Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-10

to be flattened down, otherwise women'i
figures will bear a striking resemblance te
those old-fashioned 'hour-glass" work
stands, Seven to the little pockets around
the top-and general misery will be the re-
suit of the return of the crinoline.
It is rather trying, when one has lived
more than twenty years, to see things that
we hoped had passed for ever and ever by,
coming back again. Like locusts and
epidemics they reappear at regular OF
varying periods; not the ghosts of the for
meI fashions, but the very same old things,
lively as ever, and insisting on being
adopted by everybody. They pose as
novelties before the young; older people
recognize them as former friends or foes,
and recall the memories connected with
their earlier visitations.
1t seems too much to ask of any one-to
welcome back the crinoline. Why should
it be forced upon US when we are happy
without it? Why cannot all women rise as
one man to repel the intruder? Why should
it not be sat upon?-the idea, that is and
walked over, go that we shall not have to
sit upon, and walk within the miserable
thing itself?
RECIPE FOR DAY.
Take little dash of water cold
And little leaven Of prayer,
And a little bit OF sunshine gold
Dissolved in the morning air.
Add to your meal some merriment
And a thought for Kith and Kin,
Aud then, as your prime ingredient,
plenty Of work thrown in.
But spice it ali with the essence of love,
And little whiff of play;
Let wise old book and a glance above
Complete the wel-made day.
Unknown.
FEW ITEMS.
The small circular embroidery frame,
almost indispensable to the artist with the
needle. has another use which is very
practical, and appeals to the woman who
believes that neat darn is rather orna-
mental and is moreover too old fashioned
to see that refuge of the hurried-"gum
tissue" The article to be darned, or rather
that part of it where the darn must be, is
stretched tightly in the frame and go
placed, is 'embroidered" rather than
simply mended, and becomes fancy work,
rather than common, every day, disagree
able darning. The fabric is so closely
held that the stitches will appear much
more smooth and even than when done
over the fingers.
Very discouraging to would-be authors
were given in an English publication re-
Gently. These conclusions may not affect
American novel writers, but in England
the market seems to be overstocked with
trivial stories.
During the last six years one thousand
six hundred novels have been published
which were popular enough to be inquired
for at the libraries. Nearly the same num-
Der were published which, as they were
never called for, may be said to have
failed. The 1000 popular books were
written by 922 people, of whom fifty form
a company very far in advance of the rest,
if we judge by the interest taken in their
work by the reading public. Another
company of seventy follow these at dis
tance, and by far the larger number,
though their books have not passed unno-
ticsd, have won neither literary distinc-
ton or pecuniary gain. The chances of
succeeding as novel writer, according to
the statistics, is 1-70, while the chance of
failure, or neglect and obscurity ia repre-
sented by the fraction 326 350-a very wet
blanket indeed with which to extinguish
the hopes Of the soribbler.
Women have been clsssed in great
many ways, not always justly, or to their
own satisfaction. 1t remained for one DR..
SchofeId, a specialist in hygenic laws, to
rank them honorably as "the third line of
defence against disease The first line is
public, and consists of Health Boards and
the sanitary laws which they enforce; the
second is professional, and conaists of TIE
army of regular physicians; while the
third Is private and is made up of trained
and scientific women nurses in the home.
He overlooks perhaps the grandmothers,
mothers and maiden aunts who before
these scientific days, and even now, form
a strong line of defence in the home, and
as fighters of sickness have done most val
liant, devoted service. They are still ready
to do such service-to stand between
home-friends and Death, even till their
own lives are sacrificed in the struggle,
and they may perhaps be recognized as the
fourth line. all honor to the noble Fourth!
HrTAnV