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accomplishment to swim well as to ride
we'll, and the natatoria are patronized
by the most elegant ladies', who frisk
about in picturesque suits Of China
silk, prettily made and ornamental.
woman,s Approach to MANS Dres,

Woman's Approach to Mans Dresl
"At the theatre, the other evening""
says a writer in the New York World,
II had the pleasure of sitting near .
young lady whose dress shot up at the
shoulders like the ears of a rabbit, and
/ was once more reminded of the mas
culine freaks that female fashions now
take to with such marked degree. Why
should the sleeves of o lady's dress <
tend two inches above her shoulders?
For no other reason than that men In
the military wear epaulettes. Why do
ladies wear tailor-made suits? Because
men do. Why do women wear listers?
Because men do. Why do ONE wear
stiff white collars about their necks?
Because men do. Have You thought
Of the gradual approach toward mans
dress that the women have made in the
last ten years? The old female dress
reformers started wrong, They wanted
to put bloomers on the women. That
would not do. Neither would trousers,
such as Doctor Mary Walker q
No modest woman could jump out ofa
dress into q pair of trousers and pre-
serve her self-respect and the respect
of her masculine admirers. The ap-
proach of o male costume was BY q
more circuitous route, and the result
reached is both pleasing and endurable.
Feminine attire is not 80 feminine us it
used to be, and 1t is altogether sensible
and proper that it should not be. Take
q girl now dressed in IN ul-
ster that reaches her heels, that
has lappels in front and big but
tons, that is made of good, heavy, warm
cloth, and if she has a cap and stout
shoes she looks when walking away from
you on a cold day in winter very much
like the gentleman ut her side. You
say h is sensible, and SO she is, but
how far has she departed from the style
of her grandmother, when everything
was silk and lace and feathery fneryl
1t is coming to be recognized that 8
woman is not o kitten to be kept in q.
satin bag at home and dressed in o blue
ribbon when she goes ont, but that she
has muscles to be developed, and askin
that may safely come in contact with
the dancing breezes and the light Of
heaven. In other words, women are be-
coming more sturdy and robust than
they used to be. Croquet is not the
game now, but it must be lawn-tennis,
which requires more exertion, moro
strength, and more activity. The girl
of the future will be an athlete. She
will have strong arms and arnddy COM
plexion. She will ride horseback and
row boats. She will dig the juicy clam
at the seaside, and feast like king n
the result Of her honest toll. And she
will be all the better for it--all the
stronger and healthier physically, men
tally, and s~entimentally. She will be
q better specimen every way than her
puny sisters of q generation back.
Above all, she will make better wife
and o better mother. Ali this she can
be, and still retain every real andessen-
tial womanly characteristic.
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FARM, FIELD And ERESIDE.
Fashion Notes.

Quantities Of red appear in new mil
linery.
Murray is a new shade between vio-
let and claret color.
Corselets of Swedish kid are en-
broidered with gold and silver cord and
beads.
z Dark red and blue is to be the fash.
ionable combination in dress and mil
linery this fall.
More dresses of black silk will prob
ably be worn Ton the street this winter
than any other material.
Bonnets made entirely Of black lace
are popular just now for evening wear
among middle-aged'women.
Round turbans are to be revived to
some extent and a good many of the
ladies' hats will be made of plush.
Crinoline is on tho increase. One
may as well take a long, last look at the
present tight and shapely mode.
Fob CHAINS are considered stylish
for ladies wear, with plain tailor-made
suits that have vests with slit pockets.
Bonnet Strings of bias velvet are tied
under the chin in two broadloops, with
very short shapely pointed ends.
Birds of rich plumage will continue
to be worn on ladies' tall hats for the
promenade, but not to church or visit.
ing.
Among the newest handkerchiefs are
those made with red and black borders
on which are %grotesque little imps in
colors.
For Fall wear the straight choker
collar will not be as much worn by men
as the English collars turned over in
front,
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Celery Growing.

In her prize essay on celery in Vick's
Magazine, Mrs. G. H. Root, of Ripon,
Wis. recommends the following meth-
cd of preparing for and c~ultivating the
crop:
l. Send where you will be sure to
get good seed.
2. Prepare o seed bed out of doors
in o sheltering situation. You will get
your plants early enough by SO doing,
for they grow much faster and are
stronger than when in o hot bed.
8. Sprinkle the bed often to keep il
moist, and when the young plants are
about three inches high transplant
them into rows. putting them about
three inches apart and the rows about
one foot from each other.
4. When the plants have become
stocky, have a trench dug about one
foot deep; put into it equal parts of
wood ashes and good, rich dressing, and
rich, black soil, and mix all together
with a hoe.
s.. Set the plants about five inches
apart. and be sure to straighten out the
FOCUS anu press u earth nrmly abou
them.
6. Sprinkle the roots enough TO
keep them fresh until they are firm in
their places, and then give them all the
water you h9ve a mind to, the more the
better.
Z. When they have made growth
enough to cause the branches to lie
over, hill up enough to hold the stalks
erect. Continue the killing process
at intervals of two weeks, all summer,
being careful to do it when the weather
is dry and in the afternoon when the
dew is off. Be sure, when Milling, to
hold the stalks together, to prevent the
soil from getting into the heart of the
plants.
s. Such portion as you wish for
early celery, bank to the top by the
first OF September; for winter use bank
to the top from the first to the middle
Of October,
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Care Of MIX.

In prize essay in the Rural New
Yorker Professor J.. N. Muncey gives
the following results OF experiment
First, milk set at 80 degrees in water
at 40 degrees for twenty four hours,
will yield nor cream and butter than
milk set ut 80 degrees in water at GO
degrees for the same time. Second,
Milk set at 80 degrees in water at 30
degrees for t%wenty-four hours, will
yield more cream and butter than the
same milk cooled to 30 degrees before
setting. Third, Milk set ct 90 degrees
in vessel four inches deep, in . room at
60 to 60 degrees, for twenty-four hours,
will raise more cream and make poore,
butter than milk set by the first two
propositions. Practically, then, the
mcst ream is obtained from the mill
when it is set as it m from the COW
at about 80 degrees-and gradual,
cooled to-, say, so degrees before acidi
tcation. Milk in the creamer or else
where should be cooled SO rapidly thai
acidificati,n does not begin until tn,
cream has risen.
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A Norway correspondent of the Bos.

A Norway correspondent Of the Bos.
ton Advertiser describes what he calls
a phenomenon, which he discovered il
a country village: "He was a country
innkeeper, who was also postmaster,
storekeeper, parish clerk, schoolmaster,
we'll read in his own literature and his
tory, who read also, and to q small ex.
tent spoke, Latin and English. He
was deeply interested in English liter
AZURE. Like all true Norsemen, he
greatly loved and admired SHAKESPEARE.
he had also read Mill and Darwin, Ten.
nyson and Longfellow. He was a re.
ligious man. too, and acted as clerk in
the church, reading the opening prayer
of the service in a clear, line voice, with
deep solemnity of manner, while in the
evening of Sunday he walked near
ly two miles to teach the boys and girls
Of the school in the neighboring town
ship
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hat what is grown in the field is more
valuable, ever if it is put to the same
use. What a farmer raises for the table
he does not have to buy, and an ear of
green corn from field or garden is worth
more for food than it is when ripe, and
the more attention is given to the gar
den, so as to secure green food early and
lengthen out the season by late plant
Jugs the cheaper the family can live and
the more fresh, enjoyable dinners they
can have on the table.
Look over o seed catalogue this fall,
now, ut once, and see what you want in
the garden and then prepare your gar
den accordingly.
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Miscellaneous Matters.

! GAGh5aE4aELH
The island of Formosa is about hall
as, large as Ireland, and has a total
motley population OF 2,5O0,OOO.. Its
products are rich and varied. Tt fur
nishes the whole world with camphor;
its coal fields and sulphur mines are rich
and its precious woods are very nme
Gus.
Somerville Journal: "Tve been
reading something to-day about the COM
ing sealskin sacque, !" said a Someryille.
wife to. her husband the other day,
"but Z don't believe it. - Indeed, he
yawncd; what did it say about it?rs
"Oh, what it said about it il probably
all right, but it is in regard to its COM
ing that Ihave my doubts. It's been COM
ing, coming, for two: or three years, and
I haven't seen it YETI Their the hus-
band ceased toyawn, and rising, said he
had an appointment at the club that
could not be postponed
The annual watch output Of the
world is stated to, be G, 600 900 tickers.
OF this number, $3.50 . day are made
in the United States. The average life
of q watch is five years The hand
worker in Europe turn 9 out forty
watches q year, but the American ma
chine-worker makes $50. Our home
made watches are driving out tho
foreign article, and we already mono
police the East Indian and the austria
lian markets, and underseu the Swiss
in Japan.
The largest gold nuggets aver. foun6
were the following: The Sarah Sands
nugget, at Ballarat II weighed 100
pounds Troy, or !, $50 ounces. This 81
"a per ounce, would be worth g6,14O.
The Blanche Barkly nugget, dug up at
Kingowar. It weighed 145 pounds, and
was worth g6, 900. The Welcome mug
get, found at Ballarat, 1T weighed 184
pounds, and was sold for gl0,000.
This was the largest ave found.
In the rotunda OF the capitol atRa-
leigh, N. c., is located o stone called
Centre Rock, upon which il man
squarely stands his words become mar
ticulate to those about him. This is
| upon the authority of the RaleighN News,
which adds that several gentlemen
in experimenting recently with this
peculiar stone, all experienced its Curl
GUS effect.
There are some salt-works on great
Salt Lake, but the most OF the mineral
used in the region is collected from
sIoughs, where il is depositedgby eyapo-
ration. Thesilver, mills about
$4,000 tons q year. Of which those ia
Utah take 5, COO. those in Idaho 1000
those in Montana Z. 900, and those ia
Colorado the rest. The price loaded on
carsis only IS o ton.
In the city of New York alone they
drink between 10. 0O0, 600 and II, 0OO, 900
gallons Of excellent C~aliforniA and 9th.
er native wines, Ander the belief that
they are imported from France, being
duly accredited with q French label.
THE proportion OF EuropeAnswiines I'M.
ported MS against American vincsspro.
ducpd is about 5,OOO, 600 gallons Euro
pean as against 30 900, 600 The products
OF our own vineyards.
There are about 4, 900. 60 women Be-.
tween twenty and forty ysars "a EnnS
land. Scotland and Wales, and al them.
nearly s2,O00,O 200 are unmarried. and'
this, q Castle Garden official aayas e.
the reason Why SO many come Syor9
here 70 Join the E.aor1nona they dD
haye half agehance ~ get hnakApdAiA
England,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08
PITH AND POINT,

Sam Pine re. .oices in the proud dis
tinction of being the leader of \ gang
OF burglars in New Jersey. At the risk
of DESTROY ne our American forests,
somebody should pitch Pine into dun
geon.-N. Y. II Orld
As drug clerk the female is not a
b:illiant success. " hen You wink at
her across a soda fountain she doesn I
know VIII ther to pat in little Balm Of
Gi!ead in your Jda or 10 hang her head
and blush.-Bismdrck Tribune.
All over the East oung ladies are
killing themselves for the lose of men
who carry lanes, weai yellow gloves
and affect Eyeglasses. Mothers, are
sol properly educating Your daugh-
ierS?-N. 7. Commercial ddt ertiser
mo man," said Richter, ..can
either live piously or die righteous with.
out having wife," 1t does not follow,
however, that the more wives man
has, The more piously lie Ives and the
more righ eous he d.es. Boston Posi-.
A Connecticut factory turns. ont
two t ouSand corsets a day. Another
indication of the increasing power OF
the press and at the same time an evi.
dence OF the staying power of the land
of steady habits and ligneous nutmegs.
-Boston Transcript.
The editor wrote: 1.-The most en-
pensive drug in the markets. egotinin, y
and the compositor made the last word
'egotism." The idea is ridiculous.
Egoti>m has be :ome "a drug in the
market to be sure, but it is the cheap:
est.-NorristoUR Herald.
"A prominent and prosperous farm.
er of Michigan is quoted as saving re-
Gently. when l was boy and
trudg ged along to school was taught to
take of my hat and make obeisance
whenever l net grown person. How
is it now? Why. a man is fortunate il
he can ass by a $ hool-house without
Icing Snowflake d.--Detrot Pos.
An old ne 70 and his son called on
the editor of a New Orleans newspaper.
81 wants NV son ter work in yer office,
sah.' ..W hat can he do9'' oh. al
fust ne kant do nuthin' but ed;ck your
paper; but arter awhile, when learns
mo- sense he ken bla k your boots an
sweep de flo. ~. Y. Independent.
w HdI Is H1tduU Nv I1ILIG
pitchers have ears ?? asked little bov.
Where did you lear that eNpression?''
demanded tie mother, with a considera.
lie show of interest. Last night.
mamma, in the d:ning-room. Mary
was setting tie tale. | heard papa
say it to her just as opened the door"
-Phila alpha Call.
While a New Yorker was nosino
around imingham, Ala in sea -ch Of
q coal or ron mine at argain, a na-
I've accosted him with request for ten
cents, and added: ..Only yeste day ]
owned coal nine worth $4,000"
Sand why don't YOU own it to-day?'
"Be ause q nan got me drunk and
coaxed me to trade it for an old mule
"And how VII ten cents help you?,'
"Why, 1.want it to get whisky to get
him drunk enough to trade back for 4
blind dog and an old shotgun. Strang-
er. don't let me lose0e.O, 900 for the
want Of ten cents He got it.-Waa
Street NeUs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Wareham. Mass, is making thu
iron-clad steel nail from muck bar iron
and steel scraps, ten dollars n ton
cheaper than the old iron nail, as strong
as steel and as flexible rs iron.-B0stOa
| Herald.
Engineering in China has achieved
a notable triumph in the construction
If the bridge at Lagang. over an arm
of the China Sea. 1t is five miles long,
built entirely of stone, has 800 arches
seventy feet high, and the roadway is
seventy feet wide. The pillars are sew
enty-five feet apart.
Blindness Is steadily decreasing in
England. owing. it is considered, to the
advance IN surgical treatment of the
eYes, and to the decline OF such dis
eases a; smallpox, ETC., among chill
dren. For thirty years this atfiiction
has gradually lessened; but within the
last decade the improvement is specially
noticeable.
The latest novelty in Sweden is an
enormous engine which daily produces
LOCO. .c0p boxes of matches. 1t receives
the raw material blocks of wood) at
one end and gives up al the other the
matches neatly ARIA nged in their oxes,
r, ady TO be packed. The wood which,
in the course of last summer, was
brought over to Jonkoping to be made
into matches. filled twenty steamers
and eight sailing-vessels.
DIR. Clauston, of the Edinburgh
Asylum, Scotland. is substituting milk
diet for st;mulants in trea ing his pa
tients. In very acute cases, both of
de- ression and maniacal exultation,
where the disord"rcd working of the
frame tends rapidly to exhaust the
strength, he relies more and more on
milk and eggs made into liquid GUS
taris. This certainly looks like a sem
sible subst TUT for stimu ants under
such circums ances.
In tie center of b g circle of gold
watches in a Maiden Lane (New York
City, watchmaker's window is a hand
some open-faced chIomometer with
this placard The first watch ever
made in America by ma :hinery." 1t is
Mass, about 1852. 1t runs for eight
days with sim le winding. 1t was the
first watch ever made in this country
that was entirely manufactur- by ma
chinery. 1t is as perfect "a the stand
ard watch of to day, and differs but lit
tie in the general plan of construction.
N. Y. Tribune.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has been experimenting recently
with a patent which is 10 do away with
the teil-rope on passenger trains. The
experiments are being conducted on
the Pittsburgh division, and the patent
is the production of the Westinghouse
Air Brake Company. 1t consists of
communication by air pressure with a
small whistle in the cab of the engineer.
The no through which the air is con-
Quoted will be Independent of that COM
municating with the brakes. The con-
nection between the passenger car and
the air-tube is from the rear of the
coach, near the closet, where there is
button. which is pressed by the con-
ductor when he desires to signal the en-
gineer.-Hitadclptia Press.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08
Our Young Folks.
!" MUZZERS CHILLUN"

My muzzers almost trazy,
Her chilun IL 80 bad,
An my drate bid s.sser Daisy
Does mate her drefful sad,
so sc says.
"And Daisy Is norful dirl:
Her nice new frock she tored.
An tause she had her hair to curl
Why she-why she just roared
Yesterday.
"When babg cwyed, an muzzer said:
Go an wrock yittle Clair
She put trums i'm his trade spread,
An chcw-dum in his hair
Tozzer day.
What you stint one time she did?
Why runned away from me.
She went and runnei awav an hid,
didn't know where she be-
Touldnt fine her.
Dess Use sometimes norful, too
or tOurse is know;
But what's Il yIttle dirl 10 do
When she don't wort or sew
Tause she tarnt?
She's dot to try; re tross too,
When she's so small as me;
That's all the way she has to do
When she's tired-dont you seer
Tourse you do.
When Use weally dood and nice
Through all the drate long day
Papa tells me "a pearl of price
An muzzer.s dlad to say:
She was dood."
Good Cheer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08
"BOstOn intelligence -

Send the brightest young woman of
the company out of the room and close
the door,
Those remaining will select word
having the same number of letters as
there are people to play the game.
Supposing there are seven, and the
word Century is chosen. The player
nearest the door selects the name of n
famous character, q man or q woman
well known to all present, whose name
take the letter Z, and SO on to the last.
Each to keep his own secret as to the
name chosen.
The banished player is now called in
and the fun begins. She must try and
find out the word Century by getting
at the initials of the characters chosen
by the company. This IS to be done
by asking questions in turn to each Of
the players.
No answers are allowed to be given
but Yes" "No." and Il don't
know
We will suppose the first player to
have chosen Carlyle. The questioner
begins:
Els your character man'" Eyes"
..Living?" NO" ..Did he die with
in a few years?" "Yes" IAN Amer
ican3" ..No." "An Englishman'"
"No." "a Scotchman'' "Yes."
"Was he statesman?'' "No." "A
soldier?" NO. lone of the no
bilitys" mo" "An author?" ..Yes."
'.Did he write poetry?'' ..No." Ills
toryp'' "Yes." Live in England?'
Yes" "In London?" ..Yes." WAS
he ever in America?" NO" Ibid
he write history of the French Revo-
lution2" "Yes." "Car,ylew "Ym
This determines the first letteF and
/ the others will be found out in tho Same
way.
The game is made the more Interest,"
ing from the fact that all the PLAYERS
are guessing at once; but those who
remained in the room have the atlvan-
tage of the questioner in knowing the
initial letter of each character.
The writer played this game not long
since where one of the company
bothered the gucstioner not little by
selecting the character Of our first
mother. Another chose Yorick, from
Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'
The game might be simplified for the
amusement and instruction of the
younger members of the family by sub
stituting the names of flowers, trees, or
animals for those of noted character.
Christia,s Union.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08
ALONE,

stann aione: The fierce rocks rise above me
Cruel and cold:
The forests weave their verdant chains around
me.
Fold upon fold.
Across the chasm's demon-haunted blackness
Rings evermore,
From shadowy depths of dim and lonesome
gorgeS
The torrents roar.
i catch the gleam of fOwry, sun-kisSed val
leys,
Far, far below;
hear the laugh of brooks the chant of foun.
tainS,
Solemn and slow
There mirth and music speed the joyous mo-
ments;
Glad voices ring:
And rise Loves holy altar-fireS to Heaven,
For He is King
But far above, the grand peaks bathcd in sill
Yer
Rise cold and clear.
And Heavens own splendor gilds their snow
capped submits,
Drawing me near.
Oh. heart, be brave! Our path lies on and up
Through wees unknown.
VINO gains the hei2 hts where glory rests I'M
clouded
Must walk alone.
Sarah ID. Hobart, in Current.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08

Mistress Mary. quite contrary:
| How does your garden grow?
Silver bells and cookie shells
All in a row.
Most of us children, little and big,
have recited this verse; but compara-
tively few know there is meaning at
tached to the last two lines. At the
time when this rhyme was made there
were really ..silver bells and cookie
Shells" and in rows, too. though not
growing in gardens.
In those days-some hundreds OF
years ago-there were no coaches.
Ladies travelled and visited on horse
back; sometimes riding on a saddle or
pilIion behind a gentleman or man.
servant, and sometimes managing their
own horses. with the gentleman riding
alongside, or the groom following be-
hind. The equipments or trappings of
these horses were very rich and costly.
Generally, the cloth which half covered
them, and on which the lady rode,
would be of finest woolen or silken
material, handsomely embroidered. On
grand occasions, or when the lady was
very wealthy or noble, crimson velvet
or cloth of gold would be used. edged
with gold fringes and sprinkled with
small pearls. called seed-pearls. The
saddles and brides were even more
richly decorated, being often set with
jewels or gold and silver ornaments,
called goldsmith work" One fash
ion. very popular in the times OF Henry
the Seventh and Henry the Eighth. of
England, was to have the bride
studded with row of tiny silver cookie
shells, and Its edge hung with little
silver bells, which, with the motion of
the horse, kept up n merry jingle.
Bells were also fastened to the point of
the stirrup, which was formed like the
toe Of shoe. And this partly explains
another old nursery rhyme, made, no
doubt, about the same time:
" Ride gray horse to Danbury Cross,
To see fine lady go on a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her t0es,
So she shall have music wherever she goes
There is a very old book preserved at
Skipton Castle, in England, the account
book of Henry Clifford, Earl of Cum
berland In this book. among great
many other entries, little and great, is
one of the purchase by the Earl of "a
saddle and bride for my lady, en-
bossed Of silver cookie shells, an6 hung
with silver bells;" and on the same
page is another entry of "a hawk for
my lady. with silken iesses, and silver
bell for the same" 1t was the custom
for noble ladies' to ride with hawk
perched upon their wrists; and this
Countess of Cumberland, who is said
to have been beautiful and stately.
must have looked very grand when
thus equipped.-St. Nicholas.