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MUSIC -'ND DRADlA. stare and aud wonder and scold and pet her I know you ca.n never pardon me l sister 1 know you must only hate me 1 But, oh, George Edgar s Shakeepezma.n company BY ELLA WHEELER PhUlbe laughed softly to herselt, thmkmg ha.te myself far more 1 opened the1r season at <Jh10ago on Aug 13 '\Vb.at is the use of th1s..1mpetuous baste! what a blcasmg 1t was that Edith was not He caught her by the shoulders sh~~l~~ The end is certam Let u~ take our time " The RaJa.h' ia one of the greatest suo there then lest she should be tempted to her fiercly, unconsc10us what he did ·1 ,A.nd hoard the vital forces that we waate And you know what you are s(1.ymg? he hisser cesses that the phenomenally lucky Madison Before our day .has reached it& golden prime awaken the wonder prematurely even as she so thought a pair of flymg feet She smiled wanly-the smrle of a. brok\ln Tl>eatre has had to boa.at of It is drawing What is the use o"t rushmg wtth spent breath came through the door, soft arms were flnng heart fine houses even now, and will no doubt con After old age its turrows its white hair~ tmue to do so until the openmg of the next around her neck velvet hps met hers, and ' Oh yes l I know Why need we hurry so to welcome Death "And when were you married? - ' Ten regular season Or go half way with hands stretched out to Edith s v01ce wa~ m lier ears, cryingCare! Mme Rhe11. will open at St Paul on Aug , I am 50 happy, Phoobe-so happy that I days ago h b d ,, , G ld S thmk I shall go mao. 1 ' And your us an i era ey 27 for a week She will then play a week of There is no use Dear heart if we but wait 1 · What is 1t dear ? mour one mght stands preparatory to openmg m All thwgs will find us :Let us pause I sa.r We o~ot go beyond the silent gate · A miracl~ my pet - the brightest He laughed discordantly, pushmg her Denver on Sept 10 Another week will Tha~s a short day sJourney down the way ilearest gladde~t miracle you ever knew i!o_Way from him fiercely as he did so be spent m playmg on the road to Frisco, ""hat a. faithful loyal wife you have where she will open on September 24 for two So let us fake our time m youth·s fair bowers Can ou not ess i · ~o I ca~ot been l What a model for all wives l Six weeks The summer geaeon is so brief at best ;i:.et ns look on the st1>rs and pluck the fl,owers A wild terror was begmnmg to steal over months you believed me dead and before Otis 0 Hall, &ecretary of th~ Cmcmnati And when our feet grow weary 1et11111est Phoobe her heart was throbbmg with au the seventh IS out you marry-Gerald Sey Dramatic Festival Assoo1at1on, haa already a.gomzmg, undefined fear mour 1 ' Let us take time for love and its delight secured a. guarantee subscr1pt1on hst for 1884 '"J:t is the one sweet thrng that pays 10r all · I am glad you have it off, darling, that He laughed airam, a Joyless half crazed amountingto$55,000 The assoc1at1on which The bitterness of life for Sorrow's blight thmg, that widows cap It shall laugh, as he strode, with uneven steps, up hideous isnow recognized as a permanent fixture will ,E or parn s despair and Death s funerea 1 pa11 never hide your pretty hair again-never and down the room his hands clasped be soon be mcorporated under the Ohio State agam my darling YQu understand now hmd him, his face white the scar on it laws In that lost era-when the world was new Love was mens first pursmt and hfe's excuse dob t'you?' cnmsonnow, while, with bowed he~d, she Now has that time come back to me and youAugustm Daly s company are w1nmng Edith was not able to keep at rest SM murmuredWhy should we seek for more I What 1.8 the golden opm1ons m San Francisco Mis~ was dancmg round the room m breathless ' Lost l Lost I ueei dehghted excitement as she spoke "Yes, loet I' he answered-" more lost Reha.n's achng is especially praised m term -'----·~ ~+···---" I am breakmg it to you He said we than even you 1magme , so lost th..t no re extremely fiattermg to that young lady were to break it to you , that is why he came pa.ration can be ma.de so lost that, even ' 7 20 8, the success ot Mr Daly s la.at seas to us first He will be here to mght , he is had I been dead, you would have been no sonm New York, is the pla.ywh1ch his com pany presents m the West ahve your husband, my brother Manuel ' wife of his 1 ' CHAPTER IX -CONTIJS UED Prepa.rat1ons are m progress for the pro Oh darlmg look up, look up l She only moaned She did not under · Phoobe he whispered huskily, " d~ For the JOS of it, as poor Edith thought, stand him-only understood that he meant duct1on of ' Zenobia at l\Iax Strakosch s Twenty third street Theatre The author, you thmk-could you, years and years had sent hec s1ste1 face downwards amon11 to mfl1ct some new blow on her hence love rne a bttle as you loved h1m- the pillows on the couch, sobbmg as she "Do you know who Gerald Seymour JS ? Mr S G Pratt, of Chica.go 1s to superintend your husba.nJ' I should not ask you to try wrung her agomzed hands he asked, coming close to her, and lookmg them The piece is describ"d as bemg a till a long tnne hence but if you thmk you Oh let me die-let me die I' moaned down upon her with all the latent cruelty · spectacular dramatic opera and much is might one day, tell me that I may hope Ph11ebe as she writhed bke a serpent, her of hlS nature gleammg m his close set eyes promised in the way of scenery, costumes Perhaps you wcuid never love me as you unbound hair fallmg on the floor ".Did it ever strike you as strange, the m and chorus loved him, dear, but it you could, JUst a "Oh Phaobe what is it? whispered terest Cll\e ::Seymour took m me' Did it There is considerable curiosity about little, ih "ould be enough Edith ,.ffnghted, as she knelt beside her never seem strange to you that he preferred Oscar \Vilde splay of ' Vera., the Nihihst, She looked up mto his handsome suffermg 818 ter whose faoe was as white as one me to his son' Did I never hear you say which is to be brought out at the U mon Square face, hued and seamed as it was with pa.m, stricken for death "Have you gone mad that he and I had the most be$utitul hands on August 20 Mr Wilde has designed the before shewh1spe1ed w1tha..,_quick catchrng vYhat is it' m London' costumes and scenery, and will personally of the breath · Oh Edie, are you sure he IS alive? She only writhed, shud<;lermg m silence super1Dtend the production of his play Miss "Oh, Gerald do you not understand ~ "Ye· dear I saw huil He 1s m Cadogan " Well, the reason is not far to seek Mane Prescott will play the herome s part, " Understand what, dear' Place now, he will be here in a couple of Chve Seymour 1s my fath'3r Gerald Sey and Mr Lewis Mor11son, Mr George Bom He was slow witted-bis fathe1 had said hours He has been very ill , that is why mour is my brother I face Mr Edward Lamb, and other well so and h!S father knew h1m Evelf'now he could not send you word long ago His "Merciful Hea' en l ' It was not she" ho known actors are m the cast w{th her spea)ting face close to his and her bram was affected, for he got a wound uttered the cry but somethmg m or near Rose Massey, who lately died, was born eyes uphfted-._-eyes rn which the veriest dolt when the other man was killed, and the her she had no .power of art10ulation left ID Toronto Sheaccompamed her mother to might ha' e reaa her soul-he d1<l not under other man b,.d on his overcoat, tha.t 1s why "Yes, my younger brother mme the Liverpool where she lirst appeared as an 11tand the nusta.ke was made He looks so ill and semonty, but his the birthright, mine the actress under the auspices of Alexander "That Manuel good and true and kmd worn and thore ia a sca.r on his f~ but, brand and the shame, his the name and the Henderson who then managed the Alexas he was, was never any part to me of" hat thank Heaven he is ahve · Oh, FhO!be rank He ha<l all , I nothmg but the you were , that I loved you always m spite don t let me be so wicked as to suspect that power to make myself what I am, and what andra there, and who took her to London She began there m 1867, at the Haymarket of myself and therem consisted my Hn , you do not thank Hea'{en? 1s that? Your husband I Doomed to dis playmg Mar'!{ Meredith to the Dundreary of that at Oakley Court I felt I }fated you be · But I do for his saka not for my own ' honor before I saw the light, I know myself liothern She wa.s first brought to New cause I knew I lo' ed you still Oh Edie Edie don t co:Ue near me don t doubly dishonored now I had hoped to re His arms were around her, her hot tears touch me' I ~m not fit for you to touch t tne~e myself by my patient toil by my sell York by 8a.muel Colville to play m bur lesque at Wood s Museum, but there was a falling on his breast , while he stramed her "What IS it, dear? Tell me the worst education, by my love for you , and now d1fl:iculty about her appearing there, as to him convulsn ely k1ssmg paas10nately her The girls hps were blanched the hands through you has come a stam which all the Henderson claimed a pno1 contract On unco' ered b ..1r fiom whwh the widows cap with wluch she held her sisters shakmg and waters of the Sacramento could not her return to England s)le played at the had fallen tcy cold purify My brother s wife, and I alive to Globe with its manager, the late H J ' I sm \l'1ved the sorrow he was whisper · I am married agam-waa mar: n ed ten know it l Montal:(ue, to whom she was for some years mg Heaven grant I may not die of the days ago 1 He smote his forehead fiercely with h1s engaged She appeared at many of the lead · Great Heaven I clrnched hand groa.mng as he looked down mg London and New York theatres, andpos JOY I He had suffered so mu<>h-there was no "Yes a lost woman, wishmg only to be upon her aessed beautv and talent need to tell her how much when his suffer dead and but one hour ago I was so happy l "I loved you-oh how I loved you l he 111g was wntten on every hnc of his worn Oh why has Fate chosen any one so weak murmured, after a pause- 'loved you so tace · and foolish as I to endure and rnfl1ct so that even now I cannot hate you loved you THE SEA SERPENT He had been as sure of her once as he was m\lch pam and shame 1 For I was never mo that I would say Go, I pa.rdon you, if sure of her now, and he had lost her Who worthy of either of them And now, I sup reparation were possible But for you there It Has Gone to Murray Bay to Kuetlcaie could te:H 1f he "ent away and left her that pose I shall break the hearts of both is no expiation, as for me there is no peace and :Recuperate -A Toronto Gen· he mii~ht not lose her agarn through the What will you do, Phcebe? I must go back and down to the destmy for tleman Declares Be Bas machmat1ons of the many who would hate "I shall tell him when he comes, and which l was born, and you-Heaven help seen It him for his ~appmess? That was the plea then h., will send me away to some aaylu111. you-your future will be worse than mmel The residents at Murray Bay were thrown he made the reason he alleged, why she for great smners , and there I shall fast and His eyes softened a httle as they rested m~ a state of more than usual excitement should maITy him before he went away pray my hfe away and perhaps Heaven upon her where she lay prone and unstir- recently by the news that a horrible sea Once she was bis wife, he would be at per will forgn e me before I die, as I meant no rmg at his feet, her face still hidden, her mfl.aster had made 1ta appearance JUSt out fee~ peace " h1le takmg steps to leM e the harm ' r1pphng loosened hair drapmg her to the inde the bay The shore above the wharf Na' y , and her friends need never know · Oh Phoobe, you are foolish 1 Listen to waist was soon crowded with the curious, each ho their secret till he came back to marry her me talk to me rationally m this great What had she not been to him this beau tel and cottage contnbutmg its quota The 1 :pubhuly m the eyes of all the world cqs;s Which of them do you love best t1ful creature who had woven herself so Ill tacts, now ascertamed, are as 'ollot\v11 ~Dr To marry him then was a bo1d prayer to Gerald to !us heart of hearts that he could never Dawson of ioronto, G W McKn111:ht and µrge to a six months ~1dow, but his rea The answer came suffocatmglyfrom among destroy her memory whose name had been another, guests at the Duberger hotel, were eons were strong , yet only-inoh by meh did the p1llarn on his fevered hps all through his qelmum, crossmg from Kamoura~ka\1 m a small 11he yield to him He had only n fortmght s "l'hen listen ' Tell Manuel so, and get who had occu1)led his first conscwus tl19ught, schooner, the · Alouette of 'Quebec char leave, and then he would go away agam , lilm to rl1vorce you and burned him st!ll suffetmg, home that tered by them, and owneo by ~r Warren end who could say for how long? 'Ihe twice wedded wife looked up, a new he might comfort her~ Comfort her-his About mid channel Dr Dawsbn, who was Thmk what an ab~ence would mean to hope creepmg back mto her d<9spa.1rmg brother Gerald s wife ' Bah 1 He grew on deck and standmg beside the helm, no him, he urged after his experience m ~he heart bitter, hard and fierce again when he ticed a dark hoe m the water directly aliea.d past, if she "ere not his wife but once "Yes if he would do that, it naght be i;hought of it, t hought what a. blow it must It had, he says the appearance of a long .su~e of that bet he cold brave time nnd best I am dmgraced any way, but Gerald have been to her to learn that his hfe was !me of sea weed Upon a nearer approach distance with patience, and what harm '1'i1ll never t hmk so He knew I meant no 1spared to him it was seen d1stmctly by a,)1 three gentlemen would it do her to marry hnn ~ Who would harm And you will not forsake me, dear' Yet she had been smless Ill mtent and she and the boatman then 011 deck, and c31acov ever know but himself and her ? The world 1 ·Forsake you? My poor srnter But had been smned agamst-he knew how ered to be an enormous sea snake lymg on would never be scandalized, for it would tell me how it all occurred cruelly, and there she lay now at his feet ' the water, movmg up and down with the never hl>'lr of the fact, the ~rvants would So clasped m ea.ch others arms the two and neither he nor any man had a right to ~ swell of the waves The body had a reddish suspect nothrng if they were told that she "l'\Orn~n sat while Phoobe told her tale, and comfort her tmge and the head was exactly that of a had gone to spend a week with her mo her, then they ia.1d their plans Edith would re Through all the desolation of his llreckhd 1 sna·rn The lowest estimate of its length 1 ~nd as to her ha:vmg only mourmng dresses ce1ve him tell him Phwbe was ill and send hea.rt he felt for her Steel himse as et is given by Dr Dawson as 100 feet, with a surely he could buy her clothes i Could she him up 1Jo her and she would tell him all might, he pitied he~, and through 1he I thwkness of two mens bodies The schooner pot trust his taste ~ and ask his p~rdon and help chaos of his thoughts t ere sto1e too a si e was put about, a nearer acquaintance not " You are temptmg me vou bad boyl:lut it 1s so hard on him·' sobbed Phoobe light of sympathy for that other m this bemg desirable At the moment of puttmg temptmg me to tell and act stories, and it on her s1Ster s breast "Ill and long~ng for most miserable trio who was elen dohe off about the monster arou%d probably by the is wicked ot you, she said, pulhng his sun home yet thmkmg first of me and then than he , who had perhaps ove er as noise of the flappmg of the sails, reared its ny curls m the old tender way cvmmg to find t hat I could not be true to much, and who would never see he\ face 0 head mto the air Large black streaks were " Well, do I not deserve a little special him for six short months 1 Oh Edie, if I touch her hand agam, and to whose oss an then seen upon the head and neck while cons1derat10n for my special pam could only die now l It would spare him desolation would b!'l added remorse for an the mouth opened, and a sharp lussmg He had suffered, and she could comfor~ the pam of ever knowmg unconsuious sm Ob, why had he mter sound, as of esoapmg ste11.m followed The So she listened, hesitated, yielded, drew ·But 1t would not spaie Gerald No, fered to rum two hves that had never m elevation was about fifteen feet, the head back, grew tremuluous frightened, 1eluc Pha1be yon must be brave It ts a sad JUred him 1 turned towards the bvat The monster then tant then surrendered unconcht1onally tragedy my pet but light may come out What had he gamed afte~ a~l, ~y his pluni;:ed and the body disappeared under She loved him, and he her of the ci'arkness y~t ' treachery and self deception Y JS eter the water with great rap1d1ty 'Ihe three Lo.ve IB blmd and lovers cannot see So she tried to speak comfort, though she nunation to possess her atany price 'h Nev~r gentlemen above ment10neil have made a The pretty follies that themselves commit. herself could see no hght anywhere her heart for one hour of ~er ~fet rea declaration under oat!!, to the above effect, There was a q u1et wedding, a week before d d 1zed that now never anyt mg )U a eeper before George Du Berge1 E·q the prothon b t he sailed, man out of the way little chm ch .But homely matters must e at en e to, tenderne~s f<tr her, a more achmg need of ota.r of this distrwt 'I tie Fr~nch boatman 1n Kent1sh 'Iown, and as they started for though hearts should break d Edith had to lier that only mtenlnfied the lntternesss of has ;ot yet done but this story a.gree1:1 80'h order a fi re for her sister B resa1ng room h 'des air h the Cumberland Lakes on their foolish, but and break to the servants the astoundmg I~' Th~ ams of the fathers shall be v1S1ted on substantially with t e ot ers happy honeymoon there was no one to sng From the depths of his · - -- - -- gest to them that the S S White ':Jtar even t1c!mgs that their master was not dead She the children then homeward bound, had on board a pas had to order supper to be ready for him misery the thought rose to histortured brarn Women as Doctors He had never hated this sengea with a brown skm and a triangular when he arrived, and then she crept rnto and dwelt there Some years ago, when a few bold womtn li!Car between the eyes, whose luggage labelled the drawmg room and sa t there among the unacknowledged brother of his, and never 1 London, bore the name of Manuel Car shadows, tbmkmg out this utter grief, while wished lum ill he might have learned to claimed to be admitted mto the medical pro up stairs Phoobe crouched and shivered by love lnm if tlley had met first without the fess10n it was confidently predicted by their r~co the fire, though it was hot July and prayed thought ~f this one woman between them, opponents that the movement would soon that she nught die and yet first w10nged themselves they had come to an end The prophets must have CHAPTER x , Ali D LAST The1e ~lie sat, dead at heart yet h vmg, wronged each other, and her, for whom been distllayed by the report submitted the Gerald was afloat once agam and Phoobe, emce h vmg meant su:ffermg , and she heard either of tham would have died- so 1rre other day to the meetmg which assemblea l!ack m the Lodge, must sit and count tlle the cab that brought her husband home tneva.bly that-she bemg equally lost to to see the annual d1stribut1on of prizes m wear y days till he would be free , for, as drive down the gravelled avenue- heard both- there remamednothmg tor all of them connection with the London School of Medi qmckly as the necessary changes could be him bis fornum accent more pronounced but escape from ea.ch other cme for Women It was stated that durme made, he would lea\ e the se1v1ce She had than evei , ask for her, then Edith slow 'Phoobe '~Manuel bent over her, speak the last wmter no fewer than 40 students made him send m his resignation from the toned reply heard her urge him t o take a mg m the old tone of wmnmg tenderness- had attended the school and hospital The banks of Ulleswater, and had laughed when glass of w!Ile before he went up stairs, and , Phoobe I am gomg away now to put the axpenses amounted to about £2 000, and they he had suggested that he might forfeit his then his la.\Jghmg answer, and his light foot width of 'theworld between my broken pea.rt were more than defrayed by fees, by the m half pay thereby What did al ttle money on the stairs Oh that they were miles and you Will you look up and say ·Fare terest denved from an endowment fund of :matter when they were so happy, even had long Oh that he might tak e years m the well? £4' 500 and b} donatwns or subscr1pt10ns she not been as r ich as Manuel had left her ? ascent 1 She did not stir did not even shiver when Ihe mstitut10n 1q, t herefore, ma flounshmg They had had only a week of that blissful But there he was by the door holdmg out 1 1 fted a tress of her slumn~ hair and oond1t10n and may be expected to become life, apart from every mundane constder.i. his arm s to her, crymg "!hrebe, Phoobe l k~s~d it Motionless she la:i;, with her more and more prospArous It is too latf t1on, before the voweof duty, hateful to him m tones of such wondious .enderoess while head pressmg heavily on her folded arms now to argue that women are mcapable for the fi1st tim!l, took him back to his ship, she only crouched lower till her knees and her face hidden of domg the work of doctors, for experience and left her a.lone touched the floor till her head fell on her Phoobe look up and sa.y you forgive me, has proved that *1 attendance upon the The servants suspected nothmg They arms till as he came near her, she lay prone and put your hand rn mme at p~rt~ng \Ve children and adultf of their own sex t hey only thought that their mistress s visit to on the floor and when he would have h ..ve wrough.t each other crnel wrong, and can compete on equal termsviith male ptact1 London hau done her a world of good, and raised her clasped him around the feet have deep need of mulual pardon tioners and that there 1s, m fact, a consider ascribed the absence of her cap to the beat "My w1fo My wfte I wStill she did not move, not even a fold of able demand for their services Even if of the weather They never notrned that "Oh, no ' Do not touch me, I am un her garments fluttercll, t ill he sto9ped and there was not much room for t hem at she wore a new weddmg rmg m the place of worthy I put his arms beneath her and raised her as home there would be a splendid field the old one or how attacried she had grown "Unworthy that H eaven has spared me' tenderly as though she 11ad been trne to fo. their exut1ons rn India, where they to a. white goiis'imer shawl which almost Look up my darnng 1 It is I who am un 1li then he knew why she had not an would be welcomed by the women of hid her sable l!arments She as still Mrs "orthy the JOY of bemg restored to you 1 s~~r~d his appeal ]l rom between the many native households Already 40 Carra.·co to them , and e' en the letters from She raised her heavy eyes then m their parted 1Jp1;1 whose kmdly utterance be had 000 rupees have been subscribed, chiefly Captam Seymour bore that name too only agony to his lace, then lowered them agam implored m ,a!Il, a crimson stream flowed by native gentlemen, for the purpose ci the servants did not know that these spemal with a low moan, bnt even m that mstant slowly saturatrng the carpet w1 thm the securing the establishment of properly qua.It letters had two envelopes and that the m sh e had noticed the disfigunng scar between Circle of her clasped hands fied wom<>n at Bombay, and it is hoped that ner one was addressed Jealously, ' Mrs Ger his eyes and the white thr.,ads m his cluster Ihe dusky eyes that had looked upon him a. Me.:lwa.l Scholarship tor India. '\Vorth £00 ald Seymour hair tenderly a hundred tunes were WHie open a year for five years w 11 shortly be offered As thmgs had turned out what a blessmg m g "Pha:be my wife, what is it i fixed and glassy and the round cheeks Any one who wishes to give money for the Edith s absence had p1oved l For that little · Oh do not touch me- or strike me ' that had rested ' often on ]us breast were promotion of good <Jb3ects, and who sym 'Prude would not have let her marry Gerald Spurn me I K ill me ' I am vile I I am waxen hued and80 cold path1ses with the aims of this ' London .and what a sm 1t w~mld ha~e been to ha'ie lost I Phrebe he cried wildly, 'Phoobe- School ought to have no difficulty 1n find refused hun she thought, now when he was Wha\1s the matter, dearest i What has speak to me my darling I· m g a worthy opportumty for the exe101se of far away and when the world knew noth happened In vam she had made her atonement his or her benevolence -Graphic Ing? ·Do not hft me Let me he here till I she had e;piated her unconscious sin-she Would Ernth like Gerald as she ha.d liked die, cr till !tell you I d ' '.I ell me what? -"That I am marned was eaa Manuel? she V1ondere<l and what would Henry Abbey has secured Sarah Bernhardt THE END for the commg season m America His idea the gnl say 1£ she told her, as most hkely agam ' is to p lay her m the Metropolitan Opera she would tdl her favorite sister, a long time He stood over her hke one turned sudden The eldest son of J ames Beresford Hope, House New York, m ' F edora alternat hence, that she had been married secretly ly to stone while she drew herself pamful months be ore that other marriage of which l y to her knees and clasped him around the M P , has been married m London to <1 mg with the good n ights of Italian opera daughter of Gen<>ral Frost of St Loms the wortd was aware? How the girl would waist when tile stars smg What 18 the Use? I' j AN UTTER DESPAIR. DJsagreeable People Somebody said once that m pasgmg through a stran~e city it always gave him a. pang to thlllk of the many dehghtfnl people there were whom he would never know, but he might have consoled himself with the fact that there were also m all proba.b1li ty a number of chsagreeable people there too whose acqua111tance he would be spared One is tolerably certam of meetmg p enty of them, at home or abroad, like the advertise meats of quack med1cmes at Ult1111a Thub on the Steppes of Tartary, or at the Pyra mid of <Jheops Perhaps the worst kmd of disagreeable person is she who can be agree able when she feels hke it and believes it 1s worth her while, for whose unpleasantness we are unprepared, who takes us at a dis advantage sprmgs a trap upon us, so to spaak There are those who are chromcally disagreeable, and those whose hatefulness 1s only spasmodtc and if we always chuse our fnends and neighbors we certamly should not select them from either class, unless we wished to study the different spemes Of course even the chrome ca.se has its season of a.mehorat1on, when we fondly thmk that perha.ps, after all, the disagreeable person is gettmg the better of her distemper , but these periods a.re not long enough tor us to mdulge m the hope of a permaneat reform , it is hke one ef Aunt Dinah s " clarmg up da¥s and only means more disagreeableness m the 'sweet by and by Many of this class pride themselves on bemg perfectly candid and prate loudly about the Virtues of truth and candor-forgetful that "man ners are the shadow of virtue -m a way mtended to convey the impression that th& hon s share of these :Jesirable attributes re mama with them and that we are the em bodiments of hypocrisy Candor 1s, as everybody knows a bleasmg-m disguise sometimes-but tact belongs to the genuine Chr1~t1an , the first should only be used hke belladonna. and acomte, m small doses , the second like salt, oa every occas10n But who ever met a disagreeable person distm gmshed for tact? l t 1s the lack: of 1t that mduces her to praise your ne1gabor s mmce pies while she is eatmg your own, to mform you that your silk velvet gown which you ha.ve kept for heydays and hoildays and which you have almost sat up mghtR to take care of, looks shabby beside her cotton black' veh et '.Ihe disagreeable person is fond of pullmg y rnr parucnlar friends to pieces, seems to teel 1t her duty to speak of their defects m case you ,hould o~ erlook them , to pomt out their shortcommgs m relation to yourself as 1f she could n ot bear to have you · put upon without protest as if she resented your wrongs for you with a sort of offic10us k1ndlmess which exasper ates mstead of kmdhng gratitude The Medicaments of BrutEjs. In a oommumcat1on t@ the Biological Soci ety ·of London, recently sent by M De launay, on the medical practice of ammals, the doctor gM e some lllterestmg facts, from which he argued that the human reason ought to be trusted as much as ammo.I m stmct m many mstances where mochca.l science seems to be at fault, aud he ms1sts that the desire of swk persons for certain foods and drinks may be a. natural mstmct rather than a morbid fancy But he does not state how the one may not be mistaken for the other In his h st of examples or medical mstmct m the lower annuals, M Delaunay says that ammals bathe for cleanlmess and health, that they get 11d of their parasites by usmg dust mud, clay etc Those suffcrrng from feve r re strict theH diet keep-quiet seek darkness a.11d a1ry laces dnnk water, and sometrn es plunge mto it When a dog has lost hu1 appetite it eats that apeciea of ~rass known as dog s grass (dogtooth) wh1cb. acts as an emetic and pur gat1ve Cats also eai. grass Sheep and cows when 111 seek out certarn herbs An animal suffenng from chrome rhe11mat 1sm always keeps as far as possible m tile sun If a chimpanzee be wounded 1t stops the bleedmg by pla.cmg its hand ou the wound or dress mg 1t w1th leaves and grass When an ammal has a wounded leg or arm hangmg on it completes the amputation by means of its teeth A dog, on bemg stung m the muzzle by a viper was observed to plunge its head repeatedly for se' eral days into runmng water This animal vventually reco~ered I J d A sporting dog was run over by a c&r nage, durmg three weeks m the wmtel' it remamed lyrng m a brook where his feed was taken it The animal eventually recover ed A terrier hu'rt its right eye 1t remam ed lymg under a counter avoidmg hl:(ht and heat, although it habitually kept close to the fire It adopted a general treatment, rest and abstmence from food The. local treatment consisted m hckmg the upper smfar.e of the pa,(, which it ap plied to the wounded eye, agam hckmg the paw when it became dry The doctot thmks that vetermary medi cme and perhaps human med1cme can gather from these facts useful md1cat1ons, precisely because they are prompted by m stmct ___ _ ___ _ .........._.......... ---- ·---·.-- -- Too Much Ba.thing. There a.re few greater admirers of t he bath than I myself am l h ke almost eve1 y plan of bathmg-with the except10n, probably of the Russian moudj1k plan of gettmg m under the stove and burymg yourself m hot ashes I have never tried that but doubtlese 1t has its aavantages-to a. moud31k lio'\\ever I muot say there is such a t hmg ID overdomg even t he bath Although I should wish that e1 eryone in this country were hke myself ampllib1ous so that 1f thrown mto the water he would only ponder while quietly swim mmg out aga.m where the nearest place was at which to procure dry clothes and a uup of coftee- st1ll it must be remembered that men are not manatees We vould not h ve most of our time m the watet, like those m terestmg aquatic mammals People snould ne ther llathe too often m the day, nor re mam too long rn the water at a time, else they "tll overdo it , they will have too much of a good thing The after effect of the bath should m a.11 cases be stu~1ed, as well as the state of the general health Moi;.eover the tempera.turn o! the water de serve11,cons1derat10n it maysmt some people to break the ice on their matut1nal tub m wrnter with a f10zen sponge for a mallet but a dash of warm water 1s to be recom mended when the mercury qrosses t he line gz o One bath m wmter, and two m the A maiden aunt of a Brook!) n man whe> heat of summer, I would not call overdomg t ells the st01y, hM no patience with any the tlun~ thmg that cannot be turned to some useful account She wastes no time herself and cannot see why those around her shonld Mr and Mrs Tom Thumb were believers waste any The other day she said to her m Spmtuahsm and would sit fo1 .IJ.outs to re nephew, the Brooklyn man, when he ceturn ceive communtcat1ons from little Mmme ed from hrs office John, I see t hat the Warri:in m t he spmt land gentleman next door is a gteat smoker I The mt'>nth ot A ugust m th Romna '\\Onder whether he would mmdcomrng over ca.lenda.r bore the name of Sextilis a.a tlrn mto our garden and smok1Dg m ou1 rose sixtli month of the year It then consISted bushes to kill t he caterpillars thatpe de of 29 days J ulms Cresar m refoi di mg the stroymg the buds? Would you JUS'li as hef calendar of Jns nation extended 1t to 30, and ask hlm? when Augustus conferred on it his own Mrs Homespun, who has a horrible time name he took a day from ] ebruary and every mornmg to get her young brood out of added it to this, and so it ha~ remamed eve their beds says she cannot understand why smce children are called the r1smg generatron Out of Door Life for Girls By H M HOLll:ROOK, M D It is difficult to keep a healtJur boy m thehouse He longs to e;et outs~'--the wall, mto the air and bght A bo~~ remams, w1thm doors duung the day tune, m pleas· ant weather, 1s thought to have some defect m ms orgamzat1on some weak spot Ul his. natllfe, and the parents of such a youth will naturally and properly feel some disquietude concernmg the career of such a child W1tn girls the case is different They d<> not mstmct1vely crave out door hfe but are glad to remam a good share of the day with m tneir homes content if they can get out for an hour or two m the afternoon, and in pleasnut weather, with now and then a day m the woods to pie n1c, or a few day at the sea side in July or August, to bathe and play m the sand on the beach It is true that now and then a girl acts hke a boy, and seeks every opportumty to romp and indulge m the sports common to her brothers Par· ents are quite a.a apt to he anxious about the future of such a girl as they would be of a boy of reverse prnchvities I do not ma.mta.m that girls should hve qmte bke boys They are to be the future queens of our homes, and it is proper for them to hve more hours rn the house than their brothers but they l:(O too fa.r m thIS divergence If I had a doaen girls m my family, and I am sorry I have nut, I should try to keep the httle ones, until six or seven yea.rs old, m the open a.tr as many hours as I did my boys, which "ould be nearly all the time weather perm1ttmg The reasons why girls ouglltto live out ()f doors a great deal, are the,se First-They get more and better air, and conaequently de' elopu better lung11 A girl 1n doors mhales about half as much as one out doors In the house domg ordmary wo1k, sne requires hourly 3,000 cubic feet of fresh air but she hardl) ever ~eta over 1 000 feet Out of doors she can get JUSt as much as her lungs will hold a million gal Jon~ if she could hold so much ~ doubt if girls know the real value of good air When they breathe a great deal tht>1r lite is vigor ous and energetic Birds hvmg day and mght m the great out doors have sound lungs their lives ar.i Joyous They never get t he blues Girls ln mir rn ioors most of the tu 1e become pale feeble dull, stupid, have headaches a.nd become good for no tlung Second-Another reason for out of door hfe is they get the benefit cf the sunshme Girls differ h om boys m their ideas of hght Boys as a rule love the hght Girls as a rule, do not love 1t The reason is they have beeh taught from birth t o keep out of t he sun sbme Their mothers tell t bem 1t. spoils their complexion I nave a profound respect for mothers but they err m this mat ter I love to see g1 rls with tanned faces , at least tanned enough to look ruddy and vigorous Third-Girls who live out door become muscular and learn how to use their muscles They lose that feat that makes so many of t hem scream at a mouse, and go mto tits if a bug crawls upon theu clothes I was once teachmg ma school fur gnls, and a great dog came boundmg mto the room Every pupil there but one, waa badly frightened and the runnmg scr~ammg and crymg that pre va1led for a moment was somethmg pamful One girl was not frightened She was a tom boy who had lived out of door a. good deal more than the others, and got physical strength and courage from it l believe 1f the dog had been mad, or if It had been a wild bull, she would not have wmced Smee then she has greatly d1st1ngmshed herself m the world How can girls get a ch..nce to hve out of doots more i When they are htt!e children their fathers and mothers must pr~vide them with opportumties This is a sa~r.:ecl duty <i thcmi which they should no more omit that to provide them" 1th food and clothmg I have found that the daughters of poor peo ole get out of doors more than the daughters of r ich parents, and that as a consequence they are generally healthier, and stronger, and often more beautiful After girls get larger, they must go out of their own accord, and seek out of door amusements There are many kmds of out door sports suited to tnem and more can be mvented A1chery is one of them rowmg, ridmg, skating, walkmg are others Then there are out of door labors 'Ihere 1s flower culture and gardemng Some years ago I published a. book called "The School Garden 'advocatmg that every school should have a piece <>f ground where girls and boys could study horticulture and agriculture lam sorry to say t he idea\d1d not take very well m this country but m France aud Germany it has become popular, and a.heady they have thousands of shool gardens where the boys and girls work and get out ot door hfe e'en while at school Botamzmg, and all similar pursuits should be encouraged 'Io study botany, geology, 11eography1 mmeralogy and natural history out doors is worth a m1lhon times as much as to study them m books m the house What can yo1i learn about birds unless you go and hve with th.em ? In the Sandwich Islands both boys and girls learn to swim and 1f they live near the shore, speno hours daily m the water One may often see a comp!my of mi)thers with their children gomg down to the beach to bathe The way they tram their babies and httle ones is very curious They lay the child on a plank and while swimmmg about push the plank before them The oh1ld IS tied on, or hangs on, and thu,Otgets useQ. to the water m its babyhood and never knows when it began to swim any more t haD> a fish Just so should our American girls be tramed to out of door hfe It they do not begin early they will never learn to love na ture, be at home with trees, birds wmds, storm and wave, and never really know t h1er true mother-Nature GU'ls, hve out doors all you can Take your work out. when the weather will per mit , learn some of the varieties of out door work, all sorts of smtable out door sport, and my word for it, you will be stronger, healthier, ,happie11, and handsomer In ancient Gree·e, where the most bea.uti ful women lived, the girls wern tramed to out of door hfe Their washmg iromng, cookery and gymnastics were mamly out of <loon! They ran races hke boys out of Their hves durmg this period of doors Grecian lustory, weie much purer and nobler t han later on, when all,th1sjv. as changed - Dio Lewu; Month/11