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COMOOOOMDOOOOOOw' .000 ' About flit: House. m........m.......: ORANGE BLOSSOMS. 0h, beautiful, waxen bride flowr-rs, Sr) pure, in your dainty white, Opening your (lc.ic:ite [totals Catching the sunshine bright. Resting among the grecn leaves. Shedding your perfume sweet; 0h, lovely tropical flow’ret, Your beauty is most completel 0h, beau iful, waxen biidc f10\V|‘I'S, May she whose brow you entWine In that. unknown, liiysLli: lulUIe, Emulate a life pure as thine. THE BABY‘S CLOTHES. "A baby is clothing should be drawn over its feet and- not slipped over its head," said Miss Marianna Wheeler, superintendent of the “Babies” llosâ€"| pital, of New York City," whose long experience in training nursemaids makes her an authority on all sub- jects pertaining to the care of in- fants. . “Nothing is more awkward. than to attempt to dressâ€"a- young. baby in a sitting posture. It should lie on: the nurse s lap until quite able to sit a-one. It: the clothes are put: on as I describe there will be no; fighting and crying, leL, instead, the child will be fond of being dressed. For the first four months there should be a snug flannel band over its bowels. Later this should be replaced by a ribbed knitted band, of wool, of course, and made like the top of a sOck. It must be‘drawn over the feet and should be worn throughI the second year. "1 am sure that nearly all intestinal troubles in- young children are caused by their bowels getting cold. It is the one place which mursi‘. be protected it you; would have a healthy child. There are three Weights of these bands which I recommend, medium, thin and gauze. .The very heavy should. never be put on, and the aims rule should be follow- ed in selecting flannel garments. "It is most important that ababy's clothes should fit the body. If too tight they frequently produce, vomit- ing after feeding, while if U00 large they crumple into folds and cause dis- oomfort. No pins or buttons should be used, but all bands about the body must be basted. The openings should be neither in the back nor front, but under the arms, where.auy irregular- ity will be least felt by the child. "I disapprove very decidedly of put- ting veils over a baby's face. When the weather is so cold on so windy as to render a veil necessaryt no young child. should be sent out of doors. but instead given its airing in a well ven- tilated nursery. Veils affect the eyes, and are as a rule uncleanly. In the majority of Instances a mother never thinks of having the ba y's veil wash- ed. .They wear the val for an entire winter. so you can imagine the condi- tion. Then. aside from this, a child’s face is all the better for being exposed to that air, not only because it allows her to breathe more freely, but it is healthy for the complexion. “The greatest care should; be taken not to keep children too hot, and while light" wraps may, and as a rule should be, kept on them in the early morning and late afternoon, in the middle' of the day they should be removed. A common mistake among other, especiâ€" ally in furnaceâ€"heated homes, is using excessiver heavy clothing for their children. They usually live in a war-m nursery, their circulalilon is active and they perspire more. freely than a grown person. For these reasons the heav- iest: flannels should never‘ be used. even in very cold climates, but extra heavy wraps be put on when they are taken out." PEAT-MOSSES. There are beds of peat in our coun- try, and several attempts have been made to utilize them for fuel, as is done in Ireland and some parts of Scotland. The peat mosses, of which the beds are formed, belong to the lowest family of the moss tribe. They are familiar objects in our tamarack swamps, where their gray-green, hemispherical massas lie thick upon, the ground, to the exclusion of other vegetation except cranberries, which spin their thin vines over them, and a few pitcherâ€"plants and grasses. -Every year the axes of the plants in- crease in length and the older stemsl of former years sink lower into the‘ bog. In this way the center of the bogs, especially of those fed by springs, becomes considerably higher than the circumference. \Vhen peat moss has thus been growing for many centuries, filling perhaps what was once a lake, the remains of the stems become matted together by the pres- sure of the water-logged fresh areas above. and after a time become com- piloted into what is known as peat, 111-0.. bany onc of the stages in the pro- duction of cool It is not altogeth-i ercertain. says I’rof. McMillan, and.1 coal was developed from mosses like,I the living peat mosses, but it is per-' {Cecily certain that it originated in1 ancient swamps by the same gen-‘ oral processes which are building the peat-hogs of toâ€"day. i I Hundreds who read this paragraph .will have clambered orer masses of’ peat mossâ€"growing upon the oldi toms far below, which are gradually ‘ug converted into peat as outlined lbovoâ€"in the search for huckleber- ries. ghostly gray threads, thick set with gray "leaves" which set-m made up of many overlapping, acute pointed scales or bracts, and which look a lit- tle like miniature calkins, but they never thought anything about lhcm~ except that the. moss was hard to walk over, and afford a good harbor for snakes. That is the way with us. Wonderful proccsscs are going on all around us, in nature. but we are blind to them. Peat IDOnSCS are so simply and cos- ily propagated by the development of branches that they rarely fruit. llul occasionally they do soâ€"somctimcs a whole bog will lie in fruit at once. When you find at the terminal of one of the bl-‘lnl'ht‘s ii lilllc clusterâ€"ginâ€" orall) Ilirccâ€"of cgg-slizipcd bonics. each rising on a slander stalk from the end of the branch, you may know that you have. the fruit-body of a peat moss in hand. "Tho fruit-body is a little eggâ€" shnped black capsule with bulbous base, the \\ hole Sbup-t'd somewhat like a dumb-bell with one end largv-rlhan the other, and a short neck between. The smaller end of the dumbâ€"bell is imbedded in the enlarged cushion-like tip of a slender, erect leaflcss brunt-,1] of its vegative plant. Around the bottom of the capsule may befound a thin broken membrane which is a relic of the wall of the egg-organ in which the capsule began its nexist- ence. Peat moss capsules lopen by little circular lids, which Whentho capsule is ripe, separate from the bowl part. allowing the spores to escape." CHILDREN'S POCKET MONEY, I believe that children! can be best taught the worth of a dollar by earnâ€" ing, and spending the dollar. 1 have known parents who clothed and fed their children well and gave them Spending. money on special occastons. I have known other parents who, gave their children a weekly allowance. I have known still others who explained to their children that their help was needed to make the homeâ€"father and mother could not do it allâ€"but that if they shared in the work they should use share in the incomeâ€"in a word they formed a family partnership. And I am free to confess, that the results after years of observation, lead me to prefer the partnership plan. The objection has sometimes been made when children were paid for work they became unwilling to do any- thing Without money returned. It has not been so with children I have known. I have noticed that when money was given children it was spent, thought- lessiy: when it was .earned it was not parted with without careful considera; tion. I have noticed also that children who were allowed to share in the famiâ€" ly income and help select their own clothing were not only satisfied with 1655, but were fan happier than] chil- dren for whom everything. was pro- vided by the parents. Furthermore, they: learned how to be self-support" Iii-gt and when they. reached manhood and womanhood were industrious and self-reliant. â€"â€"â€".â€"â€" THE GIRL 0F TO-DAY'. One of the most remarkable social developments of these latter days is the evolution of the mature heroine of romance. Formerly this post was al- liotted to the young girl or the young married woman. In those times, moreover, the adjective of youth would not have been applied to the maiden who had passed her twenty-fifth year. and only in the spirit of the grossest flattery to the matron; who had seen her three decades. It is typical of the age thit this explanatory noteshould be necessary. Now the expression "young" is purely relative. The period of middle age has been entirely abol- ished. When almost everybody is younger than somebody else, it is only the few who are proud of their ex- treme antiquity who can be regarded with any .degree of certainty as old. Al 8') llJJP girl of to-day no longer re- tires on the shelf as a failure, to the rest of her life in the humiliating position of the maiden aunt who de- votes herself to the children or re- venges herself on the poor. She is merely preparing to stnrt on a new phase of life with :i more definite plan and a clearer vision. Very often she marries and begins afresh at 40, Some- ,times she has been known to be so greatly during as to enter on matriâ€" 'mony for the first time when she has passed her fiftieth year. For the :matron the range is even more extend- ed. At ll”) she is quite a young thing â€"gay. frivolous, skittish, to whom soâ€" ciety and flirtation are the chief ob- jects in life._ Ten years more bring her .to her prime. It is the period of fascxnuiion, of adventure, of impulse. _The woman of 40 is c-xpable of anyâ€"‘ _thing. _ She is the object of the Wildest plans, the centre of the most daring rom-ince. At 50 she is prob- ably marrying for the second time, Three-score will find her approaching the altar for her third wedding, and if she lives long enough, she may even reappear at a later date to bring her record up to four. $.â€" THE BLACK CAT FAD. The latest idea in the way of a porte- bonheur is to carry a tiny puss of wondrous goldsmith‘s work swinging as a pendant from the end of your lorgnette chain, The cat is made of black enamel upon metal. its eyes have a metallic green gleam. Are they not tiny catseyes? The sapient puss wears a collar of brilliants set close about her furry neck. This, it seems, is the very "latest." They would recognize the A pass ' DETAILS OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH IT IS ACCOMPLISHED. It la n Illgttiy Tush, Ilium Nippllc‘ nut! :in Amount of Labour â€"I‘li~y "ullll‘. llui on .\cllvc Si-I'vlre Dull-rout holler. ('nlllug for Elnor. Illllllt'lhc Enough at It Is a It was li‘rcdericl: the Great who isaid: "A general who does not. pro- 'ytiilt-. himself wi.h enough provisions, 'evcn if he were greater than Caesar, Would not be a hero very long." And Collgny put it even stronger when he, sold: “\thn it is desired to (build up an army, it is necessary to comm nice \vi1h the stomach." II it very probable that ninety-nine people out of every hundred think of ‘an army as a aggregation ‘of fighting men, armed to the teeth with rifles, swords, and what not, while they never once give a thought ito the "men in the rear." Yet there imen in the roar are an important part of the lighlillg machinery. When an army is encamped in a friendly coun- :try there is not so great a. utilizicul- ity in feeding it as when it is pene- ti‘ating hostile territory, and has se- parated itself from its own country. ‘An-d yet in eithleu! case it is no light tank to furnish and distribute the food that is to keep, any 8J,000 hearts in the right place. This is the work of the commissary department. EASY ENOUGH AT. HOME, When an army division or an army corps is encamped aL home, the prob- lem of getting supplies is comparative- .ly simple. Sometimes they are furm ished on Contract, sometimes bought in llarge quantities a week or more in ad- vance of the Limo at which they will be needed This commissary general is responsible ion the procuring of these grch ,a depot within easy reach of the ,troops. Each company of a. regiment >bias its cooks; each. regiment has its commissary depot where supplies are kept sufdctent for, say, a week or ten ,days for all this morn. Men are detail- ied from each company to assist in the .work of getting the supplies from the regimental depot to the company kitchens every day. Others are de- tailed to help transport the supâ€" plies to the regimental depots from the general headquarters whenever the stores in‘ the former are getting low, As all supplies are issued from head- quarters only on orders and receipts are given for everything secured, it can be seen that there is an immense aimount of clerical work necessary to Lhc smooth and uninterrupted work of the department. When the troops are in barracks the work of the kitchen can be better atâ€" tended to thlan in the field. Ranges and all necessary utensils are on hand and. hot meals are served to the diifierent mess Lalbles with regularity. When in the field, either field stoves are med for cooking or partially cover- ed trenches are constructed. with on opening for this huge coffee kettle and an oven for the baking of bread. ON ACTIVE SERVICE. Suppose an army to have landed on a foreign coast. The iirst move af- ter the landing of the men and. arms is to secure a convenient spot for a depot of supplies. These are landed and piled high on the shore until there seems to be a mountain of boxes inex- tricably mingled in the general mass. Gradually these are Separated into difâ€" ferent piles and order begins to make its appearance out of chaos, until all the supplies are properly housed. For an army of 3),OUU men and 10,000 horses for thrice months, it. is estimatâ€" ed that there are necessary 11,000 tons of loud and forage. This must be made up of palatable and strengthâ€" giving supplies, with a proper pro- poriion of meat, vegetables, cotfce, and flour for bread, or biscuits. The meat is generally canned, although sides of bacon are abundant, and even herds of live cattle are taken along for fresh meat. Whenever any important move. is to be made by the army, each soldier is usually supplied with rations for a. day, which he carries in his haversack. These he is not to use unless order- ed, to do so. There are, besides, two days‘ rations carried in transport for each fraction of a Gourmand to tide the. troops over the march. In the English army there are even wagon ‘ai'riingicuients for cooking meals on the march, great quantities of soup be- ing heated and llicill and potatoes beâ€" 'ing prepared while on the march. But when the army moves away from its base of supplies, then it is that ifeeding problem becomes more compli- outed. l .-\_ GREATER TASK. There are always a number of men to assist lde oiled from elClJ regimen! liii ill“ \Vl‘l‘k of bringing up supplies." The keeping open of a line (it commun- ica'ion with the base of supplies is the first thing that :i ct.n;ni'iii(l~ r must see ,!u, for it incth the so:er if his army. lf 'hi< line of communication is but a ‘day‘s marsh, the Work is smplc, and it vdocx' no: take many men detailed to wagt,-n-(lriving to replenish the im- ‘poverirhed S'ock of the. regimental or division larder. But when the dis- tance is increased to sixty or .i hun- drcd miles the trick is one of great dif- suppliea, and having them deposited at , lhn‘. ficuliy. There- are along this line of communion ion two lines of transport wagons CtJllSI‘lnlly on the move and in oppoile directions. The oim line is fwr wagons iill -d with stores and sup- pli w for the army. ’lli- it her is m ido up of enip;y “Vllgoll‘ going back to tho baae for other loads. lililsy stages are made of the journey. l-‘or in- smncc, one lot of loaded wagons will Start from the bias and go an easy ,di-- nnc-, when another lot of empty ‘omzx‘ will be coming in the opposite di< rcc ion. The drivers rind horses will bu excltzingcl, 'h we on th~ lt-udvd wag- lonx rt- urningiwith the empty ones to ,the ba-e of supplies and thnsc on tho it‘lllpi)‘ \V'lgulii taking the loaded. sup. ‘pliex‘ one 8 age iic-ircr the, army, at lthc end of ch ch Iho rame thingr is re- p‘tazcd. There is thus a serics of re- lays through which the transporta- llioii of >upplics and ammunition, too, is being constantly curried on. ADDITJ ON .\L S UPPIJES. \Vixhin ca «y reach of the army is es~ tabli. hul a Second bisc of supllcs ‘W'llt'l't‘ a great ninoullt of stores is ac- tcumulaied in order to enable the ar- lmy to extend its operations further lfrom its princile l) l5‘. 0. course, a railroad inalcm‘ the thing doubly sure and quick. But there is usually a good deal of wagon hauling [0 he done even with the railroads, because it, is .not often possible for an army to con- fine its operations to tho line of rail communica ion. In any ca 6. frrm the nearest base of supplies brought to the division or regimental twagotns, which are filled on requisi- ‘lioii and receipts are given for thc sup- plies received. A \Vcek's supply or ‘even ten days’ food should be at hand lwilh the army. From the regimental depots the company gets its food for eiaoiil day, and‘ it is transferred to the company kitchen. Here are great kettles of co fee steaming over the :fire with bacon or other meat cooking tin the pans. Thus the food which started as the contents of one of boxes int the mountain of supplies on ,thte shore. finally comes to the plate lof the sol tier to give him strength. i Sometimes a flying column takes no ‘commissary trmin with it, -cuts itself loff from its base of supplies, and ‘movtes swiftly through the country, taking a few days’ rations. This can- not be done unless the country is tthoroughly known and can be dependâ€" .ed on’ for food. One of this moslf re- ,markable incidents bf this sort. on re- .cord is a performance{ in India by Gen. 'Lord Roberts. But Lord Roberts is above all things thoroughl in his or 'ganiization of his supply Column, for he served. for many years in the com- émissary department in India. THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE. Sir George Head, writing of his ex. tperience in charge of the commissary in the Peninsular war, says that 3 o’clock every morning found him in the presence of the commanding, gen- Ieral where he was told of the moveâ€" lmxeot of the army for the day. He would then go to his own quarters .whene he found scores of representa- tives ot\ the ililforent parts of the ar- my waiting for information. Some- times, he says, he was obliged to ride out in the rain and scour the country that night's distribution. ry on such/ a position can scarcely be imagined, for even after a supply of wheat was found, it h-adl to be trans- a convenient place for distribution among the parts of the. army, which operations required the services of many. men and teams. __..___ REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. There are a whole lot of men who never hear a new, witty story with- out its reminding them of an old. poor one. Some men are so mean that to get even with their wives for something they will even quit acting- iike they pany. The love of a little child is the most valuable love in the world, be- cause the little child is the only one ugh-o doesn't expect to get anything out o it. When a man tells his little boy that it hurts him worse when he has has forgetten what he used to think when his father told him the some thing. _â€"\§â€"_ BA MBOOZLEDL "\Vhat I like about Christmas, is, it gives you a chance to keep up the glorious old custom of drinking. Give me plenty of booze, I say, was Uncle Ne“ bui'y's remark.- I do not care for intoxicants myself, said Parson Fielding, who was with us that night. All booze isn’t an intoxicant though, said “alter Whiston, our champion funny man. Oh. yes it is i said Uncle Newbui'y. Ill bet you ll. isn’t! said “'alter. Here’s a fiver if you prove it. M ell, I can! l. Go Oilâ€"what booze isn't an intoxiâ€" fier‘? \Yhy, blllllbDOS, to be sure! And Uncle. Newbury wasâ€"dare we {say it fâ€"bamboozied out of five of the best. "â€"â€".â€"_. \VORSE STILL. hiistress. You're a good, truthful, trustworthy girl, Jane. And so the .nLa-ster wanted to kiss you, did he: Jane. Yes’m. An’ when I says, “‘Ltr‘, sir,” "I iiin’t goudâ€"lookin' en- .ng11.‘ he says, “Why, Jane, you‘re :1 ‘rcg‘iar \Venus alongside the missus .'” ‘ i W i JIERI‘JLYI A HINT. l l Mr. Slowboyâ€""In. some States there is a law making it a misdemeanor for la man to change his name.’ Miss \Villingâ€""Yes; but there is no law in. any State that prohibits a man from. changing a Woman's name." are. the. for wheat to be made, into flour for‘ The worst ‘ ported to mill. ground and carried to" would die for them when there is com- ‘ to whip him than it does himself. he: MEN OF MARK. Mr. Cecil Ri‘wdun has a decided disilka to ii personal use of the pen. James A. Allen of Palmyra. Wis, has been for 50 Consecutive years a justice of tho peace in that city. Inasmuch as Admiral Scliley will retire on account of use in February. 1901. his prospective cruise to South Africa cannot extend over a period of 15 months. 0. II. lnzlmm of Lacrosse. \\'is., but! given $15,000 toward the building of u now School of sciciicc for llipon Ciillcgo, llip u, \\'is. The building will be named in honor of Mr. lnghziin. William II. Young, the veteran chief of the \\'csiern Union iclcgi-uph oiiice at the capitol, was SlL'li and misscd the as- sembling of the new congress. It was the first time he hud been absent on a “first day" since 1557. Theodore (J. lllll'd, chief clerk of all the courts of Middlesex County, Muss. has been celebrating his achievement of the prophetic age of “tlll‘t’OSCf-l‘e ycni's and ion," with way faculty unimpaired and able to do its hard u day's work all when he was a lad of It}. The lutcst echo of the Dreyfus case it. the announcement that General Mcl't‘iel will be a candidate for the senate at the next election. The citâ€"minister of war formerly commanded the infantry divi- sion garrisoned in the Somme depart- ment, for which he is to stand. Professor Rocntgen of \Vurzburg, the discoverer of the X rays. has finally ac- 'ccpied a call to Munich university that was extended to him some months ago. There Were certain conditions laid down by the scicntist that have only recently been agreed to by the larger university. . Philip D. Armour says that George A. Sheldon, a Lake Shore station agent, ' who died the other day, once (lid him the great service of his life. “I was for four days a bi'akcmun under him when he was a conductor.” says Mr. Armour, “and he told me I was too much of a £001 over to make a good railroader." Professor Max Muller, who has just entered on his sgventieth year, was born ln Dessuu, Germany. and has been con- nected with Oxford university for well nigh 50 years. The venerable professor adds to his numei'dus foreign honors that of member of the French institute. and he is an honorary LL. D. of Edinburgh. Cambridge and Dublin. l Representative F. W. Cushman of t Washington state made his maiden . speech in the house the other day. He afterward expressed himself as very much disappointed with it. He says he found it quite different niaklng a speech in the house from making one on the stump and fears he did not make the - serious impression he wished to. Congressman Julius Kuhn of Califor~ niu, who had the good luck in the draw- ing of seats for the present session of congress to get the one occupied by ex- Speuker Reed In the Fortyâ€"seventh ses- sion, was formerly an actor and has trod the boards with Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Tommaso Salvini, Mr.and Mrs. : W. J. Florence, Clara Morris and others. ORCHA‘RD AN D GARDEN. Unleached ashes are the best fertiliser for all stone fruits. ‘ Peach trees suffer the most from staud‘ ing in the thick grass and cherry and pear the least of any of the fruit trees. The objection to trying to grow grapes in the orchard among the fruit trees is that the grapes need all the sunshine pos- sible. The compact form of growth of the cur- , rant adapts it to close garden quarters. :while its ability to thrive in a partial shade is greatly in its favor. i Generally a warm, dry, light oil is best for the grape, but it will succeed in , almost any kind of fertile soil well adapt- ' ed to garden crops if not too damp. l Most fruit trees thrive best on rolling land. Fruits are less liable to injury by frosts on rolling land than on level land. even though the latter be high and dry. Black spot on roses is a fungus grow- ing on the leaves, which causes them to l drop prematurely. A good preventive in ‘ to keep the plants in a warm, dry utmos- L Dhere. l HOUSEHOLD HINTS. I I. l l | l l l , Flatirons once made redhot never re- tain the heat as well afterward and will ‘ always be rougher. After sweeping a room allow a full ihour for dust to settle. Dust with a damp cloth, followed by a dry rubbing. Apply a little lard to dirty hands be- fore washing them with soap and water. It loosens the dirt and keeps the skin soft. Vinegar makes spots on the table linen. Teach children to catch the drop left on ‘the lip of the cruct after using on the .stopper and thus prevent stains. or set the cruet in a saucer. THE NURSERY. A child will be naturally polite and thoughtful if the mother is also careful. A thin llunnel bandage around a baby's abdomen will often prcvvni cholera in- fantiim. Weakly children may be greatly strengthened by a daily suit bath, and, if possible, sea salt should be obtained for this purpose. Never use pure mustard poulticcs for Ichildrcn. Thcii' skins live too delicate. One spoonful of mustard to two of lin- seed nicul is a good mixture. WOMEN’S WAYS. i Every womnn uses a man’s face for l lmirror.â€"Nn-w York \I'orld. Every time a man says saint-thing (:Oln- plimcnmry to his loving wife it removes lone more Wrinkle from bl'l‘ brow. i The average girl starts out at 18 to :mnke ii naiue for herself. but decides at 20 that some man's will do.â€"Atchison Globe. The posititlive department now rules that fcinalv clerks in that tit‘partnn-nt must res-iin when they get married. lEYt‘u then they will Continue to boss the malu.â€"Baltimoro American.