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bh> 'fwf LADIES* DEPARTMENT. Opposed to CurUln L?ctnr?*. Speaking of wedlock, a poet says: "Marriage whon rightly understood, Gives to the virtuous and the good A Paradise below." These are beautiful lines; but they do not oiactly fit the ease when a man returns home in tho eveniug, and is met with the salutation, "Is this the timo of 'night you come homo, you good-fornothing thing? You are a nice man! "Why didn't you tell me you were going 'to act in this way before I married you? Why don't you como into the house? Do you want to stand there all night, blinking at me liko an owl? Why don't you taP o off your clothes and sleep on the doorstep? You don't care whether I catch sold or not, standing hero with nothing on. No you don't care whether I do or not, you arc"?But why continue.?Boston Courier. New Fashions In F?a(her Fan*. Somo lovely now arrangements of leather flowers, calling themselves fans, arc a great novelty. They arc in the dyrc-bird fan shape, with tortoise-shell handles, and are composed entirely of quill feathers dyed to imitate leaves and carved and bent into requisite form, i 8o:ne resemble a cluster of large, white lilies, with green leaves, others large, Ted poppies, or yellow lilies and tulips. A bow of ribbon is placed at the junction of the handle. Some are all in white, pale yellow, or exquisite shades of blue and pink, with a few feathery marabout aud ostrich pluincs introduced amo:ig them. Several of the painted lace fans are bordored with bands of eurled ostrich feathers. Red gauze and lace, with painted designs, and black, edged with a row of good-sized red poppies touched up with gold, are favorites of the day.?London Queen. When Should Ulrli Marry. Louise M. Alcott says in the Brooklyn Magazine: My reply to the important question, "When shall our young women *iarry?" is from 23 to 35, as few girls are *cady for the duties of married life before then, cither physically or mentally. Many are never fit, owing to the serious 'defects in our modern education aud Inherited ills. "When shall our young men marry," Is a still morfl imnnrtiinf ntir>c+ir?ri ftut X vl~~ Blind, because the sins of the fathers visited upon the children are too often the cause of the feebleness which is usually attributed to the mothers. When young people are wisely prepared for marriage, and taught its sanctity, it will cease to be the leap in the dark it now is to both - parties, and the beauty and vigor of youth mil make it what it should be?safe and kappy. As teacher, nurse, author and confidante to old and young I have had many opportunities of looking behind the curtain, and am convinced that books on the health of our boys are much more needed than any addition to the library of advice our poor girls are supplied with. Begin at the right end, gentlemen, and do not visit upon Eve's daughters the sins of Adam's sons, making it unsafe to marry at all. Tight Lacing Again. "Is it true," asked a Baltimore Sun reporter of one of Baltimore's best known modistes, "that tight lacing is coming ? i ? hi to iasinon again*" " Yes, it is true. You see it is fashionable for ladies to be broad shouldered and small waisted, and customers of mine whoso clothes I used to make from twenty-three to twenty-seven inches, waist measure, now have them fully five Inches smaller. Only a year ago a natural waist, measuring say from twenty-five to twenty-seven inches, was considered graceful and pretty, which it really is, but now it is not fashionable to measure more than from eighteen to twentythree. Of course, the lacing is done by means of the corset, and sometimes I nearly break my fingers trying to fit and close basques that are so tight they will not meet without an effort. While everything else must be very tight in the waiBi, urcaatsi ana fullness- about the shoulders arc striven after, as they serve, by contrast to intensify the seeming mallness of the waist. Do I use padding? Oh, yes; lots of it. The hollows between tho shoulders and under the arms arc filled out with it, and in some cases one whole shoulder is made of it, notably where one shoulder is higher than the other. Everything must be kin tight these days, and if one has not a good figure it must be made good. A favorite method of procedure is to fit first on the figuro a lining, on which the figure is built out with cotton wherever needed. Over this is fitted a second lining and then comes the dress material." A. Lad/'* Equipage. Rose Eytinge writes in the New York Mail and Express that it is a very pretty irrVlfr ir% fir>A a TurWioVi Inrltr nf ronlr f aV-r , her afternoon drive. This is always in n coupe or clarence; never in an open car oriage. First comes the "saice" or rufixing footman, always a tall, lithe, handsome young Arab, with baro legs am' ieet, clothed as to body in a thin while flhfrt, with wide, open flowing sleeves; ash of gay colors around his waist, hi thead covered with the inevitable * 'tarifeoosh," around which is rolled a gr<\r< turban of soft white muslin. Armed wit; ! ;. / ... . 'v''; V a long, light staff ho waves it in graceful curves and evolutions in the air as h< runs in advance of the horses, clearing * the way. Then come in great state th< eunuchs?two, four or six, according tc the rank of the "pasha" to whom be- rj longs the cortcge, and then, lying back as only an Oricnta^ woman can, is a soft, lovely, fat crcature, with gr"at, languishing black eyes, whose softness and bright- ^ ness arc enhanced by the "kolil" with ^ which brows and lashes are colored. c They shine like great stars above the ^ white "yashmak" which covers the lowei ^ portion of the face. Sometimes may be ^ seen a little, soft dimpled hand, with f) palm aud finger-tips rosy with "henna." j. The whole woman is enveloped in clouds of soft, white drapery, with here and there a great jewel gleaming. The "saice" flics on with his light, swinging pace and musical cry. The eunuchs ride rapidly and well, but with great "state and ancientry." Then the carriage bearing Fatiina appears?a mass of white draper}', a gleam of jewels, a flash of dark eyes, a vision of beauty I nnd then ?a cloud of dust. Fnntiion Notea. Chantilly will be worn by ladies. Jewelry of all kinds is much worn. "Wash goods are much worn this season. Very dressy bonnets are made of colored crape. New silk goods arc striped with seersucker effects. Black silk stockings with lislo thread feet arc popular. Bonnets entirely of jet are in high fashionable favor. Jet is as prominent as ever in millinery and dress trimmings. A large bow of white ribbon decoratcs the handles of stylish sun umbrellas. Light summer corduroy is used for Qlrirf a wifll lllVhf tttaa! nn /\wnr/1*?nqcna " WW ! HU ai^uv IT VVftV>U UTVIUIVOOVO* | 1 Black and colored velvets are used for trimming cotton as well as wool dresses. Street costumes of wool are preferred, although dark and black silk3 are also used. Many round waists are worn, but pointed and postilion basques are equally favored. "Woven tucks in woolen robes are among the attractive novelties of the season. The most fashionable combination of color in millinery is heliotrope and moss green. White canvas, chuddah and serge are combined with black velvet for demitoilettes. Many of the newest lace mantles are j very long in front and without sleeves. 1 iiiey are proiuseiy trimmed with beads. The cardinal jackets, trimmed with black mohair braid, so popular this sea- . son, are called "pink coats" by the English. : 1 Soft vesta of crinkled Japanese crape j are very stylish with any silk costume, -j and may be either in white or a delicate ] color. j Woolens of dark blue, Havanah t brown and black, hair lined with white c ire made up into tailor suits with soft c white wool waistcoats. t Half-inch stripes of red, white and 1 blue with a black hair line between are ^ seen on liffht cliallie dfi 1ainc? infnnHwl T for seaside frocks for young girls and little people. Ribbons are worn in profusion, and nothing is prettier than ribbon tastefully managed. The fashionable ribbons of the season are striped gauze and satin, or faille with a pearl edging like lace. Narrow striped challis de laines are made up to have the width of the stuff form the kilt of the skirt, so that the stripes run horizontally, not vertically; but this style is not arbitrary. Light wraps of cloth are very popular, and some styles are braided oi; embroidered around the neck and sleeves and across the ends of the fronts, and need no other trimming save ribbons to tie at the throat. n Vests of white or fancy linen or duck j are worn with stylish tailor-made dresses. 8 With these the pale linen collar and cuffs E are arbitrary, and a tie of silk or satin, not unlike those worn by gentlemen, is G worn with this very mannish costume. ^ Light colored merinos and cashmeres t make pretty, inexpensive curtains for 1 inexpensively furnished rooms. They i may be bordered with wool broche or c bands of woolen stuff of a dark color, j plain or figured. t If the craze for rough goods suits, 5 "stable clothes" as the French call them, 1 has done no other good service to the 1 woman's world, it has certainly helped 1 to banish the unnecessary wearing of svlk c \nd satin in the street. * ' I A Promising Man. 1 Jones?Have you heard from Smith itcly? t Brown?No; I think he is out West t somewhere practicing law. ^ Jones?He was a promising young fel- < ow. < Brown (with fervor)?Promising? I 1 should say he was. He borrowed $10 1 from me five years ago and kept promising mo he would pay it back up to tho { lay he went away.?-Graphic. t<: ? "v"t/'A''' '.* ' ' ' CONNUBIAL KNOTS riiat Have Been Tied in the White House. Che Noted Nuptial Entertainments in the Federal Executive Mansion. But eight weddings have occurrcd in he President's house at Washington, and Tyler, who was married in New York .itir T.I~ -I CM 4 2- i.1.. -_l . .?vj .u ouiiu, xott, is Liiu oniy i-resiucnt vho over took a bride of his own there, ryler had a daughter married while lie vas President, lost a wife and married mother nearly nine months before his erm of office concluded. The first marriage which ever took >lacc in the Executive Mansion was hat of Miss Todd, of Philadelphia, a elativc of President Madison's wife, and vas solemnized in the East Room in 811. The bridegroom was Edward B. lackson, a Representative in Congress rom Virginia, and a great uncle of stonewall Jackson. This Mr. Jackson, vhile in Congress, fought a duel with Hr. Eppcs, another Virginia Congressnan. A child born of this first White j louse marriage was named James Madison I raekson, and a few years ago there were nany old people who remembered him. The next marriage within the same j juilding was that of President Monroe's j laughter Maria, the bridegroom being ler first cousin on her mother'3 side, Mr. Jamuel L. Gouverneur, at one time Postnaster of New York. This wedding oc:urrcd in March, 1820, and was a very landsome entertainment, though but a imitcd number of guests were invited to t, including only the attendants, rcla ions and a few old friends. After the :ercmonjr the bridesmaids were dismissed mtil a week later, when the bride revived company at the White House, and ler mother gave up to her the place of lostess and herself mingled with the citzens present. The late Mr. Samuel Gouverncur of hashing ton was born in the White Flouse of the marriage above noticed. 3e died in Washington a few years ago, md his widow and daughters still live i ;here. As above mentioned, Mr. Gouverncur vho married Miss Monroe in the Execute Mansion, was her cousin, and the lext couple wedded there were also cou;ins. This marriage oceurrcd in the 3Iue Parlor in 1826, John Quincy Adams jeing President, and the couple united vere his son and private secretary, John Vdams, an elder brother of Charles Francis Adams, and Miss Helen, a niece >f Mrs. Adams. The wedding occurred n the evening in the Blue Parlor, in the presence of a very distinguished company. Two weddings occurred in the Exedti;itre Mansion while Jackson was Presilent. First was that of Miss Marv Lew 8, daughter of Major Lewis, General rackson'a intimate friend and companion n arms. Miss Lewis married M. A1)honso Joseph Yoer Pageot, a native of Martinique, -who was secretary of the French Legation at Washington in 1836 ind 1840, and was minister from France o this country from 1842 to 1848. The >iher marriage was that of Miss Eastcn >f Tennessee, his niece, aud Mr. Polk of he same State, a kinsman of President 3olk. Old residents recall that this lady vas to have married Lieutenant Bolton ?inch, of the navy, an Englishman by )irth, who in 1833 had his name changed >y Congress to Bolton and died in 1849 is Commodore "William Compton Bolton, A wedding reception took place in the tVhite IIouso also in Jackson's adminisration, -when his adopted son, Andrew rackson, Jr., brought his bride, who vas Miss Yorke of Philadelphia, daughar of Peter Yorke of that city, whom he lad married in her father's house there, o visit President Jackson in Washingon. The next wedding which occurred here was on January 81, 1842, when ^resident Tyler's daughter, Elizabeth, vas married to Mr. William Waller, of iVilliamsburg, Va. It was a grand wedling in the East Room, and Mrs. Robert ryler wrote of it:?"Lizzie looked surmssingly lovely in her wedding dress tn/1 1 an rr KIaii/1 a 1 a on trnil V\ nr fnnn IUaw ?tav* wn/uuvy 1I?V>U T V1I| UWi AIIUU Xll/Ul" illy covered with blushes and dimples." President Tyler was married at Ascenion Church in New York, but had his uredding reception in the East Room at he White House the latter part of June, 1844 having begun his courtship of Miss rulia Gardiner, a beautiful young girl not >ver twenty years <fld, in that room the receding February at an evening recepion on Washington's Birthday. His vife had died in the White Houso soon ifter their daughter was married in 1842. U; the wedding reception, when all their SVashington friends were present to tenler their congratulations, Senator John 3. Calhoun escorted the bride to the supier table and cut tho wedding cake for ler. No one remembers a wedding or wediing reception occurring in the Exccu ;ivo Mansion betwoen this time and the redding in the East Room, May 21,1874, >f Miss Nellie Grant and Mr. Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, which was by tor the most elaborate entertainment of ;he kind that ever occurred there. The following autumn Colonel Fred 3rant, who was married in handsome itylo in Chicago to Miss Ida Hooore, * \ \ ' *.< ' . ?v. V ^ -i ~ ' v 4 -V1%.' ifW ^ * " -c- 4*' : " 4' brought his bride to Washington, and ! his parents, President and Mrs. Grant, gave a very elegant evening reception in their honor. All those who have lately been writing about "White House weddings have mentioned that of President Grant's daughter as the last to occur there, but, on the contrary, there was one there four years later?that of Miss Emily Piatt, the niece of President Hayes, who, on the evening of June 19, 1878, was married in the Blue Parlor to General Russell Hastings, formerly lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-third regiment of Ohio volunteers, of which Mr. Hayes was colouel.?New YorP Herald. Story of a Queer-Shaped Country. "Here is the queerest shaped county 1 ever saw," said a passenger in the sinokinjr car. holdinsr un a red and blue rail way map; "it's Warren County, Tennessee, and as round as a dollar. I wonder how in thunder it got to be that shape?" "Warren County, Tennessee?" inquired a passenger with a white slouch hat; "did you say Warren County, Tennessee? I know all about that county. Years ago there wa'n't no Warren County. There was a little town called McMinnvillc. In this town three or four men from Ohio settled, bought land, started stores, and became prominent citizens. But McMinnville wasn't a county seat. It lay in one corner of a county, and the country around it was the corners and ends of other counties. Under these circumstances McMinnville didn't grow very fast, and there was no politics there, and men living in McMinuville stood no show in county politics, anyway. These Ohio men tried to rise in the political world, but it was slow work. Finally tlicy got mad and went to scheming. Before anybody knew what they were 1111 to t.lipv had lnhhioi^ n fhrmmli +lm I J " "ib" ",v Legislature creating n new county, Warren by name, -with McMinnville as th? county scat. When the surveyors ??ome to run the new county lines they found that the law directed them to go west twelve miles from Mc^Iinnville, drive a stake; go cast twelve miles from McMinnville and drive another stake; and north twelve and south twelve two more stakes, and then run a circular line connecting those stakes. The result of course, was a circle, and so Warren County appeared on the map as round as a dollar, and with McMinnville right in the -ccnter. Then the Ohio men were happy. They started right in, run the politics of the new county, filled most of the offices, and got rich on the rise in the va!uc of their real estate."?Chicago Herald. Canine Intelligence. Sir John Lubbock's dog that is learning to read must look to his laurals; for a dangerous rival has been discovered by Monsieur Victor Mcuuicr, who is writing a book on the subject of the capacity of animals for education. Porthos, the rival in question, is a black poodle, age 6 years, a Belgian by birth, but an inhabitant of Paris, in which city along with his wife and M. Porthos^'eu/itf, age 6 weeks, he honors with his company a worthy wine merchant. Like many wise dogs, Porthos understands that when a sou is given him he can exchange it for a cake at the baker's. Having got his cake, however, he does not eat it like other dogs, but brings it home to his master to divide it into three pieces for the benefit of himself and family. In fact, he seems to do the whole of their catering; for, if Master Porthos wants milk, the father takes both the money and the milk can and sets off to fetch it. He is, for all this no teetotaller, but is ready to deliver a bottle of wine?holding the neck in his mouth and his head high in the air - to a constant customer, and duly to bring back its price. His most extraordinary accomplishment, however, is that he can go down to the celler and fetch a bottle of any kind of wine re quired. He distinguishes between whito wine, red wine with green seal, red wine yellow seal, red wine in half bottles, and several other kinds. Porthos, though conscious of his talents, is said to be by no means conceited or overbearing in his demeanor in the presence of inferiors.? St. James's Gazette. A Fine Grapevine. A California paper gives the following account of a fine specimen of the grapevine growing in the open air at Monticelo, near Santa Barbara, and which is known as 1 'Dona Marcel in a's grapevine." "This grapevine, which is the pride and marvel of the neighborhood, traces its origin to a slip brought by Dona Marcclina from a young vineyard at San Antonio mission for a horsewhin. and.though ? ? 1 O ? it waa nearly withered from the effect of the long journey, she determined to make the trial to plant it. Notwithstanding further delay, the slip took root, budded, and ever since prospered, proving itself the main support for tho large Dominguez family (there being sevon sons and as many daughters, and through them upward of a hundred descendants surviving tho old lady at her death; she left a son Jose,88 years old, who has grandchildren). Between 1850 and 1860, tho vine had been trained over an area of eighty feet in circumference, tho stem measuring then twelve inches in diameter, and attaining a height of fifteen fact from tho ground. Some years it has borno over six thou* sand bunches?upward of eight thousand pounds of ripe grapes." < -i ' ?'' ? "Vv A k:, ' * . *' 4 PFARLS OP THOUGHT. To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. Curses aro like processions; they return to place from which they came. A face that camr-t smile is like a bud that blossoms and dies upon the stalk. Good manners is the art of milking | those people easy with whom we con- | verse. j Life is a quarry, out of which we aro | to mould and chisel and complete a character. "Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both and is more bewitcbthan cither. Nearly everybody has it in him to bo Al * uvllit iiiuu no is. improvement 13 chiefly the regulation of the propensities and passions. Every man who enjoys a blessing should be prompted to think of thoso who are without it, and try tc help them. Each benefit is a responsibility. The warm sunshine and the gentle zephyr may melt the glacier which has bid defiance to the howling tempest; so the voice of kindness will touch the heart which no severity could subdue. The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us; it is like those repositories in animals that are filled with stores of food," on which they may ruminate wb?n their present pasture fails. An Incident of Antietum. The most savagely contested part of the struggle at Antietam was in and around the sunken lane of Iioulet's farm, where Jackson's Corps for hours held the ground, from which Hooker and Mansfield had been successfully repulsed early in the morning. In their yellowish, butternut suits the Confederates were scarcely distinguishable from the road-bed on the ditch where they lay, or from the ripe stalks of the cornfield behind, through which their re-enforcing brigades were constantly descending. Not more than fifty yards off, lying or kneeling in the green pasture field, without any shelter, the Union men?Kimball's, Caldwell's and the Irish brigades?poured so deadly a fire into that lane that after the battle six hundred Confederate dead were found there. Repeated efforts were made by the Union troops to charge. Perhaps the first was in conformity to a General's orders; the others certainly were not. The Confederate fire was so terrible that everyone, however, realized the need either of driving the Confederates from the lane and the rising ground behind, or else of retiring, to avjpid annihilation. Such expressions as, 41 We must charge," "Let's try the bayonet, boys," were constantly repeated along the line, and bayonets would be fixed without any order whatever, so far as known, from General or field officers. But, on making the effort to charge, and finding the enemy's fire irresistible, the Union line, with heads bent, as if against a rain-storm, would back up to its former position, and, kneeling or lying down again, resume its lire. Finally a clamor of desperation broke out. There were no troops in sight behind, no promise of reserve or support, and the situation was galling. The whole heavens was splitting with the detonations of battle, and the rest of the army was probably fighting for its own life. The men on their knees fixed bayonets again for the tenth time, perhaps, and, with a murderous howl of rage, the three brigades rushed forward and in a minute were in the lane and their banners were ascending through the cornfield toward the peach orchard where Jackson himself is said to have been during all these j hours. This charge, which broke JackI son's riprht for fl t.imo nrifl mnnlrnrl olf O - I 1-""4 *"* his genius to prevent proving a supreme disaster to his army, would not have been made when it was made if the initiative had depended on a commander's orders.? Chicago Ledger. Frogs' Skin as Grafts. Sometimes slowly healing wounds with feeble granulations are made to increaso their activity in the direction of cicatrization by transplanting minute fragments of epidermal tissue conlaining somo of the cells of the rote Malpighii on the healing surface. O. Pcrtersen has successfully used the skin from the back of a frog. The slowly cicatrizing wound was situate on the back of the neck of a man and had resulted from excision of a malignant pustule. A piece of frog's skin the size of the thumb nail was washed in a 2 per cent, solution and placed upon blotting-paper, when it was divided into two. The grafts were applied to the wound so that the blotting-paper was interposed between them and the fixingplaster. Two days after the transplantation both fragments of epidermis were found to be adherent. Two days later a fresh grafting was made; tho former grafts had become roseate. In a further period of forty-eight hours tho pigmentation of the grafts had almost disappeared. The cicatrix resulting after this treatment was found to be of great softnoss and elasticity. Frog's skin as grafts has been recently employed at some of the London hospitals.?London Lanes** i The Right Side of the $. I've lived sixty years in this frisky old world, An' seen lots of chaugln' ami turnin', An1 fifty of tlieni, by the sweat of my brow# My bread nu' my butter boen cumin', An' 1'vo learned many things in the way of hard facts, I nover was any great scholar, An' here's ono for you. Whatovor you do Young man?an' young woman, I'm warnin' you, too? Keop on tho right sido of tho dollar. No matter llOW much vnn mnv wnnf. t.hio nr that, If you can't spare the money to lniy it, Don't run into debt, or you'll quiekly regret That you ever were tempted to try it. Though your clothes may bo whito at the seams, and you find Rough edges on cuffs an' on collar, Jest wait to get new till tho same you can do, Young man?an' young woman, I'm warnin' you too? An' keep on tho right side of tho dollar. Oh, tho strifes an' tho troubles that would be, like weed-!, Cut down in their pejtilent growin', An' tho blessing's, like tho beautiful flow'rs, that folks In their stead would bo constantly sowin'f Oh, tho homes an' tho lives* that wouldn't be lost. If all this plain precept would follor j That I lay down to you! Whatever you do, I jluuhj; jiiuu?au young v/omau, 1111 warn.n" you, too? I Keep on the right bit't: o? tlio dollar. ?Harper's Bazar. HUMOROUS. The eight clay clock is continually on strike. A spirit wrapper is usually made about a medium size. "What is the latest?" was asked of a wit. "Twelve p. m.," was the curt rcply. The queen of Servia understands how to sew on buttons, and she isn't a bachelor, cither. As a general thing, when schoolboys go on strike the urbane professor cornea in with the last lick. It costs $28 a week to feed a circus tiger. At that rate what would the monthly board of a cata-mount to? A collector of curiosities wants to get the original brush with which the signs of the times were painted. J'' An exchange says: "Monopolies are reaching out further with alarming rapidity." The same may said of bustles. A gushing correspondent says of a literary celebrity that "his conversation is full of light." Poor fellow! he must be lantern-jawed. According to an car witness, the Boston girl doesn't say, "Let's skip the gutter." She remarks, 'Let us suddenly overleap the marginal depression of the public thoroug-ifare." "Who," said a member of the Cana dian House of Commons to the members who were trying to choke him off, "who brayed there?" "It was an echo," retorted a member, amid a yell of delight. ' Life in Persia. Though Persia moves a little, it is o*- ? of the most unprogressive empires, a; had no postal system until 1870. It has *but one wagon road of any considerable length. No railroads have been duilt, as the Shah will not incur the financial risk, nor make an investment of foreign capital secure. The telegraph now connects the capital with provincial capitals. The cost of living has greatly increased in the last few years. Most of the Persians are very poor, the tenants or agriculturists forming the poorest class. A merchant with $50,000 is considered verv rich. The social life of Persia has not changed perceptibly. "The Persian of the genuine type and olc school hardly thinks himself in a condition to be teec until his hair and beard have been dyed and his finger nails stained, if not his fingers also. lie rises at the early dawn, and repeats the usual p;ayer; and having drunk a cup of tea, if he be rich enough to afford it, goes to the field or to his shop. At 10 o'clock he sits down in his * place of business to eat a breakfast of bread and sour milk which lias been brought upon a tray and sot before him. The hours of midday, in summer, aro passed in sleep. Labor, when resumed, is continued until sunset. The principal meal of tlie day?and the best he can afford?of meat, rice and savory dishes, js partaken of in company with the members of his family, and after nightfall, and in the open court of the house, or upon the roof. If inclined to drink wine and arak, the most approved custom is to indulge at this hour. He satiates his thirst, if that be possible, by drunkenness, having first taken the precaution of locking the doors and going to bed."?Oin 4* n -'-i ci/i/iuvt \jujnmcrciui, ?MflMM . ' ^ To Mnko the Beds. "Lavina?"If I am going to have a flower garden this season you must get somebody to make the beds." / Phasccius?"All right, my deai^ Til drop into an employment offico \xJtown, this very morning, and tell thorn to ser. 1 out a chambermaid." J And dodging the coffee cujj/w'hich she ^ hurled at his head, hej^ttfteoed around the corner, thereJ*<awa\t an inward car.?Detroit Frs&Prm.