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LITTLE Pl.ETTIES FOF- HOME DECORATION. MARION MCBRIDE. Cottage homes should be simple in treatment, because i-' small houses all attempts at decoration should be con fined to useful articles, as large rooms are imperative if one desires to pro duce aristic groups and pretty effects oy the use of bric-a-brac. First of ail, choose good laating colors for wall sur tace; let the floor treatment follow the same scale of color, but in deeper tone. Choose all f arniture with a view to comfort and durability; cadrxa of bent wood, rattan, or plain wood can be chosen of good form, then brightened by cushions of chintz, silk or plush. An r article whieh is thcroughly comiortable will look pretty if can be placed with other comfortable articles. To be a homekeeper is fully as desir able as to be a housekeeper. One takes care of the physical needs, the other the mental, moral and spiritual, the harmony of life in which one can develop t! e bast of character, and comfortable furniture is related to good morals just as much as good food is. Do not shut out the sunshine; it is not necessary, for our American home decorations are better suited to bright lights, to floods of sunshine, than many foreign goods of dull tone, which are made in places where the sun is not allowed to penetrate. If the interior finish is of wood in natural color, pretty ornamentation can be so cured for doors by using the upper panels for designs in birds and flowers, fruit or grasses. Young women who find it hard to sell the pretty trifles they delight to paint could be profitably employed in work of this kind, for panels of linen or silk could te made to fit the door frame and painted at home if the worker desired. A pretty design for the dining-room would be found in bunches of German millet, arranged to stand up in a natcral fashion from the casing or base of panel. Ears of corn with the hushs turned back, branches from the apple, eherry or plum tree, bearing fruit or flowers, hop vines, grape or gourd, would be picturesque, odd and grace ful, with a natural beauty. For other rooms, the graceful vines of New Eng land,drooping in a wealt'i of bloom, just supported by along gnarled stem,with a profusion of leaves, or a tangle of morning-glory vines, with the tender flowers peeping out from the leafy screen, tropical plants, a bit of gray moss, cotton balls, ferns, mountain climbers, and an endless variety of such designs. The effect of such work is fine, and the work is not hard, but the results are admirable. For holding draperies back from the window, a very odd but pretty fancy as been revived, by using the small round knobs of porcelain bordered by a line of color, with a centre of pure white, on which is the classic head of a beautiful dimpled baby, or coy maiden. These knobs are used to hold draperies or to rest large mirrors on, after the fashion of our ancestors. Dimity curtains are fashionable also, and they are put up in the old-time way, and finished with a knotted bor der of cord. Y ery pretty borders or over-draper ies are made of the Bargarren netting in white or color, all the leading colors of the season being easily procured. White linen is used for all toilette pur poses, for draperies in bedrooms, for couch cushions, and for bags, baskets, and frays; these latter articles being made of the linen after it is heavily starched, cut in fancy forms, the bor ders bound with white linen braid, and the whole affair drawn into any desired shape by the use of ribbon. Linen sheets and pillow-cases are always fashionable and supremely com fortable in summer, and linen can be kept much softer and whiter than cot ton. If any decoration is needed, use white linen floss. Pretty table covers are made of satin sheeting with a conventional design appliqued in plush. A very unique wall banner is painted on curtain canvas, the subject being "The Fisherman's Daughter." TheI boat is drawn up on the rock lined shore; there is a tiny stretch of beach in the foreground, a touch of deepen ing color in the sunset sky. The nets tossed over the bow of the boat, falling in tangled meshes of dull, artistic color against the boat, The effect is good, and this material could be used for screens with good results. Covers of fine felting have elaborate designs in autumn leaves or flowers along the borders. This is not a novelty, of course, but the fine treat ment given renders these articles ac ceptable in many places. The fine, soft, firm felting only should be used for this work, and the brand known as Huddersfield draping cloth, will give the best satisfaction. .Bolton sheeting is used for scarf drapery and for bed spreads and pillow spreads, but the fine texture renders these articles difficult to handle, al though their beauty is extreme. Photograph cases of .Bolton sheetin~g over colored silk are made in square form, folded like a sheet of note paper. The brightest of lamp shades are still popular, yellow, red, and green, laden with a garniture of lace in white or black. White linen Colonial mats are wrought in antique design with heavy linen floss. These mats are used for the table, the dressing-room, or for afternoon tea. The newer fashions in china bear in golden relief a touch of the owner's individuality, the most charming spect mens having been introduced by Miss Charlotte Hawes, of B~oston, the music al composer, who has a few bars of musia on her aainty china, the music being outlied in gold.--CoC' ye HIearth. BOW TO AMlUSE THE CHIILDRTEN DURING TUE HOT WEATHELR. I have been surprised a great many times to see how euergetic a smaldl 1oy or girl can be on a hot day. While the "grown-ups~" sit in the sibade and fan and watch the rising thermometer, the children are busy playing. Perhaps their little faces are red and moist with the heat, their necks and backs broken ont with prickly heat, yet they are more interested in ranning a train of ears than in t'ie~ state of the weather. if allowed to play in the sun they are liable to be sick, and at least cer ta.in of being very fretful 'when nap-I time or bed-times coies. If a mother wishes to keep her children from bowel troubles so common in summer, she must be carefual not oniy about their diet but about their being exposed to the Lot sun and getting ovrerheated. It is very hard to keep the children happily bnsy on a hot day, in some cool, aniet kit,1 of play. A shady porch is of m.e utmost value in this kind of wather, and there are a great many ways of amusing children out on the porch. yne can do so many things wita it thbt ,he children never tire of it. The best way to have one made is in shape like he tray of a butler's table. It can be put upon a standard, a low table, or made to fasten on the porch wall with a leg which folds under when the table s not in use. It is very convenient to have one of the sides on hinges so that It can be let down and the sand cleaned aut once in a while. Fill the box with ake sand. Children will play at a sand table, ometimes for hours at a time, simply piling the sand up, letting it through their lingers, building forts and mak ng wells. With the sand let them build an im aginary country, with its bills, moun tains, rivers, valleys and laaea. If they are old enough to have a knowl edge of geography, letthem make some state in outline, with its chain of monntaina and Its principal rivers. ake some little squares of wood and have them placed where the towns should be, with which the children are familiar. Let them print the names of the towns and cities on slips of paper and paste these on the wooden squares f the places they are meant to repre ent. It is great fan to make a journey to grandpa's, especially if he lives in the country, on the sand table. Smooth ing out some of the sand the children 3an make Mr. Jones' great pasture. Uf course the pasture must have cows and horses in it. Now Is the time when che old Noah's Ark can be brought into play, as the animals may be safely riven into Mr. Jones' pasture lot. hen there is the little creek which you cross just before you get to grandpa's, and over this a little plank must be placed. A little boy with whom I like to play because everything is so "re.d" to him, ikes to make the way to school, with its many houses and pretty dooryards nd fower beds. Clover heads and prigs of timothy often represent many a fine lawn. Blue clay costs so little that I won ler people do not buy it oftener for their children. Out of clay may be modeled all sorts of easy things. Bat lo not let them simply play with it. Eave them make something. It is as bad for children to dabble as for grown people. With very little trouble they can be taught to make cubes with the clav, and very nice smooth, round marbles. If there is a grown person to pVay with them, let the chiidren budd a clay bird's nest and fill it with eggs. The older person, who has more skillful ngers, can construct the mother bird who is to sit on the eggs. W bile the modeling is going on you can talk about the ways and manner of building of the bird you are making. Iemem ber that children are sharp little crit ics, and you must not call your bird an oriole if the children are moJeling the nest of a robin, for some day the children will learn what a very odd nest the oriole builds. I wish all mothers knew how interesting natural history may be made to little children. Bat in telling them natral history stories, yon should be very truthful and honest in your story-telling if you wish to be forever believed. The little fellow of whom I have told you beiore, loves to get up "caterpiller parties." He goes all about the porch and searches under the woodbine leaves till he gathers a goodly number of wooly friends together and then he trats them to nasturtium leaves. I am ghad to say that he treats them so respectfully that they all crawl away home, unhurt. Do not say after you have spent a long, hot afternoon amusing the chil dtre.n that your time has been thrown aay. You will learn more about your children in playing with them in one afternoon than you will in an entire week while attending to their bodily wants. You may discover that Johnny i.s selfish and wants the best corner of the sand-box, that Katie is untidy and unsystematic by the way she works in the clay, and that little Rob has a most startling imagination.' The child who has a summer home with a blessed, babbling brook to play by will not need all this care through the hot days; but wherever you are, whatever your circumstances, spend some of the play hours with the chil iren. Some of the fathers, I am sure, would not grow old so fast if they would play more with the- children. t is not enough to give them good care nly while they are sleeping and being ressed and fed. Tney are well worth tudying carefully. Not Ashamed oifHisi Trade. "Tom" Poole, the friend -of Cole idge and other men of genius, and >ne of the most pronounced Liberals >f his time, was the son of a tanner. Rls father had resolved that this lad hould continue the business, and so, ltough a younger brother went to ~ollege, poor Tora was apprenticed to be tanning trade, with the bare quipment of reading, writing, aLd rithetc. But Tom hungcred for an educa ~in, and set about getting it. With he aid of a cousn and that of a Erench refugee he learned Latin, French, and a little Greek. -As time went on he found that he was ignor it of practical details connected with his trade, and so le t home, and egan working under a teigned name n a large tan-yard, where he could ecome acquainted with the newest mprovements that had been intro luced into the business. All his life long he sought growth sd development, and that he was sever spoiled by prosperity is indi ~ated by one slgnideant Incident. He as one day walking in Bath with .he Marquis of Lansdowne, and recog 1zed ink an old wagoner drivist by a nan who had been carter in tne tan rard where hid worked. He excused himself to his com >anon, and hurried across the street ,o offer the carter his hand. The an stared at him for a mxoment,and hen exclaimed, deligh1tedly: "Sure, 'tis never our Tummas! Well, I[did always think thee summat ibove the common!" Poole could be very vehement at imes In his abuse of the aristocracy. ven when he was a county mnagis mate and a man of acknowledged im ortaree in the nieighborhooo, he would say, aggressively: "I amn a plebeian. I am a tanner. Eou know I am a tanner'" Thus it came about that the local vits used to call him Lord Chancellor Ehyde.--Youth's Companion. ~rs. W. J. raird of Englan 1, is famn ums as one of the most expert chess an lysts in the world. JHer chess prob ems are considered among the best mnd most difficult published. She has :ompeted in mrany tournaments and j BIG CURGLARiES. c Takes Brains to Plan and Execute Them. Very few people have an idea of he immense amount of labor, fore ,hought and scientific skill brought ,o bear on a big burglary. The first thing necessary is to find a house con faining sufficient valuables to repay .he trouble and risk, and this first tep alone may take many weeks. Let it be bnde tood that only the ,highest class of expert burglars are Aeant; men with comfortable bank :ng accounts and houses of their own, .nd who, after reducing risk to a -lnimum by elaborate plans, acquire nough in one night to keep them in iffluence and eminent respectability 'or more than a year, although hav nz but a third share, as these burg taries a e invariably worked by three. To Illustrate the wonderful re source and leisurely way of proceed ing adopted by burglars, take a case related by a prominent detective. The principal of the burglars in this instance, having fixed on a certain house, was unable to acquire suf ficient information concerning it and the owners. This man then went to the local butcher supplying the house, and applied for a situation as driver of one of his carts which delivered meat at customers' residences. After producing unquestionable references (how obtained no one ever knew) the man was engaged on the round, which Included the house fixed upon. Incredible as it may appear, he tayed with his employer for over seven months, and gave the utmost satisfaction; his only failing being a weakness for chatting with the serv ants. Five days after his resignation a gigantic burglary was effected at the house selected, and property valued at over $20,000 was stolen. The thieves had smoked several cigars and drunk a bottle of port, so that they were in no hurry, and to crown all the booty was conveyed to its destination in tne owner's pony phfeton, which was duly returned the same night, but no real clew was af forded, and the burglars were n6ver captured. On another occasion a chamber maid was escorted out, with a view to matrimonX (and burglary) for two months before the event came off. A conveyance is always at 1hand, and generally of stylish appearance; in fact, on one occasion a brougham was used, which the passersby and even the policemen on the beat imagined was the property or one of the resi dents close by. i As regards tools, very few are neces sary, owing to the skill and ingenuity of the operator. With a jimmy, spreader, drill, a few pieces of strong bent wire and a little gunpowder, the expert burglar can make his way anywhere. To these are sometimes added a set of "stumblers." These are lengths of fine steel wire, with pointed stakes about a foot long at tached to each end, and half a dozen of these make but little bulk. These stumblers are fixed on the lawn or paths about the house in such a way that the wires are raised about six inches from the ground, and prove such a success in case of pursuit that the burglars are compelled to hang pieces of white paper from the wires in order that they may escape their own traps, as they always run over them -________ A Kentucky Snake Story. Judge J. B. Bowman, who lives near Tallsborough, gave a Vrancebu . (Ky.) correspondent of the New York World, an account of a wonderful nak-e fihht that he recently wit nessed. Hie was goingr through a strip of woodland on the way to his wheat teld when his attention was af tracted by a rieculiar noise near his pathway. Looking in the direction whence the sound proceeded he ob served a blacksnakce and a rattlesnake twined together in deadly combat. The blacksnake was wonnd about its venomous enemy, endeavoring to 1squeeze the life out of him. The Judge became an eager spectator of te novel combat. Ever and anon te rattlesnake would bite the black snake. ,Then a, remark-able thingi would occur. The blacksnake as soon as bitten would uncoil himself, dart for a small bush, and bite off one ot the leaves. IHe would moisten it in his mouth, Ipress out the juice, apply it to the bitten place, and then returri to his enemy again. This was repeated several time3, until the blacksnake squeeed the life out of the rattler. Judge Bowman says he never kills tlacksnakes. He says it is their mission and one they greatly enjoy to destroy all the venomous snakes they can find, The Judge has a pet blacksnake that stays in his barn and keeps away all the rats and mnce. improved Stone-Breaker. A machine has recently been ex hibited which combines many useful functions. It is guaranteed not only to break stones to any required size, but to screen them and to deliver them automatically into any required receiver. The machine is portable, and will break eight tons of stones, etc., per hour. It saves, it is clied, 6 cents a ton in manual la bor, produces 25 pcr cent. less waste n dust and chippings than the or dinary maochine: makes a much more cubical sample of macadam, and saves all t.mie and expense in pulling own and refixinig. It will deliver drt into a cart or truc'c, and a. the same time leave behind no stone larger than the holes in the screens, thereby making it .Lly reliable when e ther breaking "mn&tal" for maicadam or concrete purposes. In this wa:: much trouble and anxiety as t~o the size of the broke'n -t .ie. i; avoided. e mie-m - na prontucer special mnahine ior the tu~ning out of small granulator sizes suitable fo: tine concrete 'tnd tar paving and for rushing silver, lead and other ores, which it is an advantage to granulate, ut not to pulverize. Mrs. Philip Newman, of London, is he only woman designer and jeweler n all England. Her place in Bond street is well known, and she is said to hive received at ooe time an olfer from iffany to come over and doc certain ;esig'ing for him. There is a littl Iown n:,med Mark eukrcheP, in Satxony, where nearly I,very inha bit ant is engaged in the man urctre ef violins. A TERRIBLE DAY. 0 Nancy wa s bad. nul Mary was sad, And all wont wrong that day; Cook burned the meat, 'twasn't fit to et, And a poor old uncle ha-. come to stay. It all bogun at the rise of sun, As such days always do. And when a day begins that way Things will be wrong all through antf tnroud. And when it was time, by the clock just 9. For Jack to go to school, It just set in and rained like sia, And the whole long day was wet and cool. And don't you think not a single wink Would the baby sleep that day; And Jack was so bad we were all quite glad When he had to go into the closet and stay. The dolls wern all sick, and I had to go quick, In the rain, for the doctor man. I ot quite wet, and they're not well yet, My Jenotie and Lizzie and Mary Ann. Things went that way all through the day, The dlntier was late at noon, And cook was so mad she noted bad, And rattled each plate, fork. and spoon. We were tired enough, with an aunt who toon anuff, And the uncle who cmo to stay; We were glad when night catne, for with Jac'r and the rain And thereat of the things 'twas a terrible day. 8100 Reward. 6100. The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional disease. require; a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the bhood an.t mucous sur faces of the system. thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative nowers, that they offer One Hundred Do.lars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENET & Co.,Tolodo, 0. CW*Sold by Druggists, 75c. An attack of neuralzia caused J. A. Moore, aged 76, of Sedalia, Mo., o lose all his teeth. The old man is quite happy now, however, as he feels a new set growing in his guins. We Cure Rupture. No matter of how long standing. Write for free treatise, testimonial etc. to S. J. Hollensworth & Co. Owego, jioga 'o., N. Y. Price Si; by mnail.. A few years ago, in Lynn., Mass., a bright tin dish concentrated the re flected rays of the sun upon some paper and cauzed such a blaze that the fire department was called out. Those who use Dobbins' Electric Soap each week, (and their name is legion) save the'r clothes anti strength, and let the soap do the work. ttld you ever try It? If not, do so next Monday sure. Ask your grocer for it. "Be under the guard of Go I" is the Turkish Salttallon; in Arabia they say, "May God strenst'ien your morning;" the Zanis say, "May the light of the Gods rest witti thes." A Battle For Blood Is what Hfood's Sarsaparilla vigorously fights and it is always victorious in expell!ng all the fju: taints and giving tne vital fluid the quality and quantity of perfect health. Hood's Plils cure all liver Ills. 25c. Henry Stres. of Caribou, Me., dur ing the last four years has received $3,109 from raising potatoes on thirty one and one-half acres of land. 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A Certain welknown surgeon ih mibidextrous. As a Malaprop among tudents once said of him, "He can se one hand just as well as the: ther, and perhaps a little l:etter'" One day be was operating in a casr rhich required great delicacy o' anipulation, and the Students resent were overcome with admira ion at the calmness and dexterity ith which he shifted the instrument rom one hand to the other, and rorked with the left as well as with he right. A new-corner, who had never seen imn operate, and had never heard of is double facility, could not contro: is wonderment. "Do you see that?" he whispered in a ar- of a f1aellwstnt.+ Hrrs.. WILD FLOWERS OF WYOMING. Wyoming has many beautiful species of flowers, conspicuous among them being the low-growing flowering plants. Cacti are everywhere present, there being at least three varieties of Opun tia, or Prickly Pear. Then there are also the Epiphyllum and a bell-like species, probably an Echinocactus. The Yucca Filamentosa grows In great abundance, throwing up its be.!i tiful spikes of white flowers. The wild Clematis is indigenous here, also the wild Tiger Lily, Geranium, or Crane's bill, Larkspur, several species of Convolvulus, Cyclamen, Sweet Peas, wild Tulip and Primroses. There is a peculiar skeleton plant, which seems to be a bundle of twining, leafless stems of a pale pea-green; it grows to the height of about- two feet, and produces a little blue flower. In the fall, the bushes detach -themselves from the root and are blown about by every idle wind so that the people call them 'tumbling weeds." There are also many very fine species of Ferns, some of those in the moun tain canyons growing to a height of four feet, and very beautiful in form and foliage. On the mountains are very many Alpine flowers found, some growing near the streams and watered by the icy waters of the melting snow, some on the edge of rocky or barren trac-s where their scanty roots can but just maintain their hold. V. M. A LEGEND OF THE CHRYSAYTHEHUX. Lung Lee, nephew of the Sun and Emperor of China, was extremely fond of that royal flower, the chrysanthe mum. He showered honors upon the person who prodaced new specimens. and he had in his garden these flowers of all tints of the rainbow save one-a btue chrysanthemum was lacking, and although many tried none were able !o droduce it. The good Emperor tore his hair with rage, beheaded a florist or two, and finally offered a princely reward to any one who should produce the flower, promising to the successful one the hand of his daughter, Hi Too, who was charming in mind as she was beautiful in face and form. Among her admirers was a young gardener who had charge of a circle of precious chrysanthemums in the Emperor's grounds. He had likened the lovely maiden to the charming white chrysan themum, and had murmured words of affection to his adored princess, who loved him in return. This young maa entered the lists in competition for this coveted prize, and alter long experi menting succeeded in proanciug at last a beautiful blue chrysanthemum which he showed one evening to the princess, saying that he should present it to the Emperor on the folowing morning. But alas! An elderly rival had been wa'ching the young lover with jealous eyes, and on the morrow, when he went eagerly to pick his treasure, he fcund it brokon from the stalk and goDe. The jealons rival had discovered the peerless flower and had presented it to the Emperor as his, own production, claiming the promised re ward. Jast as he did so a young man, pale with anxiety, rushed into the Em peror's presence, charging that this man had stolen his flhwer -The rival at once gave him the lie and the.Em peror irowned upon them both. At at last he decided that they must both raise another flowcr and that which ever should prove an imuposter should be beheaded on the spot. At last the day came when the tri uimphant lover carried to the King another chryssnthemum, bluer and3 lovelier than tha last, and was re warded with a gracious smile from the Emperor and the hand of the lovely Hi Too. When they searched for the unhappy rival they found that he had itabbed himself in the midst of his flowers in dlesperation and to escape the fate awaiting him. The nuptials of~ the young lover and the beautiful Prin cess were celebi ated with becoming pomp, and atfer a long and happy reign they died, the secret of the blue chrysanthemum dying with them. Many are the hybridizers who have tried to producze it since but all have been uns-ccessful. GER~tINATING IAFFIOULT SEEnS. Some of your readers, says K. W. Lawson mn The Mayflower may prifit by my experience in raising plants from seed, which are usually difliculs to suc eed with. First, I am always careful to see that the lpres are filled with light rich soil, which has not been used before. With hard seeds, such as Cyclamen, Amaryllis, Peas and Cypress, I find a ouple of hours' soaE ''n hot wat er rings them up bniskly. But it was with finer steds I meant tc confine myself. A cousin of mine in Denver, Col., ent last sp'inz for the sames varieties '1 Poppy seeds that I had, purchasing them at the same place. Hers, shie writes, were almost a taiure while1 ine were gloriusly beaut'ful. I think the secret lies in this: when I >l.ant Poppy seeds 1 first spray the: round with boiling water, wait until< t dries again, pla' t my s'e ls and then spray with het, butL iot boiling, water and cover with papers for two nights. 1 The seeds seem to germinate easier1 and more quickly so. Chrysanthemumsi have been so often escribed to me as hard to raise from 1 seed, that this year I trie I a packet of rize var!eties and now after four ouths my plants have reached sirteen nches, are strong and well branched. Igave the seeds the same hot water reatment ar~d further wet the with t until they began to come u .' Then eft them rather dry, but gave plenty f sun au.l air. rhe large fiinged Petunias (rim riata, Floro Plkno), were also slan ered to me. for w-th this sime cart' he'y grew firaly and bloomed at twelve weeks. A m nnw tryingt Pelargoniums, Cycla ens, Cinerarias aid Pyrethrumns. 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