The Rhondda Leader

OLD GLAMORGAN. (BY VULCAN.) There were only two furnaces for melting iron in the whole of the county of Glamor- gan in 1740. Their annual production was 400 tons, namely, 200 each. In the same year, there was an equal number of furnaces in Breconshire, and the same number in Monmouthshire; but the furnaces of Breconshire and Monmouthshire melted more iron than those of Glamorgan. The furnaces of Breconshire made 600 tons a year, and those of Monmouthshire 900. In 1740, there were only 69 furnaces in Britain and their produce in that year was 17,360 tons. A few years after this, Mr Anthony Bacon, a gentleman of Aylesbury in Eng- land, came to the neighbourhood of Mer- thyr Tydvil. He leased a portion of land in that locality for 99 years, the measure- ment of which was 8 miles in length, and 4 miles in breadth. Without delay, Mr Bacon erected a furnace at Cyfartha, to- gether with a small forge. Directly after the termination of the American War, which raged fiercely about that time, he entered into a great contract with the Government for the making of cannons, which necessitated an enlargement of his works for the purpose. In 1782, he leased the works to one Mr S. Humphreys. According to the terms of the lease, Mr Humphreys had to pay L4 10s. for every ton of iron worked by him at Cyfartha, and four shillings for every ton of coal to melt the same. After Mr Humphreys leased the works, he introduced skilled workmen from England, and erected a new forge, but ere long, a misunderstanding arose be- tween him and Mr Bacon, and in the crisis, Mr Bacon sold the works to one Mr Tanner, of Monmouthshire, who in turn, sold it to Mr Richard Crawshay, London. As a result, Mr Humphries left Cyfartha, and took up his abode at Pendarren, where he, in conjunction with another wealthy gentleman, started an iron-works. After he had managed these works for some years, and had introduced many important improvements in the art of melting iron, he again, in conjunction with Mr Bacon, undertook the task of commencing the Glamorganshire Canal, now long known as the famous water-way reaching from Mer- thyr Tydvil to Cardiff. It was completed by Mr R. Crawshay in 1798, at a cost of £ 100,000. This canal greatly facilitated the development of trade throughout the Taff Valley from end to end,, especially Merthyr Tydvil and the adjacent localities, as they were some distance from the sea- port of Cardiff, to which they sent their productions. A little later, a branch of this great canal was extended up through the Aberdare Valley as far as Abernant and Gadlys Works. The Hirwain Works again were united to this canal by making a tram- road which ran down to its upper part. The Dowlais Works were also connected with the Glamorganshire Canal, by a tram- road which terminated near Troedyrhiw. About the year 1791, an important canal was constructed from Neath to Pontnedd- fechan. Its measurement was 13 miles, and 16 locks may be seen upon it. After tuis portion of the canal had been com- pleted, it was extended down as far as Briton Ferry, where a small harbour was made for the convenience of loading the vessels with the materials brought to the port by the iron and water ways. Abn", the same period, 90 new ca-n- I wrth from Briton Ferry on Jn awr teh. pose of which ^Ttaear, 1 111' 11 1 iVy'Tiia n auaoiuy y y traed mor oddefsr" h,«refyd<TTvruyfawl wyr, llawnJai was made eich Sibrydent drw £ Swansea, the pnr- 1<- Fod y ^Vas to open commerce be- I „ JilSf' C°the menced from Swansea ^Jen&dd on the Swansea Valley to HMI NeuMWj^ borders of Breconshjre^it was Mas M<1 1798, and measures n nules m ie g^ has 36 IOCKS. „ are COnveyed to the surrounding roUS tram-roads its banks along the a canal, two that run £ was made in the miles and a half lo g» purpose norther Eart of Gower, for Ithej? of conveying house-coal century Burry. About a tram-road was const of convey- to Oystermouth, far th P P. district to ing limestone from the tram-road was 'th! port S year,. ?^°ri cSriage fan upon it twjee a day for the convenience road charge of °^Sft ta GlamS», « was one of the oldest1 M the Mum- in Wales. It is were various other bles Railway. ounty, but they were all tram-roads in the coun y, of them ter- of a later construction^ Aberavon, minated at the little seaporu v and was about 14 of wav became Gradually, these started, inconvenient, and rauw y secured In 1836, an Act of ParlMunentw]» Rail_ for the construction oftheTatt Car. way, to reach 1841 A branch diff, and was compieted m ia ttrough ^FattsTho Gadlv5 Forks, a^d lat,r 5 £ fTom foe^edown throy^rh tue Neath Valley to N Qreat there it was connected with the Great Western Railway, the main The runs from Paddington to New MiUo^ pem_ Great Western Ralway,runmngarthenshire brokeshire, and thro g jy £ 0nmouthshire into Glamorganshire and very and on to the metropolis, q{ Glamor large quantity ofthereso be shipped gan to many seaports, ther most im- fo all parts of the ^western part portant seaport in the sou 1771) a very of Glamorgan is Swansea. nsea? for the large meeting was at parliament purpose of framing a petition tor in regard to permission tor po 1791> large and improve ( ^ct for repairing, there was grauted, An harbour 0f enlarging, .and preservgof Gla rgan Swansea, in ^Sd vessels trading to There were one thousa yea?j Swan- that seaport in 1 • Rouses, which I sea contained o y > _ers0ns, that is, were inhabited^ ^nt population. about one-twelfth of its pre The port of,^ar^t conveniently situated in Wales, and is mostco Act of Parhar for commerce. 1 enlargement and ment was obtained o ^cfc was put into improvement of it, whi year? the con- operation m 1833. In k „ was started, struction of the Bute AJOCKS won. and when competed, was^ down to the ders of the age- Qiaia0rgan- old harbour in 183U, aio g 373 tons shire Canal alone, n years ago, coal of other materials. Many yew^g and pig-irou w^ Carditt from the hills to Carditt:. go also was comparatively only the days | was Swansea and Newp and docks.} of tramroads, canals, rai j &11 direc- came startling can boast of its tions. To-day, ^ia g collierieSj copper stupendous steel wor millions upon works, etc., that „+Q1.;aia alone splendid million of tons be railways, to shipped to eve^artof

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(Copyright) 4 MANAGING DAUCRTER. By MRS. J. K. SPENDER, Author of "An Uncanny Experience,* "On Her Way to be Married," &o. Mrs. Shuttleworth was nearly fifty years old when a strange and unexpected event took place 1.1 her life. I had known her as a widow, and had always appreciated the struggles which she made to support her children. For she was a delicate woman-one of those who ought to have led an easy and sheltered existence. She must have been pretty when she was young, and still preserved a modicum of her good looks, her hair being of that tint which the French term blondcendri, only needing a ray of sunlight to turn it into gold. It was as yet scarcely tinged with grey, and her complexion was of the tint of ivory. In spite of this she was not really sickly, being one of those people whom the public call wiry. And though she had managed to get through a fair amount of work in organising a girls' school, she had never had really much to worry her during her placid existence. She had two children, her eldest daughter being quite of another type. Jenny was in every way a first-class young woman, who prided herself on having taken a first-class at her Oxford examinations, on holding her own with everyone she met, and on having even her dresses up to date. There was nothing feeble or watery about Jenny but the younger brother, who was delicate, resembled his mother. Mrs. Shuttleworth saw her children mark out a line for themselves—the boy following the girl; though when they danced and acted charades, and expressed their opinions boldly in defiance of her, she had told me more than once that she bad the feeling of a hen seeing her ducklings swim. Never was I more surprised than when, on my visiting her one day, she confided to me that she had decided to accept an offer of marriage from a man who had cared for her when she was a girl. He has never married," she said, blushing and trembling as if she was still young, "and it will be a home for the children; I must consider that. I did not make much remark, for, as Mr. Deane lived in the neighbourhood of Luscomb, reports about his eccentricities had reached my ears. I knew that he was a stern Dissenter, reserving for himself the singular privilege of never even conceding the possibility of being mistaken in his creed. "Well," I thought to myself, "it is not worse than the claim of the Roman Church to the monopoly of a guarantee for a safe im- mortality, and it is no doubt pleasant to feel such absolute conviction in the truths which you believe. But I wonder how Miss Jenny will bear his oracular deliverances of his own opinions. He has remained a bachelor too long, and will keep them all in order with a ven- geance I am afraid I reflected rather severely on the poor lady, who seemed to me half-stupid to give up her independence. She told me on a second interview that Jenny, who was finishing her education at Somerville, had written to her most kindly, saying that what was for her mother's happiness would certainly be for hers. It was only some time afterwards that I "( 'mi — V>r>l« *nntK, in rjv»v»»Wityin which I 4 yrrwyijrevelations m the )aetli rhvwuii lieibio yn,unit)"Itl- ae, JX yr olygfa, gwat^idd^ yn ^Million. Gw^J3* £ » heard the w { d I had with tu her babyhood. ^hen her mother s She ack^owledged ho candle tbro„gh letter arrived she baa Dur" the small hours of th^njgb sh, She o«S^n Sf^Lakl and we should sobbed. "It is a .er> 1 -was coming have been so happ, £ not want any home to help her, and™ ma man intruding P, father's memory. c resented second marriages. { ali our "She will rub out the memory^ happy years, she sai disappointed in Nevertheless, though she be„eif to say so her mother, she d.d not allow n when she sat ^tfjo h htd told me. of which Mrs. Shuttlewors over J.n»y had b«» L cfmpo.»r. the shock sufficiently to p wedding "A borne the announcement y all' her little am- in«lwa the «rpri»d bitions. For she ha longer necessary that, as now it would be nc, long had for her to get her her to ieave decided that it wou of thoge men who saisrsa"uSt ^<100.^ „«r™r .h. S'Xmon, .inc. sh. It did not amount to reoe 1110 But restrained herself for her mo^e gh I !.fl ,ure that. he is narrow)n¡nded to im- becility. i „SP]f 0n her journey She had repeated to he" able to bear homewards that she s ou making love 8eeing her mother on the ver^e to each other. An fc 0f her dead father s of crying when she thought 01 ne memory.. n La gaid to herself, '■» Even the ancienttsj, .cal education," had with her smattering d tVieir dead, but shrines in which they hono« t on for- we modern people pride getting.' changed relationship—of Her sense of the Chang wh,ch she something unexpressed in oherself> ag H aa knew she had bette P heJ, father s this supposed into a state of active memory—had goaded he ^dle-nged, rather dislike by tie time ^^Jher at the railway stout, bald-headed man' locomotive, as aUt on. He »«■ ",„a „iped hi. brow the day m ■«»%«k.d t<" as he explained that M q{ her fnends, the pony-carnage that her daughter » giving as an ext {or th# pony, lueea'e would be too neavj n I -gI' walked all the way, he «a tvnn.ht it would be. quite expensive take a cab back wit matters jarred at This allusion t0, m?"7fagtidious tastes, and once upon Jenny, who ha economies, who, though acciistomed to sw Mr. Deane's whole appearance suggested Mr. Deane s whoie increa8ed the uncomfortable possi feit towards the antagonism which she al yt loierate in the man whom she would ^d mother, capacity of lover to her aUvny9 so ridi- Love affair^ »n o o v,nl>lin2 her head a little higher thftn usual, and answering in liltl6 ulblM as her newly-acquired st^- monosyllables pretty village. The father drove her to m >vith flowers, fields and the ent|„,9iftstic botanist, but Jenny, ^ho Th forebore to make coital 'n tb.° when they reached ,vld' b,Pn MryPeane s new l"fe«t began to dawn «pOT! t'ne ^a^^ier'9 manner as she Something 1 e having given #P stood at the door^y, gacted „ page Jenny told herself, in the meek tone of as his masterpsometh g jg Bpiritless Mrs. Deane s > j;eartstrings of her obedience. In^rf £ Je„„, Sl.«ttle»orth daughter, trom lower. pitched her standard a had resented The ideal scenes which her evidently not to happen at all, trial would not, be that of see mother caressed and petted in a way which would certainly have been ridiculous at her age. 11 was to be altogether in another way. Ever since her father's death Jenny had taken th< widow under her protec ting and shell ering care, and that her mother should now be snubbed and slighted, ignored and grufllv answered, ha never occurred to her in Iter wildest dreams. The indignant girl had only been a day 01 two in the pretty cottage let ore she felt the contagion of the atuiospi ere, and began to realise how women from all time had submitted to be treated as inferior beings and succumbed from the force of circumstances to the authority of the man. Mr. Deane had altered none of his bachelor naoits, out expected his wife and step-children to accommodate themselves to him. As the girl said angrily to herself: Everybody else might go to the wall, but the spherical com- pleteness of his existence must still be rounded into a perfect Whole." "It is of no use for us to preach if we do not practise," she thought, remembering a debate at Somerville in which it had been decided by a large majority that women were to be the saviours of society, and that every reform, even in politics, would in the future depend on them. "Decidedly I mutt do something," she said to herself day after day; but her mother's apparent content nent and Lor step-father's exaggeratedly grave manner, his pompous assumption and his uncompromising attitude, left her more and more in doubt as to the exact form her tactics were to take. Mr. Deane did not even appear to notice her small attempts at squabbling with him, which turned on such trilling matters as rearrangement of the household furniture, he being cursed with an unfortunately geometrical eye, which was always detecting a false line somewhere, and having a horrible preference for light papers and aniline dyes. He shewed beside this a tendency to limit his wife in the way of literature and to interfere with her friends, and this gave Jenny another opportunity for shewing fight. "My mother always amused herself," she mid, "in the evenings by that best form of history called fiction. You have no more right to interfere with it than you have to prevent her from going to theatres." She was too much set on the need for fighting her mother's battles to notice the deep folds which began to deepen on Mr. Deane's brows. She could not say with truth that he was ever unkind to the woman he had married she was not exactly afraid of deliberate unkindness, but thought herself justified in meeting his chilliness with corresponding coldness, and in feeling herself reproached by his patronising smiles. "My darling," said Mrs. Deane nervously, "I must ask you not to wrangle with your step- father he has never been used to it. Am I to make myself miserable by a morbid craving after pleasure ? If acting seems to him a form of stimulation which is injurious, and novel- reading a wa<=te of time, rely it is a small sacrifice for me to give these things up, con- sidering how good he has been to us all ? But this seemed only a proof of hereditary weakness. Jenny quoted Olive Schreiner and the dream of the oppressed camel which must rise by its own efforts. After spending a few weeks at Woodbine Cottage her state of indignant revolt could fcarcely be repressed—the ugliness and mockery of the whole thing so forced itself upon her young, fastidious sense. Mr. Deane was one of those dreadfully punctual people whose purpose in life seems to be to correct the incorrigible dawdling enjoy- mert of others. No one in his house was alloved to loiter or drem. Neither was there any waste of time over meals, everything being dai law^F planned, just as it had been during h Yr oedd w<><H cry'uW^d the sin of irtjeness ew oll( Yl' rhoddi lvs 'dros his bachelor regime, w .,I otli ei waed os or Unnecessary d!8COmf°^;icai, ordinary, gume- sr* s.% >HLbeinB *n<,wed ,or *•* effort or desultory talks. breakfast- Z ST** the reproof to ClMor itteguteitr of her hour. to imply Vr" nvi.ing hi. "My dear, sam mr. h}ne look Rt spectacles and giving a_ tiie girl's fair curly fnnge^aid daughter inherits frfnge into f h.r fete Her heart chaf maBterf„l man IL^Tof bring <•»" h" ,na,p"" dent career. sake," she said to "It i. «11 "T .'icnnot sit tamely herrelf more^h" ;a „,d 0,6rmMter«d by by to see ner a P&, ghe will only tSopl. »ho Zh th. bee of » fold her hand. M>d «t »tmx samt. As long a g are wois«n so take care of her^O, intofcrable! If they meek ?—it 1 fv iTe8 a little, i& would be • would assert the aa well as thousand timMn « 3Cane always to be for themselves. Did he humvourfd ? nsked t\ -Qf getting a new set SSnsider the fng "j^le-aged woman's head? of thoughts into am J height a few days Her rebellionja for tQ h r younger afterwards, when weather badly. brother. wh°^°X and both Mrs Dean. Archie was poking than one child had and I remembered how hereditary con- > falien aJictim Jenny alon8 geemed to » tumntive »1Ufc have escaped.. be belter for the I .ogge.tod that^ „t Algiers or boy to spend th if Mr. Deane objected in the tbe» ljld' to so great a distance to his wife tak g; (hat tbere wa8 Davos, from home, l.an^, though 1 always j ^hieh JJJ S'd„os m, rather a a.pre»mg | place. ore disturbed than 1^ Mr. Deane was^rnore^ quicWy ever seen gbo were a middle-aged with his w • bride, and I pitied the bride, she tbougb he h d tried to shew a poor y°af.7_ Pongiderntion for the children-had conscienti w rri(.a ,in,i ]mi about during hi8 few D..wnsdo 'just »s well "Vi hysho looking up in M ff ttriS way through his spectacle^ ai)4 eharact^ri wag worrie(1 trying to in the neighbourhood of Now, the V Luscojnb, h»4 Don^y manv yea« the resort of nursps and j been f'r m fniir during the summer hoUr chiidren-68^1 ^ane-g Speech grated «pOP Sy and ^rnCirchie is weary of th. "You know that poor Arcn cried, D;;ra9Toof^dewas intended to crush her talk it over ^JJdenfd" jlmr, who lay feSeftVXrshe considered to be s«ch mdi0- nities made her.b^f Agreeable," she repeated "He is essentially "isag his lesson. least to be/roppe, in a decidea never do, she ,a. nHt lip with anything for no"J ni> than of disputing liafc passing, forte ghe could not gte.fllliur preserved her presence at least h t feW unbroken silence. Ar^tJ v.ything of dajs she ins'aiulyaiF f abMDCe, imsortanoe was being discu ,t would have hern iiiicl.nritable to have sus- pected her of listoning at keyholes. The idea of putting herself in the wrong, or of being caught in any pickle, never occurred to a girl who was always managing other people. The opportunity which she had been trying in vain to find happened at last one evening, when Mrs. Deane, who had been complaining of headache, retired earlier than usual, with a quiet "Good-night to her daughter. They had always been a kirsing family, but now they parted without a good-night kiss, as if the little mother were afraid to kiss her children. Archie had been looking more pallid than usual that day, and the pictures and furniture of the room swam through a mist of tears as the girl lingered, carefully closing the door, before she found a voice for the passion which had been hitherto carefully repressed. Then she spoke aloud. "This will not do," she said; "it will slowly kill her." Mr. Deane put down the volume of Foster* < Essays wtrch he had been reading, and asked ia some surprise of whom the was speaking. "Of my mother," cried the angry girl, no longer able to keep back her tears. "If you killed her, I would never forgive you." "I suppose not," said the astonished man; •but as I am completely in the dark, may I inquire what all this means ? "Oh, I know—I know," she tried to explain between her sobs. "Men are always like that! They never even see when women are fraitint; themselves to death. She is grieving ai)otit Archie, and if we procrastinate like this, all the time will be lost and Archie will die." He was touched by her filial piety and by her passionate anger, but he did not take fi:"6. He did not even try to protect himself from imputa- tions that were false, though her words seemed to scorch him as she continued "Many men marry because they like to have a woman to look after things for them—to look nice at the head of the table, to make things respectable, and all th"t; but mother is not one of that sort." Ho waited before he answered, 10 determined was he to preserve his self-controz. All his life he had had a perfect horror of "scenes" they seemed to him not only tneatrtcal and unseemly, but connected with the devil. Women wre fond of making scenes, but had to be taught to restrain themselves. It was his duty tu set them the example. So he only said, Ipeaing with difficulty, as his throat was dry: "I should be sorry to think that one of the results of the Higher Education was to tench girls to think such things of our sex." She was a little softened, but the remem- brance of the sleepless night during which she had planned to carry matters with a high hand iii-gad her to follow up her advantage. "Arrhio is ill," she repeated, and then she added in a lower yoice: "I believe you are jealous of Archie. For the first time he visibly flinched. That is like the rest of your wild ideas." "Wild or not," she repeated, "if you cannot -pare my mother to go with Archie, the boy will die. Oh! I cannot bear to see one of my father's children treited as if his illness dill not s gnify Why did she marry you-oh, why did she marry you ? "Why indeed? echoed the older man with a sigh, which the irritated girl, bent on acooni- (iliohing her mission, did not even hear as he held up his hand as if dismissing her. Phe was a little molliHed on the following iiuii-iiii'g. when she heard that the plans for the tinier had been suddenly changed. Her mother I'll,S to go to Daves with Archie for some months. She was so pleased with her step- father that she tried to exchange a pacified with him and found .,lite I bis eye. ^veVido^hii 'o hQUX&tch Tut unfoj tnnatej^ard a'v I vdd ddeall eu ^Ker ideal of perfection was I «<1 nwnr1 1 V „ vA'me olans of breaking sres- — cran to dawn upon her. Archie It. had not been sufficierit comforted, or to /8 he fell asleep r.lt> face close to his the n0|rs of -;l6C> 'o1. h her-not .nougl. to hear -oing away alone1 wiu» » auestioas and the little fellow fidw Og «^n't time now, Hkirg hour af>on q{ h man ma? 1 ted that there b!'llerr8WatJlo°sto Win in the future. The toy garden of W oodbine Got!lays, 0f the Us Of Old age, dusky aid* st autumn su"s e,0 (he OoWns, when Jenny ^8nl herself al<4 with her step-fatlier. found herseii ai.e certain queerness, Both were conscious ot but Jeony was a sort of shyness on loUld be no sense of determined that ther b thraldom oopmsion on her part and none 01 which she resented. d #t lie began by 'P^onnected with his his literary club or m id„r that it would be chapel, seeming jfee use Gf the quite sufficient for # .denlly thinking it quite pony-carringe, an many words to each superfluous for them J tMc'h-tetes was dry, other. His manner a eyer, and he spent o? huTp' in occupying bim».l! most of nis sparo • marriage. a# he had done prev afraid of Shf* was beginning tobut said to l)im now that thing because it is h-rself "I won t slurtt a & urpleasant. h;m &t work in the One day, when she saw q{ hig horU- Yitt-le garden, she she know that he cultural favourites, thong gathered them for no ot • "which I want B«Ther.iV.floV'HSl.d«jr. to piek. I' look so nice on the bl.-om ontside ^t wouiu drawing-room ll3d her request, lie ignored her, but she I tQ women. adding: "It »,.»T.n lS« the'««««•. ™ My mother would of ^i a,k for them. 6he told me BIW du observation, He halted and made soni but nevertheless ghe had a8ked some On another day, tolJ her b0 was going fri. nds to visit her, out to his ciuo. rted the indomitable girl. "Your club marrjed man you "Do you know that olub ? You should spend too much time at f go out with us' ]v sometimes when she Her heart ?tr*^d "once or twice when he u ade there pn bol } h(,r gro„nd decidedly, wasshajrp^—taVi„g notice mnkmg » P r' lu>r down, but examining I *«w u'l !wl" muttered to hira.elf on I *,n«ew !of utin'L el s !wo'cal. ion., amv,aouuntt d tefrotehr d entso om(h«e iar» .eflf ohne iL o'ca.ion., and then, («» f ,neof tnes av,out for some he :^Toa"8S and offered to tak. »•' tU"I°amft Borry'l P»t/»» jnJaf ^"STol" to '0fd\™oTtdra.rnbGirl hensible to me." herself that she "Was After tVis ,^e t^d aho loved power, and certainly J^mg gj intoXicated her. the idea of tw0 months that Archie The news came aft«fu d-perhaps not with- was better, f ^ouid certainly be necessary out reason—that l her stay. When her for her mother toe* fcbafc .<nothing .tep-father sighe^ and ^y^ finite could be truslc shadow of death,3 on earth was growing melancholy, *"«oZZ,» "h# b'rd,°8b^nning" I MioisiPi in W h-e-Frelf that her own personaf uiscomforT akould not be considered for a. minute. She never saw that he too was suffering, for he suffered in di. nity, silent and aghast. To do her justice, 5lic did not want to oyerdo her part, neither did she ever intend to be rude. She eould brieve that at the bottom Mr. Deane was a kind hearted man. Of his integrity there could be no doubt, and she was certain, after living with him for those few months, that there was a fruit beneath the husk worth getting at —a certainty which made it all the more necessary for her to persevere in tearing off the rind, for the sake of the patient, meek, much- enduring, unassuming little mother. She told herself triumphantly that her mother was saved, and that she herself could either go out into the world to get her own living or continue as she was. On the whole, she inclined to the latter alternative, for Densley was a pleasant place, in spite of the drawbacks which had set her against it at first. Her triumph received a check. For Mr. Deane, who disappeared, as ha said, to pay a visit to an old friend, just befor. his wife's expected return, wrote th. following surprising letter: "I cannot alter all my ways. I never thought of that in marrying you. I forgot the diffi- culties and complications which might be expected from growing- up children. I can't expect you to part with your children, but I leave you an abundant provision. Be happy with them. Do not inquire after me. I have decided to go to Australia with the friend I determined to visit. You will never discover my address. I have put it out of your power to do so." He had had enough of the family. His loud and self-confident voice would never be heard again in the house. Hit had borne the unpalat- able truths which Jenny had thought it her duty to tell him, and the poor girl's desire for martyrdom was aritibly gratifiel in witnessing the real and by no means fanciful suffering which this time she had unintentionally inflicted on her mother.

Introducing Children to Visitors. There is a common oversight prevalent in too many households not to introduce the children to visitors. Guests are formally presented to the adult members of the family, but the younger boys and girls are either ignored altogether or else introduced in a general way without giving their in- dividual names. The course is almost certain to result in awkwardness and re- straint on their part when grown up. There is a difference between putting children forward unduly and giving them their just meed of recognition. And pray take pains in making introductions, to speak the names distinctly, and above all things else, do not omit their mention. How many of us have been annoyed to have a hostess greet an intimate friend, to whom we were strangers, with some such salutation as "Oh Henry, so pleased to have met you Miss Blank," leaving us to discover his sur- name as best we may. It is not a bad plan for the family to rehearse by themselves some of these little social formalities.

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