Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21

QueDec. For some reason prlces nave run very high lately, and Prince Edward Island egg raisers have been making money.
 THE FLEETING SHOW. l
 Some of It's Facts and FancIes.
 Written for the JOURNAL AND CouRIER.l
 PILLOWS AND DoILIKs.
 It Is possible to- haze too much of a good thing, the popular opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. One might have too many pillows and cushions even, though there seems to be fancy for col lectiEg an unlimited number and heaping them in toppling piles on sofa and couch, floor and window seat, until from merely suggesting rest and comfort they have come to signify luxurious indolenoe. But then it is just as we'll to know all the new and pretty ways of making them, and cid erdown pillows in attractive castings are among the most acceptable of holiday gifts, especially to elderly or invalid friends.
 The newest square pillows are as simply fashioned as they are effective. The cover of figured India silk is made much larger than the bag containing the down. Two bands of ribbon are drawn tightly around it, crossing each other, and tying in full soft bow in the middle of one side The extra fitness of the silk is then pulled toward the corners in pleats and folds, giving it A very light and puffy effect. A silk with design of apple blossoms and pink of the flowers tied around it, loops of soft green being added to the bow in the center. Very showy pillows are made of plain yellow silk, the ribbon being of rich orange tint. The width of the ribbon should be about one eighth of the width of the under cushion, and the quantity allowed must be generous. A set of doilies, delicately embroidered, make 8 charming Christmas-tide remem- brance. A pretty idea is to work upon each one @ flower and sentiment appropriate to each month in the year. The little linen hemstitohed squares may be bought very reasonably, and the designs and letters drawn upon them. Work the flowers in | natural colors and the motto in black silk, or these may be done with pen and ink more delicately still The following, in which each sentiment suggests it's ac- companying device, with an exception, are well-known writer upon fancy work and and the needles art "The gracious pine not even January blast can strip" 'The lichen soft is February's wintry | smile." "The violet hides from March's rough caress." "Anemone, sweet April's lady" ''In the month of May the apple trees go a-courting." Sweetest roses field in fair July" 1.-The stately fox glove, August's love-" September waves her golden-rod.n "Our yine-wreathed | king, October" "Hips and haws in 1 bleak November" 'The satin holly of December"
 Should these quotations make the work of embroidery too difficult, write only the | name of the month in fanciful script, and l work for each a suitable device of leaf or l blossom.
 l "oREAT NATURE IS AN ARMY aAY." Great nature is an army gay,
 ! ResisteSS marching on it's way;
 I hear the bugles clear and sweet, l l hear the tread of million feet. l Across the plain see it pour;
 It trampes down the waving grass; | Within the echoing mountain pass | hear thousand cannon roar.
 It swarms within my garden gate, l My deepest well it drinketh dry;
 l It doth not rest, it doth not wait | By night and day it sweepeth by.
 | Ceaseless it marches by my door;
 l It needs me not though I implore.
 | l know not whence it comes, nor where
 It goes. For me it doth not care
 l Whether starve, eat, or sleep,
 l Or live, or die, or sing, or weep.
 l And now the banners all are bright, ! Now torn and blackened by the fight. | Sometimes it's laughter shakes the sky, l Sometimes the groans of those who die.
 Still through the night and through the livelong
 The infinite army marches on its remorseless
 way.
 RICHARD WATSON GLIDER, ] THE LITTLE LIARS.
 The lies of children have been made
 the subject of thoughtful and sys-
 tematic study by the teachers of Mrs.
 Pauline A. Shaw's kindergartens in Bos.
 ton. By carefully devised method which
 avoided indelicate pressure upon the child
 ish conscience the ideas of three hundred
 boys and girls concerning lying have been
 ascertained and the varieties of lies classi-
 fled and reported upon in detail.
 In the first division were placed those to
 whom the slightest deviation from truth
 was painful Some of these children of
 tender conscience feared the immediate
 death of Ananias and Saphira in punish
 ment for an unconscious misstatement
 even. We are not told how large pro- } portion of the children examined were in.
 fuenced by this pseudophobia, as it is
 called, but judging from general observa tion few have a morel sense so delicately ! adjusted or training so rigorous and se | were.
 "The lie heroic," justified as means te noble ends, is placed in the second division High-spirited chi ildren feel the heroism oi
 the unaccountable instinct of self sacrifice earlier and more readily than they under
 stand the sublimity of truth. When trutE
 and honor seem to be at war how shall child decide between them! "Truth for friends; lies for enemies, seems to be the motto for the next class It is hard to cheat the loving, tender par , ent, or teacher; condolences are freely be
 slowed upon friends, and where fear is no the truth is not likely to be found. Som l children thought that to dissimilate t. 8 God, to the minister, the priest
 was a dreadful sin, but to tel the truth to 8 person whom they did no : like was more than could be expected O v them. Here, on the one hand, reverentia fear was the encouragement of truth, ol r the other, fear of displeasure or of pail j. seemed to sanction the lie. How many t trembling little coward has lied and liet again, hopelessly struggling to save itsel =, from the displeasure of an offended guar r dian, at once 80 powerful and so stern }, The sublimity of truth, which is no re 1t specter of persons, is hardly appreciates 4 by people of mature years and thought '' and why should we expect these little one
 to understand it? The instinct of self
 preservation accounts for many of thes + departures from the right. ,f Next come lies of selfshness. Ever, B. game, especially every exciting one, offer . its own temptation to lie and cheat. Lie of this sort are soon forgotten, but the 'e make the young players interruptions an it grasping, they foster spirit of meannef ia which must be checked by appeals t
 honor, self-respect and self-control. T Lies of imagination and play are subtil y things to deal with. Partial self-deceptio a, lends charm to children's amusement r. and unhappy is the lonely child who lac
 imagination. One who has 1t will anus D: a: itself for hours, content with the pla. id mates of its fancy, as did the little Hartle Ia Coleridge who "fitted to unutterab
 thought, the breeze-ike motion and tt
 self-born carol," reduplicating h of own personality into the shadow Hartle, ts the picture Hartley, and the echo Hartle ,v and finding them delightful playfellow y This gift of imagination is to be guardt 'is and guided aright, and unfortunate is u or child whose parents cannot see to That child's sweet story is not lie
 To be punished with blow" IL ,,.t,J;.lad in Moo