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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

lnudlady went out at oBcH and sent tho
girl in.
.dargery came with her pretty head
erect, and no fear in her innocent
eges. But tumult was in her heart
and at FIRST she could not find voice to
answer his imperious greeting.
"May ask the meaning of this mas
querading, Miss Emerson? Whatever
it is, you certainly choose a nice way
to disgrace both yourself and me" !" he
said, still more angrily, after mo-
ment's pause, and then she flashed
upon him.
There never was any disgrace In
honest work! It's you who are in
much more danger of disgracing us
all. and perhaps you will think soyour-
self if your selflshness and extrava-
gance kills papa. He IS just sick with
anxiety now. and you could save him
from it If you only would l am sure
you could live on half what you do, and
you have so much influence with
mamma that she would save, too, X
you would talk to her.
"I'm not clever, l know, but could
do the houscmaid's work, and l would,
but you will not do anything. You re-
fused to take that situation, and you
only laughed at me when talked to
you the last time you were home. And
then 1 just made up my mind that if
you were too proud to work I'd show
you that wasn'tn'
All through this torrent of words her
brother walked angrily around, affect
ing not to listen. But he stood still
now, looking sternly and seriously into
her face.
"And you will stay here and do this
menial work just for the sake of sham.
ing me?"
Put in this way she did not like the
sound of it, but she held her ground un-
| flinchingly.
II not only mean to say it. but l
mean to do it. Oh, you need not look at
me like that! 1 don't like it-you may
be sure. / could have sunk into the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
PATIENCE.

Be patient Easy words to speak
While plenty Ills the cup Of life,
While health brings roses to the cheek,
And far removed are care and strife,
Failing so glibly from the tongue
OF thosc-I often think of this
Whom suffering has never wrung,
Who scarcely know what patience Is
BE patient! when the suffror lies
PROSTATE beneath some fell disease,
And longs, through torturing agonies,
Only for one short hour of ease
BE ratientl when the weary brain
Is rackCd with thought and anxious care.
And troubles In an endless train
Seem almost more than IL can bear.
To feel the torture OF delay,
The agony OF hope deferred;
To labor still from day to day.
The prize unwon the prayer unheard,
And still to hope aud strive and wait
The due reward Of fortunes kiss;
This is to almost conquer fate,
This is to learn what patience is.
Despair not. though the clouds are dark,
And storm and danger veil the sky;
Let fate and courage guide thy burQue,
The storm will pass, the port is nigh.
BE patient, and the tide will turn,
Shadows will fee before the sun;
These are the hopes that live and burn
To light us till our work is done.
All the Year Round.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
NURSERY HYGIENE.
How to Furnish and Care for the Chill
dren's Room.

How to Furnish and Care for the Chill
dren's Room.
The room especially set apart for the
children Of the family should be the
best aired, the sunniest and the driest
in the house At the same time it
should be so situated as to be kept at q
temperature as nearly uniform as possi-
BILE. AS general thing it sh ould be on
the south side of the house. Any ex-
cess of sunlight, if such exists, can be
easily controlled by shades
Since the nursery is, as rule, occu-
pied both night and day, it should be
us large as possible to facilitate a thor
ough supply of fresh air.
Considerations of air, sunlight and
cleanliness should be paramount, and
all questions of decoration should be
entirely subservient To this end,
everything should be simple in con-
struction.
In all but exceptional cases the nurs-
cry is the scene, ut some time or other,
of one or more of the diseases incident
to childhood. On this account all
materials that might serve as q lurking
place for dust and disease organisms
should be excluded. The furniture
should be plain 80 as to be easily kept
clean. 1t should also be light, or else
furnished with strong castors, so that
1t can be easily moved about Pictures
on the walls were better omitted.
The nursery floor should have partic.
ular attention. While the ideal floor
may not be always attainable, the ideal
should be approached as nearly as pos
sible, A floor of closely joined hard
wood is the best, since it is most easily
kept free from dust. Over this should
be laid rugs or carpets, which should
be frequently taken up and beaten.
Nursery closets, too, should be care.
fully looked after. They should be al
ways open to inspection, and no accu-
mutation of soiled clothing should be
permitted Open shelves are recon-
mended since, while clean linen and
other necessities are easily kept upon
them, they are less apt to be made the
, receptacles of 'tuc!sed-away' neat
ness, than are. shelves inclosed by
doors
The habitual use of disinfectants
should have no part in the care of the
nursery. The necessity for their use
should be avoided by means of scrupu-
lous cleanliness A room in which dis
infectants are needed should be inhab-
tied by no one, least of all by children.
The ventilation of the nursery is an
important matter. The essential thing
to be secured is frequent change OF
air without draughts along the floor. =
Youths Companion.
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eunaENr PARAGRAPHS


Shells your wife entertair'rl
this winter?" He-''Not very-excep'
bo other menr'--Vogue.
---Watts-"IIow do you spell whisky
ky or KEEP" Potts-'K-y. Same
as Kentucky indianapolis Journal.
Its funny about Jags, he never
speaks above his breath any more" u
suppose it's because it's so strong he
can't"
-"Have you read Miller's new four.
volume novel?" "Oniy two volumes;
the rest left for the servants. "-Flie-
gende Blattcr.
THE Newriches are people who
don't know who their grandparents
WERE" 20, yes they do; but they hope
no one elee does"
Father Coming home)-''Is Carrie
out?" Hopeful-"No, but the lamp is
That Spitkins feller's here again.
Boston Transcript
My sweetheart is neither beauti-
full nor young" said Downes; but she
is as good as gold" "Ahl It's the GOLD
you're afterl" said Bigbee. -Tid-Bits.
-Fred-"How do you like the table
at your new boarding house? Is there
anything to object TOP" Arthur-"Pre'
cious little, old fellow"--P. S. s. Co.
Bulletin.
They say he is man of great
courage, patience, and perseverance," "
HE is. I've known him to accompany
his wife shopping on bargain day. y
N Y. Press
-Druggist--"We have port wine at
three prices" Dick Hiclxs-"All right
I'll take it Mother said she always
paid that for what she got here. IN.
Y. Sun.
WHAT do you think will be the big.
gest thing you will see Mt the worlds
fair? said Mrs Fucash. My hotel bill,
replied her husband. - Washington
Star.
-Skiddle-'Well, how did you get
on at the fox hunt; pleasantly" Skaddle
-''Yes, got on pleasantly enough, but
the getting off SO suddenly Jared me
badly ."-Philadelphia Record.
"A. C. Kerr-"Whats the best way
to send in an application for officer"
Ben Thayer-"By mail, with a stamp
inclosed." "For return postage on the
commission?" mo; on the applica-
tion. Troy Prest
Bosom Friends -"What do you say
to the young barrister's making me ar
offer of marriage?" Just what ex-
pected! When Tilted him he swore he
would do himself an njuryr-Plauders
ecke.
Miss Bell (warningly)-"Sally, they
used to tell me, when was a little girl,
that If did not leave coffee alone, il
would make me foolish!" Sally (who
owes her one)-"Well, why didn't you?"
-"What makes you shut poor little
Fido up in that dark closet every
night?" Mrs. Domuch-"I've been
teaching him to stand up straight and
walk on two feet, and 1 don't like to
have him see Tom when he gets home
from the club. You know what exam.
pie will do?"-Inter Ocean.
An Appeal to Destiny-"What has
become of that pretty little dog which
your wife liked so much and you de-
tested? You certainly did not kill it?''
Certainly not l simply leased a house
with grade crossing on one side and
an electric street Hallway on the other" "
Boston Beacon.
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ground this evening when those young
men jolled about me. But I've begun.
and l am going to go on. I'm not GO
ing to be sham or burden one day
longer"
He walked away from her then, and,
leaning against the mantel, remained
in utter silence fully five minutes. To
most of us, however ease-loving or
however hardened, there are moments
when it is given to us to see a new
heaven and a new earth; and to Harry
Emerson this flash of inspiration came
as he stood studying the border of shells
where with Mrs. Coffin had flanked her
fireplace.
Margcry watched him with intense
anxiety. Under all her pain and dis
appointment she had still such faith in
him that it was not wholly a surprise
to her when, returning to her side, he
said, with all the anger gone from his
voice:
1--WE must call Mrs. Coffin in md ex-
plain to her, Margery. Say anything
you lille-I don't care but Pm going
to take you in to Cousin Sally's this
evening. Your mission is accomplished.
III take the hotel place or do anything
else that l can to help; and when !
fail, I'll give you leave to go out to
service as fast again as you please"
Margery, looking up at him through
her happy tears, felt almost as if she
were marring the splendor of his sur
render by saying as she did:
But, Harry, L must tell youl Cousin
Sally said that if you saw things this
way, she would pay every debt you
owe, and help papa out of the tight
place he is in. She never did help us
before, she said, because we seemed to
her so lacking in good principle"
But even when Miss Sally had helped
them to such an extent that they soon
sailed past all the breakers of which
have written, Harry's new manliness
proved seaworthy So effectually, in
deed, did he learn the lesson which
Margery gave, that his contributions
to the family exchequer saved hei
from any need to take second situa
ton. - Hester Vickery Brown, il
Youths Companion.
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position was so like his that she felt
an impatient pity for the feebleness of
her mothers reply.
But Henry Harry will be sure to
repay you some day, and girl as
bright aud pretty as Margery cannot
fail to marry we'll"
"Now, May" he answered, with
added vehemence, "that is just where
the rottenness of our system comes in.
Harry will never repay me, for he has
not been brought up to any sense of
moral obligation. If he would put his
shoulder to the wheel, could manage
TO get through somehow But / have
no hopes of him.
''Why, to-day my friend Sinclair
proposed giving Harry place as clerk
for the summer, in his summer hotel in
Maine. But none of that sort of thing
for my son and heir! lie is going with
a party to tine Adirondacks.
"Margery-bess the child!-would
take a cham bermaid's place, believe,
III she thought that by so doing she
could save me one pang. But / dou6t
~ she could do even that All her
Shanees, IL seems, are staked on a
wealthy marriage--a pretty poor am
hilton, II strikes me, for days like
Ahese."
Then 1t was that Margery, like some
asdest Joan of Are, heard voice
which whispered OF conflict beyond
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
NOTES OF THE MODES.


Fashionable FInory for Feminine Dress
The pretty new hats in pale rose, pink
and heliotrope are trimmed with vio-
lets, heartseasc or jonduils intermixed
with green velvet ribbon or ecru silk
guipure lace.
A hint of the predicted surprise in
store for the fashionable world is found
in the skirt draperies which appear on
some of the latest theatrical toilets
from leading Partisan dressmakers
Among the, stylish new goods are
those In a melange of colors, from i've
TO seven different shades being inter-
mixed. Together these colors form n
singularly brilliant and effective whole.
One of the most beautiful of the new
spring fabrics is a soft corduroy cloth
which looks like q heavy-ribbed CASH
mere. 1t comes in silver blue, tan,
green, heliotrope and other delicate
spring colors
Among the handsomest French tex
tiles are those in various mixtures OF
silk and wool, woven diagonally In
cords and in quaint striking figures.
This produces the shot effect which is
now so much the vogue.
Some of the newest and most modish
waists have shoulder seams six inches
long, with all the ornament in the way
of revers or epaulets falling from the
| tip of the shoulders on dropping sleeves
that are widest at the elbow.
Recently imported French dresses for
spring and summer are variations of
the quaint 1880 styles. The waists are
round, the sleeves large and dropping
from the shoulder seam, and the skirts
round and full and either just escape or
barely touch the ground.
| 1t is fact for which womankind
should be grateful that the newest
stuffs are light weight as from seven
to eight yards of double width goods
are now used in q dress Many of the
most stylish dress goods are woven so
thinly rs to be almost sleazy. Many OF
these new woolens are shot or change
able.
A popular material just now is "alli-
gator crepon." A gray-blue dress OF
this material is trimmed with black
silk moss garnitures. The bodice is
made with an Eton jacket front and a
vest of soft pink silk. The cape and
toque worn with this costume are ot
fine lady's cloth, the same shade as the
costume.
Used alike by modistes and tailors
are the popular and pretty tweeds, En-
glish maltons, cheviots and chuddahs
in silver blue, pale tan, stem green,
beige, marine blue, leaf brown and pre-
late purple or pale mauve shades.
These fabrics are lined or striped in
some harmonious or artistically CON
trasting color
Wusuzeau, who is most excellent
authority in Paris used three flaring
breadths Of double-width wool goods
for the short skirt of street dress
The front and back breadths arc
straight in the middle and sloped or
the sides, being their full width at the
foot The third width is cut in hal
for narrow gore on each side. This
makes skirt four and quarter yards
around the foot.-N. Y. Post.
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to support it properly.
Upon Mrs. Emerson and Harry, the
only son, the yoke did not weigh heav-
lily, but it sorely CALLED Mr.. Emerson;
and Margery, the only daughter,
chafed against it with all the ineffec.
tual impatience of her seventeen years.
Life would be so much easier if we
could only give up pretending!" she
cried; but her mother and Harry
scoffed at her philosophy. The striving
and pretending, the staving off one
debt and getting into another went on
apace.
Lying alone in the hammock in the
fragrant twilight of a late May day,
Margery was thinking over things in
general with noble discomfort, when
suddenly from the room beyond she
heard the voices of her mother and
father. Mrs. Emerson's tones were
couciliatory, as they were apt to be
when she sought some new favor; her
husbands accents We're shrill and i'm
patient, as if his last thread of en-
durance were strained.
81 thought, Henry, you'd like the
idea of Margery taking this trip with
the Pages"
Like it? Yes, immensely, but l
think we shall all be called upon to
take trip to the pOorhouse instead. l
came to that conclusion this morning
when three of Master Harry's bills were
forwarded me, each of them four times
larger than it ought to be"
"Well, but Henry, you can't expect
young man to get through hayward
without bills"
The conciliatory tone was dashed with
defiance now, and the sharpness of the
an swering voice was increased.
81 don't expect it. Considering the
sort of young man Harry is, l should
be a fool if I did. And yet l don't
blame him half so much as l blame
myself. l started him wrong He'd
be twice the man he is now if he had
been making his living for the last two
years, instead of vying with million
aires sons, acting as though my poor
little bucket of resources were an in
exhaustible spring. And, though it is
different with Margery, the principle
is the same. With all that her private
schools have done for her, Idoubt If she
could earn a dollar for herself, and who
knows how soon she may need it,"
All this was so wildly unlike her
much enduring, indulgent father that
for moment the unwilling listener on
the piazza fe.t inclined to doubt both
his identity and her own; but her dis
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
WELSH IN PARLIAMENT.
A Protest Against All National Feeling In
~ the British Empire.

A Protest Agaiust All National Feeling In
the British Empire.
There is now Welsh national party
In the house of commons. 1t has al
ready made its mark. No one can say
that it is not staunch and an ad-
vanced liberal party. But even if it
were not, we should welcome its exist
ence all the same. Its first work is for
the Improvement of Wales, and to help
in the improvement of Wales is, in the
end, to help in the improvement of the
empire, whatever the political paths
which for the moment the national in.
terests of Wales might compel the
Welsh members to tread. But of course
we must be glad that so intelligent, so
patriotic and so rising a party should
be on the side of every great reform for
England and Scotland and Ireland.
There was a time in England when it
was the fashion among certain of the
governing classes, as they are called,
to think slightingly of and to sneer at
every attempt to keep up the idea of
separate nationality among the people
who make up the United Kingdom. No
idea, no purpose could be more unrea-
sonable and more unwise. There would
not be the slightest advantage, either
from the artists point of view or from
that of the commonplace, practical
man, in the endeavor to plane down
all the nationalities which make up
this kingdom into one commoa smooth,
superficial level All history all tradi-
ton, all poetic feeling cry out against
such barberous absurdity. People
are fashioned in their moods and their
ways by the skies that are above them,
the atmosphere which surrounds them,
the mountains they climb, or the flats
they plod over the streams that rush
by them or Glowly or melodiously flow
by them--and no people can jump over
its own shadow. The tendency of later
times, even in Philistinism itself, is to
foster and not to discourage or jeer at
the traditions and the sentiment of ma
tionality. No one can deny or doubt
that Wales has played the most ener-
getic, patient and successful part in up
holding her right to q national Ian
guage, to national rights and to a ma
tional history; and the whole empire
has no population more loyal than the
Welsh to imperial interests London
News.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

In many cases there is quantity of
hominy, oatmeal or farinose left from
the day before. Cut this into slices
half an inch thick, dip them in beaten
egg, then in cracker crumbs or Drowned
bread crumbs, put them into a frying
pan with some hot butter, cover mo-
ment taking care that they do not
burn; remove the cover turn them over
and serve as soon as done.-N. Y.
Ledger
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
Tho OoImure.

In the evening, says fashion writer,
the hair is dressed lower than it was,
in large coil. with sometimes n dropped
crepe lock on one side of the mock The
round chignon, known as the bun, suits
young faces, and the funniest looking
frisettes n large and small size are
prepared for them. A little net is worn
over, and keeps II all neati but its day
y over. A tuft of ostrich tips Is worn
on the top of the coils of hair, or up.
standing loops of velvet coming from a
length passed around II, at many balla,
Detroit Free Press
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
She Was Crushed.

"Well," said the intelligence man, as
a naughty waitress invaded his office,
''what brought you back so soon?
Weren't the boarders high-toned
enough?"
"Boarders are all right-it's the mis-
sns. Why, she actilly ordered me TO
take off my jewelry afore l went into
the dining-room.
We'll, did you?"
Not much, didn't The ideel All
the jewelry had was a watch and
chain, an few stick pins, an my ear
rings, an gold glasses an the orny-
ments in my hair, an four engagement
rings, an pair of gold bracelets, an
one breastpin. S'pose I'd been rugged
out with jewelry like some of the
boarders! Salses alivel I'm just
crushedp-Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

Stranger-Where does that new den.
tist have his office?
Policeman-You mean the one who
pulls teeth without pain?
"Yes."
go right around the corner You
will have no trouble finding his office.
You can hear his patients yell half a
block AWAY. Texas SiftingS
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
,nrlcr TO cnRrrsroNnErrs

49, cr-,u ii.rat trr thu paper shoti hs acoora-
r-ii.i nAIus NJ tIr ad.hoti nei nsoessarf ts
~, b t,.t,a. svtdsncs Of GOOD fAith en- tht
isft at ths writer. Write ohly Que sife Of the pS
s.r Be psiucrNry carsfnl In giving narnas and dAist
to have the ani nrss pifin snd dendt. Ffnp
or nsnss are ten diiluN 70 dscinhef secauae eithe
careless nAnasF IN which tbsJ are SrittAa-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

Customer lat bookstore)-Have you
''Modern Views Of Heaven?"
New Clerk--I-I don't know, sir.
Have you inquired at the photograph
cQunter2--Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
TWO Anparent Trnths.

'Life" said the moraliEer. "is nothing
after all but electricity"
''0ftentimes," said the demoralizer,
at IS quito as Shoching."--ludgo
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

The condemned man said TO the
hangman; III you do not mind, please
put the rope under my arms, for anl
y littls ticlSlish about the neck"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

4 Il Emersons
were 81 We S,
bound hard and
fast to the tyr
amy of custom
the bondage
of keeping up a
fashionable APP
pearance with
out the ade-
q u a tie means
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22

Of their ancestors and take up their
residence in America
"A simple means is used to discover
where coal thieves are numerous along
the line of some of the Pennsylvania
and New Jersey railroads The coal is
merely splashed with whitewash after
It has been loaded upon the cars As
soal trains are slow ones and, and are
often sidetracked for days together at
obscure little places, where there are
few or no employees to guard them, the
enemies of the coal trust take advan-
tage of these delays to replenish their
bins A glance at a load that has been
Sprinkled with whitewash shows where
soal has been removed, and places
where such removals are frequent are
either guarded or avoided afterward
Feather beds have an inexplicable
and undeserved popularity in the south
srn states Even in summer she north
srn visitor meets the solicitous inquiry,
"Will you have a feather bed?" and it
is the ambition of every negro house
wife to possess such bed. An old
solored woman who came north, leav-
ing her husband behind her in Vir-
yinia, bemoaned the fact that she had
not heard from home in many weeks,
but astonished those who suggested
that doubtless her husband was In
good health by the announcement that
she was not worrying about the old
man, but lest he SHOULD have sold her
feather bed. II would be easy enough
TO get new husband, she affirmed,
but 1t hardly fell TO the lot OF mortal
solored woman to own two feather hads
in the coarse Of q lifetime