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Conducted by a Physician and Surgeon. -4 f v- ^Respondents are requested to state their questions asconcisely as posible consistent with intelligibility. -1 I- » "acting (l) sex, (2) age, (3) \f married, (4) duration ulness. All letters should be addressed "MEDICAL," per Editor, WEEKLY MAIL, Cardtf. P. W. E." (Ciistell Coli).-I. The deformity is Caused by tight boots. Wear boots with square Joes, and paint the joints with tincture of iodine 'vice a week. 2. No, it is not possible to do „ J^hat you suggest. OTBAW UAT" (Cogan Piil).—1. Get married as Boon as you c.in. 2. Use Hop Bitter Beer; it is Qon-intox>cating. 3. No, certainly not. IJAPI'S MAID'' (I'enaith).—1. The air is not suit- able for you. A mild country place would be best in your present stnte of health. 2. Take <i ^lenty '"ilk an<J fresh eggs. VISION" (Neath).—You had better consult an oculist at once. Have your eyes tested, and be will advise as to the best glasses. Unsuit- (| able ones are worse than useless. ANXIOUS" (Biiton Ferry).—Consult your nearest surgeon as soon as you can, and follow his advice. It will take a little time to get well, as t. You have allowed it to become chronic. B." (W envoe ).-Keep your bowels open. Eat ■ oatmeal porridge every morning before break- fast, and take the following mixture :—Tincture of steel, two drachms; infusion of calumba, Jour ounces; water to eight ounces; dose, one tl wblesj oo'iful twice a day after food. -LOTTIE (Llandaff).—Your liver is sluggish and -> fj,00!1 digestion is performed very incompletely. Jj. -fake a podophilliu pill at night and the follow- mixture: — Bicarbonate of soda, two drachms; carbon te of bismuth, one drachm; Carbonate of mngnesin, one drachm and a half; chloric ether, one drachm peppermint water to eight ounces. Dose, one tablespoonful three II times a day before tood. T. L," peter).- (1) Yes, avoid them. V1) No. (3) Keep your bowels regular. If no II beiter, consult your nearest mental man. U." (Riivmncy).—-Cleanliness. Use Joy's Disin- fectant Soap.

A TOOTH POWDER. Salt as a tooth powder is better than *lttiost anything than can be bought. It keeps the teeth brilliantly white, and the Sums hard and rosy. The salt for this pur- Pose should be very finely pulverised. SLILPITUII. Sulphur is a useful household remedy Jniich very few people appreciate, Taken in hia way it is not unpleasant, and most whole- ;—Procure a little flour of sulphur, and a teaspoonful daily for about a week m a little milk in the early morning, fasting, FRECKLES. Take loz. of lemon juice, a quarter of a drachm of powdered borax, and half a drachm of sugar mix them, and let them stand a few days in a glass bottle till the liquor is fit for u.Se5 then rub it on the hands and faoe occa- sionally. THE HAIR. »he best thing to use once a week for the *ir is distilled vinegar, diluted with water, his not only keeps the hair thoroughly » but makes it grow. The vinegar can e obtained at any chemist's, and a small Mpantity is sufficient to use at one time. A Piece of flannel will be found belter to rub l«o vinegar in with than a sponge. INFLAMED EYELIDS. If troubled with red eyelids, give them a •tot bath just before going to bed, laving them ^ith the hands. In the morning give the another good bathing, rubbing gently l £ 0ra the outer corners towards the nose. people carelessly pass over the eyes care Waa face, but they need great PREVENTIVE AGAINST DECAY OF THE TEETH. The following prescription is from a Frenoh Illedical paper:—Take of tannin 75 grains, tincture of iodine and of myrrh of each half a teaspoonfnl, iodide of potassium 15 grains, and rose water 6ozs. Mix one teaspoonful to glass of warm water as a mouth wash. TREATMENT OF ECZEMA IN ELDERLY PEOPLE. el /ar £ e nu'nl>er of cases of eczema in b]aerly people are due to anaemia (or want of °°d), associated with imperfect action of the pwels and kidney6. Tonic treatment is in- re»a^' an(* kowds should be moved gulaily once a day. For the kidneys cetate of potassium should be given. Arsenic seldom of service, and alcohol should not given. Local applications are useful, but e general treatment is the most important, NATURAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE. If patients were put on milk and barley- ater in all acute cases of disease (observes r- Allison^ if the windows were kept open *y and night, if a warm sponge-bath were given daily, and drugs and alcoholic stimu- I I auts kept from the patient, there would be no 1)eed to try to revive bleeding, as health "Oatd be restored quickly by natural means, *hd the bad symptoms which now are seeu as .^e result of wrong diet and treatment would e entirely absent. I( HEADACHES. Xou oan ju(tee °f the cause of a head- one in many instances by its location," said doator after he bad asked his little patient ¡ ere the pain was that she complained of. doll headache in the front of the head, P^tionlarly above the eyes, proceeds almost Variably from indigestion,and oan be treated accordingly. At the back of the head, how- just above the neck, a steady pain be- «ens congestion or too muoh blood in the An excellent remedy for this is to j^P'y a mustard plaster on the spine, just i. °* the neck; this almost invariably draws f Wood away from the head and gives jL Neuralgio headaohe is unmistakable rough tho sudden darting character of its Wins. Cloths wrung out of the hottest .ter one oan stand help this suffering some- un08 to a great extent, HOT WATER IN ACNE. Acne is the name given to a very oommon orm of skin eruption, which appears as red PitOplaa on the faoe and between the shoulders. -Uley are most troublesome in the spring and autumn, but, many people are never quite free *roin them, they are always more or less dis- by them, and it is only a question of having them badly or less badly, Therapist, quoting from a general Journal, advises the application of very hot that is, as hot as one oan possibly bear 1: A pieoe of fine linen is dipped in the hot and applied to the affeoted part by them for a minute or two this to be three times a day. Medioinal agents, as salicylic acid, if added to the water, often be an improvement. The treat- is simple and oan do no harm, and it **57 relieve a troublesome complaint. LEANNESS. -"Some persona are born with a normal ten- r^ciy to become fat, others with a tendency f^eantiess. It is the same among the lower J^iDaala. The hog is a sort of maohine for 5r*nsforming the odds and ends of food into ,gj but the farmer knows beforehand that a ttie pig with long legs and snout will work jJ* the fat as fast as it oan be made. So a 'j/'K-legged person seldom inolines to obesity. n-^P^fament has muoh to-do with the bodily Qaitiog ia this reipeot. In ljmphatio people the life processes are slow, and the fat is largely deposited, rather than burned. This temperament furnishes some of the best types of surface beauty. The person of nervous temperament, on the other hand, by excessive activity of body and mind, and by pre- disposition to haste, worry, fret, and im- patience, naturally remains lean but while the features of such a person will probably lack softness and roundness of outline, they may exhibit in a marked degree the higher beauties of mind and soul. People who incline to obesity may hold the tendency in check by appropriate food and stirring exercise in the open air, thus both lessening the amount of fat-forming food taken into the system, and causing a more rapid consump- tion of such fat as is produced and those who incline to undue leanness, by pursuing the opposite course may largely increase the amount of fat deposited. If the leanness is the result of digestive weakness, or of a faulty assimilation, little, of course, can be done until a condition of general health has been secured. But, assuming that the abnor- mal leanness is connected with high health, what advice must be given First, let the carbonaceous, or fat forming, food greatly preponderate over the nitro- genous-such as beef, lamb, and codfish, (Jailing the fat-forming elements of beef 20, lamb 35, and codfish 5, those of pork will be 50; beans, 57 peas, 60; oats, 66; wheat, 69; corn and rye, each 72 rice, 80; and butter, 100. Of course, it would not do to take a single carbonaceous article and live on it, for the entire body is to be kept in high health by the proper nourishment of all the tissues. However, the system can be well supported in full vigour by a vegetable diet, with the addition of milk, eggs, and butter. In the second place, cultivate calmness and quietness in feeling-and manner. Avoid impatience and fret. Do not overwork with mind or body. We may add that tea drinking tends to leanness. If possible, milk should be sub- stituted.

HOW NUNS ARE TREATED. Rescue of an English Lady. Courageous Conduct of a Solicitor, A firiii of London solicitors writes to the 37))i«of Monday as follows :-As there are doubtless many English families who liave some relation living as a nuii in a convent abroad, we venture to send you the following facts in case our experience may be of uso to them in a similar emergency and beciuse we think that these facts ought to be made public. We are fully aware that comment may be made upon the course of procedure adopted in rescuing the nun, and that the release might have been effected by applica- tion to the authorities through tho British Diplo- matic representative. The course adopted had, however, the merits of cheapness and promptness, and was justified in a measure by its success. Last Monday we received a letter of which the following is a copy, names being omitted:- Atiguat 22, 1691. My dear Mr. I hasten to write to you these few lines because I begin to feel quite frightened and suspi- cious at things I hear the Superior here say. You said a few years ago that a convent was a gaol. I now believe it and therefore beg of you to be kind enough to come here to where I shall be, for I must see you, for I have something very particular to speak of. Th«y won't let me go. I thought I should be obliged to wait till September 24, but I hope not, for there are others than me that leave, I hear. I iiope you will come as soon as you can on receiving this, dear Mr. I shall be very anxious till I see you, they must not know of your coming, so please don't write unless to let me know if you cannot, for I am suspicious by thelll saying, "Ah! you don't know in what house we may put you." Then, dear sir, trusting (In your speedy help, I remain with kindest regards, youts very sincerely, P.S.—The Superior-General will not reply, it appears, but has her instructions given, I suppose, to the Superior here therefore, I am anxious to know their artifices Ie ¡a:sfre\Jl1:r:Ii d W¡::letleirI :t power, having no one. All the stamps and money are locked. up, and I am with nothing. The train from Calais to from ——— straight to the convent a large brick building a step from the station. On the fol'owing day Mr. a member of our firm, left London by the eleven o'clock a.m. train, j and travelled straight to the small town where the convent is situated. Afier leaving his luggage at the small inn he wns guided to the convent by a youth and rang the bell. On the door being opened by a nun, he entered the hall without hesitation, and told her that he wished to Sle Miss and that lie had travelled some distance for that purpose. She showed him into a small room off the hall with two doors leading into it, one from the ball and the ether from a corridor, and asked him to wait till she inquired of the Mother Superior. In about. fivo minutes the Mother Superior appeared, and upon her saying that she had not the honour of knowing him lie gave her his card and said that he had come a long way to see Miss ——— She then left him, and in about another five minutes returned with Miss who imme- diately advanced to him and, while shaking hands, said in a low voice in English that she was for- bidden to speak to him in that language. He then said to the Mother Superior that Miss was not happy where she was, and that he had come to make other arrangements for her comfort. The Mother Superior stated that could only be done with the permission of the Mother General at (twenty milag off). Miss then said they could go to see the Mother General. To this the aWher Superior objected. Miss then spoke to Mr. very hurriedly in English, imploriDg him to help her to leave the convent. Mr.- turned to the Mother Superior and said that Miss wanted to leave at once, to which she replied that she must first of all speak to Miss outside in the corridor. The moment they had lett the room the Mother Superior locked the door. Mr. then heard a scuffle going on in the corridor, and feeling that he had been foiled, tried to force the lock, but without avail. He then went out into the hall by the other door and tried to reach the corridor that way, but the door leading into the corridor was also locked. He managed, however, to wrench it open and got into the corridor. When be got there all was quiet, no one to bo seen, and he did not know where to go. Almost immediately afterwards he heard pereams, which he followed up, and found they came from a room at the end of this long corridor. He threw open that door and found four nuns suirounding Miss --I trying to stop her screams. They bad pulled off her cap, torn her dress, wrenched off the cross of the order, and were apparently trying to wrestle her down to the ground. He ran forward, pushed all four away, and seized hold of Miss by the arm. and helped her along the corridor into the hall. By that time the four nuns had recovered them- selves and tore after Miss into the hall and wanted to pull her away from Mr. ——. He waved his arm violently at, them, exclaiming loudly at their attempting to detain an English- woman against her will. Fortunately the hall door bad not been locked, and lie had no further difficulty in getting outside the con- vent with Miss Sho was in a most dishevelled condition, and as they pissed along the road the inhabitants of the village bv two's and three's formed and followed them, till at last they had a large number of men, women, and children close to them as they entered the inn. Miss bought from the landlady a bonnet and mantle, which Mr. ——— paid for, and when Miss was ready to leave the iun the landlady said it was impossible, as such a crowd had collected in the open square who would sympathise with the people of the convent. However, a carriage was prepared in the courtyard of the inn, and they drove rapidly through the crowd to the railway station and by a few minutes caught a train and returned to England without delay. We may olso mention that some years ago Miss wrote to her brother-in-law to come and take her away from the convent in which she was then staying; that he wrote to the Mother Superior to say he was coming over to remove her; that when he arrived at the convent he found that Miss had been removed to another convent, and that, although he called in the help of a local magis- trate, he was not able to ascertain where she was, and had to return to England without her. Miss had not been in England for 25 years up to last Wednesday, and had been in fifteen different convents belonging to the same order duriog that period

THE STERNER SEX. II Are ye good men and true ? -,Sltakspeare. Rs. The thankful man never feels very poor. The devil loves to makes a Christian look as though he needed liver medicine. Unless a man lives as high as he shouts, the less noise he makes the better. Every man knows a good use to which some other man might put his money. The man who avoids mistakes by never trying to do anything makes a big mistake. it is better to try to make your home heaven than to try to make heaven your home. No matter how much a man hates a creditor, he invariably asks him to call again. The man who is waiting tew be happy will next year at this time be waiting stilL-Josh Billings. Twice during the year man feels the need of rest-once just before his holiday and again immediately after. He that repents every day for the sins of every day will have only the sins of one day to repent for when he comes to die. The man who lets his wife split all the wood may mean well, but he shouldn't be allowed to do all the talking at prayer-meet- ing. STILL FIND THEIR WAY. It is a long time since good men began to preach that honesty is the best policy, but the Dig potatoes still find their way to the top of the sack. SOCIALLY Like the running horse in the trotting race I Is man in this world of WOOF., For the fnster the gait he sets for his pice, The lower his record goes. J VST f o. -T'- Why do we always talk of putting on a coat and vest? Who puts on a coat before a vest p We also say putting on shoes and stockings. Who puts on the shoes before the stockings? We also put up signs telling people to wipe their feet, when we mean their boots or shoes. We are a little eccentric in our phrases at times PRAISE YOUR WIFE, MAN. For pity's sake, give your wife a little encouragement. It won't hurt her. She made your home comfortable, your hearth bright and shining, food agreeable—for pity's sake, tell her you thank her, if nothing more. She don't expect it. It will make her eyes openjwiaer than they have these ten years, but it will do her good, and you, too. There are many women to-day thirsting for words of praise-the language of encouragement. Through summer's heat, through winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplainingly, ahd so accustomed have their fathers' brothers, and husbands become to their monotonous labours that they look for and upon them as they do for the daily rising of the sun and its daily going down. Home every day may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its holiness. FOR ANGLERS. A very good idea brought out by a firm who cater for fishermen is a kind of gusset let in under the arm ef the fishing jaoket, and by means of which the arms may be freely used without pulling the body of the coat into all sorts of fautastioal shapes. KEEPING A JOURNAL. Besides reading, a young man ought to write, if he have the capacity and the leisure. If you wish to remember a thing well, put it into writing, even if you burn the paper immediately after you have done; for the eye greatly assists the mind. Memory consists of a concatenation of ideas the place, the time, and other circumstances lead to the recollection of facts; and no circumstance more effeotually than stating the facts upon paper. A journal should be kept by every young man. Put down something against every day in the year, if it be merely a des- cription of the weather. You will not have done: this for one year without finding the benefit of it. It disburdens the mind of many things to be recollected; it is amusing and useful; and ought by no means to be neglected. As a thing of mere curioaity it is of some value, and may frequently prove of very great utility. It tends greatly to produce regularity in the conducting of affairs; and is a thing demanding but a smaH portion of attention once in every day.-WILLIAM C'OBBETT. IT IS MAN'S NATURE. To think that all the pebbles in his own pathway are rocks, and all the rocks in his neighbour's pathway are only pebbles. To think that the woman who dotes on him is a person of discriminating feminine taste, whose other weaknesses are, therefore, pardonable. To think that he always knows when he's bad enough to drink, while Tanks never does, To think that when he wins a jackpot it is a matter of skill, and when he loses the luck's against him." To think he can fool all women all the time. To think that his wife and children ought to go to church, but that he needs rest on Sundays. To think that he will do a great many things when he gets time." To think that his side in politics is the only side there is. This applies particularly when his side is the inside. THEY ARE SELFISH. I That men don't marry because of the extra- vagance of women is—concentrated bosh! It is because of their own extravagance, or culti- vation, or vanity, or whatever it is that makes silk underwear, silk hats, top coats, dress coats, theatre boxes, giving dinners and flowers, and keeping or hiring horses and oarriages and goodness knows what not, a positive neoessity instead of a luxury. Where can you find a man of to-day -whose years have gone beyond first youth-with ideas of a home, happiness and a wife based on love instead of comfort ? And comfort to-day does not mean what it did when our fathers and mothers and the country itself were young. In those days it was the high- est degree of cheer and inspiration to get buttons sewed on and stockings mended and someone even to adjust your oollar and tie your necktie and brash the lint from your clothing and a thousand other little things that an in- terested wife considered to be her personal duty. These things, interspiced with the never-failing one of love, which was never foroed into stumbling through any discussions of doubt, constituted the sum and substance of comfort. Luxuries were well enough then as now, but it one could go without them Borelv the other oould. .11

THE LADIES. "'l I resolve to hare something which mav ba of enter- tainment to the fair sex."—Sir Richard Steele. WHO SAYS WOMEN ARE NOT POETICAL? Mr. Andrew Lang thinks that nine-tenths of magazine poetry, especially in America, is written by women, A PERFECT TOAST. A woman's name! the fairest bonati That human lips can utter; Woman alone shall be our toast, We don't want any but her. DOMESTIC SERVICE IN LONDON. It is estimated that there are 240,000 women domestic servants in London, and that 10,000 of these are always out of situations or ehanging their places. WHERE WOMAN NEVER Is. How dull must be the routine of existence in the Peninsula of Athos, in the Egean Sea, where a population of 6,000 consists entirely of men—mostly monks and hermits Woman is never in it there, and scandals, intrigues, and divorce cases are consequently unknown. Seorets are also unknown— except to those in whose breasts they are locked. A HINT. A pleasant way of obtaining the little luxuries, the oft-promised additional furni- ture, the dainty drapery and pretty trifles which are so much treasured by everyone, is to mark each birthday, Christmas, or domestic anniversary by some addition to home com- fort or ornament, instead of by remembrances for purely personal use, Almost any house- wife would delight in such a plan, and would take genuine pleasure in each gift. While her better half might not indulge in as muoh naild ecstasy as she, his secret pride would be gratified to see furnishings accmnulating and ornaments gradually and tastefully veil- ing the hard outlines of his home. THE SELLING OF WIVES. Wife selling was no uncommon practice with our grandfathers. In 1803 a man at Chapel-en-le-Frith sold his wife, child, and some furniture for lls. the same year a Hereford butcher sold his wife by auction for 24s. and a bowl of punch. In 1806 a man exposed his wife for sale in the market at Hull with a baiter round her neck, and she was purchased for twenty guineas. At Knaresborough, in the following year, a man disposed of his wife in a similar manner for 6d. and a quid of tobacco. At Sheffield, a little while before, a fellow sold his wife in the market place. What do you ask ?" said a bystander. A guinea," replied the husband. Done!" cried the other, and im- mediately led away his bargain. BIRDS IN BONNETS. Miss Hannah Poland, the honorary secre- tary of the Secretary for the Protection of Birds, which has the Duohess of Portland for lady president, writes:—This society was formed nearly three years ago to prevent the enormous slaughter of birds that takes place for the purpose of millinery. The society numbers over 800 members. No subscription is required; the single rule is that those who join shall refrain from wearing the feathers of any bird not killed for food, the ostrich only excepted. It is a well-known fact that many species of birds are becoming rarer and rarer, and it is feared will become altogether extinct. It seems hardly possible that any woman should oare to deck herself with the murdered bodies of the victims of the most barbarous fashion that was ever invented. Unfortunately, it is a fact that too many of the so-called gentler sex, either from want of thought" or want of hoatt," wpar birds' win!2fs atld aigrcttco. I shall be happy to receive the name and address of all who wish to help the good work done by the Society for the Protection of Birds, and to send a card of membership to anyone who will forward me two stamps for the cost of printing and postage. The address of the secretary is 29, Warwiok-road, Maida Hill, London. THE GIRL OF TO-DAY. If there is anything we know less about than we think we do it is the girL From the time that she is big enough to swing on the gate and tie a ribbon in a double bow- .knot she begins to locate a sweetheart, and she keeps this up until be is located in the back yard exercising his talents dissecting firewood. She may be a little dull on mathe- matics, but invariably solves the problem of putting a No. 5 foot in a No. 3 shoe. She will wear out two old dresses running around to find out how to make a new one in the latest style. She will walk three streets out of the way to get a peep at her beau, and then pass by without looking at him. She will attend church, listen with absorbed interest to eloquent and pathetio sermons, then return home and expatiate upon the horrible fit of Miss Snow's new dolman. She will go to table, mince over delicacies with the most fastidious taste, then slip back in the kitchen and eat a raw potato. She will wear out her best pair of shoes danoing all day, then attend a baH at night and oomplain of being out of practice. She will be industrious and economical for a month, then spend her savings for a red ribbon. She will fly about the house for a week, making preparations to look neat on Sunday. She will flirt with all the best young men in the neighbourhood and finally marry some knotty-heady Jack Jaw. HER IDEAL, She wnnted to reach an ideal, She tilked of the lovely art, She quoted from Emerson's lissayj, And said she had Ruskin by heait. She doted on Wagner's productions, She thought comic op ra low, And she played trying tunes on a zither, Keeping time with her sandal-shod tie. She had dreams of a nobler existence, A bifurcated, corsetless place, Where women would stand free and equal As queens of a glorious race. But her biscuits were deadly creations That caused people's spirits to sink, An i she'd views on some ma ters religious That drove her relations to drink. She'd opinions on co-education, But cot an idea upon cake; She could analyse Spencer or Urowning, But the new kitchen range wouldn't bllke. She desired to be esoteric, And she wore the inoit classical clothes; But she ended by being hysteric And contracting a cold in her nose. She studied hard forces hypnotic, And believed in theosophy quite, She understood themes pre-historic And said that the faith cure was right. She wanted to reach the ideal, And at clouds unpoetic would rail, But her husband wore fringe to his trousers And fastened them on with a. nail. WOMEN NOT ALLOWED TO JOIN BENEFIT SOCIETIES. In this country the majority of benefit societies exolude women for the following alleged reasons :—First, that they would occa- sion larger demands on the funds than men secondly, that they are able to earn less and contribute less than male workers, and that allowances to them would involve dispropor- tionate demands on the and; and, thirdly, that their wants and their claims would be troublesome in the administration of the fund, and that they would be more likely to abuse the conditions for relief. A writer in the Leisure Hour replies to these objection. as follows:— -4 First, as to the greater expense for sickness. It is true that women have rliglit illnesses more frequently than men, but the duration of the maladies is on the average shorter, and they a- « less exposed to serious accidents. Official sti I ia- tics have demonstrated tllÍ, In a report obtained of the authorised Societies of Mutual Succour ia Paris, it was found that the average number of days of sickness in a year was in the proportion of 5 71 for males, and only 466 for female mem- bers. As to the other objections, the entrance fees and assessment of contributions can in each society be regulated by special IflW, provided only that the principle is admitted of the wives as well as the husbands having right to medical Hltendance and other benefits common to all members. With regard to difficulties in the administration, men are often at least as troublesome and ns prone to frauds as women are, and on the whole more likely to come on the sick fund by misconduct than the wives are. Female visitors as well as male visitors must watch against occasional faults; but the general experience in such societies shows an honour and a loyalty which Wpm"n are as cap ible of as men. In London and large towns, where there are so many and factory clubs, and house funds," the majority of the meit bers being young and unmarried, the admissioc of women is not often practicable. In C'lses like the Po,t-office or teleraD services there is no reason why the mutual bem-fil should not be for all who are employed. In villages and definite districts of towns, the principle oi common interest in family life is rallied out use fully in Medicil Provident Institutions." These ought to be multiplied, and by the help of contri- butions from honorary members" the working classes can be liberally helped, without any com. promise of their independence their payments as participating members giving them ciaiin to assistance, and for all branches of the family ia accordance with the rules of each institution. FASHION FANCIES. We take the following paragraphs from Mrs. Leach's Practical Family Dressmaker for September :— We have many new and pretty styles for making tailor gowns. Plain skirts ars bordered round the hem with a deep band of a contrasting material to that of which thy costume is made, while a vest, collar, an,1 cuffs are added to the bodice to correspond, Tight-fitting corsages are in double-breasted shapes others are fastened down the centre or diagonally from the shoulder. Half. fitting coats are finished Trith waislcoaU moulded to the figure, while flat vests adorn long-fitting jacket bodices. The basques of these coats vary greatly in style; some are cut in one, others have an added basque; many of the former are cut in square tabs round the figure, which are very becoming to slight ladies. Black and coloured velveteens are char,-ii;nc materials for composing visiting costumes; they need to be somewhat simply made; for example, a plain skirt is tabbed round tho base, and a pleating of surah siik attached to the underskirt, so that it is visible where the velveteen is slashed: a long half-fitting coat is left open in front and turned back with wide revers over a waistooat of more of tha silk, which is completed with a narrow1 frtft down the centre pockets, collar, and cutfs should be composed of the silk. Full all-round capes are becoming to slight figures. They are mounted on square aii4 round yokes, and are quite unconfined to tbe figure. Others with a V shaped back allli front are made less full, and are drawn to the back of the waist by a ribbon tied round the figure. The greatest novelty in three-quar- ter capes is in dolman shape. The back sett quite flat, with the usual number of seam.. while the front and sleeves are cut from the same piece of material, which is shaped to set full on the shoulders, and to hang quiti straight in front. A smart, high oollar, with an ample ribbon bow at the throat, completei thisdainty garment, which can be composed of either cloth or plush. WHY CANADIAN GIRLS FIND HUSBAND# so READILY. A Canadian lady writes to the Pall Mak Gazette :— An Englishman once s^id to nw, "J cannot understand why so many of our fellow#, who have had no thought of marriage while is England, become engaged direclly they go te your Canadian stations." Since ttien I liave lieard the q'li stiun many times discussed, but set- dom is tho real reason given. That it is an undoubted fact that almost every rogimenl and man-o'wnr leaving H difax after the terin ol service has expired carries away with it f,-Lin la ly to a new home, few people who know any- thing of the matter will be prepared to deny. Tii« raW'l is n(,t far In srck. It does not lie in the girls t hem-elves—they are no prettier, wittier,, wealthier, or more well-bi e I ttiati their English sisters—but in the home life and social life that surrounds them; To b 'if1 with the i oiua lite. A1 mo t every giil whether rich or poor, is brought up to be helpful and energetic at home. Servants are hard to keep, and as the rxpenerc d ones drift off t,) the P4 tbo-e 1- fi require careful trrdninr; hom their mis- tresses Of necessity then every mistress mnst nut; only know how things ought to look when well done, but must bo able to snow her servants how to do them. This nec ssity is an excellent thing for the giils themselves; it makes them self-reliant, quickens their perceptions, and gives them a knowledge of household management which, while it will enable them to many poor men.wili fit them no l, ss for rich men's wives. A girl from long practice has learnt the art. of doing much at home with lier own hands, and vet n(it being dragged down by it as by a burden too great to bear, but taking it all cheerily as part of a day's work, in no way interfering with her pur- suits and amusements. Then the socia. life, tro, helps to influence her character, and I think with a better result than the social life of the upper The amusements are so varied i the life, though by no means as wildly unconventional a< ui&ny po. pie believe, is so free. A giil brought up to join in many of her brother's amusements-such as canoeing, lobster-spearing, fishing, and boating in summer, and skatiug, tobogganing, and snow-shoeiug in wititer-becotiies more of a companion to him, and mixes more among bis friends than any girl has a chance of doing in Ellg. land unless, perhaps, she bj the daughter of soint country .-quire. This does not tend t') lessen ii-f wo nanliness, though it perhaps adds to it some 01 the attributes of a man. She no longer looks upon a man either as her natural enemy ot her natural prey, but is more than cont ent to hail him as a friend with whom slie has much in corn- mon. Moat men are glad to mrfet her on these terms, knowing that neither she nor her fiends will imagine he is in love with her 8impy because he drops in more than once t,l liave a cliat in her father's house. In many coJees a friendship doea ripen into love with the consent of both parties but the friendship is not begun with that eud in view. Another remark made in England is that, it is wonderful to see men of good English f unily anxious to mairy the daughters of laraetiadesman or merchants. It must b? remembered that in a new eount. y everybody woiks. There is no rulo of primogeniture here. Most of the m,rc! ants and tiaiesmen who e daughters marrv gentl-aien are themselves well educated and 'verv hkely come of some good r.U Scotch or English stock. In conclusion, one little word of advice to Eng- lisli parents. f3t"e prelty, ladylike piils one et" about in England were only brought up to be a little mote useful with their hands and heads, so that they might be ab!e to live on small incomes if occasion required, and if society would encourage mr.re friendly inter- course between the sexes than is possible at present—when a man needs to be ellg,.ged t.o a girl before he can atudy her character !— I think we should have no need of the magazine articles and letters to the papers which are^H too preva- lent in England now on the vital question of Why don't men marry

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