Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-05

think three times, If capable of 80 great
mental effort, before they embark theil
money upon the Auctuating sea of stock
gambling.
CALENDARS.
A very attractive sort of calendar may
be made by any one who has that desirable
gift, neat and distinct handwriting. I,
has seemed since the high-shouldered, An.
gular, jerky looking style of chirography
came in, that legible writing would be
numbered among the lost art. Its adop.
ton has not been universal, however.
There are people.who write to be read, and
to these this pretty Christmas idea is REQ
commended.
Cards of fine cream-tinted paper can be
procured ct any paper warehouse. They
will be cut by machine any size you re-
quire. A card for every day in the year
requires good deal of writing, and such
q calendar should be begun early in the
year. Sometimes, to expedite matters and
also add interest to the completed work,
these cards are distributed among other
friends of the recipients, who fill them
out, writing the date and quotation, and
taking note of all the birthdays, holidays
month or week for which they have under
taken to provide. One such calendar is
remembered, the brilliant work of one
person, that was "a perpetual feast" in the
family and the admiration Of village
about which it was extensively circulated.
It abounded in happy hits, most of them
designed and many of them accidental, in
the way of quotations from popular su-
thors selected in reference to family ami
verssries. It was prertily embellished too,
with original drawings and as bright bit
of friendly fun combined with the work
and thought expended upon it was held as
a cherished possession after its service as
a calendar had ceased. But one must be-
gin betimes to finish such piece of work
before the holiday season.
An easier plan is to have card for each
month, or card for each day of the
month, and make these do service the year
round. For twelve cards handsomely
printed calendar is taken apart and leaf
attached to each with ties of embroidery
silk or very narrow ribbon. A quotation
in fanciful script is added at one side and
the twelve are threaded upon ribbon or
silken cord. An extra card decorated, will
serve as cover.
For calendar of thirty one cards place
the number at the top, or upper left hand
corner. The quotation below occupies the
rest of the space. A decorated card on
the outside gives it attractiveness, and q
handsome ribbon ties the whole together.
This may stand upon a little esssl, and
one leaf slipped out from under the
ribbon each day, to take the place of the
one removed, which is pushed under the
ribbon behind the others.
WHO SHALL SUCCEED HIMs
1t is said that the railed-off space in
Westminster Abbey, which marks the last
resting place of the departed Poet Laure-
ate, is daily heaped up with the flowers de-
posted by a throDg of visitors.
Lord Tennyson is the eighth of the line
of Poet Lsureates buried in the Abbey.
The others are Rowe, Dryden, Davenant,
johnson, Spenser, Skelton and Chaucer.
There are monuments to several of the
other Laureates there, including Thomas
Shadwell, who was buried at Chelsea;
Southey, whose remains were inferred in
Keswick; and Wordsworth, whose dust lies
in Grasmere churchyard.
The question as to who shall now receive
the Offices and emoluments of England's
poet laureate has not yet been decided.
There is a woman sovereign, why not q
woman laureate? If one woman rules why
should not another woman write official
o1es oncerning the events of her reign.
This seems harmonious combination of
ideas. When Wordsworth died, the sug-
gestion was made that the highest honor
to be conferred upon the nations most
gifted poet should be bestowed upon Eliza
bath Barrett Browning, then in the high
noon of her splendid powers. The innova-
ton was not encouraged, and it is not
probable that one of the most modest
and shrinking of women would have ac-
cepted so prominent a position. There are
none of her successors that have tithe of
her genius, her breadth of thought, or
grace of diction. Jean Ingelow stands
first among the wcmen poets of England
to day, and 1t is our Frances Willard who
suggests her as most worthy the honor,
adding with characteristic terseness: "Be-
fore anybody lifts the chin in ridicule let
the eyes be lowered over an edition of Jean
Iugelow's poetical works for half day II
Certainly some of her writings compare
favorably with those of Morris and Swim
burne; but the dead poet Was far greater
than them all, and there seems to be nc
head worthy of the crown he has laid
aside, no shoulders noble enough to veal
his descending mantle. HILARY.