The National tribune., 1885-12-17
LOYAL WOMBN'S WORK
The Household, Conversation Club,
Puzzles, etc.
The Happy Household.

One of bacll piush is very handsome: it is deco
rated with rose sprays. embroidered IN PINK apd
red, Is lined with pink satin. trimmed upon 'ie
ends with bows of pink and reds. May Pigott,
Hessville, w. Va.
LITTLE FOLKS NOVELTIES
HAPPY HOUSEHOLD: have nice patterns 10.
TOW animals would like to exchange. have Pig,
sheep and lamb. horse, elephant, cat, dog, etc;
also patterns for duck goose, bird and dove; VIII
send four patterns for anything worth . cents ana
s letter stamp Send on and make some Christ
mas rresents My daughter, Allie l.. Nay, has a
pattern for doll Is inches high, with four patterns
for clothes which she will forward To- any sending
her 10 cents in stamps and who viii write her
nice letter For the best letter she VIII give NICE
satin scentsachet, to be decided within one month
from the time this is printed. Allies offer Is MADE
to take up her time she is not well. The pst-
terms when sold are 35 cents. but she only wants
enough for expenses. Last year she receIVea nucn @
pleasure by sending patterns through one OF our
State papers.-Mrs. j. {. Nay, Box lOi, South
Windhan, Me.
Editors Chat.
EY Cook Usage Mission, Kan asks the cause
of the frequent conflagrations al Toxic capital OF
Japan. II was the former combusiibie style of
building materials and inefficient police. Since the
opening of the port foreigners Jan. l, 1862 the
city has better buildings with more modern facili-
ties for protection. 1t is compactly built and
denseIy inhabited In 1SSI the built-up portion
covered IS square miles.
Since the close of the debate on the Chinese ques
ton, interesting letters have been received from
L Ia.
of the Chinese massacre, and Roswell Scott, Co. G,
s7th H., Seattle Washington Ter. Both are de-
cided in the belief that Chinese immigratIon should
be most rigidly restricted, introduces alien
heathenish, immoral and degraded class, who look
upon this country, as Comrade Chase expresses 1t,
as "a land of gold and fools" and only come here
to carry money out of the country. Both dep!ore
bloodshed but picture in dark coio5s the degrad-
ing tendency of Coolie importation. At Wyoming
the conflict was between imported Cooie labor and
Fol..N al.fs.
the Union Pacific Coal Co. This accounts for the
fact that Americans were engaged.
The discussion of the question as to whether the
negroes the Indians have been worse treated
closes with lhis number of THf TRIBUNE While
IL would be impossible to decide Tine controversy
for sde-or the other, enough iIas been sad 10
set our young people TO thinking upon very i'm
portant subject. As President CleNelsud ndlca, es
In his message just presented TO Congress, the In
dian probleIa is before and must tee met. 1t is
the same with the negro problem. both races have
been oppressed and hardly dealt with by a more
powerful people, whose duty 1t IL To protect the
weak and improve their condition Ii half the
money had been spent in educating and cIyIliZlng
the Indian that has been spent in hiring agents 10
rob him and soldiers to kill him. there would be- no
question 10 what should be done with him to-
day. In spite of the wrongs # the negr" in Amer
ica he is infinitely better of toay than he would
have been had he and his been corralied among Ihe
mountains and fed spoiled beef and nIouldy
-four. Letters on the subject acknowledged
from Ernest ID. Davis, jr, Ameiia Henry Knox
vile, Tenn.
Conversation Club.
Rules Of the Gttb.-l. Write briefly 2. Write only
side of the paper. g. Write to tie point. 4.
Write subject. .. Write your best 6.
Send answers TO all puzzles for OF Editor Each
week the names of those writing the best letters
style, composition, spelling, pennanslip and gem
eral merit considered-wili be named at the head
of this column on the Honor Roll First honor will
include all OF these requirements. Second honor
VIII include deficiency some point. No
Others will be named.
HONOR RoLL-BEsT LETTERS.
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Second Honor-May Pigott, Hesseviile, w. Va.
WHAT A GIRL CAN Do
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: have been 1, reader Of
the Conversation Club for some time, and want to
tell its many readers what girl can 40. think
can tell them something that VIII interest them.
This Summer. wanting something. do, con-
cluded to try silk culture. From i4.f an ounce of
eggs had 20 0O0 worms. They only last from 80 to
80 days, and are very profitable way To spend
ones vacation. The eggs must be procured during
cold weather, there il danger oil the4l matching
after the ist Of March if they kept out of the
cellar.
have about IS pounds of cocoons worth sI.I5
per pound, aud 10 ounces OF eggs worth $500 an
ounce / did ali the work myself pI some help
from my brothers in putting up the frames. Any
one who has Usage orange or mulberry can 20
into the business The pense OF sstIuua ready is
SO little that almost any one try Now what
can you do in the same amount OF time and make
as mneh? If all persons wishing Information on
silk culture will write TO me they viii be cheerfully
Rnswered.-Emma Coulter Oxford. o
HINTS FOR READING CIRCLE.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: AS 1 have Deonged to
two reading circles, and took great Interest ten
beg leave to inform Harry Darnel. OF Ward. Kan,
how they were conducted. /. We met different
neighbors houses; had music, then from
some good author, read Shakespeare e iiaH!et,"
and the President of the circle asked Questions and
explained what had been read. z Conducted by
having music. quotations. uu3h.r e.cn week
biography OF author, determinations and read
ing from the same author. Music: good night; 20
home.-Aay Plgott, HeSsvlle, W. Va
INDIAN WAMPUM.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: Specimen collecting is
now very popular. A few weeks ago received from
Washington Territory nice package uf ancient
Indian money. The lady who sent il to me saws
that years ago her husband was an Indian trader
and while among the Alaska Indians be collected
this money, or wampun they cal il. and now
as she had no use for il, sent it TO This Indian
wampum Is rare sea shell. aniuch la length about
twice the size around OF knitting ieedi,. slightly
bent and hollow The value OF eicn piece was four
cents. / have quite large box Of this Indian
money and much more than care for. and if the
Editor has no objection To my offering hat have
TO spare TO others will say thai anyone " no would
like a specimen OF Indian wampun, may have il
and welcome by sending stamp To pay the post
age.-Mrs. r. A Warner, East Saginaw. Mich.
THE FIRST sUNDAY-sCHooL
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: During the past year
several letters have appeared in ilie &. c.. each
writer claiming to have submitted the longest word
In the English language, the first being dispro
portionableness and the second honurIficabili-
tudinity 81 and - letters. respectively 4 herewith
go Miss Kate Daniel one better by submitting q
word Of % letters. namely, noniniercommunicsa-
biity. IL may be Of interest 10 the CLUB to know
that the first Sndayschoo ever held in the United
States met Ia this County, and the building is
stll standing at Paterson, not from where 1
live. A photograph OF the building will be for
warded to any member of the Club upon receipt of
y cents. A few correspondents among the New
Jersey Long Island members desired for am
nient IN filing Up the long Winter eveninxs-A. ID.
Dart, PoInIlon, Passaic Co., n. J.
MOSES AND FERNS
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: will send a package OF
the beautiful silver-gray Florida moss To all who
enough for II 10 send stamps for postage 1t
hangs from the branches Of The trees in long and
graceful festooas ana sub5ists the moisture got
ten from the air around these lakes 1t will grow
anywhere II kept from the cold and watered daily
Miss Aodle Forrest, Bloomfield, Fla.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUR: For sea-mosses, nicely
pressed, but not on paper, or land mosses in the
bunch they grow, sent by mail will return a
spray OF moss or lchens; red, white, hop rabbit
clover; fern or lycopod Estate which il wanted J
beautifully pressed and mounted a card. They
designed for Christmas cards, and will be sent
10 all who will favor me with specimens of the
moses found In their locality. The clover -four
cards. for any extra fine collection To the person
sending The best and largest collection of vare-
ties not found III the Eastern States will send q
group OF paIsies large enough to frame and called
handsome as painting" For particulars send
stamp.-tannle Wilson, Box f90, South Glaston-
bury, Conn.
CLUB WHISPERS.
Dear TRIBCSE, welcome to our homo
Though weekly, yet doing a giants work-Rebs
". Flanagan, Penn's Grove y. J.
Here IL my autograph for the Club:
There is "a little golden clasp,
That bindeth up thy trust;
- Il a.s III Il.