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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Febauary 



girl wlunii both J oved very ' dearly. It 

 caiuL) to i;:iss while the child was still a 

 baby giri tioat the father was obliged to 

 take a Iniij; .-jouruey to the far distant 

 city. It vr::s too far for him to take hi;; 

 wife aud child, so he left them at home 

 and travel cil aloue. 



"In thai ,;;reat city he saw many nevv- 

 things whicli, having lived in the peace- 

 ful little bar:: lot up among the moun- 

 tains all his life, he had never seen be- 

 fore. He desired to take home to his 

 wife some of these new things which 

 seemed to him so wonderful. And the 

 most wonderful gift he could take, it 

 Beamed to him, was a mirror. He wish- 

 ed t?o take home to his wife the pleasure 

 and surprise he had experienced when 

 he first looked into a mirror. So he took 

 one home to his wife. 



"When he arrived home' he gave the 

 present to his wife, and for the first 

 time she looked into a mirror. 'What 

 do you see?' her husband asked. She 

 replied: 'I declare! I see a very pretty 

 \7oman. She wears her hair just as I do 

 mine, and she smiles and moves her 

 lips as if she were talking to me. ' Her 

 husband told her that the mirror was a 

 present for her, and he hoped she would 

 use it every day. But the wife thought 

 it far too beautiful and rare and costly 

 a gift to use every day, so she put it 

 carefully away and never spoke about it 

 to the little daughter, who grew more 

 beautiful and more like her mother ev- 

 ery day. 



"By and by a great misfortune fell 

 upon that little household. The wife 

 and mother fell sick, and it was soon 

 evident that she must die. As she lay 

 upon her deathbed she called her little 

 daughter to her and told her that she 

 was going to lose her mother forever. 

 She could point to no future life after 

 death in which they should be reunited, 

 but in the love and simplicity of her 

 heart she did (he best she could. She 

 told her liirle daughter about the won- 

 derful mirror. 'After I am dead, ' she 

 said, 'take down that box and look into 

 the mirror that it contains. There you 

 will soe my face. And I want you to 

 look into the mirror every day, that ynu 

 may never lorgct your mother, and that 

 you may grow like me more and more 

 every day. ' 



"So the mother died. The little gii'l 

 did as she Had been told, and in the 



wondeiiul mirror she thought sKe saw 

 her mother's face, young and beautiful 

 — not as she had seen her, pale and ill 

 as she lay dying, but fair and fresh as 

 she had looked before the fatal illness. 

 And the little girl looked into the mir- 

 ror every day and thought of her moth- 

 er and her many lovely ways, and so it 

 came about that she grew to be more 

 and more like her mother as the years 

 went by. " — Eochester Post-Express. 



PICTURESQUE ECONOMY. 



A Style of Laundry Work Said to FreTail 

 In Boarding Houses. 



A peculiar appearance in the front 

 windows of an aristocratic boarding 

 house on one of the leading avenues 

 caused a discussion among passersby. 

 In each pane was a square of white mus- 

 lin, with embroidered edges, which was 

 apparently glued to the pane. 



"That's a queer way of keeping out 

 the light," observed one citizen to an- 

 other. 



"Must be some new method of deco- 

 ration," remarked another. 



"Don't you know what that is?" said 

 a young woman to her husband. ' 'That's 

 a window laundry. " 



"And whnt may that be?" 



"It's the way ladies who board wash 

 their fine handkerchiefs. You see, it 

 dries and irons them at the same time. " 



"I see, " answered the young man, 

 "that they adhere like postage stamps. 

 How do they do it?" 



"Oh you first catch your window; 

 then you wash the panes and place the 

 handkerchief against them, wringing 

 wet. They stick like a plaster, and when 

 they come off are as smooth as satin. In 

 that way every woman can be her own 

 laundress. " 



"I see, " said her husband thought- 

 fully, "why so many families board. " — 

 Detroit Free Press. 



Women Can't Hold Office In Washington. 



JudiTe McCliuton of the superior court 

 of Clallam county has virtually decided 

 that under law women cannot hold office 

 in this state. The case which came be- 

 fore him was that of Charles Russell, 

 relator, against Ella Guptill. Miss Gup- 

 till was in November elected superin- 

 tendent of schools iu this county, and 

 received the largest majority of any of 



