, 1880-05-03
The Mushery.

I1e Mushery.
Minnie Myrtle says " she wishes
to be good and beautiful if she only
knew how" We can't help you out on
the beautifal very much. Minnie, but
if you really want to be good, and don't
know how to go at it, just look at us.
And then use your powers OF imita-
ton.
"Annie of Argyle" wants to know
who was the Lochiel of Campbell's s
poem ?" He was proprietor of hotel
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
+" Oh, the changing scenes of life ;
the ruthless hand of time" writes
Claribel," "the spring time of my
life is past and gone where will l be
fifty years from now?" II you are as
old as Mr.. Tilden, +" Claribel," you will
be dead, and you Can bet money on it.
Harry Hazea, of Circleville, Ohio,
writes, " l see again my childhood 3
home l see the ripping brook and !
hears the wind that kisses the bending
willows. Sweet vision of the home
that watched my boyhood-"
Yes, yes, Harry, we know all about
that. We knew your folks. We know
your childhood's nome like a book.
You were born in Westmoreland county,
Pennsy ami when you we're two
months old your parents moved to Sal
amanca, New York; then about ten
months after ward they moved to Cos
hoctOn, OHIO, aud remained there just
long enough for you to get over the
LII: q ,les and then they went down into
Tennessee and your father run saw
mill nearly a year and then You all
came back to Ohio and settled in Butler
county. When you were about four
Years old Your family moved over to
Warren, Indiana, and lived there about
seven months, when they went down
into Christian county, Illinois and had
the ague for ten weeks. packing up and
going on to Muscatlne, Iowa, as soon as
they were strong enough. They lived
there year and half and moved to
Montgomery, Minnesota, and there
your father joined the Methodist
church. and you lived there three years
and at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, year
and half while be read theology, and
then he entered the ministry and since
then you haven't lived in any one place
longer thai two years. Oh yes, Harry,
If you have any memories of your
-" boy hoods home. your memory must
be polyglot, that's all.
Rose Geranium wants q little in
formation in Horticulture. ''How do
you propagate roses?" she asks. Well,
about the best way is to depend on a
ten year old boy to fasten the front
gate at night, and if everything in your
garden isn't propagated before day light
1t will be because all the cows in your
neighborhood are dead.
How" asks Mrs. Worlit, of Nashua,
New Hampshire, "do you clean paint
splashes eff window panes?"
Well, about the easiest way is to kick
out the glass. We don't know Of any
other way that does not demand an ex-
tensive and useless expenditure of ell
bow grease. You might prevent their
getting on the glsss, if you could kill
the painter in time.
Mrs. Youngwoman wants to know
chow she can tell fresh egg from a
stale one? Taste it, goosey. taste it.
What do you want to know for?
Mrs. Duntsman says, g 1 can tell you
how to keep moths out of your carpet.
You just TT
Well, we don't want to know. We
haven't carpet to our back, and we
amt afraid OF moths anyhow. But if
you can tell us how to keep the laun-
dress out of our handkerchiefs, Mrs.
Dustman, trot on your prescription and
well send you the Hawkeye.