Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-21

just as we'll not to look in the glass. Of course, the result Is not noticeable at once, the hair brush must be yielded and that night after night and month after month with unintermitting perseverance, but @ will result from this treatment. Then, if the old fashion Ieally returns of parting the hair straight down the middle of the crown, and bringing it all into coil, with only few fluffy locks strsying about the temples, the girl with the silk nightcaps will be all ready for it. She may not con- sider this style of arranging the hair SO be- coming ss the mode she has discarded, but then 1t will be the style, and when gener- ally adopted, it will be found when grown familiar to the eye quite as satisfactory ss anything that has preceded 1t.
 ''THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE."
 What girl has not read Charlotte Yonge's famous story, "The Heir of Red clyffer Who has not sighed and wept and smiled over its pages, and felt that, long-drswn out as the story is, she would not have it shorteneds The book Is one which most girls like to own and read more than once, and if, after much boring over unwholesome, stagey. overwrought fiction, they look upon it as ''nsmby- pamby," 90 much the worse for them.
 Miss Yonge, as child, was an inveter- and she peopled the wood and meadow with creatures of her imagining, dear companions and eonfdsnts. The Heir of Redclyffe" brought her fame. and a host of young admirers in all countries where English books are read. The origin of the story she tells Is iu this wise:
 ''It was in the year 1850 that dear friend told me she had always longed for tale that would represent the contrast between the contrite spirit and the self righteous one. There were plenty of tales, as we agreed, where the hero remained re- morseful all his life, but always for some actual deed, generally shooting his best friend by accident; but what che wished to show was how the humble, wstchful spirit resulted in cheerful spirits and per feet peace, while the self-satisfied temper worked out distress and failure.
 "This was the origin of the story. It was written with great esgerness, and there was 8 certain fever of composition which possessed me during the critical parts of the story, and made 1t very difficult to persuade me to come up to the Great Ex- hibition of 1851; and there was also that youthful delight in depicting character and conversation which resulted in redundancy but which made the work one of exceed ing enjoyment.
 "The manuscript was most kindly rec commended by the late Sir John Taylor William Parker, publisher. He printed were soon exhausted, and then came really hal 1y,ofn xxhioh I ho rIIxy ha lieved in."
 ANOTHER COLLEGE SETTLEMENT.
 The success of the College Settlement in Rivington street, New York, as a center of helpful and refining influence to the neigh borhood about it, has induced more phi lsnthropic young women to try the same experiment in other cities.
 Such College Settlement is now in sue cessful operation in St Mary's street, Phil adelphis, and another was started this win ter at the South Cove, Boston.
 The sponsor for this last mentioned movement is Miss Katherine Conan, Pro feseor of Economies at Wellesley college. The nine young women, who in the inter est of the poor women of South Cove are to live among them, not merely visiting them at stated intervals with tracts and good advice, are college graduates, eager to try this method of practical and genuine philanthropy.
 A plain brick house was rented, repaired and furnished. No sslarled officers or assistants are to bs employed. One of the number acts as housekeeper and the others share the work of the establishment, and only those who can afford to devote their time freely to this object, and' defray their own current expenses, are eligible to posi- tions in the household. For the expenses of the work generally the College Settle ment Association Is responsible. This has c membership of over seven hundred, the intercollegiate public of both sexes being eligible on payment of five dollars.
 So much has been written about the Rivington street house, its inmates and their methods of work, that it is hardly necessary to speak of 1t here. But the idea is that of daily friendly contact with the people who are to be helped. These educated and refined women go down into the locality where there is waste and want, degradation and suffering. They live in a plain and inexpensive way, endesvoring to put into practice the best methods of carrying on household sff fairs, with whole some cookery and systematic planning of every detail. Their neighbors, shiftless and ignorant as they may be, are invited to this model home, are taught, encouraged aud helped in every possible way, without psuperizing them, or offending lingering shred of self respect. Object lessons in nestness and economy are more valuable to most of these poor women than cast-otf finery and scraps from the table. Then the children of the neighborhood are formed into clubs for study, for work, and for play so that all may have their turn. They come at the appointed time and find indeed & House Beautiful, and all the week is frightened for them by the remembered or the antici. pated visit. Sunday services, non-secta, rian and informal in character, are also held. The plan is @ grand one, and for those who thus devote their time, their gifts, and their influence to the uplifting of their less favored "kinsfolk and ac- quaintance" there should be the substsn- tlal support and encouragement not only of the College Settlement Association, but of all right thinking and high minded people. HILARY.