Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-03
THE.FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and Fancies.

Some Of Its Facts and Fanc1es.
 Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l TWO WINDOWS.
 My eastward window shows what stir of life village steet affords; grassy space, With ranks of noble trees not yet aflame With gold and crimson fires that light the path Of autumn hastening to her festival.
 Beyond are pleasant homesteads: farther still, Though now the naples screen it from my sight, The broad, blue river smiles beneath the sun. know it's flashing ripples-howit it winds, How shine the white sails of the rocking boats, And the fair hills that crown it's farther shore, And all the picture rises to my eye.
 Here on the green the little school house stands, And through the trees the little flying forms Of village children fit like dancing elves, All life and motion, clamorous and gay.
 Now clangs the bell, the unwilling elves troop in, The cruel door shuts close, and all is still.
 My western window looks OCT verdant ields Far, purple hills and darkly wooded slopes. There on the hillside, under cloud and sun, I see the peaceful village of the dead. 20 still it lies, where never shock or jar, Or sound discordant of our struggling life, Flutters @ leaf that rests upon grave. There love lies van quished, pride resigned it's hopes,
 Or grief forgot it's anguish, pain its woe. Now sinks the sun; the west is all aglow; Gold blends with rose, and rose melts into gray. l Sharply distinct against wall of fire The network of the trees is traced in black l The shadows fall; the golden glory pales; | The head stones faintly gleaming through the dusk
 Are sentinels that guard the messy beds
 Where lie the hourly mourned, or long forgot,
 There to the westward, waiting for the day. l HAPPY THOUGHTS. l The covered twine-ball, though nothing
 new, is acknowledged to be household
 'happy thought" that is worthy of being
 perpetuated. The novelty consists in the
 different devices for covering the ball, and l perhaps as new as any is the idea of con-
 fning it in glass rose bowl. A cheap one
 of pressed glass is selected and the ball
 crowded into it, taking care to draw out the end of the cord that uncoils from the
 center of the ball.
 The bowl is covered with strip of silk, plain, figured or changeable, according to
 one's fancy, and this strip, twice as long
 AS the circumference of the bowl is shirred
 with a frill at the top and gathered at the
 bottom, which is drawn close and fastened. l
 the frill stands up around the opening o1
 the bowl.
 A little lid is made of circle of paste
 board, cut to fit and covered with the silk A hole is punched in the center and 8 bras.
 eyelet set in, or little ring crochete6
 around with silk is sewed over it. A mar
 row ribbon sewed to both the silk covel
 and the lid serves to tie it down, and tht
 end of the cord is brought up through th'
 opening in the disk. This is rather heavy
 to hang up and is intended to stand upoI
 the desk or table.
 Another pretty cover is made of greer plush, a square of sufficient size being GU into four leaf f-shaped points and lined witt silk, The middle of the plush square i left large enough to cover the bottom 0
 the bowl, and the points of the leaves ar
 caught together at the top. The leaves ar much more decorative if worked wit veininge in outline stitch. E Anew and pretty photograph holder is l large pasteboard crescent covered with sil very blue or pale yellow plush. It barred across with gold braid so that 8 will hold the photographs in irregular row B | one above another.
 , Suspend the crescent without visibl ] support. after the fashion of ''a we 8 moon" that is, with the horns straight u
 and down so that it will not hold watel
 Do not ruin the crescent with ribbon 0 since no one ever saw the moon, decorative l. as it is, and sometimes appearing to hay l. fanciful pictures sketched upon its silver
 surface, with it's horns trimmed up wit "bowjiggers."
 T tsDREAD-NAUeHT" DRESSES. The problem of suitable wet-weath, r dress is to many women very importal @ one. A rainy day is sometimes the mo 's delightful of days, the steady down-pol Q bringing with it rest and quiet, exemptic y from wearisome obligations and opport '1 nifty for attention to neglected duties. s cure from the outer worlds demands s1 'r interruptions one may take up the temp
 ing, long g-desired volume, or accompi t. wonders in the way of sewing and men