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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-09-29

party we keep on hat and gloves, being
shown upstairs simply to put off outside
wraps and rearrange disordered locks
before presenting ourselves to our hos.
tess. Here you are not expected to lay
aside anything. You sit down to lunch,
as you would go to an afternoon tea, in
all your outdoor wraps, without the in
PREVENTION of dressing-room formalities,
even though you alone are expected to
strictly family affair. You are shown
UP at once to the drawing room, and I'M
less your hostess suggests laying aside
your coat, you go down to lunch as you
are. This is the pure English of it. An
Irish lady, or the other hand, will be
apt to show you her bedroom, give you
brush, comb, and hot water, and expect
you to take off your things. A French
woman, too, will expect you to remove
hat and wraps AS one said to me the
other day, 1--WE French feel hurt if visi-
tors will not take off their hats; but
these English. they keep on their hats
for everything-they eat and CO." Re-
member this, anyone who is going out
to lunch in England. and so escape the
CHASTITY moments of my first experience,
when was taken aback by being shown,
like an ordinary caller at once to the
drawing room, while my hostess came to
me few minutes afterward, with never
word, of course, about removing any
thing until just as we rose to go down to
lunch, when she asked if l would like to
take off my coat Having expected the
option of a dressing room, American
fashion, thought, for full ten awful
minutes, that had made mistake and
was not expected. Both lunch and din
ner are either served from the side table,
and passed by the servant, or put on the
table and helped by the host and hostess,
according to style or pleasure, as with
us. Lunches are sometimes quite as
hearty as small dinners, even though it
may be simple lunch en- fanaille. There
are almost always two desserts, and
sometimes three-a pudding, and after
ward two "sweets"-a "tart," or what we
call pie, baked in deep dish, or some
delicate custard or shape" served with
choice of preserves. After this there
are often biscuits" and cheese, with
which butter is always served and cell
cry, also, when in season. Celery is sell.
dom or never served except with the
cheese. Olives, too, always come after
ward, with the candied fruits and bon
bons, and never between courses
Hdrper's Bazaar.
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THE MYSTERY OF ATMOSPHERE

On dark or lifeless days the lighting of
the fire works kindred miracle in the
study; it fills the room with life, color,
change. The four walls are unchanged;
the books look down in the old order
from the shelves; the table overfows as
of old with magazines and volumes in
the act of being read; it is the same
room; and yet it is not the same, for it
is pervaded by different atmosphere.
Nothing is more elusive than this intan-
gible thing we call atmosphere, but moth
ing holds more of the magic of beauty
and the charm of life. 1t is, indeed, a
very subtle and pervasive form of life;
the form which finds it's delicate and
fadeless record in art. Those transpar
ent dawns which the lover of Corot
knows so we'll are but marvellous i'm
pressions of atmosphere; the wonder is
not in earth or sky, it is in the fusion of
light and air. There is no bit of nature
that man loves which has not the spell
for him; rocks, trees, and running stream
remain today as they were yesterday,
but they are changed, for different at
mosphere enfolds them. There is no
symbol of permanency on this perishing
earth of ours go impressive as noun
tain range; but there is no created thing
so full of the mystery of change. Dis
lance, height, mass and relation are
never the same two hours together. On
some mornings the hills are remote. in
accessible, immobile, Of unbroken sur
face; but when the afternoon comes, be
hold! they are near, soft of tone, with
outlines that seem almost fluid la their
mobility, and with great assures, full Ct
golden light, opening their very heart to
the day.-Christian Union.
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HOME BREAKING.

Home making has long had a large
share of attention in public print. Arti-
cles on every phase of it abound. and
entire periodicals are published solely in
its interest. But however carefully a
home is made, there is ever before it a
near possibility and remoter certainty
that it must be broken. Let death take
mother, father, or some other head
of the family. and the light and life of
the home is gone; it is only question of
days when its walls must be dismantled
and its rooms left empty for other oc-
cupants. In proportion as the home
life is rich, harmonious and of long
standing, its dissolution will be painful
and perplexing. The process is hard
enough at best, but failure of forecast
frequently makes it needlessly trying
That most certain of all future events
death!-how hard for us to plan for it!
We shrink from abiding in any way to
its coming, we fail utterly to plan for its
destructive blow at the foundations of
the home; and thus a father with his
motherless little ones, or a widow in her
desolation, surveys the ruins of over
confident hopes, and says, What shall
do? Where shall | go? Why did not
talk it all over with that dear one when
| could have gained helpful counsel and
suggestions?"
Wherever there is wealth in a home
there is presumably last will and tesla
ment disposing of the bulk of property
and when this provision for the future
is neglected the law is at hand with its
directions for the settlement of estates.
But the peculiar trials of breaking up
home centre at points so minute as TO
be untouched by these provisions. What
shall be done with the articles of furni-
ture, personal effects, decorative gifts,
and all those little belongings of
home, of no intrinsic value, but priceless
in their associations? When the time
comes for completely clearing out store
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HORTICULTURE.

OF apples it is easy to have too many
of the summer and fall varieties. They
will not keep; the market is glutted
they must be sold as soon as ready
Good winter apples are as staple as corn
or wheat, and almost any home market
will consume large quantity of them
and in the spring they bring nearly your
own price.
Moisture, in connection with heat. will
hasten decomposition in fruit. There,
fore. to keep apples in winter. they
should be stored in dry. even, cool at
mosphere few degrees above the freez
ing point.
Where the home acre must be fenced
either in town or country, nothing an
swers the purpose so we 4 as evergreen
hedges. The American arbor vitae will
endure more severe trimming than any
other evergreen; it may be FLASHED
down and made very dense and solid
and dwarfed to any height desired. Fol
several reasons they are growing very
popular.
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THE ENGLISH AT TABLE.

In England. as elsewhere. table Gus.
toms differ very essentially, of course,
according to class in life and style of
living, so that general statements are
impossible; but there are many little
matters of personal observation which
are not without interest. especially to
strangers and would be visitors to the
land of mutton chops and Bass XXX.
shall not deal with formal dinner and
lunch parties. but only the trifles of or
binary everyday life as have met with
them. In lunching out here for the first
time, however informally. the question
naturally arises whether or not you will
be expected to take off your hat. In
America we know that we may do as we
please in the case OF friends and infor.
NAL acquaintance, and that at lunch
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FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.
INSTRUCTIVE READING FOR AGRICIU TJJpJsTs
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR 1.-THE uN,vEpsA,,sr.

Burning over the strawberry beds is
sometimes beneficial where leaf eating
insects are troublesome. Now the beds
Immediately after fruifing, and burn as
soon as the tops are dry enough. 1t is
best to do so when there is a brisk wind.
for in dry weather there is danger of in.
juring the plants.
Light or sandy lands are the best for
peaches. Clean cultivation is as essen
tial as in the garden. Broadcast and
pillow in plenty of stable manure. I'm
leached wood ashes make an excellent
fertilizer. and green manuring with rye
is settled practice with Michigan peach
growers. Grow five or six good arms.
beginning about two feet from the
ground, and cut all the limbs back to a
single bud, removing the feebler ones
entirely.
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KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE.

There are many women who pride
themselves upon being quite we'll in
formed regarding all the tensts of social
etiquette; yet in one thing they err most
wofully, and by SHINING in this single
particular they sin in all. They do not
know when to go, and even when once
started upon their outward progress
from the drawing room or hallway some
unseen but powerful influence appears
to act upon them like a magnet, and
they keep their hostess standing while
they reiterate what a perfectly lovely
time they have had. or start in upon a
new story to the evident despair of the
woman who is anxious to get back to her
other guests or her family.
In fact there are some creatures who
appear to think that there are certain
stories only worth the telling after a
move to go has been once made. II
must tell you," or "That reminds me-"
is the usual preface, and though every
other sentence is interlarded with ex-
donations of "Oh, really have stayed
too long" yet the recital drags out to it's
exaspering finish, while no one but the
teller evinces the slightest interest in it.
When visitor has finished her call
let her arise, bid adieu gracefully to
those present, and then go without lott
ering in the hall or on the front steps.
1t is an art to know how and when to
leave. Acquire it and great portion of
social success is assured; fail to possess
it, and, even though you are delightful
conversationalist and all around charm
ing woman. you run the chance of being
voted a bore.
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MAN AND NATURE.

The mountains and the forests and the seas,
Oldest of mourners. with pathetic tone,
Have each natural music all their own.
Set in accord with human destines-
Sad tender. manifold. What is more sweet
Than woodland melodies at noon? More
mild
Than dimpled ocean, like laughing rh Id
That lisps and rolls jewel to our feet
Breathlessly calm? And then. within an hour,
Behold that self-same ocean on the shore
Lashes; the forest quakes; with deafening
power
The rocks are rent. Then, oh! amid that
roar.
Awe-struck. we sink. we fall upon our knees.
Ye mountains and We forests and ye seas!
The mountains and the forests and the seas
Have each their music, with our mortal lot
In sympathy. to soothe, exalt, appease;
And man. too, has his music-has note
OF worldwide sweetness, tender reveries
Dirges of buried blisses unforgot
Rejoicing p8ans. glorious symphonies;
But all of them lack something they have
not
The Voice once heard in Eden and the ear,
Pleased with rich sound, is as when some one
sings
In great court, efore King of Kings.
He closes, and of rapture born cheer
Shakes the high roof; but when the Lord of
all
Speaks, there is awe and silence in the hall.
London Spectator.
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CELIA THAXTER.

The literary world has sustained a
great loss in the sudden death of Mrs.
Celia Thaxter. the we'll known poet, at
the Isles of Shoals. She was the daugh-
ter of Thomas B. Laighton, of Ports
mouth, N. H., in which city she was born
June 20, 1886. In early life she went
with him to a new home at Appledore
Island and here the greater part of her
life had been passed. Thomas B. Laigh-
ton was widely known for many years
as the landlord of the Appledore House
Beside his daughter, Celia, he had two
sons, Cedric and Oscar, who inherited
and continued the business of their
father. and are now popular landlords
During her childhood and her girlhood
Mrs. Thaxter came into the closest pos
8 BILE touch with nature and the myster-
ious charms of the sea. She was pas
sionately fond of flowers. The most
sensitive flower could not but grow un-
der her care. Seeds and roots transported
from balmiest chimes fiourished in her
PRECIOUS temperature. Early and late
it was her custom to work among her
flowers with the diligence and faithful
ness which only her ardent love for them
could have inspired.
Although spent away from the world,
as it were, Mrs. Thaxter's early life was
not without its romance, for it was as
visitor in her fathers home that Mr..
Levi Thaxter, young lawyer, first met
her. Remaining for some time on &C.
count Of his health, he learned to know
and appreciate the gifted daughter, thus
forming the acquaintance that culmin
ated in pretty romance. After their
marriage, Mr.. and Mrs. Thaxter still
spent their summers at the islands, liv-
ing, in the winter, either in Boston,
where the latter had many literary
friends, or travelling. Mrs. Thaxter is re-
membered by all who have known her as
especially cordial, with bearing agree
able and manner warm. Her voice was
like silver chime in tone, and her hearty
laugh like that of girl. A writer in
the "Women's Corner" of the Boston
Journal says: "Only last Thursday she
held the writer's hands in hers as she
spoke of the pleasures the summer had
brought to her. She wore becoming
dress of pale gray color. closely fitted to
her round, we'll proportional figure and
turned away at the throat, where ker
chief of white silk was laid in soft. even
folds. Her white, wavy hair seemed
whittier and more beautiful than ever,
and her clear blue eye was kindled with
an eager light as she spoke of her below
ed garden, which is now radiant in it's
glory, and of the perfect summer which
has rendered the Isles of Shoals irresist
IDLY attractive throughout the entire
season.
The story of her early life Mrs Thax.
ter has told in one of her prose works,
"Among the Isles of Shoals" and the
many happy years she had spent there
have given strong local color to her
work; the changing seasons. the growth
of the flowers and humble weed, the
breath of the winds and the voice of all
nature have furnished themes for her
poetical pen; and beside the volume
mentioned, Poems" "Driftweed,"
Poems for Children" THE Cruise of
the Mystery and Other POEMS" have
been given to the world.-Zion's Herald.
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that Mrs. Clifton could iron half d
dozen of these simple white frills laid
fiat on the ironing board while her
neighbor struggled with the ruffles
and pipings and pleatings on single
bingham apron, which, when all was
said, was but a bingham apron after
all and positively ugly in its fussi-
ness. AS for the washing good
soap and the boiler did that for the
white collar, while the furbelows of
bingham lodged dirt that must be
laboriously rubbed out on the wash
board.
Nothing went to waste in the
Clifton household. One of the pref
test hats her little girl ever wore was
trimmed with the plaid satin lining
of the sleeves of a fine overcoat which
her brother left her to make over for
one of the boys. She would buy a
cheap twenty-five cent sailor hat for
one of the little ones, snatch off the
band of cotton and put in its place a
real silk ribbon from her ever ready
scrap-box, and it was cheap no
longer
"But my story is growing too long.
1t may perhaps all be summed up in
few words: Carefully selected good
material, ingenious making over, and
strict attention to detail in the family
attire. Then one may be plain but
never shabby-never conspicuous and
always self-respecting."
"But, oh dear! what careful, con-
slant thought it must required"
eyes, but that becomes second ma
ture to a mother who really desires
the best for her children. Still I have
always maintained that one of the
curses of poverty is that we must give
more thought to dress than the rich!"
Advance.
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MRS. FIELDS TRIBUTE TO
THACKERAY.

AS | turn to review the books once
more | seem to see one kindly face
large, full of humor, full of human SYM
pathies. which makes me forget the
shelves and consider first ed tons" as
childishness. The face belongs to
Thackeray, and | can recall his goodness
to one who, although married already
was hardly more than "a slip of a girl"
and very much afraid of him. Afraid,
let me say. rather of the idea of him, the
great author and famous lecturer who
was making his crowded audiences laugh
or cry at his simple word every evening;
the great man of the moment whom
everybody was running after" yet of
hom'they said that he liked his friends
SO much better than all their noise
about himself that he was always trying
to escape from it-and here he was!-
coming to see-whom? Well, it appears
it did not so much matter, for he was
bent on kindnesses, and he took it all in
at a glance and sat down by the window,
and drew me to him and told me about
his "little girls at home. How he
walked down the wrong side of Picca-
dilly one day and so lost what money he
had out of his pocket, money which be-
longed properly to these same dear girls
Of his; therefore it came about that he
made up his mind, though it was hard
enough, to come away from them and
get something to take back to them in
place of what he had lost, and how they
were the dearest girls in the world, and
when l came to England / should find
them more like two old friends, and
should have somebody, I am sure he
thought, "to play WITH" though under
the circumstances he could not use just
those words.-Mrs. James T. Fields, IN
Scribner.
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THE PORCH OF LIFE.
BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.

Within the Porch of Life we sit
The access to the heavenly door.
The shadowy porch where cold rains pour,
And every bleak wind blows on it.
And those who crowd to stand thereon
Smiling with youth grow grave anon.
We sit among our fellows so,
ShveriDg little in the wind
And still our eyes reach out to find
The faint beam of an inward glow
A home-like ray, which through the door
Steals, softly reckoning, evermore.
There in sure comfort, safe and warm,
They sit who have an entrance won,
Smiling and glad; each dearest one
Who once endured the bitter storm,
And shared our patience and our pain,
But come not for tn to share again.
Dear door, which never is shut tight,
And knows no bolt and needs no bar.
But through all ages stands ajar
To bless the eyes which yearn for sight.
And keep the souls that wait without
From the slow, desolate death of doubt
The Porch of Life is hard and bare,
And long the waiting sometimes seems.
But while we catch the out-reachiDg beams,
Making the darkness subtly fair,
And know the door is open still,
We can endure it with good will.
Sunday School Times.
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POULTRY

For winter feeding to fowls cotton
seed meal is an excellent substitute for
meat, although the latter is still to be
preferred when it can be cheaply OBJ
tanned. Feed but little of the meal
mixed in with the chopped food each
day.
While it is true that it will often pay
better to kill off the droopy hens than to
doctor them, do not lose sight of the fact
that vermin are at the bottom of more
troubles among the hens than any other
one thing. Insect powder or grease
may soon set them to rights again.
Among the best of cold weather foods
for chickens is buckwheat. 1t is espe-
cially valuable as an egg producer. and
will keep the fowls in good condition
without making them too fat.
There is no one product which comes
from the large or little farm with more
uniformity than poultry. They are raised
as matter of course, for home use if
for nothing else, and yet we import mil
lions of dozens OF eggs and thousands of
car loads of fowls every year. Need we
do so?
There is a growing habit among our
large manufacturing establishments of
giving their employees turkeys on
Thanksgiving Day. or at Christmas.
The beginning OF the year finds the
supply exhausted The farmers best
profits are obtained by watching the
markets and supplying just such de-
mands as this.
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lish-I must say it even if that word
has been tabooed in our circle; and
some of us happen to know that your
expenditure for clothes is not ex-
cessive either. Tell us, please, how
you do it."
To say that Mrs. Barton's expendi-
ture for clothes was mot excessive"
was putting it very mildly. Every
one present knew that the Barton in
come was quite limited and that they
abhorred debt and lived strictly
within their means.
"Thank you very kindly for your
compliment" said that lady blushing
brightly, as she clipped the wool
from the finished thumb of the nit
ten she was knitting. II am truly
glad if you think keep my children
looking tidy enough to be self-res-
pecting. That is my chief aim in
dressing them though l own" she
said, blushing again, "that l like to
see them look pretty if they may do
so without being overdressed or cul-
tivating vanity"
"Of course you want them to look
pretty You would be an unnatural
mother if you did not"
"And the beauty of it is" inter
posed the grandmother of the circle,
"that the simplest attired children
are the prettiest. That, to me, is the
charm of the little Bartons-no fussi-
ness, no gew-gaws."
perhaps" said Mrs. Barton, hav-
ing been again appealed to, 81 can
best answer your question by telling
you how Mrs. Clifton did it. She it
was who taught me the art-if art it
is-of economical dressing for chill
dren. When / was IA young lady
taught village school and boarded
in the Clifton family. They were
people of exceedingly small means
and with large family of growing
children. Twas acquainted with them
before went there to live, and Uften
used to wonder how she kept her
children SO genteelly dressed-we
used 'genteeP then instead of stylish
so different from the other child
rem in the neighborhood who had
sort of-of-well, dowdy look-I
hardly know how else to express it,
although that word seems unkind.
When | became one of the family |
soon discovered ii e secret and it has
been of inestimable value to me in
my own family. If you think it worth
while will tell it you as best l can"
by all means let us hear Mrs.
Clifton's way"
Mrs, Clifton was a sweet-tempered
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room and attic and making some dispo-
sition OF everything, into what perplexity
are we thrown! And how we wish, when
too late, that the silent lips could speak
to us, if but word of authoritative di-
Conqreqationalist.
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MRS. CLIFTON'S WAY.
BY MRS. E. B. CUTTINGS.

OTHERS Club of Circle
vile were discussing the
dressing of children
when Mrs. Barton was
appealed to for her
views.
"Your little folk always
look neat and-ves stv-
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