Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-10

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t'They the royalhearted women are
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
For needy suffering lives in lowliest place."
THE RAIN UPON THE OLD sHrNaIED ROOF.
The sombre night has falI'n. Meath the dark
Not a sound the patient stiffness breaks,
Save the steady drip-drip, the streamlet stealing
And the whisp ring Natures mystery ever
wakes.
No fall of voice or footstep,
No beat of hurrying hoof;
Just the sob of nursing roots and the sigh of ten
And the rain upon the old shingIed roof
The busy talking rain, In the long, long ago,
How it knew of the morrow's dear delight
How it shared every plan till my heart was all
And chanted witching Iullabies at night!
DAYS Days wi when sd. Hope, p triumphant
And my pulses beat in time as my fancies fur
nished rhyme
To the rain upon the old shingled roof.
The pelting, rushing rain! Its symphonies again
=, MY senses to bllssful dreaming win;
Every storm-beat shngle throbs, responsive to
the strain,
Like the fibres of some rare old violin.
Question we the future?
Seek we still some proof?
Comes voice to each, alone in the solemn organ
OF the rain upon the old shingled roof.
Tho ..eersna vasuina rain Wi, it's sohhine
When the soul cries for peace it is then we find
And vain regrets consume us at the last.
Fruitless then all sorrow,
Fruit!ess self-reproof.
In the days long gone never fell SO sad and lorn
The rain upon the old shingled roof.
The storm has lulled and a soothing murmur
Like balm upon my fever-heated brain;
Perchance this blessed rest is the herald that
forestalls
Siill, when benny my bands ar soG dFop pm wholly
May lay me down to die vixen the storm is in
And the rain upon the old shinged roof.
New Haven. e. NJ. B.
ANOTHER DANGER.
The "California process" for preserving
fruits, vegetables and the like has been
widely advertised, and receipts guaranteed
to be perfectly harmless have been sold by
thousands to manufacturers aud private
families. The preservative agent is sali-
oylio, or boraic acid, usually, both danger
GUS drugs. The quantities given in the
receipts, which claim to be patented. are
perilousIy large. For small fruits, eight
cen grains of salicylio acid are used to
one quart of water; for peaches, pears and
watermelons, thirty-five grains, and
for vegetables, ffty-two grains to
the quart. The New Jersey
State Board of Health has
condemned this practice. A writer In the
Philadelphia Public Ledger says that Ave
different kinds of toxic action are ascribed
to salicylio acid. The drug is principally
dose being from ten to twenty grains. "It
should be rule" says Mr.. Leeds, "never
to prescribe it as a medicine in case of
heart or lung troubles. Considering that
there are methods of preservation which
render Its use unnecessary; that its action
is cumulative, and that article after article
of food may be taken, each of which oon-
tains it, the safe plan would be to restrict
the use of this drug to medical practice,
where 1t is most valuable, and to proscribe
1t entirely in food, where it is altogether
unnecessary, certainly dangerous, and pos,
| sibly fatal"
NEEDLE NOTIONS.
I Old lace shawls and scarfs may be trans
formed into very handsome table covers
by basting the lace upon a foundation OF
| colored silk or cotton and outlining the
pattern with cord or needlework. White
or cream oolored Spanish lace is most Of.
fective, and the silk with which 1t 1.
worked should match the color of the lin
ing. Filoselle, Roman floss, or twisted
embroidery silk may be used, and an out
line or buttonhole stitch, as preferred, fol
the outer edges of flowers and leaves. Th.
veining is of course worked in outlin,
stitch, and the centres of the flower,
ohnl xpfkb okt ttnha nj
silk or gold thread. When the embroid
ery is completed the plain net is all Gu
away, leaving the pattern in applique upo1
the colored background. Old fashioned
curtains which have pattern of muslin
tambour- stitched upon net may be uset
in the same way, forming a very striking
border. Inside the border scattered fig
ures may be transferred in the same way
These muslin figures are sometimes bastet
to q white or ecru background, thel
painted with water color aud afterwar
embroidered. 1t is said that the gol
thread used in embroidery, if of goo
quality may be restored when tarnished b
being pressed with moderately hot iron
FooLHARDINEss.
In sharp contrast with the super
courage of such women as Miss Holden "
find recorded of late many daring deeds q
women which, lacking the heroic element
can be defined only as toolhardy.
} For instance, Mrs. Candy goes tearin
down Pixies Peak on bicycle at the ris
of landing in fragmentary condition, he
rash spirit continuing its flight to tt
ultimate goal, or, if life was left her,
pursuing her way painfully and penitentl
upon nothing more lively than pair
crutches. Then a young southern brio
climbs to the top of Mount Vesuvius an
peeps over into the crater, daring IL
demon of the volcano to destroy her. TIL
is not bravery, but bold bid f,
+ notoriety. Neither science nor humani
l has in any way been benefited by the
hazardous experiments, and as they ha,
attracted public attention, they shou
meet with public censure. Heroines a
q made of different stuff, and the brayest q
b ever the most modest. HILARY.