASSPABEHT or otnrr papers, and all f nbrlcs ADHESITET1SSTJE, from the heaviest ^ilkalo t tie finest ., l>awuo. „_„ nality, who faithfully carried out her designs,— ed themselves in and out with beautiful prodi invisible und cannot harm the fabric to which it l» applied. O le yard in beautifully decorated tm baton, to uo and the results were particularly effective. had of ail druggists at SOc. ormalled direct on reoelytof price by bEABUiiv as Johnson, 21 Piatt St, New >on On the whole, P approved, and looked gality. A practical lady 'didn't believe it would JANUARY, 1888. Every soul Is conscious of its own divine right For the purpose of more thoroughly Introducing [Fob the la diics' Homi Journal]. may "stand," "sit" or "lie" in relation to the CASSELL S FAMILY NIACAZINE, THK KINDEKGAKTEN. position of another brick. The terms "stand," of Recognition, but to how lew is it accorded! (The best, cheapest and handsomest f ami. y niaiiaiin" ■sit" and "lie" are used by the kiudergartner In How many walk the earth to-day uucounseled, published) aud all directed work with this gilt. unfriended and alone ! Wc are meant to be THE QUIVER, The children learn the law of equilibrium by helpers aud ministers unto one another; instead (gem of religious monthlies), each number containing BY ANNA W. BAKNAKD. balancing a brick with its largest side on the of this, do we not often hinder? 80following large size, unparallc.ed beaut fully offer: lllustritted To any pages, one whois wemakeuM not al smallest side of another brick. They are di The result of a true kindergarten training in ready a subscriber, sending us beroru Feb. 1, '8Ml.au for (Copyright, 1887, by Anna W. Barnard. All rights re rected to let the bricks "stand," (or touch the childor adult, isa spiritof helpl ulucss and kindly- a yeurly subscription to cliher magailue, we will send served). table by their short, narrow sides,) a short dis thought for others. Each member of the minia CAUBLlVapostpaid to thi-ir NATIONAL addre»9 the It) follow I.1BK.IK1. lug works fromeach Except during the hours uf sleep, the bands of tance apart, in rows from right to left, aud at a ture society early learns toreTrain from actsthat contain ng over 200 pages, c.earreadub e print, ongood very young children are in coustaut motion ; to given signal each child pushes the brick at his will make others unhappy. "In all his work, and paper, as a premium to new subscribers: I require stillness on tue part o( these active right or left hand against the one nearest to it, all his play," he grows accustomed to act on the ■1.L Cast< hlldo e of Harold's Otranto Pilgrimage Horace Lori WalpoU Bvrm members is therefore, contrary to nature. In all when all the bricks go down simultaneously, principle that it is better to give up his own 3. Lady of The Lake Sir Walter *co« kindergarten exercises the hands are used and giving a pretty examplo of continuous motion, wishes than by gaining them to Interfere with 4. Voyages and Travels ..Marco Polo. thus prepaied and strengthened lor future work. and while the little ones are in bighglee over the the rights of others. If he sees a little com 6. Merchant of Venice »m. SftotoMMon, effect of "justone little touch," the lookers-on panlou in trouble, the thought uppermost in his 6. Carol and Chimes rharlee Dickens Every object brought to notice is made a meaus mind is. to do something to comfort him. When 7. 'I rip to the Moon Lucion. of Improvement. In constantly comparing ob are led to thiukhow easily human action for good 9.8. History " of M New " fork, " VnV< .Irving. jects and learning of their properties, mind and or ill is propagated, for 60closelv are we bound engaged in this blessed ministry, expressions .... '."..'...... Henry Mackenzie. . hands work together. The child must do before together, that no one of us can lower our stand come and goon these young and tender faces in. Send Man 2c. of stamp,"Feeling.. to pay mailing, lor a aample copy oi he can know, lie may seem to beaimlessly play ard of action, without affecting directly or Indi akin toangelie. There is nothing more touching either magazine. (lANSELL A- CO . Limited. ing when buildiug with his cubes, yet hour by rectly our neighbors, neither can we aspire alter than to sec the watchful care over the younger 739-Ttl It Mdway, New York.. hour he la developing power of body, mind and goodness and truth without in a degree lifting children by the older ones. Many a heart of Send 3 twocent stamps for soul, and one day will astound the observer by- others up with us. The best way to help each rock has been smitten till It sent its crystal drops samples of finest Foreign & some result he has worked out unaided. In daily other is "to be inwardly good and true." to eyes that beheld this heavenly sight. representingAmerican writing more than papers, striving to keep his work straight, that is right, From the building of simple forms with the OUT OF true, who shall say that Trutli and Right will not third gift, the children proceed to build with the KINDERGAltTEN SOXQ. 9RflfcvU Varieties which we sell fourth more difficult ones, bridges, houses, HY THK rOUXD also be rooted in his character. "Moral rectitude monuments, etc. A time is recalled when after SNOW FLAKES. from 16c. upwards. is expressed by a right line." Of the different SAMUEL AVAHD COMP'Y classes of nu-u who have deviated from the line having built by direction several of the latter, A Paraphrase. (incorporated). of right, it would be curious aud interesting to the children were askedto build something with PAPER ? Stationers, Engravers I Printers know what proportion have been naturalists, out direction, the only condition required being Merry little snow-flakes, Mall rates. lOc. per lb- 17a u> 1S4 Devonshire St., scientists, philosophers, etc. Wouldit uotseem that all the eight blocks w ere to be used in each Dancing thro' the street, often cheaper. Ro*ton, Masa. impossible that the botanist, for instance, wooed representation. Every child made the attempt. Kissing all the faces BUY FCR CHRISTMAS: by grove, and grass and gentle flower-faces, the Some of the designs were very creditable, iu one Of the children sweet, astronomer nightly welcomed to communion with instance a small grave was represented, w ith a Joyous little 6now-flal;es, THE "ROCHESTER" LAMP. the stars, or me seeker after truth with Plato, cross at the bead. One boy said he had seen "Winter's wild white bees," Gives themost I ght, Requires the least care Does not should forsake this high society to join in the mad "George Washington's monument, which wa6 Cov'ring up the flowers, break chimneys, Never uv e lo trim, Mi le and simple race for gold 1 very high," and gravely stated that it was so Powd'riug ull the trees. Fine Vase, Piano and Library Lamps SOLIDS. named because "Washington had jumped from ALSO. THE FOITKTH GIFT, the top of it, end killed himself I" It was diffi Downy little snow-flakes, BROKZE OltA'AMEKTS. THE DIVIDED CUBE. cult to banish the notion from his mind owing to Floating through the air, EDWARD MANUFACTURED Mil. I^ICTl BY & CO., The fourth gift is a two-inch woodeu cube of thestroug impression earlier received. In the Did you 6ce the shining iOiand 1* (Miles* Place, Slew York. the same size as the cube of the third gift, acd conversation accompanying the work, a great Of the stars so fair? Send for catalogue. having an equal number of parts, but the parts variety of opinion was offered, and many origin Gentle little snow-flakes, of the latter differ in shape from those of the al ideas were expressed which would have doue Iu the heav'n above, Art Study at Home. former. The third gift is a cube made up of credit to more mature speakers. In seeking to Did you hear the angels eight blocks of equal dimensions, or eight small impressuponthe children the true use and meun Slug their songs of love? Send for circular of the new coarse of instruction cubes; the fourth giit isa cube made up of eight iugof monuments, the second gift, (sphere, cube la Art Study at Home, Just started by u«. Beit and cylinder) was brought into requisition and Happy little snow-flakes, methods and Instructors; extremely low rates. blocks of unequal dimensions, or eight small translormed into a model of Froebel's monu Address The Art Interchange, oblongs, whose length istwicc their breadth, and ment. On alludingto his favorite motto, "Come Flying through the sky, four times their thickness. let us live with our children I" Inscribed on the Keeping time to music Mentlom l. H. Jonrna.. =9 '"'est 23d St.. New York. The third gift gives contrast of size, and the cube which forms the base of the monument, In the stars so high. fourth contrast or form between the whole aud bright-eyed Nellie, who was deeply impressed Darling little snow-flakes, A NOTED WRITER iKthe its parts. The similarity of the fourth to the with the words, kept repeating with strong em Wc would be like you ! iV. r. World says, "No one article of third gift is in material, size and form ; in the Help us to be loving, somemasculine as suspenders, ., M»dl«on. Conn. WlM waA prtrrou thdr rr*n*»r"x* titer nub re- very different in lorm. Separatingthecubciuto give oblongs. A jgood exercise, and one much noraL FADED oompldioGfl fpeedtly rVeume jhffr — . - ., . r — v> halves, fourths aud eighths, they find out that liked by the children, la to find out how many- Ml «hteM the Impurltk* mi defwtt of skta. but tFor remed Mb j square Inches on the lined table can be enclosed "90 Years of Pleasure." th»ttj »U^tonBj flrilHrfiM be&wl drutttaST perfectlr wrftimen, ww*tb* bt^dre»«ri thwogbowt the JorW^or wra> each one of the latter is an oblong. They learn by eiirht one-inch cubes, which Is four square This Is the title of a handsome and vaiuab'e Bent OH rriMi that the part is smaller than the whole, and the inches; and by eight oblongs, which is sixteen Book, ( Publisher's price 20c. ) which w ill be sent M oner refWl i&d uheatetlul W^t^wTMITta y If rod the CoBplexi^ whole larger than the part. On account of the free by mall postpaid to the readers of The Hair, CONSULTATION Hsodi. NaJli, «*>-■*£ * wSl «nd Htiloire Pextort. I»q,uirk« uowd oblong form of the parts, the fourth gift gives square Inches. Also, how many square inches Ladies' Home Journal, who will send their "hT r ouilnull ;; endoMenclose Mk.itomp for t*p)y. ITS PRESERVATION, » hwui-book of In- greater variety in bulldingthan was possible with can be covered by eight cubes, which is eight address to Dr. SCOTT, 848 Uroadwny, '■"rW» BEVTJTY V^' AND>«n far t£ET!rtther ARToex. forC tho pmerrmtta of Hm!* «*» B«**J. kU to the third, aud hence is preferred by the children, square Inches; — and by eight oblongs, which Is 2f. Y., mentioning the title of this publication mj addrcM on reortpt of etoxop*- who are taught by itsuse to notice differences in sixteen square luches. POMPADOUR TOILET CO., 45 Eut 20th Bt.( N*" "V™*- the length, breadth and height of objects. They Forms of beauty start as before with a fixed Book o! HIDDEN NAME Cards, center, which must be very accurately lormed by "WE WART A LADT OK OEXTLKMAX 13 Funa? Btoik., 580 Tctm, RfcUiw. love to measure and count the oblongs, or oDe half the number of blocks, around which the In every town to form clubs for a leading magazine, GIRDS Etwbn. F.W- . ml I wpy of Mir fln.1. lUurtr»!«i "bricks," as they call them, and chat together i iMMflM ,1 A MES vour BESB.EE, income. Now Station is the bestD.. time.N. Y. *lty. *H*,»Ufar»Soiuiap. HOME AND YOrjTlI, Cxlla, Ohio. merrily about their material, color, form, size, other four are made to revolve by the law of op- weight, and uumber of sides, edges and corners, posites. Using right and left hands together, ' and compare and contrast them with the small symmetry of motion as of thought is gained. cubes of the third gift. They find out that After the children become thoroughly familiar though unlike in form, the solid contents of the with the third aud fourth gifts the two may be EEDLE BOO small cube and the brick are equal. They meas used The together. mere mephanical building of the different The ladles' Work Basket Companion, containing- 145 ure the two together and find that the brick is needle-, all kinds and.Ue«, $7-25 per ""n^re*; Samp dozen twice as long, naif as thick, aud of the samel figures, though conveying many and valuable by mall, Sl.OO. Sample Companion complete, l*cts. In stamps- width as the cube. They learn which are the lessons, is by no means the most Important part two largest, and which the two smallest sides of of the play. That lies far deeper. The conver We pay postage. Agents' Price 1.1st Free. the brick, and that there is yet another pair of sation accompanying the work, the unseen Influ CROWN NEEDLE CO., Station L, New York. ence of the directing power, cannot be adequate sides larger than the smallest, and smaller than ly estimated. Unconsciously, little by little, the the largest. The fourth gilt leads to a more children are learning order, attention, exactness thorough knowledge of form and number, be aud despatch, while woven quietly iu with these, cause t lie whole appears as a cube, and the parts are numberless graces of manner, politeness, SS planes. gentleness, courtesy and consideration for the $100,000 Iu the same order as before, the boxes are dis tcelincs of others. As the forms grow gradually tributed, and removed from the cubes. When and regulnrly into symmetry, so gradually and We have just published a reoroduction ot MUNKACSY'S GREAT PAINTING, the gift as a whole has been compared with the surely cheerfulness, happiness and joy steal in as preceding one, it is placed so that the children body, mind and soul work together In the har can see on the top side of it a vertical cut, which monious growth of the whole being. they call an -'up to down" cut. Looking at the * • front side of the cube they see three horizontal In proportion as happiness shall reign upon cuts, or as they say, three cuts from ' right to earth, wrong and crime of every kinil will de left, and front to hack," aud one cut from "up crease. Were it possible to-day forevery humai Mteto down." ^ be By dlviuVd experiment into"bafves they Jn"only fiud that two" this dt | oeinir to be happy no such thing as crime conld "Christ Before Pilate," recrections, tio- makingmaking £ a "riiht"right and a left half," and ! exist. Froebef ■ idea was to educate man to hap The Original of which has been sold to Mr John Wanamaker of Philadelphia an "upper and a lower half," a> d that the num illness, lie believed tliatthiseoul'lonly be done for over » 100,000. Size 8 1x28 inches, on Heavy Plate Paper. ber of parts, oblougs, or bricks is the same as the by tlio harmonious development of all the facul number of partsor cubc

[For i ho Ladies' Home Journal.] to the best willed stepmother, and moreover the important factor in domestic affairs, and often STEPMOTHERS— FBOM THE STEP-MOTH mother recognizes in her children traits inherited the cause for unpleasantness associated with the BOOK AGENTS WANTED. ERS' STANDPOINT. from herself which, although ugly, she may have step relation, therefore it is unwise to treat It For full Information address BIL1ETTK F1TB- succeeded in overcoming, and therefore hopes with as little consideration as people affect to do I.IMM I \<. CO.. HI K. 14th Ml., Slew York. The office of stepmothers, as well as their char for like happy results in her child's case, or else in entering upou martial relationship. niplll W K W 1 K Ut " "ro those who read tH" acter, being manifestly much misunderstood, the fellow feeling may make her see it lu less re- There is altogether toomuchtakeuforgranted. III■ ■■wiik II II L I■ andpayment then act; thuiwill they will not tludhonorableem take them from and the class at all times subject to unjust asper pellant light. When the man gives no other assurance than their boniesand fatuities. The protits are large and sure sion, duty to my order Impels mu to seek a hear The stepmother is dealing with a naturecast in that embraced in the marriage ceremony, that he nowforeveryliidustriuus making several hundred person; dollars many havemadf amonth. Ills nndare easy ing in its defence. a different mould from her owu, and can not be is able to, and will properly, provide for Ids wife for anyone to make lo aud up wards per day, who Is win. Individual attacks may safely be left to rest expected to understand its propensity to good or and the children she may give him, and when the Imttowork. Either sex, young orold ; capital not need upou iudividual merits, when the deserving evil as the mother may; sue lias to grope her ordinary conditions become complicated, as they ed; wo start you. Everything new. No special abl.tiy sometimes obtain reluctant justice from honest way at every point ; and alas ! how often, uuaided doifastepmother is brought in, presumably with reauired;Write to us you, at one.? reader, for full can particulars, do It as well which M any we mullone. and careful observers, but even those same just by the only one who might possibly better under the same rights that fell to the first wife, the free. Address Stinson &«'o., Portland. Maine. persons are apt to sit In severe judgment upou stand the children, if so minded. necessity for asettlement of money affairs, in bend stump for 511 page book. Dr. stepmothers generally, admitting those who This brings me to a point w hich I desire to disputably just, to all concerned, is so manifest Facial Blemishes^ J.H. Woodbury, Albany. N. V. have commanded their approbation to be out make as strong as I can, because I believe it to that the laws of every country, pcrmittlugsecoud DrrCT for the price irlre inIn America. THE HOl'ofi- "the exceptions that prove the rule." I hold be at the bottom of most of the incompatibility marriages, should demand it in order to protect Dt« I HOLD PILOT,P1LOT. 8 pages, 40 columns, six that the imputation is unjust. The wrong doing of the step relationship. The responsibility lies the wife and such children as there areor may be. months on trial lOe. Pilot 1'ubi'gCo., New Haven, Ct of the minority attracting most attention has at the door ol the father, who in ninety-nine The wife is often the object of jealousy and rCDCC lit HiddenThe finest Name Sample Cards Book ever of offered Gold Beveled-Edge; with Agents given a false character to the order with which cases out of a hundred shirks It; not, I believe, distrust, because of disputable interests, which Outfit forjic. stamp. U. 8. CABD CO.. Cadiz, Ohio. they are identified, while the well doing of the from indifference to the welfare of either wife or only the husband has the power to place beyond YOUR NAME cngravi d on copper plate. * «l Hi est majority passes unnoted. The same principle is children, but from sheer cowardice or Indolence. dispute. If it is his intention to be just," the Bristol curds prln led from some. A mailed postpuld Involved In the parable of "The Prodigal Son," In the first place he seeks his help meet with more time to prove it as at the outset; if he does not for 11.00. Address National Card Co., Camden, N. 3. who has forages been a bold feature in scriptu regard to personal qualification than to fitness regard justice let him then proclaim it, so that BARGAINS Jor ealal'a.284 In Elegant Prlntiuo BorttP* Presses. Ho>>k Type, Cards Ac.Send and Pictures stamp ral teaching while the son who remained at home for the duties he expects her to assume, and he the stepmother may be spared from shouldering /orSOc. Sample Sets. l« .(llthena Is. Bro..Bo« IKB.l'hlla Pa attending to his legitimate business is entirely often seeks such help when his home would be his sins of omission or commission, as the case Al.l, NEW LARGE White Dove Hidden Nome lost sight of. better without any foreign element. I hold that may be. Cards, lOc. All ourelegunt new samples free with The truth Is that the mischievous little word a man deserving of the name, who has had one Sentiment and finances should each occupy 12 each order. \ uusn Cumrd Co. Nassau. N. Y. step is largely responsible for the injustice that Is good and faithful wife, and who leaves him their own sphere in the domestic arena, if do FLuniuA. 'LORIDA *kV,IjI'1^a district u nexcelled for ' ltnlt ' and visited upon us; it runs like a discordant note children that are llkaly to be able to continue to mestic felicity would be secured' And when vegetables, with delightful climate. Is a fast-mall through all that transpires in the household make his home at all what she would have there are evidently separate interests, as in the station on the North un«l south Knllwuy where It has obtained. Like a two-edged sword it wished, owes it to her and tht devotion which case of stepmother and stepchildren, it is unwise Traiilt I-tne. Si miles south of Jacksonville, and has cuts both ways, and operates quite as much to may have cost her life, to bear the bereavement to Ignore the fact, or to disregard it on the sup arc.:, complete An excellent •ystem hotel of waterIs now open. works Lots and for sewer- saloon position that it will draw lines that do not already the injury of one party as to tnat of the other. as best he can ; and rather to devote himself to reasonable MASON terms. YOUNG, Address ITesldent, SEVILLE 35 Wall ! CO.; St...Seville, N. V. Fia It is ap instrument which the spirit of evil uses making his home what it should be, assisting the exist; on the coutrary the lines being already H. H. MASON. Sec'y and 'J'reae.. Seville, i la. most effectually through the agency of outsiders, daughters, if there are auy, to carry out their there, proper division of iuterests Is the surest SeTlldden nameTetc., Cards, 2 oil chromos. 1 ring,* to workout his" purposes in the destruction of mother's plans, than to seek solace for himself way to avoid rocks. I shall ever maintain that ZOl7 samples all forlllc.O. A. Brainard. Hlgganuni, CI Homes, which in their per ectiou are symbols of first and trust to Providence in behalf of his it requires only "a fair field and no favor" for LEttAXT Sllk-Frlnned Krosted Christmas Curd. Heaven. family. stepmothers to make a creditable record ; given lOe. or 5 for 25c. CARD CO. Montneller, Vt 1 must admit that there are many stepmothers Doubtless he takes some pains to persuade him these, In time the stigma resting upon us as a BOO Itnp'd German Flcturw, lizzies, 5ons> seemingly unworthy of defence," but circum self that he is seeking the childrens' good, and class will yield itself to common sense and com ' - n,f,r Picture*, 16p. Sample Boo k of Silk stances are so often responsible when the blame indeed such may sometimes be the case, but, mon justice. Hannah Steiger. „. ...lire 0«rd«* Solid lSk. Rolled GoldRlng, rests on the iudividual, and there Is so much in alas, we are such self deceivers, and so It oftener ellfoMOo. Bird Cud Co., Merlden, Conn. every case that does not appear at all, that even happens that if the children are the better for the yearn. Payson's Used Ink with Is the nnyc oldest ean pen. and boat. Qim'lty Established hIwhvs uni '*0 MEB.8.Y CHRISTMAS. for them 1 would beg more consideration before stepmother, it is more due to an overruling form. Every stationer keeps it and recommends it. they are uttterly condemned. Provideuce than the father's painstaking. 61 Year : .orYourNimi^lnwitn- or lib Your merryMerry Num. in iinn»un».«'hrl«tn. GoldGold bettersbetters = i« ™or Happy lor"O'r *A »Sc»««!.. £ > ■ byHoute, Clara by AorubU Etta W. ; marry, from humane or missionary motives and his hands and find everything moving along of Pierce; Under tht Lilac; by the author of "Dura Thorne"; K Name printed on 5© Mixed Cards, andl«J*> those who marry widowers with children may be its own volition as smoothly as If nature had The Diamond amond Bracelet,Bracelet, byby Mrs._He.iryMr*. Henry WoodWood; : TheThe Latq/er'aLatrycr'a YOB Scrap Pictures, 10c. Hay Card Co.C.lntonvllie.Ct supposed to be much the same as others. The shaped it all and assumes that the elements be Secret, tby Wm H. E. Bradtlon ; The Strafuta Case of J>>: Jekyll I inV AGENTS for LADIES' WEAR. Outfit man she marries is naturally at that period tht has thus rudely thrown together must needs Ceciland Mr, Hay r. Hgde, by R. L. Stevennon; A mcked Girt, bv Mary LAUT free, conditionally. You are protected object of her chief interest and the prevailing harmonize. Thus is the stepmother, who finds lay Two ; Lady Sine, bytheTalworth'M author Diamonds, of " Dora by Thorne "The " DnrheM; The Sine " ; SolnTt lo«s and guaranteed f5.00 dally. Alf about It thought is, or should be, how to make the rest of herself a stranger to her surroundings, left to or aeartt, by B. L. Furjeon ; Dorite Fortune, by Florence for stamp. MRS F. C. FAR1UNGTQN, Box 648. CHICAGO. his life happy. If his home includes children, or adapt herself to the situation, which we all know Wardenby Wllkle ; AOotllM Low Marriage, ; The Poieon by Miss of A Mulock;spa, by Florence The Guilty Marryat River, ; — Funny Selections, Scrap l^clures etc., and nice any other members for whose welfare he is re Moat Grange, by Mra. Henry Wood; Forging the Fettere, by 'Sample Cards for 2c. Hill Pub. Co., Cadli, Ohio to bo full of pitfalls and thorns, with no help or Mrs. Alesander; A Playwright e Daughter, by Mrs. Annie BSrSoTBong: words & music; 1110 Gtms of Poetry sponsible, a true wife is ready to share the re support beyond the assurance of her husband's Edwards ; Fair but Falee, by the author of " Dora Tliorne " ; I1"'-" Western Supply Co. St. Louls.Mo. sponsibility and to aid him in doing his duty. confiding affection. That is of course a good Lancaeter'e Cabin, by Mrs. 'M. V. Victor; Florence Ivington'e 100 'It 15 Games, 10c for my fast-sel Ing articles Farther than that when called to the unenviable thing, and all Important, to stand upon, but her aboveOath, bybooks Mrs. by Mary mall, A. Di-ntnon.post-paid, We fur will1 2 Cent send n any % any Four Ten of thefor — tG^ENTS- Wa nted C. E. Marshal . Lockport. N. Y. office she rarely feels impelled to any special con head, hands and feet all require his help. He 95 Cent*; the entire number (38 book«.for 50 Cental the Samples, etc.. free To reduce our stock of lniulc. we secration of herself. But an All Wise Creator forgets that she is to be his help meet — and as ■■lit H i- number, bound In boards, with cloth back, for 75 Cent** will send by mail, postpa d, 60 has so constituted us that our hearts follow our sumes thatshe is to do without help, all that he Postagelished, and stamps guaranteed taken. worth Those threeare the times cheapest the moneybooks everasked pub for MUSIC SALE pieces full sheet music Bize, in works, and therefore if we strive to do good to found impossible to do by himself w ith his fath them This offer Is made to Introduce our popular publications. c udlng songs, marches, waltzes any one, some degree of affection for that person erly affection and authority to sustain him. guaranteed or money funded. * Address K. M. ausdrillesMozart Ac..8©c. (with calls). Money Sc. refunded by Mendlesohn, If not satisfactory Beethoven is quite sure to follow. In this direction is found Sometimes this course may be better than if LUPTON, Publisher, 68 Murray Street, New York. WHITE WINGS A- lOO songs words and music the only reward vouchsafed to the conscientious he were to attempt to shape things aud make a lOe. Q. L. HATHAWAY. 330 Wash. St. Bost.T. A' ass stepmother. botch of it, but his eyeB and ears should be open For The Fair Sex. Whether the stepmother comes Into her new to see, without complaint for any one, when It is 'Wrinkles. Black-Heads sphere a stranger or otherwise, the relationship wise to use his Influence or authority to prevent The Lablaobe Face Powder, so del Pimples, Freckles, Plttings e.vijuislteicti te, so dainty toilet aud preparation. reflue.l. Is a mostIt Is MolesnndSupei-fluousHalr Is a new one, and if there should have chanced to Injustice or unpleasantness. "The wisdom of t he admiration of thousands of love permanen 1 1 y removed. have been previous attachment between her and the serpent and harmlessness of the dove" are re ly American women who owe their ■*Halr, _ 'Complexions Brows and beautified.Lashes colored The the children she Is expected to mother, it will quired to bring and keep domestic matters in beauty to its constant use. It will jr- 'and restored. Interesting Book nevertheless need to be adjusted upou a new shape during this period of re-adjustment. A add brilliancy to a maiden's charms, r- and (testimonials sent sealed). 4 cts. basis. If this could be done at once with the word fitly spoken, to encourage or restrain, to timl make the complexion as soft, Madame Velnro, MB W. 22d St., New father's help, in a wise and kindly spirit, without indicate the right or to guard against mistakes, transparent.To the fair andsex pure who as pride an Infant's. them r York City. Oorrsspondsnce coMd—Wai. Men reference to outside opinions or interference, the if it emenates from the one whose author! tv and selves on having the most delicate tion this paper. way would be opened for the stepmother to do good will all parties recognize, accomplishes nkin, this toilet ponder Is becoming HIDDEN NAMECARDS.; her duty and lu so doing to win also the affec more than months of patient toil on the part of t*'fW»S . distinguished,other fashionable and is foundsurroundings amuntf , aJhuni *rTSM, anJ lb* tmrg**t tnrJ Ana"! campl* tions of those for whom she is expected to do as - ll|,on tnti toilette tables of the elite. 941 1 itsl ias arid. All fat a 3~MDt Msaji, Ststs Cafd W, the hampered stepmother; yet notwithstanding ^X3raSt<: The Lab! ache Face Powder is for nearly as possible what a mother would. the husband andfathcr Is vested with full auth -:i 1 bv ail druggists, or will he maUnd A Beautiful Plush Casket Instead, however, of any such a just and com ority and holds unquestioned the hearts of all to any address on receipt of 2o a-cent stamps*. BEN mon sense provision at the outset, the father and parties, and is also hedged by the sympathy of LEVY & CO., French Perfumers, and sole proprietors, ingof Fineour cmrdt. Jewelry Send itc. utAmp««t free for to Lovely every Agenttiew Sam sell the stepmother with mutual confidence, that friends and relations, lie usually occupies liter S\ West Street. Boston. Mass. ple, and Outfit, K. £. CAKD CO.. W ailing ford, Coun. without being misplaced, Is without knowledge ally a position of armed neutrality. With all the I* AC IV Msf 10 U Iloia. OaOfk, OB*)Puk Eaeort Cards. On. park of the power of circumstances to warp their best requisite weapons in hand he holds himself aloof UNIVERSAL TRIPOD COAT RACK. intentions, enter upou the new life with as little during the struggle, uuless compelled to inter ONE i-'irdt. All Ut onij a 2-oant Mam apprehension as if there were no children In the fere. Alas, it is then too late to avoid wounds Book rich new sani case. that leave their scars as loug as life lasts. No CARDS FREE pies & our big terms Owing partly to unjust public sentiment and matter how thoroughly such wounds may be mail. IS lovplv Basket to~Atfents Hidden free. Name, Send lOc. 4c. 25for still more to a feeling of resentment on the part healed there will ever remaiu a clouded memory plain Kilt, edge, lOc. Club 7 Packs. flOc. of the departed wife's friends and relations who of painful experiences that might so easily have HOLLE Y ( AKD CO., Merlden. Conn. persist in viewing the stepmother as an usurper been avoided If the husband knew and did his 1 'i-ii i S Pictures and large S 1 1 m i > I e C ard~6ut of the rights of one who has been removed by a duty. 1DU tit. 6o. AETNA PRINT. CO.. Northford, Conn decree that will in time summon each one of us, It is fair to suppose that the average step i end for free Catalogue of Books of Amusements and who lias left to some one her unfinished mother has sufficient regard for her husband and "speaker*. Dialogues. Gymnaetum, Fortune Tellers work, she meets a grudging welcome if any. Is for publlcoplnion to say nothing of self respect, | Dream Books, Debates, Letter Writers, Etiquette it fair that any one who attempts to gather up to wish to do her duty to the children ; and when 'etc. Dick & Fitzgerald. 18 Ann St., New York the ends and do the work as best 6he can, should there are little helpless ones who appeal to the njflFCards, Scrap pictures ami bonks of beautiful Bam be met with suspicion or resentment at the out mother Instinct, rarely wanting lu women of Jilple curds f ■ .r 2 cents. A. B. HiNES. Cadiz, Ohio set? Yet this is the natural inheritance of the step every* class, she will, uuless absolutely bad H.No pa110U(iH, u un tfC patent Washington, in obtained. D. C. mother; uotonly are the children's minds pois hearted, adopt them heartily. There is in such PATENTS Send for Inyentor's Guide. oned with a sickly sentimcntof aloyalty to their cases nothing impossible to overcome, aud any ill II At I I The Cheapent In the Market, s This Stone Rlnp, Band Itine, SO ptifre BoA, own mother that demands at lea6t the withholding oncwitli a faculty for getting along with children in nHLLM Suitable Everywhere. 150 Strap rap Pietom,PtcisMBi '"•Ac.,allfor 6c. to pay of their affections from any one occupying the may become as nearly as possible a real mother PARLOR 94. OO at retail. If dealer does not CARD CO i.'t i XUrerj Conn. keep them, get up a club of 12, buy Bood s S.ll Everywhere place she ouce filled, but they are also taught to to them, and If other'children follow, she Is even OR a dozen for 81.16. OO, and make AGENTS WANTED suspect the stepmother of a purpose to supplant more likely to do so; when the true mother feel ItSlS.OO a day. Send for sample t'leht lorelT cards, with HIS terms, PAY. IBEt Pocket TO Cnse AXL of them in their father's affections. In view of ing is once 6tirred it iuclines one to be tender BEDROOM outfit,Assorted cards Woods. and circulars. Antique Boxed, and Send 4 cts. for mulling. M. A. * " " — ~ " these, and the many other obstacles to be over towards all babyhood aud especially to the Mahog. Hub Finish, Solid Polished Brass Trim Rose & Co., Ml. Vernon, N. Y. SAMPLES FREE. come, the wouderisthat any woman attains to a motherless. Another feature in the case is, that mings. Active person can make money. ■ m W*± If \GEXT8 actually clear MOdatiy. respectable standard of excellence to the voca if the stepchildren are small, the step between UNIVERSAL TRIPOD CO.. Crand RaDida.Mioti. n II w 1 have something entirely new fc tion. The stepmother Is clearly human and has them aud those that arrive later is not so palpa Hmu I -Tm,MM amII IH everyi,Ai>v house. agksts A tbnt minister's sells at wife Bight sold in like other wives to learn her way to real wife ble and may be lost sight of by outsiders whose nVIRIP PIDI '0 MESSAGE and 104 other thirteen the first hour hood: the husband is as yet a problem to be alertness to discover deficiencies are ever keen. UIIHu UlnL O Popular SONGS for lOcta. MKs. 11. F. LITTLE, A. 2, Chicago. 111. solved a» well as his children. It belongs with If they forget it the childreu may never know of Ust of Songs Free. II. J.Wkuman, 82 Park Kow.N.Y. human frailty to be selfi6h In our love, and who its existence. In such cases the father Is justifi can wholly condemn the stepmother "If to her able in leaviDg the stepmother to work out her lot this female error falls?" So constituted, she owu salvai ion, only taking care that she need not NGALLS' HOME MAGAZINE. overcomes much inner willingness to try toenter unnecessarily sacrifice herself. If ever a man is into his feelings sympathetically with regard to called upon to provide liberally according to his Published Monthly, devoted to Art and Fancy Work. his children. They mayor may not be lovable means, it is when the young or inexperienced 48 PAGES EACH MONTH (same size page as "Century"). FINELY ILLUSTRATED. children; because they are, by common consent, stepmother is striving to do a mother's part by classed among the martyrs it does not follow LIDA and m. J. CLARKSON, ^m^Wv^^ his cnildren. The wish to dress and keep them £>, Write cexclusively lor this Mairuzlne. If you want to keep jx that they are saints, uur that they are such as the nicely is an outward and visible expression of an Work, . rI'ainting etc., you should subscribe for Inffalls' fiome Magazine 1 stepmother could love under other conditions inward grace — that deserves encouragement — «2 The i"f I'n ' :'par""™ts a™ leading Feature" ol the M.™azlncV-Brush It may, however, be assumed that they are much and she should not need to deprive bet self, as she ^* Studies i — ■1Jwl,h fun-naKe Illustrations). Household Hecoration, Decorative the 6ame as other children, making some allow too often does, to accomplish it. 1.21. J s ry and. ^"'ntluB, Easy Leshons in DrawinB and Vaint iib, ance for the unrestrained period which usually If there is a natural defect that is strictly mas Rf.^i?.I^^ail2£™t

[For The laihes' home it is in better taste than a badly chosen, ill-fitting UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. aHOW TO DRESS ALLOWANCE. WELL ON A SMALL silk. 1 have In mind at this moment, a dark-haired, Given for only il Yearly Subscribers, or only 4 dclicate-complexioued girl In a gray gingham Subscribers and 25c. extra, or for only 2 It 18 a fortuuate tliiug for man; women that in work dress. It is trimmed with navy blue; she orderto dress well, it is not necessary to be rich. wears a cardinal bow at her throat. I have seen , Subscribers and 50c. extra. Taste, comblued with a skillful use of the uee- the same girl in C06tly attire for church or call, dle is of more aecouut thaD a heavy purse. "Not but I never saw her looking prettier than in this ^ ruNCLe^P.^ The demand for this book seems unabated, although it has every woman cau dress well with cveu reckless inexpensive dress about her daily work. Thought been rend by the whole civilized world during the last 36 yeurs. expenditure, but a clever woman cau dress well aud taste are required to make any dress charm The Uncle Tom's Cabin which wo offer contains un introduc with intelligent economy and an artistic taste. ing. tion which gives a vivid idea of the way in which this wonderful Those who are obliged to economize ought not It is advisable to buy one handsome and dura novel was written, and of the way in which it was received by to purchase goods of a small retail dea]er. ble garnieut each year instead of trying to get a In buying at country stores, one gets i silk dres6 and velvet cloak at once. If you must famous men and women. about forty cents worth ot goods for each dollar I take some inferior quality in order to get both, Full of striking incident, strongly drawn characters and expended. While in buying of large dealers you | take ouly one and wait tor the other. In a short thrilling scenes, it cannot but appeal to the mind and heart of get your money's worth. The difference isnotsu time you will have acquired an elegant wordrobe every reader. In some parts the tragedy Is so strong and fierce great on muslins, calicoes, and standard articles, w.hich a little additional outlay will suffice to keep that every word burns itself upon our brain. Yet sometimes in out on fiuo dress materials and all the class of in order and you will soon establish the reputa the midst of sorrow Mrs. Stowe brings inn grotesquely humorous tion of bciug a woman of taste. §odus that come under the head of notions, the Nothing so entirely takes away one's reputa incident, as when, in the pursuit of Eliza, one of the slaves by lfference isgrcat. Silk ruching that I am obliged tion for being well dressed as torn, soiled or shab his sharp wit so manceuvers that ho succeeds In getting the to pay seventy cents for here, I get for thii ty cents by apparel; finger tips of gloves ripped, buttons in New York. A hair brush that I can get in i ff of shoes, a torn flounce, fastened up with pins, slnvo-owner on the wrong track. Chicago for ninety cents would cost me oue dol are evidences of slovenliness of which no lady We offer it for sale for only (1.00, and will aend it postpaid to lar sixty cents at our retail store in the village, would be gnilty. The time spent in keeping gar an all wool cashmere that I bought in Chicago ments in perfect order is well bestowed. It gives any address. for Ave dollars sixty cents would have cost me fif the wearer a comfortable feeling of self-respect teen dollars here in the country. Shopping by mail is oue of the blessings of the aud makes the clothes last twice as long. age tcrwomen who wish to dress well on a small In trying to dress well on a small allowance GOOD BOOKS FOR BOYS. Income. Early in the season send to your near there is nothing of more importance than to keep est large city for an illustrated catalogue and in good condition every article of the wardrobe. The following stories for boys are written by authors who are expe To do otherwise Is both shiftless and extravagant. rience!! writers, and great favorites with boys. They understand ex price list. With this open before you take a pen Often a dress which is good except for a soiled actly how to write Btorles full of excitement and adventure, and yet not cil and make a note of what you" want and what front breadth and worn out elbows, is considered demoralizing or dull.They are wholesome stories.) nculcating incidental you can afford. Just at this point it will be nec past wearing and anew cheap dress is bought. ly, manliness, and inciting to whatever is good. The volumes are illus essary to do a great deal of haid thinking. If While a thorough renovating would have made trated and decidedly attractive. Bach is printed on good paper con you have but ten dollars to expend, its outlay the old dress, which was of good material, more tains 250 or more pages, and is bou nd in Handsome Cloth Bindino. will require as much again planning and con lady-like than the shoddy new one. triving as though you had twenty. It is so seldom that women earn money that The following are the titles: Consider the place where you will wear your they do not count their time as worth anything. JOE'S LUCK; or, A Boy's Adventures In California. By dress oftenest, whether to church, visiting or at When they succeed in making a nicedreBS out of home. If you can afford only cash mere do not buy an old oue they look upon their achievement as JULIAN Horatio MORTIMER; Aloer, Jr. or A Brave Boy's Struggles for acheap velvet in trying to ape a wealthier neigh clear gain. It is well to take sufflcent time to Home and Fortune. By Harry Castlemon. bor. It is much hettef to pitch yourscale of dress make the dress over iuto as pretty acostume as ADRIFT IN THE WILDS; or, The Adventures of Two low and have everything correspond, than to Shipwrecked Boys. By Edwahd S. Ellis, strain aftera rich dress and 6poil the effect by possible. Mrs. Beecher says: "If one understands how ■s at 50 cents per year, or for ouly 2 yearly subscribers and 25 cents being obliged to wear something incongruous to renovate aud re-model, there Is lar more genu Given for o tor only 60 cents postpaid to any address. The regular price is and inferior with it. ine pleasure in using thatknowledge to coustruct extra. We offer CLK11S PUBLISHING CO., Philadelphia, Pa. Having thought of all these things your next new out of old than can possibly be gained while (1.00. step ts to send for Bamples from which you can shoppiugon the most extravagant scale." select exactly what you want. Into so many homes comes "the necessity of GIVEN AS A PRESENT, TO ANYONE SEND We cannot too strongly recommend you to get making ti little stretch agreat ways," that it may ING US ONLY 2 SUBSCRIBERS AT 50c. the best materials you can procure the money to be well to suggest the really appreciable amount EACH PER YEAR. Webster's buy. Not necessarily the highest priced goods which may be saved on linings and facings, by In the market, but the beBt of the kind which washing and starching old linings or other cotton you decide to get. It is better to purchase an all- goods which maybe found in the house. Buttons wool cashmere than a cheap silk. It is even bet also which have served on oue dress may do for HOW TO TALK WELL ter to have a French gingham than a cotton al the new oue if they were celected in the first place paca. It may be that you think you cannot af for their durability and good quality. It is ec AND IMPROVE YOUR GRAMMAR- Practical fordioru aa cashmerecasuuiui^ or flarinalat .... a— dollar a_ yard, . , but onomy to buy a really good Bet of buttona.even if Was your early education neglected? decide to get you a couple of cheap dresses at a little higher priced, because they can be used twenty-five cents per yard instead! again and again. In this as in every thing else Every woman having a spark of de Let us see if it will pay! In the first place '"buying cheaply to-day means spending to-mor sire for self-improvement, should your cheap goods Is only a little more than half secure a copy of Dictionary. as wide, therefore you will have to buy more row." Patching and darning are of more importance yards ; and every dress has to be lined and made, to a young woman of meagre means than paint Given for only B Subscriber* at 5© cents per and It costsas much for lining and making an in • ing on velvet or embroidering. Aud yet how year; or for only A Subscribers And 25 cents ferior dress as it does one of the best quality. many understandthe accomplishment who do not Ease in Conversation The all-wool garment is worth more than half a understand the useful art. If cloth is mended in txtraiorfor only ft Subscribers and AO cts. dozen cotton mixtures. It will wear longer, look the following manner It will scarely show that it extra. better and cost less than the two inferior dresses. has been patched at all. Make the edges perfect Or, Hints to the Ungrammatical. An all-wool cashmire is a good investment, ly even and hold the two parts lengthwise on the silk alpaca is also desirable as it will wear as front finger of the left hand. Put the needle, long, have a rich look and does not catch the pointed from you through half the thickness of By MRS. EMMA C. HEWITT. dust like cashmere. For summer church wear the edge of one piece of cloth, then point it to silk grenadine cannot be surpassed and It is ex wards you and pass it iu a similar way through 3ik. Postpaid. ceedingly genteel. If, fcowever, a lady can have the edge of the other piece. Draw the stitches but one "best dress" and wants a material that closely togetherwlthout bringing one edge over will never be oat or taste nor out of season let her theotner. Continue in this way taking a stitch It points out unsuspected errors in buy a good dark silk. It makes a suitable church on alternate sides until done. Then damp and everyday English. Tells you how to Webster's Practical la an entirely new work by the dress, a suitable visiting dress and If properly re press on the wrongside with a hot iron. talk well in Society. How to acquire editors and publisher! of Webster's Unabridged and lieved by lace and gems it makes a most appro A good rule about mending is to attend to ev contains more than twice the amount ot matter and priate dress for an evening party. ery rip and rent as soon as discovered. ease and correctness in conversation. illustrations ever before offered for tho price. Do not spend much on trimmings. If you Economy in buying is a matter of so much im Shows how we make ourselves ridicu have to decide between the quality of goods and portance that I return to it again. 600,000 Words and nearly 1, 500 First - whether you shall have trimmings Ictthetrim- Ladies with limited incomes will find It to their lous; how we miss that nice balance mlngsgo. Use the dress material for trimming. advantage to buy goods out of season. For in- of ready thinking before folks that Class Illustrations in Webster's Always have rather more yards than you need for stanae buy over shoes, winter gloves, and heavy Practical. a dress as it Is useful in making over. goods iu the spring. You get agreat discount. gives one that liardest achievement- Having obtained your goods, next procure a Many articles, as embroidery, stockings, hand ease. Tells law to say, and not to say It embodies several new features which, for or. good pattern. Butterick's areamongthe most re- kerchiefs, muslin etc., can be bought cheaper by thitigs that make folks wonder where dlnary ase, render It pre-eminent among dictionaries Hable.Two ladies, whose bustmeasurcisthesaine the quantity, if you Bave but five cents on each —not excepting even the Unabridged . can save money by buying patterns together; for of a dozeu pairs of stockings, or only three cents you were bom, if you say them, or An Invaluable Book — The importance of sup Instance one can send for a nice basque pattern on each yard of muslin or embroidery it appears don't say them wrong. plying every child with Webster's Practical for his and the other for a Dolman, and exchange. but a trifle, yet this looking out for trifles, makes very own. Is not generally appreciated. As an edu It a woman with one of Butterick's patterns the difference between thrift and unthrift Sent, postpaid, to any address on receipt of only35o cator it is worth a hundred times Its price, and a little cannot cut and make a stylish costume she must It isIs a veryvcrj guuugood plan]'...!. to keep j a little Jjble ol self-denial to provide one or more copies in every be very deficient in skill iudeed. the number of yards that are required to make CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, family will prove a better economy than an endow It has been well said that "the first step in the the different garments for each member of the ment of hoarded bunk-stocks later on in life. direction of economy in dress must be taken with family. You will thereby save yourself thcannoy- Philadelphia. Pa. It is handsomely bound In cloth with ornamental needle, thread, tape measure and scissors in auce of buying too little and the waste occasion covers. Tho paper Is of the best qnulity and the type hand." She who caunot cut and make her own ed by buying too much. Is clear. Tho regular price Is $1.00. OUR PRICE clothes wlllrequiro almost as much again money Economy Ts an art worth y of profound study A Beautiful Holiday Present ! for her wardrobe as the clever maiden who has by every woman who is at the fiead of a house Is but 75 cents postpaid to any address. talent in her fingers. hold. Extravagance In style of dressing or rath GIVEN FOR ONLY 10 YEARLY SUBSCRIB CURTIS- PUB. CO., Phlla., Pa. It is an incalculable benefit to be able to do er "over dressing" has more to do than any other ERS, OR FOR ONLY 8 SUBSCRIBERS thines one'sself. If women would ouly develop cause, with the fall of woman, the bankruptcy of AND 25 CTS. EXTRA, OR FOR ONLY the talent and skill which He in their own I'm husbands, and the ruin of families." 6 SUBSCRIBERS AND 50C. FXTRA. S;ers we would notsee them paying three dollars Mariox Edwards Roe. Only 10 Subscribers. or a fichu that could be made at home for one As an historical romance "Bcn-FIiir" snrpasses THE WRITINGS OF EDWARD P. ROE. third that sum. We would not see them paying the glory of " Ipanhoe." — Louisville Cotirier- R. H. STODDARD says In the Mail and Express : extravagant prices for slippers simply because Photograph Album. "Mr. Roe is without doubt the most popular of they have pretty rosettes when they could make Jourual. living American novelists. He is a straightfor rosettes for plainer slippers with their own deft Given for lO Subscribers at SOc. Each. ward, honest, hearty wri fingers. It is iudispenslble that a woman should ter, who knows what con know how to make pretty neck wear; no one This Album is stitutes a good story ; and thing makes more difference with the effect of a bound In fine leather, I BEN-HUR: given a good story, such costume than how the neck is dressed. As a mat has beveled edges] as his lastone, 'He Fell In ter of economy however, linen collars should be and 1b ornamented in I Love with bis Wife,' he worn for every day, for shopping and travelling. blac k and gold, A TALE OF THE CHRIST. can tell it better than any Ruching should only be worn for best and should seen in the cut. other American writer." be of the best. Rich and delicate lace that will It contains places By L.EW WALLACE. do up, will last longer than a ruche. for 40 pictures; part BE FELL m LOVE WITH A woman who can trim her owuuats and bon of the openings are New Edition, from Xeui Plates. BIS WIFE. nets will be able to save a great deal and may oval and part square. A Novel, by Bdward P. Roe. have really elegant headgear if she avoids buying The pages are lined 552 pp. 16mo, Extra Cloth. $1.50. 12 mo., cloth. 11.50. cheap flowers and tinsel ornaments. Ostrich with gold. The book BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. NATURE'S SERIAL plumes and tips and French flowers are true ec has gilt edges and OUR PRICE is but $1.25 postpaid to ant STORV. onomy. Tawdry deceratious would barely get nickle-claspi Size 6)^ A new edition, uniform with through one season while a good plume with care x5X In ches. address. Mr Roe's other stories, will last five years. If you can have but one hat Given for ten sub With the beautiful and reverent book you have Umo, oloth, J1.50. It should match your handsomest costume for scribers at 50c. each. lightened the burden of my daily life.— Presi The titles of Mr. Roe's church or visiting. A black hat can be worn Or given for * subscribers and 75 cents extra. dent Garfield. other stories, which are published at the uni with any costume. Ben-Hur Is one of the most popular books is A French writer says, "well 6hod and well Bind Your Journals ! sued from the press for years. Everybody is form BARRIERS Drlce of $1.50, BURNED are: AWAY.-WHAT - wnATr*K ( AN gloved is well dressed.'' And yet there are wom The "Handy Binder*' (riven for a club of only SHE DOy-OPENISG A CHthlSIT BOH en "who will go without a new pair of shoes that 4 Subscribers at SO cents each per year. reading it. It is a most beautiful story and NEAR TO NATURE'S HEART -W 11 HOUl A they do need, to buy a ribbon which they do not should be iu the homes of Christian families HOME.-HIS SOMBRE RJVALb.-A £ou™ need," but a lady would not wear shabby shoes A bound volume of the everywhere. GIRL S WOOING.-AN ORIGINAL BELLE - for the sake of some needless ornament. Ladies' Home Jogkxal is It is one of the best books you can select for a DRIVEN BACK TO EDEN.-r ROM . JBOT .TO Gloves should be fitted to the hand and be of invaluable. You can have holiday, or birthday present. 5ARNEST.-A KNIGHT OF j THE XIXTH excellent quality. A fifty cent glove Is a bad bar one by usipg the new " Han OENTURY.— A FACE ILLUMINED.— A UA.X gain, a rip in the glove should be mended as soon dy Self-Binding Covers" A copy of the Ladies' Home IT? hr KATE Any one volume of Mr. Boe's Books given as possible after it is discovered. which makes a PERFECT foronly 10 subscribers at 50 cents each, or for In order to dress with the utmost economy it BOOK with one or twelve Journal will be given free for o%y 8 subscribers and 25o. extra, or for only 6 is best toselect standard print and gingham for Issues. Dark green cloth ubscribers and 50o. extra, or for only 4 sub morning wear all the year round especially if one back and corners; sides one year for a club of only 4 scribers and 75c. extra. has household duties to perform. Do not imagr„ handsomely stamped in gilt Ine that by so doing you may not be well and be (see cut). Price, postpaid, subscribers, instead of a pre orBitOOPAKLOB ORGAJf SOT.B FOR comjngly dressed. A calico dress may be very J oO cents ; or will be sent with pretty if it ts, as it o'ught always to be, becom one rear's subscription for ONL.Y 948.50 ! See page 30 December number ing in color ami graceful in outline. In that case iNOtR fl.00. mium, if so desired. 18 THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1888.

With our new 18S8 Stamping Outfit you can itamp more than lOOO Pattern* ! We guarantee thi§ the largest and best Outfit ever offered. With it you ean do all your own stamping and save money. By stamping for others you can make money. You should buy this outfit and learn stumping. If you already have an outfit you will want this also. The Patterns are designed ex pressly lor this outfit. You can select $1.04> worth of patterns in addition. It teaches how to stamp without soiling your fingers. The patterns are all new, original and large sized;. Designed expressly for the LADIES' HOME JOUR NAL by its editor, MRS. LOUISA KNAPP. See full description in December number. Our new 1888 Outfit Is given as a free present to any lady sending us only 3 yearly subscribers. Our 1887 Outfit Is given for only 2 yearly subscribers. BOTH OUTFITS CIVEN FOR ONLY 4- YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS. »mb!ned make the l||ra;est and best ever offered. The regular price of each one would be one dollar In any ■tore In the country. They were, both made for full dollar on (Ills We can sell either one for only SO cents, which is but half price. We offer both outflts FOB SALE POBOXLT 75 CENTS. Two Vl.OO outfit, fully worth SS.OO, and sold by everybody else at those prices. We offer them for only 75 cents. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, offers you TWICE as much for your money as any other BEPl'TABLE concern In this country.

THE LATEST RACE IN PINS. ROMAN HEADS. FOB CHAINS LOWING DEKOBIRED PIXS GIVEN FOR ONLY TWO Given for a club of ONLY 2 subscrib Are now worn by everybody. They are fashionable.— EITHER ONE OF THE FO AND FIVE CENTS EXTRA FOR POSTAGE AND ers at 50c. each per year. they are stylish.— they are popular; and the styles we (»> YEARLY 81"" have to offer our subscribers are the prettiest to be PACKING. found. They are thorough y flrst-ciass In quallly,— we do not believe In poor jewelry ; it Is never cheap at auyin a price. much We cheaper could havepriced selected quality just of as goods, pretty but styles we honestknow our Jewelry. readers The prefer cheaper to pay goods a fair look price well fur for 90**1 a while, but will not wear well. What we offer you, can bo depended upon.

Ladies' Queen Chains. The very latest style wati itch < These pins are always popular. Thoy are oxydtmed for ladles, made and are warranted not to tarnlnb. The cut shown the of the best gold Journalstyle. The would quality not la offer of the you beat. cheap The Jewelry; Lad. SB' you lIoMX can plate. fromdepend manufacturers upon satisfaction nf n rat-class from jewelry.us. We buy direct No. 1. Given These plus are flrat-daas goods only, and fcre (riven for only 15 yearly asthe free Jouuxai, presents into to familiessubscribers that who are wlaa Iret help unacquaint Introduce subscribers, or ed with us. They are easy to secure, why not have for only 10 sub one? Given for only '■! subscribers at 60c. each per year scribers and 50 cents extra, or for only 6 sub A Handsome Brooch. scribers and NAME WILL EN Given for only 10 yearly subscribers, or for $1.00 «xtra. TITLE only 8 subscribers and 25 cents extra, or for It makes a very only 6 subscribers and 50 cents extra. handsome j resent, YOU TO EITH plain polished, ER ONE OF rolled gold plate, Roman or Etrus PINS can finish ball ■ charm. Sold by all jewelers for 82.50. Our price is but $1.75. A PRETTY [AND No. a. Given I for only 18 yearly STYLISH VLS subscribers, or OIVEN YOU for only 10 sub- . scribers and 75 cents extra, or IF YOU WILL for only 8 sub Fine Roman gold plate, with Rhine stone set scribers and ONLY SEND CS !S j ting, made after the style of 14 karat gold pat $1.00 extra. YEARLY .SUB terns of latest designs. Warranted to wear. An elegant rope pattern chain, Roman or Makes a very pretty holiday or birthday pres Etruscan gold trimmed charm. Sold by jewel SCRIBERS. ent. Good reliable goods. Sold usually for ers for 83.00. Our price is but $2.00. AVERY $2.00. Our price is but $1.40. No. 3. Given for only 15 yearly sub scribers, or for only 10 subscribers and 50 EASY THING cents extra, or for only 6 subscribers and TO DO. CRESCENT PIN. $1.00 extra. Given for a Club of only 2 Subscribers A cable pattern chain, Roman or Etruscan at 50c. each per year. gold finished charm in the shape of a very Tho very latest fashion in pins, la a unique smelling bottle. Regular price at jew largo sized oxydized pin In unique pattern elry stores 82.50. Our price is but 81.80. of which we show four different stylos as above. Tho cuts show the exact size. The tints are beautiful, and for 1888 oxydized silver is to be the rage. Wo havo the pret tiest styles in shape, and coloring; the A Good Ladies' Watch workmanship .n the flno finish, and the A SOLID SILVER delicate tints in oxydizlng- this year, is far superior to anything ever before offered in this style of jewelry. These pins are CHATELAINE WATCH. as a present for a club of only 50 roal beauties, and are the newest fashion, era at 50 ceicents per year each, or able thing to wear in the shape of pins for only 40 subscribers and SI. 00 in cash, or for only 30 subscribers he coming year. They are easily secured, and *2.O0 extra, or for only 20 subscribers only 2 yearly subscribers required. and S3.0O extra. We can sell them as low as 50 cents This stvle is very popular. The cut shows the design. Itia of oxydized silver of the best quality These chate- postpaid to any address. and warranted not to tarnish. One of tho best lainewatchesare premiums wo have evor offered. Easy to get now very popu CURTIS-PUBLISHING CO., Philadelphia, Pa. free of cost, by securing only two subscribers at lar and fashion 50 cents per year each. able. Every lady LACE BAR PIN. wants one. They The Latest Style Pin. HANDSOME are solid silver a. ft I* re ml urn for a Club ofOnly Baft* •crlbers a* SO Cent. Each per Y« Given for only 8 yearly subscribers, or for of the best qual only 6 subscribers and 25 cents extra, or for Silver-Plated Sugar Shell ity, stem wind only 4 subscribers and 50 cents extra. ers and Ostein Or Butter-Knife setters, nickel Given Tor Two New Subscriber! movement, cov at SO Cents Each per Tear. ered by an extra A new, handsome, neat and styl glass cap over ish pattern, tripple-plated, on finest the movement. English white steel. Will wear for They are good are A thevery very pretty latest and style stylish and Pin are of very frosted popular. silver. Given They years. Almost as good as solid sil timekeepers, and fpr a dab of only two subscribers at SO cents each, or ver. All the objectionable qualities first-class in •old for SO cents and sent, postpaid, to any address. of German Silver and brass, which are known to have a disagreeable every respect. They are furniseed to us by one taste, and are, when a little worn, of the largest and leading manufacturing firms CRESCENT LACE PIN. poisonous, will be avoided in the in this country, whose reputation i« well known Given as a Premium for a Club of Only Two use of these goods. Thcv are also for the best quality of work. Given for 50 sub Subscribers at 50 Cents Each. stronger, and of greater durability scribers. Send for sample copies to distribute, A little beauty, than any goods produced. and get your friends to help you. Send sub of the latest style A Butter Knife will be given In with orescent of stead of the Sugar Shell, If prefercd. scriptions as fast as received, for which we Oxidised Silver For 6 subscribers we will give a will give you credit, until the full number is and sprar of For- set of Tea Spoons, same quality, obtained. Ket - me - nota In frosted sliver. and for a club of 10, a set of forks. This is a much better watch than we have These pins are ex At 50 cents per year, in clubs of been giving for the last few months. The ceedinp.y neat and Fan set with either two garnets and one four or more, every ladv In the land regular price is $10; in a few cases it has pretty, and are Rhine stone, or garnet, Rhine stone and sap can afford the Ladies' IIome Jour been sold as low as j!8, but we cut the price very easy to se phire. Three settings. Will wear well. Gold nal. Send for sample copies to dis down to $6.25, and will send it anywhere by cure. Given for plate. A handsome present for the holidays or tribute among your iriends and *ni at fifty cents each. We sell onlythem, two postpaid, subscrlb to neighbors. Address: mail for that price. If in any way unsatisfac address for only tit coal*. a birthday. Price, 8ix>o. LADIES' HOME IOI 1IM1., Ihll:>. Pa. tory, we will exchange it or refund money. JANUARY, 1888. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 19

Special Premium Qffers of a few Splendid ^ardjf Plants. IT IS A SOURCE of great gratification to the managers of the Ladies' Home Journal to see the constantly growing list of subscriber, and we mean to put forth every I effort to win a still larger list. We propose to give our friends the very best oners as premiums for their work in getting us subscribers. By sending us a new list you i not only secure a few very choice plants to help beautify your home, but you also bring to the home of your friends a monthly visitor which is a constant source of pleas ure to every reader. Our paper is acknowledged now to be the leading paper for the home — every line is full of information and entertainment. Can't you put the Ladies' Home Journal into at least a dozen new homes during this month ? Just see what we offer you ! These plants are all hardy in the most severe climates, and are acknowl edged to be the cream of their class. To secure one or more of them should be the aim of every reader of this paper. Remember, not one of these plants is a catch penny " novelty," but all have been tried and found to be thoroughly worthy. You run no danger of disappointment in working to get any or all of them. Full directions for treatment are sent with every package.

For 3 Yearly Subscribers at 50 cents each, or 6 Half- Yearly Subscribers at 25 cents each, we will Send you, Postpaid, a Fine, Strong, Well Rooted Plant of any one of the following Plants ; or for 20 Yearly Subscribers or 40 Half- Yearly, the Entire Collection. ROSE BARONESS ROTHSCHILD." MOSS ROSES. Who does not love the Moss Roses, with their lovely buds and handsome open flowers ? No other roses are at once so beautiful and hardy — none so permanent in character and pa tient of ill-usage. Plant out good strong Moss Roses, give them a little encouragement for a year or two, and they will al ways reward you with their ex quisite blossoms, even for gen erations. They are very profuse in bloom in their season, and sometimes bloom again later in the summer. Out of the many varieties, we have selected three of the most distinct, of colors red, pink, or white, and will send good plants of either on these offers.

ROSE "MAD. PLANTIER." This white rose is a gem for its profusion of bloom, vigor ot growth and thorough hardiness. It is very largely planted in cem eteries, being extremely suitable for that purpose. Its pure white flowers are of large size, full form, rather flat ; they fairly cover the plant in the spring, and the bush is a lovely sight when in bloom. The growth is free, and the rose forms a splen did hedge if well trained, or it Jmoss rose. is very suitable for massing. Al though this rose was grown in France in 1835, it has never yet been superseded.

This is of the hardy Hybrid Perpetual class, and a rose ROSE, 4 PRINCE CAMILLE DE ROHAN." of great merit. The engraving shows its size and form " It looks as if the petals were cut from velvet," said a lady on seeing this exquisite 1 fairly, but conveys no idea of its lovely coloring, which for the first time, and indeed the remark was justified by the richness of the flower, which is an exquisite and pure light pink, with delicate rose is of a most attractive dark crimson maroon color, with crimson shadings. The flowers shadings. A peculiarity of the variety is that each rose are of fine form, medium in size, and delightfully fragrant. The plant, while not robust in is supported on elegant rich leaves just below it, and with growth, is free in bloom, and will delight every possessor. its enormous size, it is well said that " each flower is a bouquet in itself." This superb rose was raised in 1867 in France, and the score of years have proved it and con stantly added to its popularity. It has been sold at $1 per plant for years, yet we now give ROSE MAD. CHARLES WOOD." you an opportunity to get a good plant of it for nothing but a little effort to benefit your A rose to grow enthusiastic over for its many good qualities. It is of magnificent.forn friends ! and appearance — large, full and double — and of rich bright red, without any of the " muddy ' color prominent in so many red and deep pink roses. The plant is of strong and free habit, and when we say that it is the freest bloomer among the Hybrid Perpetual Roses, we add ROSE GENERAL JACOUEMINOT." its crowning merit. Well known, indeed, is the grand old "General Jack," the finest crimson rose ever JJ grown, and yet it is by no means as extensively planted as it deserves. Its buds are eagerly ROSE 1 BALTIMORE BELLE. sought after, and when "forced" at Christmas frequently bring $1.50 each in the flower A hardy climbing rose of great beauty and merit. The flowers, which are of perfect stores. The plant is of robust, vigorous growth, and in early summer becomes fairly cov form, full and double, are of medium size, and produced in clusters in great profusion, ered with its lovely vivid crimson buds and flowers of exquisite form and richest fragrance. making the plant a complete wreath of lovely creamy blush blossoms. The buds are very If you have the rose, you can find room for another ; if you don't own a plant, lose no time pretty and of fine form, and are charming when cut or used in floral work. The plant is of in acquiring one — you will like it better every year. rapid climbing habit, with clean and neat foliage.

ROSE 'PAUL NEYRON." AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII.'I A giant among roses — if not the largest, it has but few equals in size of flower ; yet its This grand climber, a first cousin to the well known "Virginia Creeper," was intro magnificent blooms are in no wise coarse, as large flowers often are, but very handsome and duced from Japan some years ago, but of fine texture. The color is deep, rich rose — a shade darker than Magna Charta. It is of in most sections its merits are not yet full form, and very double, fragrant, and altogether an exceedingly desirable rose. The known. It is a plant which grows in I plant is of vigorous and rapid growth, upright and hardy, with good foliage, and the rose is estimation upon acquaintance, and! one no flower lover can afford to be without. The buds, forced into bloom in winter, fre when it his attained strength always! excites the greatest admiration of its ■ quently sell at very high prices. loveliness. It is thoroughly hardy, W and clings tenaciously to any surface bgj not so smooth as window glass — brick, H ROSE "MAGNA CHARTA." stone, wood or iron, plain, painted or Our intention is to give in this premium list the best of each tint or color in the rose. whitewashed, will all alike be em- feft; This grand rose, named in com braced firmly by its beautiful tendrils. jj| memoration of England's "Great When fairly started it is of rapid and g Charter," was raised in 1876 by steady growth, and a peculiarity of Mr. Paul, one of Britian's most the vine is that the leaves are of successful rose growers. It is of nearly even size, and of the richest tM large, full, attractive form, and of deep green, changing in autumn to j a deeper pink, suffused with car gorgeous scarlet tints. mine, than Baroness Rothschild ; has the grand June rose fragrance, always admired, and the plant is NOW, FRIENDS hardy and vigorous in growth. It is truly one of the finest roses in Let us hear from you promptly on existence, growing and blooming these splendid offers, and join in to freely. roll up the subscription list to a mil These hardy roses will live out lion. Don't put the matter off— drop over winter without any protection in and see your friends at once, and whatever ; at the same time they secure their names and money. Every are worthy of a little better treat number of the Ladies' Home Jour ment, and will well repay the ad nal is worth many times the sub ditional time and trouble required scription price. to give them a little protection pm~ DON'T FORGET that our from winter's chilling blasts. A February and June offers are still mulch of leaves or coarse manure, open. If any were deterred by the five or six inches in depth, is a lateness of spring or bad weather, good protection to the roots, and you can now take advantage of the a bundle of straw tied loosely liberal offers there made. about and among the tops will Be sure to give address of each mitigate the severity of the frosty subscriber plainly. Remit bv Postal winds for them. Mounding up Note, Post Office Order, Bank Draft the earth for a foot around the or Registered Letter, and address all plants is also a good protection ; to— evergreen boughs strewed around the plants will also be beneficial. All protection should be removed LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, "MAGNA CHARTA " K05B. Ul Spring, t Ml Cbestsnt St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. RESIDENCE COVERED WITH AMPELOFSIS VEITCHII. 20 THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. JANUARY, 1888. (For the Ladies' Homk Joubnal.) SCRIBRL ,ER'S LETTERS TO GUSTAVUS ADOU ,PHUS AND JULIA, HIS WIFE. SECOND SERIES. NO. V. BY MBS. EMMA C. HEWITT. When I was at your house last, Julia, I was seriously alarmed about your health; you looked so worn out, I said to myself, "That woman is going to have a spell of sickness." I didn't say- so to you, of course, because it is not my way to tell people "how dreadful they look," for two reasons: first, if they dou't like it, It Is unpleas ant — second, if they do like it, and really "enj poor health," then I dou't believe Inencouragiug any such morbid propensities. But as I was saying, while I thought you were going to have a spell of sickness, I discovered that you really were only going to halt a party. If ever a woman looked more utterly wretched in enjoying herself, I have never seen that woman. What do you give parties for, anyway, Julia? There now I I rather fancied you'd lay that to Uustavus. "Well, Gustavus is fond of company," Is he? No doubt. But he wasn't fond of that "party." He told me he hated such affairs. For his part, he never could see the sense of collect ing a lot of people around you, for many of whom "Faith, they Bay Sapoiio makes labor aisy. you cared nothing. And then you went to a lot -wish I'd some of it wid me now." of trouble and expense, and It didn't pay any way. "Mark my words, Cousin Scribbler," said SAPOLIO he, "Julia will have a spell of sickness." I liRhtenn all kinds of labor in cleaning, but it won't shouldn't wonder myself, if you had both the wash clothes or split wood. party and the sickness. Now answer me again, soap, Sapoiio which is hasa solid, no equal handsome for all cakescourine of purposes house-cleaning except what do you give parties for, anyway, since it Is the laundry. To use it is to value it. What will Sapoiio proved that neither Gustavus nor yourself gets do? Why, It will clean paint, make oil-cloths bright, and any enjoyment out of them. Because you "must eive the doors, tables and shelves a new appearance. It return numberless little hospitalities, and It's pans.will take You the can grease scour off the the knives dishes and and forks off the with pots it, andand easier to lump them In this way and have It all make the tin things shine brightly. The wash-basin, the over with, at once." Well I that certainly is a bath-tubt even the greasy kitchen-sink will be as clean as hospitable spirit! I hope your guests all under a new pin if you use Sapoiio. One cake will prove all we stand that they are being "lumped;" being killed say. fie a clever housekeeper and try it. Beware of imita off at "one fell swoop" as it were I tions. There is but one Sapoiio. No. 22. Why don't you have them more often and In less numbers, and put a little more cheerfulness iuto the operation, and get a little enjoymeutfor EQUIPOISE WAIST yourselves out of itl "How?" Well, I'll tell ECONOMY, as wise folks say. What course should people then pursue? you. But first let me ask you a question. When Is wealth pronounced another way, In short, the only thing to do. For Ladies, Misses, Children, and Infants. you give oneof these grand affairs of yours, don't Though rich in bonds, or wordly poor, THIS WAIST is a perfect substitute for corsets you ask a number of people to whom you are in So while "hard times" the people cry, andwhich, may owing be worn to the either construction with or of without the bone the pockets, bones debted in no way, either by ties of kin, friend The Toilet Soaps they should not buy. The " Ivory Soap" they should procure. may be removed at pleasure. ship or hospitality? "Yes, but when one gives a THE CUT repre large affair one must ask everyone." Ah! I Let all who buy such Soaps take care Which may be bought from coast to coast. sents the Waist as thought so! Consequently, forthesakeof some At sixteen cents per pound at most, madeM Isbcs, for bon Ladles ed anand d thing, which you first called "Gustavus" I be To weigh the cake exact and fair, with fnll bust; the lieve, and afterwards "social duty," you kill And find the pay in figures round And does more satisfaction grant construction of inside yourself getting up an entertainment for a quan Than all the Toilet Soaps extant. ofpiece. bust, Is thatunder of fulled a cor tity of people, to whom you really owe no social A dollar, more or less per pound. set front, so that a duty at all, and whom you neither like nor ad corsetbust support and a perfect is pro mire. Well! welll Consistency thou art a vided within a waist. jewel Indeed. What would I do? No! I A WORD OF WARNING. In the Open Back Soft wouldn't neglect my social duties, but I'd man Waists, ns made fo age to have a good time entertaining my friends, There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the 1 Ivory' ;" particularChildren and attention Infants, and it should not be an expensive business either. they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities to the physical pro I'd set apart one evening in the week and I'd portions and require give my friends to understand that 1 was "at of the genuine. Ask for " Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it. mentsllttie ones of the has crowing been home" on that evening, and glad to see them. Copyright 1886, by Procter A Gamble. givenparts, in and shaping from thethe patlmeh. I'd have some simple thing prepared, like cake large varlet of sizes, all agesean be perfectly fitted and coffee; aud I know if you tried It two or from stock. three times, you'd Dud that you had established a , S. C. BECK, social institution that would be of great benefit Importer and Manufacturer of Style DOS, Ladles' Whole Back, without Bones, $1.75 tUMAPf HAIR GOODS " «01. " " " Boned Front only, 2.00 to young housekeepers who desire "to entertain" 86 X. 8th Street, Fhtlndelphir.. Pa, " 603. " Laced Bach. Boned front & back, 2.2ft ve but little means to do It on. Why, one *' 610, Misses' Whole Buck, without Bones ;lne, from the way some people deport " KIR M " " Boned . . . 1.76].o0 , that the only way to enjoy ODesclf Used by thousands of first c] an s Manufacturers f "'* 6U,(BP. Children's—Infants' without Bones. '• ...... M \be miserable. Yes, you are right. hasand brought Mechanics a lot on of theirimitators best copying work. usIts in tuece every .76 1 do like nice things, but I don't think "a good — posiible. Remember that THE ONLY GENUINE nmECTlONR WOB MKASriUNC,. time" depends upon the quantity one eats, al ' "d Glue is manufactured solely by the. waist For overLadies' dress, and and Misses, give ittake to usa snui in in ways. You "like the Idea?" Sodol. I've tried aLOUCESTER, triple by mail 20c. stamps.MASSMASS For Children and Infants, take chest also. it and speak whereof I know. and state age of child, "But that's the way Gustavus talks, too," you YESHiHT BYMAII, desire We shall to learn take more pleasure about in this sending meritorious circulars garment. to all who say, "and then he goes and brings some man 3» ^t^^p^ ~^^mM§mw' -wurwhocanutitsee metlnKlof afitting goodoptician portions Waists sent by mall to any part of the U. S., postage home to supper wheu I'm not prepared for him. is highly recommended by oculists and physicians. Send wlprepaid, I exchange on receipt or refund of price, the money.and If not If returned satisfactory, in good we Aud he don't like it because / don't like the man 4c in stamps toQCEEH A CO., OptieUn«.0*4 4 h*itant Bt.,PhUa- order. Mention Ladiks' Home Journal. coming unexpectedly." Welll of course that is B-tT" One good Agent wanted for every City and Town unpleasant, aud 1 don't suppose, if Gustavus or curedOfficer's ; deserters pay, bounty relieved. pro n the United States. Address: This stylish Banff Is made of th? finest French nat PENSIONS, , 21 years' practice. Success . c. * ci» *7» Devonshire Street, BOSTON, MASS housekeeper with limited means, to have unex U00shades and extra. a sample Illustrated of hair. Catato^ueof Gray, Blonde the latest and ~ Drab pected company. lan styles in Hair Goods sent free. Paris' Now, take my word for it, you can soon sys tematize even that. Gustavus is not an utterly unreasonable creature. Give him one night In ENTERPRISE MEAT CHOPPERS; the week to bring one or two friends, if he wants to, and give him to understand that his friends BEST IN THE WORLD. GUARANTEED TO CHOP, are welcome on that night, without any previous NOT GRIND THE MEAT. notification from him. He may not bring them, FOE CHOPPING Mm If) Chop* 2 lbs. per minute but he has the liberty of doing so. "But then Sausage Meat, Mines ,u Price, 83.00. suppose he don't, then there's a lot of cooking Meat, Hamburg Steak |Q Chops 3 lbs. per minute for nothing." Ah I there's where you make the for Dyspeptics, Beef ,fi Price, 83.50. mistake. Now if 7wa6 doing it I wouldn't have Tea for Invalids, «£-c. OO Chops 3 lbs ■ per minute "a lot of cooking." Yes, I would have enough, Price, 84.00. and more than enough, but I'd arrange it so that Ferm and Fireside Suva ; Q9 Chops 4 lbs. per minute "It is the only Meat Chop the kind of thing I had could either be left over per we ever saw that we 06 Price, 80.00. raw, for the next day's consumption, (if not all would give house room. It American Agriculturist says: wanted) or could be cooked alter it was found to has proven such a very nse- " We have given this Meat be necessary. "What, for instance?" Lots of lul machine that we want Chopper a thorough trial with things — chups, omelet, a second steak. O, there onr readers to enjoy its bone- nn^t K'itM;u lory reeull.-v are quantities of things if you only put your fits with us." JHiSF They excel anything of the mind to It. Depend upon it Julia, if you spent kind made in either hemisphere." as much time and mouey aud thought, "lu trying sold bv the to make "a good time," as you have in making Hardware Trade. No. 10 Family Size, $3.00. Send for Catalogue. yourself miserable, it would be much better spent, and the result would be much more satisfactory. ENTERPRISE MFG. CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Your Cousin Scribbler.

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