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THE LADIES. L „ "I resolve to have something which may b» of eater-, Uinmsut to the fair sex.Sir Richard Steele. ABOUT WASHING THE FACE. There are many women (says a lady writer) who retire at night thoroughly tired, and for- getting, therefore, to wash their faces just before seeking their pillows for the much- needed slumber. This is a great mistake both on account of health and beauty. Not only does any particle of dust on the face have time to oreate havoc before morning, but if cosmetics have been used it is a disas- trous neglect; the poisons or chemicals eat into the skin and destroy its smoothness as well as whiteness, and have a clear entrance through the pores into the system. By using a plentiful supply of warm water on the face before resting much damage to the skin is saved, and much good towards its preserva- tion is accomplished. GOOD NURSING, Too much cannot be said of good nursing, and few people are aware of the great value of a oompetent person in charge of the patient. Any number of lives have been saved by a oompetent nurse, and many a chance of recovery has been lost by the want of faithful, intelligent care. Every doctor could tell how his best efforts have been ren- dered useless by incompetence and ignoranoe. It is not too much to say that the nurse is as important as the physician, and in many oases even more so. How criminally careless is it, therefore, for a mother to leave a child to the care of an ignorant woman, however faithful and honest she may be. Even in slight ail- ments this should never be done, A change for the worse may come so suddenly, or some little oarelessness may so aggravate the origi- nal trouble, that the little creature cannot be too closely watched. COLOUR IN DBESS. The complexion has much to say in deciding the choice of colours for the dresses of people of taste. Those with sallow dark faces must choose clear tints, white, light blue, violet, or blaok; and avoid glaring, bright, and un- decided hues. Drab, yellow, cherry, and pale green are all unsuitable for them. Those with clear skins and pale faoes may select all shades of rose, primrose, buff, light green, lilac, brown, and violet. Dark brown or olive complexions must avoid undecided hues of all kinds, as well as very dark or very light ones, and choose clear decided tints, such as geranium, violet, and pink. Florid persons should wear the tints that subdue colour and give the effect of distance, such as blue and green; and fair people with a oolour will find few shades unbecoming to them. Pale oomplexions must wear fresh colours, such as oherry and pink. Grey, as a rule, suits the young girl and the very old lady, but is rarely becoming to those between the two ages. There should always be one predominating colour in dress to which all others must be subordinated. The brighter and more posi- tive colour should have less space than the subdued, neutral, or semi-neutral tint. In grey and green, the grey should predominate with brown pink and yellow, as well M red and blue, may be used as trimmings. A DOCTORING ANGEL, "0 woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to plea e, When pain and anguish wring the brow, Then none so cheaply pleased as thou! We've only to submit to take Hot rhub irb tea, and anti ache, And castor oil and ipecac, And porous plaeteis on the back, A fltxseed poultice, cowslip tea, And QU'ick'jn's pet discovery; Hot water bags, hot bricks beside, And camphor nasally applied And povrderi Ilrey, and vaseline; And coals with feathers burnt between And soothing syrup, paregoric, Cold water cloths and drinks caloric; Aud all the housewife's category— 'Tis then we see her in her glory, Needing, to make her bliss complete, But mustard plasters on our feet. THE ATTIC. Nothing is more discouraging to a good housekeeper than to move into a house with a neglected attic, where the debris of all the previous housekeepers has been allowed to collect. It is impossible to calculate how much dust and unwholesomeness drift down through the house from such a negleoted spot as this. A good housekeeper has no such neglected spots. Her house cleaning does not begin with the storey under the attio, but with the attic itself. There are ghosts enough in a forgotten attic to furnish a volume of mysteries. It is not an unoom- mon thing for people to consign to the attic their worn-out shoes, their cast-off bonnets and bats, their decrepit fur- niture which has passed usefulness, all their old belongings, in prospect, perhaps, of some general resurrection day which never oomes. They move away and another tenant comes, who follows the example which has been set by his predecessor. Thus (Ubris and dust and the unwholesomeness that come with them accumulate. There is nothing more absurd that this practice of hoarding up trash. The attio of a house should be kept as clear as pos- sible from all articles which are not of positive value, in order that it may be freely dusted and Itwept like any other portion of the house. A single woollen garment or an old woollen hat may alone bring moths enough to infest a whole house if left neglected in the garret. Let attics be kept clean and cellars dry if you expect to live in a wholesome bouse. THE WISH TO PLEASE. I suppose (writes A Despairing Spinster in the Globe) I must not blame Nature for having made me after an uninteresting model —for having given me a hopeless figure and a muddy oomplexion-so that nothing looks well on me, and new dresses are more of a pain than a pleasure; for having joined an un- taking manner to a general lack of ideas on current topics, so that I have neither the capital nor the small ohange of life but I certainly think she might have spared me the fatal dower of a wish to please. It has been the cause of many chagrins and countless humiliations; it is continually placing me in a false position, it provokes resentment more often than gratitude, and yet it is so in- grained into my character that nothing but death will part us. It might, perhaps, give an additional value to wit or a new charm to beauty, but it hangs like a log upon the neck of one who, like myself, is uninteresting and plain. Men will go miles to avoid it; they shun it like a pestilenoe, fur I have only to exohange a few words with them to make them melancholy for hours afterwards. It is not the ugliness they dis- like-a very little will make them swallow that-it is the gush 1 Ah how well I know their bored expression, the far-away look in their eyes, the wild desire to escape, but half oonoealed. Believe me, if a plaiu woman has this fatal failing, her road in life will be a rough one. Now, I have seen other specimens of the British female, very like myself in personal appearaiiee-we are of the snub-nosed variety —going on their way with a sturdy indepen- dence, elbowing themselves, so to speak, through existence on the give-and-take prin- ciple, sometimes with a mild little husband in tow, sometimes in all the panoply of undisputed spinsterhood, not, 'perhaps, Ulr«<L. hut Ejavftr dAAnliad.. (an thav have been spared that rook ahead in life a propensity to gush. I try to fathom the oause of this. I look around me and notice other plain women, of whom there are not a few in my circle of acquaintance; I find they do not, as a rule, suffer from negleot as I do. Far from it. Some have quite a little crowd of admirers-one of them, for example, who really has a quite impossible nose, is blessed with a sharp tongue and a knack of saying cutting things wittily. She is always the oentre of a little coterie, and while I, who have never harboured an ungentle thought, shall go to my grave a maiden, she is married to quite a smart man. Then, again, there is another, whose claims to personal beauty are essentially negative, who never wants a partner at a ball, for she can flatter men with- out appearing to do so but it is my fate to sit still and watch the danoing most of the night, for when I try to imitate her I make myself cheap, and am trampled on in conse- quence, GIRL'S SPARE TIME. Girls who are growing up (writes a lady in a contemporary) aie able to,be a great help in the home, and to lighten the work of the mother, who is often overwhelmed with the duties, the oares, and the anxieties that mnst be hers, if she brings up her family well and keeps her home in good order. Some growing girls are exceedingly unsatisfactory in their home-life. There are, I think, three reasons to account for this. Their home training may not have been quite successful (in spite of the parents' anxiety to make it so), and the mother, in her excess of unselfishness, may often have done things herself, tired though she was, rather than ask her daughter to help her, and perhaps, be met with a cross look or expression and unwilling help. And the poor, weary mother becomes disheartened, and works on alone. She feels that the girls are not the help and comfort to her that she hoped they would be as they grew older and what makes it sadder is that she knows it is partly her own fault. She has been too indulgent, perhaps, from the first, and is now reaping the fruits of her mistake, with bitterness. The friends girls make at school have a great deal to do with the formation of their character and the mother would do well to inquire into this matter, and find out whether those with whom their girls frequently spend their spare time are friends likely to do them good or harm. One selfish, conceited chit of a girl, whose whole ideas are engrossed in the possession of fine clothes and the annexing of a young man," may do an immense amount of harm among her companions; and the tares she has sown in their hearts may take years to uproot. Then the books girls read, and are allowed to read, are often most hurtful. Their young brains become steeped in literature of the feeblest and most drivelling description, and they consequently often form their ideas of life on the wrong lines entirely. I saw a woman in a railway carriage the other day (a woman long past the age at which common sense might reasonably be looked for) devouring a story of this kind, her eyes starting out of har head with excitement and interest, and pass- ing it on, bit by bit, as she finisheàtha pages, to her daughter, a girl of about thirteen, who speedily caught the infection, and became so entranced that nothing short of an earth- quake would have made her look up. A girl's taste in reading may be formed when she is very young, and if her feet are planted on the wrong track at the outset, and, perhaps, by her own mother, whose taste she thinks faultless, it is a grievous pity. She will find it diffioult to retraoe her steps, and set out again on the journey that leads to one of the very best things life has to give. What becomes of a girl's taste in literature if she has never been helped and guided in her choice of books ? When she is grown up —unless something happens that by great good luck changes all her former iduaw-tbin is probably the state of affairs. She knows nothing of that passion for well-written books which is a life in itself. To her a book is for passing the time; she does not want to learn anything from it; in faot, if it contained anything worth remembering she would pro- nounce it dry." She hates clever people," she says, they always want to tell you some- thing you don't want to know." She likes books with "plenty of love" in them, and, above all things, they must end happily. Of life as it is she does not care to read, she wants life as she would like it to be, where everything is smooth and oharming, where beautiful young girls with golden hair and eyes like forget-me-nots stroll about in woods, and handsome young baronets in fault- less attire dash out from behind the bushes quite unexpectedly, of course. She likes to read of magnifioent old oastles and ancestral halls, where every articlegf furniture down to the handle of the kitchen poker is apparently encrusted with jewels, where everyone has soft white hands with taper fingers, and you never hear of anybody who does any work or cares for anyone as much as themselves. We mothers think so much of the food we give our young people to strengthen and nourish the body, and forget sometimes the grave importance of the food for the mind, whether it be good, suitable, and wholesome. The one demands our attention as much as the other if our children are to turn out the kind of men and women that are wanted to make our country honoured and our homes the abode of happiness and peace. NuggetS. A boy's best friend is his mother, even if she cuts his hair and makes his clothes. The woman who says she has waited an age is very careful not to add it to her own, WOMAN'S WAYS. A woman will cling to the man she loves, But she won't wear a pair of old-fashione d glove6. Nothing is more disheartening to a man than the discovery that he has married a woman who loves to keep his writing-table in order. Men may come and men may go, but for ooming and going the servant girl has a record that never will be broken except by herself. Worn n We Read About. How THE QUERN IS SHOD. The Queen wears no heels to the soles of her shoes. HOARDING THE RELICS. It is said that Lady Tennyson preserves with religious care every pipe her huiband smokes and every stick he carries, ENGLAND ALSO LIKES HER. Miss Ada Rahan the bright partioular star of the Daly Company, owes her great popularity among the Amerioans not more to her his- trionic talent than to her personal amiability and immense flow of animal spirits. Her countrymen idealise her as the Genius of Good Nature. The moment she emerges from the wings of Daly's Theatre the house expands into a colossal smile. When she goes to supper after the play everybody in the famous restaurant quizzes the head waiter to learn, if possible, upon what meat doth Ada feed that she has kept so blithe. To play ingenue parts," she says, "one must keep young. For keeping young my recipe is a good conscience and a good digestion; and I have never spoiled either of mine yet."

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"Are ye good men and true? "Slwkspears. Speculations. To the indolent man every movement is a labour movement. A man has attained a ripe old age when he begins to fall off. He who knows how to lead well is sure to be well followed. Let him that would be at quiet take heed not to provoke men in power. The more a man is preaohed to the less he remembers of what is said to him. A man finds the poorest companionship when he H entertains a suspicion." To get an honest living without work re- quires the hardest kind of work, The man who gets his deserts in this world usually has no pudding." The thing which a man should do in one time cannot be done in another time. A dog will stiok to his drunken master, but he will not drink whisky with him. Brains cannot be measured by the size of the head, nor eloquence by the extent of the mouth. Every industrious person should try his hand at something, and if he does not suc- ceed let him try both hands at it. JI ishing for compliments is like fishing for fish. The best ones get away, and in the end we have to buy what we want. The man who takes your advioe never gives you a chance to forget that it was your advice, if it turns out to be bad for him. Let an old man advise a younger one, and he will say," Be patient." The old may never have learned how to be patient, but they have learned the value of it. A WOMAN ON MEN'S COATS. The rough materials now and then used for coats are not pretty. Large checks are also best avoided, as they are apt to spoil the eontour of an otherwise good figure. Mixed colours in suits are always bad, Two oolours at the most should be worn, otherwise it looks as if the owner was anxious to make it evident that he possesses a suit of each. Blue serge pilot coats look well, but care should be taken that they are not out too short. Pad- ding in men's coats always exeroises us women very muoh. Of course, broad shoulders, being a visible token of strength, are pleasing, though it is said they are now going out of fashion. But if Nature has denied a man a powerful frame he should endeavour to make up for it by a good carriage. .X; My LA.DY. I. No ungirt cherub looks more fair, Not chiseled marble can compare, When buried 'neath her golden hair, My lady sleeps. IT. Ne'er yet had woman eyes so true, No tropic skies are half so blue, When, with the Jarkand morning dew, My lady wakes. III. What glories in her face are hid, What mighty projects come when bil\ When, from all silly notions lid, My lady thinks. j IV. No sweeter sound has heavenly luto No music is so absolute, When, opening lips no longer mute, My lady speaks. V. But, oh, what joys within me dweIl- Has heavenly bliss its parallel ? When know I, from the savoury smell, My lady cooks. COMXON SBNSB ON FOR MOIFSR Apart from the moral enormity involved, the very worst speculation in which any man can engage is that of marrying for money. Judged by purely economic laws, it is almost always dangerous, to say the least. Young women who inherit property are usually the daughters of wealthy men, and, at any rate, are accustomed to live in a style which the money or property they bring into the part- nership will not suffice to maintain. In other words, the expense of maintaining such a wife is usually greater than the income her property can be made to yield, and, as a conse- quenoe, mercenary marriages of this kind are apt to result in an ultimate poverty, which the wife does not know how to share with her husband, or how to remedy in the least degree, And the principle holds good in cases in which the marriage has not been a mercenary one at all, if the wife alone has brought money or property into the family. With the very best of purposes she does not know how to adapt herself to a mode of life less expensive than that which obtained in her father's house, and her inheritance alone is L rarely even sufficient for that, BULKS OF HEALTH FOR STUDENTS. A writer in a contemporary gives the fol- lowing simple rules for a studeut's guidance:- 1. Jhxercise.—Make a sacred resolution to spend at least two hours daily in exercise. The greater part of this time you should be in the open air, engaged in field-sports, walking, cycling, rowing, and so on, and the remainder should be spent in gymnastic exer- cise. If you cannot avail yourself of the use of a gymnasium procure a pair of dumb-bells or Indian clubs. Sitting should he indulged in as little as possible. If, however, you will or must sit, sit straight, aud with your back to the light. 2. Food.-It should be as plain as possible. Do not eat fast, and you will not over-eat. As for drink, I see no harm in tea, coffee, or coeoa, if taken in moderation. Milk is a splendid thing for getting up musole. 3. Fresh Air.-Itemember to keep your rooms well aired. It is a most important matter, but very frequently neglected. If confined in small rooms, open your windows whenever you go out. The following is a good plan for preventing draughts whilst a room is in use :-Haise the window a few inches at the bottom, and put in a piece of wood, the whole length, so as to completely cover the opening. This raises the top sash of the lower window above that of the upper, and the air entering between the sashes, at the middle of the window, passes upwards towards the ceiling. 4. Sleep.-Ilard brain-work should not be continued into the hour of repose. As to the time for sleep, no hard and fast rule can be laid down. Let it be sufficient, and do not cheat Nature of her rights. 5. The Bath. -If possible, have a cold- water sponge bath every morning. This, with a smart rub down with a dry towel, sets you up for the day. How Do You WALK ? As soon as a man comes into my shop (writes a shoemaker) I can tell whether or not he is a good walker, and it is astonishing to find how few men know the proper way to walk. If the shoe is worn down at the heel, not on the side, but straight back, and the leather of the sole shows signs of weakness at the ball of the foot, a little greater on the inside just below the base of the great toe, I know that the wearer is a good walker. If however, the heel is turned on one side, or is worn evenly throughout, and the Role is worn most near the toe, I know that I have to DAJJ with a uaar tri.n. 'J.'h. '■ of the difference in the position of the worn spot lies in the fact that the poor walker walks from his knee and the good one from his hip. "Watoh the passer-by on the street and you will at once see the difference. Nine men out of ten will bend the knee very con- siderably in walking, stepping straight out with both hips on the same line, and the toe will be the first to strike the ground. The tenth man will bend his knee very little, just enough to dear the ground, and will swing the leg from the hip, very muoh as the arm is swung from the shoulder, and not from the elbow. By so doing he calls upon the muscles which are strongest to bear the strain, and increases the length of his stride four or six inches. The heel touches the ground first and not the toe. A slight spring is given from the ball of the foot on making another stride. Men who walk in this fashion cover the ground 30 per cent. faster with the same exertion than those who walk from the knee. In pugilism the old rule is to strike from the shoulder and from the elbow. In pedes- trian ism it is to walk from the hip and not from the knee." ON SHAVING. There are men who never shave themselves (remarks a writer in the Globe), preferring to employ the toil of a hired labourer; such escape some of the ills of the self-shaver, only to fall, it is averred, into equally horrible dangers from others. Barbers rarely go mad suddenly; still, as they are only men, they might do so, and woe betide the wight on whom they were operating when they were first seized with homicidal mania. There can be nothing more helpless than a man under a barber's hands, unless it be one who is suffer- ing unspeakable agony in the chair of a dentist. Toothache is, fortunately, an occa- sional infliction the necessity of being shaved is periodical. It may be thought that in the end a man really loses by being shaved by others; apart from the cost-and three hundred and sixty-five threepences make up a respectable total—a barber inflicts more pain than is absolutely necessary; he is not acquainted with the tenderer portions of hia customers' faces, but goes over the whole sur- face with a quiet disregard for their feelingt and a lofty indifference to the existence ol temporary hillocks on their skins. If the customer is in no hurry the barber is all anxiety to finish; if time is short be wastes it by dilatory movements, by sterile recom- mendations of patent hair-tonics, or by caret fully going over his work twice, re-fighting past battles while his client is fuming in the chair. It is useless to try to harry a barber i an extra cut of large and imposing dimen- sions is sure to be the result of such unoalled-for interference by the publio with the mysteiies of a great art. Sometimes the water is too hot or the razor exoruciatingly dull, but the barber cares not. His own face' is unhurt, and the pains of others are easy to bear. The only way to esoape the ordeal of shav- ing is to grow a beard. At first sight it may seem a strange thing that a beard is not more common, but a short emsider&tion of the matter will discover several weighty reasons for its non-appearance. Among what classes is the beard proverbially most prevalent P Amongst artists. And why ? Because they of all men can most easily pass in aoli- tade the earlier weeks of its growth, A flowing beard may be a thing of beauty, but a fortnight's stubble is not; yet one period of fourteen consecutive days is, as a rule, the utmost that the City man can devote to the pursuit of pleasure. Even if that were more than sufficient to ensure a respeotable beard, it would be hard to be exiled from sooiety for the first half of the Eum total of the annual hours of idleness I yet to go into the presence of ladies with only a week-old beard would be far worse. With artists may be classed authors; to them, too, a month's solitude is occasionally necessary, or, mil potmibla i- and much may be done in a month. The finest story and the finest beard in the world may be matured together, There are men who, having had these oppor. tunities often, remain beardless. This is due to a not unbecoming vanity; on a firm ohin, that may redeem an otherwise repellent face, it cannot be expected that a beard should be allowed to grow. Let those who have a chin that is no chin, bu4 rather a cessation of jaq grow beards good wine needs no bush. If a desire for the admiration of others can out., weigh mere personal discomfort, well and good; in that case even shaving has its reward. But to many men, and especially to barristers, whose very existence depends on their beardless condition, the stern necessity of shaving is a sufficient answer to the old barren question, Which is happier, man or woman ?

I Men We Read About; GOOD ADVICE. Commodore Vanderbilt, who accumulated millions, was asked one day his opinion as to the true secret of sucoess in making money. The old commodore replied, Save what you have, and live within your income. Avoid all speculation. No matter what I was making, I always made it a rule to save some- thing, and this course, if persisted in, is sure to succeed. The money will pile up in time." EDISON JOKING His FRIENDS. Mr. Edison is fond of joking with his inti- mate friends. In the presence of a company of these one day, and just as they were draw- ing on their great coats preparatory to depar- ture, Mr. Edison astounded the party by gravely announcing as follows Gentlemen, I am now about to tgll you something that will astonish all the elec- tricians in the world. I am prepared to send a current of eleotricity from here to Philadel- phia without any wire." Down came the great coats in a hurry. (< Why, AI" (Edison's seoond name is Alva, and many of his friends call him AJ), that's impossible," said a friend, who was an old telegraph operator. "Oh, no," answered Edison; "it can be done, and I know it; it is the result of a dis- covery." "How P" inquired several at once. Store it up in a condenser, and send it there by express," was the reply. "Now, don't give it way to the newspaper men." "Ha, ha! ho, ho! just so; you're right," said his friends. GEORGE MEREDITH'S HOME Meredith s cottage stands in a pretty gar- den upon the side of a hill. On a higher level within the garden he has built himself a little chalet. This contains only two rooms, a bedroom and a study, for his own private use, and stands under hanging woods on a terrace which commands a beauti- ful and far-reaching view of the neighbour- ing hills. Here, surrounded by his books, he spends his days, going down to the cottage about eleven o'olock for what takes the place of midday meal; and again, between four and five o'olook in the afternoon, for a walk, which brings him home for dinner. He then remains with his family for an hour or two, returning to his solitude before ten o'clock to read until midnight. The novelist's home life is simple and frugal. He was at one time a vegetarian, and he rarely drinks wine, except with guests, He dines contentedly on the plainest fare, and is personally indifferent to the material pleasures of life. Contented poverty he looks on with great respect; and, as an author, he has never yielded a hair's breadth to the temptation of pandering to false literary taste for the sake of increasing hw ia-