Thanks, dear Mrs. Grundy, for your advice about 40c MONSOON GEYLON TEA. I have tried [t, and must say it ts most delicious. . My, bmcband now says that breakfast is something to look forward to. Terrwwe ys The Coming of Gillian: A Pretty Irish Romance. i ie Te ee "No, not at present; we must no the matter for awhlie, at Lady Damer says, through 2 "uniess you consider that the only real kindness to Gil- lian would be to make her forget | ali this unhappiness, as she very s00n | would in change of scene and plea-, gures and excitement." "My mind is quite made up. Aunt deunneite," her nephew rejoins, cold- ty decicive, "and I shali leave town at once. I think the best thing I ean do is to rum over to Mount Os- aory for a month or two, and stay with Uncle Harry. He is complaining ef the lonel.ness of the Bice, you, say, in his letter to yo "Yos," she 6ays, Sontemptaoay, i "he misses his pet, George Aroler, I aaee say. Don't you think you had i al ning that highly-valua- blu person up, and restore to ali the heaste 'that are yearning for him?" "{ wisk to heaven I could," Lacy says, earnestiy. "I've never done anything of much good in my life,. I wish I could set this wrong right. I showldn't care what it vost me, if I could only do it. I'll go back ree Trelana, Aunt Jeannette, and stay With Uncle Harry for a month or two; he doesn't Lke me much, but I @hall be somebody, to talk to, and he rates mos. respi ct.ully important, @he only repeats more thoughtfully-- "I dua't know, I'm sure, but they are queer. Yuur Gillian is queer. She --and, you knuw--upon my word-- he ia not quite fit to be left -- by himeseli in that ae eae Hace. My leave expires in June you know, Aunt Jeaunette, and 'then i think I shall @O back to Bombay.' "Very well. Do as you please," Lady Damer says ia u hard, mechan- feal voloe, staring before her with ayes o: angry despair "] am sorry for your disappolnt- ment in tits affair, aunt,' Lacy says, gently. "1 am pot surry for myself fn the least. Good night!" "Good-night," she retorts, curtly. But whea he fs gone she gives way to her pent-up feclings of rage, and grief, and bitter disuppointment, bit- ter almost as an tu her self-willed arrogant ma Late in cae afeehit she is sitting there still by her fire, wearing her brain with plots, and plans, and re- solves, and elaborate sovheming to atiain the end ehe desires and is re- solved on as firmly as ever. "Onee he returos to Mount Os- sory, | shall make some urgent rea- gon to leave London the week after and take her with me!" she says, with muttered vehemence. '"'And once I have her safely buck there in my power, I willoompel that girl to mar- ry my aephow ii go any lengtlis to do MH. aud nowtI muet go to bed ¥ try to sleep," she says, weurl.y. 1 feel sometimes as if this worry is bringing my death-warrant !" CHAPTER XXXVUL "Engien gira are so queer, he w Mre Veane gays, thoughtfully, ney're just a8 queer as Can ve :" But when Mr. Deane inquires the reason for this wciahty statement of hie brilliant Minties opiniuns, wheh is a sweet little thing, only she is so edd aud ehy. Why, i can't get one bit of confidence out of her about her lover, or her eee or her trousseau, er anyth "Bue doesn't 7 ig a well, you gee, my love," Mr. Deane says, apoio- getically. **I am gure you will find her @ very affectionate, amiable_ little girl by and by." "Oa, she (* affectionate and amiable | arching her y "too ae io Geta 6 gort of 'Jophtha's daighter' business i Then, 'a little abruptly, and with ; a sert of catch in her breath, look- lng away from her husband: t's a love match, isn't it? She ; Bh ge him to ploass herself, she * Sovtataly, my dear," Mr. Deane says, rather reproachfully. "Do you think I would countenance anything but-a marriage of pure alfection '" | Mintie looks at him through her es. not,' she says, with a} swift little sigh. Y heart and ali that,' like Mrs. Skew- | ton, aren't you, Herbert?" an i . Deane says, | witl ntry; "I haven't pin 'heart left. I have, given it all to er AM Tight, old gnan," eho says a 3 | fe take care of it," and then off in her silk tea-guwn --b raitens. like confection of bro- Gatied silk, soft white lace, and pale pink ribbons--to her step-daughtor's . rocsns. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY yor fi Tablets. Av! money if it we oy oti | young governess, "Ror you m de y reom uantiaes, Gillian "ethos " she says, coaxingly. "I can't stand her ladyship, except at company times, and Ican"t think how you get on so sweetly with her "Lady Damer is always polite and amiable me. I have no cause to our | behave disagreeably toward her," Gillian says, in a careful, measured sort of way. " Haven't you?" Mintie says, look- ing keenly into the girl's white face, now almost transparent in deli- eacy, and with deep purple shadows oe her eyes. "Then, who is it cee sich unamiably to you ?" weWhe do you mean ?" Gillian says, tinebinge deeply, a Nash of pride also making her soft, dark eyes brilliant and burning. "T mean,' re. Deane says, calmly and Bis rll laying her two Jewelled hands on Gillinn's shoulders, "who Is it or) what is it that is making you look like that ?" and she turns the wan, girlish face toward the toilet mirror. Gilllam wrests herself free from Mintie's touchy "T really cannot tel) you," she says, coldly and prou ly. "Lady Damer euys I require tonics and-a southern cli- mate. Perhaps ergs is one reason why I look wretched "Perhaps 60,' ' Mintia says dryly. "I wish you'd trust me, Gillian. I'll be a good friend to you, though [ am your stepmpther. "You are very kind to me," Gillian eays gratefully, with a little oe glance at the brilliant belle; "b there Is nothing i. eo with me that you couHkl. al Mint "Now that's swee ot 'of you! "in Mintie says, with her arm round Gillian, "It sounds real nico.of you to call me . sister Agatha--'Gathie,' we cail her--{s just your ag>. Id like to think you were like Gathle to me." And to Gilian's great surprise two big, bright -- dim Mintie's bril- llant hazel ey * You're not "trotting about Captain Lacy going back to Ireland, are you, Gillian?" she asks, in a- whisper. "I don't belisve you are in love with him from what you sald tho first night I saw you; so I don't think you're fretting because your wedding is not coming off yet awhile. He told Mr. Deane you w ere not, either of you, n any hurry.' - No, we are not in the least pi Gillan says with a slight ver, "and assure yor fam not treating in the least, dear Mintie, because Captain Lacy is going back to Ire- land.' "Hum!" Mintle says to herself-- "no thoroughfare" in that direction. I guess T'll m: ~ out a line through an- other sectio "No, I dic mn t think you were," she admits, slowly ; ' 'though ITheard you Say yesterday evening you were never so happy in your life as when you were in Ireland." "Oh, yes! I was very happy there," Gillian says, hurriedly and confusedly, -- about restlessly. hey are h nice people--Irish people, you now, and it is a lovely country, though it makes you sad to seo the waste Jands, and the for- saken and ruined cottages, and the sorrowful, neglectful look of the ea so deserted and silent, ex- cept on market days.' "Hum!" Mintie says wardly; "queer reasons happler than she life." again, in- for being ever was in al "Yes; Irish people, when ---- nloe, they are awfully nice," she Says aloud, with an absent cordial, so tender-hearted, in Intelligence and sympathy, are they not? Oh, yes; I knew sucha sweet wom'n once, an Irishwoman; indeed, she was our governess when we were girls--my elder sister's gov- erness. I mean; I was only 4 little tot of seven or eight. Such a preney young crenture she was, too -- young widow. She was with us toe two or three years and then died quite suddenly of inflammation of wr lungs one severe winter. We air. "So so quick |; pat on mourning for her, I remem- ber; m?mma and father wero dreadfully sorry 'to lose her." "Indeed," Gilllan says, hot tndeed mrrch heeding the story of the 50 "Yes," Mintle says, thoughtfully, "my sister Sophie--Mrs. Wilton Har- Yard she is--has her photograph. She was a lovely young creature, I have heard my mother say, not the re- gular Irish type of beauty, though, for she was very fair, with golden hair and wplendid violet eyes." "Tt love folr hair and blue eyes," Gillian says, sux enk ta ptali agi erat orves. Ld ¢ is fair,' 'Gitian answers, 4 es, | gareleiy "I never think of Captain as an ee. though." i be is too un "Bente: poi an oulirgunde Mrs. « oaimiy } "She case for him." decides Mi Minti. lea must som iy: F Lacy is vary os for an " Gillian ia we vere well a wees bred, po tay 2 and ke Is 60 kind-heart Land crooked straw be y else--I wonder io he is, Ever where he is? In Pretend, I sw ay: bas Bl you will go over to Ire- land and stay with the Damers by whenyou-are oT Gil- she asks, Careless "I was just oe if you sno not like ke a sh sac "box there, eae cutee h, Dar- Lip Snel do you call that village Lady De said was near oun Ossury eee. that you could spend a sg of months of every autumn not at all," Gillian says, should t care for o back to Ireland a "oh," Mintise cecaen, then he was in Ireland or he is there now. And in any case there has been plenty of misery over the affair on one side or the other.--I Lady D the 'ples she looks as if she was a young love af- -- 3 'the glances vityin ngly at Gilllan'e itttie Shite hands, trembling and twitching in her lap, while her color ebbs. and flows, and Mintle comprehends that the droopsa eye- lids and forclbly-compressed lips are to 'conceal the passionate emotion that tho girl will not betray. "J should just like ta put things square to spite my lady," concludes Mrs. Aramintha malicjously, to her- self. "It would be good fun to make her mad!" It needs, however, little additional vexation to complete the tale of ady Damer's fist of fallen schemes, pign ted hopes, futile pretenses, and opeless resolves, as the week closes with Captain Lacy"s departure for Resolutely still, she admits open- ly of no defeat or shadow of de- feat. She smooths over the defer- red wedding, and the bridegroom's abrupt return to Ireland as a Ctri- vial delay, and the merest business causes for a flying visit. "In all probability Mr. Damer will return with Captain Lacy," sie says, blandly. "He would have come over js unfortu- Ireland on conyected with the agent . resigpved _ his situation in the autumn, and there is such a difficulty in filiing that post, ou know, Mr. Deane, in our unhappy country. Englishmen do not care for the situation, and Irishmen are often not quite s suitable for it. "Indeed ?"? Mr. Deane says, with a look of great interest. "That is just what I should suppose. Ah, land in Ireland is a ticklish investment, Lady Damer. And the agent that Mr. Da- mer had; what did you say he left for, Lady Damer? What reason, I mean ?" They are at dessert during this conversation, antl "Lady Damer is daintily pealing a Tangerine orange, and she looks up smiling, with a strip of the delicate peel clinging to her fruit knife. "Well, really'"--her smile grows ver ight as her eyes rest on Gil- lian--'I think the real reason he went, Mr. Doan, was that the young man wanted--as the servants say-- 'to better himsell.' He assigned other reasons, of course, but that, I be- lieve, was the real one. A chance of a better opening and better pay was offered him, and he seized it at once. --_-- ungrateful, - but mardly blame him. Gillian, hate peeled this dear little Tanger- ine for you," and she offers it play- fully on the tips of the silver prongs. oN hardly blame Lim," in 5 ays, a -g~ye "though one doesn't like to be left In the lurch, as the saying i. Was he your husban d's agent very long, Lady Damer ?' "Oh, yon venrat" shie says, smiling and shaking her head; "and Mr. amer has n such a 'good friend to him, too! Ah, well! Won't you have the Tangerine, Gillian, darling?" "No, thank you." Gillian says, » with a Sonilog lip and ris- ing, angered e ey that tg schapatetal of you, my "her ladyship retorts; "though er quite as bad as Mr. Damer's agent ! Her steely ayes giitter and the edge of her white teeth gleam as. she looks steadily at Gillian, whose whole fair fans is one flame of proud wrath. She seorns to be cowed into silence, and 3 dreads to speak. "The absent are always in wrong, Lady Damer," she says, her delicate face aglow with courage, with passionate loyalty still, poor child. "Mr. Archer never spoke r. Damer but as his best and most valued friend." re vom, perhaps, dear," Lady Da- ays, smoothly, her eyes flit- oy fiercely, her ~_-- withering into a sneer. "But I t to say George Archer did not always utter the true sentiments of his heart in his professions. In fact, we knew, dear, he was false!" And Mintie, watching her step- daughter's face, sees it- blanch and droop, as with a mortal pang, and the quick-witted belle Americaine utters a mental ejaculation. "Gracious!" Mintie pth to her- self, "It's as clear as mu CHAPTER XXXIX,_ And now, after: her nephew's de- parture, Lady Damer, reso'ute and obstinate as ever, carries out, in her own person at least, an Bssump- tion-of the belief that the engage- ment between him and Gilllan re- mains intact, , To Mr, Deano indeed she has con- fided « fear that there has been Stops the Cough ana Works (Mf the Cold. re od hy a cold cents, - cille_ between le or marr peop! nischief; so we must lish Young creatures alone, until they make up the'r litth d.f- ferences their own way," she says, with a maternal cort of goutia wis- dom and tienge. "There was a tiff and tears, 1 know," at says, smiling sorrow!ully ; "and poor Bing- ham vowed and abjared in a most tragic manner to me in hontieine- im, 'My dea wait intil Gil to her owa sensible. little self, and to her own sense d kindness; and I trust you will endeavor to return Nid lly y Eden Be; creatures ! pba the real trombles of life, Mr. ne. "What was the quarrel about ?" Mr. Deane asks, with lowering brows. "She doesn't look well, Lady Damer--GilHan doesn't look well at all; and Mintie--Mre. Deane-- re- "-he adds, impressively. she vn rig with pA al reins noe and with a displea: on haughty Seantuaanor: . believe it y on the part of my n ' Mr. har fare pg yd ! W can he Deane, | of my be think- ing of ? why. aid you not tell me before, Lady Damer? I might have sar matters straight between them." When I. could not?" inquires rather ughter ed ls and hér proud lip, and the esol, | sarcastic smile of her steady bright eyes quell the worthy gentleman's attempt at reyeginc "al tine or his parental rights. "Gill s, I believe quite innocent and «pe tod of any | a cause for her lover's displsa- | sure," she goes on smoothly; "and I believe my dear boy Bingham is quite as innocent and blameless of everything but a warm-hearted young lover's oatural unreasonable- | nese. Gillan was very much ad- mired jn Ireland, she is such ex- quisite style, so quiet and modest : and sweetly well-bred, with that! pure, pale style of beauty wit bn s0 much higher than the every-d | flashy, actpess-like style of ieee one sees in the shop-windows"--with an obliquity of actent that directs | this speech full against Mintie--"she quite turned heads and stole hearts when she .was in Ireland; and some of her admirers have come across her path, and of course her dnase's | path, here in London. Hence misun- | derstandings and reproaches, and pouts, and tears, al trugic speeches. But all that will not prevent her from being ee of Fernard ho the years to com "There is ccmething ander it all, hs Mintie says, shrewdly, to_ herself. "The more I see of my lady the less I like her or trust her. She eo out badly,' as father would ay. " "How near is Captain Lacy to the title, Lady Damer?" she asks, _ in- quisitively. "The present Earl of Ferrard has a son, Viscount Mount- cashel, hasn't he?" (To be Continued.) DOMESTIC stIeNtt A Six Months' Course for London Girls. RESULTS OF GOOD COOKING. [From the Queen.] It is exceedingly satisfactory to note the recent action of the London Ceunty Council in offering two girls who are about to leave the elemen- tary schools sound practical instruc- tion fer £1x months in all 'the various bra ot domestic economy, whi-h would include cee laundry work) needlework, m.knog aud house hold cleaning. Thie instruct.on is to be glyven at one of the thirteen do- mestic economy schoois which are now working in connection with the Technical Instruction Board of the Councll. The organization appears to have been arranged on the most common sense principles. It is not exceptionally to be gaimed high places in their schools; but the scholarships are of- fered to the girls who are about to leave the elementary schcols w-thout | any reference to previoug examina-'1 tions, and they will be given to girls who have been selected by the rd from amongst those nominated by the managers or head teachers. fate lg ag ig the arrangement that should made. lt is not the girls who e, 'the elite of the schoal who are to reap these advantages, but the general body, and the Iinstruc- -- thus offered will be the means Introducing amongst the poorer Siameee that paerwiouee of the ach pee principles of domestic economy | of which they are so lamentably fel ant. Ags a rule, tle poorer wo of this country at least, though Sak in France, do not know how to make the most of the food tynat they are able to purchase. It is cooked in a manner which renders it unattrac- tive, and often innutritinus. These evils will be remedied in the homes of those girls who pass through the have to cook their o wa wash their own clothe, exs5eu- other given wil' not bea mere sma but six months' continuous tion in matters connected household management, wit doubtless enable the to become nein of the sald et. tt is pec? that those ls who enabled to accept a further conmer s es instruction at the end of the months wil > 80 apprenticeshins 1a cxpeere smakl by several o e . y co) a 'Too much cannot be cold in in of thidee" proposals. who have gone through thie at Cate daly life, which should enable them, even under unfayorable condi- tions, to ensure well-cooked,whole---- -- some meals and well-oredered house- holds for their families. The good will not be confined to those who are the recipients, but will naturally spread widely amongst their friends and abinaintances. If one working man finds that his fellow-laborer, earning the same wages and living under the same conditions, obtatue better cooked and. more nutritiongs food than himself in consequence of his friend's wife having been - structed in one of these courses,there is no doubt he will desire that the advantageous knowledge should be ead from one family to the ether, and the knowledge of good cookery 'and sound domestic economy may, thus be extended. Th Is 80 range will possess further advantages. They will me- cessarily bo in the greatest de- mand as domestic servants and he able to command higher wages. At resent not one girl in a dozen iM the working classes has the shen er idea that boiling a joint of meat renders it hard, towgh, and fbroes, whilst cooking it at a lower tem- perature renders it sapid, tender, more natritious, and eatable. 1ey are not aware that time ie ing than heat. C thot salting a plece of meat removes t least one half of its nutritious ele- mente, which are wasted. Such points as these would be taught in a school, and illustrated by practice, and the girls so tanght would wot only be more valuable servants, bat eventually become better wives. ese classes are not new. Several year? since the commissioners pointed by Parliament to invest districts, in Mes. Baird's school at Gartebersie. stated that "the girls in three months ere taught plain cooking, washing, and cleaning, epoeen to prepare them pe serv r make them useful to their bes at home. They are all instructed in Tegetmeier's Domes Economy at school, and. on going to service after such a course a gi#l would probably get £1 more w for every half year's service"; ib it is in few country schools where such a useful organization has-been arranged. It is satisfactory to know that the Technical Board of the London, County Council are offering three hundred of these scholarships to girls who are resident in Londoar, and of not less than 14 years of age, or who have passed the seveath standard in reading, writing, and arithmetic, the scholarships betng open to those who are school, or who Have left fer noniinations must at once sent in on forms which can be had or application at the office of the board, 118 St. Martin's-lane. Oppe- laudable action of the of the Technical Board of the Lon- don County Council. Mater's Olvgies. A girl who had been very clever at college came home, the other 5 aod egald to her mother: "Mo I've graduated, but now I wiph take my Beyohology, Sat Bie dope "Ju minu the sucsbae: ss Be ewes ap rabaed tors you a thorough course in roastology, #Sogy, elitchology, darnology, pa ay and general domestico : put on your apron and p NX kk that chicken." English Spoken by 116,000,000. The place of English among the cider languages has just been dicated by a French statisticlan, who says English is now the moet widely spoken language in the wopld. rman third with "30, 0CO 000, and French next with 58,- 000,000.