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At the London Dsiry and at the Birming- ham Fat Stock Show, during the last two years, prizes have been offered for the best preserved eggs, saye an exchange. These, as well as msny private tests, have shown that the lime water system is, all thin 3 considered, the lust. A pound of lime shou d be stirred with a gallon oi water, and the eggs, perfectly iresh, immersed therein in barrels or jars. This excludes air and an germs than might cause mildew or mouh , and prevents evaporation, so that the con- tents of the egg are not reduced in bulk. It is important to have a considerable excess oi I think the J ereey breeders should have a standard registry the ssme as the trotting horse has, and let the standard start at 1411). without groin. Then when one wished to purchase a good cow they would know where to find it. I think of coupling Jun with one of Exile’e sons, and if she continues to have heifer eelvoe I will soon have a herd of cows worth cerin for. I wish that breeders would test t elr cows and report through your valuable paper. 25th of April, and the last of May I tested her for seven milkinqs. 8 me made 9 lbs. of unsalted butter. Her feed was grass and 4 quarts of corn, oats and ham, equal parts, in two feeds night and morning. I tested her again, oommencintz June ‘21, for sever. milkin s. She made 7:} lbs. of unsalted but tor, an it was drained dry. She had no grain since J nne Ssh. I think without grain Is the true test of the butter capacity of a cow. 'In her last test I for at to mention she gave 110 lbs. of milk. he weather was exoessively hot, so much so that the cows ate but little in the day time. I think she could be forced up to ‘25 or 301bs per Week, but I do not wish to do it, for she is a good breeder. having had all heifer calves. A. D. Baker, in an interesting letter to the “ Country Gentleman,” says :-As I have be- come quite interested in J ersey cattle, I will report a test I have been making with Jun of_ Springbrqpk, No.356776. She cattle in the .m- of Sprin br 25511 of pr N lnety-aix varieties of grapes were planted six years ago in the grounds of the Ontario Experiment Farm. The location is 1,200 feet above sea level. The following are now rec- ommended in the Report of the Fruit Grow- ere' Association of Ontario, as the beat ; hard- iness, yield and flavor considered: Black: \Vilder, Worden’ Moore‘s Exrly Concord, Barry. Red :Delaware, Brighton, Lindley, Agawam. White: Niagara, Indy, Martha. I‘he largest sale of cattle war made in Kentucky by one man was made on July 13, by C. Alexander, cashier of the Northern Bank. He sold from his 22,000 acre farm 550 head of fat cattle to M. Kuhn, of Ohio, for M. Goldsmith of N ey York. They will be shipped to London, England. im ortant. Shurning should be done at the first ap- pearance of acidity. Do not wait until the cream gets intensely sour and stale. In churning, the butter should be granulated in the churn, instead of being gathered into a lumyl); It should be cleansed of butter- milk y washing and not by working. After lightly salting, it must be worked into a solid condition with the slightest working that will_efl'ect that end. I'"f" -_-_, Those batter-makers who add sour milk or buttermilk to hasten the coming cannot have butter which roaches the highest per- fection in flavor. The sooner the minds of dairymen are disabused of the idea that the ripening of cream and the development of high flavor in butter lie only in the scoring of the cream. the better it will be. The importance of atmospheric influence in the ripening of the cream must be recoenized ~hy those who wish to produce the finest quility of butter. imporiant. The most advanced butter makers main- tain the perfect exclusion of the low cooled milk and cream from the air. Whenever warm air or air comparatively warm comes in contact with colder milk or cream or water, or any other liquid, the warm air, touching the cooled liquid, is condensed, and depoaits moisture in the form of dew on the surface of the cold liquid. With the dew thus deposited go all the impurities the air may contain. In the case of milk and cream, these deposits impair, in a mark. ed de co, the flavor and keeping quality at the utter made from them. It is not euential that air should be excluded from milk until its temperature falls to the tem- perature of the surrounding air, but when it drops to that point, exclusion from air is ‘ The freewohgen of the air under favor- able conditions oxidizes at least some por- tion of the milk fats, with the result of developing butt/er flavor. Oxidation is moat eflective while the cream is sweet and at the churning temperature, or about 60 degrees. What is wanted, therefore, for highest flsvor, is to give the sweet cream the longest and fullest exposure to the air at a prgper teq‘paFature: I , 7 )J ‘_hh_ _-_3II4 If a sample of sweet cream is divided, and both parts are kept at a favorable tempera ture for ripening, and the air is excluded from one and a free exposure given to the other, both will sour at the same time, but flavor will only be increased in the one ex. posed to the air. Churniug in _two parts will show this. It is generally supposed that soaring de- velopee butter-flnvor. No greater mistake could be made It has no influence upon flavor at all until it becomes strong enough to commence injuring it. Butter-flavor is inâ€" oreued while the cream in ripening. but i: is efl'eoted by the action of tho air upon the [at in the cream, and not at all by. ferment nion. A tthe late (Winter) meeting of the New York Dtirymeu's Association, Prof. L. B. Arnold pronounced the proper ripening oi cream es eerentisl to the melting of perfect butter. In txpluining the two kii d; of changes which go on in cream when risenlng, and which are induced by two istinct causes, the change most readily noted is the development of acidity, which is the result 01 fermentation pure and simple, and i. brought about by the growth of organic germs whenever the cream is warm enough to allow them to sprout and grow. The only direct effect of the iermcnmion is to ohsn e the milk sugar in the cream into an aci . The acid, when formed, coagulate: the al- hnminons m Atters in the cream, sep ireting them into n solid curd and serum. This in- cilitates churning, but has no effect what- ever npon the fatty parts of the cream until the acid becomes strong enough to begin to cut the butter flavor, which in thereby re. 1‘ duped, to the injury of the‘hutter. . szr or A JERSEY Cow. l’nnsmvnlox ow Euns. Tun eruxwu or Cans: AGRICULTURAL. Re‘ph Allen says: “ Dniry farming fur- nishes a constant source of income. 1t en- riches the land more ra idly than any other branch of animal has mdry. It ms be carried on with small capital without ang- er of being smothered by larger establish- ments. It is profitable on high-priced lands, where other cattle would not more than make e good rent. In short. dairy farming, like every other branch of agriculture, has advantages Peculiar to Itself, which make s it in manys ees and under many circum- stances a esirable and remnnerative em- ployment. J. A. Dawson, of Piotou, N. S., was re~ ported at a meeting of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' association, by the Secretary, as having tried with entire success the a » plication of salt water to the bark of app e trees for destroying the bark lodge. ()ne pint of salt is dissolved in two gallons of water. A single ap lication is in .‘lo about June 10, with a sti paint brush. (Jere is taken not to wet the leaves, as t! .~. salt will destroy them. It has the merit of being very easily tried. It is obviously im ort- ant to apply it at the ri ht time or ear y in lune when the eggs are etching. 'I'h‘e same may be said of cherry orchards and the whole catalogue of frul: trees, vines and vevemblee u wall as of the stable cereals. State Geologist Thompson, of Indiana, in- eiete thet formers ehoula protect their birds to every possible way. Everybody knows. he declares, that we have 100 innovate herm~ ful to our fruit trees, vines, vegetables and cereals to where we had one thirty or forty gear: ago. “Why? Ltrgely because the irds are one~tenth part on numerous as they were then. You cannot have a Leehhy a pie orchard without plenty of birds. T‘he name may be said 0! cherry orchards Nearly all strawberry growers agree that good .wood ashes can he a plied to the strawberry plants with bene t. One hun- dred bushels can be applied to the acre with profit, under ordinary circumstances. They should be thoroughly incorporated with the soil on the surface. No country home in what it ought to be without good gerdene, both vegetable and flower. The beat rt of the family living comes from the k tohen garden, and the amount of enjoyment that the whole family derives from well he tbede of flowers, is not to be reckoned in do [are and cents. It is said that tile enough has been laid in Illinois toreaoh three times around the globe, costin between $0,000,000 and $15,000.000; on the experiments of the State University professors go to show that the beat crops are found in the best-drained soil. It is not too late to drill some sweet corn for fodder. If you get. your early potatoes (in in J aly, borrow the ground thoroughly ang plant your corn. You will be certain to $01: sqmo forage, unless winter acts in early in obober. We have two adjoining yards, one con- taining ordinary barn-yard fowle, made up of Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks and Cochin: ; the other (f thoroughbred Wyendottee. The cross-bred: or scrub: produce nearly a. third more chicks and eggs than the others and do not receive nearly so much attention. The Wyendottee are probably inbred too much, and this is probably the trouble with the breed. There are few if any better table fowl: than the Wyendottea, and they are excellent layers. They are, however, very delicate, and often deformed and un- healthy. Now is the time to kill and cat spring chickens. This is the season of hard work on the farm and the former and his family should have the best of food. Chickens no longer comnund a fancy price, and now is the time to eat them. They are no more expensive than roast or corned beef and are vastly better food at this season. Eggs are not need in the farm house as much as they ought to be. This is due largely to the want 0! Variety in cooking them. There are many other ways of pre. poring eggs besides frying and boiling them. When eggs are cheap don‘t glut the market with them but use them yourself. Is there a better cross for the table than the Indian Game and the Plymouth Rock ? Stephen Beale recommend: 3 Baking cock with Brown-Red Game hens. a bar, which, working upon a pivot, causes the cutting teeth of the machine to oscillate very rapidly over the rigid teeth 01 the comb below. The cuttin action is thus precisely the same as with ores clippers. A rigid metal pi e runs along the length of the shed, and eac machine is connected to it by a flexible indla rubber tube. The air is turn- ed on, and the upper teeth of the implement work rapidly over the comb; the operator seizae his ahee and ap lies the machine. As the teeth 0 the com run through the wool close to the skin the cutters sever the fibres quite evenly, and the whole fleece seems to peel off as if by magic. There is no chance of the animal being out, as with shears. The fleece is much more closely, as well an evenly, taken 011 than by the old method, and less liable to be broken and the labor involved is much less." air. “ It resembles a mix“ of ordinary: horse- clippers, and can be comfortably hell in the hand. The motive power o-Ausea a small piston in the base of the handle of the ma.- chine to work backwards and forwards with extreme ropidlty. _ This piston sets in motion An Aultulinn correspondent tells how a entlenum, who owns a shoe station near filurrurundi, in New South \ aloe, has now in operation, in his shed, a sheep-shearing implement which i; driven by compressed nil- “ If. ro-nmklnn n n .8.- .J' n_.l: ..... LA-..‘ ‘ â€" A very successful variation in the process omsists in imbeddin new-laid e gs, warm from the nest, in i t iok paste 0 lime end water. Eggs thus prepsred. for six months could herdly be distinguished from those newly laid. The contents of e s evaporate rether rapidly through the she I ; end the object of the preserver must be to prevent this evaporation, end at the same time to nliow for the expansion end contraction of the nstursl sir-space in the egg, due to chen es of temperature. The plan of coating the s ells with wex or melted parefiue fails in the letter particular. Strong brine fails because the contents of eggs preserved in it become much reduced in bulkâ€"[American Stockmsn. limo tonp'm any that any become ou- honuod. The vouch oonulnlng the egg- olnuld‘ be kept in a cool, well vontilutod pupa. ‘ _ , SHEEP Suumxn MACHINE. Pocurm' Nous. Nous. " Very well. we will bring on help.” With that the junk heade back for the bay, accompanied by the yells and curses of the apparently drunken crew. We had a native aboard called Shin Lee. He had been in headquarters office for several years, and could be depended upon. He gave it as his opinion that the iunk was a spy boat sent out by the pirlates, who never attacked a vessel by daylight without taking all due precautions. He said we would see the plr- Both ofvthe boss pirates had Americans and Englishmen with themâ€"rascals who had deserted their shins and voluntarily adopted the life of a pirateâ€"and one of them was always put forward to hail a ship. The junk 'came steadily forward to within hail- ing distance before she came up into the wind. This was proof, whether she was honest or not, that our appearance had do ceived her. She men on deck yelled and shook their fists as drunken men mi ht do, but at the first opportunity a voice hailed us. “Schooner ahoy! What schooner is that?" “The Revenge, C Apt. Thatcher, bound to Shanghai," answered the man aloft. “ What’s the matter aboard?" “Crew in a state of mutiny for the last three days. They have lashed the captain to the mast and driven me aloft." " What’s your cargo i" “ General merchandise 2" “ Any arms aboard?” “ Only a few muskets." There were a dozen men aboard the junk, but they dared not attempt to board, They chattered away among themselves for a while. and then the spokesman called out: ume. we mm a man More to guy a part, knowing that he wgnlgi b9 hgilg in_ English: .During the next three days we did not sight a sail of any sort. 'I‘hen early one morning we fell in with a lot of wreckage which showed us that a trader had been overhauTel and burned. “'0 were now to the cast of Formosa, and fifty miles off the coast. Men were set to work to ive the schooner the appearance of a venue in dis- tress, and under a light breeze we made slow headwa towards the island. It was about4 o'clock n the afternoon before anything ap- proached us, althou h we saw a number of native craft at a distance. Then a small junk came out from a bay about five miles off and headed directly for us. Everything aboard of us seemed to be at sixes and sev- ens. A man was lashed to the mainmast, to represent the captain, everything aloft was askew, and the seven or eight men on deck ‘ were seemingly drunk and having a high old 1 time“ We had a man aloft to play__a part, i The two boss pirates of that date were Shung-ll'ong and Chin-Lung. The first had a fleet of seven or eight craft, and haunted the sea from Spingapore north to the Tong-Kin islands. The second cruised from thence as far north as Shanghai, hav- ing his headquarters at Formosa island. He was reported to have a fleet of nine craft. That both were monsters we had a hundred proofs, and that both had grown rich and powerful it was easy to show by the long list of missing vessels hanging in the head- quarters tfiice. While we had kept our movements as secret as possible, we had no doubt that government officials had given us away, and that the pirates would be on the watch for us. To deceive them as far as possible, we ran to the south for three days, and spoke and reported to four ships‘ boundifor Canton. Then we ran toward the Philippine islands until we had a good oiling, when we headed up for Formosa to get\ acquainted with old Chin-Lung. _ In the year ’54 there was an association at Canton called “The Foreign Traders." It was composed of Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Frenchmen, Spaniards, and Bus sians, and numbered over sixt representa- tives. The capital represente amounted to millions, and the object was threefold. We had more powar with the bhinese govern~ ment than any foreign minister. We had rules and regulations regarding the tea trade. We could carry a paint by protests and threats. Every pound of tea from a district five hundred miles square had to pass through our hands. We filed many protests against the pirates and the laxity of the govern» ment in hunting them down, and were finally offiJially informed that we were at liberty] to take any steps we deemed best in the. matter. That meant we could fit out a craft . and go {or the rascals right and left handed. We had been anticipating this, and had acraft ready at Hong Kong. She was an American schooner of excellent model and large spread of sail, and we knew that she could outsail anything, native or foreign, we had ever ‘ seen in these waters. We armed her with a long tom and four 24 pounders, having bought the salvage of a French man~oflwar. Then we picked up a crew of fifty menâ€"all foreigners and sailorsâ€"and when we went out of Hong Kong we were prepared to give . the pirates Hail Columbia. I was nurser of ‘ the schooner, which was eilled the Revenge. and her captain was an Englishman named Wetherbee, who had served as a commission- ed officer in the regular service. The first lieutenant was an American, and the other officers were divided up among the other nationalities. We flew the association flag, and, while we had liberty to go for pirates, we were warned that any mistakes would be ' made to cost us dearly. l ' In {how lill’vblOk days comparatively noth- ing was known of Coins outside of a few sea- ports. Treaties were of little account, consuls were few and far between. Every merchant phip was expected to detend herself and the captain of every man ot-war had authority to bombard any town which refused to rent w his water and provisions. All nations were trading with China, but aside from a few seaports all China hate 1 all other people. At the docks at Hong Kong 1 could drink tea with the Chinese merchants. Haifa mileaway the people would have cut me to pieces. WhJ : the country wanted to sell its products it hated the men who bought them. While it wanted the goods ofuthor countries it (lee- pised the makers and shippers There is no doubt that the Chinese government tacitly encouraged piracy and, could the great in xss of the population have had its say, not a sin- gle foreigner wonli have ever been allowed 0 land on the coast. Cleaning Ont n (‘onple e! m; I‘ne- bootlnu Gangs That Infested the Chinese Sun». From the year 1852 to 1854 the Chinese sen. irom Shnnghei in the north to Singapore in the south, was infested with pirate craft, says a writer in the New York Sun. As for that nutter, the sea had been the cruisin - ground of pirates for a score of years prev onsly, but I mention these two years {or particular reasons. One was that 1 was en- gaged in a vigorous warfare against them, and the other that the close of 1854 witnessed the death of the leading spirits and broke up pit-hey a: n trnde._ FIGHTS WITH PIRATES. Our work had been done so promptly and well that it; struck terror to the henrts of all ovlldoers in those seas, and it was sovoml years before another not of piracy was com- mitted. The Chinese government returned its thanks to the association, ship-owners sent in contributions of money to express We were now ready to sail in search of Shnng-Wong. who had less power, but was just a1 great avillain. These two leaders had divided up the territory and compelled all lesser pirates to join them and come under their control. So. then, we had only two men to strike at to down the whole ‘lot. At the close of the third day, after healing for the south, we came upon the track of the piratioal fleet. A trader in woods and dye stuffs had been overhauled about a hundred miles north of the northern group of Philippines, called the Little Philippines. The crew consisted of three men and a boy, and the vessel had only part of a cargo. Shung Wong had boarded her himself, and although the crew Were native Chinese, he could not restrain his bloody hand. He demanded a sum equal to $300 in Ameri- can mon . There was only about $20 aboard, an he personally cut the captain's throat, had the others flogged, and went on his way to the bay of Luzon, which is on the vest side of the island of that name. We spoke the trader, and received from her terrified crew the incidents above narrated, and then shapzd our course for the ba . As luck would have it, an American ship called the Joseph Taylor was ahead of us, and as she passed down the coast was attached b the fleet about seven miles 03' shore. {Vs heard the rumpus about an hour before dayli ht. There was little breeze, and thou greatly outnum- bered, the crew of the ' aylor beat the pir- ates oil. At daylight the wind freshened, and we slid in between the junks and the shore just as they were preparing for a se- cond attack. We were no sooner within range than we opened on them. and, seeing escape cut oil", the fellows tried hard to lay us aboard. In thirty minutes from the open- ing of the fight we had run or sunk or run down every junk and disposed of every pir- ate, and only had four men Wounded in doing it. ‘ When we sailed out 6f the bay it was to look for the boss pirate. He was nearer than we thought for. At 8 o’clock next no ‘nz'ng we saw his fleet dead ahead, on its way back to Formosa empty handed. and by 10 we had the junks under fire. These werea braver lot of men. Knowing that they could not ontsail us, and seeming to suspect that we were an enemy, they closed right in for afight. It did not last long, however. We had one man killed by the fall of a block from aloft and three or four wounded by the bullets from their ancient fire-arms, and in return not a man of them escaped. In less than an hour’s fighting al- together we sent nine junks and two hundred men to destruction. Bitchery, was it? Well, call it so: but remember that in the previous twelve months the fleet of this old pirate had capzureu no less than ten foreign craft and six traders, and that every man, woman. and child aboard had been murdered. There was no senliment about Chin-Lung. He thought of nothing but blood and plunder, and he would cut a child's throat with a smile on his face. I Our oaptaid was lamenting the fact that he had not picked up one or two in order to secure information, when there was a row forward, and it was announced that a irate i had been found hanging to the 0 sins. When brought aft he was ready to do any- ‘ thing to save his life. His name was Mung- ' Hang, and he had good cause to believe that we would reverse it. He was the captain of the junk we had run down. and was ready to tell us all about old ChineLung. The bay was his rendezvous, but his pinnder was hidden on the coast near Foo Chow. There were barracks for man up the bay,‘ and thirty or forty men there at that mo- ment. They had captured a French brig several days before, and she was then at anchor in the bay wating for Chin-Lung's return, who was then up among Lioo Kiog islands with four junks to capture a large ship which had drifted into shoal water, but wasnot abandoned. If we would spare his life he would pilot us anywhere and prove his gratitude in any way. Shin-Lee took him in hand for a few minutes and then an- nounced that we could depend up in him. We ran into the bay, brought up alongside the brig, and sent forty men ashore to clean out the place. Not a pirate was to be seen, all having bolted for the woods. Every- thing which would burn was set on fire, and a prize crew was pm aboard the brig to navigate her to Hong Kong. She reached the port safely and our salvage money went far to reimburse the company {or its outlay, ml on The junks kept pretty well together. and when within rifleshot each one raised Chin- Lang's flu: and uttered a cheer. E reh had a cmpie of howi'z M, with which they open ed fire upon the schooner, but no harm had been done when we we re ready to spring the trap. At the word of command every man was on deck, the gun crews jumped to their stations. and things aloft were ship shape in a moment. Then we were round to get be tween the pirates and the bay and opened fire. ACninese junk is a mere shell. One solid shot went through them as if they had been paper. The poor devils were unnerv- ed as soon as they ssw the trap into which ‘ they had fallen, and devoted all their ener- gies to getting away. We could outsiil any of the jonks, but it was quick work with four 0! them. They were sent to the bot- tom one atter another, and as we came up with the fifth we ran her down. Our stem struck her full on the starboard broadside and cut her almost in two. She had at least thirty men aboard, and there was one long, despairing shriek as they went down to wat- ery graves. A few came up to clutch at the wreckage and beg to be taken aboard, but not one of them would the captain lend a hand to. Such as the sharks did not get hold of drifted out to sea with the tide. It was a fearful retribution, but these men were monsters. Inside of thirty minutes from the time we opened fire the fleet was at the bottom and at least a hundred pirates had paid the penalty of their crimes. ste fleet come out incue no sail eppaered on the horizon. and his words were epeedily ‘ verified. We had been gradually edging in- Ishore. and were not over five miles from the land, when we caught slyght of five junks coming out alter us. ' here was a good working bronze, and now, as was only na- tural, we began to claw on. By seeming to want to get away very badly, but by care- fully manipulatin the helm. we were seven miles off the land gelore the fleet reached us. We were satisfied of their intentions long enough before. It was not to help a vessel in distress. but to take advantuge of one almost helpless. certain, that in special regions of the sky which have been searchingl examined by various telescopes of success vely increasing apertures the number of new stars found is by no means in proportion to the increased instrumental power. If this is found to be true elsewhere, the conclusiofimaglbe that, aitcr all, the stellar system can e experi- mentally shown to be of finite extent, and to contain only afinite number of stars. In the whole sky an eye of average power will ace about 6,000 stars, as I have just said. With a telescope this number is greatly in- creased, and the most powerful telescope of modern iimee will show more than 60,000,- 000 stars. nltuues. Because I! It did the whole Inky wogh} be} bflage of st_ar_light: Th1; much in Ae teleeeo e power in increased we still find stars of einter and fainter light. But the number cannot go on increasing forever in the same ratio as w ith the brighmr meg- nitndee. become if it did the whole Inky “ the girls crowded like so many cattle, each with her bit of soap and grimy cotton towel, to wash. Dress waiets were loosened and necks, faces, arms and hands lathered with soap and rinsed as chance permitted. ‘ Set up against the wall in the inclosure, {with the faucet run through the partition, ‘was a barrel of ice water inscribed in big ‘ letters : ‘ Two cents will be collected every Saturday for ice water.‘ Besides this luxv ury every hand aye 12 cents for the use of the machine." n the a'ternoon the report- er got some more work, and nothing oc- curred until a girl was found asleep in one of the rooms. She was very sick, she ext plainerl, on being awakened. The girls said thlt, with her sister, she had begun work at the jenny factory that morning. Between them they had earned 27 cents and were ut- terly disgusted. By this time the reporter had raised her earnings to 41 cents. She tried to get the money. but was put of! to the 20511 of the month. On leaving the building she stopped in the salesroom to buy a jersey. She says: “One of. the firm waited on me. His magnanimity was sub- lime. The identical black jersey that I had received 5 cents for finishing was ofl‘ered to me at $2. I declined. By way of interest, 100 dczen garments are turned out o! the factory every day in the year. As near as I could learn the salaries average 84 a week but plenty of grown women are not allowed to earn over 28 cents a day.” A Indy, engaged by a. Cnioago paper to enquire into the pay and treatment of we- men employed in the shops of that city, adopted the method of going to the difi'erent factories in the character of a needy working girl. Her day's experience at an establish- ment where jerseys are mnuuhctured is given in eubatance as follmvs: By noon she had finished four jerseys, which were count- ed es worth 25 cent! by the forew0man. There were about 1'20 Women at work in the shop, and when they stopped at noon the reporter counted 37 girls with a lunch of dry bread, 15 with sandwiches, and 10 who ate cold pmcakes. T“ enty three girls were without any lunch whatever. The air in the shop was bid, but at noon the elevator atop ed running and nore of the girls left the nilding. Many of than rushed into the toilet room, which had one faucet oi‘rnn- ning water. “ Here,” says the writer, H fhn n:r‘n nâ€"AmA...‘ “L- -_ .____- _nLL‘, i- _-.â€" --â€"._uâ€" to the little ones {find Maia} than than of hard palms and rough, cracked fingers. .v- vâ€"u- ”v 'IV‘ 9 en. “’0 hear, in fancy, the (xchmatlon, uttered by an overwhelming chorus of femi- nine voices : “ No corsets I Give up our supporters?" and we make no reply save, ” Try it.” Kitchen aprons, gloves, and caps to be worn when sweeping, during and attending to fires, are essential to cleanliness and soft hands. “ Oh, I can’t bother with gloves 1" exalaims some one. How mu. h trouble and time are necessary to the slipping on of a pair of loose gloves, hope in a convenient place ! And how amply repsid is one for the infinitessimnl amount of both involved when she. takes up her sewing. Consider, too, how much more soothing she touch of soft hands The uniform insisted upon for women by those who direct gymnastic exerciaea in the only one appropriate lor housework, .0 far as the undergarments are concerned. No corsets, loose bands, and the weigh: of the skirt; suspended from the nbouldere, is the only forum]: for a comfortable working dru- ior woman that ever has or ever can be giv- en. “’0 beer. in funcv- the ”human”. . '-- Some softer, subtler shade of color 3631a, on the other hand, tone down the darkness of tho freckles and bring out all the pink that underlies them in the girlish face. The shades of blue that are cslled gobelin and porcelain are excellent in this way ; so are the shot ribbons in which a bright tint is partly neutralizsd by s deeper one. Corn- flJwer blue in two shades is | Very ssfe union to place near a doubtful complexion. The tender psllor of the paler blossom is so soil; that it cannot. injuriously affect the skin by making it look darker, and the decision of the deeper blue helps to give value to the light one. A fashion writer in the New York Mail and [fa-prise says :â€"'1‘he greet prevalence ol the color green in the costumes this summer in London and Paris is remarkable. It is in- troduced on white dresses, either in velvet or moire, as collars and culls, and occasion- ellv asash is added. It plays a similar part on black dresses, and those in the popular biscuit color have often finishing touches in green. This latter combination is one of the nest trying tothe ordinary complexion that could as devised. It brings out all the la- tent yellow in the cheeks. and makes even a p-xseiuly good complexion look muddy. Onlv the clearest and freshest coloring is unin- jured by the proximity ; but when the com! plexion is renliy trausp went and softly tinto with cream and rose, the efiec: is excellent. English women do not seem to consider the coloring that is likely to suit their faces, nor do French women set them a good ex- ample in the metter. 0 l8 oltcn sees a ireekled lace lackixg almost blaek because the hat or bonnet is trimmed with bright; blue or pink. _ 7 if 1 their gratitude, and when we cane to roll the whooner to the Chlneee government as \ cruieer, the compuny wu financially nheed. It was probsbly the bride“ cruise end 0.:- tended with the great“: reeulte recorded 0! en nrmed weakâ€"[Chicago MAN. FOR AND ABOUT WOJIEN. Dnuss FOR 'rm: Krrcusx. Womak's WAGES GREEN 13!.an Gowxs.