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How many agree with the contributor able receptions, the refreshments con- publications and bulletins from the ex- the purple trillium, the jack-in-the-pul- 
on what constitutes “True Hospitality” ? sist of coffee, sandwiches and salad for periment station, but in his “Ten New pit, the showy orchis, the pink lady’s 
Some will agree in theory, but putting the first course, and an ice and one kind England Blossoms and Their Insect slipper, the fringed polygala, the Canada 
it in practice, is quite another question, of cake for the second. It is certainly Visitors,” he comes yet nearer to many lily, and the common thistle. And the 
Drop out of the neighborhood game of encouraging when Dame Fashion de- thousands of readers in town and coun- story of each of these and of the insects 
“ Follow my leader,” and set up your crees that we shall have simple and sen- try. Selecting 10 of the most common that visit rJiem, is told in a way that is 
own standard of excellence. Why not ? sible social laws. flowering plants, he treats of their sure to engage the attention and hold 
Are you so much afraid of your neigh- If each and all of us in our own homes, structure and of the insects that visit the interest of every lover of flowers, 
hors’criticism, or is your pride in pies while the story of the joint development 
and cakes too dear to be sacrificed ? of plants and insects, already familiar 
* to the few. is here, almost for the first 
.time, made clear and plain to the many. 
After a fight of 18 months, Miss Mary * / >• , _ 
Philbrook has succeeded in gaining ad¬ 
mission to the bar of New Jersey. She 
was the first woman to ask this privi¬ 
lege, and the Justices of the Supreme 
Court refused her because there was no 
precedent to guide them. They decided 
that, “until the Legislature granted the 
privilege to women of becoming attor¬ 
neys at law, the weight of reason and 
authority was against the existence of 
the right.” Miss Philbrook persevered 
until the Legislature forced the Supreme 
Court to grant her what “ the weight 
of reason and authority was against.” 
All honor to the women who have the 
courage to hammer at the walls of con¬ 
servatism until they fall. Not many of 
us wish to be lawyers, it is true ; but a 
prison ceases to be a prison when there 
are open gates, and the privilege of going 
out. And the woman whose duties con¬ 
fine her to a limited sphere, will not feel 
so cramped when she knows that all 
avenues of life are open to her ; that on 
no highway will she be stopped and re¬ 
turned, identified by her garments. 
ALL SORTS OF WINDOW GLASS. 
T HERE is a small village where you 
often go for a visit, and you think 
you know the place pretty thoroughly. 
You have unconsciously estimated its 
moral and social status, and it bears as 
distinct a character in your thought as 
do any of your acquaintances. But if all 
your intercourse with that village has 
come through one channel ; if you have 
viewed the village street always through 
the windows of the same house, why, 
then, if chance should bring the same 
scene to your perception under a new 
set of conditions : if you looked at the 
village through another sort of window 
glass, the probabilities are that you 
would discover a new village. 
Suppose your hostess during former 
visits, to have been a painstaking house¬ 
keeper in whom the housemaid, nursery¬ 
maid and cook were largely developed, 
and that, by some unfortunate chain of 
circumstances, to the dwarfing of other 
faculties. You love and value such a 
woman without complaint for what she 
lacks, hut the maples before her door 
suggest only spring and fall cleaning 
when they don or lay off their garments 
of green. Even to your eyes—if you are 
worth much to her as a friend—the world 
takes on the tint of her window glass, 
and comes to view in meager, six-by- 
eight pictures. The people you meet at 
her house take on, more or less, the tone 
of its atmosphere. Such chameleon-like 
and fertilize them, in a simple, graceful creatures are most of us, that conversa- 
and most attractive style. Incidentally, tion is likely to take on the color of our 
too, he brings in other plants and bios- surroundings. You may hear vaguely 
soms by way of illustration, so that the that certain people to whom your house- 
number of our old-time friends of the wife friend presents you, have a liking 
fields and woods, is by no means limited for good literature, or for some science, 
to the 10 named in the index. Those some wdde line of thought ; but in the 
specially selected . are the glaucous wil- scant opportunities afforded for real 
low, the mayflower, the spring beauty, talk, you are likely to hear them speak 
/ 
TRUE HOSPITALITY. 
T RUE hospitality does not consist 
in a sumptuous meal elaborately 
served at the expense of a worn-out 
hostess. Many of us remember the old 
theory which our grandmothers held, 
that if company was expected, there 
must be three or four kinds of cake and 
as many varieties of pie, besides the 
more substantial dishes. Days were 
spent in the pi’eparation of such food. 
As we look back over such times, we 
often wonder how one pair of hands 
could have accomplished so much. It 
was truly an age of slavery in more ways 
than one. The women of this genera¬ 
tion are learning wisdom along this line, 
if not in others. One said to me only 
the other day : “I have had to unlearn 
so much in the past five years, that I 
used to think was absolutely necessary. 
I lead such a busy, active life, that I can 
neither afford the time, strength nor 
money to entertain as I used to do. If 
my friends come to see me, I know that 
they would rather have a pleasant chat r T , IlE first thing to be remarked of 
with their hostess, and a simple, informal A this book, is its daintiness and 
meal, than an elaborate one and a worn- beauty. A quaint and pleasing idea, is 
out hostess who is too tired to talk in- the full-page p.rtrait of the author’s 
telligently.” little daughter Irene, Fig. 167, following 
I ran in unexpectedly one morning to the dedication. With her curly love- 
see her, and she kept me to lunch and locks straying, her simple and innocent 
we had a most enjoyable visit. When grace, a two-flowered Easter lily in her 
the clock pointed to 12:30, my friend’s chubby arms, and an open book in her 
daughter, a beautiful gild of 18, called hands, you wish she would turn her win- 
us to lunch, and we had a thoroughly some eyes upon you, and let herself 
delightful meal of delicious chocolate, right into your heart with a look. She 
rolls, canned corn and sauce. It was a is certainly the most charming of all 
simple meal, but daintily served and pre- the New England blossoms which the 
pared by the daughter of the house, and Nature studies and numerous pictures of 
was far more satisfactory than many a this volume present. 
more elaborate one. I have wondered There has grown up more of a demand 
since why more people are not brave than there ever was before for books 
enough to adopt her manner of living. which shall bring the great truths of 
Why must so many hours be spent in science within the reach of the people, 
the kitchen over the hot fire, baking pies, and every book that meets this demand, is 
cakes, cookies and frying doughnuts, sure of a hearty welcome. Such a work 
A NEW ENGLAND BLOSSOM. Fig. 16’ 
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