The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-18

you as a souvenir or to complete a set
OF your own. Folding the napkin
rather implies that your hostess does
not keep help and that you are in a
delicate way helping her to do up her
work.
8. 1t is proper to accept a nickel or
any small piece of money from a gen.
tleman friend to put in the plate at
church, and to refuse it would be ex-
tremely rude and vulgar. Do not try
to be too ~selt-reliant in this way and
then err in some more important mat
ter. had a young woman acquaint-
ance one who insisted on paying for a
postage stamp that I gave her, and yet
she borro-ed a valuable book worth
$50 % years ago next summer and has
never returned it.
daisy Bell" Whatcom, Washing
ton, says: my father and mother
approve of my marriage with a young
man of whom I am p~assionately fond,
but I have an older brother who objects
bitterly to the match. Nearly six
months ago my parents both gave
their consent to my marriage to Wal
ter. What should I do9"
Well, Daisy, if 1 stood in the position
which you occupy, I would get Wal
ter'sconsent and proceed to "play ball"
"Valerian." st. Augustine, Fla,
writes: "What is the proper method
for eating cheeseT"
You should toy with it as though you
did not care much for it, and then
while your hostess is looking at some
other guest slide it into your mouth. A
very good way is to cut it on the plate
and spread it on the bread. Much, of
course, depends upon the variety of
cheese used. Sumo cheese used lately
in the best circles is passed to theguests
cut in small squares, together with lit
tie individual silver clothespins to put
on the nose. After you have received
your cheese, however, the rule is to
put it out of its misery as soon as pos
sibIe.
Kathleen Mavourneen, Star Prairie,
Wis, writes: 81 have broken off my
engagement with Sylvester, a young
man who has kept Co. with me for 60
ing on two years. Ipresume it is partly
my fault, but wish to refer it to you.
He is rather a quick tempered man,
and once when he did not think I was
looking called my little dog to him,
saying, Here, Tige; here, Tige,' and
coaxing it to him, when all at once he
hauled off, and saying There, how do
you like that, you -- fyste9' he
kicked Tige in the stomach with all the
force of his being.
Il was up stairs dressing at the time
and Jaw all this below in the back yard
from my chamber window, and, just
as I was, / told him never to look at me
again. He looked up a moment, with a
twinkle in his eye, and said he guessed
he didn't ARE to if that was the way 1
looked without my boughten hair.
HE then drifted slowly out of my
life, knocking the poor little Mary
Goulds galley west with his cane as he
went. I afterward learned that he did
it on purpose to startle me and not be-
cause he treasured i'll feeling toward
Tige.
What should / do3
ST have a carnelian ring of his and
a silver one that he made out of a t of
as. I was making a pair of yarn mitts
to hang on the tree next winter for him.
Would you finish the mitts for him
and send back the rings9 The latter 1
am afraid that 1 cannot get off, as my
hands has grown a good deal this sum-
mer, for 1 have had to do the milking.
II hate like everything to give him
up, and yet you see what a hole I am
in. I do not care to compromise my
self with him, and yet I would rather
have his love than a whole fair ground
full of dogs. In fact, 1 have since that
more than once kicked the measly old
pup myself because he seems to stand
betwixt me and Sylvester.
"What should 1 dos"
1t is very difficult to come in between
two estranged and icy hearts, both
claiming that there is nothing to arbit-
rate" while scalding tears from those
cold hearts chase each other down
youthful cheeks. How icy hearts can
turn out scalding tears, the reader may
not understand, but it can be done if
you get the right style of poetic license.
Kathleen, you must humiliate your
self, I fear, or the great chasm betwixt
you and Sylvester will go on yawning
mona oDd mora until of last some fine