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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
sleeves gathered into the shoulder, the 
skirts full and flowing, were worn over 
ordinary short black dresses, with lace 
or crepe lisse frills appearing above them 
at the throat. The ladies, rich in academi- 
cal honors, wore white gloves, and car- 
ried the square white college caps in 
their hands. 
— A San Francisco young woman has 
started a new business. She goes about 
from house to house mending jewelry 
and repairing clocks. When she has to 
drill a hole in a piece of metal she has 
drills and a lathe which she works by at- 
taching to a sewiDg machine. Almost 
everybody who has jewelry has also a 
sewing machine. Her trade flourishes. 
Most ladies have bits of broken jewelry 
lying about which they do not think it 
worth while to send to a shop, but which 
they would gladly have mended should 
any one come to the house and tlx it up 
at a small price. In the regulating of 
clocks also she does well. Besides her 
lathe and drill she has with her, in a neat 
little box, a full kit of jeweller's tools, a 
spirit lamp, and blowpipe. 
— As a natural seqiience to the re- 
straint under which Cuban lovers are 
held, there are a great many small in- 
trigues and innocent endeavors to circum- 
vent the detectives. There are eloquent 
glances, signals, fun-talk, and the sly 
interchange of notes. Then the iron- 
guarded window, instead of being a pro- 
tection, becomes a great convenience. It 
is more than the front gate with us. She 
knows when he will pass by, and stands 
inside with a fair hand clasping the bars 
of her cage and waits for him. They 
stand there with the iron between them 
and talk. Every day it is so, and if 
mamma wishes to stop it she must come 
and stand in the window also. There are 
other respects in wbicli the young man i 
has a hard time. He must come every 
day. He must, and she holds him to the 
strict letter of this law. He is bound to 
show, by every means in his power, that 
he holds all other women in contempt 
and detestation. He must not dajice with 
any other, and had better not be caught 
holding on to any other window bars in 
any other street. He tells his near friends 
about it, and she all hers, and the matter 
is diligently discussed. If he should fail 
to come around regularly every day he 
has to tell a satisfactory story. I have 
known her to send her brother after him. 
He takes his revenge after marriage. 
— " Do you beat brass ?" is the initial 
catechism of the latest fashionable handi- 
craft in Philadelphia. It is a particular 
pet with feminine fingers, and requires a 
thorough and practical knowledge of 
hammers and tracing tools, brass, and 
block. A class of ladies, under the 
patronage of the Scandinavian Thor, 
have produced some beautiful and lasting 
work. The instructor teaches them the 
way of using and holding their tools, and 
the proper kind of stroke to make upon 
the steel dies. The method is simple. 
On a block of wood a brass plate or sheet 
is fastened. The design is then drawn 
upon it; the outline hammered by a die, 
which has a row of dots. Other dies give 
the groundwork a frosted or mottled ap- 
pearance. Everything depends on the 
skill of the workwoman. Eeally valuable 
articles in repousse brass can be made 
from a piece of brass costing but a small 
sum. Card-receivers, plaques, and many 
other things, can be made. The brass- 
beating educates the hands and develops 
the muscles. It is worthy of note how 
much interest in the mechanical arts is 
publicly shown, sometimes the hammer- 
ing of brass is combined with the use of 
the paint-brush. A brass tray lately seen 
has a loose spray of purple pansies, ap- 
; parently flung down carelessly upon it.— 
Philadelphia Ledger. 
BEAUTY.— III. 
Cosmetics and paints, too, are much 
used, especially in England. They are 
I as fatal to health and beauty^ as they are 
misleading in effect. The blackened 
eye may look larger, and the painted lip 
redder under the uncertain flare of the 
gas lamp; but, when seen at home in 
the broad and honest noonday sun, 
the eye is lustreless. The flaming car- 
mine distorts the mouth, the powdered 
