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It n InaL the) wen plea pra; To alon life. use 01' (ta W! Sh SMILE A LITTLE. Bails little. mil. 3. little. An ion go along. Not a‘ when lift is pleasant But who things go wrong. . 03m dolightg to see yquL frowning. Lama to hear you men; Turn tanning face upon her. Qutch tho dame will fly. With your grid to sup? As you drink Fate's bitter tonic. Sail. across the cup. OR for weary feet; Do not make the way seem harder By e sullen face. Mile 0 little, smile a. little. Brighten up the place. Smile upon your undone labor; Not for one who grieves O’er his task. waits wealth or glory; O’er In the passing years. Bails a. little, smile a. little, Em through your team. ' â€"E11a Wheeler Wilcox. The question has often been discussâ€" ed as to the relative amount of labor performed by the country and city hounwifo, and it is a question hard to inside. Each think they have the hardest tasks. when as a matter of fact. housework is much the same ev- erywhere and about the same routine must be kept up. The woman from the farm visits her friends in the city; the sees the modern little flat, with the hot and cold water, the gas range. flhe bath ,and all the modern conven~ lences with which to make work easy, end she gets the idea. that the city woman has nothing to do. She does not realize the time that must bespent each day in going to market; being limited for room in the little flat, only small supplies can be kept on hand and at least an hour each day must be spent indressing and going to market, Then the dust and dirt of acity is something terrible and it will creep in through every crack and crevice, making a daily sweeping and dusting, instead. of weekly cleaning, necessary. Then. too, her guests are more varied and not having the supplies on hand. the well stocked cellar to resort to, makes the duty of entertaining harder. On: the other hand the woman on the farm, has the milking and churning tp do; often the poultry to look after; the farm laborers to cook for and the hundred and one steps to take, neces- sary to keep the machinery of the farm home running smoothly. To each we would say. make your duties as light as possible. Use judgment in your work. Learn to apply the old saying. “Let your brains save your heels." To imagine some one else has an easier time than we do, does not lighten our tasks, and only results in making us disagreeable and unhappy. Women should realize, and with the realiza- tion except the fact. that their house- hold duties are something to be taken up and carried on cheerfully and un- oomplai-ningly. making the home happy and pleasant for all in it. RECEIPTS A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. Custard Puddingâ€"One pint of cream. two ounces of almonds. two spoonfuls of rosewator. orange-flower water. some mace; bod-1 thick and then stir in sweetening and ladle into china. cups and serve up. Crullersâ€"Four eggs Well beaten. t spoonfuls sugar. 4 spoonfuls butter. 1 tJewpoonjul of coriander; knead in flour until it is pretty hard; roll it thin as a knife blade; twist them and try in a spider. THE HOME. Plain Cakeâ€"Nine pounds of flour. three pounds of sugar, three ounces of quart} 0f milk, nine eggs and one ounce 0' 8mm; one gill of rosewaber and one gill of wine. Loaf Cake.â€"Twemty pounds of flour.‘ WU pounds of butter. ten pounds of‘ ougar. ten pounds of raisins, one pint of brandy. one quart of yeast, four nut- megs. a quarter-pound of cinnamon and four fozen of eggs. Roast Turkey or Fowlâ€"Ome pound of soft. wheat bread. three ounces of beef euet. three 6988. a little sweet thyme, sweet. marjoram, pepper and salt and a gill of wine. Fill the bird therewith and sew it up. hang. it down to asteady. solid fine, basting {Muently with salt and water. and noaat unit} a- steam emits from the breast. Put one-third of a pound of butter into the fgravy, dust flour over the bird and haste with the gravy. Serve up with boiled onion and carn- berry sauce, mangoes. pickles and col- Minced Pic of Beetâ€"Four pounds of beef. chopped fine and salted. six pounds of raw apples chopped also. one poun_d_ of best spot. one quart of‘wino 6r rich, sweet cider, one Bu'nce of mace to'dlapi-ive "you bf the pleas and cinnamon. 3 nutmeg. two pounds of mg the first to 3pm]: of it. rgisins; balm in paste thmquarters _..__.. WIDE} Daublul'uu. 8131:. Th. manna! of 8W8 in preparing m§vmfi that. for In Mani lnm will depend large- Brought clown four ducks and a I: w the condition of individud and can. at one shot HOUSEHOLD DUTIES. are tho ms. GRADING FOR A LAWN. and smiles are places andtonmbextent up: indiv- t idual taste. If thb area is naturally J undulating it will only be necessary to smooth over the rough portions. but if level a better appearance is often secured by giving a little‘ slope. ex- cept for very small yards. of the place and natural surroundings. In either case this area should slepe from all sides of the residence to a pOSSible, though terraces are necessary when the location is on a steep side hill. in which case they should be kept near the house or along the side of the lot. In general. the grading should be done in‘such a way thatoall surface drainage. as this is only required in ;.iaces where water is liable to stand a portion of the year. Preparation of the ground, however. is sutpremely im- portant. If the soil is poor, it should . be thoroughly enriched by a liberal ap- plication of well rotted manure, bone meal. wood ashes. or other good fertil- izer. The use of manure is attended with considerable danger of bringing in foul seed, otherwise it is one of the best fertilizers. The ground should be plowed or spaded not less than eight inches deep, removing all stones and other like material and the surface made as smooth as possible. PRESERVATION OF STOVES. If you wish your stoves to look like new when you come to put them up in the autumn do not leave them to rust in the outhouse. Dip a flannel cloth in coal oil, and, full to dripping, rub light- ly over every part of the stove. Then throw over it a lot of old newspapers, which pin to keep in place, then put an old piece of carpet or a big oll table cloth over that. .‘Jth you come to put the stoves up you will find that they are in perfect condition. and all you need to do is to rub them off with a rag saturated with coal oil and blacken. Unless you do not protect them thus. ’they will rust, and a rusted stove is a stove ruined. so far as beauty is con- cerned. If there is nickel plate about the stove it should be polished then wrapped in flannel, tied closely. lle ma Not Invent Illm. an In Popmarly Accepted. Every schoolboy knows Macaulay's famous figure of the New Zealander of some future age, when our civiliz- ation is quenched and a newer one established on the other side of the world, sitting on a broken arch of London Bridge, and sketching the ruins of St. Paul’s. It is not generally known that Macaulay, out of his wide read- ing. plagiarized the idea both from Gibbon. the historian, and from Hor- ace \Valpole in 1774 Walpole wrote in a letter 'to a friend, the following passage, which clinches the matter:â€" “ The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Bosâ€" ton, a. Xenoyhon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil in Mexico, a. Newron in Peru. At last some curious travel- ler from Lima will visit England an-l give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s." The following year he returned to the same speculations in another letter. and in 1781 Gibbon publisher] his " Dc- cline and Fall," containing this curious parallel passage apropos of savage life: “ Such reflections tend to enlarge the circle of our ideas and to encourage the pleasing hope that New Zealan-d may produce in some future age the Hume of the Southern Hemisphere.” The latest sensation in stationery is paper and envelope of the same size. Instead of folding the sheet of note- paper to fit into the enveIOpess. as civ- ilized nations have done since enve10pes were invented. the entire sheet is slip- ped into the outer covering without folding it even once. The paper is lin- en bond. mottled blue in tint, and comes in various sizes. A quire of paper is thirty cents. and a package; of envel- opes is the same price. The problem of getting these huge enveIOpes into the ordinary letter box is going to be a serious one of the new fashion. MACAULAY’S NEW Office Boyâ€"Yea. sir. Fmployv‘erâ€"Did you forget to me n- tion it to In!“ Office Edyâ€"No, sir, but I didn't want to dopriyp you of the p}ép§uro of the- The poet raves of the beautiful hair That crowns his fair idol’s head, And calls the man a prosy old bear. Who ignores its splendors in- stead» Yes, the poet of it makes a fad, Its glories in verse he will group, But like other mortals he’s mad If a strand of it gets in the soup. A CONSIDERATE «BOY. Enggloyebâ€"You were late this morn- SENSATION IN STATIONERY. It was this aim of my 11150. said the :3 man with fixatisflod sigh. POETRY VS. PROSE. GREAT. AIM. IALANDER. ‘Jaoob,” my mother would exclaim with solemn emphasis, “never marry a girl who cannot cook. Take one as cruel as Borgia. as bitter of tongue as Kantippe, as infirm of temper as Shakespeare’s Catherine, but take one who can cook.” fl‘h‘is had been drummed into my head from the day I began to cast sheep’s eyes at the girls, and when my mat- ernal parent came to the end of me she left it as almost a. parting injunc- Is it any wonder therefore that I set to wondering whether the divine Lucy Tompkins could fill my mother's requirements, and to hoping that she could! ’ Ah! but she was beautiful! Eyes of deepest violet and a com-5 plexion for all the world like that rose they call wh-te, but which has ever and always a flush of pink on its deli- Cate petals. But could she cook? By varwus devioes I sought to dis- cover this. I stayed to dinner at the smallest provocation. She cut the bread. I saw her, and it tasted better for the knowledge. the laid the cloth â€"she disappeared into the kit hen. where I laneed she, was making de- licious doughnuts and desserts, but 'when I remembered that Bridget and Mrs. Thompkins were also engaged therein I hesitated and doubted. “Can you cook. Miss Tompkins?" said I. as she came in with a plate of pickles. She burst out Laughing. “What a question; Can I cum»! What do you think of that, dad," she cried turning to the old man who sat making him- self backward and forward and fan- ring himself with his hat. “Ain’t that a. queer queston?” And the old man evidently thought it was, [or be roar- ed as if 1 had L'urown him down and has ticklmg 11141 into convulsions now and then gampmg, “(an bhe cook! ‘1 got 'as red as a lobster, but held my sales and pretended to be nearly dead \Vlth laughing myseu. but one day there came an oppor- tunity. Immusins and his \si'e were cailed over to ”limsville by the dam- gerous illness of their eldest son. '1 hey mud to take midget along nor anurae. It left Howdy at home but Lucy and her grandmother “h; was confined to an easy char with rheumatism. ‘11)]! _n w.- vâ€"HJ vâ€"w* _ “1’ ve got her mm,” Sad 1, "1’11 80 ovex to supper, and that’ll settle the Quest on.’ 1 rude over alout thus “‘vcv-v- B’cluck. “Luciyâ€"“Vzâ€"tâ€"s weedmg a {layer bed and I helped her. I kept. .b.qt1ng ’round about supper, but she dxdn’t take. _ __ 1 Vuuv- “She can't cook for shucks," saidx I to myself, “at she’d tell me to stay. But I'll put her to the test." So I pull- ed out my “am-h, and I says: “Well, Lucy. I guess I’ll have to be going! I'm afraid I'll mks my supper now before I can get home ” “ I’d ask you t ostay here." said she, “but really we humu't auyth ng in the house fit to eat." "01] I don't mind," I exclaimed, "anything will doâ€"" but, I strmped for she interrupted me by telling me \to come over the next day and micro I could say any mare she had started me off, telling me to be \nn hand at five o’clock sharp, so as not to let the supper get cold. A! 4". LL- tn! As I was going up the walk the fol- lowing day. dressed in my best, and resolved to pl‘opow that evening if the cooking was even passable. I saw Susan Safford come out. the 911v Vvv Susan Safford come out: the hawk door and go scudding down the path. She was a girl my mother had o'ten remmmended; the test cook in the neighhorhrod, but homelier than the law allows: VJJV wVâ€"v "Hello Susan!" I exclaimed, “where are you going?" - 0 1 (If 0 L j___‘_ "5v Jvâ€" °â€"â€"â€"O. “Home!" she exclaimed. “I just drop- ped in for a. visit. but I find Lucy too busy getting ready for company for me to stay."_ U -- _ .- A _‘z _- ”3Tb; Eé£}'gtru" I said to myself. re- -â€"-â€" ferring to Luvy, “She’s in that kitchen AFTER BUSINESS HOURS. just wading into cookery," and fiattar- . . . ed myself the thing was. about settled. “:36 Egrctwtlotggnncessâ€" A” Well, the supper Wt,“ "out of 8‘3“” Th: Tugâ€"Headed Girlâ€"Wait a as ”19 boys 3%“. 1. “3!an atmtpxitlt-o ube. Are my hats on straight? u -C-Jwvâ€"â€" ._ Well, the supper was “out of sight." as the boys say. I will not attempt. to describe that fried chicken, those bak- ing powder biscuits, that golden but- ter, that marmalade, honey, etcetera, etoetera. Susan Safford herself could not have beaten it. I proposed to Lucy in thirty minutes after. and she, figurativelyusmek‘ing, jumped at me. â€"____‘- Aâ€" AI‘“ NIL-IV 5.“, -- w__ " “J - a - “I \\ ant to get back, my dear." said I, where I can get one of. your sup- pers again. I have never had a meal that could hold a candle to that one you cooked for me the night I pro- 'posed." She laughed rather queerly. “You liked it. did you?" she said. “Liked it?" I (rejoined. “Let me tell you the truth. I had not made up my mind whether to propose or not up to that evening. I was afraid you' couldn't cook. and mother was always harping on that. You know I never could find out. for you always laugh;- ed when I broanhed the subject. but that night I played a trick on you. I got myself invited when nobody was at home to help you. and. wellâ€"my {darling you; were simply immense. I ‘ never had such a supper in my~ life. and you know the result. Here we are man and. wile?“ 'l‘wo modthé later we were on our way home from the wedding jowrney. ”JIRIEEEâ€"huie flown in the two of my mother’s injunction." I return- :d.t “Thank heave-n. you stood the as .” “But did I?" said BN3. “Did you!" I exclaimed. "W. didn’t; DIV m â€".-.â€" .. - 7 “And you mfifdn't have opined me if I had failed." shegaid. you gqt up that sqpfipr; 31» but that mortal man ever tastadr' “No,” she said.” I didn't." It nearly knocked me down. “No.” she repeated. “I did not. I heard about your hobby. I was afraid you were subjecting me to the test. and so I got Susan Safford to come over and help me out, and made her promise never, never to tell. Oh.,Jackl I suppose it was awful wicked. but I did want you so bad." ABOUT FINGER NAILS. :The nails 01’: two fingers never grow with the same degree of rapidity. The nail of the middle finger grown with the greatest rapidity and that of the thumb with the least. It has been computed that the average growth of the finger naih is one-thirty-seoond of an inch per week,or a little more than an inch and, a half per year. The gro..th, however, depends to a great extent upon the rate of nutrition, and during periods of sickness it is re- mr‘dwe Authorities differ with regard to the equaiity of: growth on both hands, some holding that the nails of the rigzht hand grow faster than those of the left, but others can perceive no differ- ?‘m-e between them. According to the rate of growth stated, the average time taken for each finger nail to grow its full length is: alout [our and a half months, and at this rate a woman of 70 would, have renewed her finger- nails 186 times. DON'TS ABOUT POISON. been ; Don't believe that death by poison “Wm is easy. The average self-poisoner sufâ€" It i fers the tortures of a. thousand inâ€" Park, fernDB. 3’0“! Don't believe there is any poison that cannot be detected. Every poison leaves some trm'e. {Mn't forget that if asolution of l'lrltfon evaporates one-1:;LLf the re- mamder is probably twice as :trnng. Alyays ‘stopxm‘r the_ botfle. Don't keep violent poisons In the house unless you absolutely have to do so. If you do, lo:~k them up. Don't save a. poisonous medirine sim- I’JY because you “may need it some "D051. idol‘V’xxriâ€"thhxibi an; or talk reck- lessly about it; or fancy that, you unâ€" derstand the subject. ARTIFICIAL TEETH. The use of artificial teeth is of an- oient origin. Two curious specimens of arti;i ial teeth from the Etruscan tombs. dating from four or the cen- turies before the Christian era. may be seen in tl.e museum of Corneto. on the coast of Italy, in the mouths of two young girls. On the jaw of one may still be seen two intivaors fixed to their neighbors by small gold rings, while in the other. the rings remain. but the artificial teeth ha.e fallen out. The teeth. carefully out. had. evidently been taken from the mouth of some large animal. l Dr. Blister has been swindled so much by ungrateful patients that he now de- mands pay in advance. A douLtful-pay- ing patient said to him: f Have a pain in my stomach every morning, Do you think, doctor. that it“ amounts to anything? Yes, 82, replied'the doctor, holding out his hand for his fee. Young Man-awhy don’t 'you not up and give this poor lady a seat? A Partyâ€"Huh! Guess not! Why, she’s my wife! Jones is a. walking encyclopedia. isn't, We'll, I should say staggering encyâ€" Friendâ€"Did your husband provide for that monument i1} his wilU '7 Uni-U “-‘I â€"m .â€" \Vidow:â€"\Vhyi. bâ€"f course, he did. You don't supposo, he'd have got such 3. mon- ument as that any other way, do you? At the annual social of the work people of Mamh Street Mills, Peehles, m which the employees share the pro- fits, Mr: Henry Ballantyne, one of the partners, said the past year had been the most successful they had ever had. A few friends have planted a row of trees along the margin of the stream which flows through the village past Carly 10’: houseâ€" the “little Kuhbach” of “Sysrtor Beast-tun," which stillgushes kindly by. The Paisley Trades Council, has, on the motion of Mr. McLennemappoint- ed a. committee to consider lebor ro- presentation on public schools, and also devise ways end menu to eefe- guard the interests of such repreeen- tativee in the event of their being vic- timized \VHAT’S M A R RIAGE FOR? MORE APPROPRIATE. TOOK NO CHANCES. HO\V IT HAPPENED. FROM TI LAND 0' U INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM 30m." SCOTTISH BRAES. Stray scrap“ of New: Pen-mum 5, lb leatherâ€"lamina «a Week 1““. a Few Words. Workmen’s houses are very scarce 1L ,Berwick. The Victoria bridge, acmss the Riv. er Ayn. will be Opened in a 1,“. days. Dr. Chalmers has been ("vied con. vener of the Lunacy Board of Glu Lord \Vemyss has now uses a. new thn Fire in the South Parish 81-11001. Pain. lpy, did damage to the amoum of £3, Tb Earl of Cassius has been admit, tad I, member of the faculty of advo- cubes. The members of the Andaman Flow. er Show Society recently supped sump- tuously on fish. Muirhead Tuvelers Company bu been registered it Edinburgh with I capital of £75.“. It is proposed to thuire Muirhead’s ' Park, at “'estfield. as a rerrcation grounds for Dalkeith. Stevenson, Ayrshire. saw matographe for the first month. Lord Roachery'a two daughters have been attending a cookery s'thuol in Ed- inlmgh. A handsome Julilee lamp has New Prected by Langholm 0011111115901)?“ in front of the Town Hall. The Gordon Highlanders’ Mum-019m Fund, inaugurated in Alerdeon. now stands at £1,728 23. 9d. The Spectator says that (‘1 first in efficiency of all the, 1 ities of the United Kingdom “In the Olden Times,” is the Iil‘e of a new book which Rev. Kirkwood Hewat, Fenwick, has in the press. Lord Roaehery Opened the P9 Palace, Glasgow, on Jarwzztry -- vnll not be Open on Sun i135 The “Liberal and Raldic'fla :‘u‘n'la- tion" and t1” "Liberal A550 inliufl.“ hot}! of Edinburgh, have. resofivei to 11mm. wick by Provost Jo‘gn Inscription, “It’s yer it iug preparations tn the Compensation Ax- them. The Second Division 1.33 rover decision granting A We Rattray, artist, a divorve fn wife. .The Institution is gr‘mtinu leehoat to Campbelltown Tie ‘ Argyll has given a bite. for a the Condition] of the Poor h an income of £1,576. 311:1 £1,699. “Brae! John Logan. theauthmmfthe 0‘ Yarrow." and some of the hymns in 58m Pmby'fictian Hymnal. died Dec. Balliachrach. Argyllshir“. “ many generations of the Sum- ”.V have tenanted, is now nu m or Ardroscadle. The sheriff of Ayrahir that a man who left a it was infecttd with cool; liable for the rent. Rev. Dr. Blair. Dunhlane will be nominated for We shin of the synod of the 1 n terian church of Scotland. Heat-Col. Mathias, of Highlanders, is said to in commended for the Distin vine Order. Mr. Angus Macdonald. km Merry Street School, Mom been admitted a Fellow .v‘ GeO‘OSicul Society of Loam Miss Brown. Victoria mm. Mum. t?“"n. has offered to H1» mnafi‘fl" non of Free St. George's. l‘umfrivs‘.‘ sun 0f £700 [or the pun-1 use of an 0" burgh, recently. He 0341 n Arcs. near Salem. rent £40 (10118 £44 118. 7d. “8.3 sold price of £11,000. builder. apprenticed his. business, and they learnm‘l like workmen. before thpy an interest. in Klrkwell, recently, 3 In the chair. It was unani tamed thst such a cluhhe form? E . um’ In 5 grocers window t The coal owne rs '9 Paisley Assoc in tion In Dawell's auction jut-flee fountain Lynn has invented and new three-lnrrel gun, 10 t1” Dum‘m rt HHS for [mprm'mfi ast the due- time hat NH on \Vhi 1‘ “'8 Duke toHIr Brae! hott- 31ml fin?" I did my farmi: could follow the without feeling all Yes, Dr. “'illiaml I world of good, commend them for autism. “er all other an bus establishing t m i marvel amq odem medical ac! ink Pills are 4 Airing the full illium.‘ Pink Pill ”Wt yourself I fusing any pill 1 Ngismred tr“ Dr. “’illiams' Pin M" a dozen hon lag them at on dung» for tha l: supply had lee-n other half damn 1 at! taking them I muons That dozen und you nee me m gnu-t and can do ; little sad I u work. but; rou‘ld name than a. coup] 1‘» least hit of w that would overc herone stormy ni talk from Covng I. distance of five .51: downby the use the terrible my legs. During agony [think I t medicines I could: 'hey did me no god dirbnrs. but my I u‘nldiminiQ-bed. I wont to adortur "there were any might at [east hei ing. The do~tnr Murray. you rannd can cure you.” tied and then [4 dignity it at la: or weeks in succc thout with the I other times I was the house by the I ”eject other tin Llly wet clothes. ti“ the ice had After stew years '1le upon me as discretion. and e' night. chopping ind ice. I When the timq _‘ when 08 [ch respect t