The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-14

But the angel face and the meek blue eyes,
And the threads Of tho golden hair that loved mo-
Went fading back into paradise!
Hark! into the house In, Kate and Harry,
with shout aud scamper from school have como,
And girl never had meant to marry
n wife aud mother within my home.
Cooking Culture.
Some claim that il the entire thought
is not given TO each minute, the bread
will be burned or heavy; the linen
scorchcd the vegetables half cooked,
and the steak parboiled instead OF
broiled. In reply TO this assertion, |
offer few practical examples Mrs.
Stowe assures us she wrote Uncle
Toms Cabin" while attending TO her
bread. Marion Harland Mrs. Terhuno),
the wife Of the pastor Of the First Con.
gregational Church, in Springfield,
Mass, planned the architecture OF their
owD home, and, although sho had
amassed large fortune by her pen, she
is described by recent guest as ga
model vito and mother" While her
paintings adorn the walls, and the fur
niture is decorated by her own hands,
her kitchen is the crown of her home,
for in tins she is queen, and she ailirms
the more woman knows the better
house.kceper, wife and mother she can
be. With all these occupations, she has
n class Of forty young men in her hus-
bands Sunday-school, which numbers
800. Rose Terry Cooke, i'll her old-fash-
ioned country home, at Winsted, Conn.,,
IL equally famous as n cook aud o poet.
Sho not only writes charming poems
about her garden, but is up before sun
rise to work III it. Her roses aro her
especial PRIDE CcUciand HcraM.
a 'Eruo Lady.
Widncss is thing which girls cannot
afford. Dcllcacy is thing which can.
not be lost or found. No art can restore
10 the grape its bloom. Familiarity
without confidence, without regard, is
destructive to all that makes woman cx-
alting and ennobling, IL il the first
duty OF woman to DO lady. Good
breeding is good sense. Bad manners
in woman is immortality. Awkward
ness may be ineradicablc. Bashfulness
is constitutional. Ignorance of etiquette
is the result of circumstances. All can
DO condoned and not Danish men or
women from the amenities of their kind.
But self-possessed, unshrinking and ag-
gressiye coarseness Of demeanOr may be
reckoned M n States prison oilense, and
certainly merits that mild form of re-
straint called imprisonment for life.
II IL II shame for women to lecture on
their manners. IL lisa bitter shame that
they need it. Do not be restrained. DO
not have impulses that need restraint.
Do not wish to dance with the Prince
unsought; feel differently. BE sure you
confer honor. Carry yourself so loitily
that men will look up to you for reward,
not Mt you in rebuke. The natural SEN
timent Of man toward woman is rover
onco. He loses II large means of grace
when he is obliged to account her be-
ing to be trained i'll propriety. A mans
ideal IL not wounded when woman fails
in worldly wisdom; but if in grace, in
tact, in sentiment, in deicacy, IN kind
ness, she would DO found wanting, he re-
ceiyes an inward hurt.-GaH Hamilton.
Pug-Noscd Girls.
A young man who has evidently got
one on his hands writes as follows con-
corning pug-nosed girls Any girl in the
wide world can have snub nose with
out any trouble Mt oil, but not one girl
in 10000, 900 attains to the ravishing
delectability ola dear little pug. There
are inconsiderate superficial observers
who aver that snubs and pugs are very
much the same thing. This is absurd.
1t would be rs rational to assert the
identity Of one of Camoens' dainty
shepherdesses aud respectable but un-
interesting colored washerwoman.
Tho pug-nosed girl il distinct type,
and sho knows it. Possessing n pug.
nose, sho possesses certain privileges
and immunitics to which no other sort
of noscd girl can lay claim. Occupy.
ing the peculiar and elevated position,
she is Mt once fascinating and harrow
ing. With her nose, by right divine,
goes rosebud mouth that anybody can
zee Mt half n glance was made principally
for kissing. Nobody over dreams of
kissing lips which have long Roman
nose standing sentinel over them. But
the pug-noscd girls lips are not guarded
Mt all on the contrary, they are most
temptingly accessible. And when she
smiles and she has great way
of smiling, the dear thing; and
her nose sympathizes with the
muscular movement and tips it.
self little higher, it seems just like q
formal invitation. That is the fascnat-
ing part of the performance. The har-
rowing part of it is when, encouraged by
what seems to be 80 encouraging, you
try to accept the invitation-and find
that she is not that sort of q pug-nosed
girl Mt all 1t is dismal business, this
when the pug-nosed girl is put to the
test OF actual kissing and her rosebud
mouth lis proved to be but delusior
and n snare. The little ray of hope tha
illumines the gloomy horizon unde
these melancholy circumstances is tina
success can DO comprised by trying
rgain. For, while she is known all too
well to be mettlesome, unmanageabl,
little body, there are facts recorded con
corning the pug-nosed girl which prov,
that she is not persistently and irrevoc-
ably cruel. In moment of contrition
herself Borrowing because of the sorrow
which she had caused, she has beer
known to pucker her pretty lips as they
ought to be puckered, and 80 to yielt
them allies to the invitation extended
by her angelic, unprotecting nose. HUI.
manityis strengthened and stayed in thi
Borrowing world by the fact that tn
pug-nosed girl lives in it. She may be
indeed she is at times, rasping; but il
the long run she is source OF exceed.
ing cheer. Light-minded, little-know.
ing folk may rail at her nose and affirm
that no charm whatever appertains +
its puggishness But the wise are no