Year: 1872



 It is poor economy-or, rather, no economy at alto purchase inferior fabrics because they are cheap. Per sons in limited circumstances often com init this error. If calico nt ten cents Q yard looks about as well as -one at twelve or fifteen cents, the prudent pur- chaser will often think it economy to choose the low-priced goods. As it is low-priced, she'may indulge in yard or two more for ruffles or bias folds, flatter- ing herself that cheap ornamentation is an equivalent for fine quality. This mistake may be seen permeating the en. tire wardrobe of many sensible people. The result is simply this : they never have anything of really good quality, are always shabby, and always buying. None but rich people can afford to buy poor goods. This rule applies to all sorts of goods-muslins, cloths, carpets and table linen. We grudge the time we see women spend in making up mus lins of low grade for underclothing. There are so many stitches in a shirt l! And when it lasts one year instead of two. as it should, there is just twice as much work done as need to be. Better make three shirts of fine quality muslin than six of lower grade of muslin. Just so in fannels. A fifty-cent, all wool Shaker flannel will wear two or three times as long as your fimsy cotton and wool stuff few pennies cheaper Especially in family of children, fabrics should be chosen for service, that when made up they may descend from one child to another, thus saving the mother | L. sl,1> Ao h broidery of thought and culture. A few rules with regard to shopping itself may be in place. First have list of articles to Ee purchased made out in black and white. By this means you will be saved from sudden temptation to buy what is not really necessary, and forget nothing that you require. Second: Deal only with merchants in whose business integ- rity you can confde. Third: In the long run one always does better to buy at one and the same place than run about for the purpose of hunting up bargains. A regular customer can often get favors denied to an occasional pur- chaser. Fourth Never buy what you don't want, simply because 1t is cheap.

 Curious Religious Intelligence.

 We find some curious correspondence in The Gondon) Church Times upon the subject of desecrated churches. One writer gives the story of an aged priest, who told him that in tho year 1900 he was sent to certain church in the West Riding to perform "ths monthly duty;;' but that he was peremptorily warned away by the churchwarden's wife, who refused to have service performed that day because her turkey was sitting in the pulpit. On another occasion in an other church. the service was suspended because the farmers wheat was stacked in the nave, and he had forgotten that it was church Sunday. A parish church at Heene was bit by bit allowed to fall into decay, and was finally pulled down because of it's danger to pigs and sheep The stone of this chapel was worked up into the adjoining buildings. John Rayne, Vicar of Blyth, complains that there is remnant of Beneditine church near his own, which has beer shamefully despoiled, the neighborine proprietor having carried off bay o1 the nave and converted it into an aviary for parrots, cockatoos, and canaries. Here is something even worse: Al Crawford, in Middlesex, the church, as often happens, is situated in the park The following notice appeared at the gate "The road is only public to the parish church for the performance oi divine service, and persons trespassine at any other time will be prosecuted J And now, to wind up this paragraph, we may mention that clergyman aged 71, formerly rector of Alerstone, died lately from starvation, at Camden town, hi: landlady testifying that he had only tasted animal food once in the last two months So much for foreign religious intelligence.