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 HOUSEHOLD. â€" â-  J/i Kitchen Befoims for This Tear. Some individaal who has pronaWy spent conaiderable time in the kitchen courting, the hired girl, has noted the many leakages^ which cause the head of the family to growi. in making the slate of reform f«r the N«w â-  Year, just glance over this little bill of par- ticulars In cooking meats the water is thrown out without removing the grease, or the grease from the drippin-pan ia thrown away. Scraps of meat are thrown away. Cold potatoes are left to sour and spoil. Dried fruits are not looked after and be- come wormy. Vinegar and sauce are left standing in tin. Apples are left to decay for want of "sort- ing over. " The tca-c'annister is left open. Victuals are left exposed to be eaten by mice. Bones of meat and the carcass of turkey are thrown away, when they could be used in making good soups. Sugar, tea, coflFee and rice are carelessly spilled in handling. Soup is left to dissolve and waste in the water. Dish-to wis are used for dish-cloths. Napkins are used for dish-towels. ToMels are used for holders. Brooms and mops are not hung up. More coal is burned than necessary by not arranging dampers when not using the fire. Lights are left burning when not used. Tin dishes are not properly cleansed and dried. (iood new brooms are used in scrubbing kitchen floors. Silver spoons are used in scraping kettles. Cream is left to mold and spoil. Mustard is left to spoil in the cruse, etc. Vinegar is left to stand until the vessel becomes corroded and spoiled. Pickles become spoiled by the leaking out or evaporation of the vinegar. Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef be- cause the brine wants scalding. Hams become tainted or filled with ver- min for want of care. Cheese molds and is eaten by mice and vermin. Tea and coffee pots are injured on the stove. Woodenware is unscalded and left to warp and crack. lu^ance yniycted witii kerosene lamps is |iȣcs^:^aebn to becoming greamr on the :ioinaidetiif nie condeDsation of we vapor of tiie oir. This mjhioa^^j obviated if nolT altxgether preve^tedlj|l ^^b^ a ^ece of felt doth and cattiiiG^ ^ole S tlte jiuddle of it so that it may fit olbsm algibut the locket into frfaidi ii^e^l(fimemjfiAaeiwed. The felt oufQr be tfimibeji^A^ ^d the ngfct size, to form a Tbtg nMil half an inch wide, which should be kept on the socket to prevent, as far as possible, the escape of the very volatile vapor of the kerosene. All the routine connected with tbe care of lamps should be performed in the early morning hours, and at a regular time. This being observed it will only be neceMiry to give the lamp a slight dusting or nibbing witn a cloth before lighting it and bringing it to the table or sitting room in the evening. Having observed carefully these directions, the housewife will be rewarded by the bril- liant, steady soft glow of the lamps that cheer and light' the evening honrs. It re- mains only to advise that the housewife pe- lect good lamps when purchasing, and to use them only when the wick is turned up toits best capacity for illumination without smoke; in a word, never to allow a lamp to bum with its wick turned low, as the effects are most injurious to the atmosphere of a room, and consequently to its tenants, beside being most disagreeable. Formidable Iron-Clsids. In addition to a formidable list of gun- 25,764 in 1884. The nnmbor of joined during tliiB year ynm 50,828. men who Care of Lamps. The necessity for the proper care of lamps caonot be too strongly impressed on every one who has charge of a household, for illy trimmed, foul lamps not only cause serious discomfort and annoyance, but more or less aggravated disorder of the health of every ' one who breathes the air contaminated by them. Some bints as to their management will doubtless be welcome, especially at this time of the year, when so much comfort depends upon good illumination. The use of kerosene in one form or another is so uni- versal, e^en in great cities, and its full bril- liancy is so rarely attained, that any infor- mation leading to that end is of greatjvahie. Ko medium used for household lighting pro- duces, under given conditions, so soft, so brilliant, and so steady a flame as the best qualities of kerosene. The given conditions are absolute cleanliness of the lamp, the wick, and the oil, also the chimney. To at- tain the first it will benecessai-y once a week or a fortnight at least to empty the lamp of its contents and wash it inside and out with hot soap and water and a little washing soda. When clean rinse again and again to remove all traces of soap, then invert the lamp and leave it to drain until perfectly dry. 1 he burner, if new, may be kept nice aiid bright by occasional dipping in kerosene, which might be kept in a bowl for the purpose after the dipping polish with a bit of fine woolen cloth. If the burner is badly black- ened take a little fine ashes and an old tooth brush, moisten the ashes with ammonia water and scrub vigorously then rinse, and polish with flannel. ' The next step will be to place a new wick Ln the burner Wicks are not costly they should therefore, for pur- poses of proper burning and good illumina- tion, be used only a week, and then re- moved, as during that time they have ab- sorbed sufficient impurities from the oil to become charged with them to a degree inter- fering with the best powers of the oil for il- lumination. Indeed, the weekly renewal of wicks is a saving in the end, because clean wicks burn less oil than impure ones. Lamp wicks should be trimmed every day with great care this cannot be done without a sharp scissors of suitable size. Many per- sons merely rub the top of the charred part of the wick to insure evenness of flame, in- stead of cutting it. This is not a good prac- tice, as it causes the top of the wick to be- come clogged with impurity. Cut the wick square across the wick tube. If the top of the burner is immovable raise the wick above the cupola and trim it as evenly straight across as possible, and then cut off the ex- treme points or corners. This can all be easily done if you use a good sharp scissors of suitable size, but not otherwise. It is claimed by those who profess to know, tbat wicks made of felt are greatly superior to the ordinary cotton wicks, and doubtless Oat is the case, because the felt presents no net- work for entanglement with the small toothed wheel that elevates and lowers the wick. The lamp and wick having been 1 treated, we must next consider the chimney, that brittle object Avhich causes such annoy- I ance by its tendency to breaking at most un- [expected junctiures. This brittleness results Ifrom insufficient, or rather impetf egt anneal- ling of the lamp glass in its mannfactute, land may be in great measure remedied by Ithe simple process of putting the cnimneys linto a kettle of cold water, and graduEdly Iheating them till the water boils, after which [tiiey must be allowed to cool very gradually. jThis might be repeated several times with Igood results, after whic^ they must be Ipolished with a soft, clean dry cloth. If isoot collects in the chimney from any sud- Iden turning the wick too high, or by ex- Iposure of the flame to draught, brush it out Iwith one of the chimney brushes, which I should constitute part of the lamp equipment I in every well regulated kitchen, and then ' rub and polish with clean cloth on the end ' of a small mop of cotton wick. Another an- boats, unarmored cruisers, torpedo cruisers, and torpedo-boats the English admiralty has in hand two cleisses of iron-clads that may fairly rank as first-rate. The first of these â€" which might be called the ' ' Admiral " class, each stiip being named after some fa- mous British admiral â€" consists of what are termed " barbette ships," from the fashion in which the guns are mounted. These are: The Anson, Benbow, Camperdown, CoUing- wood, Howe and Rodney. The Imgerieuse and Warspite are also ships of the same type, but somewhat smaller than the " Ad- miral " class, though in proportionate horse- power they are even more formidable. The six " Admiral " ships have a tonnage rang- ing from 9,150 in the Collingwood to 10,- 000 in the Anson, Benbow and Camperdown; and a horse-power rjuiging from 7,500 in the three last named vessels to 11,150 in the Rodney. Each of these ships will be mounted with either ten or twelve guns, and in every case at least two of these guns will be of the 1 10-ton pattern. The Benbow re- cently made her trial trip, and steamed 70 knots in four hours â€" an average of 17i knots an hour, a speed exceeded by very few war ships afloat, even counting cruisers specially built for speed. And swift as the Benbow has shown herself to be, the Colling- wood, Howe, Rodney, Warspite, and Im- perieuse will be far swift. The second class of first-rate iron-clads consists of turret-ships. Hitherto English turret-ships have been rather slow. The Inflexible can scarcely make fourteen knots an hour, and the Devastation is still slower. But by vastly increasing the proportion of horse-power as compared with tonnage the admiralty has got over this difficulty. While the Devastation, with a tonnage of 9,330, has only 6,650 horse-power, the Re- nown and Sans Pareil, now being construct- ed, have a horse-power of not less than 12,- 000, against a tonnage of 10,400. These two ships are to be mounted with fifteen guns each, these in the turrets being, of course, of the largest type. â-  There is also another turret-ship, smaller than these, but â- surely a formidable vessel, the Edinburgh, 9,140 tons, 7,520 horse-power, nine guns. Nothing is so noticeable in recent English war-ships as the great proportionate increase of horse-power to tonnage, showing the im- portance attached to speed. For the broad- side ships Agincourt and Minotaur the pro- portion of horse-power of tonnage was as six to ten. But this increase of horse -power over tonnage is most conspicuous of all in the torpedo ram Polyphemus, which, with a tonnage of 2,640, has a horse-power of 5,520. These, then, are what they call first-rate iron-clads in Europe. Ships like these cost immense sums of money but there are not a few men in England who would gladly pay 5 shillings in the pound income tax if. by so doing they could secure to their fleet unquestionable supremacy. STATISnCS. Russia prodiices two- thirds of the total flax-supply of Europe, or about 350,000 tons of stripped flax. Britain imported 1,186,827 cwt. of flax fiom Russia in 1885, at a cost of £2,083,579. The quality of the Russian flax is far inferior to that of the Irish commodity. There are no fewer than 2,067 architects and 1,173 surveyors in London, while of builders there are 7,333. The total ag- gregate of all the various classes of trades who are engaged in the great construction- al art is a little in excess of 125,000 if we take into account the entire kingdom, we reach an estimated total of 688,114. In England and Wales at the last census there were, over twenty-five years of' age, 569,864 more women than men. In the Colonies the state of things is reversed. In Canada there is, on the entire population of all ages, an excess of 53,000 nudes in New South Wales, of more than 100,000 Vic- toria, 68,000 in South Australia, 25,000 in Tasmania, 8,000 and in all the others a proportionate outnumbering of the fair sex. South Australia is the leading wheat ex- porter among the Australian colonies, thoagb the quantity- exirarted to England in recent years has fluctuated greatly. Of the 2,786,000 acres of land under cultivation nearly 2,000,000 are under wheat, the great cereal crop of the colony, for which much of the southern region is adapted, and for which patches are here and there found fav- ourable in other districts. The value of the total 0Kpart in 1884 was £2,491,000, and of this"JE861,230 worth went to England in 1880the amount was over £1,000,000 ster- ling. A number of the men«nrolled in the British Volunteer force are young in years and also in lengttt fl* service. Of l2i«'2B4jM2 enroll- ed last, year 90,8^ were tuider 22 years of age. Between that and 30 there were last year 84,499 enrolled between 30 and 35, 19,657 between 35 and 40, 12,739; between 40 and 43, 8,499 between 45 and 50, 5,282; and over 50, 2,471. There weare 121,382 with less thiln three years' service, or 7,000 more than in the year before of men wtth between three and four years' service the total was 21,586. Altogether there were last year in the force 26,^7 who had served 10 years and upwards, as compared with "QOOD-BTBr BT JOSS ataxE, tokonto. "Qood-l^e good-bye " wliat kindly wooS^ As they faU on tiie parting 'ter lake the Bingiiig of summer birds, "â-  With their wonderfel power to cheer Their meaning true â€" " God-be-with-you " With kiss and sigh â€" " Good-bye good-bye " "Good-bye good-bye!" means not "Fare- weU!" But a wish for onr Father's care How sweet when hearts their fullness tell In the words of that loving prayer " Good-bye good-bye 1" May €rodbe nigh The meaning true â€" " God-be-with-you " The words are sometimes idly said â€" Like passing sunbeams on tbe wall â€" And on the heart falls cold and dead, "Tis then no fervent prayer at all But plain â€" " good-bye " A foirmal cry â€" No kiss nor .sigh â€" ' Ah, friendsâ€" why why • Remember when we say â€" "Good-bye " Life is uncertain, short, and fleet Then, let the love-light in your eye Show friendship's bond is strong and sweet Thus, hand-in-hand. Friends understand The meaning true â€" " God-be-with-you " ii^MD VOMEH. "No ^oman.is IimiS^ The Earth-Worm'slWoik. Tt is only recently that science has come to understand fully the^se^vice which the earth- worm â€" the humble creature which some Canadian boys call the " angle -worm," and others the " mud-worm" â€" performs in the economy of the world. It is now known that, burrowing steadily Ln the earth, he does valuable work for agri- culture. The little holes which he makes let in the air and light to damp places, and con- duct to the roots of the plants the leaf-mould and surface accumulations of all sorts which these plants need for their nourishment. But more than this, the worms bring to the surface the finely powdered earth which they consume in their burrowings, and scatter it over the soil. Two earth-worms, put in a a;lass vase eigh- teen inches in diameter, filled with sand covered with dry leaves, managed first to sink the leaves entirely beneath the sand, and then to cover the sand with a thin coat- ing of humus, or mould. All this was accomplished in six months. One earth-worm will bring to the surface about seven grains avoirdupois of earth in a day. This is a very small quantity of earth, but if we multiply it by fafty-six thousand, the average number of worms to an acre, we have more than fifty pounds of earth raised every day. From the 9th of October, 1870, to the 14th of October, 1871, the worms upon one field in England brouf.;ht iip eight tons of earth, and in another field sixteen tons. A field in Staffordshire is covered annually by the worms with a deposit of earth nearly a quar- ter of an inch in thickness. By the slow toil of the earth-worms, rocks are buried in the ground and the surface of the earth is modified. It is chiefly their work which has buried the ruins of dead cities under, the ground. The Jingle of the Bells. Ah the fleecy flakes are {ailing Through the frosty winter night, And January winds are calling Us to scenes of rare delight There are roguish eyes that glisten, As the snow of pleasure tells And the rU'itic sweethearts listen For the jingle of the bells â€" For the jingle and the tingle Of the merry winter bells. In the Cupid-haunted valley, 'Twixt the old hills lying low. Where the summer breezes d^y, Falls the lover-cherished snow. Oh, the silence of to-morrow Will be broken in the della t And the heart will gladness borrow From the jingle of the bells â€" From the tinkle, tinkle, tinkle Of the never ceasing bells. Jingle I jingle in the starlight, Tinkle tinkle in the dark, Gliding swiftly toward the far light In the window, but aSpark There can be no joys completer Than the ones the snow foretells Ah my darllnpf, what is sweeter Than a kiss behind the bells â€" As they jingle, jingle, jingle O'er the snow, the sleighing bells I Life ia but a dream of pleastue Tliat returns with every snow, ^nter fills to-day the measure Emptied often long ago. 'Neath the cutter's furry coven Many a heart with raptue swellB, And the merry laugh of lovers Greets the jingle utthe bells- Greets the laughter and the fingle Of the ever-merry bells 1 On the road and inthe -vrlUwood Ii«turedons aMbeoflraite, i And tbe bappv Jatfih tf ^dhoo(E WiUbe be*id:to^«mMr- night I-' Everywhere the bells will jingle 'Neath the starry sentinels, And tiie lassie's cheek will tingle With gtbeluMl^MundiaiMi*-^-' With a kis^ tint gently ndneles ' With the laughter of the bells Oh, the bells my heart remembers, With their music soft andlow Oh, the sieigh bells of the winters Buried in the long ago 1 I remember eyes tlut glistened When the snow was m Uie dells I remember i iiiii MllJ_Hili"i ' For the jingle 4 For the jingle, Jl Of the rich Mia jolly 1 Chesterfield said, when tastefully dressed. At Queen Vi«bna's table there are three servants to every six gotets. Alxmdcm lady, wh^ recently died, left £100 to a ijoor clergyman and £10,000 to the dog^s faotne. St. Pefersbofg is in ecstacies over a finale tenor, and yetalmost any female can sing tenor the trouble is to find a tnale who can. The Qneen-mpther of Spain has made an agireement witli her crediton^ by which she keeps f2OO,O0O of ker revmae and they take the remaining $120,000. Her life is heavily insured. We are now to hear of lectures by a royal personage. The Qaeen of Romania, already a poet, has engaged to deliver a course of lectures on Modem Literature next year at the Bncharest High School. The beautiful and costly state carriage built for the triumphal entryâ€" which never took lace â€" of the Comte de Chambord into Paris is now the state carriage of the Queen of Greece. She' iaid $5,000 for it, about half of what it cost. In Bavaria it is not good form for a lady to shake hands with a gentleman tmtil she is well acquainted with him, and no unmarried woman ia allowed to speak on the street to any of her friends of the .opposite sex, no matter how well she may know them. It seems that Lieut. Greely believes in the theory that there is an open sea, some 1,500 miles in diameter, round about the Pole that never freezes, the conjecture being that the Pole itself is the centre of an ice-capped land, covered with ice from 1,000 to 4,000 feet thick. " The Intransigeant" states that the famous treasure of Hue, captured by Gener- al de Courey in the Imperial Palace and sent to France, and which was supposed to be worth 15,000,00a francs, turns out to be on examination of no value at all. The supposed bars of silver are simply lead. " William Black, the novelist, has ob- tained a verdict for £100 damages against Bow Bells for libelous assertions respecting his early life and parsimonious habits. The main injury was that it called him a "canny Scotsman" and accused him of marrying for financial advancement. Mr. Gladstone was paid $1 ,250 for his arti cle in the Nineteenth Century Review on Lord Tennyson's " Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," which is one of the largest, if not the largest, price ever paid in England for so short an essay. However, it was a lucky hit for the Review, as it had an enor- mous sale in consequence. Queen Victoria is reported to be breaking very rapidly and to be conscious that she cannot live very many years longer. There is a general apprehension among the people of England that the Queen may not live till the year is completed. The appearance of old age is most clearly marked in her jubilee portrait, which has just been completed and placed in the gallery leading to her private apartments at Windsor. The Century Magazine prints for the first time these words of Abraham Lincoln, given in an official reprimand to a young officer who had been court martialed for quarrel- ling " The advice of a father to his son, ' Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee ' is good, but not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right, and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your wrath to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite. " BEEVITIES. TfluHis N By every inan ^g^ wnrnfufef if they desire to secure comfoiHyain thi^lrorld is a com sheller. Putnam's Com Extractor shells corns in two or three days and without dis- comfort or pain. A hundred ' inutations prove the merit of Putnam's Painless Com Extractor, which is always sure, safe and painless. See signature of Polsok Co. on. each bottle. Sold by medicine dealns. Babylon was captured by Cyi'us the Great 538 B. C. Paris wxS greatly shocked over the Colin Campbell scandal. Prairie fires have devastated, 3,500,000 acres in Texas this year. The street- cars in Pensacola, Fla., are run wholly by electricity. ' During the year 800 duels were fought in France without bloodshed. Jnice of ripe tomatoes will remove fruit stains from cloth or the hands. The churches of Cambridge, Mass., have done away with the hired pew. Stains on wood can be removed with strong vinegar or salts of lemon. Thomas Twelfthtree and Joseph Gotobed are neighbors in Bock Island Connty. The parlor banjo all tied with bows and ribbons is the instrument never played upon. Silver-handle canes die hard. The dudes hold t|ie taste to be preferable to any other. Prof. Tyndall says the sky is indebted for its blue color to the particles floating in the air. As a general thing, the man who says smart wmgs is of no eartiily nse for any- thing else. Cigar cases made of pifskin bound in solid silver, with matcn-Dox inside, are among the novelties. Thef« are in the employ of theU. S. Gov- ernment 560 Smiths, 360 Browns, 320 John- sons and 270 Joneses. GaLd^fia 4i8covei»(Uin California in the 8p»% ^a34 attdnt^aky nsflat abp^ the present i£fty Of SaendHento. Good thoughts are great travelers that have come all the way from heaven, bring- ii^^iessages from Cmd.â€"Marpin. Tbe man wjio saved Victoria's life in a rirt it iwa y, whAi she was two years oldj, is still Irnhir, ntor London, At tbe age ot eiglity* 'fhe Stiltan of Turkey, like :1»e ' iCSsar ' ci ^nsAk, is in constant dread ' of ttisBiuiimk^- tfAn. A pUun Canadian's citizen's lot isb't SBOh a bad one, after all. ' ' « ' â€" t m i^iâ€" 'Is j â-  ' --^ '-^, "-â- â- 'â-  Enoonxa^pagbat AniUgQoiis. Anxidaa MinioDUM. " Then, or, I have yonr consent to pay my addresses toi-yonr daaghter. Ah, if I only tiionghtl conld win her afifection " Eager Father. " Why not, my "dear sir, why not Plenty of others have socceeded." '4BLE? In the coi^rae of conversation a foreign 4^1om»^'«rhom »lang eareer in the var- roes capRaarof Ettrape nas rendered espe- cially well adapted to pronounce an opinion on the present political situation, made the following remarks â€" THS IkOBSO-OESlCAK TRKATV. I do not believe in the existence of the al- leged treaty between Russia and Germany, whi^h I consider to have originated in the uoaginaUve mind of my good friend Mr. de Blowitz. Of course most of the persons holding any prominent official positions to whom you may apply for their views on the present situation will declare that every- thing points towards tbe maintenance of peace. There are but few holding respon- sible diplomatic positions who could, aiford to uttca- Miy contrary opinion for publica- tion without exposing themselves to receiv- ing a severe rap over the knuckles for their indiscretion. The real truth is that we all expect an early outbreak of war, which can- not be long dela3'ed. PREPABIK6 KOK THE STRUGGL«. Why, even here in England, we are in- formed that Lord Salisbury intends to divert public attention from the troubles at home by inaugurating a vigorous foreign policy abrgad, and .military preparations are the order of the day. You know that several battalions of the Guards have been instruct- ed to hold themselves ready for foreign ser- vice, and are being submitted to a special medical examination,. Now, the Guards are rarely despatched abroad imless some extremely important campaign is in pros- pect. Who knows if the determination of Lord Salisbury to adopt a military foreign policy unsuited to Great Britain has not been one of the principal reasons of Lord Randolph Churchill's withdrawal from the Cabinet SIGNIFICANT IXTEXLIGENCE. See the significant milifeiry intelligence that reaches us from Constantinople. Turkey is massing an enormous force in Macedonia. A fortnight ago there were over a hundred and twenty battalions of infantry and thirty- six batteries of artillery in the Macedonian provinces. This enormous concentration of troops in the present season and in the pre- sent state of Turkish finances could not have been intended for show purposes. The Turks must be looking forward to a war on the Macedonian frontier, and they are not quite certain whether it may not begin be- fore the winter is over. AN EARLY WAE INEVITABLE. Moreover, the intense hostility which ex- ists between the Russian and German popu- lations renders an early war inevitable. Do you imagine that Prince Bismarck is fool enough to wait until the Czar has had time to arm his immense army with repeating rifles and has doubled the single line of railroad at present running along the west- em frontier of Russia Not only the financial and economical condition of Russia, but also the intense and widespread discon- tent pervading all classes of the Czar's sub- jects renders it inevitable that Alexander III. will soon give way to the demands of the Pan-Slavists and seek to direct public attention from internal difficulties by a popular war with Germany. GIRDINCJ FOR THE. FIGHT. Concerning France, it is needless to talk. Not a day passes but that the newspapers contain accounts of the preparations which Gen. Boulanger is malang for the coming straggle. As to Austria and Italy, notwith- standing their immense financial difficulties, they are running the risk almost of national bankruptcy in their efforts to prepare for the straggle which may now break out at any moment, but the commencement of which will hardly be delayed beyond next April. See also Priui-e Bismarck's anxiety to get the bill for the increase of the Ger- man army by 10 per cent, passed through the Reichstag. No, no I do not believe in the maintenance of peace. Preparations would not have been made on such a scale and ar such immense sacrifice were not the struggle more imminent than is generally supposed. -^ â€" "Does it Pay to Be a Woman?" The above question is being agitated in many of our exchanges, and many of the vie^s respecting it are very amusing. One writer, evidently a woman whose path in life has been a thorny one, complains bitter- ly that it does not pay to be a woman and receive three hundred dc^lars a year for the same work that a man would be paid six or eight hundred for doing. At the same time she calls attention to the fact that when a man usurps a woman's province, he still re- ceives double pay, as in the case of cooks and laudrymen. Another " woman " finds itan easy mat- ter to " Sit on a cushion and sew up a seam. And live upon strawberries, sugar and cream." She does not appear to reflect, that to many of us the seam is an endless one, that all cushions are not of damask and down, that much of the " cream" of life is only skim milk, and that it is given to only a few of us to have our strawberries served upon Sevres. Since, however, the matter is one beyond our control, and having begun life as women we cannot well change our role, it seems to me that the more pertinent question is, " What manner of women shall we be " Surely a woman pays her sex a poor com- pliment in ceaselessly lamenting that heaven has not made her "such" a man. Inthe present enlightened age, we women have really very little cause for complaint near- ly every business and all professions a^e open to ns. Some years ago, a lady moving in the most refined circles of New York, with an elegant home and every enjoyment in life that money could buy, by a sudden reverse of ScMrtune^that oft^ -cornea to the very wealthy, Ifitst every dollar of her ^noney. I next saw her in thcf lo« cabin of a California settlement, doing for her family the duties tf norse, codtr and seamstress. In the one xotm that did doty lor parlor, nursery and b^dveoitn, yrHih^ the aid of the tin wash basin that took the place of her luxurious bath-room and toilet equipment, she cheer- itJfy ^washed the hands and faces and mmaatiui. tie dtarli olher littlo (mes, with a siiuie4Bd#}ieeifuIv|^rdforeU. It '^-paym^ to M such a woman. "Her children shidl rise up and call her blessed, her husband, he praiseth her." ^s-»e^ Carpets may be brightoaed by dusting inth a damp flannel mop.